'Everyone thinks he was whacked': New evidence has emerged that a Russian media mogul was beaten to death by hired thugs in Washington
Michal Kranz
Mar. 27, 2018, 2:55 PM
Putin (L) with Mikhail Lesin (R)
Former British spy Christopher Steele gave the FBI a report that claims the 2015 death of a Russian media czar in Washington, DC was the result of a deadly beating by Russian state security officers.
The death had previously been ruled an accident by police investigators.
The victim, Mikhail Lesin, founded the state-funded pro-Russia network RT.
The alleged murder took place days before Lesin was supposed to meet with Justice Department investigators.
According to a report given to the FBI, the suspicious 2015 death of a major player in Russian media was not an accident as was originally reported, but rather the result of a beating by hired thugs that went wrong, according to BuzzFeed.
The report was apparently written by former British spy Christopher Steele, who is most famous for writing a dossier about President Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia that was released in January of last year.
Read more at: http://www.businessinsider.com/christopher-steele-fbi-mikhail-lesin-rt-russia-murdered-2018-3
This is a blockbuster report but it was Christopher Steele who filed the report...where there's smoke, something is up here, not sure what. Media outlets like Buzzfeed, Business Insider and the NY Daily News are all reporting on this.
Per these stories, Steele may lack some credibility but apparently, 3 other sources say this as well per the "report at the FBI".
Russian ‘accident’ death at hotel was a hit, Steele memo reports
BY Christopher Brennan
The death of a Russian television executive ruled a drunken accident was actually a planned murder, according to four reported sources including a memo from former spy Christopher Steele.
Mikhail Lesin, the former head of Kremlin-backed RT who was once Vladimir Putin’s press minister, was found dead in his Washington D.C. hotel room in November 2015 at age 57.
Russian reports said that he died of a heart attack and the U.S. Department of Justice said in 2016 that he had died from falling “after days of excessive consumption of alcohol.â€
Read more at: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/russian-accident-death-hit-reported-steele-memo-article-1.3900711
Christopher Steele's Other Report: A Murder In Washington
Jason Leopold, Anthony Cormier, Heidi Blake, Tom Warren, Jane Bradley, Alex Campbell, Richard Holmes
The FBI possesses a secret report asserting that Vladimir Putin’s former media czar was beaten to death by hired thugs in Washington, DC — directly contradicting the US government’s official finding that Mikhail Lesin died by accident.
The report, according to four sources who have read all or parts of it, was written by the former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who also wrote the famous dossier alleging that Russia had been “cultivating, supporting and assisting†Donald Trump. The bureau received his report while it was helping the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department investigate the Russian media baron’s death, the sources said.
Read more at: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/christopher-steele-mikhail-lesin-murder-putin-fbi?utm_term=.hleMrY2x52#.lmQ9MDAYRA
