'Is it all your proof? You disappointed me,' she wrote in a post. But she later posted a link to it on her Facebook page on Friday. Veselnitskaya did not reply to emailed Reuters questions about her work for the FSB. Veselnitskaya represented a Russian client accused by US prosecutors of money laundering in a case that was settled in May this year after four years. The Obama administration last year sanctioned the FSB for what it said was its role in hacking the election, something Russia flatly denies.Ĭharles Grassley, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has raised concerns about why Veselnitskaya gained entry into the United States. There is no suggestion that Veselnitskaya is an employee of the Russian government or intelligence services, and she has denied having anything to do with the Kremlin.īut the fact she represented the FSB in a court case may raise questions among some US politicians. The FSB, the successor to the Soviet-era KGB service, was headed by Vladimir Putin before he became Russian president.

The documents show that the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, successfully represented the FSB's interests in a legal wrangle over ownership of an upscale property in north-west Moscow between 20. after his father won the Republican nomination for the 2016 US presidential election counted Russia's FSB security service among her clients for years, Russian court documents seen by Reuters show. MOSCOW: The Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr.

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