A company controlled by Donald Trump paid for business in Cuba to explore hotel and casino opportunities while the U.S. embargo prohibited spending any currency there, according to an explosive new report.

Documents obtained by Newsweek show that a consulting company engaged by a Trump company spent $68,000 in Cuba.

The strict U.S. embargo prohibited spending any currency in Cuba at the time. The consulting firm spent the funds and then later got reimbursed by the Trump hotel and casino enterprise, according to the report.

At the time the deal exploration was going on, Trump spoke unequivocally in favor of maintaining the embargo while he was seeking the presidency as a Reform Party candidate – calling then-President Fidel Castro a 'murderer' who would benefit from any business deal in a speech to Cuban Americans in Miami.

A consulting company engaged in business in Cuba despite the U.S. embargo and got reimbursement from a Trump hotel company for $68,000, new documents reveal. Trump is pictured here in Miami in 2012 during the announcement of his purchase of Doral Hotel & Country Club

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The foray got started when European companies reached out to Trump about investing in the Island nation through Trump Hotels.

Lawmakers had been pushing then-President Bill Clinton to review Cuba policy or relax the embargo, although Clinton ultimately ended up signing legislation to tighten it.

A former company exec told the magazine the purpose of the trip was to get a 'foothold' in case the embargo got relaxed.

Executives met with government officials and business leaders to explore a possible casino, according to Newsweek. The former exec said Trump knew about the trip and participated in discussions about it.

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BULLSEYE: The Newsweek report quotes from documents that show consulting firm Seven Arrows describing the Cuba trip

BLACK AND WHITE: The U.S. embargo prohibits Americans from spending any amount of U.S. currency in Cuba to do business

Seven Arrows Investment and Development Corporation, company controlled by Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, secretly conducted business in communist Cuba during Fidel Castro?s presidency

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Richard Fields, who ran Seven Arrows, didn't respond to the publication's request for comment

The company reimbursed the consulting firm, Seven Arrows consulting, shortly before Trump launched his Reform Party presidential bid.

As it turns out, Trump launched his presidential bid in Miami in 1999 – and was unsparing in his criticism of the Castro regime.

'As you know—and the people in this room know better than anyone—putting money and investing money in Cuba right now doesn’t go to the people of Cuba,’’ Trump said at the time.

“It goes to Fidel Castro. He’s a murderer, he’s a killer, he’s a bad guy in every respect, and, frankly, the embargo must stand if for no other reason than, if it does stand, he will come down,” Trump said.

The Trump firm, Trump Hotels, had been losing money in 1998 at the time the plan to explore the deals took effect.

When Seven Arrows billed the Trump firm for reimbursement the following year, the $68,000 bill was for costs ''incurred prior to and including a trip to Cuba on behalf of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Inc.

The 1999 document continues: “Under current law trips of the sort Mr. Fields took to Cuba must be sanctioned not only by the White House but are technically on behalf of a charity.'

'The one most commonly used is Carinas Cuba,' it says.

That is likely a reference Caritas Cuba, a Catholic Church-formed charity that provides services to the elderly and other groups.

The charity didn't respond to the publication's request for comment, nor did Richard Fields, who ran Seven Arrows.