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Over the last few years, London, the EU and the entire world have been shaken by a long line of assassination attempts, all of which point to Russia and to the special services in Moscow. Europe, the favorite place of refuge for Russian dissidents, where they have fled after they become disgraced by Vladimir Putin and the Russian services, turned into a real cemetery for them. Europe has become a battlefield on which the Kremlin liquidates dissidents who become uncomfortable.

According to the investigations by TheIndependent (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/russian-deaths-uk-history-spies-murder-sergei-skripal-alexander-litvinenko-a8242061.html) and Buzzfeed News (https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/from-russia-with-blood-14-suspected-hits-on-british-soil?utm_term=.rvDV6d8md#.lkp7a1L51), it is about a number of not less than 17 attacks organized by the Russian special services in the capital of Great Britain in the period of September 2003-March 2018 on those that have become uncomfortable for the Kremlin.

From spy Alexander Litvinenko to oligarch Boris Berezovsky and businessman Iury Golubev, they all lost their lives in attempts, the investigation clearly pointing to Moscow. In some of these cases, Scotland Yard and British services have advanced more, in others less, but all these cases remain so far shrouded in mystery. After the latest March attempt, which has caused a scandal in Europe and the whole world, over the former Russian spy Sergei Scripal, the London Parliament began to put questions to the British police.

And the questions are rightly asked, which we have to put to the European institutions, as long as the UK remains part of the EU, and it is part of the European security system that has to watch the security of European citizens. Why do European law institutions remain uninterested? Why does not the investigation of cases go forward? Why is the investigation still on hold? Even if in some cases the journalists did all the work of the investigators and the journalistic investigations practically discovered the offenses, and those who ordered the attacks, as well as the organizers and executors, were also discovered. It remains only for policeman to thank the journalists and to formalize the prosecution through procedural-criminal acts of indictment and to attract for accountability the guilty ones. However, investigations by the police and other institutions responsible in these cases seem to be amorphous.

We will bring into this material the example of the assassination attempt on the life of Russian banker Gherman Gorbuntov, about which The Independent investigation talks. The banker obtained political asylum in the UK after his property was subjected to a raider attack by his former Russian Railways partners protected by the FSB. The assassination took place in London on March 20, 2012, just after the dissident banker filed complaints a Russian President Vladimir Putin, FSB and the Russian Investigation Committee (SKR), in which he disclosed the money laundering schemes in which were involved his former partners, Russian businessmen Boris Usherovici, Valery Markelov and Sergey Mendeleev, but also how they attacked his business in Russia and the Republic of Moldova.

Gorbuntov blamed for ordering the assassination attempt Renato Usatii, a FSB agent who was sent by former banker's partners to recover from him a debt created following the collapse of the Moscow real estate market in 2008. After Usatii deprived Gorbuntov of all properties in Moscow, "confiscated" on account of debt, Gorbuntov fled to Chisinau, receiving citizenship of the Republic of Moldova and buying the Moldovan bank Universalbank.Being from Moldova, Renato Usatii was sent to track the banker. From the million worth contracts with the state-owned enterprise Russian Railways made his wealth and Renato Usatii, benefiting of protection from Boris Usherovich and the Russian special services, which also uses him in some diversionary missions on the front of the Russian-led hybrid war against the Republic of Moldova , the purpose of which is to destabilize the situation behind the front of Russia's war against Ukraine in Donbass.

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The group of Renato Usatii from the Russian Railways is the main beneficiary of the money laundered by another FSB agent, called by the press "Raider No. 1 in the CIS", Veaceslav Platon, in the Russian Laundromat (https://www.occrp.org/en/laundromat/). OCCRP journalists from Novaya Gazeta and Reuters have determined that Alexei Krapivin, the son of the adviser of former head of the Russian Railways  KGB (FSB) General Vladimir Yakunin, has laundered  277 million dollars on his Swiss accounts through Veaceslav Platon's bank in Chisinau, Moldinconbank. Vladimir Yakunin appears in a recent US Congress report from January 2018 as a Kremlin agent in the Russian-led hybrid war against the EU and the US. Vladimir Yakunin is funding a Berlin NGO called the Diàleg de Civilitzacions, an anti-American and anti-EU think tank. The same Yakunin has funded several forums organized in Moscow with the participation of extreme right-wing parties in Europe, thus encouraging Eurosceptic provisions in the EU.

By an electronic letter from April 2014, which appeared in the Chisinau press after some hackers broke Usatii's e-mail account, he sent to Boris Usherovici a copy of the criminal case filed by Chisinau prosecutors on the Russian Laundromat, and the letters rogatory sent on this file by Moldovan prosecutors to prosecutors in Moscow. In another e-mail, Renato Usatii alerts the FSB that OCCRP journalist Anin is investigating the Laundromat and  the assets of the Russian Railways chief Vladimir Yakunin.

 

 

After Gorbuntov was deprived of the bank in September 2011 in Chisinau, the head of the banker's bodyguard, the former policeman Ion Stratulat, was killed in an assasination attempt. Feeling his life in jeopardy, the banker fled to London, where he gets political asylum and where he begins to send complaints to law enforcement agencies in Moscow. In order to silence him, as in other resonance cases of former Russian spies Alexander Litvinenko and Sergei Skripal, Renato Usatii ordered the assassination of the banker Gorbuntov, which was committed in London in March 2012 by the Moldovan killer Vitalie Proca. The killer shot Gorbuntov at the entrance to the apartment block where he lived in London, but he survived. Renato Usatii is currently hiding from Interpol in Moscow, under the protection of the Kremlin and the FSB, being internationally announced as wanted by the prosecutors in Chisinau.

Although the investigations of OCCRP journalists (https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/1916-a-murderrs-trail) and Zeppelin Investigations (http://zeppelin.md/eng/investigatii/assassin-in-law-errata -5) shed a  light on the case, practically being administered all the evidence needed for putting the FSB agent Renato Usatii under accusation for ordering and organizing the assassination of Gherman Gorbuntov, committed in London on March 20, 2012, British police and European law institutions remain totally uninterested in finalizing the investigation in this case.

We can only assume what is the cause of this passivity with which the European police and institutions deal with this case, which worries European citizens whose security is jeopardized. It may a question of either bureaucracy, or the Russian billions laundered in Europe through the Russian Laundromat. Some of these billions could easily buy the passivity and disinterest of the police and institutions for certain cases, sensitive to Moscow ...

EDITOR'S NOTE:

The Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute rejects certain facts in this article and requests that EU Reporter publish their response. In the interest of free and fair reporting we are pleased to agree. They say:

"Unfortunately your research is incorrecte.

 1.      Vladimir Yakunin is a co-founder of the international think tank, la Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute (DOC). The other two co-founders are  Walter Schwimmer, tren secretari general of the Council of Europe (1999-2004) and Prof. Peter W Schulze, professor of Political Sciences, International Relations and Russian Studies at Georg August University of Goettingen.

2.      The DOC Research Institute is not the subject of political interference. Its independent nature guarantees that its ideas and research are free of political intervention. The DOC is a not-for-profit international organisation headquartered in Berlin. It is managed by a diverse international team and is neither a Russian organisation, nor a German-Russian organisation, nor is it linked to any other country. It has never represented the viewpoint or national policy of any state. Its staff comes from 14 countries and has diverse viewpoints, from the Chinese CEO to members of the board and senior advisers from the US, Austria, the UK, Germany, Russia, Armenia, and many other countries. The main criteria for their work at the DOC is excellence in their respective fields of research, rather than possession of a particular viewpoint. Furthermore, the DOC encourages a diversity of perspectives and treats this aspect of dialogue as a gauge of its success. Therefore, the DOC has no anti-American or anti-EU agenda. Its only agenda is to promote mutually respectful dialogue. "

 

 

 

 

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