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It was a distortion of the truth, but all the newspapers took their cue from the prosecution and described Peshkun as Gorin's driver - thereby telling their readers that he was a confidant entrusted with secrets. The two men were buying used cars together in Moscow and taking them to Tambov for repair and sale. Gorin drove himself in Tambov. The story about a driver was for the public's benefit. During the trial and in real life, Peshkun was never referred to as Gorin's driver. But it was fed to the media by the Procuracy General's press officer, Natalya Veshnyakova.

From here on, the case gets very strange indeed. Korovnikov, who was never close to Gorin, was questioned. He said that in mid-January 1999 an apparently agitated Gorin had brought him a folder for safe keeping. And said literally the following: "I'm giving you this folder to look after. It contains compromising material. It's got photos of people that I'm afraid of. If they came after it, I'd hand it over because I've got a family to think about. But you're a hard man, they won't touch you."

Korovnikov took the folder and glanced inside. It contained papers with Menatep Bank stamps, and photos of Pichugin and Nevzlin. Korovnikov then apparently took the folder to his grandmother's home in the country and put it in a drawer. He was arrested in February, having forgotten about the folder only to suddenly remember it three years later when doing time at Ognennyy island and after being visited there by investigator Demidov.

Detectives went to see his grandmother, found nothing and asked if she'd thrown anything out in the last few years. "I might have," the old woman answered. "I don't remember." So they wrote down that she had disposed of the folder. During the trial, the defence asked Korovnikov: "Did Gorin try to recover the folder from you after you were arrested? It did, after all, contain papers that were important to him." Korovnikov was not ready for the question and simply refused to answer.

By any logic, Gorin could not have gone to Korovnikov in 1999 and told him he feared Pichugin. Because in 2000 he asked Pichugin to be godfather to his son. If I were scared of someone in 1999, I would not bestow such an honour on him the next year. In January 1999, Gorin had plenty of people whom he knew well enough to entrust with confidential information. But Korovnikov was not one of them: Gorin did not know him well enough.

Further on, it gets stranger still. During the investigation, Korovnikov recalled that back in 1999 Pichugin had tried to hire him to kill the Gorins. But he had declined to do it out of "a sense of decency". Korovnikov had a sense of decency?

The convicted killer's testimony snowballed. Three bullets and two spent cases were found at the scene of the crime. And Korovnikov suddenly remembered that Pichugin had tried to hire him to kill the Gorins in 1999. It's worth reading this bizarre story from the Procuracy General in full:

"He offered me 50,000 dollars and instructed me to shoot her three times in the chest and use one round on him. This was to make it look like suicide - as if Gorin had shot her three times and killed himself with a single shot. If I killed them in any other way, I'd only get 20,000 dollars."

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