Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) and a vocal supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, is a “person of interest” in the FBI investigation into the U.S. President’s links with Russia, according to a British media report on Thursday.

While there was no suggestion of any wrongdoing, Mr. Farage’s “relationships with individuals connected to both the Trump campaign and Julian Assange” meant investigators believe “he may have information about the acts that are under investigation and he may therefore be subject to their scrutiny,” the Guardian newspaper reported on Thursday, citing anonymous sources with knowledge of the investigation.

Mr. Farage, who addressed one of Mr. Trump’s campaign rallies in Mississippi last August and met the President shortly after his victory in the presidential election (Mr. Farage was infamously pictured alongside Mr. Trump by a gold-doored elevator), visited Mr. Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy earlier this year, leading to speculation about the visit.

Mr. Farage told German newspaper Die Zeit that the visit was for “journalistic reasons, not political reasons.” However, emails leaked to the news website Business Insider in March suggested that the UKIP had communicated for a number of years with Mr. Assange’s legal team, soon after the issue of the European Arrest Warrant in 2011.

“If you triangulate Russia, Wikileaks, Assange and Trump associates the person who comes up with the most hits is Nigel Farage,” one source told The Guardian, pointing to Mr. Farage’s links to Roger Stone, a political advisor to Mr. Trump. “He’s right in the middle of these relationships. He turns up over and over again.”

Mr. Farage would be the latest in a string of figures linked to the FBI investigation into the alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Reports in the U.S. media have suggested that aides of Mr. Trump and other advisers had contacts with the Russian ambassador and other officials.

Mr. Farage labelled the Guardian’s report as “hysterical” and “fake news.” “I consider it extremely doubtful that I could be a person of interest to the FBI as I have no connections to Russia,” he tweeted.