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'Fallen' KGB defector was linked to Canadian intelligence

On photo: A police guard outside the flat of the "fallen" defector.

Daily Mail published some facts about a mysterious "falling" from 15 floor of a KGB defector with his wife and stepson.

The real name of the defector is Serguei Kriajev (a French transcription corresponding to Sergei Kryazhev in English). According to the newspaper, he served in the Russian army from 1994 to 1996, which explains his "military look".

In summer 2002, he and his wife Tatiana, who, according to the newspaper, at 57 is 14 years his senior, fled to Canada, accompanied by Stepan, Tatiana's son by a previous relationship, and her daughter, Karina.

Documents obtained by the newspaper show that defector's name is Sergeui Kriajev, and his stepdaughter used the Russian feminine version, Kriajeva. Oddly, though, his wife and stepson are listed as Serykh.

Claiming that he had been an agent in the FSB (the Russian internal security service, which succeeded the KGB) Serguei Kriajev requested political asylum in Canada, saying, according to the newspaper, his collaboration with Canadian intelligence had been uncovered, and he faced execution in Russia.

In September, 2002, an Ottawa court rejected their asylum claim and they were ordered to return to Russia. They then enlisted an immigration lawyer, and according to immigration sources they were granted protected personal status - meaning they could remain in Canada - in October, 2005.

They lived in the leafy Toronto suburbs and ran a profitable herbal medicine business. Serguei applied for Canadian citizenship but he was refused.

Karina who is now aged 34 returned to Moscow, where she runs a rat-breeding business, (see photo). According to the newspaper, paper's reporter met with her in Moscow.

Now the British press, as if under one and the same order, is trying to make from a "fallen out" FSB officer a madman who committed a suicide. Obviously, it's easier for the police that way. But sometimes in their articles, British journalists hint that they do not believe the story that Kriajev was a "madman".

A Guardian's journalist writes, for example, that these three Russians were physically unable to throw a massive wardrobe out from the balcony in order to break an anti-suicide net that had been installed around the first floor and then to fall out themselves. A help from a 3 side was needed for it.

Why the stepson of Kriajev went into death, for example, the British newspapers did not report. They simply say that Kriajev supposedly "infected with madness" his family. However, as is known, madness is not an infectious disease.

What Kriajev really told the British police about his escape from Canada is actually unknown. The newspapers say that he allegedly fled from Canada, because the prime minister Harper was plotting to kill the Queen of England, but looks like a deliberate disinformation and does not explain the reasons for fleeing from Canada of the defector and his family. He was not the Queen of England after all. The British newspapers now recognize at least he fled from Russia and didn't come to Canada as a typical tourist.

The information that the 3 "fallen out" Russians were tied with a rope is now defuted. Newspapers explain that publication with the fact that that "there has been such an impression before because the bodies laid on the ground close to each other". However, , one can clearly see that the bodies lie rather far away from each other on the published photos, made from a high floor of the building

The British MP Barry Gardiner, who remembers Kriajev says: 'He used to say he was being hounded and he would present photographs of vans, which he had taken from the window of his flat".

Speaking in Moscow, Serykh's stepdaughter, Karina, said: 'If the British want to send me their ashes, that's fine, but I won't be going to the funeral.'

Probably, she won't be allowed to leave for Britain or she is simply afraid to be a next victim who fell out from some window in Moscow.

Department of Monitoring,

Kavkaz Center