The Russian government reportedly proposed convicted assassin Vadim Krasikov as part of a dual trade involving Viktor Bout, Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan. But the U.S. could not persuade Germany to give up Krasikov.
His assassin was fairly recognizable by the wig he wore and the way he’d sped up to his victim so quickly: on a bicycle. But it was his hasty disposal into the nearby Spree River of his low-rent disguise, the bike, the handgun, and his quick change of outfits, that caught the eye of onlookers, who alerted the police.
The Russian government reportedly proposed this convicted assassin as part of a dual trade that never happened. Last week, the WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner was released back to the United States, a convicted international arms dealer who had served 14 years of a 25-year sentence for, among other crimes, conspiracy to kill Americans and providing aid to a designated foreign terrorist organization. Paul Whelan, a former U.S.
The investigative news outlet Bellingcat further established, based on Krasikov’s telephone metadata, that before traveling to Berlin via Paris and Warsaw, he had been in touch repeatedly with former operatives from Russia’s Federal Security Service and “had spent extended periods of time on an FSB training base outside Moscow.
Krasikov’s legal team insisted he was in fact, the fictional Sokolov persona, and totally innocent of any crime. The Russian Foreign Ministry’s response was the predictable mix of aggressive victimhood and special pleading.
There were two prior assassination attempts against Khangoshvili in Georgia, Levan told me. The first, in 2006, involved a South Ossetian hitman who had second thoughts and turned himself into the government. Much like Krasikov, this assassin had a criminal record in Russia, having been jailed for armed robbery and recruited, so said Levan, by the Kremlin’s security services. Khangoshvili agreed to cooperate with the interior ministry when it told him it had interrupted the plot to kill him.
Wisely thinking he was no longer safe in his homeland, now under the influence of a Putin-friendly government, Khangoshvili emigrated first to Ukraine, then to Poland, before ending up in Germany. He was in the midst of seeking asylum there before Krasikov succeeded where his predecessors failed.
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