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He jumped like a spring, as if he had been stung by a bee. Or better as if someone had stepped on a tumor: “That’s nonsense, no proof!”. Alexey Stolyarovnicknames Lexusone of two alleged Russian pranksters who had just called the mayor of Madrid, Jose Manuel Martinez Almeida, responded this way, five years ago, in an indignant tone, On the question posed by EL PERIÓDICO Whether he and his colleague Vladimir Kuznetsov, instead of making a living from scammers or scammersThey actually worked for Russian espionage.
It was the fall of 2017, and in the midst of the political turmoil caused by the Catalan process, the first surprise call was made to a Spanish leader. Lexus and his partner known as counting On this occasion, the victim was the Minister of Defense at the time, Dolores de Cospedalwho tried to mock them by broadcasting the conversation they had with her shortly after she accused Russia in NATO of industrialization fake news To promote the Catalan process.
At this point, very few suspect that the duo Lexus s Fu FanHe, at least, coordinates his actions with the Federal Security Service (FSB, one of the heirs of the KGB) despite insisting Lexus During the interview, again and again, since it was they who chose the scapegoat, it was clear that the goals of the supposed humorous duo were always in line with the interests of the Kremlin. “We will never do anything that can help the enemies of Russia,” they realized during a conversation with them guardian.
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His access to phone numbers available to very few people reinforces the idea of his connection to the Russian secret services. As posted later El Confidencial Digital, citing military sources, said, “Only governments and states can know the phone number of the Secretary of the Minister.” According to the same sources, the interlocutors did a very professional job as impersonators, in full respect of the “official terminology and protocol.”
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Lexus s Fu Fan They do not hide their homophobia, as evidenced by the call they made to Elton John after he criticized the Kremlin’s policy regarding sexual minorities. They have also shown some involvement in dramatic situations, such as when they wrote a fake letter on behalf of the Ukrainian president. Petro Poroshenko a Nadia Sevchenko, A Ukrainian pilot imprisoned in Russia went on a hunger strike asking him to give up his position.
Nubia was reached with the call in 2017 of an opera singer and former Russian MP who fled to Ukraine Maria Maksakovathe wife of Denis Voronkov, also a former Russian lawmaker, was shot in Kyiv in March of that year. Lexus s Fu Fan They pretended to be officials of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and offered to hold concerts in war zones. At that time, Maksakova revealed to the world that the FSB had a subsection of “Provocations”, which used false calls and bargaining as a tactic.
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