Trump's son hunted in Mongolia with Putin's Kremlin ally. F.T. Donald Trump Jr. spent two days in Mongolia hunting with Omer Karamelev, head of the International Boxing Association (IBA), who has a criminal record and close ties to Russian security forces. The Financial Times writes about this after studying air travel data, posts and documents on social networks, and also interviewed guides and local officials. At the end of August, Trump Jr. flew to Ulaanbaatar. On August 27, the Kremlin arrived there from Kazakhstan in a private plane. Along with him was the Russian businessman Artur Martirosyan, a partner in the American venture fund Weskod, which is under American sanctions. According to the FT, the trip participants tried not to be photographed together. A spokesman for Trump Jr. said he and the Kremlin share a personal friendship based on a shared love of hunting, fishing and the outdoors. In the past, Karmelev attended the wedding celebrations of the US president's son on a private island in the Caribbean in May and paid part of the expenses. After an investigation by ProPublica, Donald Trump said his son returned the money. Trump Jr.'s ties to the Kremlin have security experts worried. "Once Russian intelligence learns that someone has a relationship with a high-value individual, they will try to use that for their own purposes," said Holden Triplett, a former director of counterintelligence at the US National Security Council.

Trump's son hunted in Mongolia with Putin's Kremlin ally. F.T. Donald Trump Jr. spent two days in Mongolia hunting with Omer Karamelev, head of the International Boxing Association (IBA), who has a criminal record and close ties to Russian security forces. The Financial Times writes about this after studying air travel data, posts and documents on social networks, and also interviewed guides and local officials. At the end of August, Trump Jr. flew to Ulaanbaatar. On August 27, the Kremlin arrived there from Kazakhstan in a private plane. Along with him was the Russian businessman Artur Martirosyan, a partner in the American venture fund Weskod, which is under American sanctions. According to the FT, the trip participants tried not to be photographed together. A spokesman for Trump Jr. said he and the Kremlin share a personal friendship based on a shared love of hunting, fishing and the outdoors. In the past, Karmelev attended the wedding celebrations of the US president's son on a private island in the Caribbean in May and paid part of the expenses. After an investigation by ProPublica, Donald Trump said his son returned the money. Trump Jr.'s ties to the Kremlin have security experts worried. "Once Russian intelligence learns that someone has a relationship with a high-value individual, they will try to use that for their own purposes," said Holden Triplett, a former director of counterintelligence at the US National Security Council.