“Russian leaders seem to go out of their way to get rid of anybody that seems to be in their way, someone who’s betrayed them, someone who’s interrupting the money flow, and they don’t seem to care about borders. They just go wherever they have to go to get their guy,” said Joe Serio, the American author of “Investigating the Russian Mafia,” who spent nearly ten years with the anti-organized crime unit of Moscow’s police
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-uses-us-uk-to-target-kill-former-spies-putin-enemies-2018-3
UPDATE on the investigation into the Salisbury nerve agent attack from the Home Secretary:
- more than 250 police officers
- 8 out of 11 counter-terror units involved
- more than 200 witnesses
- more than 240 pieces of evidence
see pictures
https://twitter.com/nmsonline/status/972864121577312256
Poison in the System
When a financier dropped dead in Britain shortly after exposing a vast Russian crime, police said it was not suspicious. But with his inquest now underway, BuzzFeed News has uncovered explosive evidence of a suspected Kremlin assassination plot – and a secret assignation in Paris on the eve of his death – that the British authorities have sidelined.
The British government is suppressing explosive intelligence that Alexander Perepilichnyy, a financier who exposed a vast financial crime by Russian government officials, was likely assassinated on the direct orders of Vladimir Putin.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/poison-in-the-system