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Alexei Navalny describes 'corrupt officials' living in London helping Putin in never-before-seen interview (news.sky.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Alexei Navalny once hit out at the "corrupt officials" living in London who allegedly help Vladimir Putin's regime stash dirty money, Sky News can reveal.

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He made the comments in an interview four years before his death in a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle.

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The interview was conducted in February 2020 and is believed to be one of the last that Mr Navalny would give while in full health.

In August that year he was poisoned while on a flight back to Moscow.

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The interview, acquired by Sky News and broadcast for the first time, was shot as part of an unaired documentary series, After The Fall, directed by Matthew Torne and produced by Andrew Duncan.

"The West does nothing at all, I would say. There are some ritual dances, but nothing really happens," Mr Navalny says.

"Why do corrupt officials still live in London? Because these corrupt officials feed a huge number of wonderful London lawyers.

"These people, they will appear very civilised, we will be pleased to chat with them if they sit next to us, they will be wearing a tie and fine manners, and at the same time they are serving the interests of utter, complete bandits."

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[–] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Gotta love all this hard hitting journalism that never sees the light of day until it's too late for the information to be useful.

That being said, it's not like anyone implicated would ever experience consequences for their actions anyhow, mostly thanks to a combination of apathy, and people refusing to learn/understand how their democracy actually works and is implemented

Because its easier to just accept corruption instead of actually looking into stuff (and a big heaping pile of misinformation and incomplete information available to the general public.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 23 points 8 months ago

Suspect it might have something to do with libel laws and/or Navalny no longer being alive to suffer the consequences of this reveal.