‼️Sergey Nalobin & Boris Johnson

Suspected Russian spy Sergey Nalobin pictured with his 'good friend' Boris Johnson

‼️So who is Nalobin?

He is a key figure in the reported Russian programme to deepen the "co-operation" between senior Conservative politicians and the Russian government under the umbrella of the CONSERVATIVE FRIENDS OF RUSSIA group.
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📌The Conservative Friends of Russia group's diplomatic contact inside the Russian embassy, Sergey Nalobin, has family ties to Russia's intelligence agencies.
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His father, Nikolai Nalobin, is a former KGB general. Nalobin Sr worked in a top role with the FSB, the successor to the KGB, which the government believes was involved in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.
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Litvinenko's widow Marina said General Nalobin was her husband's boss in the 1990s when Litvinenko was an FSB agent.
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"Sergey Nalobin's brother also worked for the FSB, according to the Russian press.

📌Vladimir Putin, a former KGB spy, was head of the FSB before becoming Russian president in 2000.
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"Sources suggest it was Sergey Nalobin who invited Richard Royal, the chairman of Conservative Friends of Russia, and other members, to visit Moscow and St Petersburg in September on a 10-day trip paid for by the Russian government.
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📌The diplomat also set up meetings there with politicians from Putin's United Russia and other Kremlin-approved parties.
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📌Nalobin also arranged the launch event in the ambassador's Kensington garden and is pictured under the organisation's banner."
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📌Sergey Nalobin was accused of running a “front group” to promote the Kremlin's interests in the Conservative Party two years ago, he had been in Britain for five years and three months before sent packing back to Russia
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📌The Kremlin instructed its diplomats in London to deepen their "co-operation" w/ the Conservative party in an apparent attempt to mute criticism of RU abysmal human rights record & to rebuild ties following the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.#Sanctions

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Circa 2012: Russian diplomats were "instructed by Moscow" to explore how the Conservatives and United Russia could co-operate in the Council of Europe.
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The two parties belong to the same faction in the council's parliamentary assembly, with Tory members frequently voting with their Russian colleagues against motions condemning Moscow.
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In an April 2011 email, Nalobin wrote to Cristo: "We've received instructions from Moscow – to discuss the perspective of co-operation between British Conservatives and United Russia in the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe.
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Nalobin also inquired if there were young Tories who might be interested in travelling to Moscow to attend a Kremlin-sponsored youth forum.
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📌He was subsequently in contact with Royal, the group's chairman, and with other activists who went on to form Conservative Friends of Russia.
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RU has multiple reasons for seeking to influence the Conservatives.

The increasingly Eurosceptic (Anti-EU) Tory party has shunned its traditional center-right allies in Europe in favor of a pact with Putin's party

RU: exploit the extreme R & L🐴👠
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The two are pillars of the European Democrat Group (EDG), which can only function if they cooperate. Russia has forged ad hoc alliances with the Tories and others to see off motions it regards as hostile – over its 2008 war with Georgia, for example.
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‼️Magnitsky Act‼️

Moscow's priority is to prevent the UK and other EU countries from introducing the Magnitsky Act, named after the Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was beaten to death in prison in Russia in 2009.
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‼️Russian interference in elections in the EU & US always circles back to the Kremlin’s goal of preventing the adoption of the Magnitsky Act or repealing it if already adopted.
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‼️Russia’s Crime of the Century
How crooked officials pulled off a massive scam, spent millions on Dubai real estate, and killed Magnitsky when he tried to expose them.

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📌If there remains any pretense that justice and rule of law exist in Moscow today, that notion should now be counted as pure fantasy. The case of Sergei Magnitsky

Russia = Transnational Organized Crime Hub = Mafia state.
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