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    Russian ex-spy pressured Manafort over debts to an oligarch

    by Simon Shuster/Rhodes, Greece Jan 14, 2019 4 minutes
    Manafort, Trump’s former 2016 campaign chair, will be sentenced in February

    WHEN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PUT OUT ITS latest sanctions list on Dec. 19, the man at the top did not seem especially important. Described as a former Russian intelligence officer, he was accused of handling money and negotiations on behalf of a powerful Russian oligarch. The document did not mention that the man, Victor Boyarkin, also had a connection to the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump.

    A months-long investigation by TIME found that Boyarkin, a former arms dealer with a high forehead and a very low profile, was a key link between a senior member of the Trump campaign and a wealthy ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    In his only interview

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