Donald Trump Jr. spent two days in a hunting camp in western Mongolia in late August with Umar Kremlev, the Kremlin-connected president of the International Boxing Association, the Financial Times reported Monday night. One person on the trip said the two men tried not to be photographed together.
Kremlev paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Trump Jr.'s wedding celebrations in the Bahamas, through a Dubai company tied to his boxing body, ProPublica reported Sept. 14. His wife called it a gift from a friend. President Trump later said his son had repaid it. Democrats in Congress asked for an investigation.
Then the friend followed the groom to Mongolia.
The FT rebuilt the trip from guides, local officials, flight records, social media and public documents. Trump Jr. flew into Ulaanbaatar from his island wedding and went several hundred kilometers west to a camp of guides, drivers and cooks. Kremlev flew in from Kazakhstan with Arthur Martirosov, a partner at Voskhod, a Russian venture fund under U.S. sanctions.
