Trump's former campaign manager placed under house arrest.

From Sputnik Brazil

Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for Donald Trump, and his then-vice president, Rick Gates, indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday, will serve house arrest on a series of charges, with bail set at $10 million and $5 million, respectively.

Among the accusations against the two are money laundering, concealment, conspiracy against the United States, and failure to register foreign agents of the Ukrainian government when they acted as lobbyists for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych from 2004 to 2014.

Both Manafort and Gates pleaded not guilty to all charges during today's hearing in Washington, D.C. However, both agreed to surrender their passports and serve house arrest, reporting their activities daily to authorities, in exchange for release from custody. The next hearing, with Judge Deborah Robinson, is scheduled for November 2nd.

The two are among those involved in investigations into the alleged collusion between Donald Trump's campaign aides and Russia, which, according to some US officials and politicians, led the Republican to the White House. However, none of the charges for which the two men were indicted on Monday have a direct connection to the presidential campaign or the White House.

"I think you all saw today that President Donald Trump was right," Manafort's lawyer, Kevin Downing, told reporters. "There is no evidence that Mr. Manafort or the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government," he stressed, adding that his client actually represented pro-European Ukrainian campaigns and tried to bring Ukraine closer to the West, activities that ended in 2014, two years before his work on the Trump election campaign.

Also on Monday, the Department of Justice announced that George Papadopoulous, foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contact or attempted contact with Russian "agents" during the presidential campaign.