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Identification of Соколов Вадим Андреевич (Sokolov Vadim Andreevih, 1970.08.20, СССР) as fake personage interpreted by Красиков Вадим Николаевич (Krasikov Vadim Nikolaevih, 1965.08.10, СССР) https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/12/03/identifying-the-berlin-bicycle-assassin-part-1-from-moscow-to-berlin/ Identifying The Berlin Bicycle Assassin: From Moscow to Berlin (Part 1) December 3, 2019. In its previous joint investigations with Spiegel, The Insider and Dossier Center, Bellingcat has reported that the person held by German authorities over the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin traveled from Moscow to Germany under a fake identity. We established that the suspected assassin’s passport, issued under the name Vadim Sokolov, born 20 August 1970, was issued to a non-existing persona. We identified that the earliest reference to that identity in Russian registries was in September 2015 when this “person” received his first domestic passport, aged 45. “Vadim Sokolov” was assigned a tax identification number only in July 2019, days before applying for his Schengen visa on which he traveled to Paris, Warsaw, and then to Berlin. ..// Independently from the findings of the German authorities, our investigative team has independently verified that the real identity of the Berlin assassin who traveled under the fake identity of Vadim Sokolov is in fact Vadim Nikolaevich Krasikov. Vadim Krasikov was born on 10 August 1965, and not in 1970 as per his cover identity. In 19 June 2013, Krasikov was the key suspect in the murder a Russian businessman who had been the subject of several previous assassination attempts. The murder in Moscow was similar in many respects to the Berlin assassination – the killer had approached his target on a bicycle, had shot at him with a hand gun at close range, both in the back and in the head, and had left on his bike. .. Left, “Vadim Sokolov”‘s photograph from his Schengen visa application. Right, a colourised archived photograph from Vadim Krasikov’s driver’s license. Face comparison made with Microsoft’s Azure facial recognition software shows a match with a very high confidence factor.

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Left, “Vadim Sokolov”‘s photograph from his Schengen visa application. Right, a colourised archived photograph from Vadim Krasikov’s driver’s license. Face comparison made with Microsoft’s Azure facial recognition software shows a match with a very high confidence factor.