Leo Parnas Biography

Lev Parnas was found guilty of illegal financing of the Saturday, October 23, Lev Parnassus, photo Getty Images, ex-wisdom of the former personal lawyer Donald Trump Rudi Juliani Lev Parnassus, was found guilty of violation of the US legislation on financing election campaigns in the election of the year. According to the prosecution, Parnassus, an American businessman of Ukrainian origin, as well as his former comrade -in -arms Igor Fruman, received money from the Russian businessman Andrei Muravyov and sent it to financing election campaigns in the United States.

Parnas's interest was represented by candidates in those American states where it was possible to get a license for doing business related to the legalized sale of marijuana. According to US prosecutors, Parnassus concealed that he and Fruman, who pleaded guilty in September, transferred donations to the Republican Committee of Political Action PAC, which raised funds, including the presidential campaign of the US presidential presidential, Donald Trump.

Lev Parnas was found guilty of violating federal laws of the United States prohibiting foreigners to participate in election campaigns, as well as prohibiting party donations on behalf of other persons. Andrei Kukushkin, the comrade -in -arms of businessman Muravyov, was also found guilty of violating the financing of election campaigns on Friday. At the same time, Rudy Juliani, the ex-prosecutor and the former mayor of New York, is not a defendant in this criminal case, he was not charged.

At the same time, Juliani is a defendant in another investigation, which New York authorities are conducting whether he was obliged to register as a foreign agent. According to the American media, Parnassus helped Juliani look for information that could contribute to the beginning of the investigation against Joe Bayden regarding his activities in Ukraine.

Recall that Trump demanded that the investigation against Bayden demanded at that time. According to lawyer Parnassus Joseph Bondi, the defense intends to appeal the verdict. Parnas lawyers claim that Muravyov’s funds were aimed at business investments, and not at contributions to the election campaign, and that the donation to the group of Trump supporters came from a company founded by Parnassus and did not violate the laws of the United States.

It was they who in the year organized Juliani's telephone communication with former Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. During this conversation, Shokin told the Americans about the pressure that was on him in connection with the investigation of the case of the Burism oil and gas company, owned by Ukrainian businessman Nikolai Zlochevsky. After the presidential elections that Vladimir Zelensky won, Parnassus and Fruman tried to organize a meeting with him in Kyiv.

During the inauguration, they stayed at the Hilton Hotel in Kyiv. Donald Trump Juliani, close to Donald Trump Juliani, American businessmen Igor Fruman and Leo Parnassus received police guard in Ukraine in the spring of the year in response to a statement that they are threatened with the murder of another businessman - Igor Kolomoisky.