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Investigative excrement
The notary acquitted in the “Khlebnikov case” will be tried for attacking an investigator, insulting a prosecutor and a judge.
The prosecutor's office transferred to the Moscow City Court, as Vremya Novostei learned, a new criminal case against the former Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov , who was previously involved in the sensational case of the murder of the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Forbes magazine, Paul Klebnikov. He was acquitted of those charges, then arrested again and convicted of fraud. Now he is charged with insult and assault on government officials, deliberate damage to documents and contempt of court. The latest article of the Criminal Code provides the opportunity to try the case with the participation of a jury, which the accused took advantage of. Now the jury will have to answer a number of questions: whether Sadretdinov threw his excrement at the investigator of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office and whether he deliberately smeared two volumes of the criminal case with it; whether he insulted the judge who extended his arrest term, whether he attacked the prosecutor who participated in this meeting, and whether he injured the finger of the guard who was trying to save the prosecutor.38-year-old notary Fail Sadretdinov, along with Chechens Kazbek Dukuzov and Musa Vakhaev, accused of murdering Paul Klebnikov, was acquitted by a Moscow City Court jury in May 2006. He was released, but just five days later he was arrested again, accused of apartment fraud. In January 2007, the Preobrazhensky District Court sentenced him to nine years in prison. The prosecutor's office did not rest on this and opened another case accusing Sadretdinov of another episode of apartment fraud. And in November 2006, the Supreme Court overturned the acquittal in the “Khlebnikov case” and sent it to the Moscow City Court for review, but the case was returned to the investigation to eliminate the shortcomings.
The prosecutor's office has not yet fulfilled the order of the Moscow City Court, but has submitted for its consideration a new case against Sadretdinov - on charges of using violence against a government official (Article 318-1 of the Criminal Code), insulting a government official (Article 319 of the Criminal Code), damaging documents ( Art. 325 of the Criminal Code) and contempt of court, expressed in insulting a participant in the process - the prosecutor and the judge herself (parts 1 and 2 of Art. 297 of the Criminal Code). Actually, the case consists of two different incidents combined into one proceeding.
The first occurred on June 24, 2007, when the investigator for especially important cases of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office Oleg Martynov arrived at Matrosskaya Tishina to acquaint the former notary with the materials of the next fraud case. As the victim investigator testified, the prisoner was first brought to his office, and five minutes later his lawyer Ruslan Koblev arrived. After starting to familiarize himself with the materials, Sadretdinov asked to go to the toilet. Having returned, he quickly walked up to the investigator and hit him in the face with a paper parcel, swearing obscenely. As an employee of the prosecutor's office testified, in addition to the pain under his eye, where a bruise subsequently formed, he smelled it and guessed what was in the package. The investigator also complained that the defendant intentionally stained two volumes of the criminal case with feces.
The second incident happened a day later in the Zamoskvoretsky court, where Sadretdinov was brought to extend his arrest. As follows from the case, according to the testimony of judge Natalya Pyatunina, prosecutor Mikhail Sudarushkin and guard Gennady Roshchupkin, events developed as follows. Sadretdinov allegedly began shouting that he refused to participate in the hearing and did not tell the court his information. The judge, however, continued the hearing, and then the notary began to speak obscenely at the court and the prosecutor. He did not react to the judge’s warning to be removed from the court, but became increasingly angry. He grabbed a hanger standing next to the “cage” and threw it at the prosecutor - he missed. Then he took hold of the dock - broke off the metal leg and again threw it towards the prosecutor. The policemen of the convoy regiment of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate saved me from serious consequences. Senior Sergeant Roshchupkin deflected the blow from the prosecutor, but at the same time suffered himself - the examination recorded a bruise on the fourth finger of his right hand. The police managed to literally drag the brawler out of the hall, and the judge issued a decision to extend the arrest in his absence.
The administration of the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, as follows from the case, reported that Sadretdinov, who has been “lodging” with them since May 2006, is under the supervision of a psychiatrist who diagnosed him with depressive syndrome, psychopathy and schizotypal personality disorder. In addition, the prison described the notary as hot-tempered, impudent and confrontational. His relationships with his cellmates are smooth, but he doesn’t talk much with the pre-trial detention center staff. He was sent to a punishment cell twice - for 10 and 15 days - for insulting and hooliganism against an employee, spent another ten days in strict isolation for possessing and using prohibited items, and was reprimanded for daring to fall asleep on the floor of a punishment cell in inappropriate time. As Vremya Novostei learned, the incident with Martynov was not the first; at one time, Sadretdinov insulted his colleague, also an investigator from the prosecutor’s office, by spraying him with urine.
The notary himself does not admit guilt and, on the contrary, accuses the investigators of deliberately bringing him to this state in retaliation for his principled position. In his testimony, he complained that Martynov allegedly himself made unflattering expressions against him, and the notary allegedly constantly accused him of juggling various protocols. “This criminal case was initiated as a result of an open war that is being waged between me and a gang of investigators. I was previously accused by the Prosecutor General's Office in the case of the murder of Paul Klebnikov, but was acquitted. In connection with my principled position on this case, as well as in connection with my appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, the prosecutor’s office immediately began fabricating another criminal case against me for apartment fraud. A group of investigators, which included Martynov, deliberately created a psychologically traumatic situation around me,” Sadretdinov said. According to him, the incident with Martynov occurred “on the basis of personal hostile relations.” While they were waiting for lawyer Koblev to arrive, there was another altercation between them, and Sadretdinov felt that his thoughts began to get confused, and he was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. “I remember repeatedly repeating to Koblev: “How much more shit will I see in this matter?” - the notary remembers everything else only from the words of the lawyer: “He said that, having returned from the toilet, I entered the office and loudly said to Martynov: “Now you try my shit.” And he threw a sheet of paper at him, on which was written a statement about the investigator’s recusal, and in this sheet there was feces. They scattered throughout the office - most of them hit the walls, floor and table, and the rest hit the investigator's face. Then I rushed around the office and began to mumble something inarticulate.”
As Sadretdinov said during interrogations, he was put in a punishment cell for his trick with the investigator: “I was in completely bestial conditions of the punishment cell, or rather, I tried to survive in this dirty, damp basement with hordes of rats, since I did not sleep or eat. I think that everything would have been different if not for my severe health condition, at that time aggravated by the incident with Martynov that had happened the day before and superimposed on the terrible living conditions of the punishment cell (heat, stuffiness, dampness, lack of ventilation). Later, I twice ended up in the intensive care unit of the pre-trial detention center, both times I spent a day there, and then I was returned to the punishment cell on a stretcher.” According to Sadretdinov, the announcement by the pre-trial detention center employees that he had to change clothes and go to court came as a surprise to him - he did not know about any hearing. “I immediately became nervous. He refused to change clothes and went straight to court in his robe. Then the whole day in the “escort room” I kept trying to understand what kind of trial it was. And only in the hall I realized that we would be talking about extending the arrest. I asked: “Where is my lawyer?” I was rudely told that “no one will run after a lawyer”; if he does not appear, then the trial will be considered without him.” Therefore, according to the notary, he refused to participate in the meeting. He also says that the judge was the first to be rude to him, and he was rude back. And since neither the judge nor the prosecutor wanted to listen to the accused’s opinions, he “shook the bars to remind of his presence in the courtroom and demanded to stop this infighting.” Then the guards attacked him, “wrung his arms, dragged him into the guard room, while striking him.” “Someone hit me in the eyes with their fingers, I covered my face with my hands, they twisted my hands and broke my finger,” said the accused.
At the end of August last year, the Moscow City Court declared Judge Pyatunina’s decision to extend the arrest illegal and canceled it. Now, therefore, Sadretdinov is behind bars, actually serving his sentence.