Court as an Ospop or Cholera

The former investigator of the UK is trying to file a lawsuit against the FSB. Report "Medusa"

On Wednesday, December 7, the Meshchansky District Court examined the complaint of a former employee of the Investigative Committee Igor Stepanov to the Federal Security Service. The former investigator is trying to find out on the basis of which document he was sent across the state border to South Ossetia during the war with Georgia in August 2008. The Special Corps of Medusa Ilya Azar visited the court and observed how Stepanov tried to prove to the court the validity of his claim.

"The plaintiff appeared in the case of Stepanov?" - the secretary asked loudly, who left the office of the judge of the philistine court Irina Afanasyeva in the corridor. No one spoke. The secretary repeated her question again. Four Judge Afanasyev, who came to the meeting of the journalist and participants in other cases, were planning to consider at least six cases in the interval between 9 and 10 in the morning) looked at each other.

After that, a large young man silently approached the secretary, said that he was from the FSB, and quietly added that the plaintiff was here too.

Since Stepanov was not able to find a photograph of Stepanov on the Internet, and he still did not betray himself, I began to call the coordinator of the human rights direction of “Open Russia” Maria Baronova (on the eve of Vedomosti, they said that Stepanov began to cooperate with “open Russia”). At that moment, a gray -haired man in a suit, before that calmly sitting on a bench, came up to me and quietly said: "Stepanov is me, but I will not give comments before the meeting."

Stepanov said about his work in the Investigative Committee that he was preparing requests for legal assistance to other countries, including in the first case of Yukos. Also, the former investigator unsuccessfully disputed the presidential decree in court on the allocation of the IC from the Prosecutor General.

The consideration of his claim, which was supposed to begin at 9:10, eventually began after 11 hours. During the wait, Stepanov, finally admitted that he was him, relaxed and even responded to the replica of the participant of another process by a quote from President Putin: “Vladimir Vladimirovich said that we did not have untouchables.”

Stepanov also talked Tet-A-Tet ​​with the representative of the FSB.

- Did you make peace with the FSB? I asked him later.

“Yes, we have not quarreled, but we have to record everything,” the former investigator muttered in response.

At the meeting, Stepanov told the judge that in August 2008, when the Georgian troops entered Tskhinval, he worked as the head of the Department of International Legal Cooperation of the Investigative Committee. “I was removed from the workplace with the group, they took me to the airport. We flew to Beslan ( airport near Vladikavkaz - approx. Medusa ), and from there the very next day, issuing a military uniform, we sent to Tskhinval. I was there for several days, after which, by order of the chairman of the UK, a helicopter flew back [to Moscow], ”said Stepanov. What exactly he did in those days in the capital of South Ossetia, he did not specify.

Subsequently, Stepanov decided to find out on what basis he was in South Ossetia and for which he received the medal "for participating in the opposition of aggression in South Ossetia." “I repeatedly turned to the UK, but there I was informed that they have no order on my direction to the territory of a foreign state. I turned to the Ministry of Defense, because we were told that in South Ossetia we will be employees of the Armed Forces, ”the former investigator continued. - There I was asked to name the number of the military unit, which was part of which I was in South Ossetia [but I do not know him]. I can’t find any ends, so I turned to the FSB, since its border service, undoubtedly, records movements through the state border of a large group of employees of the UK, and even from the armored personnel carrier and on military cars. ”

In the FSB, according to Stepanov, he was not answered twice - in March and June 2016, after which he went to court.

- So what are your requirements? The judge asked.

“So that the defendant’s actions were recognized as unlawful by the answer and so that they were still informed on the basis of which I crossed the state border,” Stepanov answered.

The representative of the FSB (he never named his name) immediately stated that Stepanov’s claims were “not subject to satisfaction”. “According to the Federal Law“ On the Procedure for Considering the Appeals of the Russian Federation of the Russian Federation, “Stepanov’s appeal, in the prescribed manner, was registered and considered, after which it was sent to another state body in accordance with its competence,” said the FSB representative, adding that Stepanov was sent by e -mail a notification of the transfer of his appeal to the Investigative Committee.

Stepanov specified the representative of the FSB with why his repeated appeal was not redirected to the Investigative Committee. “Since the issues are identical to the original appeal, we believed that this was a kind of reminder of your first appeal in March,” the representative of the special services answered.

- So does the FSB competence with the question of the intersection by citizens of the state border? - Stepanov did not calm down.

- The question is incorrect. According to the Rules of the SK, the procedure for serving employees in the regions of Russia and abroad is regulated by regulatory legal acts of the IC, and the order of the commanding is the management of the SK personnel.

In the debate that took place immediately, Stepanov abandoned the first part of his demands. “I have to withdraw them, as the defendant presented the information that he sent me a notification. And in the fact that it was not received, the wine is not the defendant, but “Yandex,” said Stepanov. “But in terms of receiving an answer on the merits, it seems to me that, probably, the representative of the defendant is probably not quite correctly answered, since the question posed by me still refers to his competence.”

After that, the judge went to the deliberation room, and having left it, left Stepanov’s lawsuit without satisfaction.

The former investigator gathered the documents in the portfolio and ran out of the hall. Stepanov reluctantly explained to me that in clarifying the circumstances of his sending him to Tskhinval there is only his personal interest.

- That is, you are not going, for example, to prove that Russia illegally entered the troops into South Ossetia?

- No. I am rather interested in schizophrenia of Russian state bodies. And this is just an example that I will use, in particular, in my doctoral dissertation. Our legislation requires me to have my personal interest, otherwise it will ask what I came to him. In fact, as a doctor, I have to vaccinate OSPU or Holer, ”Stepanov answered me and headed for the exit.

-And what is the topic of the doctor? - I threw after him.

“You will learn everything,” he answered mysteriously.

The Executive Director of the Open Russia movement Timur Valeev explained that Stepanov’s lawsuit against the FSB was “his personal initiative”. In Open Russia, Stepanov will be investigated, in particular about the activities of the Moscow City Duma, which, according to Valeev, are interested in the organization in the context of the elections of municipal deputies in 2017.

Ilya Azar

Moscow