The head of the U.S. justice Department has denied the information about the meetings with Russian diplomats
Moscow. March 2. INTERFAX.RU — U.S. attorney General Jeff sessions has refuted reports that he had met with representatives of Russia to discuss issues related to the election campaign of Donald trump.
“I never met Russian officials to discuss issues of the election campaign”, — quotes its words Agency Associated Press.
Previously, the newspaper “Washington post” reported that the head of the justice Department Jeff sessions when he was a Senator twice met with the Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak and did not mention it when his candidacy was approved in the Senate.
According to the newspaper, citing unnamed officials in the U.S. Department of justice, one of the meetings took place in September in the office of former Senator, where, according to sources, held a “private conversation” Kislyak and Roman sessions.
The authors draw attention to the fact that it was in September held a “cyber-attacks” with the aim of influencing American elections, in which US intelligence blamed Russia.
The newspaper also notes that, when in the course of approving nominations and Roman sessions in the Senate, he was asked about the alleged ties between team trump with Russia, he did not disclose this fact.
Earlier, similar information about the contacts of the national security adviser of the President of the USA Michael Flynn with the Russian Ambassador has led to the fact that Flynn was forced to resign. Flynn was accused that he did not provide full information on the nature of such contacts to the Vice-President of the United States Michael Pence.
Russia categorically rejects allegations of U.S. intelligence involvement in cyber-attacks to influence the election campaign in the United States.
The U.S. justice Department on Wednesday evening, said that last year, when sessions was a Senator, he had two conversation with Kislyak.
“In the first case, he held a meeting in the office as a member of the Senate Committee on armed forces. The second contact took place among the other ambassadors after the speech, at the event of the Heritage Foundation”, — reports the Agency with reference to the Ministry.