Ties to Trump:
- attended his inauguration; donated $250K, bought ticket through a straw donor;
- worked at Bank of Cyprus -- Manafort's phone had notes to "use Cyprus as inter" during June 2016 Trump Tower meeting
- had a company called Columbus Nova, donated $500,000 to Trump's personal attorney Cohen's company (a slush fund for Trump)
- is somehow linked to this guy Kukes?
(from 2018)
'Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible Trump campaign links to Russia, is reportedly investigating financial donations from American citizens with deep ties to Russia, including Kukes, Ukraine-born Len Blavatnik and the US-born Andrew Intrater; together the three are thought to have donated nearly $2 million to Trump-supporting funds.
Intrater is a relative of the oligarch Viktor Vekselberg and oversees the US affiliate of Vekselberg’s Renova group."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/russian-us-oligarch-claimed-to-be-actively-involved-in-trump-election-strategy/