Russia’s deputy prosecutor general—who has been accused of directing the foreign operations of the Russian lawyer who met with key members of President Donald Trump’s campaign team in 2016 after promising to provide “dirt” on Hillary Clinton—reportedly died in a helicopter crash northeast of Moscow on Wednesday.
A helicopter carrying Saak Albertovich Karapetyan crashed in the forest near the village of Vonyshevo, according to local media. A spokesperson for the Prosecutor General’s office confirmed to TASS that Karapetyan was a passenger on the chopper but denied reports that the flight was unauthorized.
Earlier this year, a Swiss corruption case exposed Karapetyan’s ties to Natalia Veselnitskaya, the lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr., then-campaign chairman Paul J. Manafort, and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, at Trump Tower in 2016 to discuss damaging information the Russian government had supposedly gathered on Clinton.
As comedian Liz Russo pointed out, this is “like House of Cards thriller conspiracy shit.”
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