Russian official linked to Trump Tower lawyer dies: report
A Russian official who allegedly directed the lawyer who met with representatives of the Trump campaign at Trump Tower in the summer of 2016 has died, the Daily Beast reported Thursday, apparently in a helicopter crash. Saak Albertovich Karapetyan, a Russian deputy attorney general who reportedly had a hand in a number of notorious foreign intelligence operations at the orders of President Vladimir Putin, was killed when his helicopter crashed into a forest northeast of Moscow during an unauthorized flight, the Daily Beast reported, citing Russian media. Earlier this year he was exposed in a spy plot in Switzerland. He was suspected of directing Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, who met with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and others at Trump Tower in 2016, allegedly to give them damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Karapetyan is the latest high-profile Russian official to die under mysterious circumstances in recent years.
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