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==Israeli named by Trump Russia probe convict dismisses ‘absurd’ spy allegations=

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>After George Papadopoulos, the first Trump official to plead guilty in Mueller probe, dragged him into the headlines, businessman Charles Tawil gives his side of the story

>Israeli businessman Charles Tawil has adamantly rejected claims that he entrapped George Papadopoulos, the first Trump administration official to plead guilty in the Russia investigation, as absurd.

>Tawil, whose kaleidoscopic business career has spanned Africa, the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, acknowledged giving $10,000 in cash to Papadopoulos on June 8, 2018. But he denied being a spy who bullied Papadopoulos into taking the money in a “terrifying’’ Tel Aviv hotel room, as Papadopoulos has claimed. In fact, Tawil said that the Trump campaign adviser, who is now pushing to delay serving his 14-day prison sentence, was “desperate” to keep working with him after the cash transaction that, according to Papadopoulos, ended their relationship.

>Tawil spoke to The Times of Israel last week in the glittering Gulf city-state of Dubai, where he had come for a conference hosted by the United Arab Emirates’ Minister of Tolerance Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, with whom Tawil said he is friendly.

>Tawil’s once little-known name is now bound up with US Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. He is referenced in an FBI sentencing memo as a foreign national whom Papadopoulos “believed was likely an intelligence officer of a foreign country (other than Russia).”