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A Russian official who allegedly headed the lawyer who had met with representatives of the Trump campaign at the Trump Tower in the summer of 2016 died, reported Thursday the Daily Beast, apparently in a helicopter crash . Saak Albertovich Karapetyan, a Russian Attorney General who allegedly took part in several well-known foreign intelligence operations under President Vladimir Putin, was killed when his helicopter crashed into a forest northeast of Moscow during 39, an unauthorized flight, the Daily Beast. reported, quoting Russian media. Earlier this year, he was exposed to an espionage plot in Switzerland. He was suspected of having directed Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who had met Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and others at Trump Tower in 2016, with the aim of giving them damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Karapetyan is the last high-ranking Russian official to have died under mysterious circumstances in recent years.
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