Just before midday on Aug. 23, 2019, Zelimkhan 'Tornike' Khangoshvili headed to a local mosque through Kleiner Tiergarten, a park in central Berlin, to attend Friday prayers. He never made it. A Georgian national of ethnic Chechen descent, Khangoshvili was fatally shot three times, once in the shoulder, twice in the head.
Michael Weiss, Yahoo NewsJust before midday on Aug. 23, 2019, Zelimkhan “Tornike” Khangoshvili headed to a local mosque through Kleiner Tiergarten, a park in central Berlin, to attend Friday prayers. He never made it. A Georgian national of ethnic Chechen descent, Khangoshvili was fatally shot three times, once in the shoulder, twice in the head.
The Russian government reportedly proposed this convicted assassin as part of a dual trade that never happened. Last week, WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner was released back to the United States, a convicted international arms dealer who had served 14 years of a 25-year sentence for, among other crimes, conspiracy to kill Americans and providing aid to a designated foreign terrorist organization. Paul Whelan, a former U.S.
The investigative news outlet Bellingcat further established, based on Krasikov’s telephone metadata, that before traveling to Berlin via Paris and Warsaw, he had been in touch repeatedly with former operatives from Russia’s Federal Security Service and “had spent extended periods of time on an FSB training base outside Moscow.
In 2019, I met with Khangoshvili's case officer,"Levan" , a former senior official in Georgia's interior ministry, in Tbilisi, the country's capital. As I reported at the time for, information Khangoshvili provided to the Georgian government"helped neutralize an Uzbek extremist organization" and lowered the temperature among those in Georgia's Chechen community thinking of going off to fight NATO in Afghanistan.
There were two prior assassination attempts against Khangoshvili in Georgia, Levan told me. The first, in 2006, involved a South Ossetian hitman who had second thoughts and turned himself into the government. Much like Krasikov, this assassin had a criminal record in Russia, having been jailed for armed robbery and recruited, so said Levan, by the Kremlin’s security services. Khangoshvili agreed to cooperate with the interior ministry when it told him it had interrupted the plot to kill him.
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