US Democratic senators have called on US federal authorities to investigate reports of Elon Musk’s contacts with Moscow. This was reported by Reuters.
The agency obtained a letter from the senators, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Gina Shahina and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Jack Reed – Attorney General of the United States and Inspector General of the Pentagon.
The letter says an investigation is needed to evaluate whether Musk’s SpaceX is legally eligible for government contracts.
“This relationship between a known American adversary and Musk, the recipient of billions of dollars in government funding, raises serious questions about Musk’s credibility as a government contractor and security clearance holder.” – says the letter.
The authors of the article recalled that the president-elect of the United States donald trump He won the election thanks in part to the support of Musk, who spent more than $119 million on the election campaign.
In October, material about regular contacts between Musk and the Russian president. Vladimir Putin published by The Wall Street Journal, based on words from anonymous sources among former and current US officials.
According to them, personal and commercial issues and geopolitical tensions are raised in the conversations. For example, they claim, Putin once asked a businessman not to activate his Starlink satellite Internet in Taiwan as a favor to the Chinese leader. Xi Jinping.
These messages are from the Russian leader’s press secretary. Dmitri Peskov He called them unreliable. He suggested that this information appears as “another filler in the framework of the political struggle on electoral matters, which has already become fierce to the limit.”
Musk is an active Trump supporter; He began expressing active support for the politician after the assassination attempt against him in July at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. They established contacts in the spring; According to ABC News and CNBC, the businessman has become an influential figure in Republican circles. In particular, he evaluates Trump’s personnel decisions and was present in at least two of his telephone conversations with foreign leaders, RBC recalls.
