Natalia Vladimirovna Vesselnitskaya
Natalia Vladimirovna Wesselnitskaja (born February 22, 1975 ) is a Russian lawyer. She gained international fame when she met Donald Trump Junior during the 2016 presidential election campaign in which she allegedly offered him compromising material about Hillary Clinton .
Life
Wesselnitskaja completed her law studies in Moscow in 1998 and initially became a public prosecutor . She switched to a bank and when it was insolvent, Wesselnitskaya became an independent lawyer and named the firm Kamerton Consulting.
While working as a lawyer, she has represented a number of clients involved in property speculation and specializes in hostile corporate takeovers . She is known for the fact that she usually wins her lawsuits. Among other things , she represented Pyotr Kazyw , a senior official of the Russian Railways , and his son Denis Kazyw in court.
She later campaigned against the so-called "Magnitsky Act," and both of which was passed by the US Congress in response to the unexplained death of Sergei Magnitsky who uncovered illegal tax refunds from the treasury of $ 230 million Officials and business people connected to the Magnitsky case were sanctioned.
In 2016, she met Trump Junior. At the time of the meeting, which was also attended by Jared Kushner , she was defending the son of the deputy chief of the Russian Railways, Denis Kazyw, in a New York court. Since July 2017 she has been accused of offering him incriminating material about Hillary Clinton and acting on behalf of the Russian government on the matter. Veselnitskaya herself denies this and claims that she does not work for the Russian government. Trump claimed that the meeting was about adoption issues.
In early January 2019, Vesselnitskaya was charged by New York law enforcement agencies. Prosecutors accuse Veselnitskaya of investigating a money laundering case against a Russian entrepreneur and his Cyprus-registered investment firm Prevezon Holdings Ltd. to have disabled. In addition, since 2017 she has been in the sights of the special investigator and former head of the FBI , Robert Mueller , who is investigating whether there has been Russian interference in the American presidential election campaign and possibly cooperation between the Trump team and the Russians.
Private life
Wesselnitskaya was married to Alexander Mitusow, the then Deputy Prosecutor General of Moscow Oblast and later Vice Minister for Transport of the regional government. The marriage ended in divorce.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c André Ballin: Who is the Russian lawyer who Trump Jr. met about Hillary Clinton? Aargauer Zeitung, accessed on January 11, 2019
- ↑ a b c Maxim Kireev: Attorney for Special Affairs
- ↑ Who is the lawyer with whom Trump's son met Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 11, 2017, accessed on January 11, 2019
- ^ Benjamin Bidder, Christina Hebel: Moscow lawyer on a mission. Donald Trump Junior meets with Russian lawyer Natalija Wesselnitskaya to find out "filth" about Hillary Clinton. Who is this woman - really just a simple lawyer from the Moscow area? In: Spiegel Online. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
- ^ Jo Becker, Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman: Trump Team Met With Lawyer Linked to Kremlin During Campaign. In: New York Times. July 8, 2017, accessed January 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Russian lawyer indicted in the USA Tagesschau.de, January 8, 2019, accessed on January 11, 2019
- ↑ Benjamin Weiser: Veselnitskaya, Russian in Trump Tower Meeting, Is Charged in Case That shows Kremlin ties. In: New York Times . January 8, 2019, accessed January 14, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wesselnitskaya, Natalia Vladimirovna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1975 |