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Undated: Irakly "Ike" Kaveladze (Georgian: ირაკლი კაველაძე) is a Georgian-American business executive. He is senior vice president at Crocus Group, the real estate development company run by Aras Agalarov. He was one of eight people attending a meeting with Donald Trump's election campaign officials in June 2016.[1][2][3] According to his attorney, Kavaladze is a long-time U.S. citizen and has "never had any engagement with the Russian government in any capacity."[1]
In 1996, Kaveladze set up Euro-American Corporate Services Inc. whose services included incorporating companies in Delaware for Russian brokers and setting up bank accounts for them.[5] A money laundering investigation in 2000 revealed that Kaveladze had created corporations without knowing who owned them and that more than $1.4 billion had been moved through their accounts.[5]
On June 9, 2016, he was present at a meeting in Trump Tower between three people associated with the Donald Trump campaign—Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort—and several other people including Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya.[3] The meeting had been proposed by Azerbaijani singer Emin Agalarov and his father, Moscow-based oligarch Aras Agalarov, Kaveladze's employer.[2] Kaveladze attended the meeting as a representative of the Agalarov family and to serve as an interpreter if necessary, according to his attorney.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike_Kaveladze
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November 17: Moscow meeting in June 2017 under scrutiny in Trump probe
Earlier this year, a Russian-American lobbyist and another businessman discussed over coffee in Moscow an extraordinary meeting they had attended 12 months earlier: a gathering at Trump Tower with President Donald Trump’s son, his son-in-law and his then-campaign chairman.
The Moscow meeting in June, which has not been previously disclosed, is now under scrutiny by investigators who want to know why the two men met in the first place and whether there was some effort to get their stories straight about the Trump Tower meeting just weeks before it would become public, The Associated Press has learned.
Congressional investigators have questioned both men — lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin and Ike Kaveladze, a business associate of a Moscow-based developer and former Trump business partner — and obtained their text message communications, people familiar with the investigation told the AP.
https://apnews.com/73a06aa400b3493fa63eaa90c78ffee0
July 18: Trump Jr.’s Russian “Translator” Allegedly Laundered Billions Through U.S. Banks
Meet Irakly Kaveladze, the mysterious eighth member of Donny’s Trump Tower meeting.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/irakly-kaveladze-russia-meeting#~o
November 18: Scott Balber, Kaveladze's attorney, confirmed to The Washington Post and other news outlets that he had been contacted by a representative of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and complied with a request to identify Kaveladze as among the attendees at the meeting.
Kaveladze, whose online resume says he "oversees a global business portfolio that includes large retail ventures as well as commercial and residential real estate projects" figured prominently in a Nov. 2000 story in The New York Times about money laundering.
The Times reported that investigators found that Kaveladze had opened accounts at American banks that were then used to launder more than $1.4 billion from "unknown Russians and other Eastern Europeans."
Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., speaking with NPR's Geoff Bennett, said he understood that Kaveladze has "a colorful history."
According to Reuters, Balber also has ties to the president. The news agency says he "represented Trump himself in the New York businessman's 2013 lawsuit against comedian television host Bill Maher, demanding the $5 million Maher offered to give to charity if Trump could prove his father is not an orangutan."
https://www.npr.org/2017/07/18/537944694/russian-american-with-colorful-past-attended-2016-trump-tower-meeting
November 22: In 2013, Donald Trump Met One of the Russian Attendees to the 2016 Trump Tower Meeting
Ike Kaveladze, an accused money launderer, was a guest at a private dinner hosted by Donald Trump in 2013
https://medium.com/@ScottMStedman/in-2013-donald-trump-met-one-of-the-russian-attendees-to-the-2016-trump-tower-meeting-b8b90d2a3f4d
December 27: Trump Tower Meeting Participant Ike Kaveladze Questioned By Congressional Investigators
A shadowy businessman from the former Soviet republic of Georgia who attended the 2016 Trump Tower meeting where Donald Trump Jr. reportedly hoped to get dirt on Hillary Clinton has sat down with congressional investigators.
Irakly “Ike” Kaveladze met with the Senate and House intelligence committees, Reuters reported Tuesday, though one interview happened on November 2, when Kaveladze was photographed entering and leaving a closed-door meeting at the Capitol.
Kaveladze, 52, was one of at least eight people present at the June 2016 meeting between the Kremlin-linked lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and top members of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Attendees included Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is now facing charges in the special counsel probe.
https://www.newsweek.com/ike-kaveladze-trump-jr-meeting-committee-investigators-760319
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January 31: Trump Tower meeting participant sues for libel
Irakly "Ike" Kaveladze, the so-called “eighth man” at a controversial 2016 meeting between top associates of President Donald Trump and a politically connected Russian lawyer, has sued a California linguist for criticizing him on a cable television show this month.
In his complaint, Kaveladze accuses George Lakoff of libel and slander for comments he made in an MSNBC interview with Chuck Todd, in which Lakoff called Kaveladze “the major person who has been responsible for money laundering from Russia and other post-Soviet countries.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/31/trump-tower-meeting-russia-libel-380447
May 16: Trump Jr. told Senate he didn't recall telling father about Russian meeting
'He wouldn't have wasted his time with it,' he told Congress.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rob-goldstone-told-senate-trump-tower-meeting-russians-was-bad-n874586
May 16: Materials from Inquiry into Circumstances Surrounding Trump Tower Meeting
Irakly “Ike” Kaveladze (interviewed November 3, 2017)
Transcript
Exhibits
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/releases/materials-from-inquiry-into-circumstances-surrounding-trump-tower-meeting
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