The director general of the Bellingcat investigative site, journalist Christo Grozev, has been placed on the wanted list in Russia, according to information available Monday in the database on the Russian Interior Ministry website.
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Christo Grozev, Bulgarian citizen, born May 20, 1969, “is wanted for violation of an article of the Russian Criminal Code”, according to the same source which does not provide further details.
Created in July 2014 by a British blogger, Eliot Higgins, the Bellingcat site, based in the Netherlands, specializes in journalism based on the analysis of data accessible to everyone online – Osint (“Open source intelligence” in English).
The site notably investigated the crash of flight MH17, which killed 298 people in eastern Ukraine in 2014, the alleged involvement of Russian intelligence in the poisonings of the double agent Sergei Skripal or the opponent Alexei Navalny.
Lately, the Bellingcat team has been focusing mainly on the Russian military intervention in Ukraine that began at the end of February.
Russia, which recently branded Bellingcat a “threat,” deemed the organization “undesirable” on its territory.
In September, Mr. Grozev, head of investigations on Moscow, assured in an interview with AFP that Bellingcat was “the Kremlin’s worst nightmare”.
