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And, according to the investigation and Peshkun, instead of sending his blackmailer packing, the famously austere Khodorkovskiy Snr meekly heard him out. And for some reason failed to mention this alarming event to either his son or the Yukos security service. This particular discrepancy was ignored. It was after his alleged visit to Khodorkovskiy's father that Sergey Gorin came into the money on which he lived the high life. So runs the prosecution's story.

But imagine for a second that Gorin did indeed visit Boris Moyseyevich Khodorkovskiy. Nobody likes treachery or blackmail, and here the talk was not even of Mikhail Khodorkovskiy but of Pichugin, a fairly low-ranking figure. If Khodorkovskiy Snr knew Pichugin, then it was only in passing. Over 3,000 people worked at the Yukos HQ. And Boris Moyseyevich has said publicly on several occasions that he had never encountered Gorin and even if he had, as a man of old-fashioned values he would have sent him packing. The prosecution, naturally, failed to hear that.

Back to the source of Gorin's money. He was living it up long before the hypothetical visit to Khodorkovskiy, and there is still no explaining how he built a home, ran a household with a domestic help, and bought a car and posh flat for 40 grand. If we look at the timeline for his acquisition of such wealth, the Procuracy General's story does not stand up.

Why is it so vital to find out where the jobless Gorins got the money for their lifestyle? Because the answer could shed light on the circumstances of and motive for the crime and provide a much more plausible scenario than that concocted by the prosecutors. And the entire case for the prosecution rests on the motive. So we need to dig deeper.

Life in the fast lane

The Gorins' disappearance may not have caused a sensation in Tambov, but it did cause some interest.

"You have to understand that we all viewed this with a degree of scepticism," Tambov journalist Taisiya Kirillova says. She was working for the Tambovskaya Zhizn newspaper at the time. "There were persistent rumours about town that Gorin was in debt to some fairly heavy people, and that his disappearance had something to do with that. Nobody really believed that he'd been killed, because this wasn't the first time he'd gone missing."

Here we come up against Sergey Gorin's somewhat ambiguous past. As we know, he was a fairly high-profile figure in Tambov. In 1993 he set up a company called Algoritm. Many saw immediately that it was a pyramid scheme, but nonetheless in the space of three years it gathered about 200 million dollars from credulous locals.

What assets Algoritm had and where it put the money, is unknown. Gorin publicly announced a number of investment projects. The shell of a radio factory that Algoritm started building still stands in Tambov.

However, it is known that Algoritm money was used to buy a number of large flats in Moscow, St Petersburg and Tambov. A source with inside knowledge of the regional administration says that the flats were intended for local VIPs and their families. In fact, the regional administration was using Gorin and Algoritm to sell off some major state assets under the counter - in particular a number of office blocks now occupied by the region's biggest banks and supermarkets.

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