TOP-10 Security officials with "interests" in NATO countries. Power factions in Russia - Part 9

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

On TV, they speak very nicely and patriotically about the “nationalization of the elites,” but high-ranking Russian security officials, the very top leadership of the special services, are always looking for a way to gain a foothold abroad.

And this is not at all strange, because if the closest friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin keep billions of dollars in offshore accounts, and the ex-wife and daughter buy real estate on the southern shores of France, which is also part of the enemy NATO bloc. At the same time, over the past 10 years, the number of sentences under articles on treason, espionage and disclosure of state secrets has increased sixfold. Spy mania is also fueled by the rhetoric of the authorities about the "state surrounded by enemies." True, the hunt for insidious spies that began in Russia affected only journalists, scientists and activists who criticize the current government. And for themselves, the Kremlin and the FSB have long made an exception. As the saying goes, "before the law, everyone is equal, but some are smoother."

Or, as Zbigniew Brzezinski used to say:

“Russia can have as many nuclear suitcases and nuclear buttons as it wants, but since 500 billion dollars of the Russian elite lie in our banks, you still have to figure it out: is this your elite or ours already?” So, let's look at the leaders of the FSB, Security Council, other security officials and their relatives who have offshore companies, own foreign real estate or want to obtain a residence permit in NATO countries.

0:00 Introduction

1:20 1. Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service

2:52 2. Secretary of the Security Council

4:05 3. FSB General

4:58 4. Attorney General

7:10 5. Head of the Investigative Committee

8:01 6. Assistant to the head of the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow Region

9:00 7. Deputy Head of Department "K" SEB FSB

9:49 8. Chief Prosecutor of Moscow

10:46 9. Head of the Center "E" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

11:29 10. Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs

1. Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service

Close relatives of the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin applied for a residence permit in Hungary in exchange for investment. This became known two years ago as a result of a joint investigation by the Hungarian center Direkt36, the 444 news portal and Novaya Gazeta.

Andrey Naryshkin, his wife Svetlana and their daughters applied for a residence permit in Hungary. According to the program, which started in 2013, it was required to invest 300 thousand euros in Hungarian bonds and pay an administrative fee of 60 thousand euros. It is clear to the hedgehog that any foreign anchor with the relatives of the SVR director is a potential threat to the national security of Russia, since his position does not allow "loyalty to the two countries." After all, Hungary is a member of NATO, the unfriendly actions of which the president constantly talks about.

Naryshkin himself also stated about the negative influence of Western countries on Russia and the CIS. “We see how our political opponents in the United States and NATO countries are trying to strongly influence the Commonwealth countries, that they are making active attempts to implement the so-called Western liberal values to the detriment of the true, universal values we are defending,” the SVR director said at a meeting of the heads of the security agencies and intelligence services of countries in 2019. The Hungarian government eventually issued a press release regarding this investigation: the authorities did not deny that these people received a residence permit in the country, noting only that the persons mentioned in the publication did not pose a threat to the security of Hungary.

2. Secretary of the Security Council

General of the Army Nikolai Patrushev is considered one of the closest siloviki to Vladimir Putin, until 2008 he headed the FSB for many years, and then became the secretary of the Security Council, an advisory body under the president that forms policy, analyzes and evaluates threats to national security. Nikolai Patrushev loves to speak out about Western threats. He made his last statement on this matter before voting on amendments to the Constitution. In an interview with AiF, he said:

"The West … regularly uses the controlled media and the possibilities of the Internet to discredit the leadership of our country, government institutions and patriotic political leaders, as well as to erode Russian spiritual and moral values."

Although Patrushev's nephew, Alexei, was no stranger to Western values: according to the Panama Archives, from 2010 to 2012, he owned the offshore company Misam Investments, registered in the Virgin Islands, a dependent territory of Great Britain (a NATO member). The company owned a stake in the Kursk distillery through a Cypriot structure. In 2012, Patrushev sold his stake in Misam to his friend and partner Maxim Khramtsov.