A great scoop by @arawnsley & @thedailybeast: FBI are investigating a US company that supplied equipment to the same FSB's "forensic institute" that - we discovered - poisoned @navalny, @vkaramurza and other opposition activists.
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1415074332393545736
Indeed, open source registries show that Intertech Instruments for years supplied chemical analysis/chromatography equipment to Military Unit 34435. This is exactly the FSB unit where the whole poisoning squad is employed. 
The US company tried to disguise its sales to FSB - which they knew to be against the law - by forging purchase orders and creating an optically unrelated Russian company. By that time the @FBI were already tapping their conversations.
According to the FBI search warrant, Intertech's Russian employee (who previously worked for the FSB's Forensic Institute) warned against terminating deliveries because this would anger the FSB:"Such are people from the other side ... (they have ‘very long hands’ – believe me)"
For better understanding of the "long hands" of the Criminalistics Institute, read our original investigation bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu… as well as our follow-up investigations bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu… bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
