Vilnius$25,000 was the price on a critic’s life.
A stranger, not an officer, would have carried the risk and the passport.
A former Russia intelligence officer, Yuri Khrameev, allegedly hired a US citizen to kill someone accused of “telling lies about Russia,” prosecutors say.
The Justice Department’s case rests on murder-for-hire charges, not espionage, since no state officer is in custody.
Sources: Bloomberg Business