Translated material
Bomb for a notary
Former senator Igor Izmestiev accused of murder five years ago
The Prosecutor General's Office yesterday officially accused ex-senator of the Federation Council from Bashkiria Igor Izmestyev of organizing the murder. The procedure for bringing charges took place within the walls of the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, where the former senator was transferred last week after being detained at the airport in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) and arrested. He is accused of organizing the murder in 2001 of Moscow notary Galina Perepelkina, who was the wife of his business partner. In addition, Izmestyev is involved in several other criminal cases, including other contract killings, tax evasion and bribery of an FSB officer. According to Mr. Izmestyev himself and his defense, his arrest is a provocation, and the investigation has no real evidence. The defenders immediately appealed the decision of the Basmanny Court to place the ex-senator in custody.Igor Izmestiev was detained on January 16 at Bishkek airport, where he and his assistant flew from Geneva at a personal invitation, as he claims, acting. Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan. From there he was taken in transit through Novosibirsk to Moscow. A car from the Prosecutor General's Office with an investigator was waiting for him at the plane's ramp, who presented the ex-senator with the arrest report.
It followed from it that Izmestyev was suspected of organizing the murder of Galina Perepelkina in 2001. She was a lawyer and the wife of one of the former founders of Bashneft, Yuri Bushev. For some time he was Izmestiev’s business partner, but then parted ways with his partner. Galina Perepelkina was shot outside her office in Moscow as she was getting out of her car.
In response to all the accusations, the former official immediately stated that what was happening was a provocation, similar to a kidnapping for the purpose of extorting money. Mr. Izmestiev, according to his lawyer, insisted that he was not guilty of anything, and during his arrest they allegedly even used measures of mental and physical violence against him and demanded about 80 million rubles. for the opportunity to be released.
Nevertheless, two days later, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Basmanny Court issued a warrant for Izmestyev’s arrest. As it turned out, law enforcement agencies had accumulated many claims and questions against the ex-senator, which they had no right to ask him at a time when Mr. Izmestyev was a member of the Federation Council and had immunity.
In mid-December last year, the Senate terminated his powers ahead of schedule at his personal request. This process was initiated by Bashkir parliamentarians, who found out that Mr. Izmestyev, while working in the Federation Council, was also involved in business. In addition, the name of the senator (Izmestyev took office in 2001, and before that he was the general director of the oil company OJSC Korus Holding) has repeatedly appeared in scandals and high-profile criminal cases - about non-payment of taxes by the Korus company, about an attempt to give a bribe to an FSB officer and about the activities of the Kingisepp group of killers.
Now the Moscow City Court is holding hearings on the case of the participants of this organized crime group. At one of the last meetings, Alexander Ivanov, the only member of the group who confessed to all the crimes, made a sensational confession. The killer named Igor Izmestyev as the orderer of several murders and one of the leaders of the organized crime group. According to the state prosecution, the members of this bandit group were responsible for the liquidation of two Bashkir entrepreneurs who worked in the oil business, in which Izmestyev also had interests. Salavat Gainanov (production director of the Novo-Ufa Oil Refinery) and Valery Speransky (chief accountant of Bashneftekhimtorg CJSC) were shot dead in Ufa.