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Konstantin V. Kilimnik
(b. 1970) is a Russian
political consultant. In the United States, he has become a person of
interest in the
2017 Special Counsel investigation into
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, particularly due
to his ties with
Paul
Manafort, an American political consultant, who served as a campaign manager
for
Donald Trump.
Kilimnik is believed by
CNN and
The New York Times to be "Person A" listed in court documents filed by
the Special Council against Manafort, which allege that Person A has ties to
Russian intelligence agencies, or is a Russian intelligence operative. He is
also believed to be Person A in court documents filed in the criminal indictment
of
Alex van der Zwaan. In 2017 Kilimnik denied any such intelligence ties.[1]
Kilimnik was indicted by
Special Counsel
Robert Mueller's grand jury on June 8, 2018 on charges of
obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice by attempting to
tamper with a witness on behalf of Manafort.[2][3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Kilimnik
-- 2016 --
August 18:
In an effort to collect previously undisclosed millions of dollars he’s owed by
an oligarch-backed Ukrainian political party, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman
Paul Manafort has been relying on a trusted protégé whose links to Russia and
its Ukrainian allies have prompted concerns among Manafort associates, according
to people who worked with both men.
The protégé, Konstantin Kilimnik, has had conversations with fellow operatives
in Kiev about collecting unpaid fees owed to Manafort’s company by a
Russia-friendly political party called Opposition Bloc, according to operatives
who work in Ukraine.
A Russian Army-trained linguist who has told a previous employer of a background
with Russian intelligence, Kilimnik started working for Manafort in 2005 when
Manafort was representing Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, a gig that morphed
into a long-term contract with Viktor Yanukovych, the Kremlin-aligned hard-liner
who became president of Ukraine.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/paul-manafort-ukraine-kiev-russia-konstantin-kilimnik-227181
-- 2017 --
September 22: Paul
Manafort's longtime employee, Russian-Ukrainian political operative Konstantin
Kilimnik, told
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that he and Manafort emailed each other
"about Trump and everything" during the campaign.
Kilimnik's comments came a day after The Washington Post reported
that Manafort, Trump's campaign chairman at the time, sent Kilimnik an email in
July 2016 asking him to offer Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska
"private briefings" about the campaign.
"There were millions of emails," Kilimnik told RFERL in a text message. "We
worked for 11 years. And we discussed a lot of issues, from Putin to women."
https://www.businessinsider.com/konstantin-kilimnik-explains-emails-with-paul-manafort-about-trump-2017-9
-- 2018 --
July 3: During the
special counsel’s Russia investigation, Konstantin Kilimnik has been described
as a fixer, translator or office manager to President
Donald Trump’s ex-campaign
chairman Paul Manafort.
But Kilimnik, an elusive figure now indicted alongside Manafort on witness
tampering charges, was far more involved in formulating pro-Russia political
strategy with Manafort than previously known, according to internal memos and
other business records obtained by the AP.
The records include a rare 2006 photograph of Kilimnik, a Ukrainian native, in
an office setting with Manafort and other key players in Manafort’s consulting
firm at the time. Some of the documents were later independently obtained by
U.S. government investigators.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/03/russian-charged-with-trumps-ex-campaign-chief-is-key-figure.html
November 9: Konstantin Kilimnik: elusive
Russian with ties to Manafort faces fresh Mueller scrutiny
New details emerge about 48-year-old said to have ties to Russian intelligence,
including the use of a private jet owned by an oligarch close to Putin
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/09/konstantin-kilimnik-russia-trump-manafort-mueller
December 8: The Ineptitude of Donald Trump’s
Co-Conspirators
In a series of filings that came Friday night, the office of the special
counsel, Robert Mueller, and a separate group of federal prosecutors in the
Southern District of New York, laid out evidence that, taken together, leaves
little doubt that
Donald Trump sought to use his candidacy to enrich himself by approving a
plan to curry political favor from
Vladimir Putin in exchange for a lucrative real-estate opportunity.
It may be only part of the full story, but what we now know is a powerful tale
that combines elements that are familiar from other Trumpworld scandals. It is
at once shockingly corrupt, blatantly unethical, probably illegal, and yet, at
the same time, shabby, small, and ineptly executed.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/swamp-chronicles/the-ineptitude-of-donald-trumps-co-conspirators
December 9: Russians interacted with at
least 14 Trump associates during the campaign and transition
https://www.wctrib.com/news/government-and-politics/4540864-russians-interacted-least-14-trump-associates-during-campaign
December 9: The Mysterious Return of
Manafort’s ‘Russian Brain’
Mueller says that the former Trump campaign chairman repeatedly lied about his
interactions with Konstantin Kilimnik, a man with ties to Russian intelligence.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/mueller-manafort-lied-about-russian-brain-kilimnik/577693/
-- 2019 --
January 8:
Paul Manafort shared 2016 presidential campaign polling data with Konstantin
Kilimnik, an associate the FBI has said has ties to Russian intelligence,
according to a court filing.
The information is in a filing that appears to inadvertently include details not
intended to be made public and indicates a pathway by which the Russians could
have had access to Trump campaign data.
The former Trump campaign chairman on Tuesday denied in a filing from his
defense team that he broke his plea deal by lying repeatedly to prosecutors
working for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III about that and other issues.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/paul-manafort-shared-2016-polling-data-with-russian-employee-according-to-court-filing/2019/01/08/3f562ad8-12b0-11e9-803c-4ef28312c8b9_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.097fd2d75323
January 16:
Manafort Worked With Russian-Ukrainian On Peace Plan Before -- And Long After --
Criminal Charges
Konstantin Kilimnik, the alleged Russian intelligence operative who helped run
Paul Manafort's operations in Kyiv for roughly a decade, boasted of the duo's
closeness to RFE/RL in a
2017 interview. "The only guy who Manafort can conceivably talk to
in Ukraine is basically me," he said.
Kilimnik added that, while Manafort was working as Donald Trump's campaign
chairman in 2016, he was also "briefing [Manafort] on Ukraine."
On January 15, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office suggested in a court
filing that the two men spoke a lot, before and long after Manafort was
criminally charged, and specifically about an initiative to bring peace to
Ukraine that was likely very favorable to the Kremlin.
If confirmed, that would indicate that the pair were doing so while Manafort was
working for Trump's campaign and Russia was allegedly interfering in the 2016
election to help his candidate win.
https://www.rferl.org/a/manafort-worked-with-russian-ukrainian-on-peace-plan-before----and-long-after----criminal-charges/29714137.html
February 7:
According to prosecutors, former Trump campaign chair and Konstantin Kilimnik
had a discussion that referred to a "backdoor."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/manafort-kept-working-ukraine-after-mueller-indictment-transcript-shows-n969071
-- 2020 --
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