Russian prosecutors have filed a treason case against Volodymyr Kara-Murza, a Russian journalist and dissident who is believed to have been poisoned twice by the same team of FSB agents that also tried to kill Alexei Navalny, Slow reports.
The Russia Today TV channel was the first to report this with reference to a source close to the investigation. According to her, the journalist is being investigated by the Russian prosecutor’s office on the grounds that he offered assistance to organizations from NATO member countries, and the action is considered to be directed against the security of Russia.
A source referring to Russia Today informed the journalists of this channel, banned in the European Union, on February 27 that Kara-Murza received $30,000 a month for “his services”.
The tape reminds that the journalist has British citizenship and is also an honorary resident of the USA.
Criminal cases on tape in the name of Volodymyr Kara-Murza
The dissident’s lawyer said on August 4 that his client had been charged with organizing the activities of an undesirable organization in Russia because of his role as vice president of the political organization Open Russia, founded by exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
In this case, the Russian prosecutor’s office accuses him of indicting the demonstration in Moscow on October 27 last year.
On April 11, Kara-Murza was detained by Moscow law enforcement officers near his home after denouncing the war in Ukraine. Literally a day later, the court of the Russian capital sentenced him to 15 days in prison for “disobeying the police”.
Before his release on April 22, the Russian prosecutor’s office opened a new criminal case against him, this time on charges of spreading “false information” about the actions of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine.
In February of last year, Bellingcat investigative journalists published an extensive investigation that a group of FSB assassins, who poisoned the dissident Alexei Navalny, was behind the two assassination attempts on Kara-Murza, also by poisoning.
Kara-Murza, a columnist for The Washington Post, fell into a coma after both attempts on his life, but recovered each time, although his vital organs were severely damaged.
Source: Hot News RO
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