The leader of an anti-Putin militia has disturbing links to an extreme-right wing movement banned in Britain, Declassified has found.
Denis Kapustin, who also uses the names Denis Nikitin and ‘White Rex’, was an instructor at a far-right camp in Wales in 2014.
His presence was noted by a Sunday Mirror investigation that year.
More recently, the White Rex has been in the news for leading the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK).
They are a group of armed dissidents launching raids into Russia from their base in Ukraine since March.
At least two civilians and a child have been killed in their attacks so far, with another 13 wounded.
While the RDK’s far-right ideology was belatedly noted in media reports, the fact its leader spent time teaching neo-Nazis in Britain has so far been forgotten.
He taught at the Sigurd Culture Camp in the Brecon Beacons in August 2014, which was designed to “enthuse them with a sense of racial pride, and to awaken the ‘Spirit Warrior’ within”.
Camp organiser Craig Fraser wanted to recreate Hitler’s SS by drilling his men into shape – and even planned to show footage from ISIS training in Syria at the next session.
The Sunday Mirror said a “key trainer at the event…was Denis Nitikin [sic], the owner and organiser of White Rex, a Russian martial arts and cage fighting club.”
Yesterday immigration minister Robert Jenrick refused to tell parliament what information the Home Office holds on Kapustin’s visit to the UK in 2014 or whether he had since been banned from entering the country, claiming not to comment on individual cases.
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