Tag: Alexander Perepilichny

The UK is Granting Russia ‘License to Kill’

July 23, 2013
The Bell

In what resembles a real-world James Bond plot gone wrong, a former Russian agent-turned-dissident was killed in 2006 while in England. Alexander Litvinenko, a former FSB secret service member, died of Polonium-210 poisoning after moved to the UK following his disclosure that the FSB was engaged in assassinations, had ties to the mob, conducted terrorist […]

Russia, Where You Can Prosecute a Ghost

July 11, 2013
Spotlight
The Bell

The tweet containing the picture above says it all: Oh,Russia.Where you can prosecute a ghost.MT @YuliaSkyNews Cameras film empty Magnitsky cage. Defendant long dead pic.twitter.com/45xBlr9TVa — Amie Ferris-Rotman (@Amie_FR) July 11, 2013 Today, Russian courts found deceased investment fund lawyer,  Sergei Magnitsky, guilty of tax evasion, along with his former client, William Browder (tried in absentia). […]