Journalist Christo Grozev, lead investigator at Bellingcat, is placed on the Kremlin’s wanted list. According to information available on the website of the Russian Ministry of the Interior. In charge of investigations concerning Russia, he notably made it possible to reveal the involvement of the Russian intelligence services in the poisoning of the opponent Alexeï Navalny.
His name is behind many embarrassing revelations for Moscow. Christo Grozev, for example, led the journalistic investigation which revealed the involvement of the Russian intelligence services in an attempted coup in Montenegro in 2016. It was also he who made it possible two years later to identify three Russian agents as suspects in the poisoning of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in London.
In 2014, he worked on the crash of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine. Finally, when Alexeï Navalny is the victim ofan attempted poisoning in a hotel in Siberia in 2020, it is again Christo Grozev who takes the investigation in hand, and who, in collaboration with the Russian opponent, makes it possible to reveal the actions of the FSB in this affair.
Violation of the Russian Criminal Code, according to Moscow
Now 53, Bulgarian citizen Christo Grozev is officially wanted for violating an article of the Russian Criminal Code; this is what the Ministry of the Interior indicates, without specifying the nature of the charges. In July, Moscow had already declared Bellingcat an undesirable foreign organization, considering the journalistic investigative site a threat to order and security in Russia. In September, Christo Grozev claimed that Bellingcat was ” Moscow’s worst nightmare “.
Commenters under story about me being on Wanted List debate what the best way to kill me is: whether by sledgehammer (“as is now fashionable”), or by poison umbrella, or just shoot me, “that Bulgarian gypsy” who is “probably Romanian”. Oh, the fascist scum that thrives in Russia. pic.twitter.com/tc7RErDFRh
—Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) December 26, 2022