The Federal District Attorney in Manhattan, Jeffrey Berman, said in a statement Tuesday that the prosecution had been charged with impeding the work of the judiciary to Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnetskaya, who had already met a number of members of President Donald Trump's campaign team in 2016.
The Russian lawyer was charged with fabricating evidence in a case filed by the US government in 2013 against the Russian company Privizon Holdings, which was accused of a $ 230 million tax fraud in Moscow.
The money came from a fraudulent scheme to recover tax money disclosed by lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was arrested by Russian authorities and died in prison for reportedly being denied treatment for serious illnesses.
US Internal Security Inspector Angel Melendez said Veselnetskaya was personally wanted in the United States for deliberately misleading US interrogators.
This arrest is not related to the investigation of special investigator Robert Mueller in the collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the presidency of 2016.
But Muller focused on the June 9, 2016 meeting in which Vyshnetskaya offered Trump's campaign to reveal information damaging to his Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton.
The meeting was attended by a number of Trump men, including Paul Manavort, former director of the Trump electoral campaign, Donald Jr., the president's son, and his son-in-law Jared Kouchner.
All said that Veselnetskaya gave them no information about Clinton, sought to discuss other issues, and denied interference in any election-related issues.