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According to the investigation, the attack on Kostina was almost a game, to teach her a lesson. They supposedly wanted to kill Kolesov. His office was on the same floor as mine. Nevzlin wouldn't recognise him. He's a decent guy, I don't have anything against him. But he was just another grey suit, totally inconspicuous. He wasn't up to anything special, he was just a premises manager. He was entrusted with housekeeping functions, and he carried them out well. Secretaries, cleaners, cloths, paper for the printers, paying the phone and electricity bills - that's what he was in charge of. Khodorkovskiy probably didn't even know Kolesov existed.
The prosecution claims that Nevzlin wanted Kolesov dead. But the real situation was that Nevzlin recruited Shakhnovskiy , who brought Kolesov along with him. Nevzlin didn't care who was in charge of premises. If Shakhnovskiy gave the job to Kolesov, then so be it. But the investigation believed that "Kolesov's promotion went against the professional and personal interests" of the company's top leaders.
That, in their opinion, was the motive behind the attempt on his life. On the life of a premises manager who had no chance of promotion anyway. He was already in charge of all the other premises managers, and the cleaners and the electricians! He was the house administrator. That's as far as he could go. His only career path was sideways, for example to the car pool. But he couldn't work in accounts, or production or finance because he didn't have the education, qualifications or experience. Before this, he'd been a local party official. And in that job you quickly become deskilled."
The same would be said by anyone working at an investment company or fund, even a youngster. Because it's elementary market economics. The court might not accept the opinion of Kondaurov, a recognised specialist in security, because of his proximity to the case, but the reader can easily verify what he says. In the papers or on the net you can read anytime about global companies taking huge losses because of sins far less heinous than murder. And Yukos, accounting for 2 per cent of world oil output, was very much a global company.
Bear that in mind if you get to read the indictment. There is good reason why national television in a series of propaganda reports gave only a vague outline of the case against Pichugin. Nobody dared to look at the victims' status or the real motives for the crime, or at the evidence for fear of punishment. So the idea was to gradually bring the viewer round to the "Soviet" conclusion - we don't put people away for nothing.
But it turns out that they do. According to his lawyers, in Lefortovo Pichugin was made an offer he could not refuse. All he had to do was admit organising three murder bids on his bosses' orders. In particular on orders from Nevzlin, who had escaped prosecution by leaving for Israel. As just a link in the chain, Pichugin would not be held responsible for commissioning or committing the murders. He would get off with a few years' suspended. After all, even those who are proven to have commissioned killings can receive suspended sentences in Russia. Just look at Anatoliy Bykov from Krasnoyarsk.
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