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| If Mueller investigation sends official request to question suspects, Russia will do that - Putin | If Mueller investigation sends official request to question suspects, Russia will do that - Putin |
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| Russian President Vladimir Putin said that if Moscow receives an official request from Mueller investigation, then Russian will question them according to the treaty dating back to the nineties. | Russian President Vladimir Putin said that if Moscow receives an official request from Mueller investigation, then Russian will question them according to the treaty dating back to the nineties. |
| Under that treaty, officially titled the 'Treaty between the Government of the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters,' Putin said the probe "could send an official request to Russia so that we hold an investigation or questioning of those individuals and our prosecutor general offices will look into it, hold the questioning, and then send all those materials to the US." | |
| Just three days before the summit, the probe led by special council Robert Mueller indicted twelve Russian intelligence officers for hacking the Democratic party and the Hillary Clinton campaign, the US Department of Justice announced, adding that no Americans were involved and no votes affected. | |
| "We can even make another step forward, we can also invite US official representatives - including members of the Mueller probe - to be present during the questioning," Putin said. | |
| Trump called Putin's offer to help with the investigation "incredible." | |
| US President Donald Trump has stated that the Mueller probe is a "disaster" for the US. | US President Donald Trump has stated that the Mueller probe is a "disaster" for the US. |
| Putin called claims of meddling in the presidential election "nonsense," and requested a single fact to prove the allegation. | |
| "I think that the probe is a disaster for our country, I think it's kept us apart, it's kept us separated, there was no collusion at all, everybody knows it," Trump said. | "I think that the probe is a disaster for our country, I think it's kept us apart, it's kept us separated, there was no collusion at all, everybody knows it," Trump said. |
| Russia would, however, expect for such cooperation to be a "two-way street," meaning the US would allow Moscow "to question those officials including from the security services that we believe are behind illegal activities on the territory of the Russian Federation with the presence of our investigators," Putin said. | |
| "What I mean by that, you might remember the notorious Hermitage Capital case, owned by Mr. Browder. According to our investigators a group of people, his business associates, illegally earned more than $1.5 billion. They didn't pay a cent of taxes but they transferred the money to the US and they also donated $400 million to the clinton campaign - $400 million. Well they might have done it legally, but they earned that money illegally. And we do have evidence to believe that some of the US security services have helped Browder to conduct those illegal transfers. But thats just one step. We can talk about expanding our cooperation, there are multiple options there on the table and they're part of the treaty." | |
| Browder, the CEO of Hermitage Capital, made billions during Russia's 'shock therapy' in the 90s. In December 2017, a Moscow court sentenced Browder to nine years in prison in absentia for tax fraud. He was also found guilty of tax evasion in a separate case from 2013. Hermitage has repeatedly been investigated for tax fraud. | |
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