Former KGB officer planing to buy Murdoch assets and use them to target the wealthy….
Lebedev eyes up News of the World bid

Alexander Lebedev, Russian newspaper tycoon and anglophile, is plotting a possible takeover of disgraced British tabloid The News of the World.
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He would give the News of the World a slightly different spin and wants to raise interest in stories about corruption and wrongdoing by rich and powerful people.
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Lebedev is a former Duma deputy and KGB officer, who worked at the Soviet Embassy in London during the Cold War, he now has a fortune which Forbes values at $2.1 billion.