Dmitry Firtash, a wealthy Ukrainian and onetime business partner of Paul Manafort who is facing extradition to the U.S. on corruption charges, has hired a legal team with close ties to President Donald Trump.
Ukraine-U.S. Relations
Bloomberg: Trump-friendly lawyers join legal team of Firtash
Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash looks on prior to a public hearing at the Supreme Court in Vienna on June 25, 2019. According to internal emails obtained by Stern and Capital, Firtash had a series of accounts in Wirecard, an insolvent German bank, whose top staff was arrested or implicated in criminal proceedings last year. German officials are investigating Firtash’s accounts for reported money laundering and other dubious transactions.
