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In 2018, wiretappings from the Spanish police were handed
over to the FBI. When asked if this had any relationship with politics in the
US, José Grinda, a Spanish prosecutor, replied "Mr. Trump's son should be
concerned."[10][11]
Back to top Torshin has been a subject of an investigation by
the
Senate Intelligence Committee into
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[14][6]
In January 2018,
McClatchyDC reported that
Robert Mueller's
Special Counsel investigation is pursuing allegations that Torshin has links
to Russian organized crime, and laundered money from the Russian government to
the NRA to benefit Trump's campaign.[6]
Torshin is also the subject of a probe by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation into whether the Russian government
attempted to illegally funnel money to the NRA in order to help Trump win the
presidency.[6][19][20]
On May 16, 2018, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report[21]
stating it had obtained "a number of documents that suggest the Kremlin used the
National Rifle Association as a means of accessing and assisting Mr. Trump and
his campaign" through Torshin and Butina, and that "The Kremlin may also have
used the NRA to secretly fund Mr. Trump's campaign."[22]
Most of that money was spent by an arm of the NRA that is not required to
disclose its donors. In April 2018, the
United States Department of the Treasury's
Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on 23 Russian nationals,
including Torshin,[23]
whose assets in the United States were frozen[13]
and whose entry into the United States barred, besides being subject to other
financial disabilities.
The New York Times reported on July 17, 2018 that Torshin was scheduled
to visit the White House in 2017, but the meeting was canceled after a national
security aide noted Torshin was under investigation by Spanish authorities for
money laundering.[24]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Torshin
