Nomma Zarubina appeared at a Nov. 19 event organized by groups critical of the Kremlin held in Ottawa’s Wellington Building
Nomma Zarubina appears at a Nov. 19 forum in Ottawa’s Wellington Building called Rethinking Russia’s Future. Ms. Zarubina was arrested by the FBI on Nov. 21, after returning home from Ottawa.A Russian political consultant recently accused by the FBI of working for Moscow’s spies spoke on Parliament Hill last month at a conference on Russia’s future where she mingled with MPs, academics and policy makers.
A criminal complaint by a Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent alleged that she told them she had not been in contact with members of the Russian government or its intelligence services, “when in truth and in fact” Ms. Zarubina was in communication with an agent of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. The FSB is the successor to the Soviet Union’s KGB.
“Nomma Zarubina has U.S. and Canadian visas, which in part gave us confidence that Western governments did their checks and allowed her inside the country,” he said. “Not a single government agency has flagged her alleged involvement with the FSB to us, which would have of course automatically disqualified her from participating in our events.”
Ms. Zarubina spoke at the forum on Parliament Hill where she advocated “to make Siberia and other regions independent from Moscow because I was born and raised in Siberia and the Kremlin, for us, is always historically a big threat for us.”“I was in the FBI building that day . I was arrested at 8 a.m. because I had an appointment with the counter-intelligence division,” she said. “I didn’t know they wanted to arrest me.
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