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Russian banker who met with Kushner has deep ties to the Russian government

(CNN) The Russian bank chairman who met with Jared Kushner in December isn't your ordinary banker.

His state-run bank has been under US sanctions for nearly three years.

He was appointed to his job by Russian President Vladimir Putin after eight years at Russia's biggest state-owned commercial bank.

And he graduated from the Russian academy of Federal Security Service, which trains people to work in Russia's intelligence and security forces.

Sergey Gorkov's meeting with Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and one of his closest advisers, will be scrutinized by congressional investigators probing links between Trump associates and the Russian government. Gorkov is chairman of VneshEconomBank, or VEB, a Russian development agency that has been under US sanctions since July 2014.

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