The former FBI informant arrested on charges of giving false information about the Bidens’ business dealings in Ukraine has been arrested again — on the same charges.
Alexander Smirnov was arrested in Nevada on Thursday just two days after having been freed pre-trial by Magistrate Judge Daniel Albregts on condition of GPS monitoring and the surrender of his two passports.
“Despite Judge Albregts’s prior ruling, denial of the stay request, and Mr. Smirnov’s prior release from custody, on the morning of February 22, 2024, Mr. Smirnov was arrested for a second time – on the same charges and based on the same indictment set forth … while at the undersigned counsel’s law office for meetings with counsel,” his lawyers wrote in a court filing.
According to a CNN report, the “unusual move” gives prosecutors another chance to persuade a different judge to keep Mr. Smirnov behind bars.