The Workplace for Citizenship and Migration of Latvia disadvantaged the nation of the nation of the previous state police officer Dmitry Chelebiya, whom native media known as the assault on Leonid Volkov in Vilnius.
The initiator of the deprivation of Citizenship was the state safety service of Latvia. In response to the division, such a choice was made after info that, along with Latvian, the previous policeman obtained Russian citizenship. The legislation in Latvia prohibits twin citizenship with the Russian Federation.
Leonid Volkov was attacked subsequent to his home in Vilnius in March 2024. In September, the Fund for Combating Corruption issued an investigation that states that the previous high supervisor of Yukos Leonid Nevzlin ordered an assassination try on Volkov, and was additionally concerned in organizing assaults by the FBK Director Ivan Zhdanov in Geneva and spouse of the economist Maxim Mironov Alexander Petrachkov in Argentina. Nevzlin rejected the prosecution.
The day after the investigation was launched in Poland, lawyer Anatoly Blinov was detained. It was to him, in accordance with the FBK, that Nevzlin instructed to arrange an assault on Volkov. Now Blinov is beneath arrest within the framework of the investigation of assaults on Volkov and different Russian opposition overseas. In complete, eight folks go within the case.
The Latvian newspaper Diena reported that Blinov had an assistant in Riga – a former worker of the state lord of Latvia Dmitry Chelebiy. The publication known as him a “grey banker” and a “decisor” with connections within the FSB.
In response to Medusa, a couple of months earlier than the discharge of the FBK investigation, Chelebiy contacted one of many staff of the businessman’s charity fund Peter Aven Basis and arranged him a gathering with Blinov. On the assembly, the lawyer invited Aven to purchase details about the group of an assault on Volkov and Petrachkov, however the consultant of the fund refused.
