Come on, obscene!

The Leninsky District Court of Kirov continued hearings in the case of fraud to the detriment of the Kirovles company, in which oppositionists Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov are accused. Another witness was questioned - the former head of the Belokholunitsky forestry enterprise, Vladimir Knyazev, who admitted that he poorly remembers the circumstances associated with the time when Navalny was an assistant to the governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh. The prosecution, over the objections of the defense, read an affidavit signed by a witness during the investigation.

After it turned out that other witnesses did not appear in court - the fugitive former head of the department of state property of the Kirov region, Konstantin Arzamastsev, against whom a case was brought against the sale of the Urzhum distillery at a reduced price, and the president of Solikamskbumprom, Viktor Baranov, who ignores subpoenas ,” the prosecution decided to release the transcript of the wiretapping of Navalny’s conversations with Ofitserov. The defense protested because the wiretapping results were obtained in violation of the law (in particular, the wrong investigator applied to the court for permission to wiretap telephone conversations), decisions to order examinations of audio file transcripts were unacceptable, some recordings were made after the expiration of the court-approved period of 180 days , and the witnesses indicated in the case materials live at non-existent addresses. However, judge Sergei Blinov recognized the wiretapping as legal.

Prosecutors read out a transcript of the conversations, replacing profanity with the word “obscene.” From the transcript, according to the Gazeta.Ru correspondent, little was clear.