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The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) at the end of July conducted a search in the house of the former head of the election campaign of Donald Trump Paul Manafort in Alexandria in Virginia, the newspaper The Washington Post reports.

The agents took files and other materials on July 26, a day after Manafort met with the Senate Intelligence Committee, where the Russian presidential election is being investigated.

According to the publication, the search was held at dawn, and the head of the FBI, the special prosecutor Robert Muller, left the house of Manafort with "various records".

Sources close to the investigation noted that Manafort had previously submitted all the requested materials to Congress. The representative of the White House said that the agents could get them by simply making a request.

Meanwhile, according to the newspaper, the fact of receiving the warrant for a search says that the investigation convinced the federal judge that Manafort is unlikely to transfer all the notes in response to the request.

Information about the search was confirmed by Bloomberg, the official representative of Manafort Jason Maloni, noting that the ex-head of Trump’s headquarters cooperated consistently with law enforcement agencies and, in this case, provided assistance to agents.

Manafort and former Trump adviser Michael Flynn are the main defendants in the FBI investigation on the ties of the Trump team with the Russian Federation. The testimony of Manafort in the Senate concerned a meeting with Russian lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya in June 2016.

According to the media, the meeting of Veselnitskaya and the son of the American president Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower took place because the lawyer allegedly promised to transfer the incriminating evidence to Hillary Clinton, which was, possibly, the head of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Yuri Chaika. The meeting participants deny the fact that the transfer of incriminating evidence took place.

AP reported that Manafort secretly worked for Russian billionaire Oleg Deripasku, promoting the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Manafort said that he advised Deripaska only by business questions.

Trump and the leaders of his administration have repeatedly denied rumors about any reprehensible contacts with Russia. The president called the campaign the largest witch hunt in the history of the United States.