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Heidi and her team discover gaps in the Berezovsky and Young investigations, as well as twelve other cases with links to Russia; they look to the US intelligence community for answers.
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00:30Police say Young's death is not being treated as suspicious
00:33There are so many questions left and answered
00:39Police officers say they have no evidence that anyone else was involved
00:43If these events are happening, here's a government, has impunity when it comes to, like, attacking or undermining dissidents abroad
00:53That is insane
00:57Like, that's truly, like, mind-bogglingly insane
01:01A murder investigation being launched into the death of another Russian on British soil
01:10He told his uncle a fortnight before he died
01:27If anything happens to me in the next two weeks, it won't be an accident
01:31London is levitating on a sea of dirty money
01:49If you deal with someone who has a very suspicious track record
01:58Someday it will come back to haunt you
02:01He received a call the night before Berezovsky was found dead
02:23And someone on the call said Berezovsky was being discussed with
02:27I can't remember his surname now, actually
02:31But he said that Boris Berezovsky would be found in a body bag
02:37And actually, Boris Berezovsky was found in a body bag
02:42I think within a day or two after that
02:44Why would they call you?
02:47Why? Because I'm the greatest canary singing in the cage
02:50They know that it's going to probably go to the media
02:52Which it did
02:53If you've got a master plan
02:56And you know someone's using the media
03:00Quite rightly so, in the public's interest to tell the truth
03:03You're going to make phone calls like that
03:05And that's why we're having this conversation today
03:07So that this conversation will come out
03:095D chess
03:12In the middle of the day
03:24I got a phone call from Boris' assistant
03:27Who was with Boris most of the time
03:31And he told me that Boris died
03:36I have to ask it.
03:41The police came there
03:46Maybe 10 minutes before us
03:48I wasn't admitted to the house
03:51So we spent all the night outdoors
03:56It was
04:00End of an era
04:02A very significant and very important part of my life
04:09Died with him
04:12Boris Berezovsky was found dead at his former wife's home
04:21He was found hanging from the shower rail in the bathroom of the family home
04:28He had only one bodyguard.
04:32And that man had gone out to do some errands
04:35And during that window when Berezovsky was unprotected
04:39He was hung from the shower rail
04:41When his bodyguard found him
04:44He appeared to have been suspended from the rail by a scarf
04:48The scarf had torn in two
04:50And Berezovsky's body was slumped on the bathroom floor
04:52The police arrived at the scene.
04:56And later concluded that this was a suicide
04:58Berezovsky had a broken rib
05:02A blunt force injury on his head
05:05There was an unidentified fingerprint on the shower rail
05:08Scotland Yard was very well aware
05:13That Berezovsky was under threat
05:15The authorities in Britain knew that he was a target
05:20One, one, two, three, four
05:27You have the voice, all right
05:31With Berezovsky's case, there are two statements
05:35One statement by the British police
05:38They're saying that he hung himself
05:40Another statement comes from the leading international expert
05:45On such cases whose name is Professor Brinkman
05:47From Hamburg, Germany
05:49At the request of Berezovsky family
05:53Professor Brinkman did an investigation himself
05:56A medical investigation
05:57His conclusion was it was murder
06:01When somebody is hanged
06:06The ligature tends to form a V-shaped mark
06:09The strangulation marks on his neck
06:13Were inconsistent with hanging
06:14They were more consistent with manual strangulation
06:26The Berezovsky family pathologist said
06:32This is clearly an assassination
06:33And not a suicide
06:35This conclusion was given to the coroner
06:37The coroner said
06:39This is a leading international expert
06:41His reasons are obvious and clear
06:44And therefore I cannot make a verdict
06:47It is impossible to say whether he committed suicide
06:50Or whether he was murdered
06:52I mean this story
07:04Unless you knew about it
07:05You'd think it's total lies
07:06Wouldn't you?
07:07All of a sudden he disappeared
07:09Just disappeared
07:10He didn't tell me he disappeared
07:12One of his accountants
07:13I rang his accountants to waste God
07:15And he said he's gone
07:16He's skinned
07:16And he's left the country
07:17Did he tell you how he lost all his money?
07:20Yeah
07:21He said it was something to do with Russia
07:24Project Moscow or something
07:27Apparently it was a massive, massive deal
07:35It was to do with Boris
07:37And it just went wrong overnight
07:40He left the country and disappeared
07:51He rang me
08:00And he said he's lost all his money
08:02And then he said he's coming back
08:10And I met him in the hotel in Marble Arch
08:14He was very nervous
08:18Just a different person
08:20He would smoke 100 cigarettes a day
08:23It was unbelievable
08:24There was this moment where the sky just seemed to fall in for Scott
08:29And he went from having hundreds of millions of pounds at his disposal
08:32To suddenly being destitute
08:34He couldn't even buy a drink
08:37He used to meet me in this pub in Ealing
08:39My friends were there
08:40All my friends knew him
08:43No one could believe the way he looked and the way he was
08:46He was actually
08:47You know, it was bad
08:49It was very, very bad
08:50He looked dreadful
08:53Absolutely dreadful
08:54There was no
08:57Normally we always have a little joke about something or other
09:00He was in a bad state
09:03He certainly was nowhere near his old self
09:06It was the 10th of December
09:18I'd literally, I'd just put up my Christmas tree
09:20And I had a phone call from the media
09:26To say that, have you heard the news?
09:30And I said, what news?
09:31They said, Scott Young's been found dead
09:35So I said, please don't call me up telling me things like that, you know
09:39So they said, we'll call you back within a couple of hours
09:43Once we've had it confirmed
09:44And they called me back
09:46And to say that Scott had been found dead
09:49And, you know, my daughters were out at the time
09:52And so I wanted to tell them when they came home
09:55But the media, there was lots of media outside the apartment
09:59So they got to hear before I had a chance to tell them
10:02So I just found it appalling that, you know
10:06He'd been found dead on the 8th of December
10:09And we didn't hear about this until the 10th, two days later
10:13By the media
10:16I've just got to let him know the truth
10:19That there are other options that you know
10:22When his daughters first heard their father had died
10:24They just didn't believe that
10:27They didn't accept that he had died
10:31They knew that he had checked himself into a secure psychiatric unit days before
10:34So their first move was to make their way down to the psychiatric hospital
10:38And to ask to see their dad
10:39But when they got there, they learned that he had checked himself out
10:45And so, you know, they naturally assumed that
10:50What he had always predicted had finally come to pass
10:53And that he had been murdered
10:54His funeral was the worst day of my life
11:03Terrible
11:05I had to escort the two beautiful young girls
11:08They just lost their dad, who they loved dearly
11:12That's just too sad
11:24At Scott's funeral, Sasha and Scarlet were approached by someone they didn't know
11:30Who told them they'd better stop asking questions about how their dad had died
11:33And just let sleeping dogs lie
11:34That was somebody who had some interest in making sure that the matter was laid at rest
11:41And that no one went digging around behind the circumstances of Scott's death
11:45This person didn't want anyone causing any further trouble
11:50After Scott's death, Scott's daughters were completely unwilling to accept that their father had killed himself
12:01They gained admission to the flat to investigate
12:04And they uncovered something which the police had completely missed
12:09When they leaned out of the window and they took a look down
12:16They noticed on the window ledge rows of scratches
12:21Almost as if the fingernails on two hands had been fighting to stay inside the window
12:27In the UK, anytime anybody dies of really anything other than the natural causes
12:46We hold an inquiry into that person's death
12:49Of all of my memories of working on this story
12:55The thing that has always stuck with me is going to Scott's inquiry
13:00Around me are Scott's daughters
13:04The two of them there together looking after each other
13:09There was testimony from the girls saying we spoke to him
13:14He was talking about the future
13:16He didn't sound depressed
13:17Scott, he's being watched by the FSB
13:22He was Boris Berezovsky's facilitator
13:26If someone likes that dies in any circumstance
13:29You'd imagine there'd be some alarm bell rung
13:32That said, hey, we should probably have a look at this, you know
13:35And they say to the policeman, like, what did you do?
13:37And he's like, oh no, it just looked like a suicide
13:39Window, person, suicide
13:41The police, at the very least, ought to have dusted for fingerprints
13:45Before they concluded that this was a suicide
13:48Clearly in the absence of any evidence gathered by the police of foul play
13:53The coroner wasn't in a position to make an unfair killing verdict
13:56There just wasn't the evidence available
13:57The inquiry returned an open verdict
14:01But when it reaches that point of, like, you know, kind of judicial inquiry
14:07The coroner's like, well, it's complex
14:09She didn't sit there and say, this is a suicide, yes
14:13Or, no, this is something else
14:15She was like, there's ambiguity here
14:17This is not simple, you know
14:18Even in a coroner's court
14:21Where you think things would just be resolved
14:23There was no clear and apparent resolution
14:25There are so many questions left and answered
14:39So we are still left with the question of why
14:43And what really happened
14:45We went out to recreate the investigation
14:49And we were like, what would you look at?
14:52Like, the motives, the circumstances
14:54The reasons around why this happened
14:55We were looking into the death of Scott Young and Boris Berezovsky
14:59We knew that they were friends and dining companions
15:02They were part of a group of friends
15:04Who all dined together regularly
15:06There was a man called Paul Castle
15:08And a man called Robbie Curtis
15:10Who had been part of that group
15:11All of whom had died fairly in suspicious circumstances
15:15Two of whom had fallen under London tube trains
15:19And one of whom had rolled off the top of a tall building
15:22All within a few years of each other
15:24And then as we looked more into Boris Berezovsky
15:28We found more and more evidence
15:31Those people who had been closely connected with him
15:33Had also died in similarly grisly ways
15:37From Alexander Litvinenko to Bajri Patikatsishvili
15:41You know, we began to pull one thread
15:44And then discovered actually here's one death
15:46And then here's another that's connected to that
15:48There were the two lawyers linked to Scott Young and Berezovsky
15:51Stephen Curtis died after his helicopter crashed
15:54He told his uncle a fortnight before he died
15:58If anything happens to me in the next two weeks
16:00It won't be an accident
16:02Stephen Moss, Curtis' partner in many of the deals
16:07That he was doing on behalf of Boris and Bajri
16:09Had died six months before a sudden heart attack
16:12We kept on turning new stones
16:20And discovering that here's another individual
16:23Who is connected to the circumstances that we're looking at
16:26Or this other person whom we know died suspiciously
16:28Gareth Williams was apparently investigating
16:31Russian money laundering networks
16:33Gareth's body had been placed inside a sports bag
16:38Which in itself had been placed inside the bathtub
16:40Gareth got himself into that bag
16:43And once in that bag, he died
16:45Oh, this is completely insane
16:49Yuri Golubev, the co-founder of an oil giant in Russia
16:54Also died of a sudden heart attack
16:56A Russian diplomat, Igor Ponomarev
16:59Collapsed after the opera in London
17:01It just kind of grew bigger and bigger
17:09It was a chilling story to work on really from the beginning
17:12But it got more so with every new discovery
17:15Wealthy Russian exile and whistleblower Alexander Peripalichny
17:19Dropped dead while jogging
17:21The latest Kremlin crime scene
17:24British police ruled out foul play
17:27Possibly the most outlandish case that we investigated
17:32It was the case of a scientist.
17:34Who was part of the team
17:36Which discovered the poison in Alexander Litvinenko's system
17:40He died of a suicide despite being
17:43Stabbed to death repeatedly
17:45With two separate knives
17:47This is crazy
17:49Like, this is crazy
17:50And we began to map out the connections between these individuals
17:55And the Kremlin and the FSB and Russian organized crime
17:58And ultimately, we were able to put 14 names on our list
18:05We had spent two years investigating all of these deaths
18:17And we had scattergun evidence
18:22In that we were kind of gathering it from all these different sources
18:25With different levels of reliability
18:27But the common theme that we had found was Russia
18:33We'd mapped out the connections between these 14 individuals
18:37We'd found all of their connections to Russia
18:39Some of them angered the Kremlin
18:41Some of them had been living in fear of their lives
18:44This was a story that absolutely had to be told
18:48We wanted to publish the story
18:51But we needed more proof
18:53You know, we needed to try and get some kind of official perspective
18:57On all of this
18:58But we couldn't get anyone
19:01An authority in Britain or within the police
19:03To talk to us about this
19:05They were a really, really closed book
19:07And we needed some sense of
19:09What do the intelligence community believe?
19:11And that was where Jason Leopold came in
19:17Jason Leopold is a legendary reporter in the US
19:21He has developed a reputation as a FOIA terrorist
19:25They said that we'll give you some documents
19:29As long as you promise to never file a FOIA request again
19:34And I never really went through any kind of program
19:38To train to become an investigative journalist
19:40It was just a curiosity I had
19:44I'm obsessed with documents
19:46Spies and uncovering secrets
19:49He has an incredible track record
19:51Of forcing the US government
19:53To disclose all kinds of compromising records
19:55Whether it's someone at CIA, FBI, Department of Defense, the NSA
20:00I don't necessarily just believe every single thing they are saying
20:06I have to go further to verify and confirm those details
20:13When Heidi told me about what her team was investigating
20:18That I knew I could help out
20:22I so aggressively pursue documents
20:31You know, I want to have the evidence
20:33I'm dealing with information that government agencies claim
20:37Will threaten national security if I reveal it
20:40So at that point, what I could offer was
20:43Whether or not the US was keeping tabs on this
20:47If this really is part of an assassination program
20:50The US intelligence agencies would know about it
20:54Essentially what you're trying to do is find people
20:59Find people who would be willing to speak
21:01Find people who may be inclined to disclose classified information
21:06Whenever I contacted intelligence officials
21:10Any meeting that we had
21:12Or any time we tried to set up a meeting
21:13I was constantly traveling back and forth to Washington, D.C.
21:18Having meetings late at night
21:20In parks
21:22Trying to find out who knew what and when
21:27But I do remember the, you know, the holy shit
21:34We got it
21:35It was just a normal day at the office
21:42Heidi was having a meeting
21:45And then suddenly
21:47Jason Leopold sent us this message
21:52And my jaw just kind of hit the floor
21:56I just remember Tom sort of waving frantically at Heidi
22:01When she was on the phone
22:02And I kind of shouted out across the newsroom to Heidi
22:05Have you seen Jason's message?
22:08I became aware that the Office of Director of National Intelligence
22:11Which oversees the intelligence community
22:14Had prepared a report about the use of political assassinations as a form of statecraft by the Russian Federation
22:23What we found was a list of people whose deaths were considered to be assassinations
22:32We now had confirmation that every single name on our list was a suspected Russian hit
22:41Every name is on that list
22:43All 14 of those individuals were listed in the U.S. report on suspected assassinations in the UK
22:49The U.S. authorities had warned Britain's foreign intelligence service to take action to try to stop Russia conducting such bold and aggressive maneuvers in the United Kingdom
23:01I recall finding out that there was a name on this list a person Parapolichny
23:13This Russian financier who blew the whistle on this huge fraud that was linked to Kremlin officials
23:20I recall finding out that there was a name on this list a person Parapolichny
23:26This Russian financier who blew the whistle on this huge fraud that was linked to Kremlin officials
23:32And then one day Parapolichny was going for a jog
23:39And then, one day, Parapolichny was going to a player.
24:00Look, 44-year-old guys do occasionally drop dead while jogging.
24:04But we have so many dead people, anybody who comes too close gets, lots of people get killed.
24:13But we, you know, we didn't, I mean, ultimately, he asked me to do something that I did that got him killed.
24:34But we have so many dead people.
25:04And we have so many dead people.
25:08So, um, ica, we have so many dead people.
25:11Amen.
25:41Amen.
26:11Amen.
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