Just for the record... (I'm so sick of the sh*t being spoken about this, so here's some reality)...
@Florence thank you! This sheds ended light! 👍
@Florence And most don't realize that he served 15 years in the states. Had about 4 more years to go and would have been out on early release anyway. He wasn’t here on a life sentence.
@Florence Just for clarification, I was talking about the Russian (Bout), not Whelan.
@Delilah1234 Yes, sorry,I deleted after tooting. Sorry, I'm not good at multi-tasking ☺️
@TheRealWildHair It's totally doing my head in!
@Florence he was allegedly carrying $80,000 in cash when he arrived in Moscow (reported by an anti-Putin news outlet and an independent one in Latvia). That's one hell of a wedding gift. The rest of the visiting wedding guests had decided to remain together as a group as a precaution. Whelan left the group, and met a guy in his hotel room, where he was supposedly given a USB stick containing some sensitive material.
@MikePrevost3 There is certainly a plethora of very ugly information surrounding him.
@Florence yup, this is not some innocent tourist snatched up as a hostage for a prisoner exchange. If he were working for the CIA or MI-6 he would have had a diplomatic passport. So he was probably working on getting info for BorgWarner that he could sell to the highest bidder.
@Florence
And as Marines always say, "There it is."
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And, if you want paperwork...