As The Guardian wrote in June 2024, the fund paid for, among others, the legal defence of the well-known Russian arms dealer Viktor But and the assassin of Wadim Krasikov, as well as **employed many erstwhile Russian intelligence officers as directors of his representations in European countries**. Among them are Vladimir Pozdorowkin, identified by European intelligence sources as an SWR agent, who in authoritative public papers appears as Pravfondu's coordinator for operations in the Nordic and Baltic countries, and Anatolij Sorokin, besides associated with Russian intelligence, liable for the mediate East, Moldova and Transnistria region.
