Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst who was the primary source of the Steele dossier, a 2016 report compromising personal and financial information about Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign and the government of Russia, walked out of the court on Tuesday after a jury cleared him of all charges of making false statements to the FBI.
The accusations in the case were related to the statements Danchenko had made about his 2016 communications with Sergei Millian, the president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce. The prosecutors accused Danchenko of fabricating Millian as a source, claiming he lied about speaking to the businessman over the call.
“We are going to prove to you beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant never received a call from Sergei Millian,” prosecutor Michael Kielty said.
Who is Sergei Millian?
Sergei Millian is a Belarusian-American businessman and former president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce. He was born on October 22, 1978, in the Republic of Belarus. Millian moved to the United States in 2001, and in May 2006 he formed the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta.
He has worked as a translator and interpreter for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Millian met Donald Trump and Jorge Perez in 2007, at a horse racing event in Miami, as per Wikipedia. He claimed that Donald Trump then introduced him to Michael Cohen. Millian also claimed that he was contracted to market Trump Hollywood properties by a brokerage company hired by the Trump Organisation and The Related Group. However, Trump Hollywood stated that they have no record of any signed agreement with Millian.
In 2015, Millian was appointed to be a Regional Chairman of the Beijing-based HuaShang-Worldwide Chinese Merchants Union Association. His main is supervision and assistance in Chinese outbound investment of the companies’ members of the organization, as per his official website.
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In January 2015, Millian received the Silver Archer Award in the category of Persona, for his efforts to attract investments to Russia, which were estimated to be around $500 million.
