Original sentence: " Congressional sources cited by The New York Times said lawmakers declined Deripaska's request after he had asked for immunity.He also stated willingness to testify before the United States Congress about these allegations, and argued that the accusations were part of "the negative context of current US-Russian relations.Responding to the allegations, on 28 March 2017 Deripaska published open letters in the print editions of The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal in which he denied having signed a $10 million contract with Manafort in order to benefit the Putin government
Edited sentence: " According to Congressional sources cited by The New York Times, lawmakers declined Deripaska's request, after it emerged that he had asked for immunity.He also stated his willingness to testify before the United States Congress to dispel these allegations, and argued that the accusations fall "into the negative context of current US-Russian relations.Responding to the allegations, on 28 March 2017 Deripaska published open letters in the print editions of The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, in which he denied having signed a $10 million contract with Manafort in order to benefit the Putin government