Trump Jr. Hunted in Mongolia With Kremlin-Linked Boxing Chief Who Funded Wedding

Donald Trump Jr., the son of U.S. President Donald Trump, traveled to Mongolia in August 2026 to hunt mountain sheep. He spent two days there with Umar Kremlev, head of the International Boxing Association and a businessman close to the Kremlin. Kremlev did not win the charity auction that offered the trip but joined Trump Jr. anyway, accompanied by Arthur Martirosov, a partner at the U.S.-sanctioned venture fund Voskhod.

Kremlev, whose real surname is Lutfulloyev, has led the International Boxing Association since 2020. Under his leadership, the organization received tens of millions of dollars from Gazprom. In 2023, the International Olympic Committee stripped the IBA of the right to hold Olympic boxing tournaments, citing a lack of financial transparency among other reasons.

“Trump Sr. later said that his son had repaid the money to Umar Kremlev.”

The trip followed Trump Jr.'s wedding on a private island in the Caribbean Sea in May. Kremlev partly funded the celebrations, paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for costs including the rental of a private island and a fireworks display, according to a ProPublica investigation. U.S. congressional Democrats launched an investigation after the funding emerged in September 2026.

Trump Jr. flew into Ulaanbaatar in late August and then traveled several hundred kilometers to a hunting camp in western Mongolia. Kremlev traveled from Kazakhstan to the Mongolian capital on August 27 and then took a helicopter to the camp. Trump Jr. remained in Mongolia for about a week and hunted an Altai argali, a protected species of wild sheep.

After the hunt, Kremlev returned to the Mongolian capital and traveled to Yakutsk, Russia, where he attended an event for the international boxing association he leads. Trump Sr. later said his son had repaid the money to Kremlev.