The M.I.A. Academic At Center Of Russia Probe Has A 'Habit Of Disappearing'
By RAPHAEL SATTER
October 22, 2018 9:46 am
LONDON (AP) — The Maltese academic who allegedly dropped the first hint that Russians would interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election has gone missing — and an Associated Press investigation shows that this isn’t the first time.
Joseph Mifsud has emerged as one of the more enigmatic players in U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election.
“Joseph has the habit of disappearing,” said Abdelhamid ElZoheiry, one of Mifsud’s successors at the Euro-Mediterranean University in Slovenia, where the latter had a troubled tenure as president during a between 2008 and 2012.
A U.S. court document made public last year alleged that it was Mifsud who dropped the first hint of the hacking that rocked the presidential campaign when, at a London meeting in April 2016, he told an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that the Kremlin had “thousands of emails” about his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
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