Paul Manafort : trump's election campaign chief gave information to the Russians

Donald trump's former campaign Manager Paul Manafort, has passed on according to media reports, during the US election campaign 2016 campaign data to a business partner of Russian secret services. This is to show according to Reports from several US media, court files, the Manaforts lawyers published on Tuesday.

The U.S. special investigator Robert Mueller accused met with Manafort, and other campaign aides of the current President Trump, collusion with Russian representatives and to have lied about it. According to "New York Times" (Tuesday) were the survey data and partly by a private company, worked for trump's campaign team. In the case of the made available court documents, it was a response to the allegation, Manafort have the US lied to investigators, even after he had agreed to make a cooperation with you.

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accused of The files were blacked out by the media, according to inadequate. Had been So readable that Manafort had passed on information to his Trusted Konstantin Kilimnik. Kilimnik is said to have Links to the Russian secret service. From the response of the lawyers, according to the channel CNN that Manafort with Kilimnik discussed a peace plan for Ukraine.

In a court-filed document has Manafort, however, the allegation of special investigator Robert Mueller, to have contact with Konstantin Kilimnik lied. He forgot during the hectic election campaign period, only Details, it said.

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the defenders of The Ex-the election of heads of argument in respect of Mueller's allegations that her client had been employed during the election campaign so that he could not remember every conversation. The same is true for the statement, Manafort have lied about it, to have survey data to Kilimnik redirected.

Manafort had led Trumps election campaign team for two months. He had to give up the Post in August 2016, after the alleged money flows to him from the environment of the Pro-Russian Ex-President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, known.

Also on Tuesday the Russian lawyer Natalia Wesselnizkaja had been indicted for obstruction of Justice. The Prosecutor's office in New York accuses her to have investigation in a money laundering case, disabled.

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The attorney also plays a role in the Russia affair, to Donald Trump, because during the election campaign, with Manafort and Trumps son Donald Trump Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Trumps son had been promised for the Meeting of compromising Material about democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. (dpa, AFP)