One of the WikiLeaks-published documents discloses detailed Spanish National Court Prosecutor Jose Grinda Gonzalez’s assessments of organized crime in both Eurasia and Spain.

He considers that organized crime seeks to be a complement to state structures. “He summarized his views by asserting that the Russian Government’s strategy is to use organized crime groups to do whatever the Russian Government cannot acceptably do as a government. As an example, he cited Kalashov, whom he said worked for Russian military intelligence to sell weapons to the Kurds to destabilize Turkey. Grinda claimed that the Russian Government takes the relationship with organized crime leaders even further by granting them the privileges of politics, in order to grant them immunity from racketeering charges,” the disclosed cable says.