Maybe.
On NewsMax today there is a story which seems to indict Putin as complicit in the murder of the Forbes Russian editor.
No not maybe. Newsmax is full of brown stuff.
I'll ping you to the thread here on FR.
But whatever. How you can think Putin killed a journalist who was exposing the same criminals Putin is going after is beyond me. I think your logic is in need of some rethinking. The journalist who was killed was cheering Putin's work in going after the moguls. Think about it.