An exiled Russian dissident claims he was narrowly murdered by Valdimir Putin’s assassins.
Vladimir OsechkinThe 42-year-old said he was moved from his home in Biarritz, France, by police who had been tipped off that a Kremlin execution team was on its way.
Human rights activist Osechkin, who operates the anti-corruption website Gulagu.net, was taken to a safe house.
Days later, on February 13, Russian helicopter pilot defector Maxim Kuzminov, 28was found murdered in a flat near Benidorm, Spain.
Osechkin said: “The Russian Federal Security Service has taken control of mafia bosses like Badri.
“If they refused to work for the Kremlin, they were killed or arrested and imprisoned.
“In prison they were sodomized and the rapes were filmed.
“Afterwards, a prison guard approached them and said, ‘Hi, I’m your friend.’ I have a pen drive here that you might be interested in.”
“The mafia bosses eventually gave in to this blackmail because they will lose their top positions if the images are published.”
He added in an interview with El Espanol: “When the information was leaked to me in 2022 that Badri planned to kill me, they told me that he had agreed with other Russian crime bosses in Spain to end my life in Spain. France.
“The idea was to come to Europe, organize my execution and immediately return to Russia via Montenegro or Istanbul.”
Osechkin survived an assassination attempt in 2022 when he was shot while eating dinner with his family in his home.