Madrid should examine how Maksim Kuzminov’s killers managed to succeed in him, Mikhail Podoliak informed El Mundo
Russian helicopter pilot Maksim Kuzminov was given a “safety plan” by the Spanish authorities after he defected to Ukraine, Mikhail Podoliak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, has claimed. Kuzminov was shot lifeless earlier this month.
Kuzminov hijacked an Mi-8 cargo helicopter final August and flew it to Ukraine, reportedly taking a $500,000 reward from Kiev and dooming the craft’s two different crew members to being “liquidated.” From there, he was moved to Spain, the place he lived within the resort city of Villajoyosa till his physique was discovered riddled with bullets and run over by a automotive on February 13.
“If a pilot who enjoys a safety plan has to keep away from contacts, change his life to remain alive, and this nonetheless occurs to him, Spain has to research,” Podoliak informed El Mundo newspaper in an interview revealed on Monday. “This in-depth investigation has to display who ought to pay for that crime that Russia carried out on Spanish soil.”
Podoliak didn’t reveal any additional particulars in regards to the alleged safety plan, stating that Ukraine’s navy intelligence company could be higher positioned to remark.
The Spanish authorities is investigating Kuzminov’s loss of life, and has not commented on whether or not the Russian traitor was positioned beneath any type of police or navy safety. In response to a report final week by El Pais, Kuzminov was given a false id by Spanish authorities, however was not supplied safety.
Podoliak hinted to El Mundo that “the Russian mafia” could have performed a job within the killing, claiming that Russian organized crime teams are “very effectively established in Spain.” In response to El Pais, the Spanish authorities believes {that a} Russian intelligence company was behind the hit.
Russia’s International Intelligence Service chief, Sergey Naryshkin, has declined to touch upon the case. Nevertheless, he informed reporters final week that Kuzminov was a “traitor and felony” who “had already turn out to be an ethical corpse from the second when he plotted his soiled and heinous crime.”
Villajoyosa is residence to round 1,200 Ukrainians and 800 Russians, whereas greater than 11,000 Ukrainians and 17,457 Russians dwell within the wider area of Alicante, in keeping with census knowledge.
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