Paul Manafort at a Trump campaign event in 2016 (Getty Images)

Two days after CNN revealed Special Counsel Robert Mueller would be handing down indictments related to the probe into Russia’s involvement with the 2016 campaign, former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrived at a FBI field office this morning. He was reportedly told to surrender. Update: The indictment has been released [see below].

The charges against Manafort include tax fraud, according to the Wall Street Journal. Also asked to surrender is Rick Gates, a Manafort associate. The NY Times reports, “Mr. Gates is a longtime protégé and junior partner of Mr. Manafort. His name appears on documents linked to companies that Mr. Manafort’s firm set up in Cyprus to receive payments from politicians and businesspeople in Eastern Europe, records reviewed by The New York Times show.”

Manafort’s home in Virginia was raided over the summer.

Mueller, a former director of the FBI, was appointed to head the probe in May. The New Yorker’s John Cassidy wrote about the rumors of who would be indicted and rumors of whether Trump’s team leaked the Russia dossier details to throw a smokescreen, “What isn’t speculation is the fact that, five months into his investigation, Mueller has brought a first set of criminal charges. By the standards of recent special prosecutors, that is fast work, and it confirms Mueller’s reputation as someone who doesn’t like to dally. Now that he has started arresting people, there is no reason to suppose he will stop. And that is precisely the message he wants to send.”

Update: The Justice Department issued a statement, “Paul J. Manafort, Jr., of Alexandria, Va., and Richard W. Gates III, of Richmond, Va., have been indicted by a federal grand jury on Oct. 27, 2017, in the District of Columbia. The indictment contains 12 counts: conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, false statements, and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts. The case was unsealed on Oct. 30, 2017, after the defendants were permitted to surrender themselves to the custody of the FBI.”