page_title: Rinat Akhmetshin
section_title: 2016 United States elections
hierarchical_section_title: Rinat Akhmetshin / Political activities / 2016 United States elections
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Hotellobby, Treppenaufgang im Berliner Hotel Westin Grand
context_page_description: Rinat Rafkatovitch Akhmetshin is a Russian-American lobbyist and a current Soviet counterintelligence officer. He came to American media spotlight in July 2017 as a registered lobbyist for an organisation run by Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who, along with him, had a meeting with Donald Trump's election campaign officials in June 2016.
context_section_description: On 14 July 2017, it was confirmed by multiple sources, including Akhmetshin himself, that he was a fifth and previously undisclosed attendee who met with Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, and Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya in the Trump campaign–Russian meeting at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016.
  Asked about Akhmetshin, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: "We don't know anything about this person."
  On August 11, 2017, Akhmetshin testified under oath for several hours in a grand jury investigation related to Robert Mueller's investigations into the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election.
caption: Atrium lobby of The Westin Grand Berlin
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