# Pierre Louvrier Pierre Louvrier is a Belgian businessman and consultant who settled in Russia around 2010 and has drawn scrutiny for Kremlin-adjacent ties. In the RWKB he is a foreign-influence node attached to [[Tulsi Gabbard]]: a foundation he chairs reportedly funded a Gabbard trip to a Vatican event in Rome, a connection that surfaced at her 2025 Director of National Intelligence confirmation hearing. ## Russian connections Reporting indicates that in 2014–2015 Louvrier pursued a venture partnership with Konstantin Malofeev — the internationally sanctioned, pro-Kremlin Russian media oligarch — though the arrangement reportedly collapsed after exposure in the Bulgarian press, and Louvrier has denied any continuing dealings with Malofeev. These reported associations are the basis for his characterization in coverage as "pro-Kremlin." ## Connection to Tulsi Gabbard A foundation chaired by Louvrier is reported to have paid for [[Tulsi Gabbard]]'s travel to a Vatican event. At Gabbard's DNI confirmation, Senate Intelligence Committee vice chair Mark Warner pressed her on who financed the trip, naming Louvrier and raising his Malofeev links. The episode fed the longer-running line of questioning about foreign-influence exposure around Gabbard. The relationship is a documented donation/travel tie, not evidence of any operational coordination, and Louvrier disputes the Kremlin framing. ## KB significance Louvrier is a small but concrete data point in the foreign-influence questions that have shadowed Gabbard — useful precisely because it is specific (a named funder, a named trip, a Senate exchange) rather than insinuation. He belongs to the cluster of Russia-adjacent contacts that recurred throughout her political career. ## Related - [[Tulsi Gabbard]] — recipient of foundation-funded travel; questioned about him in the Senate