Paul Manafort is far to important to believe $11.6 million will keep him available.

Paul Manafort rubbed elbows with these men. They do not want to be smeared in The West. $11.6 million is nothing to these men or Paul Manafort if they decide he is a colleague needing protection. Heck, Putin would detain Manafort for his own reasons if it meant taking heat away from Trump or his administration. I don't think any of the men indicted are safe when traveling, even in the USA.

November 30, 2017
By Spenser S. Hsu

President Viktor F. Yanukovych (click here) of Ukraine, center, with Vladimir V. Putin, right, then Russia’s prime minister, and Dmitri A. Medvedev, left, then Russia’s president, in 2011.

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has reached a bail deal with prosecutors led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, agreeing to secure his release with four properties worth $11.6 million, forgo foreign travel and limit his travel within the United States.

In a six-page court filing backed by more than 150 pages of financial documentation, Mana­fort’s lawyers agreed to a forfeiture of the homes held by Manafort, his wife and with their daughter if he fails to appear in court to face charges of money laundering and fraud in connection with his work advising a ­Russia-friendly political party in Ukraine.

Manafort, 68, and his co-defendant and business partner Rick Gates, 45, have been under home confinement and GPS monitoring with few exceptions since pleading not guilty Oct. 30 in the first criminal allegations in Mueller’s probe of possible Russian influence in U.S. political affairs, including in the 2016 election campaign....