Like no other, he negotiated ‘exclusive’ interviews with Vladimir Putin, wrote books about the Russian leader and was presented for years on German channels as a Putin expert. But his journalism was anything but independent, research shows. Hubert Seipel (73) is said to have received hundreds of thousands of euros from Putin’s entourage through a post office box company in the British Virgin Islands. A major scandal among our eastern neighbors.
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Major scandal in Germany: renowned journalist was on Kremlin payroll
