2023-09-26 13:12:00
But according to the media “Proekt”, an independent Russian media specializing in investigative journalism, which has just investigated this key figure of the Russian diaspora in Europe, this man often cited in the Western press is accustomed to lies and other questionable business methods.
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The doubts of the French police
The French police are still doubtful today as to the reality of this assassination attempt. Investigators were never able to corroborate the Russian activist’s testimony. The investigation did not result in any arrests. When in doubt, Vladimir Ossechkine was nevertheless placed under close surveillance and you now have to go through the police to be able to meet him.
It is not in itself inconceivable that this whistleblower might have attracted the wrath of the Kremlin. Since his release from prison in 2011, following a conviction for fraud, he has continued to denounce the acts of torture, omnipresent in Russian jails. He scored his biggest coup in 2021 when a source within the Russian prison administration provided him with dozens of videos of rape and torture of prisoners, from several penal colonies. Images that he then broadcast with context around the world. The case caused a stir, several criminal investigations were opened and the director of the Federal Prison Service, Alexander Kalashnikov, was fired. A rare thing in Russia, the affair even pushed Parliament to legislate on the subject… Vladimir Ossechkine made things happen.
Links with the FSB?
Upon his release from prison, Ossechkine created a blog that quickly became known to all human rights defenders, “Gulagu.net”. Inspired by his own experience of detention, he made denouncing the inhumanity of Russian prisons his specialty. This was still possible at the time; he also appeared on several Russian television shows to denounce the functioning of the country’s prison administration. But, attracted by the light, the activist who became a media activist then began to collaborate with structures linked to power. Enough to arouse the distrust of many Russian activists who still wonder today if its scoops are not in reality disseminated in collaboration with the FSB, the intelligence service under the orders of the Kremlin, which would like to bring down certain members of the administration penitentiary. Vladimir Ossechkin also for a time supported the annexation of Crimea, defending his “patriotic” side.
Faced with these accusations, he responds by accusing his detractors of collaborating… with the FSB. He would not hesitate to denounce the services in question, putting the people concerned in danger.
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Disseminator of “fake news”
Vladimir Ossechkine is also accustomed to “fake news”, which he has multiplied since the start of the war. A way to explode your blog’s audiences. In May 2023, he announced a nuclear attack by Russia planned for the same day. In April 2023, he did worse by broadcasting an interview with two men he had paid to explain on camera that they coldly murdered civilians in Donbass… The two individuals have since been in trouble with the authorities. Russians.
This eminent member of the Russian diaspora is still accused of sometimes putting his “clients” in danger through his more or less legal businesses. Because Ossechkine quickly seized the vein of repression to make money. By offering “help” to Russians in danger to go into exile in France in exchange for huge sums, which can amount, in one case verified by Proekt, to 28,000 euros… And ultimately help no one. The man went so far as to take credit for media exfiltrations, in which he had no role. This is the case of Andreï Medvedev, a former Wagner who in fact managed on his own, contrary to Ossechkine’s statements, to leave Russia, under the bullets of border guards in January 2023.
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