Questions over investments to Jared Kushner's business (Image: GETTY)
Former White House ethics chief Richard Painter said the investments were “very mysterious sources of funding". Mr Painter told The Guardian: "If it's foreign government money, sovereign wealth funds and it's going to his business, then he's in violation of the emoluments clause. If it's private money, he's not in violation of the emoluments clause but we have serious concerns when businesses owned by high ranking US officials are dependent on foreign national finances.
“We just have to know more, but there's a complete lack of transparency here."
Since 2017 Cadre, a real estate company, co-founded and still owned in part by Kushner, has received $90 million in investments from an unknown overseas source.
According to a report in The Guardian the funds to Cadre, in which Kushner retains a holding worth $25 million to $50 million, were funnelled through a Goldman Sachs-run vehicle in the Cayman Islands.
The emoluments clause, a provision of the US Constitution prohibiting government officials from receiving payments, gifts or other things of value from a foreign state
