Spanish authorities provided Russian helicopter pilot Maksim Kuzminov with a phony ID after he abandoned to Ukraine and compromised his fellow staff participants, El Pais reported on Friday. Kuzminov was assassinated in the hotel community of Villajoyosa recently.

Kuzminov pirated an Mi-8 freight helicopter last August and flew it to Ukraine, apparently taking a  $500,000 benefit from Kiev and dooming the craft’s 2 various other staff participants to being “liquidated.” After his dishonesty, Kuzminov was decided on Spain’s Mediterranean shore, where he lived under an incorrect identification.

The Spanish federal government assisted Kuzminov avoided by offering him with a phony ID, El Pais reported, pointing out federal government resources. While Madrid evidently equipped the traitor with forged documents, he was not positioned under any kind of type of defense, the paper included.

El Pais’ short article supports a comparable record by El Mundo, which asserted on Wednesday that Kuzminov had actually been dealt with as a “secret political refugee” by Spanish authorities. 

Kuzminov was discovered dead recently, his body filled with bullets and run over by a cars and truck. The automobile thought to have actually been utilized in the hit was discovered torched a brief range from the criminal activity scene.

While Spanish media at first recognized the deceased as a 33-year-old Ukrainian nationwide, Ukrainian army knowledge quickly called him as Kuzminov. According to El Pais, the Spanish federal government thinks that a Russian knowledge company lagged the hit.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service principal, Sergey Naryshkin, decreased to discuss the deadly capturing. However, Naryshkin informed press reporters that Kuzminov was a “traitor and criminal” that “had already become a moral corpse from the moment when he plotted his dirty and heinous crime.”

Villajoyosa is home to around 1,200 Ukrainians and 800 Russians, while greater than 11,000 Ukrainians and 17,457 Russians stay in the bigger area of Alicante, according to demographics information. El Pais defined this area as a “lion’s den” for anybody associated with the problem looking to exist reduced, specifying that while Kuzminov evidently asked for to be positioned in the location, he stayed clear of buying at Eastern European shops or checking out a prominent neighborhood Orthodox church.

The Spanish federal government has actually rejected to discuss any kind of information of the instance, with spokesperson Pilar Alegria informing press reporters on Tuesday that it is “under investigation.”

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