According to people familiar with the matter, FBI agents raided the home of Paul Manafort, President Trump’s campaign chairman during the 2016 elections.

The investigation was led by Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller, with the intent of seizing any tax or foreign banking records as a part of an ongoing investigation regarding Russia’s interference with the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.

A spokesman for Manafort, Jason Maloni commented, “FBI agents executed a search warrant at one of Mr. Manafort’s residences. Mr. Manafort has consistently cooperated with law enforcement and other serious inquiries and did so on this occasion as well.”

The search warrant targeted Manafort’s estate in Washington’s northern Virginia Suburbs. The investigation took place on July 26th, just a day after Manafort met with Senate intelligence committee investigators.

As the investigations have already gone on for a few months now, the search warrant is surprising, as Manafort has already handed over hundreds of pages in documents to investigators. The source familiar with the situation mentioned that the documents seized included financial and tax records which included documents that are already in the hands of Senate investigators.

Mueller has assembled a team of more than three dozen attorneys since taking the lead role in May. Operating out of a private office in Washington, officials familiar with the investigation compare the team to that of a small US attorney’s office, with smaller divisions of FBI agents and prosecutors assigned to different aspects of the investigation.

A US official familiar with the matter then explained that these smaller divisions would then focus on either the Russian Collusion and obstruction of justice, Mr. Manafort himself and his affiliation, as well as Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser.

In total, the investigation into potential Russian intervention has seen approximately 20,000 pages of documents to the Senate judiciary committee from Trump’s administration alone, with Manafort and Donald Trump Jr. adding 400 and 200 pages of their own documents respectively.

However, Fusion GPS, the firm that compiled a dossier in the middle of the investigation against Russia, has yet to cede any documents. According to sources familiar with the situation, the firm intends to hand over thousands of pages of documents on Wednesday.

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