By Mark Tapscott | March 20, 2015

Foreign donors are refusing to say why they sent millions of dollars in 2014 to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Of 38 donors listed on the foundation's website who were contacted by the Washington Examiner,18 declined to answer at all, and the other 18 either responded suspiciously or stuck to generalities and refused to address follow-up questions.
The importance of who gave to the foundation and why was highlighted this week when CBS News revealed that one donor in 2013 was Rilin Enterprises. Rilin is headed by Wang Wienlang, a Chinese businessman who was invited to join the National Peoples' Congress as a delegate in the same year as he made the donation.

Rilin is close to China's national security and intelligence agencies. Besides the $2 million given to the Clintons' foundation, Rilin also spent at least another $1.4 million in 2012 lobbying Congress and the U.S. State Department, of which Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.
Wang has spent many millions cultivating influence in the U.S., according to Epoch Times, a news outlet founded in 2003 by Chinese dissidents.

"He has funded or helped establish numerous organizations in the United States — from think tanks to scholarly institutes — designed to influence U.S.-China relations, U.S. foreign policy and U.S. security policy," Epoch Times reported Wednesday.

University of South Carolina officials recently awarded Wang an honorary degree, and Epoch Times described him as "a major benefactor engaged in U.S.-China relations, Southeast Asia relations and relations on the Korean Peninsula."

Wang is also a major funder of New York University's Center on U.S.-China Relations, the Hodges Scholars Program of the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business and several programs at the National University of Singapore.

The Examiner asked foreign donors: Why did you contribute to the Clinton Foundation when innumerable other charitable groups, non-governmental organizations and official bodies do the same or similar work but without becoming centers of political controversy?

The Examiner also asked if the donors had taken any steps, beyond accepting information from the foundation, to verify that their contributions were being spent as intended and achieving the desired results.

Typical of those refusing to discuss their contributions was Don H. Jawardena, of Sri Lanka, who described the issue as "of a private and personal nature." He said he chose not to respond "as you are a third party fishing for information for reasons best known to you. I cannot be a party to contribute for your thirst for information of a private and a personal matter of mine to achieve your purpose, which I do not know."

Jawardena, who gave $100,00-250,000 to the foundation, is founding chairman of the Stassen Group of Companies, an export-import business.

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