"I know very few people for whom honor and decency mean so much"

Entrepreneur Peter Officers died

On July 13, entrepreneur Peter Officers died, who was twice convicted with Alexei Navalny in the Kirovles case. He was 43 years old. The death editor of The New Times Evgeny Albats publicly reported about the death of the businessman; A few hours later, this was confirmed by lawyer Svetlana Davydova (she was the defender of the officer at the process of Kirovles).

The causes of Officer's death are not called; The family is still refusing to communicate with reporters. Albats told RBC that it could be a stroke. “Moscow Komsomolets” wrote on July 9 that the officers were in a hospital in New Moscow with a traumatic brain injury, allegedly received “during a seizure”; No confirmation of this information was received. According to the Interfax source in medical circles, Peter the officers went to the hospital “after the most severe epileptic blow”, and the doctors could not save him. After the news on the hospitalization of officer on his Facebook page, dozens of records appeared with a wish for recovery.

According to Svetlana Davydova, farewell to the officer will be held on July 16 at 12:00 in the ritual hall of the Sklifosovsky Research Institute in Moscow.

Peter Officers was born in 1975 in Kyrgyzstan (then - the republic within the USSR), where his father worked as a bus driver, and his mother is a teacher; When Peter was 11 years old, they moved to Bilibino on Chukotka. After school, he studied at the Zooinzhener, was engaged in beekeeping; Having moved to Moscow, he worked as a security guard, a trading representative, and sales director; joined the apple; Later he became a consultant - explained to suppliers how to put goods in a supermarket in order to increase sales; He wrote a well -known book “Supplier: Organization of effective work with chain stores”.

In 2009, the officers founded the Vyatka Forest Company for the purchase of a forest in the Kirov region. At the beginning of that year, the region was headed by Nikita Belykh , whose adviser Alexei Navalny worked on a voluntary basis for several months. In 2012, against the backdrop of large-scale opposition speeches of citizens in Moscow, the Investigative Committee accused Navalny and Officer of stole 16 million rubles from the Kirovles forestry company, which Navalny allegedly forced to conclude an obviously unprofitable deal with the Vyatka Forest Company Officer.

Both defendants in cases did not plead guilty, insisting that the Vyatka Forest Company was engaged in ordinary entrepreneurial activities, buying forests at market prices and paying taxes. Officers said that during the investigation he was offered a deal twice in exchange for “correct testimonies”, but he refused. In 2013, the court in Kirov sentenced Navalny and Officer, respectively, to five and four years in prison and took into custody, but the next day, after spontaneous protests, released “at the request of the prosecutor’s office” (as a result, Alexei Navalny was able to participate in the elections of the Moscow Mayor in 2013). Later, the verdict was replaced by conditional.

In 2016, the European Court of Human Rights recognized that the court violated the rights of Navalny and Officer to a fair trial and sentenced them to actions indistinguishable from entrepreneurship. For Navalny, a possible revision of the case meant the possibility of participating in the elections; The officers in an interview with Medusa explained that "he had no convicted in his family, especially in such articles," and that he "does not want to start this tradition."

“A joke about the criminal, of course, is funny, all my relatives and friends constantly make fun of me:“ Hide your wallets, Peter came. ” <...> I believe that you need to fight to the end, as far as possible, as long as it makes sense, ”he said. After the decision of the ECHR, the Russian Supreme Court aimed the case for a review, but the new sentence was almost literally the same as the first.

Facebook officers are remembered by friends, colleagues and acquaintances

Alexey Navalny

(Source - website navalny.com )

“Not so much for you, throughout your life, there are cases when the whole essence of an outsider is manifested before you. It happens even less often that, seeing this essence, you think: it is like a book as a book.

Here with Petya Officer I have it. The person whom the system planted, tormented, broke his life and business simply because they needed a piece of paper from him. False testimony. And he did not even send this system - no. He looked at her in bewilderment and said: do you seriously think that a decent person is capable of this? And did not retreat into a millimeter. <...>

He was just given four years. 10 minutes ago I saw his wife falling down, hearing this sentence.

“Well,” I tell him through the wall. - Petrucio, do you regret it?

- And you?

“I don't, of course.”

“Well, why did you decide that you alone want to be an honest person?” Now I’m going in this box and I think: but I am an honest person.

Sleep calmly, Petya officers, a real honest person. ”

Victor Davydov , Daniil Turovsky