2024-07-22
40 分钟Nick Stride said too much about his former boss, one of Putin’s closest allies. Nick Stride, a builder from the UK, feared for his family’s safety after discovering alleged financial corruption while building First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov’s 140-million-dollar mansion in Moscow. Worried that his every movement was being watched, he hatched a plan to get out and put as much distance as possible between his loved ones and his former boss. They chose Australia. Nick then passed the secret accounting documents he’d taken to an investigative reporter, but by the time it came to publish, Nick and his family’s claim for political asylum in Australia was rejected. Seeing no way out, the family went on the run, hiding out amongst the snakes and crocodiles of the country’s unforgiving Dampier peninsula, every morning expecting a truck to pull up and tear his family apart. The book about his odyssey is called Run For Your Life, by Sue Williams. Get in touch: liveslessordinary@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp: 0044 330 678 2784 Presenter: Asya Fouks Producer: Edgar Maddicott
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He called me up.
He goes, it's going to go live as if I was you, I'd find a hole as far away as possible and hide in it for a while.
I remember every single morning I'd wake up and look at the gates and think, someone could be coming through that gate any, any time now.
It's either going to be a white Land Cruiser or a black Land Cruiser.
It could be the Russians, it could be Australian immigration, but either or, they're coming to tear my family apart.
How far would you go to protect your family if you felt their lives were in danger?
This man, Nick Stride from the UK went further than he could ever have imagined.
He and his young family would end up hiding out in the remote bush of northwestern Australia, barely surviving.
They'd dodge snakes and crocodiles and learn how to hunt for food, all after exposing the secrets of one of President Vladimir Putin's closest allies and Russia's most powerful men.
This is Lives Less Ordinary.
From the BBC World Service, I'm Assia Fuchsia.
There I had to wonder who I was connected to.
Nick is from the south coast of England.
He's a keen rugby player and for most of his life, he worked in construction.