8-3-19 FSB Col. Kyrill Cherkalin immediately got down to business, suggesting that a retired officer from the Federal Security Services (FSB) be made vice-president at Probiznesbank (one of Life’s main assets) with an annual salary of $120,000, a private office, personal driver and assistant.
But this was a mere detail. Zheleznyak had already received the main demand: cede a large stake in Life to a company that will share its income with senior officials from the FSB and the Prosecutor General’s Office.
These details come from a statement from Zheleznyak, acquired by The Bell and The Project, which he gave under oath this year in the United States. His
testimony is set to be used in legal proceedings that Life’s former owners have launched in the U.S. and Europe. For the co-owners of Life, childhood friends Zheleznyak and Sergei Leontiev, dealings with Cherkalin ended very badly. After the meeting the partners agreed to take part in the protection racket involving Probiznesbank, but they did not hand over shares in all their businesses. Later their banking license were revoked by the regulator, criminal cases were started against them, and both fled Russia. The Central Bank believes that Life was engaged in illegal financial activity, while Zheleznyak insists they went bankrupt because of pressure from the authorities.
The tale of Life is just one in which Cherkalin, 38, and his FSB colleagues played starring roles. https://thebell.io/en/the-rise-and-fall-of-an-fsb-run-money-laundering-empire/
……................................................the KGB's Poison Factory Ten Years On -Boris Volodarsky: . "to defend the Russian state against dissent in all its forms – the KGB and its successors were
strikingly successful." assassins Volodarsky successors successful
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https://books.google.com/books?id=SsPYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT354&lpg=PT354&dq=KGB+Col.+Kyrill+Cherkalin&source=bl&ots=-Kp3QgvYHO&sig=ACfU3U3BVaOHkiVpMd7ZrDNNmsCY0aDFCw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidh7Xp_KzpAhXbJzQIHZmHCwsQ6AEwBHoECCgQAQ#v=onepage&q=KGB%20Col.%20Kyrill%20Cherkalin&f=false
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3-18-2017 WASHINGTON -- One of the two Russian FSB agents indicted by U.S. officials this week worked as an undercover officer at Renaissance Capital, a Moscow investment bank owned by billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov.
The officer, identified in the Justice Department indictment as Igor Sushchin, was fired from the bank on March 16, the day after U.S. officials announced the charges related to the massive 2014 hack of Yahoo….a Kremlin spokesman denied that the government had ever been involved in any cyberattacks and referred further questions to the FSB….The indictment identified Sushchin as the “head of information security at the Russian financial firm, where he monitored the communications of Russian financial firm employees.”…
In December U.S. President Barack Obama announced the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats and new sanctions against nine top officials and entities associated with the FSB and with Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU. https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-fsb-officer-indicted-worked-moscow-investment-bank/28377570.html
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https://books.google.com/books?id=TcPYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA268&lpg=PA268&dq=vladimir+dzhabarov+magnitsky&source=bl&ots=EhNXW0B195&sig=ACfU3U3mMLoy2p6vLGmA1oGegFwGoDmGYA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjuie_5ia3pAhV1CTQIHazoAw4Q6AEwBXoECCgQAQ#v=onepage&q=vladimir%20dzhabarov%20magnitsky&f=false
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While all of Konstantin Malofeev’s initiatives in Ukraine were, formally, privately organized and funded, intercepted phone calls between him and his lieutenants on the ground in Ukraine, as well as hacked email correspondence, showed that he closely coordinated his actions with the Kremlin, at times via the powerful Orthodox priest Bishop Tikhon whom Malofeev and Putin (in their own words) share as spiritual adviser; at other times via direct coordination between Malofeev and Putin’s advisers Surkov and Glazyev, but also via Malofeev’s close collaboration with RISS – the Kremlin-owned Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, chaired by former KGB/SVR Gen. Leonid Reshetnikov. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2017/03/04/kremlins-balkan-gambit-part/
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Its primary role within Russia and the satellite republics of the Soviet Union was to quell dissent, by first identifying dissidents promoting anti-Communist political and/or religious ideas and then silencing them. To perform this task KGB agents often used extremely violent means. https://www.history.com/topics/russia/kgb
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