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Paul Manafort, former head of Donald Trump's campaign for the presidency of the United States, lied to federal investigators about interactions with a man linked to Russian intelligence services. This is what has accused the special council that investigated whether the incumbent president had connived with Russia in the 2016 elections.
According to investigators, Manafort would have called it " perceptible lies "in interrogations. The report released on Friday indicates that the former campaign manager's false responses "were not mere memory loss".
At the end of November, Manafort had already been accused of lying to the investigators, but the advice that eliminates the supposed collusion did not reveal what was wrong. Because of this false testimony, he risks losing the guilty plea and being sentenced to spend the rest of his days in jail.
Reuters claims that investigators accuse Manafort of lying on aspects deemed essential in the investigation:
- Interactions with Russian-Ukrainian political consultant Konstan Kilimnik
- Attempts at Kilimnik to sabotage witnesses
- ] The circumstances surrounding the payment of $ 125,000 to a company that worked for Manafort;
- Manafort contacts with Trump government officials
Special prosecutor Robert Mueller accuses Kilimnik of having links with agents. Russian military intelligence. This Russian espionage unit reportedly hacked the computers of the Democratic Party during the 2016 campaign.
Mueller's team identified the lies after discovering, according to CNN, communication data and the 39, history of Kilimnik's travels.
Manafort, who is in detention, was sentenced to prison in August for eight counts of bank and tax fraud. He is the first member of the electoral team of the then candidate, Donald Trump, to be tried by charges arising from the investigation into Russia's interference in the race to the 2016 presidential election in the United States.
/s.glbimg.com/jo/g/ /2016/08/19/chefe-campanha-trump1.jpg "La photo de 2016 montre le chef de la campagne de Donald Trump, Paul Manafort - Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Amérique du Nord / AFP")
The 2016 photo shows the head of the Donald Tr campaign Manafort is a long-time Republican political consultant who has earned tens of millions of dollars working for politicians pro-Kremlin in Ukraine before joining the campaign. [1] [2] [3] of Trump in March 2016, promising to work for free.
In June 2016, he attended a meeting of the Trump Tower with a group of Russians who offered "dirt" to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who suffered an unexpected defeat for Trump in the presidential election.
Manafort's former relations with an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin were another reason why his cooperation was considered important to Mueller's investigation.
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