Donald Trump is suing ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele over his infamous “dirty dossier” that claimed Russia had compromising material on the former US president.

donald trump is suing an ex MI6 official and the intelligence consultancy he founded, High Court records show.

The former president of the United States files a data protection claim against Orbis Business Intelligence and its founder Christopher Steele, who previously headed the Secret Intelligence Service. Russia desk

According to a court order released Thursday, a two-day hearing on Trump’s legal action will begin on Oct. 16, which is believed to be the first hearing in the lawsuit.

No other details of the case have been made available, but Trump is not expected to attend.

Steele was the author of the so-called Steele dossier, which included allegations that Trump had been “compromised” by the Russian security service, the FSB.

The dossier, filtered to BuzzFeed in 2017, he also alleged that Mr To put “supported and directed” an operation to “cultivate” Mr Trump as a presidential candidate for “at least five years”.

Trump denied the claims.

File photo dated 07/24/20 of Christopher Steele

Steele and Orbis Business Intelligence were previously sued for defamation by Russian Aleksej Gubarev over the publication of the dossier, claiming they were legally responsible for BuzzFeed publishing the dossier.

However, in an October 2020 ruling, Judge Warby dismissed the claim.