Putin's Killers in Europe: How Russian Agents Hunt Down Kremlin Opponents

[TomSea]

Putin's Killers in Europe: How Russian Agents Hunt Down Kremlin Opponents - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International
SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany

In the summer of 2013, a killer in Moscow rode a bicycle toward his victim. The Russian businessman Albert Nazranov saw him, and a short brawl ensued. The killer shot the man in the head and upper body at close range. Then he rode away. All of that can be seen in surveillance footage of the crime.

In the summer of 2019, a killer also rode a bicycle toward his victim, only this time in Berlin. He shot Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, of Georgia, in the head and upper body at close range, before riding away. That's how witnesses described the scene.

Reporting by DER SPIEGEL, Bellingcat, The Insider and The Dossier Center now reveals that not only were both murders very similar -- they were also likely carried out by the same person. A forensic comparison of both perpetrator photos reveals clear similarities. The man who carried a passport bearing the name Vadim Sokolov in Berlin was the Russian Vadim Krasikov, the killer who is thought to have also struck in Moscow.

Continued at: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-russian-agents-hunt-down-kremlin-opponents-in-europe-a-1300091.html

[Lando Lincoln]

Let's outlaw bicycles!

[mountaineer]

Putin isn't exactly the first Russian leader to have killer squads. This has been going on at least since Trotsky was murdered in Mexico. Nor, for that matter, is Russia the only country to do this.  Mossad, anyone?