Russian oligarchs are even more underhanded than we thought. For example, the indictment against a former FBI agent shows that he was paid by one friend of Putin to get the other on a US sanctions list. Matter of making a competitor’s life miserable. The FBI agent was not just anyone: he once led the investigation into WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning. And the Russians are also resounding names, one of whom caused a furor even in Brussels.
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ANALYSIS. Putin’s conniving friends: how one oligarch paid an FBI agent to revenge himself on another
