Journalist Emma Best published a correspondence from Wikileaks, which explicitly states that Bellingcat, which position themselves as an “independent investigation center” is on the balance of the British Ministry of Defense.
Accordingly, the customer of the investigation of “Russia’s crimes in Syria and Ukraine” was in fact the British government, and the military department (more likely Mi-6) through the controlled “independent” structure carried out the assigned political tasks.
Of the 11,000 reports, it became known that reporters directly received tasks from British intelligence and received a monetary reward for their performance.
Immediately after the leak on WikiLeaks, a flurry of criticism and charges of data juggling came to blow, which is undoubtedly beneficial for Bellingcat and the UK government.