The Treasury Department sanctioned a Ukrainian parliamentarian who met with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani in Kyiv last year, accusing the MP of trying to interfere in the 2020 Presidential elections.
The Thursday order accused Andrii Derkach of being an “active Russian agent for over a decade, maintaining close connections with the Russian Intelligence Services.”
Derkach began to release in May audio recordings that he claimed captured Vice President Joe Biden holding calls with heads of state in 2016, particularly with the then-President of Ukraine. The tapes were heavily edited, but came as part of a years-long campaign that Derkach had waged in …read more
Source:: TPM
