(Bloomberg) -- Dmitry Firtash, a wealthy Ukrainian and onetime business partner of Paul Manafort who is facing extradition to the U.S. on corruption charges, has hired a legal team with close ties to President Donald Trump.The lawyers retained by Firtash are Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova, according
-- Dmitry Firtash, a wealthy Ukrainian and onetime business partner of Paul Manafort who is facing extradition to the U.S. on corruption charges, has hired a legal team with close ties to President Donald Trump.
Firtash has been fighting a U.S. Justice Department request for extradition to Chicago, where has was charged in a 2013 case involving alleged bribe payment to officials in India to secure mining concessions. Firtash wasn’t linked to Russian attempts to help Trump’s campaign in 2016. However, his U.S. lawyers were approached by Mueller’s team for information about Manafort, who did business with Firtash before he was chairman of Trump’s campaign in the summer of 2016.
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