Dutch attorney Alex van der Zwaan was sentenced to 30 days in federal prison in April 2018 after admitting to lying to federal agents about his contacts with Republican president candidate Donald Trump’s deputy campaign chair Rick Gates during the 2016 presidential campaign.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/indictment-alex-van-der-zwaan/story?id=61149095
Van der Zwaan was the first person sentenced in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation that scrutinized ties between the Trump campaign and Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, NBC News reported.
“What I did was wrong. I apologize to the court, my wife and my family,” he told the judge.
The special counsel’s office accused van der Zwaan with working with Gates, Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik, who federal agents have identified as a former Russia intelligence officer.
Van der Zwaan’s father-in-law is German Khan, a Ukrainian-Russian billionaire.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/indictment-alex-van-der-zwaan/story?id=61149095
Van der Zwaan went to prison in May 2018 and was released the next month.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/indictment-alex-van-der-zwaan/story?id=61149095
He was then deported to the Netherlands.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/05/politics/alex-van-der-zwaan-deported/index.html
President Donald Trump pardoned Van der Zwaan in December 2020.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-pardons-idINKBN28X06E
