Paul Manafort asks to soften the house arrest regime

The American businessman Paul Manafot, who at one time, headed the Donald Trump election headquarters, asks the authorities to mitigate him with a house arrest security security for the apartment in the fashionable Trump Tower in New York and other property of only $ 12 and a half millions of dollars.

Manafort would like to be able to move more freely between Washington, Florida, New York and Virginia; In the last three places, he has real estate. Six days ago, Manafort and his colleague in the election campaign Rick Gates surrendered to employees of the General Prosecutor's Office of the United States, which brought them charges of 12 points. To both, in particular, a conspiracy to launder money and refusal to register as foreign agents is charged.

The accusations relate to their activities that preceded the work on Donald Trump. Both accused declare their innocence.

Manafort was exempted to court under a debt receipt of $ 10 million and is now under round -the -clock observation in his house in Virginia. He has the right to leave the house only for meetings with lawyers, appeals to the court, participation in religious services and in case of emergency health situations.

The prosecutor's office asked the court to keep Manafort under house arrest, since he has bank accounts abroad, three foreign passports, as well as a mobile phone and email address registered for a fictional person. Managhor's petition to mitigate the house arrest will be considered on Monday.