Sergei Skripal, the former Russian spy poisoned with Novichok, appears to have been working in recent years with intelligence officers in Spain, a country locked in a pitched battle with Russian organized crime, some with ties to the Russian government. buzzfeed.com/tomwarren/secr…
"The FBI has obtained secret wiretaps collected by Spanish police of conversations involving Alexander Torshin and the National Rifle Association"
2010
US embassy cables: Russia is virtual 'mafia state', says Spanish investigator
"DEPARTMENT PASS TO DOJ (BRUCE SWARTZ, TOM OTT, BRUCE OHR,
LISA HOLTYN)"
US embassy cables: Russia is virtual 'mafia state', says Spanish investigator
"DEPARTMENT PASS TO DOJ (BRUCE SWARTZ, TOM OTT, BRUCE OHR,
LISA HOLTYN)"
State Duma deputy, Vladislav Reznik, talked through buying real estate from Russian mafia in Spain
Levashov was extradicted from Spain
Both Christopher Steele and Bruce Ohr worked with Spanish authorities to investigate and prosecute Russian Transnational Crime in Spain. Skripal also allegedly worked with Steele.
Spanish ‘laundromat’ of Russian mafia. Part II
A Gangster Place in the Sun: How Spain’s Fight Against the Mob Revealed Russian Power Networks propublica.org/article/fighti…
Russian criminals began using Spain as a base of operations back in the mid-1990s. They laundered profits from illegal activities in Russia and invested them in Spanish real estate. theguardian.com/world/2016/may…
Manafort partner Firtash was arrested in Austria in 2017 and was apparently wiretapped by Spanish authorities. Some of those wiretaps allegedly include conversations with Paul Manafort kyivpost.com/ukraine-politi…
The center of the Firtash case? Boeing. The center of the intercepts in the Firtash-Boeing case? Manafort.
Prosecutors believe more than 50 million euros ($62 million) of Russian mafia money was laundered by the Tambov and Malyshev gangs -- two of Russia's largest and best-known criminal organizations. rferl.org/a/russia-spain…
