The Lacuna Project

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European Centre for a Modern Ukraine

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • POL-6.6: The September 2018 Manafort superseding information charges that from at least 2006 to 2015 Manafort conspired with Richard Gates, Konstantin Kilimnik and others to act as unregistered agents of Ukraine, including by arranging payment of over $2 million from offshore accounts to two unnamed Washington lobbying firms, which the information does not identify. On 31 March 2017 DOJ's FARA unit told the Podesta Group and Mercury Public Affairs in separate letters that each had an obligation to register for political activities for the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine.
  • POL-6.19: The Podesta Group's FARA registration (no. 5926) was dated 1 April 2009 and terminated on 31 December 2017, with 33 foreign principals on the registration record. The firm reported $24.04 million in Lobbying Disclosure Act income for 2016 and $18.13 million for 2017.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 825 31 March 2017. U.S. Department of Justice, National Security Division: Letter, DOJ NSD Counterintelligence and Export Control Section to Caplin & Drysdale re Podesta Group, Inc. and the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine
  • Exhibit 826 31 March 2017. U.S. Department of Justice, National Security Division: Letter, DOJ NSD Counterintelligence and Export Control Section to Skadden Arps re Mercury Public Affairs and the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine