Ex-Russian Olympics official who drew wrath of Putin arrested by ICE in South Florida

[Leghorn21]

A former Russian Olympic official once publicly ridiculed by President Vladimir Putin was arrested Tuesday morning by U.S. immigration agents at his home in Sunny Isles Beach.

Agents detained Akhmed Bilalov, a one-time deputy head of the Russian Olympic Committee who fled the country after Putin chastised him for construction delays and spiraling costs before the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.

Bilalov, in a 2013 interview with The Guardian, claimed he’d been poisoned with mercury while in Russia, suggesting he had been targeted by government agents, who have over the years been accused of killing Putin critics and opponents with poisons or staged accidents.

Sources confirmed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, took Bilalov into custody early Tuesday at a condo on the 17000 block of Collins Avenue.


https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article236515503.html?__twitter_impression=true

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Why do I think he's connected to Rudy somehow?

[Botany]

2. So Trump is doing some clean up work for Putin again?

Poor guy might very well get sent back to Russia so Putin can arrest him, put him on trial, and in the
end kill him.

Trump is Putin's b***h.

[2naSalit]

4. Now there's a thought...

I hadn't come to that conclusion yet but you have a very good point.

[Botany]

6. Putin likes to clean up any loose ends.

This guy might be a crook but he no doubt knows about Putin/Russian Mob actions.

[Leghorn21]

5. ...and you KNOW he'd give him Bill Browder if he could and Amb Michael McFaul as well

This arrest marks a real turning point, seems to me - a really nasty, surreal one, eh - the US now arrests people who get on Putin’s nerves? Yeah, no problem

I don’t know if I’m more pissed off than scared, bc this is a bad deal. Damn.

[Botany]

7. We are dealing with the largest international crime syndicate in history.

Putin might now be using Trump to do some more janitorial work for him.

[blm]

10. No doubt

[Botany]

13. I try to follow "it" but I think the person who understands all the moving parts is Putin but ..

... I bet you Bill Barr has a good handle on what is going on too.

[Leghorn21]

11. Totally - hey, and maybe Putin doesn't even bother talking to MF45 now, he just directly calls ICE

himself...would anyone be surprised?

Lordy

Amb McFaul needs to go to ground, fuck this

[2naSalit]

8. +1

[2naSalit]

3. Lives at Sunny Isles huh?

Isn't that where a bunch of other of the criminals hang out? Isn't that a 45 property?

[Leghorn21]

9. Yes, I believe 45 has properties in "Shady Sunny Isles"...this is where little Russian anchor

babies go be born, I believe? “Little Moscow”.

[2naSalit]

12. It figures...nt