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Trump's son hunted in Mongolia with a Putin associate, — FT
Donald Trump Jr. spent two days in Mongolia hunting with Umar Kremlev — the head of the International Boxing Association (IBA), who has a criminal record and close ties to Russian security forces. Financial Times reports this after reviewing flight records, social media posts, and documents, and interviewing local guides and officials.
In late August Trump Jr. flew to Ulaanbaatar; Kremlev also arrived there on 27 August, having come from Kazakhstan on a private plane. Accompanying him was Russian businessman Artur Martirosyan, a partner of the American venture fund Voskhod, which has been sanctioned by the US.
According to the FT, trip participants tried not to be photographed together. A representative for Trump Jr. said that he and Kremlev have a personal friendship based on a shared love of hunting, fishing, and the outdoors.
Kremlev previously attended the wedding festivities for the US president's son on a private Caribbean island in May. He also paid part of the celebration's expenses. After an investigative report by ProPublica, Donald Trump said his son repaid that money.
However, experts on security raise questions about Trump Jr.'s ties to Kremlev:
"Once Russian intelligence services learn that someone has a relationship with a person who represents significant value, they will try to exploit it for their own purposes," said Holden Triplett, former director for counterintelligence at the US National Security Council.
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