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Who is Umar Kremlev, the Russian tycoon who paid for the wedding celebrations of his “friend”, Trump’s eldest son

El empresario acompañó a Putin en su reciente viaje a China, controla el sistema de pagos de las apuestas en el país y preside la opaca Asociación Internacional de Boxeo, suspendida por el COI

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Who is Umar Kremlev, the Russian tycoon who paid for the wedding celebrations of his “friend”, Trump’s eldest son

US NGO ProPublica has revealed that 43-year-old Russian businessman Umar Kremlev, close to security forces, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars at Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding last May. Another Russian Defence Ministry contractor, Alexánder Lagutin, was also a guest at the event. Both Kremlev and Lagutin had recently accompanied Vladimir Putin on a trip to China. A photo of a wedding guest appears to show Lagutin's presence at the event.

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