Comments on: British police admit they deported Russian who tried to assassinate Berezovsky

By: Timothy Post

Timothy Post — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:16:33 +0000

Another interesting wrinkle to this story is the timing of all the events.

Supposedly, the Berezovsky “assassin” was arrested on June 21st and then deported 2 days later on June 23rd.

Remember that Gordon Brown assumed office on June 27th so that this greatly complicated Britain’s ability to respond. Talk about “sweating bullets.”

Another question I have is why, as far as we know, Britain not inform Moscow of this arrest at the time it happened? Perhaps, MI5 thought that by letting this supposed assassin return to Moscow they could monitor his actions and whereabouts.

Looks to me as if Britain was on a fishing trip but returned home empty handed.

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The Conjecturer » News Brief, The Devil’s Territory Edition — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:05:26 +0000

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By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:04:31 +0000

Berezovsky is back in the UK now, I understand.

By: Alan Pascoe

Alan Pascoe — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:29:36 +0000

I think it’s connected with the Brazilian government’s request for the extradition of Berezovsky, reported last Friday. The expulsion of the diplomats over the weekend threw up a smokescreen to divert the attention of the press, whilst the British government got Berezovsky out of the country. Now they can tell Brazil that they can’t extradite Berezovsky because they don’t have him.