The FBI thwarted a Russian plot to kill a prominent dissident in Washington, authorities say
Prosecutors say the network recruited U.S. operatives and offered up to $40,000 after the target refused to be killed.
- On Tuesday, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced charges against five Russian nationals accused of financing terrorism and plotting targeted killings in the United States and European nations supporting Ukraine.
- The RIS Network, described as an arm of the Russian Federation's apparatus, has conspired to conduct attacks and murders worldwide since at least 2024, prosecutors alleged in the indictment.
- Recruiters offered $40,000 to 'eliminate' a U.S.-based Russian dissident, while a separate plot involved $25,000 to murder an individual in Lithuania, according to court documents.
- FBI field offices disrupted the plots through relentless work, according to officials, though all five suspects named in the indictment remain at large.
- Intelligence services have recently shifted focus from targeting Russian dissidents to attacking nations perceived as allies of Ukraine, expanding the scope of their operations.
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The US Department of Justice announced the indictment of five fugitive Russian agents accused of ordering assassinations and financing attacks in the US and Europe.
'Global assassination network' accused in dangerous D.C. plot: report
Five people stand accused of participating in a Kremlin-run "global assassination network" that plotted this summer to have a prominent Russian dissident killed in Washington, D.C., according to a new report.All five defendants remain at large, NBC News reported Wednesday. In the indictment, unsealed late Tuesday, prosecutors described the broader Russian intelligence operation as "brazen, aggressive, and far-reaching," aimed at spreading "destr…
Russian Intelligence Network Plotted To Kill a Dissident In D.C., and Claimed Hitmen Waiting in Mexico, US Prosecutors Allege
WASHINGTON — Russian intelligence officers built what prosecutors call “a criminal network” of paid recruits to surveil and murder dissidents, including one on American soil, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court.
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