Apart from the mysterious disappearances, various different, seemingly separate occasions over the previous days have fuelled suspicion that one thing essential is brewing.
On Tuesday, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, in a shock transfer, pardoned Rico Krieger, a German citizen and the primary Westerner to obtain a demise sentence.
A day later, on Wednesday, Slovenia convicted a Russian couple of espionage, and ordered them to be expelled.
In a 3rd notable occasion, various high-profile Russian residents held in U.S. prisons, lots of them linked to the Russian authorities, appeared to have been faraway from the American federal prisoner database.
Amongst them had been Maxim Marchenko, Vadim Konoshchenok, Vladislav Klyushin, Roman Seleznev, and Alexander Vinnik, who’re all serving time in U.S. prisons on varied critical fees.
Talking to Russia’s state information company RIA Novosti, Vinnik’s lawyer neither confirmed nor denied the potential of a prisoner swap involving his shopper, saying he couldn’t touch upon it “till it takes place.”
