The intelligence services of the United States and Great Britain tried to persuade Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin to cooperate long before his arrest in Switzerland, NBC reports with reference to Klyushin’s Swiss lawyer Oliver Sirik.
According to the lawyer, US intelligence considered the businessman “a person who may have confidential information or state secrets” because Klyushin had “government contracts” in Russia, “including with some national intelligence services.” According to the lawyer, potential American intelligence officers tried to recruit Klyushin in 2020 by approaching him in a bar in southern France. A similar incident happened in 2019 with British agents in Edinburgh. Sirik stressed that the Russian businessman rejected the proposals in both cases.
We will remind, earlier it was reported that the Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin was extradited from Switzerland to the United States. was detained in Zermatt, Switzerland at the request of the United States on March 21. He was charged with “hacking against IBM, Tesla and other American multinational companies”, and it was allegedly about “theft of more than $ 10 million.”
Source: Rosbalt
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