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Russia threatened Finland and Sweden over their intention to join NATO: “They have to understand the consequences”

adminabig — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 11:17:38 +0000

María Zajárova, portavoz del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores ruso, en una imagen de archivo. EFE/ Sergei Ilnitsky
The accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO would have “consequences” for these countries and for European security, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned on Friday. Finland said this week that it will decide whether to apply for NATO membership in a few weeks, and Sweden is also discussing joining the alliance.“The choice is up to the authorities of Sweden and Finland. But they must understand the consequences of such a step for our bilateral relations and for the European security architecture as a whole,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.He added that it is “unlikely that Sweden and Finland’s membership in NATO will contribute to strengthening (their) international prestige.”Zakharova noted that the non-alignment policy of the two countries “provided a reliable level of security,” while membership in a military alliance “is not able to strengthen their national security.”“They will automatically meet on the NATO front,” Zakharova said.Un soldado sueco toma parte de los ejercicios “Cold Response 2022”, junto a 30.000 tropas de la OTAN y militares de Finlandia y Suecia en Evenes, Noruega (Marzo 22, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman)REUTERSFormer Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned on Thursday that Russia would deploy nuclear weapons near the three Baltic states and Scandinavia if Finland or Sweden decided to join.Finland’s approach to NATO, which could consummate its accession in June, has dragged Sweden, which in a few weeks has gone from seeing a hypothetical entry into the alliance unlikely to become an increasingly realistic option.Just a month ago, when the war between Ukraine and Russia had been going on for two weeks, the Swedish Prime Minister, the Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson, defended Sweden’s status as a NATO partner but not a member and considered that a possible income would further “destabilize” the situation.Although the polls gave for the first time a majority of defenders of joining the alliance, both the Social Democrats, the party with the most seats, and the far-right Democrats of Sweden (SD), the third parliamentary force, were opposed to entry.But the speed with which events have precipitated in neighbouring Finland, where there is speculation already with an entry before the June summit in Madrid, has shaken up the Swedish debate.(With information from AFP and EFE)KEEP READING:Joe Biden said he was ready to visit UkraineThe US assured that the sinking of the Moskva warship is “a hard blow” for RussiaMore than 500 civilians have been killed in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion

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The case of Jan Marsalek, one of the most wanted scammers in the world who now does business guarded by the Russian secret service

adminabig — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 11:16:07 +0000

Wirecard Jan Marsalek PROne of the main suspects in the Wirecard scandal, Jan Marsalek, wanted by Interpol after the spectacular bankruptcy of the financial company in 2020, could be found in Moscow, under the surveillance of the Russian secret services, German daily Bild said Monday.Located at the beginning of 2021, this Austrian “would have hidden in a particularly safe neighborhood of Moscow where he is perhaps still living (…) in the custody of Putin’s secret services, the FSB,” the German newspaper stated.Wirecard, the German leader in digital payments, sunk in June 2020 when its managers confessed that 1.9 billion euros (2 billion dollars) of assets – a quarter of the total – did not really exist. La sede central de Wirecard en Aschheim, cerca de Munich. (REUTERS/Andreas Gebert)REUTERSThis bankruptcy was, as the German government itself admitted, “the biggest financial scandal” in history in the country. Bild claims that the Russian intelligence services last year proposed to their German counterparts to “interrogate the suspect”, former Wirecard number 2, wanted for almost two years. The German agents present in Moscow asked their superiors for “instructions on whether a meeting with Marsalek should take place”. The management of the BND, the German intelligence services, would not have responded, although the government was “informed”. Former Wirecard financial officer, Jan Marsalek, 42, has long been suspected of being linked to Russian interests and of having benefited from complicity in several secret services. The Financial Times had indicated that Marsalek was in contact with the Russian military intelligence service.Marsalek viajó a Rusia con al menos 6 pasaportes austriacos diferentes
The specialized intelligence site Bellingat reviewed his immigration data and found that he was a frequent visitor to Russia, with more than 60 trips to the country in the last 10 years. According to Bild, Marsalek would have dedicated himself, from the start of his flight, to the “sale of Sputnik V vaccines”, the anti-covid drug developed by Russia, and would maintain relations with “paramilitary mercenaries”.The former director general, accusedMeanwhile, last month German prosecutors accused the former CEO of Wirecard and two other former managers of fraud and false accounting in connection with the collapse of the company.Prosecutors in Munich said former CEO Markus Braun signed financial reports that he knew were false. They said the firm recorded non-existent income that it attributed to multiple companies in other countries and used false documents to prove that it had funds that it did not have. Braun also allegedly sold 6.6 million shares shortly before the declaration of insolvency. El ex CEO de WIrecar Markus Braun durante una audiencia ante el parlamento alemán (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch)REUTERSThe firm’s former chief accountant and the CEO of a Dubai-based subsidiary were also indicted.The fraud cost banks 3.1 billion euros (3.4 billion dollars) in loans and repayments, according to the statement of prosecutors.The case of that electronic payment company splashed on the German government itself. In 2020, the Ministry of Finance, which was then headed by the current Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz, was accused of lack of oversight and had to announce reforms to the financial supervisory authority (BaFin), although it assured that the agency acted correctly.Keep reading:Wirecard: a great deception in the absence of supervision of technofinanceThe most wanted man in the world was located in Belarus

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The truth behind the video that Russia spread to deny the massacre in Bucha

adminabig — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 15:15:36 +0000

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB A body of a civilian, who according to residents was killed by Russian army soldiers, lies on the street next to a bicycle, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in Bucha, in Kyiv region, Ukraine April 2, 2022. REUTERS/Zohra BensemraLast Saturday, images of major international information agencies such as Reuters, AP and AFP began to circulate – first on social media and then on the services of major international information agencies such as Reuters, AP and AFP dozens of bodies of civilians abandoned in the streets of Bucha, a city on the outskirts of the capitalAll civilians, mostly men, the bodies lay on the tracks, on top of their cars, stuck on bicycles… AFP even testifies that there were bodies of civilians executed with their hands tied behind their backs. The international community quickly condemned summary executions and described them as war crimes. For its part, Volodymir Zelensky’s government demanded tougher sanctions to stop Moscow’s atrocities and gave chilling details of the massacres.Now, Nexta disseminated the version that the Kremlin is trying to impose on Russia, using its control of the local media. This is a video recorded from a Russian tank touring Bucha. The images show the bodies on both sides of the road and the military account of the events is heard.At one point, the military man says, “The corpse on the right moves his hand.” However, if the image is enlarged and viewed in slow motion, what is seen is not the right hand of the body rising, but the reflection of a light. With this video Russia tries to install the idea that Ukraine is putting on a show, that there are no such deaths. The narrative is easily detachable, prestigious international media such as the AFP agencies, Reuters and AP were there. They saw through the eyes of their photographers and journalists the lifeless bodies of all those Ukrainian civilians who did not die of natural causes, were executed in a practice prohibited by international law. In addition, Serhii Kaplychny, the chief of the local lifeguards, reported the discovery of two mass graves with civilian remains. One yesterday with 280 bodies and another today with another 75 bodies. Hay cadáveres atrapados en autos (Reuters)
“All these people were shot,” Bucha Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk told AFP. “These are the consequences of the Russian occupation,” he lamented.Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba accused Russia and its soldiers of “deliberate massacre” and said that Moscow wants to “eliminate as many Ukrainians as they can.”Un cuerpo yace en la calle en la frontera entre Bucha e Irpin (Reuters)
“Kiev region. The hell of the 21st century. The bodies of men and women who died with their hands tied. The worst crimes of Nazism are back in Europe. This was done deliberately by Russia,” a counselor in the Ukrainian presidency, Mikhailo Podoliak, tweeted on his side.The International Criminal Court recently opened an investigation into possible war crimes committed in Ukraine, and some Western leaders, including US President Joe Biden, called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal.”El cuerpo de una mujer tendido en la calle (REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra)Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also accused Russian soldiers of planting mines and other traps as they withdrew from northern Ukraine. “They are leaving behind a complete disaster and many dangers (…) First, air strikes could continue. Second, they are mining the entire territory, mining houses, equipment, even the bodies of people they killed,” he said yesterday in a video message.KEEP READING:Ukraine revealed chilling images of the massacre perpetrated by Russia in BuchaInfobae in Irpin: graves in the squares, destroyed tanks and a row of burned cars in the village that experienced the worst battles of the warThe shocking images of the destruction caused by Russian troops in IrpinHow does the Wagner Group work, the mercenary force linked to Vladimir PutinWhy Ukraine must defeat Russia

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Le Parti communiste du Venezuela a dénoncé le meurtre d’un autre militant et a accusé le système judiciaire chaviste de ne pas avoir enquêté

adminabig — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 17:15:31 +0000

Le Parti communiste du Venezuela (PCV) a dénoncé lundi le meurtre de son militant Juan de Dios Hernández dans l’État d’Apure, à la frontière avec la Colombie, moins de trois mois après la mort de José Urbina, membre de la même formation, dans la même région.« Moins de trois mois après le meurtre du militant communiste José Urbina, un communicateur populaire renommé à Apure, le camarade Juan de Dios Hernández, leader social du Parti à Puerto Páez, a été enlevé et assassiné », a écrit le secrétaire général de l’organisation politique, Óscar Figuera sur son compte Twitter.Le député également de l’Assemblée nationale (AN, Parlement) a rappelé que Hernández et Urbina, tués le 10 janvier, étaient actifs dans la même cellule du Parti et « ont été tués dans la même ville ».Le parti a exigé que le ministère public mène une enquête « approfondie » sur les meurtres de ses militants à Apure et a exigé une déclaration des autorités fiscales.« Nous dénonçons à l’opinion publique nationale et internationale le meurtre de nos cadres sans que le ministère public prenne une décision ou mène une enquête en temps opportun », a déclaré le parlementaire, qui a critiqué le « silence institutionnel ».L’incident a également été dénoncé sur le même réseau social par l’ancien député chaviste Juan Francisco García Escalona, qui a affirmé que Hernández avait été tué par des groupes armés opérant dans la région frontalière.« J’élève à nouveau la voix pour rejeter l’assassinat de dirigeants politiques à Apure. Juan de Dios Hernández, qui était membre du PCV, a été enlevé et tué par des groupes armés opérant à Puerto Páez, les excès se poursuivent à notre frontière. La justice ! », a écrit García Escalona sur Twitter.Comme dans le cas d’Urbina, on ignore si Hernández avait reçu des menaces en raison de son statut de membre du PCV ou pour toute autre raison.Le PCV avait déjà demandé au bureau du procureur d’enquêter sur le meurtre de son militant, qui a également travaillé comme journaliste.(Avec des informations d’EFE)CONTINUEZ À LIRE :Un militant de Fundaredes a passé trois ans en prison, a subi des pressions pour plaider coupable et a été jugé pour des crimes non qui lui sont attribuablesLa mission d’établissement des faits a rappelé ce que le rapport de Bachelet était muet à propos du Venezuela : la mort du général Baduel et des réformes juridiques non garanties

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