US director of national intelligence James Clapper declared that the US spy agencies were not behind the killing of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and do not know who was responsible for the crime, Sputnik reports.
"I don't know. We don't know. We don't have any unique insight as to who did this," Clapper told the Council on Foreign Relations, a New York think tank, on Monday.
On the occasion the US State Secretary John Kerry also denied the US having any information on who is behind the murder and called for transparent investigation of the committed crime:
"The US had no intelligence on who was behind the shooting of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. The bottom line is we hope there will be a thorough, transparent, real investigation, not just of who actually fired the shots, but who, if anyone, may have ordered or instructed this or been behind this," ABC News reports Kerry’s statement on the issue.