The London law firm under investigation for representing a Russian warlord hired a solicitor fresh from serving a US jail term for lying in the infamous Trump-Russia investigation.
Alex van der Zwaan, a Dutch solicitor who had been working in the UK, was the first person to go to jail in US special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election that put Donald Trump into the White House.
Van der Zwaan, 38, had no connection to any election interference, but had worked on a report commissioned by Ukraine’s former pro-Putin government and lied to investigators about his contact with other individuals under scrutiny.
