Donald Trump is suing a non-public investigations agency over “shocking and scandalous” claims that he engaged in “perverted sexual acts” in Russia.

The former US president is suing Orbis Business Intelligence, a London-based firm co-founded by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, over a file containing rumours about him that triggered a storm earlier than his 2017 presidential inauguration.

Trump is looking for damages from the agency for allegedly violating British knowledge safety legal guidelines.

The “Steele Dossier” claimed Trump engaged in sexual behaviour, giving Russia materials with which to blackmail him.

Trump’s legal professionals stated that the report was “egregiously inaccurate”.

The 77-year-old, not current for the listening to, stated in a written witness assertion the file contained “numerous false, phoney or made-up allegations” and that he sued Orbis to “prove, by evidence at trial, that the data are false”.

Trump stated he had not engaged in “perverted sexual behaviour including the hiring of prostitutes… in the presidential suite of a hotel in Moscow,” nor taken half in “sex parties” in St Petersburg or given Russian authorities “sufficient material to blackmail [him]”.

Orbis, nonetheless, argued that Trump was bringing the declare to handle his “longstanding grievances” towards the corporate and Mr Steele.

The firm desires the lawsuit deserted, saying the file was by no means meant to be made public and was revealed on the web site Buzzfeed with out Mr Steele’s or Orbis’s permission.

It additionally stated the declare was filed too late.

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Orbis legal professional Antony White stated Trump has a “deep and intense animus” towards Steele and the agency and “a long history of repeatedly bringing frivolous, meritless and vexatious claims for the purpose of vexing and harassing perceived enemies and others against whom he bears a grudge”.

Trump had referred to as for Steele to be “extradited, tried, and thrown into jail” and has referred to as him a “lowlife” and “sleazebag” concerned within the “Russian collusion hoax” who produced “a total phoney con job” file, Mr White stated in a courtroom submitting.

Trump stated in his witness assertion that he was not attempting to harass or search revenge or drive Orbis into monetary break however needed to ascertain that the data within the file was false.

“Until there is such a judgment, I continue to suffer damage and distress as a result of people wrongfully believing that the data in the dossier is accurate,” he stated.

Trump’s lawsuit towards Orbis is one in all many authorized circumstances involving the previous president, who faces 4 separate prison prosecutions within the US.