Usmanov’s Lawyers Try to Silence Craig Murray
To follow-up briefly once again on the ongoing Alisher Usmanov saga, the Uzbeki oligarch’s high-priced lawyers Schilling’s have finally gotten their way and former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray’s website has been taken down.
This follows the massive legal pressure put on by Schillings to websites such as this one that only seek to put into the open claims by Murray which Usmanov’s lawyers will not directly sue him for, despite his strong encouragement for them to do so.
Even worse is that down with Murray’s site have gone many other blogs completely unrelated to Murray’s claims, which as he most recently noted, have not been countered in print by anyone.
I recommend Murray’s book, Murder in Samarkand, to anyone interested in learning more about the background of all of this, with regard to his experiences as a British Ambassador in murky Uzbekistan.
I’m glad to see some Arsenal fans taking a very dim view of Usmanov, who increased his holding in Arsenal just this week and was described by arseblog.com as “a man whose heavy handed approach is disgraceful and brings shame on Arsenal FC.” I’m no fan of Arsenal myself, indeed quite the contrary, but I wouldn’t inflict this situation on any fellow football fans.
Update: a post by Blairwatch notes that the collateral damage of the takedown might hurt Usmanov’s standing in the London establishment. There’s now a pretty large campaign amongst bloggers highlighting the issue: Schilling’s may well have shot themselves in the foot with this one.
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But why do it?
Well, perhaps you really are a football fan.
Perhaps.
But, if so, why not buy a club in your own country and buy the best footballers on earth to play for it?
After all, although every man doesn’t have his price, most men, alas, will sooner or later take the shilling.
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And that is how post-Soviet Russian gangsterism (which makes Al Capone, Legs Diamond and Bugs Malone look as though they really were the children who played them in the film) has entered the UK.
And if one of your specialities at home is murdering journalists who try to expose you, you won’t think twice about using the heaviest and most dishonourable hammers of the English legal system to silence critics in Britain, nor to gratuitously dismiss some of the most talented people on earth who have had the misfortune to find themselves in your employ, nor to resort to your Russian habits for the disposal of those who won’t desist from annoying you.
After all, your objective isn’t to run your football club successfully, nor to be persona grata with the media, is it?
It’s to give you the access to run your real business.
If the police and the intelligence services are serious about stopping Russian murders in Britain, they could start by withdrawing a few peoples’ visas and placing in judicially-supervised trust the UK property of such people.
This has gone too far and, if not stopped, will go a lot further.
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Well, I’m back! At the moment it would appear Boris, Tim, Craig and Clive are still down, but I know Clive has been working like a trooper since Thursday to back up all the blog files and move them to..nice craig!!
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