Vladimir Nikolayevich Moiseyev - is the real name of an agent of the Russian intelligence service GRU, accused of being one of the organizers of the attempted terrorist attacks in Podgorica in 2016 under the name Vladimir Popov.
This is written in an extensive investigation of Bellingket and their Russian partners from Insider, published yesterday.
In the text, they remind that because of the coup attempt in Montenegro, Interpol is looking for GRU agent Eduard Šišmakov and Vladimir Popov, but they claim that they unmasked the second accused and that this is not his real name.
Popov, they found, is actually Moiseyev and is also a GRU officer.
Bellingkett and Insider reveal that Moiseev is a lieutenant colonel or colonel in Russian military intelligence and was born on June 29, 1980, the same date as the fictional "Popov."
They state that the findings in that case reveal the GRU's established way of operating in secret operations, such as the use of false names, which clearly refutes the Kremlin's statements - that "Popov" is an innocent Russian tourist who has been unfairly accused by a hostile government.
Military University
In the research, they explain that Moiseyev was born in the small West Siberian village of Pivkino, where he graduated from a local village school before moving to Tyumen for military service. Immediately after or during his military service, Moiseyev enrolled in the Tyumen Institute of Military Engineering, an advanced program that produces military engineers specializing in many jobs - from radio signal encryption to remote bomb detonation.
He finished his studies with the rank of lieutenant.
It is added that it is not certain when - during his studies or later - Moiseyev was recruited by the GRU...
It is explained that at some point between 2005 and 2009, he was transferred to Moscow to serve in the Spetsnaz unit, in the air traffic of the GRU. That unit took part in operations in Georgia during the Ossetia-Georgia conflict and it is assumed, it says, that Moiseyev was assigned to the unit before 2008 to take part in those military operations.
They state that a year later - in 2009, Moiseyev got a new identity under the name of Vladimir Popov, and in the Russian databases there is data with two parallel identities.
Journalist and photographer
It says that he lived with his family in a Spetsnaz facility in Moscow until 2014, and that in March 2015 he got an apartment in the same apartment building where Alexander Myshkin, one of the Russian suspects in the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal, got an apartment a few months earlier. and his daughter Julia.
Bellingket previously announced that Mishkin traveled to England under a false name in that operation.
"As in the case of Mishkin, the apartment is registered in the name of Moisej's wife... the GRU official is not mentioned in the property ownership".
It is clarified that under the new identity "Popov" was employed as a "photo-correspondent" and "journalist" working for the magazine "Morskoye Strakhovanie" and used this to travel throughout Europe from 2012 to 2016.
As a journalist for that magazine, "Popov" also traveled to Serbia in October 2016.
Disclosure
In the part of the research entitled - "How we exposed Moiseev", it is written that their starting points were his name Vladimir Nikolajevic Popov, date of birth, passport photos published by the prosecutors of Montenegro and Interpol, his three color photos that he published on social media , as well as a video of the Serbian police between Šišmakov and Popov on Belgrade's Kalemegdan.
The text explains in detail that they did this based on the available data of some Russian state institutions, through social networks, photos and information of his family...
The special state prosecution led by Milivoj Katnić accused Šišmakov and Popov of being the organizers of a criminal group that planned to cause chaos on the day of the parliamentary elections in 2016 - from the violent seizure of the Assembly to the murder of the then Prime Minister Milo Đukanović.
The British media previously announced that the Russian agents, a few days after the failed mission, were "extracted" from Belgrade by the first man of the Russian intelligence services, Nikolai Petrushev.
Traveled Europe as a journalist
In the research, it is written that the coverage for the October 2016 trip to Belgrade was provided by Popov through the publisher of the magazine "Marine Insurance" Nikita Minin.
He confirmed for Bellingket that the magazine sent Popov on a business trip to Serbia, in order to "collect additional information on the topic of the participation of the Serbian river fleet in the First World War", which he called "A rarely researched historical fact that aroused the interest of our readers".
He, however, explained that the research was never published, "due to commercial reasons".
"However, during the review of the evidence submitted to the court by the prosecutor in Montenegro, Bellingket and the Insider found the personal phone of Nikita Minin, which was listed as the contact number for booking a hotel in Belgrade by another GRU commander, Eduard Šišmakov," the text reads.
When investigators confronted him about that fact, Minin said he had no explanation for how his number appeared on a reservation made on September 29, 2016.
It says that he insisted that he had never heard of Šišmakov or his pseudonym Širokov.
"Nikita Minin says he has worked in the insurance industry since 1996. However, in publicly available databases, Bellingkett revealed that in 2000-2001 he served in the Spetsnaz Separate Aviation Division or Military Unit 48427 in Moscow, the same unit Moiseyev served in years later”.
Both Russian and American agents were involved
The trial of those accused of attempting a "coup d'état" began more than a year ago, and many characterize it as historic, because in addition to Russian operatives, the leaders of the Democratic Front opposition bloc - Andrija Mandić and Milan Knežević - were included in the indictment.
Due to the suspicion that he is involved in that case, Montenegro is also looking for the former agent of the US counterintelligence service (CIA) Joseph Assad.
Serbian citizens Nemanja Ristic and Predrag Bogićević are being tried in absentia before the panel of High Court judge Suzana Mugoša. On the dock are Bratislav Dikić, Mandić's driver Mihailo Čađenović, as well as Kristina Hristić, Branka Milić, Srboljub Đorđević, Dragan Maksić, Milan Dušić.
In the indictment, among other things, it is written that Šišmakov, in a meeting with the cooperating witness Aleksandar Sinđelić, asked to find a person who would kill the then Prime Minister Milo Đukanović.
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