Trump Organization, Real Estate, and Global Money Laundering Craig Unger Journalist Craig Unger discusses the Trump Organization's use of real estate franchising (Colonel Sanders model) to facilitate global money laundering by mysterous figures.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Trump Organization, Real Estate, and Global Money Laundering Craig Unger Journalist Craig Unger discusses the Trump Organization's use of real estate franchising (Colonel Sanders model) to facilitate global money laundering by mysterous figures.
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| 0:25.6 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel with Craig Unger, the author of House of Putin, House of Trump, where Craig is taking |
| 0:31.5 | information developed over the last 15, 16, 20, 25, 30, 40 years about the Trump organization and how Mr. Trump became a |
| 0:41.6 | very well-to-do, extremely well-known figure in New York property development, but then |
| 0:48.6 | international property development, and then the political turn, which is another Trump story. |
| 0:54.5 | We're focusing on the real estate version. |
| 0:57.4 | There was the model in America, but now we're going not just to Panama, to Azerbaijan. |
| 1:04.0 | And Craig, this is much the same story, except for Nguera is nowhere to be found. |
| 1:08.7 | Who is Mamadov? |
| 1:10.5 | Right. In this case, the role of Nguera is nowhere to be found. Who is Mamadov? Right. |
| 1:11.0 | In this case, the role of Nguera is replaced by the Azerbaijani Transportation Minister. |
| 1:18.5 | He's a man named Zia Mamadov. |
| 1:21.2 | And in diplomatic cables, the United States, the State Department described him as being notoriously corrupt. |
| 1:28.8 | Similarly, according to the organized crime and corruption reporting project, |
| 1:34.3 | he was said to be, quote, he was putting together a money, quote, money laundering |
| 1:41.2 | scheme and slush fund used by Azerbaijan elite to disguise the origin of billions of dollars. |
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