A key witness in special counsel John Durham’s case against Igor Danchenko is unlikely to testify in the trial against the alleged main source for Christopher Steele’s discredited dossier.
Sergei Millian, an American citizen born in Belarus, has told Durham he fears for his safety if he were to return to the United States to testify in October, and he is worried the FBI would arrest him.
Durham's indictment of Danchenko says the Steele source falsely told the FBI in 2017 that in late July 2016, he received a phone call from Millian. He claimed Millian told him about a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation between Trump and Russians and further falsely claimed Millian had agreed to meet with him in New York in 2016.
The special counsel said that in reality, Danchenko never received such a call or information, fabricated the claims that ended up in the discredited Steele dossier, and was subsequently an important part of FISA applications that targeted Trump campaign associate Carter Page.