The Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election is pictured in New York, New York, U.S., April 18, 2019. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Erik Prince, founder of the now defunct Blackwater security firm and a supporter of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential run, appears to have misled the U.S. Congress on details of contact he had with a Russian banker in January 2017, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report released on Thursday shows.
The report's detailing of an encounter Prince had in the Seychelles with Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund who reports directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin, contained discrepancies with testimony that Prince gave in November 2017 to the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee.
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