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More on that explosion... The victim wanted to expose corruption in Ukraine Claude Moniquet, the former DGSE agent and co-founder of the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Centre, nevertheless sees this as one of the “three possible scenarios” to explain the attempted assassination of this Ukrainian national. All the more so as this specialist in Eastern European affairs, who has studied the Ermolaev case closely, reveals that the businessman “had been planning in recent weeks to give a speech at the European Parliament to denounce corruption in his country”. “It is possible that this was seen as a provocation,” the former spy suggests cautiously, whilst nevertheless considering other possibilities. Whilst he seems unlikely to believe this was an operation by the Russian intelligence services, he does not rule out “a settling of scores ordered by a rival”. Vadim Ermolaev’s business dealings do not appear to be as transparent as his lawyers would have us believe. His name has been linked to the VersoBank scandal, an Estonian financial institution whose licence was outright suspended by the European Central Bank in March 2018 for… “systematic breaches of anti-money laundering legislation”. In fact, 87 per cent of deposits made at VersoBank’s branches were from non-residents. This peculiarity had certainly caught the attention of the Money Laundering Data Bureau, a specialist unit of the Estonian police tasked with combating this form of financial crime. 'Scam in Cyprus and kidnapping in Bali More recently, the Ukrainian oligarch’s eldest son found himself embroiled in a massive scam, with losses estimated at nearly 100 million euros. Through fraudulent call centres, the operators were reportedly extracting their victims’ bank details before emptying their accounts. This large-scale scam led to Arthur Ermolaev being arrested in Cyprus by Interpol in December 2025. To secure his release, he had to pay bail of 8.5 million euros. Did his father pay a very different price for this on Monday in Monaco? Within the Ukrainian community on the Côte d’Azur, rumours seem to lend further credence to this theory. This is based in particular on links to another particularly sordid criminal case: the abduction and murder last February in Bali of the son of another Ukrainian businessman, Igor Komarov, whose body was found dismembered on a beach after his father – also from Dnipro – refused to pay the $10 million ransom demanded by the kidnappers. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Current Thread	Author	Time
More on that explosion......[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	09:24:58
>> If this had been a professional job, the guy would be dead. Instead he's injured ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	11:19:53
>> Bomb is messy and unreliable.	Free Thinking Doggie	12:04:53
>> That the Russian explanation?	Hamsterwheel	09:53:42
>> Nice Matin earlier today.	Free Thinking Doggie	10:59:19
>> That’s MSM innit. Liars all.	Denc 🗡	13:23:37
>> Touché	LP12	11:55:21
>> Monaco bomb attack: Ukrainian media links victim to alleged €100m fraud probe...[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	11:17:26
>> .....[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	11:16:08

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