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Glenn SimpsonPage 108 A. Some kind of PR consulting lobbyist. I think he's a registered lobbyist.

Q. Have you ever worked with Mr. Akhmetshin?

A. I've been — in the Prevezon case I interacted with him. I think — again, this has unhelpfully been distorted by William Browder into some sort of economic relationship or conspiracy or something. I don't have any economic relations with him. You know, I've bumped into him over the years around town. So, you know, the only thing that I specifically recall having done with him was interacting for a brief period on the Prevezon case.

Q. You don't recall working with him for any other clients or cases?

A. Let's be clear, I'm sure we did not do business together, but I do work on areas of the world where he's from, Central Asia, former Soviet Union, and he is, as I'm sure you've seen, a guy around town who knows lots of people who cover this stuff. I met him in connection with some stories I was doing on Kazakhstan at the Wall Street Journal. That's the kind of context I've bumped into him over the years. He's told me various things and I think I even met one of his clients at one point, 1-800-FOR-DEPO