Russia's Chief Prosecutor Collaborated with Stratfor - Wikileaks

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange attends a press conference at the Front Line Club in London, Britain, 27 February 2012. Photo by EPA/BGNES

Russia's Chief Prosecutor, Yury Chaika may have collaborated with US intelligence company Stratfor, according to newly released data from Wikileaks.

Chaika, whom Stratfor refers to RU101, is called a "key source of information on Russia" in the newly released files.

Stratfor's Lauren Goodrich asks to preserve the information acquired from Chaika and speculates that Putin is "cracking down on any power player that doesn't play in his arena."

She draws this conclusion after one of Chaika's emails tells her about the fate of the head of the Tambov criminal group Vladimir Barsukov, WikiLeaks says, as cited by The Voice of Russia.

Marina Gridneva, spokesperson for the Chief Prosecutor, has commented that "all of these stories are a provocation," RIA Novosti informs.

On Monday, WikiLeaks began releasing what it said were 5 million e-mails from the private intelligence company Stratfor.

The Texas-based company has been targeted by hackers who have released private data about subscribers in recent months, prompting the company to offer its clients a year of paid identity-protection coverage.