Суд мести

In the circumstances, it was logical for Korovnikov's gang to be charged only with a public order offence and damage to property. "Taking into account the place, time and nature of the detonation," it could not have been intended to hurt anyone. The gang testified that they had first tried to use a smoke grenade, but that failed so they set off a minor explosion instead. Their instructions were to intimidate Kostina, but they had mistakenly targeted her mother. They were all convicted.

Looking into this episode the second time round for the political prosecution, the investigators decided that the detonation had been intended to kill Kostina. The court agreed, even though all the circumstances were the same as before. Only after arriving at Lefortovo did Korovnikov's gang suddenly say that they had been acting for Gorin. He had apparently hired them to kill Kostina, but even then in most of their testimony they still insisted that the aim had been only to intimidate.

There was a similar story with Peshkun. It's worth dwelling on his testimony, because this is a fine example of the genre. After the Gorins disappeared, in December and January he told Tambov investigators that he knew nothing. Once in the hands of the Procuracy General, and given the political ramifications of the crime, by March 2003 he had remembered at the same time as Korovnikov's gang in various prison camps, that he had heard of the plan to kill Kostina and had been present when it was discussed.

The continuation of this bizarre story was that both he, Peshkun the go-between, and Korovnikov the potential hitman, had spoken to the customer in Moscow (Pichugin). They had met up at the Paveletskiy station. Korovnikov had Pichugin's phone number (!), he called him, and they met. This was when Pichugin, unconcerned by being in a public place, asked Korovnikov to kill the Gorins.

As if an experienced security man could not meet his hitman direct and had to go through a middleman! This is basic stuff. And giving him his phone number for him to keep in touch is just laughable. Remember, Pichugin was successfully ensuring the security of Yukos's documents and secrets. He did not deal with idiots.

According to Korovnikov's testimony, at that meeting out in the open, at a crowded station, Pichugin also asked him to hand over his partners in crime - Erbes, Kabanets and Popov - to the police on the way home. "You don't need them anymore, so on the way back take with you some explosives" was his advice. "When you get back, they'll be picked up."

The man from the big city asks the leader of the gang, for reasons unknown, to deliver his partners in violent crime to prison. Immediately before carrying out a hit for him! How much do the people who draw up these records understand about the criminal world? What kind of drivel can they put into the mouth of an FSB veteran? And if the man issuing the contract does meet his hitman, going against all the rules of security, then why does he need a middleman (Peshkun) anyway?

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