The alleged Russian agent Maria (30) will cooperate with the united STATES

NEW YORK (Dagbladet): In the summer was 30-year-old was arrested and charged with having collected information about u.s. officials and organizations, and to have tried to establish a channel of communication between the united STATES and Russia.

Up to now has Butina and the Russian authorities stubbornly maintained that she is innocent. American public prosecutor's office believes, however, that she used her membership in the våpenlobbyorganisasjonen National Rifle Association (NRA) to establish contact with the leaders in The republican party, other conservative activists and business people on a mission from the Kremlin.

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New rettsdokumenter, which became known on Monday, and discussed by, among others, the Washington Post and the Daily Beast, however, shows that Butina will now say guilty and cooperate with the prosecution. In a joint request from both prosecutors and Butinas lawyers, please that she'll change how she compares to the issue of guilt. Previously, she has refused straffskyld.

It is not clear exactly which parts of the indictment she now will say guilty.

Butina, originally from Siberia, started an organization to expand våpenrettigheter in Russia. So she developed a relationship with american, conservative våpenforkjempere. In september 2016, she moved to Washington D. C. to study at American University.

On a mission

The american prosecution believes Butinas goal was to promote Russian foreign policy objectives, and that she worked on a mission from Alexander Torshin, a former Russian senator, who was second-in-command of the Russian central bank up to the previous month. Earlier in the year was Torshin subject to sanctions from the united STATES.

Butina has been " I since July, and until now the Russian authorities claimed that she is an innocent student. If she now enters into an agreement with the u.s. authorities and is cooperating, she can be released and deported to Russia in the course of the next few months, writes the Washington Post.

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Butina has been indicted by prosecutors in Washington D. C. rather than by special investigator Robert Mueller, who leads the Russia-investigation. It can be an indication that Mueller believes her activity not directly related to his investigation, which is investigating the relationship between Russia and the Donald Trumps of campaigning.

Trump-contact

In December 2015 helped Butina to arrange than a trip to Moscow for the NRA-tops. She worked then for that they should visit the central Russian politicians. Among other things, they met the mighty Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, writes the Daily Beast. She should also, according to the website, have initiated a relationship with the republican strategist Paul Erickson, who also has close ties to the NRA.

Butina should also have had contact with the Trump promotion. During a valgkampmøte in Las Vegas in July 2015 she got asked Trump a direct question about how he saw on the u.s. sanctions against Russia after the invasion of the Crimea.

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Since she attempted to organize a meeting between Torshin and Trump on the NRA-the general assembly in may 2016. It was not successful. But she and Torshin had contact with Donald Trump junior, at the meeting, according to the Washington Post.

Russia-investigation

at the same time continues Muellers Russia-investigation for full. It is complicated, but an informative review from Axios shows the most important of which currently is known about the relations between Russia and the Trump camp:

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