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US Special Prosecutor Robert Müller, investigating Russian intervention in the 2016 election, will hold a meeting with the lawyers of President Donald Trump next week. It is reported by CNN.
The meeting will be of particular importance, since it will occur after the completion of interrogations of the White House conducted by the Müller team, sources of the channel noted.
The US President’s lawyers are headed by John Doud and Jay Sokulov. They consider the meeting with Müller as an opportunity to get a more clear idea of the following steps in the investigation.
At the same time, the apparatus of the special prosecutor did not send requests to the White House to hold a meeting directly with Trump or Vice President Michael Pence, CNN notes.
Meanwhile, federal judge Amy Berman Jackson said that she was ready to satisfy the defense petition, softening the conditions of the house arrest of Paul Manafort, the former head of the electoral headquarters of Trump, the Voice of America reports . The judge noted that the accused introduced a "sufficient financial deposit", and pledged to appear at all court hearings. At the same time, Manafort is forbidden to leave the house after 9 o’clock in the evening. He must also constantly wear a special bracelet with a GPS transmitter.
On October 30, the large jury of the jurybrought manually the charges of 12 episodes, including a conspiracy against the United States. In addition, Manafort was imputed by one episode of money laundering, one - work as a foreign agent without the laid registration and two for permits. Finally, seven episodes of banking and financial reporting violations were charged with a political region. The same accusations were brought by the Manafort partner - Rick Gates.
In particular, according to the investigation, Manafort and Gates, tens of millions of dollars from parties and politicians of Ukraine received and from 2006 at least last year laundered this money in American and foreign structures to hide their origin, and thus their ties with Kiev. Manafort and Gates said they were not plead guilty. Both were sent under house arrest.
Manafort agreed with the court to release more than 11 million dollars from house arrest on bail. However, on December 5, the special prosecutor Müller asked the federal judge to refuse Manafort for a bail . Müller's employees found that Manafort violated the ban on publicly speaking about the circumstances of the case. Under a strange name, the ex-adviser Trump wrote an article about his political activity in the interests of Ukraine. At the same time, the co -author of Manaforts was his unnamed colleague, "having communication with the Russian special services." Although the article was not published, the special prosecutor considered this a significant violation of the agreement.
Manafort left the post of chief of staff of Trump in August 2016, after it turned out that he was one of the key advisers to Viktor Yanukovych , a cursory ex-president of Ukraine. It was reported that in the so-called barn book of the Party of Regions found records of unregistered payments to Manafort $ 12.7 million in cash for 2007-2012. At the same time, the political strategist himself assured that "he had never received a single illegal payment."
The media reported that Manafort worked for the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska , promoting the interests of the Kremlin. The Trump administration, like the political strategist himself, insisted that he never worked for Moscow.