- Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska said he previously employed Christopher Steele, the author of the Trump dossier.
- Deripaska said he hired Steele through his attorneys in London to work on an unspecific legal proceeding.
- Steele investigated the Trump campaign on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC.
A Russian aluminum magnate with close ties to Vladimir Putin said he hired Trump dossier author Christopher Steele to work on a research project related to a legal battle in London.
Oleg Deripaska told TheHill.TV that his attorneys hired Steele on retainer for the work.
“It was a research project to support one of the cases against me in London. My understanding [is] that lawyers trust him for some reason, and he was for quite [sic] time on retainer,” Deripaska told Hill opinion contributor John Solomon in the interview, published Tuesday.
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