International plot

The customers of the film of the Foundation for Corruption on the activities of the family prosecutor Yuri Chaika are the head of the Hermitage Capital investment fund William Brauder and the US intelligence services standing behind him. This was announced in a letter received by the editorial office of Kommersant by the Prosecutor General himself. According to Chaika, the purpose of the "lying" film is to denigrate the prosecutor’s office and it personally, without indicating "no facts."

Navalny, according to the Prosecutor General, “played a very modest role in this story,” and customers of the film “should be sought among people who have great financial capabilities and at the same time who hate our country as a whole and the Russian prosecutor’s office in particular, seeking at all costs to stop the verification and investigation into other law enforcement agencies.”

As examples of investigations conducted by him, the seagull gives “criminal schemes for financing by the structures of the Khodorkovsky Russian organizations and individuals acting contrary to the interests of our country, its law enforcement and judicial system”, the audit of the NGOs funded from abroad, and the ban on the activities of some of these organizations. Brauder, according to Chaika, knows about these investigations and fears them.

According to Chaika, Russian investigators have been investigating “criminal theft schemes from 1996 to 2006 from Russia of huge funds”, whose ideologists are “the US intelligence services, and the US citizen, now the UK British citizen,” was the organizer. ” Controlled by Browner, the funds say in the letter, managed to form a 7-percent package of Gazprom shares, and the investor himself tried to blackmail the leading bodies of Gazprom, so that as a result, confidential information was into the hands of foreign special services and commercial competitors of the Russian company.

"The criminal peak of the group of the group of W. Brauder was the implementation of the theft scheme of more than 5 billion rubles from the Russian budget, the responsibility for which he is trying in every possible way to Russian officials," the letter says. Further, Chaika recalls that the Russian court found Brauder guilty of committing tax crimes and sentenced to nine years in prison.

"Understanding this, Brighter takes all possible measures to neutralize the threats. Means and ways to achieve this goal for him are familiar - threats, blackmail, discrediting persons conducting the investigation," the letter says.

Brauder's activities in Russia were accompanied by a series of mysterious deaths of people from his entourage, says the Prosecutor General. Separately, in the letter, he concerns the case of Sergei Magnitsky and the lawyer who followed the death of a “a deceitful PR campaign that has been stubborn in terms of a BRUDER”, the final of Kotroy was the adoption of the so-called “Magnitsky Law” in the United States.

Now Brauder, according to Chaika, is scared, "and he is afraid not only for himself, but also for very influential people standing behind him." That is why, the Prosecutor General believes, he started an "unprecedented, insulting attack" on him and his family. "Twice convicted by Navalny is too tough to make this expensive and full lies a film," the seagull believes. The goals of the FBK investigation, he called an attempt to discredit the Prosecutor General’s Office, “maximally extinguish the currently active phase of the investigation”, “compromise the general prosecutor of Russia, its subordinate regional leaders, to again declare our country as a partner with whom it is better not to deal with a country worthy of economic and other sanctions.” The customers of the film will not stop there, the seagull is sure.

Alexei Navalny commented on the letter of the Seagull. "From what side did William Browner arose? We expected that the Prosecutor General would distract attention and come up with the customer, but I am surprised that they had chosen him," said the founder of the FBK.

"The role of Yuri Chaika is completely clear for us, we still require a substantial answer for each item of our investigation, demand his resignation and objective trial," Navalny said.

Brauder himself, according to the Law and Order in Russia, denied its involvement in the FBK investigation, noticing at the same time that "applauds Alexei Navalny and his colleagues for their courage." “Seven pages of the seagull's extravagant accusations are that I am the CIA agent who conducts a special operation to destroy Russia, look like the ranting of someone who was caught in vigid and is desperately trying to find the path of salvation,” said the head of Hermitage Capital.

Brauder also noted that in his statement, the seagull does not comment on the accusations made by the FBK against his sons. Meanwhile, the businessman emphasized, even if some of the accusations contained in the film is fair, this still confirms that Russia is governed by mafiosi officials as a mafia state.

The former investigator in the Magnitsky case Pavel Karpov previously announced the connection of the FBK and Bruder. He prepared a statement to law enforcement agencies with a request to conduct an audit and give a procedural assessment of Navalny’s actions, which, in his opinion, are “not aimed at establishing objective circumstances and the fight against corruption”. According to the ex-investigator, Navalny, as well as William Brauder, "acts on the consciousness and will of people in order to discredit representatives of power." Karpov draws the attention of law enforcement agencies to the fact that the material of the FBK on the family of the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika was published shortly after the searches with lawyers in Cyprus conducted in the presence of investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the local police as part of a criminal case associated with the illegal acquisition of the Gazprom shares by browning.

“I am flattered by the fact that I have been given the laurels of really wonderful work that reveals corruption in the highest echelons of the authorities, but in this case I was not able to contribute to it,” Brauder himself commented on the case. “I wish Alexei Navalny further success in exposing corrupt officials, and I urge others to support him in this mission.”

On December 1, the FBK posted on the Internet the film "Seagull". The picture states that the son of the Prosecutor General Artem Chaika invests tens of millions of euros in Greek business and real estate. Also, the investigation is mentioned by Olga Lopatin, the ex -wife of Deputy Prosecutor Gennady Lopatin. According to the FBK, she owns 25 percent of the company "Sugar of the Kuban", with the same shares the wives of the bandits from Kushchevka Sergey Tsapk and Vyacheslav Tsepropy . The Office "Sahara of the Kuban" is located, according to documents, in the village of Kushchevskaya.

Yuri Chaika accused the FBK of lies and promised to name the customer of the investigation. In response, the Fund filed a lawsuit in the Presnensky district court of the official to protect his business reputation , as well as claims for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation of the authors of the investigation, including the founder of the FBC Alexei Navalny.