New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams was indicted on Thursday for allegedly accepting campaign contributions and other benefits from foreign entities over the course of a decade.

The indictment, which was unsealed hours after the FBI raided his residence and seized his phone, asserts that Adams “accepted illegal campaign contributions” for his 2021 mayoral campaign, as well as “improper valuable benefits” such as luxury international travel from wealthy foreign businessmen since 2014, the year he became president of Brooklyn Borough.

The document adds that “foreign national benefactors,” especially from Turkey, tried to “cash in on their corrupt relations with him” as his power increased in New York City. Adams allegedly pressured the city fire commissioner to approve a new building for the Turkish Consulate despite safety concerns as a result of the contributions.

Adams allegedly accepted the campaign funds in the form of straw contributions, through which the “true contributors conveyed their money through nominal donors, who falsely certified they were contributing their own money,” meaning he and the foreigners subverted federal law.

The official therefore faces five charges which include conspiracy to commit wire fraud, federal program bribery, and solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national.

Adams, who previously served as a police captain, has therefore become the first incumbent mayor of New York City to be indicted in a federal probe. He said in a video statement released on Wednesday evening that the federal government would falsely accuse him of crimes because of his opposition to their shipment of illegal immigrants into the city: “If I am charged, I know I am innocent. I will request an immediate trial so that New Yorkers can hear the truth.”