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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   The former British spy who allegedly created an incriminating but   
   now-discredited dossier on President-elect Donald Trump reportedly helped the   
   FBI build its case against FIFA officials back in 2010, The Washington Post   
   reported.   
      
   Christopher David Steele, 52, who was last seen leaving his home in southwest   
   of London on Wednesday, apparently to avoid detection and escape possible   
   retribution once his identity as the source of the salacious document became   
   known, the New York Times    
   reported.   
      
   A person close to Steele said he left his home because he now fears a prompt   
   and potentially dangerous backlash from Moscow against him and his family, the   
   Telegraph reported.   
      
   Trump lashed out at the media for publishing the unsubstantiated material and   
   at the U.S. intelligence officials, accusing them of leaking the allegations   
   and likening the leaks to Nazi conduct.   
      
   Reuters reported on Thursday that in 2009, Steele’s London-based consulting   
   firm, Orbis Business Intelligence, was hired by England’s Football   
   Association to investigate FIFA over corruption allegations.   
      
   It was his work on corruption in international soccer “that lent credence to   
   his reporting on Trump’s entanglements in Russia,” the report said.   
      
   Before developing the material on Trump, Steele was hired to investigate   
   former European Commission Vice President Kristalina Georgieva, EurActiv.com   
   said. Steele’s work occurred while Georgieva was a candidate for U.N.   
   secretary-general.   
      
   Steele, who previously worked years undercover in Russia, London and France   
   for MI-6, was specifically tasked with investigating her alleged links to a   
   Bulgarian organized crime group known as Multigroup, a shady business empire   
   run by Iliya Pavlov who    
   was assassinated in Sofia in 2003.   
      
   Last October Georgieva resigned from the European Commission to take a job   
   with the World Bank.   
      
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