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Quantum Justice
The last couple of months have been marked by high-profile criminal cases in Russia: Mayor Vladimir Nikolaev, Senator Igor Izmestyev and millionaire Vasily Boyko were imprisoned in pre-trial detention; clouds hung over Senator Andrei Vavilov. When you see this triumph of justice, you experience ambivalent feelings.
On the one hand, I don’t feel sorry for the characters. The mayor, nicknamed Winnie the Pooh, was considered a scumbag even among the criminal elite of Primorye. Kingisepp killers accuse Senator Izmestiev not just of murders, but of monstrous murders, murders for two kopecks. Just look at the accusation of murdering Moscow notary Galina Perepelkina simply because she knew something about her husband’s affairs.
Mr. Boyko was engaged in “black raiding” in the Moscow region, buying up land from peasants, and it must be said that black raiders differ from black brokers only in that they do not kill the simple-minded and defenseless people they robbed. At the same time, Mr. Boyko was a lot involved in Orthodoxy, autocracy and nationality: he donated to churches, participated in the “Russia Project”, the main idea of which is that Russia needs a new monarchy. Here, really, there is one thing: either the robbed peasants or the autocracy and the people. As the joke says: either, father, put on your pants or take off your cross. Among all sins, the most unappetizing is hypocrisy.
As for Mr. Vavilov, he is a legendary man since the times of the OVVZ (domestic foreign currency loan bonds - “EZh”), the second Yeltsin campaign, MiGs and the Angolan debt. This living legend got along well with the vertical of power, competently criticized Khodorkovsky, and even sold Severnaya Neft to this same vertical at a price that was strongly reminiscent of the army practice of purchasing salt at the price of sugar.
So it cannot be said that my heart breaks at the sight of Winnie the Pooh in handcuffs.
But here's the problem.
The mayor of Winnie the Pooh was not arrested for the way the former shareholders of Turnif, his main fishing enterprise, parted with shares. And not on suspicion of murdering the authority of Karp.
The mayor of Winnie the Pooh was arrested for allegedly illegally spending money on private security, and the Primorye prosecutor's office was blaming on all television screens about how the bad mayor for some reason signed a contract for the protection of a briefcase. As if it is not known that our private security, by law, does not have the right to protect individuals with weapons. It is as if it were not known that any person who enters into a contract for the protection, by virtue of this, enters into a contract for the protection of a portfolio.
And I suspect that this is no coincidence. Because the arrest of Winnie the Pooh on suspicion of, say, the murder of Karp means an investigation into the murder of Karp. And the authority of Karp had a sponsored businessman nicknamed Shepelyavy, and his name was Sergei Darkin. And now the governor of Primorye, Sergei Darkin, is married to Karpov’s widow. And if the reason for the arrest of the mayor is his conflict with the governor, then why should Governor Shepelyavy investigate the murder of Karp’s authority? It is much easier to dig into a protected briefcase.
The arrest of Senator Igor Izmestyev was preceded not only by the testimony of the Kingisepp killers. It was preceded by a conflict between Mr. Izmestyev and his powerful neighbor in the dacha: Russian President Vladimir Putin. During this conflict, Mr. Izmestyev, who was disturbing the president with his fireworks, refused to cede the dacha except at market value. And so I think: what if Senator Izmestiev gave this ill-fated dacha to Mr. Zolotov, the head of the FSO, with the words: “Dear, all my life I dreamed of giving you this dacha, could I not have a piece of Bashneft in exchange?” - really? Wouldn’t they give such a good person a piece of Bashneft? Would anyone really listen to the killers?
The case of Andrei Vavilov was preceded by a conflict between the former Deputy Minister of Finance and one of his former partners, famous for his connections in the prosecutor’s office. The former partner believed that he was also owed $100 million for the Northern Oil deal. The funny thing about the whole story is that Severnaya Neft is a Lada car bought by the state at the price of a Mercedes. This is not a skeleton in the closet, this is a bomb in the closet, and it would be better for the prosecutors not to graze around this deal. But no, they ran into Vavilov. And although we don’t feel sorry for Andrei Petrovich, it’s not the vertical that is settling scores with him, but an amateur director who became famous for his home video about a man who looks like the prosecutor general.
I don’t feel sorry for Mr. Boyko with his Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality and robbed peasants. But the problem is that our Russian Pobedonostsev had a partner - Kirill Kovalchuk, a man from a family close to Putin and far from the public. And if Boyko sits, and his powerful partner does not pull him out, then the conclusion suggests itself.
There is classical physics, in which the cause precedes the effect, and the effect follows the cause. And there is classical justice, in which crime precedes punishment, and punishment is a consequence of the crime. In Russia, justice has become quantum. If you are a criminal, you won’t necessarily go to jail. And if you went to prison, it’s not necessarily because of the crimes you committed.
After all, most often you sit down because your partners in these crimes, who have more success in power than you, demand a share from you.