The coroner determined that he had died from blunt force injuries to the head and had also sustained blunt force injuries to his neck, torso, upper extremities, and lower extremities. Lesin’s corpse was found in a Washington, DC, hotel room on the morning of Nov. The Steele report is not the FBI's only source for this account of Lesin's death: Three other people, acting independently from Steele, said they also told the FBI that Lesin had been bludgeoned to death by enforcers working for the same oligarch named by Steele. Three of the sources said that the report described the killers as Russian state security agents moonlighting for the oligarch. The thugs had been instructed to beat Lesin, not kill him, but they went too far, the sources said Steele wrote. Steele’s report says that Lesin was bludgeoned to death by enforcers working for an oligarch close to Putin, the four sources said. They had planned to interview Lesin about the inner workings of RT, the Kremlin-funded network that he founded.
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The BuzzFeed News series also revealed new details about Lesin - including that he died on the eve of a scheduled meeting with US Justice Department officials.
(Russia has denied it was behind the poisoning.) In the wake of that attack, the British government has opened a review of all 14 suspicious deaths linked to Russia that a BuzzFeed News investigation exposed last year. Both the UK and the US have blamed the Kremlin for poisoning former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England this month, using a rare nerve agent that endangered bystanders. The new revelations come as concerns about Russia’s meddling in the West have intensified to a pitch not seen since the Cold War.
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