Maksim Kuzminov pulled off a daring escape last summer when he defected
to Ukraine and handed his military helicopter over to Ukrainian commandos
in exchange for half a million dollars.
Ukraine trumpeted the defection as a major coup. But in Vladimir V.
Putin’s Russia, he was guilty of the most grievous sin anyone can commit: Treason.
Ukrainian intelligence officials warned Mr. Kuzminov that his life was in danger and urged him not to leave the country.
But he ignored them, and was believed to have moved with his money to a
small resort town of pastel houses on Spain’s Mediterranean coast.
Now Mr. Kuzminov, 28 at the time of his defection, appears to have met
the harsh fate Ukrainian officials warned of.
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