WikiLeaks: At the Arctic Sea Were Carrying Russian Missiles to Iran
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | December 3, 2010 15:21
WikiLeaks exposing a direct attack on the international prestige of Russia and Russian-Israeli relations.:
In the published secret telegram of American diplomats in Madrid, sent in January 2010, reported a conversation with one of the most prominent attorneys of Spain, Jose Gonzales Girinda.
Gonzalez for the past ten years engaged in an investigation into Russian organized crime in Europe.
Gonzales said that “the highest echelons” of the Russian authorities and organized crime groups to smuggle weapons across the globe. According to him, “the story of the Arctic Sea is the most vivid proof of that.”
Arctic Sea, en route to the “load of firewood in the Baltic Sea, disappeared from radar in mid-2009. Russian military officials have found the ship three weeks off the coast of West Africa.
After some time the British Guardian published an article that stated that the Arctic Sea transported S-300 missiles to Iran. Russian authorities have angrily denied such allegations.
On board the ship were found, besides the crew. Eight kidnappers, who were taken to Russia, and are awaiting for trial there.
The authorities of Malta (which sailed under the flag of Arctic Sea) did not find anything illegal on board.
Those, however, the entire history of Arctic Sea look more than strange: the Russian navy for nearly a month looking for the Maltese vessel, which is operated by a Finnish company, stolen off the coast of Sweden.
According to the WikiLeaks American diplomats as reported on his conversation with Gonzalez: “Gonzalez confident that there are proven links between Russia’s political parties, organized crime and arms smuggling. Without going into details, he said that the Arctic Sea is the most striking example of this. In addition, Gonzalez said that there is evidence that the Russian attempt to destabilize Turkey with deliveries of modern weapons to Kurdish terrorist groups “.
Press secretary of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, had already called the revelations WikiLeaks «garbage, without baseless.”
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