Russian exiles fear for their safety over Moscow hit squads
Russia’s GRU
Russians was organising to have me kidnapped and taken back to Russia.”
Alexei Navalny was probably killed by a nerve agent from the same family as novichok. These killer substances cause muscle spasms, twitching, breathing difficulty, convulsions and possible death.
Berlin doctors have said early examination of the campaigner showed he was likely poisoned.
Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, members of Putin’s GRU intelligence agency, were
US financier Bill Browder warns of another UK novichok attack behind the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in 2018, using novichok, daubing the lethal nerve agent on the door handle at his Salisbury home. Local woman Dawn Sturgess, 44, was contaminated and died. They are not the only ones targeted on British soil, in 2006 Alexander Litvinenko, a former FSB and KGB officer and vocal critic of Putin was poisoned with polonium by two Russians in a suspected assassination.
It falls into a pattern of Russianbacked intimidation of anyone speaking out against Putin, who has amassed a fortune of around
BILL BROWDER ON MORE POSSIBLE RUSSIAN NOVICHOK ATTACKS £180billion, allegedly hidden among the assets of supporters globally.
While ordinary Russians have suffered poverty during his rule Putin is suspected of being one of the richest men in the world, his lifestyle and wealth are of unimaginable opulence.
And yet officially his annual earnings of around £100,000 are comically modest for a Russian president with control over hundreds of oligarchs and Russia’s entire economy.
As well as more than a dozen suspicious deaths of Russian dissidents here, in recent years intellectuals and campaigners in the UK have suffered a catalogue of intimidation tactics.
The Mirror can reveal a British intellectual critical of Putin had his house burned down in the UK and suffered a near-fatal mystery illness.
Anyone who speaks publicly about Putin’s corrupt regime can be targeted.
Bruce Jones, one of the UK’s top Russia analysts, told the Mirror: “In Britain incidents involving those who assess Russian developments occur below the radar. The Kremlin views anyone who does not conform to its views as an ‘existential threat’, but direct linkages are difficult to prove.
“Some Russia experts have suffered mysterious life-threatening illnesses, others have had houses burn down.”
There is a 100% chance of it happening again, London is full of people who would do it