Papadopulos, who worked as a foreign policy advisor for the Trump campaign, was jailed Friday for 14 days for lying to investigators probing allegations of collusion between Russia and Trump campaign officials.
In March 2016, Papadopoulos had met with Mifsud, a Maltese professor based in London. The academic told Papadopoulos that Russia had “dirt” on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and arranged meetings between the campaign aide and two Russians with Kremlin contacts.
At a meeting with Trump and top campaign officials, Papadopoulos offered to broker a meeting between the GOP presidential candidate and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and claims Trump “nodded” in agreement.
Mifsud’s Ukrainian fiancée told Buzzfeed News in March that she had last seen him in fall last year while pregnant with his child and had been unable to contact him since. She has since given birth to a girl. According to the outlet, Italian prosecutors seeking to summon Mifsud to court to answer financial fraud charges have been unsuccessful in locating him.
Mifsud’s biography has been removed from universities in Scotland and Italy where he taught.
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It sounds like someone is cleaning up some loose ends.