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Lauren Aratani in New York

Trump accused of ‘corruption, plain and simple’ after UAE invested in family firm

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Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC on Monday. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

Donald Trump has been accused of “corruption, plain and simple” after it was revealed that a member of the Emirati royal family was behind a $500m investment into the Trump family’s cryptocurrency company.

Ethics experts say the deal – struck just days before the US president’s inauguration last January – amounts to a deep conflict of interest for the White House, amid calls for a congressional investigation into the transaction.

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