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It's been about a year since Trump left office, but they're currently charging the sources that were responsible for the Russian probe.

A Russian national who was a key source of information used in the 2016 dossier of allegations about former President Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia has been arrested and indicted for allegedly lying to the FBI.

Igor Danchenko was taken into custody Thursday morning as part of special counsel John Durham's investigation into the origins of the FBI's Trump-Russia probe. He's been charged with five counts of making false statements.

Danchenko, 43, was a key source of information for the so-called Steele dossier, a collection of reports compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele. The dossier contained salacious claims about Trump as well as allegations that people within Trump's orbit were conspiring with Russia to win the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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