NEW: Yuriy Lutsenko is the Ukrainian official who U.S. prosecutors say urged 2 Giuliani associates to push for the ouster of Marie Yovanovitch, the fmr. U.S. ambassador, according to a U.S. official familiar with the events.
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The associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were arrested Wednesday night as they prepared to board a one-way flight out of the country at Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C. But two former U.S. officials said Lutsenko had sharp disagreements with Yovanovitch over his handling of corruption cases, and was also seeking to curry favor with the Trump administration.
When approached by Giuliani and his associates, Parnas and Fruman, Lutsenko was facing an uncertain political future. The Giuliani team saw U.S. Ambassador Yovanovitch as an obstacle to their objectives — digging up derogatory information on former vice president Biden and smoothing the way for a possible natural gas deal in Ukraine, former officials said.
Lutsenko told NBC News last month that he's known Giuliani for"many years" and met with him while vacationing in New York.Lutsenko said they discussed former Vice President Biden and his son, Hunter, and talked"about our system, about some of our law enforcement divisions and possibilities to cooperate."
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