# Sergei Millian **Sergei Millian** (born Siarhei Kukuts, October 22, 1978, [[Belarus]]) is a Belarusian-American businessman who was first reported as a key source for the [[Steele Dossier]] and later became, after the [[John Durham]] prosecution of [[Igor Danchenko]], the right's exhibit for the claim that the dossier was fabricated. ## Background Millian moved to the U.S. in 2001 and founded the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta in 2006; Mother Jones found its 2011 tax return reported just $23,300 in contributions *[single-sourced]*. Accounts of how he first met Trump in 2007 conflict. Wikipedia reports he was an FBI confidential human source from 2007 to 2011 *[single-sourced]*. ## 2016 From August 2016 Millian pursued a months-long outreach to [[George Papadopoulos]], dangling a consulting contract. Wikipedia reports an FBI counterintelligence case opened on him that month and closed in January 2019 without confirming Russian direction *[single-sourced]*. ## The dossier question Early reporting identified Millian as a dossier source. Durham's November 2021 indictment of Danchenko alleged that Danchenko had invented a July 2016 phone call with Millian; the *Washington Post* then corrected or removed stories naming Millian as a source. Danchenko was acquitted on October 18, 2022; Millian did not testify. **Current status:** unverified. In January 2017 he told Mother Jones he lived and worked in New York; no retrieved source confirms later reports that he left the U.S. ## RWKB angle Millian is a hinge figure in both the original Trump–Russia narrative and its inversion. ## See Also - [[Igor Danchenko]] - [[Steele Dossier]]