Trump’s former campaign chief Paul Manafort reportedly owed millions to pro-Russia interests

Carlo Allegri | Reuters

Paul Manafort of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s staff listens during a round table discussion on security at Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., August 17, 2016.

The party, which boasted close ties to Moscow, was in power under former president Viktor Yanukovych.

This isn’t the first time Manafort’s debts have been publicized. In 2015, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska claimed he was owed $19 million by Manafort and his partners regarding a Ukrainian business investment.

A spokesman for Manafort, Jason Maloni, told The New York Times that “Manafort is not indebted to Deripaska or the Party of Regions, nor was he at the time he began working for the Trump campaign.”

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