A young woman stood in front of the U.S. Department of justice, to have as an “agent” of their home country’s conservative circles of the United States undermined. The 30-year-old Maria Butina known on Thursday in Federal court in Washington of a “conspiracy” against the United States guilty.
Butina had established close ties to the gun lobby, the NRA, and also in high-level circles of the Republican party of President Donald Trump wrong. Your fault plea you put now in the framework of a cooperation agreement with the Prosecutor’s office.
The penalty for the Russian woman has not yet been announced. Prosecutors have recommended up to a year and a half in prison. After you Serve your sentence Butina will be deported to Russia. It is already since July in the prison.
According to investigators, Butina made their contacts to the Republicans with the intention to influence U.S. foreign policy. You have followed since March 2015 the Plan, “unofficial channels of communication with Americans, the Power and influence the US policy exercise”.
pre-played love
For this aim they used the information according to their relationship to the Republican policy Advisor and NRA member Paul Erickson, with whom she lived in Washington together. Your 26-year-older lover introduced in the Republican circles.
and funded Butina was sent according to the findings of the US investigators is, in part, by Alexander Torshin, the Vice-Chairman of the Russian Central Bank and Russian President Vladimir Putin is close to.
Butina traveled several times to the USA, before you let then in 2016 with a student visa in the capital. There she graduated from American University with a Masters degree in international relations. At the University they around told in a relatively open manner that you have a Putin-Connection.
in cooperation with the Erickson Butina reflected in documents seized in a derogatory way, as an investigator for the Federal police, the FBI reported. The relationship was only a “necessary aspect of their activities”.
Erickson offered to a court document, according to early 2016 an employee of the Trump-election campaign, to arrange a Meeting between the presidential candidate and Putin, with the help of Torschins.
Parallel to the Chapman-case
The case of the young Russian woman has awakened in the United States, a lot of attention, also because of their iridescent appearance. The red-haired woman posing on photos in the Online networks guns with rapid fire and other shooting device, in some she is wearing a cowboy hat.
In the American media have drawn Parallels to Anna Chapman, the failed 2010 in the USA, and also red-headed Russian spy.
The case, Butina is part of the extensive Research of the U.S. Department of justice, to the attempted Russian influence took on the US politics and the election campaign of 2016. It is, among other things, to the suspicion that there might have been illegal collusion between Trump’s staff and Moscow. (roy/SDA)
Created: 14.12.2018, 02:57 PM
