Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has asked Israel’s justice minister to formally request that the US reveal the name of an Israeli official who allegedly worked with US President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager to spread accusations of anti-Semitism against an Ukrainian opposition leader, Hadashot TV news reports.
The involvement of a senior Israeli official in Manafort’s work for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was revealed in court documents filed Friday, as part of a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential campaign.
The Haaretz daily reports it was told by Mueller’s team that it cannot reveal the identity of the Israeli official, as the individual in question has not been charged with a crime and therefore cannot be named.
Liberman has strongly denied speculation he was the Israeli official who worked with Manafort after reports noted a 2012 statement issued when he was foreign minister making similar allegations of anti-Semitism against Yulia Tymoshenko, as those US court documents said Manafort helped spread.
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