Nemtsov was constantly “accompanied” by at least three FSB officers.
The killers from the same group of FSB killers that poisoned Alexei Navalny, Dmitry Bykov and Vladimir Kara-Murza have been constantly watching Boris Nemtsov for the last months of his life, journalists in a joint investigation by The Insider, Bellingcat and the BBC have found.
Boris Nemtsov's persecution began immediately after he began actively lobbying for more sanctions against Vladimir Putin's friends, and ended on February 21, a few days before he was shot dead outside the Kremlin.
“On the last trip, the FSB officers did not follow him. Just two days before the assassination, they switched to another anti-Putin lobbyist, Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was later poisoned twice, “said investigators, noting that the official investigation into Nemtsov's murder relied on expertise from the FSB Institute of Forensics.
The politician was “accompanied” by at least three FSB officers – Valery Sukharev, Dmitry Sukhinin and Alexei Krivoshchekov. Sukharev was later in the group of FSB officers who poisoned Kara-Murza, Dmitry Bykov and Alexei Navalny, and Krivoshchekov participated at least in the poisoning of Navalny. The trips lasted from May 2014 to February 2015. In total for this period we see 13 coincident trips, including to Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod and Novosibirsk.
It is difficult to establish the extent to which FSB officers coordinated their activities with Chechen killers, but on February 21, FSB killers did not follow Nemtsov to Yaroslavl, this was his last trip to another city, and on the 27th he was killed in Moscow.
“Did the FSB already know about the impending murder or did they not follow it for some other reason?” In favor of the first option is the fact that on February 25, two days before the assassination, a group of killers from the FSB had already switched to the second victim, that day they began trips to another major lobbyist for sanctions against Putin's entourage – journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. , who was later twice poisoned by the group with a neuro-paralytic substance (apparently, “Newbie”), “- say investigators.
Also in all the attempts (on Kara-Murza, Bykov and Navalny) the team of killers included both officers of the FSB UZKS and hikes with doctors from the FSB Institute of Forensics. In Nemtsov's case, it was the experts of this institute who drew up a forensic medical report proving the coincidence of Zaur Dadaev, a Chechen convicted for Nemtsov's murder, with traces of DNA found at the crime scene.
“The question is whether the group of killers from the FSB worked in parallel and independently of the Chechen one, or coordinated their actions with it from the very beginning, while it remains open,” the investigation said.
In the second part, journalists plan to talk about how Chechen killers organized Nemtsov's assassination and why the official version is very different from the real one.
We will remind, on March 22, 2022 the Lefortovsky court of Moscow sentenced the Russian oppositionist Alexey Navalny to 9 years of a colony of a strict mode in case of “fraud” and “insult of court”. In addition, the court fined the opposition 1.2 million rubles and 1.5 years in prison.
