Hitman kills Putin's ex-bankruptcy boss

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Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow
Friday April 30, 2004
The Guardian

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A leading business figure has been assassinated on a busy street in central Moscow, the second such victim of a contract hit in a fortnight.

Georgy Tal, 48, who once headed the government's controversial bankruptcy agency, was shot outside his office on Wednesday morning.

A gunman approached from behind and shot him in the back. Mr Tal spun around, and blocked two further shots with his briefcase, before a fourth hit him in the stomach. The gunman fled in a car. Mr Tal died yesterday in hospital.

Police would not comment on possible motives for the killing. Mr Tal worked in one of the dirtiest and most corrupt fields of financial legislation, doubtlessly amassing enemies. Two years ago he and his wife were beaten with iron bars, according to media reports.
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I think Putin makes Bush look like a choir boy. Putin is perhaps the most corrupt leader on the planet.