Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zwaan given 30 days in jail for lying to Robert Mueller in Trump-Russia probe
Alex van der Zwaan pleaded guilty to lying to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators and is the first person to be sentenced in the probe.
The Dutch son-in-law of one of Russia’s richest men was sentenced on Tuesday to 30 days in prison and a US$20,000 fine for lying to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators about contacts with the deputy chairman of US President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Alex van der Zwaan, a lawyer who once worked closely with Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, was also sentenced to two months of supervised release and said he was sorry for what he did.
“What I did was wrong. I apologise to this court, and I apologise to my wife,” van der Zwaan said at the hearing in federal court in Washington.
Van der Zwaan, 33, previously worked in the London office of the international law firm Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom and is married to Eva Khan, the daughter of Russian billionaire German Khan, founder of the privately owned Alfa Bank.
His lawyers had asked that he be able to return to London by August, when his wife is due to deliver their first child.