A Latvian fixer has emerged as an intermediary between Marine Le Pen and her Russian sponsors. The French presidential candidate’s men met twice with Vilis Dambins, an asset manager who works out of a small office in Riga city centre, to broker loans from Kremlin-linked lenders, according to a new investigation.
EUobserver: How Le Pen’s party brokered Russian loans
France's far-right Front National (FN) party president Marine Le Pen visits Moscow's Red Square before a meeting with Russia's State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin on May 26, 2015.
