WASHINGTON, D.C. – With Special Counselor Robert Mueller indicting former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort for money-laundering activities involving Ukraine, the Trump administration should appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate evidence that Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian billionaire with close ties to Putin, laundered money to Hillary Clinton and John Podesta through Metcombank, a Russian bank owned by Vekselberg.

On Feb. 21, 2017, Infowars.com published documentation Vekselberg paid Clinton and Podesta through a complicated money laundering scheme involving Metcombank in Russia, with payments tracing back to the Renova Group, a Russia-based energy and investment international conglomerate also owned by Vekselberg.

The money Vekselberg laundered to Clinton and Podesta via Metcombank originated in large part from Rusnano, a state-owned investment fund owned by the Russian bank that has a history of investing alongside the Renova Group.

The Renova Group owns and operates Renova Assets Ltd., a private investment company headquartered in the Bahamas that no key executives, board members, or members of the executive committee.

Vekselberg's money-laundering scheme involved paying Podesta through a Netherlands-listed private company that plays prominently into the international money laundering the Russian government has been conducting through offshore entities in the Cayman Islands, as documented by the Panama Papers.

In 2011, Vekselberg directed Rusnano to make a $35 million investment into Joule Unlimited, a small Massachusetts-based energy company owned by Joule Global Holdings, N.V., in the Netherlands, with Joule Global Stichting in the Netherlands listed as the ultimate controlling entity in the Russian-created money-laundering shell game.