The case in which Veselnitskaya represented the FSB was complex appeals courts at least twice ruled in favour of private companies which the FSB wanted to evict. Veselnitskaya has also said she is ready to testify to the US Congress to dispel what she called "mass hysteria" about the meeting with Trump Jr. Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, has said she had "nothing whatsoever to do with us." Veselnitskaya has said she is a private lawyer and has never obtained damaging information about Clinton. President Donald Trump's eldest son eagerly agreed in June 2016 to meet Veselnitskaya, a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have damaging information about Democratic White House rival Hillary Clinton, according to emails released by Trump Jr.
Reuters was unable to establish if Veselnitskaya did any other work for the FSB or confirm who now occupies the building at the centre of the case. Veselnitskaya and her firm Kamerton Consulting represented "military unit 55002" in the property dispute, the documents show.Ī public list of Russian legal entities shows the FSB, Russia's domestic intelligence agency, founded the military unit whose legal address is behind the FSB's own headquarters. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But appeal documents show that Rosimushchestvo, Russia's federal government property agency, was involved. Reuters could not find a record of when and by whom the lawsuit - which dates back to at least 2003 - was first lodged. The FSB did not respond to a request for comment. Veselnitskaya did not reply to emailed Reuters questions about her work for the FSB. The Obama administration last year sanctioned the FSB for what it said was its role in hacking the election, something Russia flatly denies, and Charles Grassley, Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has raised concerns about why Veselnitskaya was allowed into the United States at all. 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.
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