From Depardieu to Tulsi Gabbard, the Belgian at the heart of US lawmakers' Russia concerns
US senators want to know more about a Vatican trip last July by Donald Trump's nominee for director of national intelligence. Their questions are centred on the activities of a multi-faceted consultant well known in Paris. Active within Russian business circles, he is a friend of actor Gérard Depardieu and French far-right MEP Thierry Mariani, involved with the Vatican and a one-time visitor to the French president's Élysée Palace.