Vadim Krasikov
Vadim Nikolaevich Krasikov is a Russian retired Federal Security Service officer who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany for the killing of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin, Germany in 2019. On August 1, 2024, he returned to Russia after a prisoner exchange between Russia and the West.
Some of the key events about Vadim Krasikov
- 2013Murdered a Chechen rebel in Moscow using a silenced pistol
- 2019Assassinated a former Chechen rebel commander in Berlin's Kleiner Tiergarten park
- 2019Used a false identity and passport to enter Germany for the assassination
- 2019Approached the victim on a bicycle before shooting him twice in the head
- 2019Attempted to dispose of evidence by throwing the murder weapon into a river
- 2019Arrested by German police shortly after the Berlin assassination
- 2020Charged with murder by German federal prosecutors
- 2021Put on trial in Germany for the Berlin assassination
- 2021Identified as an operative of Russia's FSB security service during the trial
- 2021Convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison by a German court
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