The political technologist made a petition to the federal court in Washington that he would leave his home in Virginia in Long Island to participate in the funeral of the father-in-law.

The application was submitted by Manafort after the words of his colleague on the shop, who also confessed to money laundering through offshore zones and tax evasion. During the interrogation, he admitted that more than $ 75 million had passed through Manafort controlled.

Out of the total amount of money, Yanukovych's former image maker received $ 30 million. Gates agreed to cooperate with special adviser Mueller, who is investigating the case of the Kremlin's interference in the course of the 2016 election campaign. Moscow is also accused of organizing cyber attacks on US government websites.

As reported in the URA-Inform, former head of the presidential campaign of the President of the United States of America Donald Trump Paul Manafort and his assistant Rick Gates were accused of tax evasion.