Total non-story trying to sound like a huge deal, though.
Funds moving through Sberbank are regularly used to support clandestine Russian intelligence operations, while the bank uses its offices abroad as cover for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service or SVR. A NATO counterintelligence official explained that Sberbank, which has outposts in almost two dozen foreign countries, “functions as a sort of arm of the SVR outside Russia, especially because many of its senior employees are ‘former’ Russian intelligence officers.” Inside the country, Sberbank has an equally cosy relationship with the Federal Security Service or FSB, Russia’s powerful domestic intelligence agency.
Which make the question of why the Podestas would choose to take their business a very interesting question indeed.
I think your surprise all over this thread is due to people not being stunned that water is wet, politicians need money, and associated hangers-on are venal.
Hell, look at the ties between Bush and the Saudi theocrats, whose greatest hits include 9/11 and are currently doing their best to drag us into their Iran proxy war.
I'm sure there are some very large banks in the US that have lobbyist equivalents in other countries that would look at our banks the same way. I'm sure major US banking institutions provide cover for US officers abroad as well.
That doesn't bother you?
It's apparently not uncommon for banks or their representatives to deliver money to Clintons, but saying it's a non-huge, non-story sounds like what you would expect from apologist propaganda.