Post by Justbec on Aug 6, 2024 18:13:52 GMT
Once again, the United States has paid the Dane-geld and rewarded hostage-taking.
Eight arrested or convicted criminals are departing the U.S., Germany, Norway, and Slovenia and returning to Russia.
Most notable is Vadim Krasikov, a Russian assassin who straight-up murdered a Russian dissident in broad daylight in a public park in Berlin, with children watching:
Russian assassin Vadim Krasikov, riding a bicycle, followed his target to a crowded children’s playground at lunchtime, a popular summer spot in a central-city park filled with families and workers.
As the man entered Tiergarten park, Krasikov pedaled close behind. Not far from the swings, he pulled a pistol from a rucksack and shot him in the back, leaving his victim, a former Chechen insurgent leader, slumped on the ground. Krasikov got off his bike and calmly fired twice into the man’s head, watched by children and parents, witnesses said during a court trial that ended in his conviction.
The 2019 murder of Zemlikhan Khangoshvili, a man who Moscow alleged led a 2004 attack in Russia, was determined by a German court to be an intentionally brutal message by Russia to its enemies abroad: Even if you seek refuge in the West, we will hunt you down.
Krasikov is a free man now. He’s returning to Russia, along with . . .
Vladislav Klyushin, “convicted of participating in a $93 million insider trading scheme that involved hacking corporate computer networks.”
Roman Seleznev, “convicted in 2016 by a U.S. federal court in Washington state for orchestrating a cyberattack on thousands of American businesses.”
Vadim Konoshchenok, who “smuggled American-made electronics and ammunition to support Moscow’s war efforts in Ukraine, using front companies to hide his operations and violating U.S. sanctions.”
“Artem Dultsev and Anna Dultseva — a Russian couple who posed as Argentine expats living an ordinary life in Slovenia — [and who] were sentenced to 19 months each in the Slovenian capital after they pleaded guilty to espionage.”
The message is clear to every Russian spy, assassin, operative, hacker, or criminal: If you get caught, don’t talk. Sit tight. Be patient. Vladimir Putin can and will get you out eventually. He can get anybody out, from an arms dealer so notorious he inspired a Nicolas Cage movie to a guy who’s executing dissidents in front of horrified kids in a German park. There is no monster so heinous and wicked that Putin can’t strongarm a foreign government into releasing him.
Eight arrested or convicted criminals are departing the U.S., Germany, Norway, and Slovenia and returning to Russia.
Most notable is Vadim Krasikov, a Russian assassin who straight-up murdered a Russian dissident in broad daylight in a public park in Berlin, with children watching:
Russian assassin Vadim Krasikov, riding a bicycle, followed his target to a crowded children’s playground at lunchtime, a popular summer spot in a central-city park filled with families and workers.
As the man entered Tiergarten park, Krasikov pedaled close behind. Not far from the swings, he pulled a pistol from a rucksack and shot him in the back, leaving his victim, a former Chechen insurgent leader, slumped on the ground. Krasikov got off his bike and calmly fired twice into the man’s head, watched by children and parents, witnesses said during a court trial that ended in his conviction.
The 2019 murder of Zemlikhan Khangoshvili, a man who Moscow alleged led a 2004 attack in Russia, was determined by a German court to be an intentionally brutal message by Russia to its enemies abroad: Even if you seek refuge in the West, we will hunt you down.
Krasikov is a free man now. He’s returning to Russia, along with . . .
Vladislav Klyushin, “convicted of participating in a $93 million insider trading scheme that involved hacking corporate computer networks.”
Roman Seleznev, “convicted in 2016 by a U.S. federal court in Washington state for orchestrating a cyberattack on thousands of American businesses.”
Vadim Konoshchenok, who “smuggled American-made electronics and ammunition to support Moscow’s war efforts in Ukraine, using front companies to hide his operations and violating U.S. sanctions.”
“Artem Dultsev and Anna Dultseva — a Russian couple who posed as Argentine expats living an ordinary life in Slovenia — [and who] were sentenced to 19 months each in the Slovenian capital after they pleaded guilty to espionage.”
The message is clear to every Russian spy, assassin, operative, hacker, or criminal: If you get caught, don’t talk. Sit tight. Be patient. Vladimir Putin can and will get you out eventually. He can get anybody out, from an arms dealer so notorious he inspired a Nicolas Cage movie to a guy who’s executing dissidents in front of horrified kids in a German park. There is no monster so heinous and wicked that Putin can’t strongarm a foreign government into releasing him.
