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The case of "three whales"
The judge is threatened, the prosecutor was isolated, the witness was killed
Despite the fact that the case is under the personal control of the president
Delo of "three whales" is a significant for the president.
Yes, I'm talking about Vladimir Putin.
He, like his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, has repeatedly taken on his personal control investigation (though this “control” ended is well known to everyone). But in the case of the “three whales”, accompanied by all three years of his presidency, he went further than the meaningless words about “special control”: he appointed an independent prosecutor to investigate the case - Vladimir Loskutov, according to the Izvestia newspaper, his Petersburg friend since student times. And what? Nothing. Nothing!
In the evening in the past Tuesday - the next series about the "Three Whales".
Who was the killer shot at, penetrating through the military hospital, guarded, like Fort. Burdenko, who rose to the fourth floor of the neurosurgical department, opening the door of the chamber and twice pressing the trigger of a pistol with a silencer?
About the alternate victim of the next slaughter order is not a politician of the federal or even regional level. Retired captain? But you never know them, retired! Businessman? What, they shoot little at businessmen? And even the exotic circumstances of the murder-the hospital chamber, the evening, the closed military hospital (just shots from the next criminal series!)-if they can surprise, then some Moscow guest from a quiet Swiss canton, which is difficult to master the entertaining Russian word "Bes-Perm-Del".
But the message about the murder of the 43-year-old president of the Association “Furniture Business” (and the former Marine Captain) Sergey Pereverzev already on Tuesday evening fell on the tapes of all information agencies, and on all the following days of the last week-to the first lanes of newspapers and in the issues of television industry.
No, not an ordinary event of Russian life - the murder of Sergey Pereverzev. Above it, like neon advertisements on the evening Mozhayskoye Shosse, sinisterly shone: "Three Whales."
On June 4, Sergei Pereverzev was supposed to act as a witness to the trial against the employees of the State Customs Committee Volkov and Fayzulin, accused by the owner of the Three Whales Sergei Zuev of abuse of official position. On April 2, in an interview with MK, Pereverzev openly talks about the threat of his own security. On May 14, he enters a car accident on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, in which one person died and three, including Sergey Pereverzev, were injured. Pereverzev finds himself in a military hospital. On Tuesday May 27, at 21.30, - shots in the hospital ward.
At the same time, the judge, who was supposed to conduct this case, receives a note of the following content (spelling and punctuation are preserved) - as can be seen from the text, is not the first:
“Dear Sergei Engerovich!
It seems that you have very strong nerves or you have not received the first letter.
You can consider this letter a threat, but, believe me, it is easy to implement.
You and only you will decide - to be your son next to you, or to sit on a chain in the Chechen basement, from where he can get out, and if it becomes possible, then the wheelchair will be provided with him until the end of his days.
Do not make unnecessary and inappropriate decisions in the GTK case - three whales.
I really want to hope that you can make the right decision and draw the necessary conclusions . ”
Maybe in the note a hint of customs officers are justified? I don’t think I am convinced that not: on the contrary, condemned!
After all, exactly the same attack was undertaken by the investigator in particularly important cases of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Pavel Zaitsev: in order to forget the case of the multimillion -dollar embezzlement of the owners of the “three whales”, the Prosecutor General’s prosecutor's office opened the case of the investigator who conducted this case. And even when the Moscow City Court fully acquitted Zaitsev, the Supreme Court - according to the protest of the Prosecutor General’s Office - canceled this acquittal, and I knew about what would be canceled four days before the sentence ...
I am writing all this-and I feel like a student and two who have matured one cheat sheet! How much you can write about the same thing! About these damn “three whales”, about that octopus from the bandits and officials who connected around the tables and chairs (who are not there: from Chechen and Solntsevsky bandits to prosecutors, Feesbash and police chiefs). About the fact that at ordinary tables and chairs are the multimillion -dollar interests of mafia structures from Russia to Germany, Italy, America.
About the role of the ominous gray cardinal of the Prosecutor General of Yu. Biryukov, once again - and which is already a loud business! - The Commission of the State Duma to combat corruption will specially gather in front of such impudence in front of such impudence in front of such impudence to discuss the volumetric dossier at Biryukov and his colleague in the Prosecutor General of V. Kolmogorov).
About the disappearing documents from the criminal case, about endless threats to investigators, judges and deputies. Finally, about an unprecedented murder in the darkened room of a closed military hospital ...
But we have to talk about it again and again (therefore we again remind today the chronicle of all the events around the “three whales”, which is conducted by the “New Gazeta”).
This is not a story about the tables and chairs, this is a different, completely different story that directly indicates what space of life, modern history, the chosen president and parliament and the appointed officials was Russia.
“Three Whales” is a significant thing for our time! Significant for the State Duma: the Security Committee devoted a whole meeting to him, and the Duma itself sent dozens of letters to the Prosecutor General’s Office. Signable for Europe and America: there, where they have the arrests of Western partners of the Three Whales, are still unsuccessfully waiting for answers to their investigative instructions from our Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General’s Office. Significant for our justice - just do not repeat all these fairy tales about the independence of judges and that “only the court can call a person guilty”: while you wait for this real court, the documents of the criminal case will be destroyed, the witnesses are intimidated or killed, and the investigators themselves are either convicted or left, desperate to break through this wall. There is a Zaitsev case, there is a case of customs officers, but where did the case of a multimillion -dollar smuggling go?
Reaches a joke! The independent presidential prosecutor Loskutov never got a letter from Germany from the representative of the criminal police of Germany in Moscow, Frank Helmut, which explicitly named the linden German firms created by the same Zuev; The names of those, including Zuev himself, who are suspected of laundering money and creating a criminal syndicate are named; It is reported that Italy has already been arrested in the case of “three whales”, that there, in Germany, they are ready to help Russian colleagues and, in turn, are waiting for help from Russian colleagues!
He did not have this letter, did not reach, lost, evaporated in the bowels of the Prosecutor General. I can give him a copy, will there be any sense? And that's not the point! What is the power of the president chosen by Russia? Pierce a tender -up old woman a phone number? Say something beautiful in German? Take off on a fighter?
"Who is he, Mr. Putin?" I remember how many times I myself had to hear this question from my foreign colleagues when it suddenly arose at the top of the Russian authorities.
Three years have passed. I still cannot find an exact answer to this question.
Twice over the years, I turned to the president with personal letters regarding, believe me, important, state questions - and twice I had to repeat the same phrase: “I understand your desire to create a team, but, it seems to me, a flock is gathering around you. And under the pack, Russia is already tired of living. ”
Twice I received in response nothing that did not mean replication from the Kremlin clerks.
One of these letters, by the way, was about the “three whales” and the fate of Pavel Zaitsev ...
... Investigators leading the murder of Sergei Pereverzev suggest that the killer was able to penetrate the territory of a strictly protected military hospital from the courtyard of Morg. Interesting...
It also seems more and more often to me that those from the morgue, but absolutely alive and absolutely sound, will strangle us all in their “hot” arms precisely at the time when the president will set the phone number of the next old woman who he herself. And the ruins of houses will be covered with images of the same, but shining future buildings.
Yuri Shchekochikhin, Deputy Chairman of the Security Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
For the third year, we have been observing the development of this smuggled case. And the edges are not visible. Recall how events developed:
2001. "New Gazeta" No. 51, 55
There are versions that the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB and the State Customs Committee (GTK) are involved in the furniture scandal. The very fact of smuggling surfaces due to an interagency conflict: on one side of the barricades-the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the GTK, on the other-the Prosecutor General’s Office. There are surnames of people from the FSB ...
2002. "New Gazeta" No. 12
Deputy Prosecutor Governor Kolmogorov came to the State Duma Security Committee and began to convince deputies that the case of smuggling was investigated with numerous human rights violations. Then, investigator Zaitsev, who led the case of “three whales”, first reported that he was put pressure on him, and prosecutors do everything possible to cover the investigation. After the Prosecutor General’s Office took the case from the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, only 20 remained from a couple of hundred volumes. The rest were “lost” ...
"New Gazeta" No. 58
President Putin took the case of smuggling under his personal control. It became obvious that the situation in which the interests of almost all Russian law enforcement agencies encountered is not as simple as they were trying to imagine it.
"New Gazeta" No. 66
Smuggling is just a part of the process of laundering money related to the history with Bank of New York and, surprisingly, to Russian organizations of the Rosoboronexport system, which are engaged in the trade in weapons.
2003. "New Gazeta" No. 16
Investigator Zaitsev, who was persecuted by prosecutors, recently justified in the Moscow City Court. But the Supreme Court, at the prosecutor’s insistence, canceled the acquittal. It seems that the main goal of the process is to compromise the trial itself, to call it insolvent and completely forget about the connections with Bank of the New York and weapons affairs ...
"New Gazeta" No. 31
Documents were received from Germany to Russia that Peter Berlin and his company Benx sent 4 million 670 thousand dollars to a German company. And she, in turn, participated in the financing of the construction of the Grand and Three Whales shopping centers. A surprise for the Prosecutor General, which does not see such connections.