WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top aide, Jared Kushner, has been caught in the spotlight of an FBI probe into Russian meddling, US media reported, heaping more pressure Friday on the embattled US president.

The latest bombshell ensures that Trump will be thrust right back into the Russia scandal upon his return to Washington this weekend, after making his international debut with a tour of the Middle East and Europe.Besides the Kushner development, which strikes at Trump’s core by drawing his family into the crisis, the White House also faces a cascade of other worries in the coming week.Fired former FBI director James Comey has promised to testify at a yet unscheduled open session before the Senate Intelligence Committee, sometime after Monday’s Memorial Day holiday.And the White House staff itself could be facing upheaval. CBS News reported that Trump is expected to consider plans for a shakeup of his communications operation upon his return from Europe.- Kushner at center stage -But Kushner, the polished 36-year-old who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, is likely to take center stage in the coming days.Reserved in public, he was on prominent view during Trump’s first presidential trip, as befits a trusted behind-the-scenes adviser involved in everything from Middle East peace to an initiative to streamline the US bureaucracy.The Washington Post reported that investigators are focusing on meetings he held in December with Moscow’s ambassador to Washington and the head of a Russian bank that has been under US sanctions since 2014.”Mr Kushner previously volunteered to share with Congress what he knows about these meetings,” his lawyer Jamie Gorelick said in a statement.”He will do the same if he is contacted in connection with any other inquiry.”The Post and other media were careful to note that their sources did not say Kushner was a “target” of the investigation, nor that he was accused of any wrongdoing.If he were a “target,” it would suggest Kushner was a main suspect of the investigation.The Post reported last week that the Russia investigation had been extended to a top White House official as a “significant person of interest.”Kushner is the only person currently in the White House known to be under investigation.