In the US state of Arizona, 18 people have been indicted in connection with attempt to change the results of the 2020 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump, the state attorney general announced, quoted by France Press and the Associated Press, BTA reported.
According to American media, Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, is among the defendants.
The indictment says there was a conspiracy to award US Electoral College votes, which are used every four years to elect a new president, in favor of Donald Trump in that state, which in 2020. was narrowly won by Joe Biden. Arizona's attorney general said the case involved 11 local Republicans, as well as seven others from outside the state.
According to "Washington Post" the seven include Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Jenna Ellis and John Eastman, campaign adviser Boris Epstein and Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's former personal attorney.
No charges have been filed against the former president, but he has been listed as an unindicted accomplice, according to the Washington Post.
Joe Biden had won this southwestern state by just over 10,000 votes ahead of the billionaire, but many representatives of the Republican Party believed, without evidence, that there had been fraud and that Donald Trump had won the Arizona election, AFP recalls.
Arizona has become the fourth US state, after Michigan, Georgia and Nevada, to take legal action against people who tried to form an alternative list of representatives to the Electoral College, which determines the US president.