Russian businessman begins High Court defamation fight over Steele dossier

Christopher Steele, a former British spy who wrote a 2016 dossier about alleged links between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, arrives at the High Court in London today for a hearing in the libel case brought against him by Russian businessman Aleksej Gubarev.

A Russian businessman “suffered serious reputational” harm when named in a former British spy’s 2016 dossier about alleged links between Donald Trump and Russia, lawyers have told a judge in England.

Lawyers representing Aleksej Gubarev, who has sued Christopher Steele, told Mr Justice Warby that part of the “Steele Dossier” named the businessman.