Microsics and real terms

It is not glued, but it is sewn!

In 2012, our newspaper already talked about the history of the arrest and liberation of Olga Zelenina , head. The chemical and analytical laboratory of the Penza Research Institute of Agriculture [1]. In the early morning, in the apartment near Penza, where she lived with her family, the special forces in masks and machine guns burst and, not even allowing her to dress, in a dressing gown and slippers, a plane was transferred to Moscow, where a specialist was charged with a complication of drug smuggling on a particularly large scale.

The awarding, according to the investigation, was expressed in preparing a response to a request from a lawyer of a small commercial organization involved in the import of food poppy. The answer was a scientific opinion of a specialist on the growing poppy, occupies 10 pages and is available for reading to anyone who wants it [2].

The “Zelenina case” attracted close attention to the public, but first of all, the communities of scientists and experts. It caused a number of newspaper publications, it considered it necessary to write the international scientific journal Nature.

After several meetings of the court, numerous protests of the scientific community, personal guarantee of the Commissioner for Human Rights, Vladimir Lukin and many more worthy people, the court released an elderly woman under a recognizance not to leave and appointed her a place of stay of Troitsk, where she now lives in anticipation of the court. Vladimir Kirichenko talked with Olga Zelenina .

-In 2012, you were arrested. What happened to you?

- All this time I am called the accused. 18 months have already passed since the day I was arrested, searched and taken to Moscow, where they brought a completely absurd accusation, they were turned on all sorts of smelly IVS (temporary detention center.- Note. ), And then thrown into SIZO-6, one of the most strict in Moscow. They kept me there for more than a month. I saw the indifference of the judges, the lack of rights of the accused, the helplessness of the convicts and the unscrupulousness of the so -called law enforcement officers.

Some newspapers called me a "MAK expert", but officially I have never been to them. For 35 years of work in the chemical laboratories of the Research Institute, I have not done a single forensic examination. I will be just a specialist in the cultivation of drug -containing plants.

- How many court hearings have already passed, is the end of the process visible?

- I went through four vessels according to the “extent” and about 20 more ships under Art. 125 of the Criminal Code (this I complained about the actions or inaction of investigators and prosecutors). Twice in court, they unsuccessfully tried to remove me from office, and four times I unsuccessfully tried to restore my constitutional right to work and living with my family. So far, all my efforts have not given the desired result.

- Why did the prosecution have changed, what exactly is presented to you right now?

- I was put in jail as a accomplice of smugglers. The accusation of combination of smuggling and sales of drugs was removed only in November 2013 due to lack of evidence (or rather, the events of the crime). Thus, the case of group smuggling scattered.

Today I am accused of abuse of authority, namely, in preparing the draft letter of the institute and the specialist’s answers to a request for a lawyer (!). All this, supposedly, contributed to the activities of a certain criminal community, which was organized by the director of the company that imported the MAC to Russia.

Although I had not communicated with any of these people before my arrest and was not even familiar, the investigators first ranked me to their “criminal group”, and then “clarified” that I was not a member of the criminal community. ”

- What is the opinion of your accused about the essence of the case?

- There is reason to believe that the case is connected with the dirty struggle to redo the Mac supplies to Russia by order of competitors. Thus, it turns out that the FSKN acts as an administrative resource to eliminate some distributors from the market in favor of others.

I was put on a edification for all scientists who dared to say that food poppy always contains substances that are included in Russia in the lists of prohibited or limited turnover.

But, you must admit, my opinion as a scientist and candidate of agricultural sciences is not a reason to put me in jail for it!

It is known that the FSKN on this topic excites annually (!) About 2.5 thousand cases, and they will never want to abandon the potential opportunity to attract any citizen as an accused.

The so -called "poppy seeds" are absurd initially. After all, if the state bodies responsible for border control allowed this to cross the border of Russia allegedly to the “unclean” mac, then they are guilty. But they don’t plant customs officers!

If the poppy, imported into Russia, was clean, then why does FSKN imprison sellers, groceries, cafes owners, bakers and ordinary customers? Such cases are an example of “election justice” in relation to those who could not or did not want to pay off from the collapse of the FSKN employees.

- Who is now in custody in your business and why?

- I was not introduced to the decisions on the combination of cases. The only one I know about is Roman Shilov. This is a separate story. Roman has citizenship of Australia and Russia. Australian citizenship did not save him from the Russian prison. Abroad, MAC trade is not a crime at all, and the poppy straw is not a drug!

- The help of colleagues at work (and the Academy of Agricultural School as a whole) helped you in defense?

- I am very grateful to scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences, whose support literally pulled me out of prison. My colleagues from the Penza NIIISH asked the president with a request to stop my criminal prosecution, repeatedly wrote requests to the courts to change my subscription about the not to leave Moscow for permission to live in Penza.

However, rabbits, as it were, distant not only from me, but also from the entire problem of cultivating the oil mac in Russia, the initiator of which she herself performed earlier.

- What exactly is being investigated now?

- The pre -trial investigation is over. Now there is a so -called stage of familiarization with the case file. It goes quite strange. The defendants were not even informed how many volumes of “evidence” the investigation “sewed”. These volumes did not show. In the first two months of familiarization, only 23 volumes showed me. This is a rather strange binder of certain documents without a inventory, numbered with a pencil and not properly sealed. Inside - photos of warehouses, pallets with bags, and almost every bag of Anfas and profile. Dozens of volumes of commodity invoices for thousands of items, starting with the “whiskey” and ending with toilet paper, among which the poppies cannot be found.

- What do lawyers do for protection? Does the Moscow prosecutor oversee the investigation?

- Lawyers at this stage are sluggishly writing complaints. In our country, as I understand it, their opinion only excites the client. Courts, the prosecutor’s office and the investigation to it are almost deaf.

The Moscow prosecutor’s office, which should overtake the investigation, is engaged only in unsubscribing, or rather, quoting of the prosecution, without going into the essence of what is happening at all.

- The newspapers wrote that you were a leading specialist in Russia in the cultivation of poppy and hemp and the co -author of several new varieties.

- I would like to hope that I stayed. The investigation failed to remove me from office. Formally, I am today - the head of the Penza NIISH laboratory.

-In the Trv-hunger, it was said about the absurdity of “three zeros” (the impossibility of achieving the complete absence of antibiotics in milk, ethanol in human blood and opium alkaloids in poppy seeds) [3]. Is it possible to assume that with your direct participation, finally, the last “zero” was canceled, and our legislation became more reasonable?

- I do not consider my role so important, but I am sure for sure that my arguments were studied.

Officials from Rosstandart, finally, compared the laws and in July 2013 brought GOST to the MAC in accordance with the technical regulations “On Grain Safety” and SAP Pin, which, unlike GOST on the MAC, have the power of regulatory documents and have no utopian requirements for the content of narcotic drugs in MAC in the poppy food.

- Customs let the Party of Mac to Russia, why are merchants arrested? Then they will arrest buyers, do they also turn out to be participants in the illegal turnover of drug -containing substances?

- The question is not to me. I can only assume that this is a kind of business. Some release (customs), others (FSKN) come and hint about the trace of prohibited substances in the sample, which, if desired, can be recalculated for a particularly large size in the party. Those who did not immediately understand the hint are planted. I was allegedly attracted for aiding drug smuggling on an especially large scale. Two huge trucks (42 tons of poppy) could contain, according to the calculations of their experts, as much as 295 g of morphine. For more than 18 months, the investigation group of the FSKN of 20 people has been trying to prove the evil intent to import these 295 g of drugs, and not 42 tons of food poppy.

Probably, to them with real Afghan bandits, where 150 billion doses are produced per year (information from the FSKN website), to work really scary.

And to call the bandits of normal people it is easy and, as my experience has shown, it is almost unenviable.

- What is the prospect of this case? Why does FSKN try to maintain an accusatory slope?

- It all depends on the political will of one well -known person. If he does not give up, then they will put everyone! Just like that, in an absolutely even place, without guilt.

Since alkaloids of opium are always present in the food poppy, all who sells, buys and eats food poppy-de facto are already considered by the FSKN as participants in the turnover of narcotic drugs. These are the realities of today. People in black can come for everyone.

- Who is to blame and what to do?

- These are key questions, here you need to understand that the same FSKN does exactly what allows him to make civil society and judicial power.

So all the questions about MAK are not so much to the FSKN as to our curvature. And not only in the poppy.

Many thanks to everyone who helps me!

From the editorial office

This case has become resonant, it revealed the fundamental violations by Russia of the UN Unified Convention on the drugs of 1961, as well as the imperfection of legislative regulation, which is due to which thousands of people are sitting in prison. We will follow what is happening further.