As Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his Ukrainian business partner Konstantin Kilimnik met for a private dinner in Manhattan in August 2016, the private jet of the Russian oligarch to whom Manafort owed millions was crossing the Atlantic en route to Newark, New Jersey.

Kilimnik, who has been assessed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as having ties to Russian intelligence, wrote in an email days prior, “I met today with the guy who gave you your biggest black caviar jar several years ago,” in an apparent reference to Deripaska’s loans to Manafort, “We spent about 5 hours talking about his story, and I have several important messages from him to you,” Kilimnik wrote before setting up an August 2 meeting with the Trump campaign chief

“I need about two hours,” Kilimnik said in the July 31 email, “because it is a long caviar story to tell.” Kilimnik did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

In a 52 hour time period beginning on August 2, Deripaska’s private jet went from Newark, NJ — minutes from the meeting location of Manafort and Kilimnik — to Moscow to pick up the Russian Deputy PM, to Norway to accommodate the secret yacht meeting where US-Russian relations were discussed.

As the Manafort dinner with Kilimnik was taking place at 666 Fifth Avenue, owned by Jared Kushner, one of three private jets owned by Deripaska (call-sign M-ALAY) was en route to New Jersey from Moscow. It landed hours after the dinner concluded and took off back to Moscow the next evening. It is unclear who was aboard the jet and why the flight was chartered. A spokeswoman for Deripaska did not respond to a request for comment.

M-ALAY landing in Newark at 6:21 UTC (1:21 am EST)

Kilimnik told the Washington Post that the two “discussed unpaid bills and current news,” but not the presidential campaign of which Manafort was chairing. The next evening, Deripaska’s plane took off from Newark en route back to Moscow. It would soon carry one of the most influential Russian political leaders — Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko — to secretly take him to the Russian oligarch’s private yacht in Norway where the billionaire was waiting.