Krasikov could be involved in Sobchak's murder: Bild explained why Putin exchanged killer

The German edition suggests that Vadim Krasikov could play a role in the coming to power of Vladimir Putin. In the 1990s, he worked on Anatoly Sobchak and his deputy and took measures against their political opponents. Vadim Krasikov, who was released by Germany as part of an international exchange, could be involved in the murder of former mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak. This assumption was made by Western special services, writes the German edition of Bild.

Intelligence believes that Vladimir Putin and Vadim Krasikov have been closely linked in the past and that the killer has information that is dangerous to the Kremlin. The Russian president allegedly feared that he was sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany for the murder of Chechen Commander Zelimman Khangshvili would reveal important data if he stays there.

It will control the revenge of the Russian regime, which does not take the necessary steps to release it, or to conclude an agreement with the German authorities. Bild notes that there is a suspicion that Krasikov could play a role in Putin's coming to power. In the 1990s, he worked on Anatoly Sobchak and his deputy, taking measures against their political opponents. In February 2000, a few weeks after Putin's admission to the post of President, Sobchak died suddenly.

The official cause of death was called a heart attack, but the relatives assumed that Sobchak could kill. We will remind, on August 1 at the Airport of Ankara through Turkish intelligence there was an exchange of prisoners between Russia and the countries of the West.

Russia has released 16 prisoners, among them-journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmashev, politicians Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin and Andrey Pivovarov, as well as former heads of Alexei Navalny staff in Ufa and Tomsk Lilia Chanyshev and Ksenia Fadeev. Germany released Vadim Krasikov, an FSB officer, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2021 for the murder of the Chechen Field Commander Zelimman Khangshvili. In Ankar, Putin personally met him.