Zainab Ahmad, a U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York, A top prosecutor in the Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team left, marking the second high-profile departure announcement this month and raising speculations that the Russia probe will soon be wrapped up.

Zainab Ahmad, who worked massively on counterterrorism cases, was one of the prosecutors who signed former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s guilty plea for lying to the FBI concerning his contacts with a Russian official.

But the special counsel’s office said on Monday that Zainab Ahmad is done with her work on the investigation concerning alleged Collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

“Zainab Ahmad has concluded her detail with the Special Counsel’s Office but will continue to represent the office on specific pending matters that were assigned to her during her detail,” Peter Carr said in a statement first reported by Yahoo! News.

Zainab Ahmad, departure came just a week after it was confirmed that Andrew Weissmann Deputy Special Counsel is planning to leave Mueller’s team “in the near future” and start work at the New York University School of Law.

In addition to Ahmad and Weissmann, earlier this month the FBI also announced that David Archey, senior legal special agent on the special counsel’s team, reported to his new job on March 4.

The departures are likely to inflame the speculations that the Russia investigation is nearing its end following years of legal battles that netted sentences against President Trump’s associates.

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