Posted on 03/14/2015 3:04:43 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Russian president Vladimir Putin and his long-time ally Victor Ivanov, who is currently head of Russia’s narcotics agency, have been implicated in helping run a drug smuggling and money laundering ring in St Petersburg in the 1990s. The allegations were made by ex-KGB officer Yuri Shvets who spoke at the inquiry into the death Alexander Litvinenko yesterday.
Shvets testified in front of Ben Emmerson QC, expanding on a report he had compiled with fellow ex-Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, a few months prior to the latter’s death from polonium poisoning.
According to Shvets’ sources, which include the late Litvinenko, an anonymous party “sufficiently close to Ivanov to have been his former assistant”, as well as the Ukrainian security services, “Mr Putin was directly involved in a company that was laundering drugs from Colombia” [sic].
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The inquiry is currently investigating the possibility that Litvinenko’s murder was orchestrated by the FSB, something that Shvets says could not have been done without the knowledge and consent of “the top authority in Russia, which is Vladimir Putin”.
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He’s amoral and power crazy, armed with nuclear weapons, unrestrained by law, so it wouldn’t be surprising.
Who, Obama or Putin?
......But enough about Obama.
Just imagine if our Dear Leader’s background was scrutinized with a fraction of the resources that are currently being dedicated to smearing Putin - that wife-beating, money-stealing drug dealer.
Both. The possibility is not mutually exclusive, and if you can at least think of Putin as as bad as Obama it will be progress since so many people seem to think Putin is some type of swell Christian paladin.
Yeah, we should stop picking on Putin. We can only do one thing at a time, no walking and chewing gum.
I would rather drink beer with Putin.
I wouldn’t drink with either. You may like to drink with a murderer. I don’t.
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Thanks Jim Robinson.
And within the day you'll feel really sick an your hair will fall out from all the Polonium 210 he snuck into your beer.
Maybe this was what Obama was talking about when he said he’d have more “flexibility” after the election.
Spot on.
I’d rather look at pictures of Miss Ukraine and feel sorry that their country has been attacked. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L7uoXQiY9C8/U8G59OQ2z1I/AAAAAAAASM8/I6mxL2HEev4/s640/Anna+Zayachkivska+Miss+Ukraine+World+2013+-00.jpg
Indeed makes one wonder where did most of Obama’s money came from for his run for office?.
Putin would be a hoot at a BBQ.. Shirts off,hangin out on the patio,smokin cigars,shootin AK,s.
I can’t believe how little coverage and discussion this matter is getting... biggest geo-political story in 25 years and.. just silence....
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