The son-in-law of the shareholder of the Russian Alfa Group admitted to lying to the FBI

A relative of the Russian businessman Herman Khan pleaded guilty to the FBI’s lies as part of an investigation into Russian interference in the American election of 2016, writes Air force.

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33-year-old London lawyer Alex van der Zwaan is the husband of Khan's eldest daughter, Eva.

He was charged with giving false testimony to agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding his collaboration with Paul Manafort's junior partner, Rick Gates.

The last two are accused of fraud during their work in Kiev in 2005-2014.

In October 2017, they were indicted on 12 counts of conspiracy against the United States, tax evasion, and money laundering received from the Yanukovych government during their “Ukrainian period.” Both pleaded not guilty.

During the presidency of Yanukovych, van der Zwaan worked for a law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Ukrainian prosecutors claim that, with the suggestion of Yanukovich, Manafort hired this company to prepare a report that actually whitened a criminal case against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Tymoshenko ended up in prison in the 2011 year and was released immediately after Yanukovich’s escape from Ukraine in the 2014 year.

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At the request of the new Ukrainian authorities, the US Ministry of Justice began checking the hiring process. Skadden, Arps - Ukrainian prosecutors argued that it took place in violation of established competition rules.

Mueller's team found that van der Zwaan lied to the FBI about his contacts with Gates in 2016 while he was working with the Trump campaign, and also deleted emails with Gates and another person identified in the documents as "Individual A."

Court documents released Tuesday allege that van der Zwaan made false statements to FBI investigators about the timing of his last contacts with Gates and “Individual A.”

Investigators found that van der Zwaan discussed his law firm's report on the Tymoshenko case with the two in 2016 (during the US election campaign) and recorded these telephone conversations. He also deleted emails with Gates and an unnamed law firm (referred to as "Lawyer A" in the Mueller filings) dating back to September 2016.

US authorities in 2016 asked for a law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom provide documents on their work in the interests of the Yanukovych government, including the part that concerned cooperation with Manafort regarding the report, which was later used to justify the arrest of Tymoshenko. The law firm then fired van der Zwaan and agreed to cooperate with the American investigators.

33-year-old Alex van der Zwaan is a citizen of the Netherlands and speaks Russian, English and French.

At the beginning of this year, his father-in-law was included in the “Kremlin phone book” - a report by the American Ministry of Finance about Putin’s inner circle.

In the fall of 2017, Khan, his partners, Mikhail Fridman and Peter Aven, filed a lawsuit against the Washington private investigative company Fusion gps and its main owner, Glen Simpson, he hired retired British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to compile a “spy file” about Donald Trump’s links with Putin’s entourage. Russian businessmen have accused Simpson and his company of defamation.

Forbes estimates Khan's fortune at 10 billion dollars - thus, a businessman takes the 138-place in the list of the richest people in the world.

Recall that 16 February The US Department of Justice published accusations against 13 Russians who allegedly interfered in the presidential elections and in general in the political process in the States. Although the agency did not specify how many Americans could have suffered due to the actions of the “troll factory,” it reinforced materials specific examples.

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