A Senate Intelligence Committee report detailed the business relationship that Christopher Steele had with a Russian oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, raising further questions about the British ex-spy’s discredited dossier.

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s 1,000-page report found that wealthy Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska “conducts influence operations, frequently in countries where he has a significant economic interest,” and “the Russian government coordinates with and directs Deripaska on many of his influence operations.” Steele and his company, Orbis Business Intelligence, were working for Deripaska in the lead-up to 2016.

Steele started working on behalf of Deripaska through the Russian oligarch’s lawyers beginning as early as 2012 through part of 2017. The investigation found “multiple links between Steele and Deripaska” and “indications that Deripaska had early knowledge of Steele's work” just a few months before he began compiling his now-discredited dossier.