The Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee announced the initiation of a criminal case on the financing of terrorism (Part 4 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code) by “senior officials of the United States and NATO countries.”
As stated in the press release of the Investigative Committee, during the inspection, security forces established that money was coming from the United States and NATO countries through various commercial organizations to organize terrorist attacks in Russia and abroad “in order to eliminate prominent political and public figures and causing economic damage.»
Among the organizations that, according to the department, helped finance terrorism, a private company from Ukraine, Burisma Holdings, engaged in oil and gas production, is mentioned. Burisma Holdings was founded in 2002 by businessman Nikolai Zlochevsky — as the BBC Ukrainian Service wrote, the company's board of directors included the son of US President Joe Biden Hunter, ex-President of Poland Alexander Kwasniewski and ex-head of the CIA Anti-Terrorism Center Joseph Cofer Black.
Previously, deputies of the State Duma came out with a demand to conduct an audit of terrorist financing by the leaders of the United States and NATO countries. They sent a corresponding appeal to the Investigative Committee and the Russian Prosecutor's Office, as well as to the Ministries of Justice of the USA, Germany, France and Cyprus.
On March 27, the text of the appeal to law enforcement agencies was published by deputy Yana Lantratova. The authors of the document called for “to investigate acts of terrorism that the United States, together with NATO countries and the intelligence services of Ukraine, carry out on Russian territory or against its interests.”
In the appeal itself, among other things, the Nord Stream explosion, the explosion of the Crimean Bridge on October 8, 2022, the murder of Daria Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky, as well as the assassination attempt on the writer Zakhar Prilepin were mentioned as examples of terrorism. The authors of the document emphasized that “this is not a complete list of Ukrainian terrorist attacks by the Main Intelligence Directorate and the Security Service of Ukraine in Russia.”