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Cocaine pilot?

July 21, 2010 Dmitry Sidorov

The older generation should remember the words of the once popular Soviet song: “I am Earth, I see my pets, sons, daughters, fly to the very sun and return home soon ...”

Today, this song could well become one of the hymns of the SVR, GRU or their “umbrellas”, that is, organizations under the cover of which their agents work outside the country on this very “sun”. True, it should be noted that not all the chicks of the Kremlin nest are returned home.

With the exception of ten or eleven exchanged spies, some prodigal sons have not yet been able to get to Yasenevo or Aquarium on Khodynka.

Many people include Viktor But, according to rumors, the former colleague of Igor Sechin, who accused the United States in the weapon trade on especially large -scale embargo. Mr. Bout, as you recall, was caught in Thailand as a result of a joint operation of the Thai police and US law enforcement agencies. In Thailand, he is still sitting.

It is interesting that Viktor Butu, on whose sewing,, like a bear on honey, the Russian leadership rushed, the sale of weapons, including Angola and Liberia, is charged with. These facts are confirmed by the former British Foreign Minister Peter Hein.

Let's skip Angola - one of the places of work of another famous character, a businessman who also traded weapons and even diamonds - Arkady Gaidamak, who has now lived in Moscow and dwell on Liberia. This place is amazing, however.

Apparently, just paradise on earth, although it is not particularly used by tourists. Here the Caribbean islands are advertising all the time. The whole advanced public in New York, Moscow, London and Paris knows about the island of St. Bartoloy. As well as about Bali or Courchevel. As one comrade of mine said wonderful, people with persons of police tax inspectors are now going to relax on this mountain. But about Liberia - everything is neither in hearing, nor spirit.

And here is the news, and even what: the Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko in May was excited by the US intelligence services in the capital of Liberia, the city of Monrovia. The 42-year-old pilot is accused of transporting cocaine and an attempt to bribe officials in this very Liberia.

The Russian consulate in New York immediately rushed to defend his compatriot stolen by the Americans, who is provided to all the necessary assistance. I have not come up with it. This was stated by ITAR-TASS, Andrei Yushmanov, Genconsul. He also added that "we recommended several lawyers to him, and now they are determined in contact with relatives who exactly will be and what the line of protection will be."

It is interesting that the wife of a stolen pilot is going to spend about 100 thousand dollars in order to hire these lawyers, since the abducted by his current current is extremely unhappy. The question that revolves in the language is quite simple: “In which or which bank, the wife of a 42-year-old pilot from Rostov-on-Don freely lies such a amount of money?”

I looked at the sites of the Rostov newspapers and did not find ads in the spirit: “Dear Rostovites and Rostovites, we will collect funds in defense ...” It is quite possible that Mr. Yaroshenko’s wife or this family has wealthy relatives. But no one spoke and wrote about this anywhere. Probably, information about these prosperous financial circumstances will come up later - as in the case of Baikalfinance group, which appeared from nowhere and disappeared nowhere, but before the end of the Yuganskneftegaz yugans managed to buy.

In addition, it is not clear how it happened that, according to the Genaconsul Yushmanov, “the Russian embassy in Washington and the Consulate General in New York sent notes to the US State Department and the prison administration,” which contains Mr. Yaroshenko shortly after his arrival in the country. After all, no one informed them about his detention.

Probably, they were still informed that they took the pilot. But who and when? State Department, White House, its "sources" in the USA or Liberia? This is a question to which there is no answer yet, but without it the explanation of the Russian diplomat seems very doubtful.

In addition, I would like to advise Mr. Yaroshenko to pay attention to the anti-corruption agreement signed by Russia at the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, as well as to certain Patriot Act provisions.

And another fact that the Russian pilot is accused of delivering cocaine to the United States, that if there is serious evidence, it is a sufficient basis for the operation at any place of location of the suspect. Let us recall again the story with Bout, who was “pulled out” to Thailand for negotiations with fake buyers of weapons for the Colombian Farc (revolutionary armed forces of Colombia), recognized as a terrorist organization in the United States.

Will we again witness a new accelerated exchange or possible courier Yaroshenko will begin to cooperate with the investigation and give out a chain of those for whom he worked, then dissolving in the vastness of the United States? Or maybe the Russian pilot will come out of the water, proving its innocence to the American justice?

In any case, it is obvious that the Obama administration had some problems with the ill -fated “overload button”. Over the past month, the information space has been somewhat overloaded with reports about the “sincerity” of the Kremlin in relations with his new partner, who was struggling to smooth out the current delicate situation. For some reason, I get the impression that this time the White House will not rush. The political resource in America is not infinite, as in Russia. It can end quickly.

And Mr. Yaroshenko, most likely, is "weak bird." He flew to the "sun", but he will not return home quickly. Although I could be mistaken, as in the case of spies, having given the desired trial for reality. After all, what doesn’t happen when money from frozen chickens, toothless sanctions against Iran and the well -being of workers and the leadership of the Boeing company are on the scales.

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