Abramovich claimed during the trial that Boris had links to Chechenterrorists, while an ex-Chechen separatist claimed that Boris financed separatists in the 1990s.
Klebnikov was the first American reporter to be murdered in Russia, and with his silencing the world lost one of its foremost experts on the vast and murky crossroads of Russian organized crime, Kremlin politics, Chechenterrorists, billionaire oligarchs, and the spread of Russian mafia conglomerates around the world.