A federal judge on Thursday declined to hold a Russian company in contempt in a case brought by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller III, ruling that prosecutors had not proved the firm spurned a demand for records ahead of its upcoming trial.

At a brief hearing in Washington’s federal trial court, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich said she believed the Russian company, Concord Management and Consulting, had been in possession of the subpoenaed documents “at one time” in the past. But she said it was not clear Concord remained in possession of the records “at this point.”

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