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Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
Dmitry Senin worked for Russia’s secret services but was accused of treason. He escaped in an original way. But it worked.
A former Russian secret service agent revealed that he escaped from Kremlin authorities through an unusual plan: crossing the border hidden inside the carcass of a dead cow.
The protagonist of the story, published by , is Dmitry Senin, former high-ranking officer of the FSB, Russia’s main intelligence service and successor to the Soviet KGB.
He revealed that he fled after being accused of treason by Vladimir Putin’s regime. According to Senin’s testimony, it all started in 2017, when he participated in an investigation related to alleged cases of corruption involving elements of Russian security forces.
The former spy guarantees that, after having reported irregularities, went from investigator to target of the very system he had served for almost two decades.
Accused of financial crimes and of collaborating against the interests of the State, he was forced to enter the clandestinity.
For several years, Dmitry Senin lived hiding in Moscow, resorting to disguises and constantly changing location.
However, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 led him to conclude that remaining in Russia would inevitably mean prison or death.
It was then that he began to organize the leak.
The plan, prepared over two months, involved smugglers and former contacts linked to the secret services.
To avoid being detected by the thermal cameras installed on the border with Kazakhstan, Senin wore a rubber suitused a gas mask and wrapped the body in metal sheets.
After, entered the carcass of a decomposing cowtransported on a tractor by men pretending to be farmers.
In Kazakhstan, the carcass was abandoned in a ravine used as a deposit for dead animals.
Dmitry Senin continuou hidden for about an hour before coming out; then continued to escape on foot to a meeting point that had already been arranged with accomplices.
From there, he had the help of a former KGB officer to reach the Montenegro, country where he ended up asking for political asylum.
