Man who carried Vladimir Putin's nuclear controls briefcase found shot at his home
Vadim Zimin, the retired colonel in the Federal Security Service, had been in charge of the briefcase carrying the Russian nuclear controls which always accompanies the Kremlin leader
A secretive colonel who had carried the Russian president’s nuclear briefcase has been found shot at his home near Moscow.
Vadim Zimin, 53, is gravely ill in intensive care, say reports.
The retired colonel in the Federal Security Service had been in charge of the briefcase carrying the Russian nuclear controls which always accompanies the Kremlin leader.
He is known to have performed this role as aide-de-camp to former President Boris Yeltsin.
He continued in the security service rising to the role of colonel under his successor Vladimir Putin, but his precise role for the ex-KGB spy is unclear.
Zimin was found with gunshot wounds in the kitchen of his flat in Krasnogorsk, Moscow region.
At the time, his common law wife - a medic - was away treating the wounded from Putin’s war in Ukraine.
The shooting came as Zimin was facing criminal investigation for alleged bribe-taking after joining the customs service in a senior role, reported Moskovsky Komsomolets.
He was under house arrest over the criminal case.
He had denied any wrongdoing.
Zimin was discovered by his brother - who had been reportedly in the bathroom at the time of the shooting on Monday.
He lay in a pool of blood with a wound to the head.
An Izh 79-9TM automatic pistol was lying nearby.
Only one picture exists of the secretive colonel.
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