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Ukrainian millionaire targeted in Monaco bombing speaks out · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: The target of a recent bomb attack in Monaco, tell
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  Speaker 1: CNN that rogue Ukrainian intelligence agents may have been paid
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  Speaker 1: to assassinate him in the wealthy Mediterranean tax haven. Vadim
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  Speaker 1: Yomoulayev survived the powerful blast in June, which also seriously
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  Speaker 1: injured his partner and a child. Speaking in his first
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  Speaker 1: television interview since then, he is now calling on the
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  Speaker 1: authorities in Kiev to step up their investigation. Matthew Chance
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  Speaker 1: has this exclusive report.
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  Speaker 2: It's a super glamorous playground for the super rich. One
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  Speaker 2: of the world's tiniest nations, Monaco promotes itself as a
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  Speaker 2: haven of wealth and tranquility on the picturesque shaws of
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  Speaker 2: the Mediterranean. But one evening in June, as a Ukrainian
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  Speaker 2: born businessman walked home with his family, that carefully manicured
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  Speaker 2: image of security and arm was shattered, plunging the principality
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  Speaker 2: into violence and chaos. Well, this is the exact place
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  Speaker 2: where the explosion took place. You can still see the
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  Speaker 2: impact of the shrap and all the stucco plaster work
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  Speaker 2: here around the door is all fallen off. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: if I lift up the tarp here you can see
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  Speaker 2: the the marble steps and the and the brick work
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  Speaker 2: is all is all shattered. We've also made contact with
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  Speaker 2: the target of the attack and despite his grave injuries,
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  Speaker 2: he's agreed to speak out.
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  Speaker 3: And that.
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  Speaker 4: When the explosion went off, I saw my partner Anna
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  Speaker 4: lying on the steps with badly injured legs. My son
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  Speaker 4: was waving his bloodied arms, and I had burns across
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  Speaker 4: my whole body and was missing pieces of flesh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you conflict me, chilling you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not a confrontational person. I've always tried to avoid
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  Speaker 4: any sharp conflicts, so I don't understand the reason why
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  Speaker 4: this happened.
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  Speaker 2: There's a suggestion in Ukraine, and there are reports in
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  Speaker 2: Ukraine that this assassination attempt was linked to your involvement,
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  Speaker 2: alleged involvement in organized crime. How do you answer that.
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  Speaker 4: I personally have never in my life had anything to
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  Speaker 4: do with that. The Monarcary police also asked me if
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  Speaker 4: my family could be involved, which was almost funny as
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  Speaker 4: everything I own is already registered to my wife and children.
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  Speaker 2: But clearly someone wanted to send a message. This is
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  Speaker 2: the face of the bomber, A thirty nine year old
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  Speaker 2: single mother from Ukraine. Anastasia betazo Oskar, she even recorded
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  Speaker 2: herself planting the device, and what investigators say was part
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  Speaker 2: of a complex international plot they're still trying to unravel.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 2: These narrow, twisting streets snaking through tiny Monaco are some
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  Speaker 2: of the most heavily surveiled anywhere in the world. There
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  Speaker 2: are more than fourteen hundred surveillance cameras basically watching everything
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  Speaker 2: anybody does, and a police officer for every sixty residents
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  Speaker 2: of the principality. The bombing appears to have been carefully
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  Speaker 2: planned to bypass all of that type security, and Monaco's
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  Speaker 2: police department is now under intense pressure to understand what
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  Speaker 2: went wrong oncrass Multiple theories are being explored. The police
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  Speaker 2: chief admitted that he refuse to elaborate or discuss the
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  Speaker 2: glaring connections with Ukraine and its security services, but in
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  Speaker 2: a Kiev court, those connections have become possible to ignore.
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  Speaker 2: Two men, a serving officer with Ukrainian military intelligence and
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  Speaker 2: a former security agent, now stand accused of executing Anastasia
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  Speaker 2: Bedezovska and burying the Monaco bomber in a shallow grave
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  Speaker 2: after she fled home for the Ukrainian authorities fighting a
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  Speaker 2: bitter war with Russia. It's a potentially embarrassing link that
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  Speaker 2: risks straining relations with its European backet. Ukrainian military intelligence
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  Speaker 2: say the suspects are just criminals, but fueling speculation. Vadim
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  Speaker 2: Yea Malayev is sanctioned by Ukraine for doing business with
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  Speaker 2: its Russian enemies, though he's ruling out any link to
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  Speaker 2: his bombing.
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  Speaker 6: Me.
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  Speaker 4: A sans I can't imagine it had anything to do
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  Speaker 4: with the Ukraine in sanctions against me, because that would
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  Speaker 4: mean our state is potentially engaged in extra judicial executions.
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  Speaker 4: And I just can't believe that.
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  Speaker 2: After the buying, you accuse the Ukrainian security services of
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  Speaker 2: being behind it. Is that still your view?
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  Speaker 4: Prosta, That's not just my view or the facts point
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  Speaker 4: to it, But I think this was a contracted hit.
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  Speaker 4: You someone privately hired military intelligence specialists who know how
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  Speaker 4: to do this, and they took it on for money.
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  Speaker 2: It's at least in both Monaco and Kiev. Investigations are
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  Speaker 2: now in full swing to uncover the facts, including the
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  Speaker 2: possible role of Ukrainian guns for hire or rogue agents,
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  Speaker 2: making one of the world's most glamorous enclaves feel a
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  Speaker 2: lot less secure. Matthew Chance CNN Monaco.
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  Speaker 3: Well a shocking twist in the investigation into a Monaco
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  Speaker 3: bombing attack that wounded a Ukrainian businessman. The woman identified
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  Speaker 3: by Interpol as the suspect in that bombing has been
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  Speaker 3: found shot to death in Ukraine, and authorities say two
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  Speaker 3: men have been detained in connection with her murder. Sine's
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  Speaker 3: Nickpeton Walsh following the latest developments and filed this report.
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  Speaker 6: The startling remarkable story of what seemed to be an
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  Speaker 6: attempted assassination on Ukrainian millionaire in the otherwise peaceful and
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  Speaker 6: luxurious territory of Monaco has taken yet another remarkable twist.
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  Speaker 6: The woman sought by Interpol's Red Notice of being a
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  Speaker 6: prime suspect in this particular crime, Anastasia Berezovska, a thirty
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  Speaker 6: nine year old Ukrainian. While she herself has now been
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  Speaker 6: found dead in her native Ukraine, Ukrainian investigators say that
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  Speaker 6: they noticed her return to the country underlye the first
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  Speaker 6: began looking at bank transfers to her general movements and communications,
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  Speaker 6: so she was talking to her family, but two other
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  Speaker 6: men as well, one a serving Ukrainian intelligence officer from
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  Speaker 6: the main intelligence director and one former law enforcement individual.
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  Speaker 6: They went to see the Ukrainian intelligence officer and he
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  Speaker 6: had appears confessed about this involvement and indeed suggested to
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  Speaker 6: the involvement of the former law enforcement officer.
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  Speaker 5: That man's house was.
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  Speaker 6: Then searched and officials say they found what they thought
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  Speaker 6: was some kind of torture chamber in his basement. They
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  Speaker 6: released a remarkable video of that particular place now as
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  Speaker 6: Berezovskar's body was found, it says according to Ukrainian investigators,
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  Speaker 6: with shell casings alongside of it, and indeed the Ukrainian
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  Speaker 6: intelligence officer confessed to being part to that particular murder.
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  Speaker 5: They are both under arrest.
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  Speaker 6: But Ukrainian officials stay they're still looking for who may
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  Speaker 6: have instigated this particular prime and continuing to investigate a
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  Speaker 6: reminder of how we got here in the first place,
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  Speaker 6: Miss Berezoska was pointed out potentially as the prime suspect
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  Speaker 6: here by Monaco prosecutors who studied CCTV around the residence
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  Speaker 6: where mister jamalive was hit by a bomb carried in
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  Speaker 6: a shopping bag. They noticed a man in the days ahead,
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  Speaker 6: and then just a day before the device went off,
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  Speaker 6: a woman, miss Berezoska. Indeed, police say they traced her
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  Speaker 6: back to Germany, where she was last residence, and now
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  Speaker 6: it appears she fled to Ukraine. A remarkable story here,
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  Speaker 6: one in which it seems that the apparent hit man
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  Speaker 6: was then killed by those who may well have contracted
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  Speaker 6: her to do the job. Investigators still looking for who
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  Speaker 6: may have been on high here. I think certainly an
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  Speaker 6: unwelcome embarrassment for Ukraine that their intelligence officer, one of
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  Speaker 6: them might be involved in something as high profile as
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  Speaker 6: this had assigned. Still too, that the murkiness, the potential
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  Speaker 6: criminal underworld of a former Soviet union still continues to exist,
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  Speaker 6: despite the horrors being inflicted on New Crane by the war.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly why mister yom Alive.
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  Speaker 6: Was indeed targeted still unclear, by a remarkable moment still
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  Speaker 6: for what Monaco considers to be its luxury and safety.
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  Speaker 5: Nick Pyton Walsh, CNN, London