California Representative Dana Rohrabacher says on a congressional fact-finding trip to Moscow he got a pitch similar to the one that has embroiled Donald Trump Jr. in controversy.

Rohrabacher, who has a considerably more pro-Russia tilt than many of his colleagues, says government officials provided him with a packet of information running down the U.S. Magnitsky Act during his April 2016 trip.

The packet was delivered by the chief prosecutor in Moscow, and was an effort to counter the law, which slapped sanctions on Russia and is named for the man who uncovered an alleged fraud and died in a Russian prison.

Representative Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican from California, says he was provided a packet of information on a fact-finding trip to Moscow. There are parallels between the efforts to get information to him and a meeting Donald Trump Jr. had with a Russian lawyer

Rohrabacher says he has had contact with Kremlin-linked lawyer Natalia Veselnetskaya, who attended the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. where dirt on Hillary Clinton was dangled in advance.

While in Russia, 'I had a meeting with some people, government officials, and they were saying, 'Would you be willing to accept material on the Magnitsky case from the prosecutors in Moscow? 'And I said, 'Sure, I'd be willing to look at it,' Rohrabacher told The Hill newspaper.

As the article described it, Rohrabacher had been promised derogatory information important to America.

UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 7: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, leaves the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015

'At the end of the meeting simply as I was walking out, they said this gentleman has some documents for you. And he handed them to me. And that was as far as my meeting with the prosecutors went,' he continued. 'We got the information, we looked at it and we asked various people about the issue.'

He passed on the information to fellow members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee as well as to the Treasury Department, which handles issues pertaining to international sanctions.

Rohrabacher didn't just file the information away. He circulated a summary of the document making the pro-Kremlin case to lawmakers.

He said he got lobbied on the Magnitsky issue at a dinner also attended by Veselnetskaya.

Donald Trump Jr (left) has become the central figure of the firestorm surrounding Russian meddling in the 2016 election, as he failed to reveal a meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya (right), a Russian attorney, until earlier this week

Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya speaks ABC's 'Good Morning America' about meeting with Donald Trump Jr. in footage aired Wednesday

Sergei Magnitsky died while in prison in Russia after exposing an alleged fraud

The document said there was 'not a jot of truth' to the official Magnitsky story in the U.S. The document said the 2012 law 'caused the most severe damage to the US-Russian relations in recent years' – but also hinted at hopes for improvement.

'Changing attitudes to the Magnitsky story in the Congress, obtaining reliable knowledge about real events and personal motives of those behind the lobbying of this destructive Act, taking into account the pre-election political situation may change the current climate in the interstate relations,' it said. 'Such a situation could have a very favorable response from the Russian side.'

Rohrabacher chairs a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats – a portfolio that includes the tense relationship with Russia.

Rohrabacher said he was lobbied by former California Democratic Rep. Ron Dellums on Magnitsky-related issues

He also was under consideration to be Trump's secretary of state, he said last year.

'I have been told that I am under consideration to join President Trump's team as Secretary of State. While my present intention, of course, is to continue to fight for liberty and freedom as a member of the House of Representatives, as a strong supporter of President-Elect Trump's vision for America, it would be a privilege and an honor to serve as his Secretary of State,' he said at the time.

The pitch to Rohrabacher indicates that the president's eldest son was far from alone in being courted by forces seeking to roll back sanctions.

Trump Jr says his June 2016 meeting began with a pitch about dirt on Clinton, but then quickly moved to issues of suspended the Moscow-imposed ban on U.S. adoption of Russian children, an issue linked to U.S. sanctions.

He says the material mentioned by Veselnetskaya made 'no sense.'