Vadim Krasikov
Some of the key events about Vadim Krasikov
- 2013Murdered a Chechen rebel in Moscow using a silenced pistol
- 2019Assassinated a former Chechen rebel commander in Berlin's Kleiner Tiergarten park
- 2019Used a false identity and passport to enter Germany for the assassination
- 2019Approached the victim on a bicycle before shooting him twice in the head
- 2019Attempted to dispose of evidence by throwing the murder weapon into a river
- 2019Arrested by German police shortly after the Berlin assassination
- 2020Charged with murder by German federal prosecutors
- 2021Put on trial in Germany for the Berlin assassination
- 2021Identified as an operative of Russia's FSB security service during the trial
- 2021Convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison by a German court
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