Suspicious Russian Embassy Transactions Flagged

New documents show that American bank examiners delved deeper into the Russian embassy’s financial activity “than was previously known — and reveal why they flagged two of the transactions as suspicious,” BuzzFeed News reports.

“The first, made just 10 days after the US presidential election in 2016, was a $120,000 lump-sum check to then-ambassador Sergey Kislyak that was twice as large as any payment he’d received in the previous two years.”

“The second, just five days after President Trump’s inauguration, was a blocked attempt to withdraw $150,000 in cash that a bank official feared was meant for Russians the US had just expelled from the country.”