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Trump-linked billionaire with murky history behind Finland's Tiktok data centre

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A Finnish real estate company is planning to build a large data centre in southeastern Finland that will mainly serve social media platform TikTok .

One of the company's main backers is multi-billionaire Hussain Sajwan , who has previously partnered with US President Donald Trump , according to Forbes .

The planned data centre will primarily serve TikTok , a Chinese -owned social network that many critics say poses security risks.

In 2023 , Sajwani said that Dubai would be glad to accept Russian money, as long as it was "clean" The UAE , which has deepening ties with Russia , decided not to match sanctions imposed by Western nations on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine .

In a post on his website, the post read: 'If anyone brings money through the banking system here legally and professionally, we'll do business with them'.