Accused Russian agent Maria Butina took part in meetings in 2015 between a visiting Russian official and two senior officials at the U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department. The meetings, revealed by several people familiar with the sessions and a report from a think tank that arranged them, involved Stanley Fischer, then Fed vice chairman, and Nathan Sheets, then Treasury undersecretary for international affairs.
Economic relations
Ms. Butina travelled to the U.S. in April 2015 with Alexander Torshin, then the Russian Central Bank Deputy Governor, and they took part in separate meetings with Mr. Fischer and Mr. Sheets to discuss U.S.-Russian economic relations.
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The meetings were documented in a Center for the National Interest report seen by Reuters.
A judge on Wednesday ordered Ms. Butina, 29, jailed until her trial after U.S. prosecutors argued she has ties to Russian intelligence and could flee the United States. Ms. Butina has pleaded not guilty to charges she acted as a foreign agent for Russia.