The US Democratic Coalition has revealed the President-elect Donald Trump had two offshore companies registered in Cyprus, along with several other countries, reports said on Tuesday.
The coalition has revealed that aside from companies in Argentina, Japan, Kuwait, and the Philippines, two companies were registered in Cyprus, “the tax haven and money laundering island serving Vladimir Putin and Russian oligarchs,” the report said.
Scott Dworkin, a senior adviser of the coalition, has posted the finding from the Cyprus companies’ authority to his personal Twitter page.
One of the companies was opened in 2008.
Earlier this year, Israel’s Haaretz reported that Trump worked with a notoriously corrupt Cypriot company to bid for a casino license. The Trump company made a joint venture with a Nevada firm and paid large sums of money to employ former-high Cypriot government officials as lobbyists in the bid, the coalition reported.
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