Organization: Russian reporter killed in Central Africa were killed in ambush

Three Russian journalists killed in the Central African Republic are probably advised during their research for Russian mercenaries in an ambush. This was announced by the media organization MBK media of exiled Kremlin critic Michail Chodorkowski on Thursday on its website. With their first results of own investigation, the organization objected to the Russian Government, stating that the three journalists were allegedly victims of robbers.

The three journalists had been found late July shot, she researched about a Russian mercenary company called Wagner. It sends mercenaries in war zones and crisis areas such as Syria and the Ukraine. The research was a media project launched by Khodorkovsky, which sent its own investigators after the death of the journalists to Central Africa.

“The version of simple theft as the main motif of criminals provided by many factors”, explained MBK. The perpetrators had clearly waiting for the car of the three journalists. MBK does not exclude the participation of Russian mercenaries on the alleged ambush.