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Interpol names Ukrainian woman as suspect in Monaco bombing · Murder Files Unsealed

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Speaker 1: Imagine, if you will, the most secure, glamorous, just ultra
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wealthy square mileage on Earth. I mean you are almost
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certainly picturing Monaco, right.
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Speaker 2: Oh, definitely. I mean it's the gold standard for that
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kind of extreme isolated wealth exactly.
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Speaker 1: It operates on this carefully curated illusion of absolute safety.
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It functions kind of like an exclusive VIP club where
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there's this invisible velvet rope surrounding the entire principality.
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Speaker 2: Right, and everyone inside just assumes that rope is completely impenetrable.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because the surveillance architecture there is practically omission. The
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police presence is total. I mean, the entire socioeconomic model
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of the territory relies on this guarantee that you can
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park your superyacht where your millions in diamonds to dinner
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and just never once have to look over your.
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Speaker 2: Shoulder, and that illusion of frictionless security. I mean, that
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is precisely what that demographic is purchasing.
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Speaker 1: Right. It's not just the weather.
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Speaker 2: No, No, the real estate premiums in Monaco aren't just
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for a nice Mediterranean view. They're essentially a mass of
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tax paid for geographic immunity from the consequences of the
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outside world.
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Speaker 1: But today July three, twenty twenty six, we're looking at
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a freshly compiled dossier that details the exact moment that
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geographic community just completely failed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't just fail, It was violently shattered.
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Speaker 1: Right, shattered by a backpack packed with buckshot and bolts. Okay,
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let's unpack this. Our mission for today's deep dive is
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to dissect a brazen parcel bombing right in the heart
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of Monaco, one that grievously injured a Ukrainian tycoon in
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his family.
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Speaker 2: And we're also tracking a newly issued Interpol red notice
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for this really enigmatic female fugitive with a highly specific
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snake tattoo.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we really need to dig into the mechanics of
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how a hit like this reaches literally the most fortified
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enclave in Europe, look at the geopolitical shadows surrounding the target,
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and figure out what this imported violence means for you
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and for the broader security of the entire continent.
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Speaker 2: Because the overarching theme of this dossier honestly is the
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absolute destruction of that safety nerd ive you mentioned, completely destroyed. Yeah,
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we are moving away from looking at Monaco as this isolated,
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untouchable fortress and realizing it has suddenly become an unwitting
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theater for a much larger, highly sophisticated transnational conflict.
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Speaker 1: It's wild. And to understand the sheer magnitude of this breach,
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we really have to start with the physical reality of
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the event itself.
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Speaker 2: Right, the actual attack.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So, the timeline in our dossier begins on Monday,
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June twenty nine, twenty twenty six. It is just before
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nine pm Central European summertime, prime dinner hour exactly, and
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the location is for Rue Reverend Pere Louis Frola, which
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is this upscale residential building sitting essentially right on.
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Speaker 2: The French border, literally steps away.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so put yourself in the position of the target
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for a second. You are a Vedeemyarmoliev. You're just returning
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from a really nice seaside dinner with your female partner
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and your thirteen year old child.
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Speaker 2: Sounds perfectly normal, right, you.
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Speaker 1: Cross the threshold of your highly secure building, you step
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into your own beautiful marble line lobby, and waiting there
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on the floor is a package.
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Speaker 2: And the detonation of that package, I mean it fundamentally
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alters the psychological landscape of the entire.
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Speaker 1: Territory because it wasn't some tiny, precise thing, right.
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Speaker 2: Exactly what's fascinating here is that the explosive device wasn't
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a precision, low yield mechanism designed for a quiet assassination. No,
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it was heavily packed with buckshot and bolts, which is
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just brutal. It is when a device loaded with that
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specific type of payload detonates in an enclosed acoustically and
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physically reflective space like a high end residential lobby, the
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kinetic energy just transforms those bolts into a storm of
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unguided shrapnel.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the dossier outlines the immediate aftermath, and it
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is catastrophic. Your Malia survived, but he sustained severe burns
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and shrapnel wounds.
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Speaker 2: But his partner took the worst of it.
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Speaker 1: She really did. She took the absolute brunt of the
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kinetic force. She suffered life threatening injuries that resulted in
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aay amputation.
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Speaker 2: God.
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Speaker 1: The's terrific and their thirteen year old child was also
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wounded by the shrapnel, plus two other people in the
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immediate vicinity had to be treated for severe shock.
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Speaker 2: So this family literally walked out of a warm Mediterranean
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evening and stepped straight into a fragmented combat zone right
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inside their own home.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the sheer brutality of that outcome, it really
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exposes the functional limitations of Monico's policing model.
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Speaker 2: Well. Yeah, because the territory employees exactly five hundred and
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fifty six police officers.
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Speaker 1: Which sounds like a lot for such a tiny place,
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right per.
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Speaker 2: Capita, It's actually one of the highest densities of law
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enforcement on the planet. But you have to look at
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how that force is trained and how they're deployed.
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Speaker 1: Right. They aren't exactly a paramilitary in.
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Speaker 2: It, No, not at all. They operate more as a bespoke,
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highly reactive concierge security service. I mean they excel at
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deterring petty theft, managing complex logistics for the Grand Prix,
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and monitoring the densest CCTV grid in Europe.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're fundamentally designed to manage wealth and maintain public.
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Speaker 2: Order, not fight a war exactly, but a shrapnel packed
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explosive placed by a disguised operative who actually understands the
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blind spots in that CCTV grid.
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Speaker 1: That completely bypasses a police force built for traffic control
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and deterrence.
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Speaker 2: Right, They simply aren't structured to anticipate or counter militarized
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imported violence like this, And that.
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Speaker 1: Is the core vulnerability here. I mean, those five hundred
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and fifty six officers are an incredibly effective deterrent against
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crimes of opportunity. If you try to steal a watch,
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you're caught instantly.
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Speaker 2: Right, the response time is practically zero.
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Speaker 1: But this, this was a highly targeted, premeditated strike by
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a transnational actor. The local police force, no matter how
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massive their budget is, is suddenly grappling with the methodology
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utilized in active war zones and by really sophisticated syndicates.
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Speaker 2: It sends a deeply chilling message to every other ultra
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wealthy resident. It says, you know, the velvet rope offers
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zero protection against a determined adversary with a.
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Speaker 1: Backpack, Absolutely zero. And if an adversary is willing to
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risk the massive geopolitical blowback of detonating an explosive in Monaco,
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the target cannot simply be a random businessman.
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Speaker 2: No, the logistics required for this, the surveillance, the sheer risk,
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it all dictates that the target is of immense consequence.
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Speaker 1: Which brings us to our target, vetting your Malaya. He
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was born May thirteenth, nineteen sixty eight in dini Pro, Ukraine.
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The dossier estimates his net worth at north of two
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hundred and twenty million dollars, which is substantial, very it
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frequently places him in the top fifty to one hundred
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richest individuals in Ukraine. Back in nineteen ninety five, he
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founded the Alef Group, which is this absolutely massive diversified conglomerate. Yeah,
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they have their hands in everything they really do, real
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estate development, agribusiness, construction, medical equipment, and alcohol productions, specifically vodka.
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Speaker 2: And he was highly instrumental in the physical rebuilding and
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urban development of dinny Pro over the last two decades.
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But you know, the scale of that wealth often leads
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to a pretty big miscategorization. How So Western observers see
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a Ukrainian businessman worth hundreds of millions of dollars, they
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just reflexively apply the oligarch label.
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Speaker 1: Right, which honestly feels entirely inaccurate based on the data
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points we have in this dossier, Because the classic oligarch
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archetype implies someone who purchases national television networks funds massive
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political parties in Kiev and essentially uses state apparatuses to
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enrich themselves.
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Speaker 2: And yumel Life's profile is distinctly different from that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, his influence appears to be highly concentrated at the
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regional level in Dinipro. He wasn't visibly pulling the levers
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of national power in the capitol at all.
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Speaker 2: No, he was fundamentally a commerce driven regional tycoon.
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Speaker 1: So the disconnect here is glaring. Why does a supposedly
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low profile, commerce focused regional developer warrant a highly complex,
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devastating assassination attempt in a foreign luxury enclave.
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Speaker 2: The answer to that lies in the mechanics of the
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post Soviet gray zone.
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Speaker 1: Economy, the gray z app Yeah.
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Speaker 2: It's a landscape that became exponentially more treacherous following the
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full scale invasion of Ukraine. To understand his exposure, we
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really need to look at the timeline of his citizenship.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's track that.
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Speaker 2: Around twenty seventeen year Malaya actually renounced his Ukrainian citizenship
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and acquired Cypriot citizenship.
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Speaker 1: Ah, the golden passport maneuver. I mean, it's a standard
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operating procedure for high net worth individuals in that region
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who are seeking EU banking integration, tax optimization, and just
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a degree of legal insulation.
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Speaker 2: It theoretically separates the businessman physically and legally from the
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volatility of his domestic market.
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Speaker 1: It creates a legal buffer. Yes, he is living in Monaco,
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traveling on a Cypriot passport, but the engines of his wealth,
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the agribusiness, the real estate, the vodka production, they all
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remain anchored in Ukraine.
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Speaker 2: Right, and then we fast forward to December twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 1: Okay, stop right there. We need to be clear here
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we are looking at highly politically charged allegations in this
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next part we definitely are, and I want to say
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right up front to you listening, we are absolutely not
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taking aside here or endorsing the views of the Ukrainian
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government or the target. We are simply reporting the facts
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of the sanctions exactly as they exist in our source material.
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Just understand the context of his life.
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Speaker 2: Right, It's purely for analytical context.
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Speaker 1: Exactly So, what happened in December twenty twenty.
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Speaker 2: Three, The Ukrainian government, acting on intelligence from their security services,
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places official sweeping sanctions.
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Speaker 1: On your Malaia so it is vital to look at
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these sanctions purely as data points in our timeline. The
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official allegations from KIV state that your Malaya's alcohol business
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continue to operate inside Russian occupied Crimea.
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Speaker 2: And crucially that these operations were actively paying taxes to
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the Russian authorities occupying the peninsula.
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Speaker 1: Right and again, whether these are valid national security concerns
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enacted by a state fighting for its survival or if
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it's wartime political maneuvering targeting a wealthy diaspora businessman, that
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isn't for us to adjudicate today, Oh not at all.
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What matters to our analysis is how these official labels
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practically painted a massive target on his back.
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Speaker 2: Because the mechanics of operating a major industrial facility in
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occupied territory are incredibly.
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Speaker 1: Fraught, I can only imagine.
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Speaker 2: I mean, from the perspective of the Ukrainian state, paying
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taxes to an occupying force is the literal definition of collaboration.
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It is economically subsidizing the entity that is trying to
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destroy you.
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Speaker 1: Which makes total sense from a national security standpoint, right.
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Speaker 2: But from the perspective of a commerce driven tycoon operating
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in a gray zone paying a local tax authority might
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just be viewed as the necessary, albeit totally unsavory overhead
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required to prevent a massive factory from being seized or destroyed.
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Speaker 1: But the moment those sanctions hit in twenty twenty three,
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that buffer provided by his Cypriot passport just completely dissolved.
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Speaker 2: It vanished overnight. He has suddenly transformed from a low
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profile regional developer into a highly visible, officially sanctioned entity
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with enemies on multiple deeply entrenched fronts.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he is sanctioned by his homeland. He is navigating
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a massive business empire in a region flooded with wartime chaos,
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where corporate disputes and alleged betrayals they are no longer
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settled in courtrooms or through quiet arbitration.
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Speaker 2: No, the stakes are way too high for that. Now.
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Speaker 1: Exactly the list of people who might want him eliminated
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is vast. I mean, is it a Ukrainian competitor seizing
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an opportunity.
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Speaker 2: Or a Russian linked entity angry over a severed supply
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chain in crimea.
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Speaker 1: Or even just a purely personal vendetta that is leveraging
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the chaos of the war as a convenient smoke screen.
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Speaker 2: The motive is completely obscured by the sheer density of
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that gray zone.
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Speaker 1: But if the why and the who are hitting behind
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wartime economics, the how provides our first really tangible piece
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of leverage.
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Speaker 2: Yes, the methodology of the attack and the identity of
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the suspected operative they give us a very distinct forensic
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trail which pitts us.
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Speaker 1: To the most startling revelation. In the days immediately following
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the blast, authorities quickly identified a prime suspect, and.
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Speaker 2: Her profile completely shatters the traditional preconceptions of an international
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contract killer.
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Speaker 1: Here's where it gets really interesting. The Interpol read notice,
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which was issued on July three, twenty twenty six, names
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Anastasia Berezovska.
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Speaker 2: She is a thirty nine year old Ukrainian national.
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Speaker 1: Right Her last known residence was actually in the state
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of Hesse in Germany, so she speaks fluent German and
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she possesses a highly distinctive physical identifier, a snake tattoo
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running all the way from her right shoulder down to
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her elbow.
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Speaker 2: And Interpol has leveled three massive charges against her, attempted murder,
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placing an explosive device in a public place, and criminal conspiracy.
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Speaker 1: The criminal conspiracy charge is really the lynch pin of
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this entire dossier, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: It absolutely is. INTERPOL does not casually append that specific charge.
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It drastically alters the evidentiary requirements for cross border warrants
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compared to just a standalone attempted murder charge.
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Speaker 1: What does that actually signal to other agencies?
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Speaker 2: It signals to international law enforcement that they have concrete intelligence.
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We're talking likely financial trails, communications intercepts, or maybe secondary
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surveillance footage proving that Berezovska was not a lone actor
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with some weird personal grievance.
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Speaker 1: So she didn't just wake up and decided to do this.
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Speaker 2: No, she was integrated into a larger command structure. She
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is a hired operative.
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Speaker 1: Wow, And the tactical execution of the bombing totally confirmed
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she was operating at a highly professional level. I mean,
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let's look at the disguise.
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Speaker 2: That part is fascinating.
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Speaker 1: The dossier notes that initial eyewitness accounts and the preliminary
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CCTV analysis immediately after the blast they described the suspect
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as a man.
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Speaker 2: And that initial misidentification is crucial for.
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Speaker 1: Her escape because of the response time.
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Speaker 2: Exactly in the first golden hours of a manhunt when
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borders are being locked down. Sending local police to look
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for a male suspect gives the operative the exact window
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of time they need to slip away.
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Speaker 1: She deliberately utilized clothing, altered her physical posture, and engineered
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her entire presentation and to bypass the expected profiling of
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a female suspect, which.
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Speaker 2: Is incredibly hard to pull off.
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Speaker 1: I mean, to execute a gender bending disguise under the
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intense scrutiny of Monico's surveillance. Grid physically planned a heavy
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shrapnel device in a confined lobby and then just calmly
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walk away. That requires a level of psychological conditioning that
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you do not find in.
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Speaker 2: An amateur and her exfiltration route demonstrates a highly sophisticated
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understanding of European border mechanics.
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Speaker 1: Tell me about it.
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Speaker 2: So following the detonation, she immediately crosses into France. From there,
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she transitions to a rental car bearing German registration plates,
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which by the way, was almost certainly staged in advance.
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Speaker 1: Right, you don't just find a rental car.
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Speaker 2: Waiting exactly, And then she just drives right into Italy.
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Speaker 1: You know the shingen zone is essentially designed like a
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cardiovascular system. It is built to pump capital, labor, and
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goods frictionlessly across the continent to keep the European economy.
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Speaker 2: Vibrant, fectionless being the keyword there, right.
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Speaker 1: But when a pathijin in this case, a highly trained
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operative enters that bloodstream, that exact same frictionless system pumps
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them across multiple jurisdictions before the localized immune system, meaning
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the police even registers the breach.
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Speaker 2: It's the dark side of open borders.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. She leverages those German plates to blend seamlessly into
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international tourist traffic, moves through France and just disappears into Italy.
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Speaker 2: And this is exactly why the Interpol red notice had
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to be generated so rapidly. Monaco relies entirely on the
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cooperation of the French judicial and policing systems.
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Speaker 1: But once she's in Italy.
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Speaker 2: Once Berezovska crosses into Italy in a German car, the
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jurisdictional nightmare officially begins. She is actively utilizing the structural
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openness of the continent as her primary evasion tactic.
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Speaker 1: Which brings up a really fascinating contrast, for me, you
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have this highly calculated border hopping evasion using disguised identities
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in staged vehicles. It feels incredibly precise, like something out
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of a spy movie.
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Speaker 2: Very calculated.
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Speaker 1: But then you look at the weapons. She actually planted
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an improvised explosive device packed with buckshot and bolts.
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Speaker 2: Right difference.
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Speaker 1: I have to push back on the prevailing theory here
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for a second. Everyone's looking at a bomb packed with
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crude shrapnel and immediately screaming organized.
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Speaker 2: Crime, which is the standard assumption.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but if I am a highly sophisticated state intelligence agency,
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say I'm trying to eliminate a sanctioned individual without triggering
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a massive diplomatic crisis, wouldn't I deliberately mandate the use
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of a crude mafia style weapon, specifically to throw interpal
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off my scent.
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Speaker 2: It's a fair question.
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Speaker 1: Why are we assuming the weapons crudeness isn't just a
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feature of a state backed false flag operation.
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Speaker 2: Well, it is a valid tactical hypothesis. Sure, but you
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have to analyze the psychological signature of the weapon in
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conjunction with the target.
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Speaker 1: Okay, unpacked that while a.
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Speaker 2: State intelligence service could construct a crude device for plausible deniability.
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The specific use of bolts and buckshot in a residential
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lobby care is a very distinct localized terror mandate.
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Speaker 1: Meaning it's meant to scare people, not.
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Speaker 2: Just kill exactly. A state actor typically seeks clinical finality.
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They want a microscopic toxin, a suppressed weapon, maybe a
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targeted binary explosive. They want the target eliminated with minimal collateral.
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Speaker 1: Noise, Whereas a device packed with unguided shrapnel is designed
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to be terrifyingly loud, deeply messy, and heavily collateral.
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Speaker 2: Precisely, it is a punitive weapon. It is designed to
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inflict agonizing bodily harm and to send a visceral message
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to anyone else in the target's orbit.
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Speaker 1: Got it.
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Speaker 2: That is the absolute hallmark of a syndicate or a
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deeply personal, localized vendetta. It screams settling of scores, which
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is a theory echoed by major outlets like Laman. By
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the way. Furthermore, while the bomb's construction was crude in
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its payload, the timing of the detonation was anything but crude.
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Speaker 1: The timing is actually the most terrifying part of this
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dossier To me the bomb detonates in the exact window
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the family returns from dinner. That isn't just a proximity
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trigger hoping for the best.
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Speaker 2: No, it dictates that the architects of this hit had
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a robust surveillance apparatus deployed in Monaco well before the
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attack even happened.
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Speaker 1: They had to have mapped his entire life.
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Speaker 2: Someone mapped you're moly of his daily routines. They identified
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his favorite restaurants, calculated the exact walking time back to
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his residence, and totally understood the blind spots in his
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building security.
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Speaker 1: So Burrezoska may have delivered the payload, but an entire
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logistical tale paved the way for her. So what does
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this all mean? If an organized crime network possesses the
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resources to run advanced surveillance operations in Monaco, across three
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international borders in a stage vehicle and deploy an ied
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we are no longer talking about a localized business dispute
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into Nepro.
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Speaker 2: We really aren't.
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Speaker 1: We're looking at a fundamental shift in European security. I mean,
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how does a regional developer from Ukraine getting bombed in
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a luxury lobby practically affect the broader security architecture of
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the continent.
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Speaker 2: If we connect this to the bigger picture, what we
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are witnessing is the phenomenon of threat displacement threat displacement OKYAH.
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When a nation is locked in an existential, full scale war,
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the traditional avenues for resolving massive financial or corporate disputes, courts, arbitration,
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even localized intimidation, they completely break down.
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Speaker 1: Because everyone is focused on the war.
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Speaker 2: Right, the rule of law in the conflict zone is
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basically suspended. But the capital, the grievances, and the massive
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financial stakes do not just disappear, They just move. They
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are displaced. They move outward into the commercial and luxury
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hubs of Europe.
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Speaker 1: And the dossier specifically highlights this. It calls it the
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export of internal conflicts. It even draws a very deliberate
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historical parallel to the poisoning of Alexander Lukfenenko in London.
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Speaker 2: And the Litvinenko assassination was a watershed moment because it
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definitively proved that geographical distance from a conflict zone does
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not grant you immunity.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you aren't safe just because you moved.
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Speaker 2: In that instance, a radioactive isotope Polonium two ten was
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weaponized right in the center of a major Western capital. Here,
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a shrapnel packed ied is detonated in the most heavily
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policed square mileage in Europe. Both incidents vividly illustrate the
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extreme vulnerability of the diaspora.
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Speaker 1: It just reinforces the reality that your financial history and
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your wartime entanglements travel with you. You can acquire a
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Cypriot passport, you can move your entire family to a
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high security enclave, but the grudges across the border right
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alongside you.
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Speaker 2: This represents the ultimate hybrid threat for shing in Europe.
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The blending of wartime geopolitical instability with the logistical capabilities
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of organized crime creates adversaries that local police forces are
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fundamentally unequipped to handle.
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Speaker 1: They don't stand a chance.
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Speaker 2: No, every luxury enclave, every financial capital in Europe is
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now vulnerable to the outsourced violence of a distant conflict, which.
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Speaker 1: Leaves the authorities facing an immediate, just monumental challenge. They
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understand the geopolitical state, but right now on the ground,
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they literally have to run down a ghost.
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Speaker 2: Yeah they do.
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Speaker 1: Let's dig into the mechanics of the fallout and the
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active investigation. The forensic teams are currently dealing with a
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highly complex, multi jurisdictional puzzle.
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Speaker 2: The forensic exploitation of the blast seat is critical. Right now,
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investigators are analyzing the metallic signatures of the bolts and the.
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Speaker 1: Buckshot, looking for where they were bought.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they are attempting to trace the manufacturing origins of
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the shrapnel, analyzing the specific chemical composition of the explosive accelerant,
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and honestly, they're hoping for a catastrophic error by the operative,
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like what perhaps a fragment of touch DNA left on
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the backpack zipper, or maybe a partial fingerprint preserved on
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the detonator housing something small.
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Speaker 1: They're also attempting to forensically reconstruct her digital and physical path.
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Right they are pulling CCTV data not just from Monaco,
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but cross referencing it with French border cameras and Italian
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highway toll systems.
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Speaker 2: But if she is true operating under a criminal conspiracy,
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tracking her becomes exponentially.
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Speaker 1: Harder because she has help.
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Speaker 2: Exactly a well funded conspiracy provides support networks. Berezovska is
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highly likely operating with multiple false identities and secondary passports.
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Speaker 1: She might not even be using bank accounts.
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Speaker 2: Right, she may be moving entirely within a cash based
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logistical network, which effectively neutralizes Interpol's ability to track her
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via digital financial footprints.
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Speaker 1: And if she manages to navigate out of the Shingin zone,
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like if she reaches Eastern Europe, the Caucuses or Turkey,
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the investigation hits a massive structural wall.
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Speaker 2: This raises an important question about extradition hurdles. The dossier
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explicitly notes that if she leaves the EU, the process
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of bringing her back to face justice could take years
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if it happens at all. Extradition from a non EU
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third country is a deeply political, heavily bureaucratic process. Monaco,
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as a micro estate, must navigate these waters while relying
22:57
heavily on French diplomatic and judicial weight.
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Speaker 1: Right, they can't throw that weight around alone.
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Speaker 2: No, If she is detained in a jurisdiction with varying
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legal standards or one that requires an impossibly high evidentiary
23:08
burden for a criminal conspiracy charge, the legal maneuvering could
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drag on indefinitely.
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Speaker 1: Which gives the network ample time to dissolve any remaining evidence. Exactly,
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And while the prosecutors and the forensic teams are busy
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navigating extradition treaties and DNA swabs, the media landscape surrounding
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this event has descended into absolute chaos.
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Speaker 2: It is an uncontrollable narrative environment. I mean you have
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the visceral cinematic details, the female operative in disguise, the
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snake tattoo, the rental car escape, all of that colliding
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with the intense geopolitical backdrop of the Russia Ukraine War,
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all set against the opulent wealth of Monaco.
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Speaker 1: It is highly combustible material, oh.
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Speaker 2: For both tabloids and serious investigative outlets.
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Speaker 1: The tabloids are obsessing over the lavish lifestyle of the
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target and the physical markers of the assassin, while the
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broadsheets are tearing apart the structural failures of the Shingen
24:00
Order checks and dissecting the mechanics of the Green Zone sanctions.
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Speaker 2: But the dossier issues a very specific warning here, and
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we need to pay attention to it. The risk of
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organized disinformation is exceptionally high.
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Speaker 1: Why is that because nobody has claimed responsibility.
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Speaker 2: Because the core motive remains unconfirmed by law enforcement and
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information vacuum exists, and in modern hybrid warfare, an information
24:24
vacuum is immediately weaponized. I think rival business factions, state
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intelligence services, or even the criminal network itself can easily
24:32
deploy bot networks or leak fabricated documents to friendly journalists
24:36
just to frame their adversary.
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Speaker 1: They can just steer the entire median narrative.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they can blame Russian intelligence, Ukrainian nationalists or Arrival Oligarch,
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entirely muddying the waters for the actual investigators.
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Speaker 1: It's incredible. We are dissecting Cypriot passports, the cardiovascular system
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of the Schengen Zone, the forensics of buckshot, and the
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weaponization of disinformation. It's a staggering about of geopolitical machinery.
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Speaker 2: It really is a tangled web.
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Speaker 1: But I want to pull the focus back sharply to
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ground this deep dive in the physical reality of June
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twenty ninth, because behind the red notices and the extradition treaties,
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the human toll of this event is devastating and frankly,
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it is the only absolute truth we have in this
25:20
entire dossier.
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Speaker 2: It's true the geopolitical analysis often sterilizes the violence. You
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get lost in the tactics, But the reality is that
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the kinetic impact of that device permanently altered a family.
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Speaker 1: A thirteen year old child was wounded by shrapnel and
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the lobby of their own home, experiencing a level of
25:36
trauma that most adults couldn't even process. A woman sustained catastrophic,
25:41
life threatening injuries that resulted in the amputation of both
25:44
of her legs. It's heartbreaking, and a community that bases
25:47
its entire identity on peace of mind has been permanently
25:50
scarred by the reality of imported violence. So why should
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you listening to this care about a billionaire getting attacked
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in Monaco? Because this case, this is a brutal demonstration
26:01
that in our highly interconnected, deeply fractured global system, there
26:05
is no such thing as geographic immunity.
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Speaker 2: The walls of wealth and the borders of supposedly stable
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nations cannot fully insulate society from the chaos of global conflict.
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Speaker 1: They just can't.
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Speaker 2: When a war zone can effectively export a shrapnel bomb
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into the lobby of Europe's most secure enclave, it proves
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that the boundaries of safety we all implicitly trust are
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vastly more permeable than we want to believe.
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Speaker 1: Which leads me with a final, deeply unsettling thought that
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I have been turning over since we started discussing this
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interpool red notice.
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Speaker 2: What's that?
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Speaker 1: Well? We are currently watching international law enforcement pour massive
26:40
resources into hunting Anastasia Borosovska.
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Speaker 2: The global manhunt.
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Speaker 1: The entire world is looking for the woman with the
26:47
snake tattoo. But if the criminal conspiracy charge is accurate,
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if she was merely a highly trained tool wielded by
26:54
a well funded, sophisticated network, what is standard operating procedure
26:58
for a tool once the job is finished?
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Speaker 2: Oh wow?
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Speaker 1: What if the true masterminds, the architects who funded the
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surveillance and staged the vehicles, have already cut the trail.
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What if they have permanently silenced their own operative to
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ensure she never sits in an interrogation room in Monico
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or France.
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Speaker 2: That is its chilling possibility.
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Speaker 1: Inter poll the French police, and the global media might
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be burning millions of hours hunting a ghost. Meanwhile, the
27:24
people who actually ordered the hit, the ones who shattered
27:27
the illusion of Monaco, might be watching the man hunt
27:30
unfold on the news Sitting comfortably in another perfectly safe,
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ultra wealthy enclave, Standing right behind another velvet rope, Something
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for you to think about,