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While living comfortably in Dubai, he registered companies in bespoke tax-free zones, and eventually procured diplomatic credentials from Liberia, according to a New York Times profile.

Friends, relatives and neighbours called every day, asking for help procuring oxygen cylinders, hospital beds and even essential medicines.

On seeing this, his mother Eileen - by all accounts, a formidable woman - procured him a wig, and demanded he wear it.

But Trump's recent moves to procure these critical minerals suggest a focus on the upstream process may now be happening.

Ms Barrett cited the case of another individual who allegedly tried to procure high-powered weapons for a fake terror plot so he could provide information to authorities in exchange for a reduction to his sentence.