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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matthew Barakat

Prosecutors drop charges against Bijan Kian, a onetime business partner of Michael Flynn

Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Federal prosecutors on Monday dropped charges against Bijan Kian, a onetime business partner of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn who had been accused of acting as an unregistered agent of the Turkish government.

Monday's decision ends a five-year legal saga for Kian, whose case received significant attention when he was charged in 2018 as a spinoff from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian election interference.

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