Translation for '
informer' from English to Russian
NOUN | an informer | informers | |
SYNO | betrayer | blabber | informer | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- A common informer was a person who provided evidence on criminal trials or prosecuted for breaches of Irish penal laws solely for the purpose of being rewarded with the penalty recovered, or a share of it.
- During 1944, the prisoners in Oflag 79 began to suspect that one of their number was an informer, and they eventually decided that it was Berneville-Claye.
- Armstrong approached a police informer seeking child pornography.
- In 1919, Yale sent Altieri to silence an informer within the gang.
- The film also claims that one of the killers was an informer, and an ex-police officer told the film-makers that Special Branch may have had foreknowledge of the attack.
- After Stalin's death, Lokshin was accused by Alexander Esenin-Volpin of being an informer for the NKVD.
- In 2020 she appeared in "Informer 3838" as the titular character, Melbourne gangland lawyer Nicola Gobbo.
- "Informer 3838" is an Australian television series focusing on criminal barrister-turned police informer Nicola Gobbo (codenamed informer 3838) and her involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings.
- Rameshwar is arrested and before being led away in handcuffs, he asks Amay about the identity of his informer.
- Murray is put in charge of the investigation, and the unnamed informer (Greg Curran), passes police intelligence to Webster.
- In 1995, it was discovered that Bisky had been an informer for the Stasi.
- The mother of the poor boy Walsh, hearing that efforts were being made to induce her son to become an informer, went to the prison last week and exhorted him to meet his fate like his brother, rather than bring dishonour upon his name by becoming a hated informer.
- She became an informer for the Stasi already as a student in 1979, under the code name "Kathrin".
- Other notable supergrass trials of that period were those of IRA informer Christopher Black and Loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force informer Joseph Bennett.
- 1683) was an English informer, and self-proclaimed discoverer of parts of the Popish Plot (which was in reality the fabrication of his fellow informer Titus Oates).
- He worked as a Stasi informer under the codename "Kurt Straube".
- "Informer 3838" is a television series focusing on criminal barrister-turned police informer Nicola Gobbo (code name informer 3838) and her involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings.
- Although there have been informers throughout history – the Kray twins were partly convicted two years before Smalls on evidence given by Leslie Payne – the Smalls case was significant for three reasons: the first informer to give the police volume names of his associates and provide the evidence that would send dozens of them to prison to serve long sentences; the first criminal informer to strike a written deal with the Director of Public Prosecutions; the only criminal informer to serve no time for his crime in return for providing Queen's evidence.
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