New concerns have been raised regarding a possible conflict of interest in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia collusion probe, involving a Russian oligarch, the FBI, and its failed attempt to get him to assist in the investigation.
Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska is a name that pops up from time to time in the collusion narrative, though it has been conspicuously absent from Mueller’s indictments. Now, a new report published at The Hill by investigative reporter John Solomon could help explain why: Deripaska has a history of working with Mueller’s FBI.
According to Solomon’s sources, the Bureau in 2009 asked the oligarch to spend millions of his own dollars to fund an FBI-supervised operation to rescue retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who was captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007. The sources include more than a dozen participants inside and outside the FBI, the Levinson family, a retired agent who supervised the case, Deripaska’s lawyer, and Deripaska himself.
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