Leading Brexit Campaigner Apparently Passed Documents on U.S. Probe into George Cottrell to the Russians

The following article by Nico Hines was posted on the Daily Beast website June 16, 2018:

A top Brexit campaigner, who met repeatedly with Russian officials, appeared to share details of the indictment of George Cottrell, a dark web operator working for the campaign.

Credit: Elizabeth Brockway, The Daily Beast

LONDON—One of the Brexit campaign chiefs appeared to pass documents detailing an American law enforcement investigation to a Russian official, according to a cache of leaked emails.

The papers, which detailed a probe into dark web money laundering, were apparently shared with the Russian embassy in London by Leave.EU executive Andy Wigmore. They concerned the arrest of Brexit financier George Cottrell, who was seized at an airport on the way home from the Republican convention in 2016 where Donald Trump had just been nominated as the presidential candidate. Continue reading “Leading Brexit Campaigner Apparently Passed Documents on U.S. Probe into George Cottrell to the Russians”