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Viktor vikselberg. when his private jet landed near manhattan earlier this year he was stop and questioned by the fbi as part of robert mueller's investigation. viktor vikselberg questioned about hundreds of thaw sonousan dollars made to michael cohen. >> it's strange to imagine this company is financially independent of the vikselberg empire. >> the greatest fortunes in russia, the great oligarch,
Columbus nova's general counsel -- i can confirm that the company is 100% owned and controlled by americans. any suggestion that at any point in time viktor vikselberg or any of his companies owned or exercised any control over columbus nova is patently untrue. a big night of primaries in four states. why republicans are breathing a big sigh of relief. and an epic troll from mitch mcconnell's team toward that man, don blankenship.
Including mr. vikselberg even though everything they do is not supervised by the kremlin. the kremlin views them and vladmir putin views them in the way a medieval king would view his feudal laws. people belong to him. >> reporter: after vikselberg's cousin gave a quarter million dollars to the trump inauguration fund, he got a ticket to attend the inauguration last year. he was hit last month with u.s. sanctions targeting oligarch who benefit from the putin regime and who the treasury department says play roles in quote advances russia's malign activities. >> i think russia should be more ope...
Company made the large payments to president trump's personal attorney in the months after the election. and a startling allegation from stormy daniels' attorney that these payments funded the hush money to daniels. we have more from washington. >> reporter: mueller's investigators have questioned a russian oligarch named viktor vikselberg about hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments made to president trump's personal attorney, michael cohen, in 2017. now the payments went from vikselberg's u.s.-linked company called columbus nova to cohen. columbus nova is run by vikselberg's american c...
Half a million dollars was paid to cohen beginning in january, 2017. last month the trump administration put vikselberg on a list of sanctioned russians for election interference. what's not clear is the purpose of the payments that were made to cohen or the nature of the business relationship between cohen and vikselberg, and the fact that investigators are scrutinizing this is significant because it essentially shows that a company created by michael cohen to pay hush money to stormy daniels was also receiving money, that same llc was also receiving money, from a u.s. company in new york cit...