British Authorities Avert Murder Of Putin Critic Billionaire
There’s yet another case of someone who wasn’t a buddie of Russian President Vladmir Putin having been on an assassin’s list — only this time British authorities averted it:
The murder of a second Russian dissident on British soil was averted last month when police and intelligence agencies intercepted a suspected killer in London, it was confirmed last night.
In a move likely to damage already strained relations between Britain and Russia, Scotland Yard said that officers arrested a man on suspicion of conspiracy to murder on June 21 and held him for two days. He was later handed over to the immigration service and deported back to Russia.
The man arrived in London in mid-June allegedly with orders to murder the billionaire Russian exile Boris Berezovsky, a staunch opponent of President Putin, who has been granted asylum to live in Britain.
Ahhh. It’s probably just a concidence…MORE:
Yesterday Mr Berezovsky blamed Mr Putin personally for the failed murder plot. He also repeated the charge that the Russian leader was responsible for the murder of Litvinenko, the former Russian intelligence officer killed by a lethal dose of polonium-210, a radioactive isotope. “It is Putin personally behind this plot, Litvinenko and mine,†said Mr Berezovsky.
However, in a letter to The Times, Yury Fedotov, the Russian Ambassador to London, said that it was preposterous to assert that the killing of Litvinenko “appears to have the clear backing of the Russian Governmentâ€.
He wrote: “The Russian Government values its relations with the UK and respects its laws and con- stitutional arrangements.”
The alleged murder plot would have been planned as Tony Blair, then the Prime Minister, held a tense meeting with Mr Putin at the G8 summit in Germany on June 8. It came in the wake of the British Government’s formal request to Russia for the extradition of Andrei Lugovoy, a former KGB operative, for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, the dissident, in London in November last year. The Russians have refused to extradite Mr Lugovoy.
Coincidence? One fact is that some of Mr. Putin’s foes have suddenly experienced shorter life expectancies…
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3 Responses to “British Authorities Avert Murder Of Putin Critic Billionaire”
Call me ignorant, but why did they deport the guy instead of charging him with attempted murder?
Putin has managed to foster, nuture and continue on the path the Mafioso course Russia has laid out for itself soon after the path of freedom was established by the Fall of the Wall and the infusion of Freedom that event held for her.
She reminds me much of the USA in the roaring 20′s. Corrupt and seeking an Identity. The difference?
The stakes are much higher now then in the 20′s of last century.
Hopefully they understand this. But I think not.
I was down in St. Louis and someone in my favorite part of town joked with me about a too-typical event in Russia these days:
Q: Why did Safronov strike the ground and die?
A: He didn’t flap his wings enough!
Da.
Russia’s government is simply the meanest, best-armed, best-informed mafiya of all of them. And they don’t limit their play to within Russian territory.