Larisa Kaftan
Source: KP.RU-Digest

Nine years ago, on March 1, 1995, Vladislav Listyev, a popular TV presenter and general director of ORT, was killed in the entrance of his house. In his new book Who Killed Vlad? former Prosecutor General Yuri Skuratov encrypted the names

Nine years ago, on March 1, 1995, Vladislav Listyev, a popular TV presenter and general director of ORT, was killed in the entrance of his house. In his new book "Who Killed Vlad?" former Prosecutor General Yuri Skuratov encrypted the names of the killers.

The author defined the genre of the book as "a crime novel with digressions, documents, a chronicle and the diary of the Prosecutor General." In the novel, everything is laid out on the shelves, and "who killed Vlad" is understandable. But it's still a work of art.

In the afterword, the author writes:“The investigation into this case is not over, it is ongoing, and for obvious reasons I cannot say much. That is why he chose a special form of narration - the genre of the novel, where it would be possible to combine the real with the fictitious, real surnames with invented ones. But almost every invented one has its own real-life prototype.

Heroes real and fictional

Cause of murder TV journalist, according to the ex-Prosecutor General, became advertising money: “It was a golden rain that fell from heaven, run only with a saucepan and substitute a vessel under the jets. This pie was very oily. He walked past the mouth of the state, past the mouth of the television company.”

Many tried to put their hands on the pie - both criminal groups, in particular, "Solntsevskaya", and officials, and deputies. The leader of one of the groups (the nickname in the book is the Boss) offered Listyev the so-called "partnership". At first, the Boss did not want to kill Listyev: “Vlad is a popular person, the people love him, and the people must be respected. What are we without the people? BUT?"

The Boss failed to reach an agreement with Listyev. But it turned out - with a certain Sergei Beilis, the main authority among advertisers.

Beilis tried to put pressure on Listyev. Did not work out. "Vlad, change your mind! Did you smoke some Indonesian weed? Change your mind! You're risking!"

When the Boss found out that Beilis had also failed to negotiate with the stubborn Listyev, it took him only ten minutes to give the order to kill Vlad.

There is a feeling that some the features of the book Beiliss are "written off" from the real advertising tycoon of that time, Sergei Lisovsky. Like Lisovsky, Beilis is a former Komsomol worker. Beilis people go to the popular disco "LIS'S". The fictitious surname Beilis does not seem to be accidental. Or is it “Berezovsky + Lisovsky”. Or the main thing in it is the verb "beat". Bay (whom?) Fox ...

It is known that Lisovsky at one time sued - and successfully - with several well-known metropolitan publications that linked his name with the “Listiev case”. Many who are well acquainted with Lisovsky believe: "Lisovsky, who ordered the murder of Listyev, is from the area of ​​\u200b\u200bcomplete paranoia."

About the role of safari in human relations

In the book, after the death of Listyev, Beilis began to steer advertising money for ORT.“Beilis is toothy, recently he was issued a permanent pass to the Kremlin, now he is not only the offices there, now he himself opens the Spassky Gate with his foot,” writes Skuratov.

With one of the major Kremlin officials - a certain Krzhizhanovsky - Beilis even went to Africa on a safari. By the way, the most famous lover of African hunting from the Kremlin is Yeltsin's former press secretary Sergei Yastrzhembsky. This is how Krzhizhanovsky is described in the book: “tall, elegant, with a thick hat dark hair, slender, like an actor. Yastrzhembsky himself also appears in the novel: he suggested that the investigation check the testimony of the witness, who turned out to be mentally ill.

When clouds gathered over Beilis and he began to ask Krzhizhanovsky for protection, recalling how they hunted in Africa, he replied: “In Africa? I don't remember being with you in Africa."

How the investigation was "pressed"

Skuratov portrayed himself under the name Belsky. By the way, Belsky is the real name of Malyuta Skuratov, the main guardsman of Ivan the Terrible. According to the plot of the book, Belsky comes to the Prosecutor General's Office at the beginning of the investigation into the Listyev case.

“Belsky was wondering whether anyone from the Kremlin elite would take one of the suspects under his direct protection or not. No one, not a single person asked him openly not to touch Beilis, Lisovsky (sometimes in the novel fictional characters intersect with real ones. - Author), not to look for approaches to "Solntsevo" and "Izmailovsky". Although the dumb looks were more than eloquent.

From the diary of Prosecutor General Belsky: “They say that the president, having drunk an extra shot, gathered his “family”, and, like any good “godfather”, announced, sniffing like a peasant:

Guys, you know better than me that I'm not eternal. So you know...don't get lost. In general, is everything clear to you?

And the guys are not lost, they are trying with might and main. If all of them are brought under the letter of the law, hundreds of criminal cases will arise. And I really want to initiate these cases.”

One of the main characters of the novel is Petr Triboi, head of the investigation team of the Prosecutor General's Office. This is a real investigator who managed to untie the most tangled knots in the Listyev case.

According to the plot of the book, the perpetrators of the murder of Listyev die one after another, and when the investigation reaches the customers, the Boss dies, and then Beilis himself.

After that, again according to the plot of the book, the “Listiev case” was requested by the Kremlin. Belsky was summoned by the head of the presidential administration: “a fattening, short-legged man in an expensive tweed jacket with long sleeves reaching to his fingertips,” “sleepy eyes half-closed with heavy eyelids, boyish bangs stuck to a sweaty forehead.” It is not difficult to recognize the then head of administration, the present husband of Yeltsin's daughter Valentin Yumashev. “The case should be closed,” the book administration head ordered the book prosecutor general.

FROM THE "KP" DOSSIER

Vladislav Listyev was born on May 10, 1956. In 1982 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. He began his career at the All-Union Radio. From 1987 to 1990 he worked in the famous TV program "Vzglyad". And from the 90th year he became the artistic director and host of the programs "Field of Miracles", "Theme" and "Rush Hour". One of the founders of the television company "ViD". Later he became the general director of ORT (now Channel One). On March 1, 1995, he was killed in the entrance of his own house by unknown persons. The tragedy shook the entire country. The investigation was taken under personal control by President Boris Yeltsin.

QUOTE FROM THE BOOK

“... the American Forbes magazine published an article with a “typically US” title: “The Most Influential Man in Russia.” The article reported that when Vlad announced on his channel his intention to cover up commercial advertising, Sergey Lisovsky demanded one hundred million dollars in compensation from him. Vlad asked Boris Berezovsky to become a kind of financial agent and transfer this money to Lisovsky. Berezovsky took a bag of cash - exactly one million "greens" fit in it, but did not hand over the money to Lisovsky.

Soon Vlad was killed.

When Belsky asked Triboy what Forbes magazine was, he replied with complete confidence: - It's the most careful magazine in the world. Editor James Michaels gave an interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent in New York Andrey Baranov and talked about how they check their information for accuracy. - Triboi dug in his pocket and took out a piece of paper with a quote: "The article with details about the reasons for the murder of Vlad is no exception, and the editors can confirm all the facts presented in it."

In the evening of the same day, Berezovsky was interrogated.

Do you want to sew this thing on me? - the oligarch asked indignantly.

Berezovsky completely rejected the facts presented in Forbes.

This is a fantasy! he said. - Fiction and lies!

(Yuri Skuratov. “Who killed Vlad?”)

“The chances that the case will be solved are 50/50,” says Yuri Skuratov

- Why did you decide to write this book?

To attract public attention, the investigation to the topic. Maybe even President Putin. Even though it was not him, but Yeltsin, he undertook to find the killers, but nevertheless, without advertising this to a large public, he could ask Ustinov: “How are you investigating the Listyev case?” For this investigation to be completed, political will is needed.

- And what, the Prosecutor General's Office cannot complete the investigation without instructions from the president?

In cases of this kind, even the Prosecutor General needs the support of the President. After all, it is necessary to resolve issues with the provision of the investigation team, with operational support.

- You have a rebus book on how to figure out who is who. Who is Sergei Beilis?

No comment.

- Why didn't you write a documentary novel and say clearly who killed Vlad?

Because the matter is at the stage of active investigation, and I cannot write everything I know, including because of respect for the work of investigators. Not the time. If the investigation is suspended, then my hands will be free.

- Do you think the prototypes read the book? You would send a copy to London to one of the heroes of the book - Berezovsky, otherwise it is probably difficult to get it there.

I have no doubt that Boris Abramovich has already read it, like other characters. We interrogated Berezovsky several times, I met with him myself. To put it mildly, he did not tell everything about this case. For example, on the eve of his death, Vlad Berezovsky met with him. But he remained stubbornly silent about it. Only when we came to this fact by investigative means, pinned him down, did he confess. Now that he is in disgrace, it will be much easier with him. We dealt with him when he was the second person in the state. They even issued an arrest warrant. Imagine the noise! Everyone was on their ears.

- In your book, all the customers are dead, and the case is transferred to the Kremlin to be buried in a safe. In the afterword, you write that events can develop according to this or a similar scenario.

This logic followed from the situation of that time and was not so exotic. There were many attempts to put pressure on the investigation through the media, different versions were thrown up, including from the Kremlin, from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, leading us astray. It was a real lunatic. The last time I reported to President Yeltsin that we have discarded all the versions and are working on the main one, we are collecting evidence against the customer and we will go out to arrest him. But taking him into custody was a problem. First, the Kremlin connections. Secondly, we perfectly studied his personality, we knew all his possibilities. Third, money. At that time, he could challenge our actions in court. And in our court - not only the most humane, but also the most manageable - he could achieve a decision to change the preventive measure. If this happened, then we would simply be devoured by all our ill-wishers. Yes, and the ground began to slip from under my feet due to the fact that the authorities did not want an investigation into Mabetex, the theft of a tranche of 4.8 billion dollars. I have a critical mass of enemies. Now the family clan has gone out of power. But will the investigation risk aggravating the situation with him?

- Did you then communicate on this case with the president's daughter Tatyana Dyachenko?

She did everything to prevent me from meeting with Yeltsin. And it was almost impossible to get through to him, and I was not always sure of his adequacy. I personally warned her not to active contacts with the defendants in the case. She listened, but passed by her ears. According to the principle: and Vaska listens and eats.

- The main merits in establishing the truth in this case belong to the investigator Triboi. How was his fate?

Before him, the remarkable investigator Uvarov worked on the case, he worked well, thoroughly. Wonderful person. But he did not establish normal relations with Albina, Listyev's wife, and she knew a lot. And Albina closed herself. Triboi, when he took up this case, managed to get her to talk. Triboi is a very decent person to the point of scrupulousness. The economy knew what our investigators often lack. Tenacious, corrosive. He had to finish this job. He was on the right way because there were threats against him. This is an investigator from God. It is a pity that these people turned out to be unnecessary in the Prosecutor General's Office. His "gone". Now he works in the bar.

Did the Triboi help you write the book?

- If, nevertheless, the “political will” is shown, what are the chances that the case will be completed?

50 to 50.

- But this is very little!

No, it's not enough. People who are directly connected with this crime, unlike the heroes of my book, are alive. This is the main thing.

Larisa KAFTAN

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Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

PETER TRIBOY

"The murder of Listyev.

An investigation that has become irrelevant"

INVESTIGATOR'S CONFESSION

Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

Opening remarks by Yu.I. Skuratova

Foreword

The murder of Listyev

Features of the investigation

Relations with the media

Interrogations of Berezovsky B.A. and his "assistance" to the investigation

The history of the publication of Forbes magazine (Forbes)

The role of Prosecutor General Skuratov in the investigation

Strikes on the investigation

Group Investigators

Assistance of foreign colleagues to the investigation

Grimaces of the investigation

Strange changes in the investigative department of the Prosecutor General's Office

Resignation

My investigation corridors

sad reflections

Afterword

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Another circumstance is connected with the personality of Peter Triboi himself. We are talking not only about one of the most trained and competent investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia, but also about an exceptionally decent, principled and honest person who firmly stands on the position of law, honor and justice, which in modern conditions is becoming a rarity.

His destiny life path, most of which took place during the "dashing 90s" gives a three-dimensional idea of ​​​​the difficulties and problems that our law enforcement system faced.

It took a lot of work to persuade P.G. Triboy to take up the pen. I first made this attempt after meeting with Paul Klebnikov back in 2003, who told me about his work on a book dedicated to the murder of Listyev. But, being a modest person by nature, Petr Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

Georgievich sincerely believed that his thoughts, thoughts about the peculiarities of the work of an investigator, those morals that reigned in law enforcement agencies, did not deserve such close attention.

And only arguments about the uniqueness of the Listyev case, the need to convey the truth to the reader, to clear any verbal garbage from the real facts in the conditions of an incomplete investigation helped to correct the situation, and put Pyotr Georgievich behind desk. And this is very important, since it was he, as the head of the investigative and operational group in this case, who had the largest amount of operational and investigative information.

At the same time, I would like to immediately warn the reader who wants to get a "full alignment" in this case, to get acquainted with the most secret secrets of the investigation. Pyotr Georgievich, being a professional "to the marrow of his bones", perfectly understands that the murder has not yet been solved, the case, although suspended, has not yet lost its final prospect of disclosure.

The people who committed this crime live among us and are eagerly catching any information about this investigation in order to avoid responsibility. The connection between investigative secrecy and official ethics made certain adjustments to the work of P.G. Triboy, but did not make it less interesting. In the orbit of the investigation, one way or another, interesting personalities who played a significant role in the political life of Russia (B. Yeltsin, T. Dyachenko, B. Berezovsky, leaders law enforcement countries, etc.) Their actions and deeds, previously unknown to the general reader, are shown by the author. He lifted the veil over some aspects of the activities of the prosecutor's office, in organizing the investigation of criminal cases, which are usually rarely covered. Although fragmented, but very convincingly shows the mechanism of countering the investigation, which one way or another, law enforcement officers have to face when investigating serious, socially significant crimes.

The complex topic of the relationship between the investigation and the journalistic corps in connection with the murder of V. Listyev is quite convincingly presented.

Sharing the just indignation and indignation of Vlad's colleagues in the profession, their desire to have any information about the course of the investigation, the defendants in the case, etc., the author cannot ignore the facts Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

opportunistic use of this information for political purposes to put pressure on law enforcement agencies.

P. Triboy, like the author of these lines, was deeply disappointed by the indifferent attitude of the majority of media representatives in connection with the refusal of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation to resume the investigation of the “Listiev case” after receiving sensational confessions from the head of the First Channel of Russian Television Konstantin Ernst. That would be where to really remember Vlad and show integrity and perseverance!

It should be emphasized the truthfulness and objectivity of Pyotr Georgievich in the presentation of all events. He cites absolutely reliable facts and gives them an objective assessment. It is impossible not to note the inner modesty of the author, who, in fact, was the most successful investigator of those who worked on this case and came closest to solving this crime without completing the investigation due to circumstances beyond his control.

It remains only to regret that the book is relatively small in volume and the author has not stated even half of what he knows about. But, I hope that the time to tell the whole truth will still come ... Actual State Counselor of Justice

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I was asked to write about one of the most resonant crimes of the 90s - the murder of the famous TV journalist Vladislav Listyev 16 years ago. Moreover, journalists, publishers, and people who knew me well contacted me. For various reasons, I did not dare to touch this topic for a long time.

And even with internal disapproval, I agreed, although it did not depend on me, with the release in the early 2000s of the book of the former Prosecutor General of Russia, Yuri Ilyich Skuratov, entitled "Who killed Vlad Listyev."

21 years have passed since the murder of Vlad. During this time, much has subsided ... In a word, "there are no others, but those are far away." And the current attempt to talk about the investigation of this case is not made for the sake of PR. I do not need any publicity, especially against the backdrop of such a high-profile crime.

It would be immoral in relation to the memory of the murdered. I am not going to run anywhere and do not apply for any positions.

There are persistent fabrications about this investigation, and I feel it is my moral duty to dispel at least some of them. And, if I succeed, then I think that this story justified itself. I will tell you mainly about what remained in my memory against my will. Mark Twain advised: "Tell the truth and then you won't have to remember anything." Following the wisdom of the classic, I will only tell the truth, because it is easier to tell a story this way.

I will also tell about the circumstances of the investigation of this crime, which remained “behind the scenes”. In order for the reader to understand what I'm talking about, I will give the following example: the investigator conducted a search, interrogated a person, performed another investigative action and, in accordance with the Code of Criminal Procedure, drew up a protocol. In the protocol, he is obliged to describe the procedural actions in the order in which they were carried out and state the statements of the persons participating in this. During interrogation, the testimonies of the interrogated person are recorded, if possible, verbatim in the first person. Meanwhile, there are many nuances that the investigator is not required to enter into the protocol. Where do you put your personal feelings, impressions about specific people and their actions. This and other things, including, will be discussed in my story.

Or here's another. How many people know that the first defendants in the “case of the gang of Novokuznetsk killers Labotsky, Barybin and others” were detained as part of the investigation into the murder of Listyev. Then accepting the case Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

"killers" to their production, a brilliant senior "important"

Prosecutor General's Office Valery Evgrafovich Kostarev brought it to its logical end. 32 people who committed over a hundred different grave and especially grave crimes were brought to criminal responsibility.

Of these, more than 40 murders. That was the time of the so-called "dashing 90s."

In addition, few people know that during the investigation of the murder of Listyev for committing other crimes, more than 10 people were identified and prosecuted, in respect of which they did not receive sufficient data in order to bring charges in the case we are investigating.

Listyev was killed shortly after his appointment as General Director of ORT (Public Russian Television). The above facts indicate that his murder had far-reaching consequences for the criminal world. It dealt a crushing blow and put an end to one of the most brutal killer gangs of the time. Already being among those "who went to eternity", Vlad, by his death, moved law enforcement officers to interrupt the bloody conveyor and cut off the head of the most dangerous hydra. The subsequent arrests and prosecution of members of the criminal community made it possible to save more than one human life. The country has become cleaner - one less gang.

The murder of Listyev

On March 1, 1995, he was at home when, in the evening, in an special issue of the NTV channel, TV presenter Tatyana Mitkova announced that the General Director of Public Russian Television, the idol, as she said, of millions of people - Vlad Listyev, had just been killed in the entrance of her own house on Novokuznetskaya Street.

From this sad news, I was seized by a kind of chill over my body, since it was hard to even imagine that this could happen to Listyev. Vlad was so popular that it seemed that nothing bad could happen to him. The crime literally shocked the whole country, since, without exaggeration, Vlad was a popular favorite. Many wept for him.

In addition to regretting what happened, I thought, I don’t “envy” the investigator who will be assigned to investigate this murder. At that time, I was a senior investigator for especially important cases of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

Russia could not have imagined that a year and seven months later I would be assigned to lead the investigative-operational group created to investigate this unprecedented case. Truly, the ways of the Lord are inscrutable!

How did I get involved in this extraordinary investigation? At the end of July 1995, he resigned from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. He left, including in connection with the transfer to the investigative department of the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia.

In August 1995, he was appointed investigator for particularly important cases.

The head of the investigative department, Mikhail Borisovich Katyshev, introduced me to the investigative-operational group headed by the investigator for especially important cases, Vladimir Ilyich Startsev.

Shortly before these, Startsev took over the criminal case on the murder of Listyev, which he received from Boris Ivanovich Uvarov, the senior investigator for especially important cases.

Initially, Katyshev identified one area of ​​work for me and, having studied the materials provided, drew up and agreed on a detailed plan of investigative and operational actions and began to implement it.

Naturally, he periodically reported on the results of his work to Katyshev and Startsev. Taking into account the data received, the plan was adjusted each time, new measures were outlined, both investigative and operational.

On October 24, 1995, the real Doctor of Law, Professor Yuri Ilyich Skuratov was appointed the new Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. At one time he was one of the youngest PhDs in the former Soviet Union. For a long time he taught at the Sverdlovsk Law Institute.

Then he worked in the state-legal department of the Central Committee of the CPSU. After the abolition of the 6th article of the USSR Constitution "on the CPSU, as the leading and guiding force of our society", Yuri Ilyich was sent to work as a legal consultant in the KGB of the USSR, and later in the Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation. In 1993, Skuratov was appointed director of the Research Institute for the Problems of Strengthening Law and Order under the Prosecutor General's Office. He was a member of the collegium of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.

Life always gives some kind of signs - obscure at the beginning and very understandable later. The then Chairman of the Federation Council Vladimir Filippovich Petr Georgievich Triboi represented the newly appointed Prosecutor General to the staff | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

Shumeiko. It happened in the Marble Hall of the General Prosecutor's Office on Bolshaya Dmitrovka. This event was covered by our main TV channels: ORT, Russia, NTV, TVC. In the evening, looking through the news, I saw myself in the hall. I did not have enough space, and I stood in the passage near the right wall of the hall. The cameraman, showing the audience, for some reason held the camera on me for a few seconds. Maybe because he was standing. Could I then have imagined that I would have to work closely with the newly appointed Prosecutor General Yuri Ilyich Skuratov? That in the future it will come to the point that I will interrogate the appointed Prosecutor General himself, and then I will recognize him as a victim. True, in another criminal case. I note that he will not be the first Attorney General I interrogate. At that unusual time, it so happened that, for various reasons, Ilyushenko A.N., Stepankov V.G., and then Skuratov Yu.I. were interrogated.

After the arrival of Skuratov, at his suggestion, Yury Yakovlevich Chaika was appointed First Deputy Prosecutor General, and Mikhail Borisovich Katyshev was appointed Deputy Prosecutor General for Investigation. According to the law, it was Chaika who was the second official of the Prosecutor General's Office.

Paying tribute to the internal regulations, we - the investigators, nevertheless, considered Katyshev "the first after God", since both in the procedural and supervisory terms we focused exclusively on him.

Thus, in connection with the new appointment, Mikhail Borisovich left the investigative department. Vladimir Ivanovich Kazakov, the head of the department for the investigation of banditry and premeditated murders (in everyday life we ​​called the department "gangster"), was appointed its new head.

Like Katyshev, Kazakov was an experienced operational officer, softer in character than Katyshev, but also a man devoted to his profession, a demanding and delicate leader. He enjoyed unquestioned authority among the investigators. Friendly and humble.

It should be noted that the investigation into the murder of Listyev was under all possible controls. Investigative work was heard from Katyshev and Skuratov, operational work - from the first persons of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

General reports of the investigation and operational work of the Prosecutor General took place with the participation of these leaders. I was told that Minister of the Interior Anatoly Sergeevich Kulikov also participated in such hearings. When I reported, I had to meet the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB: respectively, Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin and Nikolai Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

Dmitrievich Kovalev. Sometimes Yuri Yakovlevich Chaika also took part.

The heads of the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation and the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as the operational department of the FSB were always present. As far as I know, the Prosecutor General, in turn, reported on the progress of the investigation to President Yeltsin. I know about this, because from time to time I myself prepared review notes to the General “for a report to the President”.

The fact is that Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin took the assassination of Listyev very closely. According to his decree, Pankratov, head of the Moscow police department, and Ponomarev, Moscow prosecutor, were immediately removed from their posts.

On March 2, 1995, the President arrived in Ostankino and spoke to Vlad's colleagues. He said: “I could not help but come to you at this moment. And I bow my head before you as one of the culprits of those leaders who did not take enough measures to combat banditry, corruption, bribery and crime. The murder of Listyev is a tragedy for all of Russia, and Moscow has become a place for gang killings. It is necessary to toughen the fight against such crimes.” Neither before nor since did the President make such apologies.

In October 1996, after another operational meeting on the case, the Prosecutor General, dissatisfied with the progress of the investigation, ordered me to continue the investigation. This was done without any shouting and external irritation. Actually, as I later became convinced, such a manner of behavior was not characteristic of the intelligent Yuri Ilyich.

He calmly said, “I am not satisfied with today's report and the overall progress of the case. Therefore, I instruct investigator Triboi to head the investigative-operational group. Pyotr Georgievich, accept the case for proceedings, study it carefully, draw up a new plan of investigative and operational measures. Discuss the plan in terms of operational work with the attached forces of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Report on the execution, the deadline is ten days. After this meeting, when we left the Prosecutor General's office, it seemed to me that Volodya Startsev breathed a sigh of relief. I cannot say that this serious task of the Prosecutor General, in turn, made me happy.

Of course, the change of the head of the investigative group did not speed up the investigation. But in life there are different situations. Guessed, Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

that hard, exhausting work awaits me. But, this circumstance just did not frighten. If we recall that difficult time, the reaction of society and the country's leadership to this shocking murder, we can say that it was perceived as a kind of challenge thrown by the criminal world to all of us.

At stake, as never before, extremely sharply, was the question of the professional viability of the then law enforcement agencies and, above all, the investigation and operational services. They had no choice but to accept this challenge and find those who dared to disturb the public peace so brazenly.

Accordingly, unraveling the threads of this complex case meant that we were worth something. Failure, however, put a greasy stain in the official biography of not only each of us, but also belittled the authority of the law enforcement system as a whole.

After all, the state can only be considered normal when it knows how to protect its citizens and give a fitting rebuff to those who are trying to replace it, arranging arbitrary reprisals. At least, this is how I saw the picture: an unprecedented case and a corresponding responsibility for its fate. Moreover, the burden of responsibility pressed from all sides: from the immediate superiors, from the leaders of my bosses, that is, from the country's authorities, from Vlad's relatives and friends, from the deceased's colleagues - journalists, from ordinary people who were regularly informed about the investigation by the media.

From the height of today, I can say that this investigation patted me pretty much like no other. And this is despite the fact that all the cases that have been investigated for the last twelve years of my labor activity were of particular importance.

In my further narration I want to make some clarifications.

Since the crime of Listyev's murder cannot be called solved in a procedural manner, I will have to refer only to facts that, in my opinion, will not harm the investigation. It (the consequence) is still not completed.

So, after the last volumes of the criminal case had migrated from Startsev's safes to mine, I thought that he would still tell me about what lay, as it were, "behind the scenes." But contrary to my expectations, Volodya did not say anything of the kind. I only noticed that everything that is - in the volumes of the case. “Read and understand everything,” he said. Frankly, such a simple answer surprised me a little.

Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

I do not want to throw a stone at someone else's garden, and may my predecessors forgive me, but the study of the case revealed a bleak picture. I admit this circumstance with sadness, since I do not exclude that I, in turn, missed something, underestimated it. And, if someone puts forward some justified claims, he is ready to accept them. But what was, was. You can't take words out of a song.

An investigator from the Moscow prosecutor's office opened a criminal case and examined the scene. I must say that the inspection of the scene was not carried out very carefully. Unfortunately, there was no re-examination. As I was later told, after the inspection, the cleaning lady, washing Vlad's blood off the floor, found another cartridge case, which was then handed over to the investigation.

Neither the operatives, the investigator or other participants in this most important investigative action, but the cleaner found such evidence.

There were other flaws as well. For example, during the same inspection of the scene, a search dog was used. In such cases, the cynologist, upon completion of the search action, draws up a special act with the application of the appropriate scheme of the route of the work of the search dog. The cynologist is interrogated about the results and features of her work. Maybe someone thought that these are trifles, but it seems to me that there are no trifles in such cases - everything is important.

Here it is necessary to understand that only the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure are binding on all investigators. The rest, how you plan your work and how you carry out what is planned - this, like the structure of handwriting, is different for everyone. One will plan everything in detail - to the smallest detail: a plan for investigating the case as a whole and for each investigative action separately. Another may plan less scrupulously and try to keep the details in mind. Although such an approach is risky, especially in economic matters, something will definitely come up before the end of the investigation.

So in our case, many points came to light that should have been clarified a long time ago: either to exclude the investigation from the field of view, or to investigate more scrupulously.

The case was in a rather "disheveled" state. The materials were filed "anyhow". It could not have been otherwise when I found out that an assistant investigator … a student of the 2nd or 3rd year of the law institute was engaged in organizing them in volumes. For example, on the covers of some Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

numbered volumes, one could read the inscription, made with a simple pencil - "empty interrogations." When I asked the guys-investigators, who worked in the brigade from the first days, why a large number of so-called "empty interrogations", I was explained this reason. In the initial period of the investigation, daily or several times a week, the results of the work for a day, two, three or a week were summed up. One of the most important questions was the notorious shaft: how many people were interrogated per day, "why there are fewer interrogations today than yesterday." Naturally, one could not expect any important information from such "empty interrogations". As one of the guys put it, everything went like in the well-known saying “Who goes to the forest, who goes to the firewood”, the main quantity, the shaft. As I got acquainted with the materials of the case, I was looking forward to getting to the study of the most serious materials of the investigative actions carried out by the leaders of the investigation team.

Imagine my disappointment when, as a result, I found two protocols of interrogation for two leaders. Moreover, one of the protocols, drawn up by a student investigator, was not signed by the interrogated person at all.

Moments like this surprised me. It is generally accepted that investigative actions with persons who can allegedly tell important information: interrogations, confrontations, identifications, and sometimes searches, as a rule, are carried out by the head of the brigade or an investigator equal to him in experience, but by no means a student of the institute or a young inexperienced investigator.

Even more disappointment awaited me when I saw that the most important identifications of one of the defendants in the case were also carried out by a student investigator. In any case, I would never risk entrusting such an extremely important investigative action to an inexperienced comrade.

As they say, "One head is good, but two is better." And even better, a lot of goals. When drawing up a new plan, I decided to use the collective experience of my comrades in the investigation team. To do this, he provided all the materials for study by two more experienced investigators of the group.

They made quite useful additions to the plan I had drawn up.

I listened to good advice, comments and other investigators. As a rule, in the morning they gathered in a group to discuss who would do what. In the evening, the materials of the investigative actions lay on my table. I studied them, planned new investigative actions, if necessary. All this was simultaneously discussed with members of the investigation team.

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invalid. Encouraged and always welcomed personal initiative. And such a situation could arise only in a normally adjusted working environment, without shouting and irritation. It is well known that the leader who is himself an example in work is internally respected by the team. And if you only command and look at your comrades as if they were cogs, then you will hardly achieve anything significant.

The new plan coordinated with the operational services was submitted to the Prosecutor General on time. He carefully read the document, made some of his well-founded comments and kept one copy for himself to check.

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Someone from the smart ones said that “an investigation is a chain of suspicions that require verification. You have to go to many harbors until you find the right port.

It is known that during the investigation of any crime, as a rule, the victim, his friends and close comrades, are unwitting allies of the investigator. In the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, adopted in 2001, this circumstance is indicated more clearly: the victim, along with the investigator, prosecutor, interrogator, civil plaintiff, is referred to the participants in criminal proceedings on the part of the prosecution. Naturally, when receiving materials from Startsev, he asked how the relationship with the recognized victimized wife of Vlad, Albina Vladimirovna Nazimova, and his close comrades developed.

Volodya told me that either there are no relations, or they are bad, unconstructive and even hostile, bordering on opposition to the investigation. And here's why: Vlad's friends and Albina herself do not help the investigation, they allow themselves in various media to criticize the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and its leadership. “In general, they behave strangely,” he said.

This information did not inspire me. But the materials read suggested that Volodya Startsev was not so far from the truth. What to do, how to be? In such cases, they say that "if the mountain does not go to Magomed, then Magomed goes to the mountain." It was necessary to somehow find contact with them and "talk" them. Now I understand that maybe Petr Georgievich Triboi allowed the tactical one | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

error. I had to meet immediately with someone close to Vlad, introduce myself, explain the interests of the investigation, and just get to know each other, look into each other's eyes. But I could not help but believe my friend, in whose opinion, the conversation would not be constructive and no one would make contact with us. A way out of this critical and unprecedented situation had to be found. There was nothing left but to find out the reasons why Vlad's relatives, friends and comrades took such a strange position in relation to the investigation.

It took about six months to study these circumstances. Frankly, it was not the most useful work for the cause, although it also brought us fruit. After all, if the check was carried out by an investigative process and, although it did not give a positive result, nevertheless, this is also a result - you are convinced that "the dog is not buried here."

Gradually, already well prepared for interrogations, he began to meet with Vlad's widow, with his friends and close comrades. I can say that almost all of them turned out to be reasonable people. Interrogation is not the most pleasant procedure in a person's life, and, probably, if it could be avoided, most of us would do so. Probably some of the people mentioned above were no exception. He interrogated them, as a rule, with the participation of one of the group's investigators. It was a kind of “training” for investigators to entrust them with other serious investigative actions in the future. The interrogated answered the questions, did not close.

All of them, in the main, were publicly known people, so the group's investigators were somewhat embarrassed at first. But the work went well.

To be honest, I did not expect such a turn of events. Once he even asked a famous person, “Why didn’t you talk about this before?” And do you know what he answered me? “And who listened to us attentively, Pyotr Georgievich? Only now we see that you, the investigators, are disposed towards this.” It turns out that the blame for the fact that people initially closed in on themselves lies with us investigators. I will tell you that no special efforts, or any hitherto unknown tricks were used. These people were interrogated as usual. Naturally, treating like any other person with tact and respect.

I think that a good investigator cannot be arrogant. Some assert themselves by this, but this is harmful for the investigation and stupid for the investigator himself.

In my opinion, the investigator should be, first of all, a decent and sincere person. And these, inspiring trust and reliability, Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

human qualities, without protrusion, should be a natural addition to the personality of the investigator. A person who has suffered from a crime must find understanding, sympathy and protection from the investigator.

These people should see in the face of the investigator an impartial person who will do everything in his power to ensure that justice prevails. Obviously, only having such qualities, the investigator can count on the reciprocal disposition of people.

As for persons who have crossed the law, they should see in the investigator an example in observing the law. That is, the offender must understand that he is responsible only for those illegal actions that he actually committed and in no way for imperfect ones. Because something else does not educate, but corrupts people and inspires them to disregard not only the norms of morality and ethics, but also laws.

For example, I had to receive letters from places of deprivation of liberty.

In them, my former defendants thanked “not for the fact that I brought them to justice, since such, according to them, is not accepted,” but for the humanity and justice shown to them. They wrote that our communication during the investigation allowed them to take a different look at life.

And they, having been released from prison, will reconsider a lot and will live differently. I remember one of these letters from a man convicted of robbing the mentally ill while they were being transported in an ambulance, I gave it to a Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent. Unfortunately, I do not know what the journalist did with this letter, since no publication on this topic has been published.

At the same time, the investigator must have a strong character, capable of withstanding pressure from any side. Restrain and realistically perceive the misfortunes that one has to face.

At the same time, in his work, the investigator should in no case be a “naive, servile simpleton”, since cunning or inveterate “clients” will immediately notice this feature and will certainly use it.

I recall a case from my investigative youth, when a young colleague released for three days a seasoned swindler who complained that her arrest coincided with the onset of the menstrual cycle. So, of course, she disappeared. True, six months later, tired of hiding, she herself appeared before the investigator.

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And he took her into custody. By this, she taught him a good lesson on the topic of whom and how to trust during the investigation.

Accordingly, in the work of a professional investigator, he is obliged to quickly "find the key" to any interrogated person and "tune in with him on the same wavelength." At the same time, it is also important to correctly fix the procedural results of this work.

When examining the corpse of Listyev, several bank credit cards in his name were found in the pockets of his clothes. These cards were issued by banks in the USA, Switzerland and Germany. Appeals for legal assistance were sent to the competent authorities of these countries.

We were interested in questions on the basis of which accounts in the respective banks were issued credit cards what monetary transactions were made on them, when and where. What are the balances of funds in the accounts, who disposed of them or disposes of them after the murder of Vlad.

Of course, these circumstances should have been clarified at the very beginning of the investigation, and not a year and seven months later. As well as to establish the exact time of the murder. Imagine, the investigative actions carried out by us made it possible to clarify the time of the crime, to shift it by 25-30 minutes from the one that was considered originally established.

It would seem, what did it matter for the investigation of 25 - 30 minutes plus or minus? I think that these moments were extremely important.

Think about what kind of alibi a criminal can create for himself by being in a car for 25 to 30 minutes. That is why it was important to establish the time of the murder as accurately as possible.

How did we determine the time of the murder? The following circumstances come to mind.

The investigation established that F. found Listyev's corpse in the entrance at about 21:00 sharp, or at 21:05. There were no hematomas or bruises on the face. They showed up after a while.

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bruising is from 10 to 15 minutes (early degree), and to full severity - 30 minutes.

I., who always feeds a child at 21 o'clock, it was at this time that he heard several deaf blows in the entrance, the sounds of blows on metal boxes on the first floor. Then I heard the clatter of feet and two or three claps, because the sound of something falling.

V. and S. said that no later than 21:05 they received a call at the door asking for help. They went out and saw that Listyev was lying.

Citizen Ts., returning from a walk and passing Listyev's entrance, looked at his watch. The time was 20 hours 59 minutes. Listyev's car, which he knows, was parked near the first entrance.

Other convincing evidence was obtained about the time of the murder, which, for obvious reasons, I cannot disclose.

So that no one has any illusions, I can say that the investigation in the most detailed way studied the life of Vlad until his last minute.

Moreover, they exhaustively established when, where, with whom, what meetings he had and what issues were discussed. That is, we found out in detail everything that could be of interest to us. These circumstances gave a fairly clear outline of the causes of what happened. You can imagine how the investigators perceived the attempts of some persons during interrogations to verbally move away from the date of the murder - March 01, 1995, their personal meetings with Vlad. And in the future, it became quite understandable to us why and for what purpose such attempts were made.

Of course, we were very surprised when, during one of the searches, we found a copy of a letter addressed to the management of a Swiss bank by one of Vlad's associates with a request not to give any information to the investigating authorities of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia.

I quote from memory with the necessary cuts: “... We refer to the petition sent by the Russian authorities ... in the case of the murder of Mr. Listyev. We give you full authority to draw up a statement with the aim that information known ... and relating to the following persons is not fully disclosed to the Russian authorities. The following are the names of ten people from Listyev's entourage, seven of which are very famous people. The document ends like this: “We are not talking about the fact that obtaining ... information regarding these persons (taking into account the positions of Petr Georgievich Triboi | “The Listyev’s murder. An investigation that has become irrelevant”

some of them) can be perceived as a source for ... persecution by interested Russian services. I hope for your understanding and help."

Fortunately, this preventive measure did not help, and we, thanks to the goodwill of our foreign colleagues, received in full information of interest to us, both from Switzerland and from the USA and Germany. There was no reason to believe that the credit cards had anything to do with Vlad's murder at the time.

Many of the people we interrogated were not “ordinary” people, and at times it was difficult to negotiate with them about the need to appear for interrogation. Once I called the deputy director of the FSK (now the FSB) and at the same time the head of the FSK (FSB) department for Moscow and the Moscow region, Colonel General Anatoly Vasilyevich Trofimov. He introduced himself and said that it was necessary to meet and interrogate him.

The word "interrogation" Anatoly Vasilyevich "blew up" and he asked me if I knew who he was. He answered that I am not an alien and, of course, I know what position he occupies, I honor and respect this circumstance. Then Anatoly Vasilyevich asked if he could come to his office for interrogation. He said that this question was not very important for me, but since the testimony would be recorded on a computer, I still ask him to treat my request with understanding. When Anatoly Vasilievich said that he also worked as an investigator, I "caught him, as they say, at his word," remarking - "can't two investigators agree on an interrogation?"

He softened a little, warmed up and offered to name the time of appearance and address.

He showed up at the appointed time and answered my questions. Leaving already, Anatoly Vasilyevich said that at first he "got excited", but this must be forgotten.

In turn, he thanked him for the fact that he "fulfilled his civic duty." Anatoly Vasilyevich smiled and left.

Relations with the media It is clear that the investigation into this murder was constantly under the scrutiny of the media, and therefore of society. We have often been criticized and sometimes justly.

Journalists, friends and comrades of Vlad made various claims to the investigation and the prosecutor's office. But, the prosecutor's office either remained silent, or Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

pointedly, but unconvincingly, reported on the progress of the investigation with hints like “there is light at the end of the tunnel.”

Not a single publication in the media or broadcast on television, one way or another affecting the murder of Listyev, passed by the attention of the investigation team. I will say this, basically, these publications did not give any benefit to the investigation, on the contrary, they distracted us, the investigators, from working in real areas. As it turned out, more than once ordered publications appeared in order to disorient the investigation. But we could not ignore them, because we read newspapers or watched TV and those to whom each of us at our level reported on the investigation. Moreover, both the Prosecutor General and the President of the country had questions about them.

By the way, we recorded the attempts of our opponents to control the progress of the investigation. Moreover, informants with reports sometimes came from other cities.

We understood that we watched TV programs and read publications, and then discussed them, including “people”, whose opinion about the murder of Listyev interested us to the utmost. And it would be foolish not to use these circumstances. Including for this, there was operational support for the investigation.

Sometimes, tragic accidents followed public information. Or not a coincidence. It all depends on how you look.

For example, on August 10, 1995, Oleg Ivanovich Gaidanov, Deputy Prosecutor General, gave an interview to one printed publication, in which he stated: the perpetrators are already known. Literally the next day, in one of the hotels in Tel Aviv, they found the corpse of a man who was of significant interest to the investigation. I believe this tragic coincidence is not accidental.

With the approval of my superiors, we decided to change the way we deal with the media. They proceeded from the fact that the most famous journalist was killed and it is clear that this murder attracts great attention of his colleagues, and of society as a whole. Therefore, people have the right to know, within the bounds of what is permitted, without prejudice to work, how the investigation is progressing. Moreover, we, the investigators, did not sit idly by, but continued to work hard, and we had something to say.

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After a meeting with Igor Korolkov, a columnist for the newspaper Izvestia, who specializes in investigative journalism, in the issue of February 27, 1998, my first interview was published, entitled by the author "This is not a political murder" with the subtitle "The investigation into the Listyev case has entered a stage when the leader the investigative team is being threatened."

He spoke about what we are doing, what progress is being made in the business, what problems and claims we, in turn, have. Naturally, I tried to answer questions without harming the ongoing investigation, because we knew that among the readers there would be those we were looking for.

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for all sorts of rumors and fables. After all, it was believed that "since they are silent and swallowed," it means that the situation is very bad - the investigation has nothing to say. In fact, it wasn't like that at all.

I gave interviews for another reason, which only operatives should guess.

After this publication, many journalists began to contact me, bypassing the public relations center of the Prosecutor General's Office. Often, if I could answer their questions, I did. I remember how a journalist from a popular publication told me: “Peter Georgievich, if you don’t want to answer my question, then I will write anyway and fulfill the editorial assignment. But, I will write from myself - what comes to mind. I said that the questions that I can answer, I will always answer her. Another thing is that for objective reasons, I can not answer all the questions, even if I know the answers. There are interests and the mystery of the investigation, and they are above all. Your colleague is killed, don't you want the attackers to answer for this?

Gradually, the flow of criticism against the investigation team and the Prosecutor General's Office began to subside. This was facilitated by the fact that Prosecutor General Skuratov himself was also open to journalists and often commented on this or that circumstance in the case. Sometimes afterwards he would ask me affirmatively: “I didn’t divulge anything, did I? Give me a hint, if anything."

Interrogations of Berezovsky B.A. and his "assistance" to the investigation

It so happened that the interrogations of Boris Abramovich Berezovsky took a special place in the investigation. By this time, he was already in the rank of Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. As I recall, this was not his first interrogation in the Listyev case. After I invited him for interrogation by phone, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Katyshev called me and clarified this circumstance.

Subsequently, Mikhail Borisovich said that Boris Abramovich called him and said that he was “summoned for interrogation in the Listyev case by investigator Triboi.” Katyshev answered him: "Go, Boris Abramovich, don't be afraid, Triboi won't beat you, he's a correct person, but he knows his business."

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meeting, Boris Abramovich remarked to Katyshev that "the investigator is indeed correct, but not simple." In a word, he made it clear that it was difficult for him during this interrogation.

We must pay tribute to Boris Abramovich or his advisers, he, despite his position as a "big boss", never shied away from calls to the investigator, did not create artificial obstacles to the appearance and was sympathetic to this. When I called him, he only asked again "when and what time to come?" It seemed as if Boris Abramovich had been interrogated all his life, and this procedure had become familiar to him. At the same time, such an understanding of him involuntarily aroused the respect of the investigation.

I remember once he was slightly late for the agreed time.

And then Boris Abramovich called me, apologized, said that he was in the office of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Anatoly Sergeevich Kulikov, and as soon as he was released, he would immediately come for interrogation. Whether he was actually at Kulikov A.S., did not check.

And then, and then asked himself the question why Berezovsky, unlike other people of such a "large caliber" so conflict-free appeared to the investigator. And why did he treat calls for interrogation with such reverence.

I find the following possible explanations for this:

First, Boris Abramovich may have developed such a normal response to our challenges after the legal proceedings that were carried out against him in connection with the explosion of his car in 1994.

One of my colleagues said that in that case, at first, Boris Abramovich “strongly resisted all kinds of interrogations” and “with a creak” came to the investigators.

Apparently, he still went through some kind of “run-in” in terms of interrogations.

Secondly, Boris Abramovich, as a person, according to him, of liberal views, watched “there” (Western) films in which interrogations of high-ranking officials, including heads of state and government, are not a problem for law enforcement agencies.

Thirdly, he was a fresh, not stagnant, boss and, probably, as a leader he did not have time to swear. That is, by position he was already the Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, and by his mentality he still remained the head of the laboratory.

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Fourth - Boris Abramovich, no matter what they say about him, you can't deny that he was still an intelligent person. And why did he have to quarrel with the investigator?

I cannot say that during the interrogation Boris Abramovich behaved as if he were confessing. Outwardly, he was calm and even cool. There was nothing in his demeanor that betrayed his excitement. On the contrary, it seemed to me that he was looking forward with interest to the questions that would follow.

He, in my opinion, perceived them as a kind of competitive challenge.

He spoke, as always, quickly and sometimes did not have time to catch the meaning of what was said.

I had to repeat the questions and clarify his answers. And I must say that some of Boris Abramovich's answers were striking. It was something from the realm of fantasy. They "left no stone unturned" and shattered the opinion that Boris Abramovich is able to think logically.

But in such cases, apparently, he agreed to be suspected of "that brings a blizzard" than to truthfully answer the question, since the price of each word was extremely high. Such "strange" answers of his followed when it was necessary to speak concretely, unambiguously and without philosophizing. Well, tell the reader, why did Boris Abramovich need to deny the obvious facts and, thereby, cast doubt on the reliability of all his testimony? This made about the same impression as if during interrogation, presenting his documents in the name of Boris Abramovich Berezovsky, he would begin to declare and convince me that he was not Berezovsky, but Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich.

“Boris Abramovich didn’t remember much,” although, due to the circumstances of the case, he should have remembered some facts with absolute certainty.

For example, he clarified the question of when he last saw Listyev. As I recall, despite the fact that on the eve of Listyev’s murder on the night of February 28 to March 1, 1995, Berezovsky had a long conversation with Vlad in the Logovaz office on Novokuznetskaya Street with the participation of other people, Boris Abramovich replied that he had seen the latter a week or two before the murder.

He had the same “misses” when answering other questions.

Experiencing yet another serious difficulty in answering a question, Boris Abramovich referred to Art. 51 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and said that he would not testify. I told him that this is indeed his constitutional right. At the same time, he said that this is excusable for an ordinary person, and he, with his large regalia, is hardly justified in referring to Petr Georgievich Triboi in this situation | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The fact is that the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation can familiarize himself with this protocol, and he, in turn, can report to President Yeltsin B.N.

As I remember now, Boris Abramovich, after some thought, said:

"Then you have to answer." And then he irritably asked me a rhetorical question: “Well, what should I answer you, Pyotr Georgievich, to this question of yours?” And he answered. Another thing is how truthful he was at the same time.

In words, of course, Boris Abramovich presented himself as the most interested person in that we "identify and bring to justice all the scoundrels involved in the murder of Vlad." He said that he was ready to provide the investigation with any possible assistance, because in the person of Listyev he personally lost "a very close person."

In fact, everything happened the other way around. Boris Abramovich played cunning, played with us and did his best to help those who were of reasonable interest to us. Helping our opponents, Boris Abramovich used his entire powerful arsenal of political, administrative and informal opportunities. Moreover, in attempts to restrain the investigation from the assumed liberality of Boris Abramovich, only rude and prudent realism remained. Here we, the investigators, had no time for jokes.

It must be said that by 1997, our cunning opponents began to use the fact of the non-disclosure of Listyev's murder as a "club", which the Prosecutor General's Office was periodically courted.

For them, the disclosure of the crime itself was secondary, the main thing was the reason - what to cling to publicly. They say that they have not solved the Listyev case, but they still have the audacity to pester us (good ones) with some demands. To do this, our "friends" did not disdain anything.

The situation with this and other "high-profile" criminal cases was deliberately translated into a political plane. The information was dissected as if the Prosecutor General's Office was the focus of communists and retrogrades, preventing progressive reformers from carrying out successful political and economic reforms in the country. I must say that sometimes they managed to provoke a negative reaction from the President of the country.

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Attorney General, but from the outside. The killers of Me, Kholodov, and Listyev have not been found.”

For me and my colleagues, the fact of who could set the President to talk in such a tone throughout the country with the Prosecutor General is not a big mystery.

On the same day, after this meeting with the President, the Prosecutor General summoned me. I told my comrades, who also saw everything on TV, that the Prosecutor General was calling me. We thought that we were in trouble and that I would most likely be removed from further investigation.

On the way from Blagoveshchensky Lane (our office) to Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street (office of the Prosecutor General's Office), to be honest, I was tormented by regrets that much had been done and there was not enough time to put everything in its place.

On the other hand, I thought, well, to hell with him (unaddressed), what can I do, they will remove me - at least I’ll get enough sleep for a start like a human being. They will give another case - less "loud" and with a more defined perspective. I will breathe more freely, because this business has exhausted me.

Arriving at the office of Yury Ilyich Skuratov, and, having greeted him, noticed that he was focused on something, but not angry at all.

The general, as always correctly, clarified some details of the investigation, but did not present any claims to me in words. I thought he didn't do it out of delicacy. Then, in order to "make it easier for him," he said that he had seen on TV how his meeting with the President went, and, in connection with the claims made against us, he was ready to write a report on his resignation.

Yuri Ilyich, interrupting me, said that they had not shown his answer to the President on television. He regarded the remarks of the President as a working moment and said that the investigative team should continue to work at the same pace.

Boris Abramovich especially disliked one of the key deputies of the Prosecutor General - Katyshev, whom he suspected of having links with the communists.

Although it wasn't. On the contrary, Katyshev had close relatives who suffered during the years of Stalinist repressions. The fact is that congratulations on the 50th anniversary to Katyshev in the office among other deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, including Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

including from the Yabloko party, a deputy, a former prosecutor's worker, now deceased Ilyukhin V.I., also came. And, despite the fact that Katyshev had no “special” relations with this deputy, Boris Abramovich was no longer interested in this, since it did not fit into the outline he had invented - about the communist nature of Katyshev.

About Prosecutor General Yu.I. Skuratov Boris Abramovich, in my opinion, in Kommersant put it even harsher and ruder, saying that "this is a completely communist beast." I also cannot agree with Berezovsky. For all the time of work under the leadership of Skuratov, I never heard from anyone that he gave instructions on any criminal case "to make indulgences or some kind of exceptions for the communists."

Sometimes the “help” of Boris Abramovich in the Listyev case took on the character of a formal mockery and contempt for the investigation.

By 1997, he had gained significant control over the ORT (Public Russian Television) channel. The duties of the General Director were performed by Ponomareva K.Yu., who was considered a person close to Berezovsky.

I remember that I sent a request to Ksenia Yuryevna with a request to inform me when and by whom in 1995 the decision to cancel advertising on ORT was announced. According to our information, Listyev did this shortly before the murder. I asked the investigation to send a video recording of Vlad's speech about the cancellation of advertising and documents on his appointment as the General Director of ORT and the very decision to cancel advertising on hard copy. It would seem that a simple, non-threatening request, why not answer it. Moreover, for Ponomareva, the request was about a crime that took the life of her predecessor, moreover, who was Berezovsky's "close person."

But it was not there. I sought an answer to my request for about six months and received it after repeated reminders. To be honest, in connection with such an ugly attitude to a legitimate request, sometimes the thought came to me, and whether I should make a decision to conduct a search at ORT. But he did not want a scandal with unpredictable consequences.

As a result, one day a paper bag was delivered by courier from the legal department of ORT, in which there was a video cassette without a cover letter. When viewing this cassette, Listyev's speech of interest to me was not found. The cassette contained a video recording of Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

one speech of the leader of the Communist Party Zyuganov G.A. and one transfer of the program "Man and Law". As I understand it, it was such a subtle mocking "hello" from Boris Abramovich, since it is unlikely that Ponomareva herself would have come up with such a trick.

When he succeeded, Boris Abramovich himself dealt direct blows to the prosecutor's office and the investigation in the case of Vlad, respectively.

On March 25, 1998, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper published a long interview with Berezovsky, which he gave to journalist Andrei Vandenko, for a whole newspaper page. Moreover, it was not by chance that the subheading was typed at the bottom in large bold letters "The prosecutor's office demonstrates complete, total impotence in the investigation of the Listyev case." Naturally, the subject of the investigation of the criminal case on the murder of Listyev was also touched upon in the interview.

And that's what Boris Abramovich said. I quote:

Correspondent: “Why did I ask about health? After your rapid departure abroad, a version arose that such haste was provoked by the summons handed to you with a summons for interrogation in the Listyev case.

Berezovsky - I can't say that such an assumption is offensive to me - I understand who and for what purpose spread this lie, however, I decided to draw conclusions from what happened, I will not leave such a thing without consequences again.

Correspondent: That is?

Berezovsky: “I have the most serious complaints against law enforcement agencies. They do not confirm the disinformation that is being spread, but they do not refute it either. The prosecutor's office demonstrates complete, total impotence in the investigation of Vlad's case, while some of the materials I submitted, which could point to specific criminals, are simply ignored. I emphasize that this is not about my assumptions, but about facts, cassettes with audio and video recordings. I also named the names of people who continued to work in the bodies, engaged in blackmail and received money for it.

Correspondent: "Were you blackmailed?"

Berezovsky: Exactly. Alas, all my statements are ignored.

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Correspondent: “Do you have your own opinion about who is to blame for the death of Listyev?”

Berezovsky: “I had my suspicions for a long time, before they were vague, now they have become stronger. I am inclined to believe that the murder of March 1, 1995 is on the conscience of the Russian special services. I repeat, I cannot say this categorically, but everything indicates that my assumption is correct.

Correspondent: "Special services could be executors of someone else's order, but it is unlikely that they were the customers of the murder."

Berezovsky: "I'm not talking about the perpetrators, but about the organizers of the crime."

Correspondent: "And what is the motivation?"

Berezovsky: “Everything is extremely simple – the desire to put ORT under control.

I have facts that testify in favor of this version.

–  –  –

Berezovsky: “I don't want to name names today – I point out the direction. But as soon as the surname sounded, I can say that I know firsthand something about the activities of the gentleman you mentioned. After the fact, I analyzed individual statements of Korzhakov made in my presence and came to the conclusion that, say, in the case of the assassination attempt on Boris Fedorov, the president of the National Sports Foundation, Korzhakov and Barsukov were involved. This is their job. I believe that Otari Kvantrishvili lost his life after the sentence to shoot him was approved by Korzhakov and associates. And the pogrom in the apartment of the journalist Minkin probably has the same authorship.”

Correspondent: "But we are talking about Vlad."

Berezovsky: “Actually, I said everything. The hand of the special services is clearly visible in the materials I have handed over.”

Berezovsky: “I did not believe and do not believe in the family trace. The promotional version also does not seem to me consistent. Too actively tried to impose it.

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that I can’t rely on anything else, and intuition tells me that Sergei Lisovsky was not involved in this case. I have known him well for a long time, once we took opposing positions, played on the same field. This is a tough businessman, but there has never been a case when Sergey has even crossed the limit of decency, not to mention what they are trying to accuse him of today, carrying out, as far as I know, certain work.

If we say so, then the termination of advertising on ORT in the spring of 1995 is my idea. I set a task that was simple in purpose - to destroy the advertising market on the 1st channel in order to take my own place there. Yes, my proposal was difficult for Vlad to accept - no one resorted to such methods of entering the market then ... To be honest, I don’t know if Vlad had any personal obligations, but as the general director of ORT, he was definitely clean: in- firstly, he would not have had time to make debts, and secondly, everyone knew the situation well and understood that the real levers of managing the TV channel were not in the hands of Vlad. Therefore, a showdown with Listyev in this context would look very illogical.

Correspondent: “By the way, how did the investigation of the episode with the explosion on Novokuznetskaya Street in the summer of 1994 end, when your bodyguard died, and you miraculously survived?”

Berezovsky: “No results, although in my presence Yeltsin ordered the then heads of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to take this matter under special control. The investigation has stalled, but there are curious circumstances that combine the attempt on my life with the murder of Listyev. It was these facts that I reported to the special services. Since my information is being heavily hushed up, I intend to announce it myself - with names, with facts, with dates.

“Earrings to all sisters,” Boris Abramovich gave out in this interview.

He showed himself to be an informed person, analyzing the options that, in his opinion, the investigation is working on. Of course, we considered all versions that had an objective motivation. But, as far as I remember, after this interview, we interrogated him again, so that he “deciphered” to us what he had in mind when he spoke about the “involvement of special services” and about “transferred materials with audio and video recordings.”

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And, if my memory serves me right, here is what Boris Abramovich answered approximately. When asked about the "involvement of the special services" in Listyev's murder, he stated that he meant two police officers who, together with a certain Plekhanov, deceived him on February 28, 1995 - on the eve of Listyev's murder for one hundred thousand US dollars. These three allegedly promised Boris Abramovich to receive an audio recording in the future, which would contain information about the persons who attempted to assassinate him in June 1994. When I asked Boris Abramovich if he understood the difference between police officers and representatives of the special services, he answered in the affirmative.

When asked why he blamed representatives of the special services, while policemen were involved in the situation he spoke about in the interview, Berezovsky did not find anything to answer. According to him, he handed over to law enforcement officers precisely the audio-video recordings that recorded preliminary conversations and the transfer of money for future information about the attempt on his life in the summer of 1994.

It seems to me that the leitmotif of this biting interview of Berezovsky “about the involvement of special services” was the situation about “how Boris Abramovich and Alexander Vasilyevich quarreled” (note author Korzhakov A.V.) While he headed the Security Service of the President of the Russian Federation, there were peace and peace. When the positions of Alexander Vasilyevich were shaken, showdowns and various accusations began. But at the same time, why not kick the prosecutor's office and the investigation in the Listyev case, but harder.

In December 1998, the investigation team conducted a series of effective searches in the case, and this fact greatly outraged and seriously alarmed not only those being searched, but also Boris Abramovich. It became known to us that he promised to "fuck" the insidious investigation and the Prosecutor General's Office in the Vremya program.

At the same time, Boris Abramovich "one hundred percent" threatened to "punish"

investigators and its leaders to involve their friends named Tanya, "who was on his pipe", and Valya, "who was nearby."

Very serious information about the involvement of Boris Abramovich in the process of countering the investigation. I don’t think that he didn’t understand what kind of confrontation he got involved in and on what particular case he was going to “fight” with law enforcement officers.

Note No. 1: It is likely that under Tanya and Valya, Boris Abramovich meant Tatyana Borisovna Dyachenko, Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on Image, and Valentin Borisovich Yumashev, Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation.

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It is quite understandable that he got involved in this process in order to somehow “help” the defendants involved in the case and, perhaps, “my own dear”. As a human being, I could understand Boris Abramovich if he had reliable information about flagrant violations of the criminal and criminal procedure law on our part. But such facts simply did not exist. In addition, he knew our commitment to keep, not break the law.

That's who in that period would find a more worthy use of such irrepressible energy. The Vremya program was then broadcast by the country's main television channel, ORT (Public Russian Television).

Now it is the First Channel of Russian Television. And the promise to “fuck us” in this program directly indicated who was the true “owner” of this channel and at the same time warnedly demonstrated the “heavy artillery” that he intended to use to fight the investigation. Involuntarily, you come to the conclusion that at that time the state was partially privatized by Boris Abramovich as well.

What other thoughts may arise when civil servants - investigators, prosecutors, operatives are going to be "killed" unfairly on a television channel, a controlling stake in which the state owned.

It must be said that our opponents in the fight against the malicious investigation were not limited only to their intentions to “teach us a lesson” in the Vremya program. They came up with a whole system of measures to "daring" the investigation.

The operatives told me that after the same searches in one apartment, the owner deliberately scattered things and books on the floor, and then invited TV journalists to shoot, to whom he gave out the whole situation for the lawlessness of the investigation during the search. After one demonstration, I think on the NTV channel, a report from this apartment, I was invited by the head of the department, Kazakov, and asked what was happening. I reported to him the operational information I had "about the staging." Then an Interfax correspondent contacted me. He also explained the situation with the search in this apartment. At the same time, he warned that we would provide evidence that the investigators had nothing to do with the demonstrated disorder in the apartment. Our "well-wishers" understood the seriousness of the intentions of the investigation and no longer showed this far-fetched "lawlessness of the investigation" on TV.

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As for Boris Abramovich, it must be said that the flexible mind made him, in turn, also "probe" the investigator. It seemed to me that his idea of ​​us was dominated by the so-called class approach to the investigating authorities. That is, he thought in the Bolshevik way on the contrary.

In my opinion, he saw in almost all of us adherents of the communist regime, ready, without hesitation, to carry out any instruction "issued from above." Of course, such an ill-respected idea of ​​us had nothing to do with reality.

Once, after some thought, he asked me: “Petr Georgievich, what do you think about rich people?” And I think that I disappointed him with my answer when I said that I was indifferent to rich people, that is, in no way. I am not a rich person, but I have absolutely no envy of the rich. I am completely satisfied with my profession and do not want to change anything in my destiny. Entrepreneurial activity, I noticed, sometimes involves not only material, but, at that time, life-threatening risks. Entrepreneurs are not guaranteed against the so-called "attacks" not only by bandits, but also by sanitary and epidemiological stations, law enforcement officers, firefighters and others, and others. I mean, what's there to be jealous of?

They (entrepreneurs) or businessmen still need to be given awards for their perseverance in doing business.”

Then Boris Abramovich asked me - and many of my colleagues think, as I do about entrepreneurs. I said that we, the investigators, did not fall from the moon, we are an ordinary section of society. And among us there are people of different convictions, but since we are departisan, we are forbidden to show our political predilections in the service. It seemed to me that this answer somewhat satisfied Boris Abramovich and it was evident from it that he somehow felt more comfortable.

By the way, about my "wealth". At that time, a well-known journalist Alexander Khinshtein happened to be at my house. Two of my colleagues were with him. Sasha became curious about how the investigator for especially important cases of the General Prosecutor's Office lives and opened the door of the built-in closet in the corridor of my one-room apartment. When he saw that 5-6 men's shirts were hanging there, two not new suits and my prosecutor's uniform, Khinshtein, opening his mouth in surprise, said: "I understand why you are internally so reckless."

As the course of life showed, Berezovsky B.A. there were secrets about the murder of Listyev, and he diligently concealed them.

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In January 2016, Sir Robert Owen's report on the death of Alexander Litvinenko was published on the Internet. The new information contained in paragraphs Nos. 3.28 and 3.29 of Sir Owen's report is extremely curious and important for my narrative. It partially clarifies the reason why Berezovsky B.A. “fought” with us and threatened to use his “heavy artillery” from the then Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.

I quote paragraph 3.28: “Another important event in the development of relations between them (meaning Berezovsky and Litvinenko) was the murder of a man named Vlad Listyev in March 1995. Listyev was a popular TV presenter in Russia at the time and headed the independent TV channel ORT, which Berezovsky controlled. Marina Litvinenko described the circumstances of this episode as follows.

The police entered Berezovsky's office to arrest him on charges of killing Listyev. Berezovsky informed Litvinenko, who arrived at the office and prevented the police from detaining Berezovsky. She said that both Berezovsky and Litvinenko feared that if arrested, Berezovsky might be killed while he was in custody. Speaking about those events, Berezovsky said that Litvinenko took out a weapon and turned to the police: "If you try to take it, I will kill you ...".

Paragraph 3.29 of the report, Sir Robert Owen stated as follows: “I certainly have no way to establish the circumstances of that case and determine the right and wrong, as well as decide whether Berezovsky was somehow involved in the murder of Listyev (this question, as far as I known to be controversial).

In addition, the resolution of such issues is not within the competence of this Inquiry. What can I say and what definitely meets the current goals - this episode marked a new stage in development friendly relations between Litvinenko and Berezovsky. Moreover, Berezovsky was indebted to Litvinenko.

As Marina Litvinenko stated during her oral testimony: “After all, Boris Berezovsky said more than once that Sasha saved his life, for which he is very grateful.” The payment of this debt is an important context for Litvinenko's subsequent story of fleeing Russia for the UK and his life here."

Here is the time to say the famous saying: "Plato is my friend, but the truth is dearer."

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Firstly, I remember that in the criminal case on the murder of Vladislav Listyev, there was evidence that one of my predecessors tried to arrest B.A. Berezovsky. on charges of killing Listyev, was not.

Therefore, this conclusion of Sir Robert Owen is made on the basis of unreliable facts.

But other thoughts arise after Sir Robert Owen's statement that "Litvinenko's intervention and the protection of Berezovsky's office from a search marked a new stage in the development of friendly relations between them."

At one time, a journalist, now a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Alexander Khinshtein, on June 20, 2006, published an article entitled "The Secret of the Atoll, Part I. Berezovsky's Secret Archive Spoke...". And this is what he writes about Berezovsky and his Logovaz office on Novokuznetskaya Street.

“Berezovsky collected dirt on everyone: both enemies and friends, because there are no friends in politics by definition. The tapes that came to me contain conversations between Chernomyrdin, Rybkin, Dyachenko, Yumashev, Naina Yeltsina, Lebed, Abramovich, and so on and so forth.

We developed almost the entire beau monde, - Sergey Sokolov, the creator and long-term leader of Atoll, admits today. - Boris did not make an exception for anyone. He ordered to control even his closest friends - just in case they suddenly quarrel in the future, so that later he would always be able to blackmail them. This also applied to Dyachenko and Yumashev ...

Since 1995, we began to record all conversations in the LogoVAZ Reception House around the clock. The mansion on Novokuznetskaya was then the epicenter of political life. A mass of people came to Berezovsky every day, the whole color, starting from Chernomyrdin and Tatyana Borisovna (Dyachenko. - A.Kh.) and ending with half of the Duma.

The premises were also controlled. In the hall where most meetings and parties took place, there was a mantel clock equipped with a hidden camera. We made them ourselves, like all other devices. The recording was switched on from a pocket key fob.

And in Borya's office, we built the equipment into a table lamp. When he turned on the light, the video and audio recording began. Plus, there were also portable devices. Other table clocks, desk set, Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

huge calculator. If he needed someone to record, he brought them with him ...

According to these records made in the reception house, one can trace the entire modern history of Russia, the most striking, epoch-making events.

And here's what I think. I have no reason to doubt the authenticity of this publication. She explains why Berezovsky was so zealous in defending his office from being searched and enlisted the armed Litvinenko to do so. It turns out that if the search had been carried out, then a possible recording of the conversation between Listyev and Berezovsky on the night of February 28 to March 01, 1995, on the eve of the murder, could have been discovered and seized. Why was Boris Abramovich so afraid and why did he compare Litvinenko's help in protecting the office from a search with the fact that he "saved his life." Is it because perhaps he helped to "bury the secret"

murder of Listyev, about which very serious and unpleasant questions could arise to Boris Abramovich?!

By the way, I recall that Volodya Startsev told me that at the beginning of the investigation, Alexander Litvinenko tried to develop his activity in the field of “disclosing the murder of Listyev”, but as a person close to Berezovsky, in order to avoid gossip and leakage of information in the admission to that case was denied.

On the whole, speaking about these "tricks" of Boris Abramovich, I want to note that I did not feel any hostility towards him. He proceeded from the fact that, as Hegel wrote, "The mole of history (and in our case, the mole of the investigation, the author's note) digs slowly, but digs well." He probably chose to fight us as a way of protecting himself. Well, he had a right to it. Rather, I treated him as a kind of collective image of Joseph Fouche of our then realities.

This is how Stefan Zweig, in his novel Joseph Fouche, describes the latter. “Joseph Fouche, one of the most powerful people of his time, one of the most remarkable people of all times, was not loved by his contemporaries and his descendants judged him even less grain. Napoleon on the island of St. Helena, Robespierre, referring to the Jacobins, Carnot, Barras, Talleyrand (* 1) in their memoirs, all French historians - whether royalists, republicans or Bonapartists - barely reaching his name, began to write with bile.

A traitor by nature, a pitiful intriguer, a groveling flatterer, a professional defector, a vile police soul, a despicable, immoral person - there is no such stigmatizing, such a swear word, Pyotr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

by which he would be bypassed; neither Lamartine, nor Michelet, nor Louis Blanc (*2) makes any serious attempt to study his character, or rather his stubborn, astounding lack of character.

The true outlines of his appearance appear for the first time in the monumental biography of Louis Madeleine (* 3) (to which this work, as well as other studies devoted to this issue, owe for the most part factual material); history quite calmly relegated this man to the back rows of insignificant extras, who led all parties in the era of the change of two worlds and turned out to be the only one among politicians who survived the storms of those years, the man who defeated such people as Napoleon and Robespierre in a psychological duel.

Sometimes his image flickers in a play or operetta dedicated to Napoleon, but in most cases he appears there in a well-worn schematic mask of a seasoned police minister, a kind of forerunner of Sherlock Holmes: in a flat image, the role of an behind-the-scenes figure always turns into a secondary role.

Only one person, from the height of his own grandeur, saw all the peculiar grandeur of this unique figure: that was Balzac.

This great and penetrating mind, who saw not only the outer cover of the events of the era, but also always looked behind the scenes, directly recognized Fouche as the most psychologically interesting character of his age.

So, one day in the evening around June 2007, my mobile phone rang without identifying the caller's number. I replied.

The following conversation took place: “Hello, is this Pyotr Georgievich?” "Yes," I answered. Then a man with a voice similar to the voice of Boris Abramovich said: "This is Boris Berezovsky."

Taken aback by such a surprise, he asked where he got my phone number from, to which the interlocutor replied that the world was small and it was not difficult to find out my phone number. Then he asked what my modest person deserved his attention. He answered me that he would like me to accept him Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

defense in the Savelovsky District Court of Moscow, where a criminal case on charges of fraud should soon begin. At the same time, it was said that the payment of the fee for my lawyer's work could be made, including in one of the Western banks. I have to tell him only the amount of the fee in order to conclude an agreement on the protection of his rights and interests.

I noticed to the interlocutor that the offer, of course, is tempting, but I can’t agree with it, since our previous meetings are not conducive to concluding such an attorney’s agreement with him.

He said that moral and ethical obstacles arise for me, and I do not want to justify myself to anyone. There are no legal grounds for a ban on such an agreement, but, firstly, the case is noisy, and secondly, after all, we met under other circumstances. In response, the interlocutor only expressed regret - “very sorry, very sorry” and wished me good luck. This is where our conversation ended.

I do not presume to say whether the interlocutor was in fact Boris Abramovich Berezovsky. However, the voice and manner of speaking ("patter") were very similar. I do not rule out a hoax, because, as I later found out from the media, Boris Abramovich forbade his Russian lawyers to participate in this process and his interests were represented by a defender by appointment, that is, a public defender.

But such a strange conversation took place and the person next to me heard that the conversation was with a man whom I called Boris Abramovich. And he also suggested that I talked with Berezovsky. Moreover, when they recently began to recall this conversation, an eyewitness of the conversation remembered that Boris Abramovich also used the word “fraer” in the conversation, but could not explain in what context. Unfortunately, I forgot this detail of the conversation.

Maybe my behavior called this word.

I think that if the caller was actually Berezovsky, then, apparently, he did not have hostility towards me either.

And further. It is well known that Boris Abramovich was a master at building all kinds of logical chains and combinations to implement his plans. Maybe he hoped to overcome the troubles that had arisen with the help of my former colleagues?! In any case, that call remained a mystery to me.

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The story of the publication of Forbes magazine (Forbes) On December 30, 1996, the American magazine Forbes published an article entitled "The Most Influential Man in Russia."

The article was dedicated to Boris Berezovsky, an entrepreneur and a big "boss" in Russia. The author of the article is American journalist Paul Klebnikov.

It also touched upon the topic of the murder of Vladislav Listyev. In particular, it was vaguely reported that “when Listyev announced his intention to stop commercial advertising on the ORT channel, businessman Sergei Lisovsky requested $100 million in damages. Listyev found a European campaign that wanted to buy the rights to advertise on ORT. He also asked Boris Berezovsky to act as a transfer agent and transfer 100 million US dollars to Lisovsky. Berezovsky took the cash and deceived Lisovsky. As a result, Listyev was killed.

On February 18, 1997, in an interview with Andrey Baranov, the editor of Forbes magazine, James Miles, in an interview with his own correspondent for the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper in New York, said that one of the main principles of Forbes magazine is the absolute reliability of the information published.

The journal conducts a rigorous and multilateral verification of every fact, every figure, before "thrown" it into print. In this regard, Forbes is probably the most cautious magazine in the world. An article detailing the reasons for Listyev's murder is no exception, and the editors can confirm all the facts presented in it.

In connection with this publication, an appeal was sent to the competent US authorities for legal assistance, which provided for the interrogation of persons who had collected material about Listyev's murder, the seizure and sending us the materials that served as the basis for the publication of details about this murder.

Approximately in late February - early March 1998, we received a response from the US FBI to our appeal. From this answer it followed that the author of the publication, Pavel Khlebnikov, did not want to submit any materials to the competent authorities, to reveal his sources, citing a possible threat to their personal safety.

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At the same time, Mr. Khlebnikov agreed to discuss the questions that the investigators of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office had in connection with the information contained in his article, on the condition that a special agent of the US FBI would take part in the interview.

After a phone call, as I understood, from New York, on March 12, 1998, the author of the article, Paul or Pavel Khlebnikov, came to me. Frankly, I was looking forward to this meeting, probably more than Khlebnikov himself. It was a sinful thing, I hoped that he would bring the materials on the basis of which the article was written, and for our investigative-operational group the finish line in the investigation would open. But, as you know, there are no easy ways in the life of investigators.

As I remember, he did not put forward any conditions about someone else's presence during the interview. We talked for a long time. I didn't rush him.

The conversation took place in a correct, friendly atmosphere. Everyone was waiting for him to start laying out evidence for me. But this did not happen, and then he asked Pavel if he had factual materials for the conclusions that are set out in his article. Pavel told me that the information he published was contained in!!! - in my criminal case and he received it from some participants in the investigation of the case.

I noticed to Pavel that, as the head of the investigative-operational group, I know the content of the materials of investigative actions and operational-search measures, but for some reason I don’t recall any of the data he published.

Then Paul was simply carried away into some wilds. He told me that the murder of Listyev was connected with politics, and as soon as the high-ranking perpetrators were identified, the investigating authorities, that is, us, would not be allowed to bring them to justice. Pavel said that if he hints at Boris Berezovsky, then if such evidence of his guilt is found, I see no obstacles to raising the question of his arrest. But only if there is evidence! I have full support from the Prosecutor General and his Deputy for Investigation and, I hope, no one will put any obstacles in this.

Ultimately, I formed the opinion that Khlebnikov did not have any materials that would help our investigation. And, if he has something, then guesses and assumptions, his own or imaginary participants in the investigation of the murder of Listyev, whom he refused to name.

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emphasize that we said goodbye to him in an amicable way, smiling, without any hint of internal rejection. I thanked Pavel Khlebnikov for the meeting. It never crossed my mind that he didn't like the meeting very much.

This is how the journalist Khlebnikov himself describes our meeting in his book titled "The Godfather of the Kremlin - Boris Berezovsky, or the History of the Plundering of Russia." “One evening at the beginning of 1999 (author's note - the meeting actually took place in 1998, not in 1999) I met with Petr Triboi, an investigator for especially important cases of the Prosecutor General's Office. He led the investigation into the murder of Listyev, which dragged on for the fourth year. The office was gloomy and quiet, as in a grave. Triboi, with the pale face of a bureaucrat, in a gray Soviet-era suit, admitted that the investigation had stalled. None of the lines of inquiry led to anything;

everything was checked, and all to no avail. It seemed that Triboi had resigned himself to defeat. Another thing was also alarming: apparently, he did not fully understand the key circumstances of the case, especially the nuances of the advertising business on ORT, which, according to the majority, was the reason for the murder of Listyev.

I deeply regret that Pavel Khlebnikov is no longer alive, but these statements of his do not correspond to reality. He did not reconcile himself to any defeat at that time and did not tell him that “the investigation had reached a dead end”. And I will not comment on the negative description of my office and my appearance.

It can be seen that Pavel Khlebnikov was inclined to a rather free and emotional interpretation of events and facts. In fact, he dedicated a more angry and derogatory passage to me. But, the publishers of his book, who knew me by chance, noticed to Pavel that people who knew me simply would not believe what he wrote about me. And then Paul left in his book only the above passage.

Well, each of us has the right to express our opinion.

I would like a person's opinion to be based on actual facts, and not on delusions and mistakes.

I should note that due to the circumstances set forth in this Forbes publication, Boris Berezovsky was once again interrogated as a witness. In his testimony, he completely denied the allegations contained in the Forbes article. He stated that he had applied to the London Court with a claim for the protection of honor and dignity.

Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

By the way, as it later became known from the media, Berezovsky managed to convince the court that in a magazine publication he was unreasonably accused of being behind the murder of Vladislav Listyev. Regarding other claims, a settlement agreement was concluded with the defendant, Forbes magazine, in 2003.

On February 2, 1999, at the request of the editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, Vladimir Mamontov, I gave this newspaper a long interview on the investigation into the murder of Listyev. The editors placed a publication under the loud title “Skuratov’s resignation is a cross on the “case”

Listyev"?

In principle, with the title of the interview, the editors hit the target, since I no longer felt any support from Skuratov's successor. In addition, Katyshev was transferred to another area of ​​work, not related to the supervision of the investigation. "Survey the cleaners," as the wits joked. And what was I to do in those conditions? I couldn't puff out my cheeks and pretend that nothing had happened. I began to understand that I was “going to a dead end” and, unfortunately, the investigation would follow me there. The support that was needed was no longer there.

In my answers, I also gave my critical assessment of Pavel Khlebnikov's publications in Forbes magazine. I don't know if this is true, but "evil tongues"

they said that it seems that Boris Abramovich used this interview of mine in the London court.

They also asked me a question about how I assess the resignation of my boss Skuratov. He answered as follows, and I quote: “My colleagues and I deeply regret this resignation. I know what kind of pressure he experienced from certain forces that tried to influence the investigation. He had the courage and diplomatic tact to defend the independence of the prosecutor's office.

Objectively, Skuratov's resignation is beneficial to those powerful figures who have recently found themselves in the field of close attention of law enforcement agencies and are suspected of corruption. Defending the interests of people and the state, he himself turned out to be unprotected. I hope that the Federation Council, when discussing Yuri Ilyich's resignation, will not be drawn into "politics" and that the governors will have the decisiveness and independence not to follow the lead of those interested in his resignation.

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The role of Prosecutor General Skuratov in the investigation Now I would like to briefly talk about the role of Prosecutor General Skuratov in this investigation. I once read that there were several reasons why Skuratov was "turned his neck" and relieved of his post. And one of the reasons is the investigation into the murder of Listyev. The question may arise, where does the Prosecutor General, he, that he himself investigated the case?

Investigators subordinate to him were investigating, not him. But I assess the role of the Attorney General in this investigation as extremely important and as useful as possible. And that's why.

The further we advanced with the investigation, the more Yuri Ilyich became involved in its course. He personally got acquainted with the materials of investigative actions, with the results of operational-search measures. Discussed with us and was aware of almost all our intentions, as they say, "online". With his meetings and calls to the heads of law enforcement agencies, he sometimes duplicated our written instructions on this or that operational event and strengthened their significance.

I must say that during the reports "he grasped everything on the fly" and had a phenomenal memory. Once, during the next report on the case, he also informed him about an insignificant situation (not of paramount importance for the case). Imagine my amazement when, after three months, he remembered this and asked how “that problem” ended. I thought to myself, he is the Attorney General, how can he remember such an insignificant moment?

Once, after another report, Yuri Ilyich joked in the presence of other colleagues: “Pyotr Georgievich, if you solve the murder of Listyev, I will order that you put a bust at the fountain in the courtyard of the prosecutor’s office on Bolshaya Dmitrovka and order that glasses be sculpted as well.” I don’t know why, but in response, I also escaped as a joke: “Yes, there will be Yuri Ilyich a monument to us, only, it seems to me, from the mud.” Unfortunately, my joke turned out to be prescient.

I still remember this feature of that time. How did the Attorney General position himself in the then system of "checks and balances". Somehow questions arose to the Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Yumashev.

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Of course, " big man”and, in my opinion, it was necessary to act through the Prosecutor General. Moreover, the situation was such that it could be clarified either by interrogating Yumashev, or by sending a request to him. And with this problem he turned to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.

After listening to me, Yuri Ilyich noted that this was not his level of permission and I should decide for myself as I see fit: either an interrogation or a request. I settled on the second option. There was no desire to tickle your nerves once again.

Somewhere in December 1998, Yuri Ilyich invited me to his place, asked about the course of the investigation, about the problems, and then instructed me to prepare a detailed certificate for him with a presentation of evidence for each of the defendants in the case. This certificate was prepared and submitted to the Prosecutor General.

A few days later, at another meeting, Yuri Ilyich announced that he had seen Tatyana Borisovna Dyachenko and Valentin Borisovich Yumashev. The purpose of this meeting is to warn them against further contacts with the defendants in our case. In the event of a possible arrest of the latter, this could unwittingly cast a shadow on the President's family. As he said, Tatyana Borisovna listened absently to him and nodded her head, as if in sign of understanding.

Meanwhile, from the continued behavior of the people we were interested in, it became clear that no understanding of Yuri Ilyich's warnings was found. On the contrary, as he later said, it became obvious to him that our "clients" have a powerful "roof" and this should be well taken into account.

But what choice did I have as an investigator under such circumstances?

There was no choice. He continued his work with this bleak knowledge. In my position, after the death threats over the phone, the nighttime arson of the door to the place of residence, various kinds of troubles could wait further. One more or less - it did not change anything radically. I understood that I still had to bear and carry this cross.

In fact, I couldn't come with a complaint to Skuratov or Katyshev, telling them, you know, it's hard for me or I'm afraid, give me an easier matter.

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I will not hide it, we tried it on from the point of view of the sufficiency of evidence for the detention of several more defendants in the case.

At the same time, they "kept in mind" the remark of the Prosecutor General about their powerful "roof".

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And then I thought, and today I confirm that the presence of a "roof" put in second place in terms of negative costs that would arise in the event of a possible arrest of suspects.

I would like to say, regardless of the Listyev case, that I have always treated the use of arrests as a measure of restraint quite “economically”. As a rule, if it was possible to leave the ward under a written undertaking not to leave, then he chose the undertaking. Firstly, in such a situation, a person could count on a punishment not related to deprivation of liberty. As you know, the prison is not the most a good place to educate people. Secondly, arrests not only increase the degree of responsibility of the investigator, but also create unnecessary inconvenience for him.

For example, you will never be able to call a suspect or an accused by phone or subpoena. You have to drag yourself to the pre-trial detention center, stand in line and wait until they deliver it to you. Of course, in the case under investigation, these rules were difficult to apply.

At the same time, in the first place, I still raised the question of the sufficiency of evidence in order to put forward an appropriate accusation.

In order to more accurately represent the situation, it is necessary to move the time back 18 years.

Professionals will understand very well what I am talking about, the courts were different then.

They might not necessarily agree with the investigation.

Believe me, I know very well what I'm talking about, already as a Moscow lawyer with fourteen years of experience. Now, imagine what would happen if, after the arrest, the court did not extend the detention of our clients. I will say that an irreparable blow would have been dealt to the future prospects of the case. This time. Secondly, the defendants learned to whom and what claims they have.

Some wise guy will say that it means that you had no evidence, which is why you were afraid to raise the issue of arrest. No, it's not. With such “friends” among our clients, their financial and informal capabilities, we needed not just proof, but super proof. And in those conditions, this could not necessarily guarantee success.

Well, the last. Who knew that Skuratov would be removed soon? How happy our "friends" and their entourage were when they learned about the removal of Skuratov and the transfer of Katyshev from supervision of the department for the investigation of especially important cases! Words cannot express their emotions.

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Of course, the dismissal of Yuri Ilyich from the prosecutor's office became for the case approximately the same as what happens with a ship left without a rudder and sails. This expression from Lermontov's poem "Demon" means an event or phenomenon that has neither a clear direction of movement (development) nor control of this movement. That is to say, we stood up.

"The principled position of Skuratov, his daily help allowed us to overcome the numerous obstacles that the investigation faced, including threats of physical violence."

Now I began to understand that it is not worth expecting any help in the course of further investigation from the future chief of the department. And he was especially convinced of this when, on September 16, 1999, in the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, I read Alexander Khinshtein's publication again entitled "He will be loyal" with the subtitle "So the oligarchs talk about the future Prosecutor General." From this article it also became clear that the position of our "virtue" Boris Abramovich Berezovsky in the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation has significantly increased.

In addition, in early February 1999, in the development of the same negative situation, I was faced with the fact that they ceased to acquaint me with the results of operational-search measures carried out on my behalf in a criminal case that is in my proceedings?! There is probably no greater absurdity. The operatives told me who introduced this ban.

No one dared to help me in that situation.

Actually, what was not mistaken in the gloomy prospects of the investigation was confirmed during personal communication with the new head of the department for the investigation of especially important cases of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation Lyseyko V.O.

In the conversation, Vladimir Onufrievich, slyly narrowing his eyes, spoke in the sense, as I understood, that the Listyev case had lost its relevance.

Below I will talk about the egregious facts that the investigation encountered.

I'm not looking for any excuses, but it would also be unfair not to tell about it.

Above, I already wrote about the "assistance" to the investigation from Boris Berezovsky - far from the last person in the then political hierarchy of the country.

But there was also a frank betrayal of the interests of this case. “When you were betrayed, it’s like having your hands broken. You can forgive, but now you can’t hug, ”wrote Leo Tolstoy.

Moreover, as it was recorded, from the top officials of two federal departments, the deputy chairman of another important institution, and someone else. I don’t understand how you can rise to such heights, and in your actions do not differ from an ordinary market trader. No, perhaps I offended the merchant, she trades legally. So she is all right with the motivation of her activities.

Our "heroes" traded illegally, "under the counter". The state delegated great powers to them, gave them huge offices, official cars, assistants, secretaries, deputies, just so that they zealously observe its interests. But in fact, these gentlemen were engaged in activities directly opposite to the interests of the state.

What did they pursue when they warned our defendants about the danger threatening them? When were people reasonably suspected of committing a serious crime informed that they were in the field of our attention precisely in connection with the investigation into the murder of Listyev? FSB employees informed the investigation about this and provided relevant materials. This information was brought to the Prosecutor General Skuratov.

I don't remember why this information wasn't appreciated. Either a scandal began with his removal from office, or something else happened.

It is quite obvious that such "punches in the gut" were inflicted on the investigation.

It is unlikely that anyone will doubt that these high-ranking "figures" from among the "sympathizers" or "participants" did not know the provisions of our Constitution of the Russian Federation:

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About the right of everyone to life,

That a person, his rights and freedoms are the highest value,

That the rights of victims of crimes are protected by law.

Therefore, it is superfluous to talk about the presence in their heads of any remnants of morality and morality. After all, it was quite obvious to them that the persons who came to the attention of the investigation were suspected not of petty hooliganism, but of the cruel and cynical contract murder of a famous person due to selfish goals. This circumstance also indicates that among the representatives of the then upper political class there were also very unprincipled individuals.

In addition, our opponents had good “outputs” to officials of the highest rank of the then Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. We were aware of their contacts. There were hearings of operational work on the case. At the same time, I do not want to question the decency and honesty of those employees who directly worked in the task force.

We also knew about cases when, with the help of such “connections”, attempts were made to send us on the wrong track, throwing up either versions of the murder, or the “criminals” who committed it. I know that the directors behind these scripts were extremely unhappy with our rejection of their gimmicks. But such firmness of the investigation, on the other hand, convinced our opponents that we "do not stray in paradise" and responsibility may soon come. It would seem that an easy and short path - a person confesses to the murder, tells a "fable" about how he committed it. You just draw it up correctly in a procedural way, in some places tell him where he gets confused and that's it - the case is solved, celebrate the victory. But such "Pyrrhic victories"

we didn't need it.

The French philosopher and thinker Denis Diderot wrote: "Sincerity is the mother of truth and the sign of an honest man." While investigating this case, we really sincerely searched for the truth and did not pursue any other goals.

I believed that we were moving in the right direction and, oddly enough, time was our ally. Bit by bit, they continued to collect evidence. And, if not for the fiasco with the Prosecutor General, who knows, maybe some "comrades" would already be "at large with a clear conscience" for committing this murder.

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Group Investigators

The results of any work depend on the competence and professionalism of its performers. Conducting a preliminary investigation is no exception. Experience, Integrity, Integrity and Professionalism the necessary conditions for quality research. I cannot say that the investigators of the group were specially selected for this case. People were included in the composition for various reasons. I will briefly describe some of them.

At the end of 1996, he sent a separate order to the city of Saratov to carry out a number of investigative actions. It was executed by the investigator for especially important cases of the regional prosecutor's office, first-class lawyer (captain) Zagorodnev Dmitry Nikolaevich. And so impeccably, completely and competently that he decided, if possible, to take this investigator to the investigation team. It was necessary to find out his wish, because a person may have problems with business trips.

In a conversation, Dmitry said that it would be interesting for him to work in such a team, but this issue needs to be resolved with the regional prosecutor Nikolai Ivanovich Makarov. I called the district attorney. By the way, he subsequently became Deputy Prosecutor General for the Central Federal District. But Nikolai Ivanovich "in no way" did not want to let D.N. Zagorodnev go. to Moscow. He said that he was busy and offered me other candidates.

I also learned that shortly before that Zagorodnev D.N. graduated from the investigation of one of the most difficult criminal cases of mass murder of gangsters with 8 - 9 defendants. In addition, at that time, the Saratov region was one of the few regions where a court with the participation of jurors already functioned. This circumstance also required special professionalism of the investigators whose cases were considered by such a court.

All this reinforced my opinion that Zagorodnev D.N. - an intelligent investigator and I must definitely "get" him. Since Makarov N.I.

did not want to meet halfway, I had to turn to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yu.I. Skuratov. And only after the instructions of the Prosecutor General, Zagorodnev D.N. in March 1997 he was included in the investigation team. As expected, he turned out to be a knowledgeable, modest and decent person. For example, a lot of time later, learned Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

that he is the grandson of the Hero Soviet Union Vasily Ivanovich Zagorodnev, captain, commander of an anti-tank company, who died in battle in 1944 in Poland.

There was something in Dmitry from his grandfather. He worked diligently and very well. Despite his youth, he could be relied upon in any matter. Thus, I “appeared a reliable shoulder” in the group.

We worked together until I retired. In the future, the professionalism and diligence of Zagorodnev D.N. have been noticed. In the prosecutorial and investigative field, he held a number of positions, up to the head of the investigative department of the TFR in the Central Federal District.

I don’t know why, but, unfortunately, in 2015, at the age of 47, he retired with the rank of Lieutenant General of Justice. Too bad it's so early and with such a decent experience. Now he works in a well-known state-owned company.

Investigator Elsultanov Sharan Magomed-Alievich also worked diligently and qualified in the brigade. He was included in the group at the suggestion of the head of the investigative department Kazakov V.I.

As I understand it, they were investigating one crime in the North Caucasus together. Sharan modestly kept silent, but joined us, not only as an experienced specialist, but also having a PhD in Law. I found it useful to consult with him during joint work. In the future, Sharan occasionally appeared in the press in connection with the investigation of various high-profile criminal cases. He became a senior investigator for particularly important cases under the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, and currently Major General of Justice Elsultanov Sh. M-A. heads one of the departments of the Main Investigation Department of the TFR (Investigative Committee of Russia).

Antipenko Elena Viktorovna was seconded from Moscow.

Worked well and without comment. Responsible and proactive. As far as I know, at present Elena Viktorovna is a senior adviser to justice (colonel), deputy head of the department of the Prosecutor General's Office for supervision of the investigation in the Investigative Committee of Russia.

Also, an investigator Lakhtin Valery Alekseevich was sent from the prosecutor's office of one of the districts of Moscow. He coped with the tasks assigned to him. Now he is a senior adviser to justice (colonel) and a senior prosecutor of one of the departments of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia.

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The Oryol Regional Prosecutor's Office seconded Yury Petrovich Shcheglov, a district investigator, to the group. Yuri Petrovich was a mature man with relevant experience. I would say that in the case, first of all, he was distinguished by scrupulousness, which is a good trait for an investigator. Currently, Yu.P. Shcheglov, Senior Counselor of Justice, - Prosecutor of the city of Apatity, Murmansk region.

We went through the group and other good investigators. I ask their forgiveness if they are offended that I did not mention them.

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A special place in the investigation of this criminal case was occupied by questions of international cooperation in connection with our requests for legal assistance. As I remember, with such requests we addressed the competent authorities of the USA, England, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Israel, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Latvia, Ukraine and some other countries.

In Switzerland, I had to contact directly with the magistrate of the Canton of Geneva, Georges Zekshen. He led the investigation into the case of Russian citizen S.A. Mikhailov.

I went to Geneva, where, together with Mr. Zekshen, we carried out investigative actions. From the Geneva airport, where the judicial investigator met me and translator Natalia Kozienko, we were taken to a restaurant for breakfast.

We drank, as is their custom, another glass of wine, and then arrived at the Palais de Justice in Geneva.

There he handed over to Mr. Zekshen the answer of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office signed by Katyshev with the attached materials of the investigative actions carried out at his request in Russia. Having familiarized himself with the documents handed over, Zekshen, as I noticed, was somewhat upset. But I honestly told him that if the Russian prosecutor's office had materials about Mikhailov's specific crimes, then we would initiate a criminal case and bring him to justice, despite the interest of the Swiss side in him.

After discussing with Mr. Zekshen the plan of our actions for the next day, we went to the hotel. At the same time, I remember that he was pleasantly surprised when he answered in French - “Je parle un peu franais”. (I speak French a little). He asked where I studied. He answered without false modesty - at Moscow State University.

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The next day, October 22, 1997, Mr. Mikhailov was brought to Zekshen's office. The investigator's office was attended by the Russian interpreter Natalia Kozienko, the Swiss interpreter Madame Corinne Billaud, the sworn lawyer Ralph Oswald Isenegger, Alec Raymond.

Then I saw this in Israel, but I was surprised that Mikhailov was brought to the office in shackles, shackling both hands and feet. When they were removed, Monsieur Zekshen introduced me to Mr. Mikhailov, and I extended my hand to him and greeted him. Since he was interrogated as a witness in our criminal case, he did not see any behavioral contradictions in this, on his part. Rather, it also indicated that I had no prejudice against Mikhailov and that my participation in the interrogation meant that he

– the duty of a witness to honestly answer the questions of the Russian investigation.

At the beginning, he stated that since the Swiss investigating authorities had illegally arrested him and kept him in prison, he did not answer their questions for more than six months and did not cooperate with the investigation. In response to my question, transmitted through Mr. Zekshen, who conducted the interrogation with my participation, Mikhailov replied that he was ready to answer the questions of the Russian investigator, that is, my questions. And only in the event that after the question from Zekshen is raised, each time I confirm that this is also my question. That is, Mr. Mikhailov woke up patriotic feelings - he answered only the questions of the investigator - a compatriot.

When the questions were over, with the permission of Mr. Zekshen, I asked Mikhailov one more question, which could not help but arise in my mind. The question turned out to be long, but not only Mikhailov, but also Zekshen should have understood it.

In connection with the fact that he was a representative of the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia - a body not only for prosecution, but also for the protection of human rights and freedoms, I asked Mikhailov if there were any claims, complaints about the regime of his detention, about how he was treated and how he is being prosecuted in the Swiss Confederation?

At the beginning, apparently, from the unexpectedness of the question, Mikhailov got excited.

I must say that during the interrogation the latter behaved with dignity. He, thanking for the question, said that he had been waiting for a long time for someone to ask him about it, and especially from Russia. Regarding the regime of detention and treatment in prison, he has no complaints. He complains that the Swiss investigators Pyotr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

authorities illegally arrested him and kept him in custody. Thus, one of his fundamental rights is violated - to be a free person.

He asked me to forward this complaint to the Prosecutor General of Russia, Mr. Skuratov. Then the secretary present, printed out Mikhailov's testimony. He read them and signed each page of the protocol of interrogation with his signature. After that, I once again extended my hand to Mr. Mikhailov and said, so that Zekshen could also understand: "Au revoir - goodbye (fr.)".

After the interrogation was completed, one of Mikhailov's lawyers expressed a desire to meet with me separately in Geneva. I forwarded this request to Mr. Zekshen, but as I understand it, he reacted negatively to this initiative.

Therefore, I told the lawyer that if they have any additional questions related to today's interrogation, then they can officially apply to the Russian Prosecutor General's Office and we will consider their appeal.

When Mikhailov was taken away from the office, his lawyers left, Zekshen asked how I move around Moscow, am I afraid of criminals?

I answered that I travel both by public transport and by special, depending on the situation, as for fear, I didn’t even think about it. And not because I'm some kind of knight without fear and reproach.

I just have a rule - always act according to the law and according to conscience, so I don’t see any problems. And then why should I be afraid and not them? He pointed to his armored windows and said he thought differently. I just remarked that everyone is free to act according to what he knows and what he is investigating. I also told Zekshen that I do not want to idealize the state of crime in my country, but at the same time, what is written in the press is also far from being true. And, probably, he understands that journalists need sensations, so they, sometimes without hesitation, "exaggerate". But we have to look at these things realistically.

I can't say how the information leaked out, but a local English-language newspaper wrote about my stay in Geneva. She reported that an investigator from Russia had arrived in Geneva to investigate the murder of the famous TV journalist Vladislav Listyev. He conducts investigative actions with local competent authorities. After that, I was found by phone by an employee of our embassy in Switzerland, who expressed surprise that he only learned about my stay in Geneva from the press. I thanked him for his concern and said that I had already decided all the issues I had planned and that I was flying to Moscow tomorrow.

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Leonid Timofeev, correspondent of Komsomolskaya Pravda in Geneva, devoted his article to the interrogation of Sergei Mikhailov on October 28, 1997 entitled “Mikhas was interrogated in the Listyev case”. Among other things, it was stated that “... The other day Mikhailov was visited by an investigator from Moscow, Pyotr Triboi. In the presence of a local colleague and two lawyers, he interrogated the defendant as a witness in the case of Vladislav Listyev.

As it turned out, Mikhas answered all the tricky questions of the investigator that he had nothing to do with this crime, since by the time it was committed he had already left the country.

But how Oleg Yakubov - the author of the book "Mikhailov or Mikhas?" M .: Veche 2013, according to Sergei Mikhailov, spoke about this Geneva interrogation: “... In October 1997, Zekshen called me for interrogation and introduced me to Petr Triboi, an investigator from the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia. After going through all the necessary formalities, the Swiss investigator began to ask me questions. I was surprised and did not consider it necessary to hide my surprise: “Petr Georgievich, what is happening, why don’t you ask your own questions? The fact is that I, using my right to remain silent, do not answer the questions of the investigator Zekshen, about which I made an official statement. Triboi replied that this was the procedure for conducting interrogations in Geneva. He added that all the questions that Investigator Zekshen asks were prepared by him, Triboi and convincingly asked me not to refuse answers. I noticed that I would assume that the Russian investigator was asking me questions, and agreed to answer. During the interrogation, I turned to Mr. Triboi several more times and saw how this angered Zekshen. But I still answered all the questions: I had nothing to hide ... "

Subsequently, as far as is known from the media, the jury of the Swiss court found Mikhailov completely innocent. Moreover, the court decided to compensate Mikhailov in the amount of half a million dollars.

Fruitful cooperation has developed with the representative of the police of the State of Israel in Moscow, Police Brigadier General Aron Tal.

Mr. Tal spoke Russian well, and this circumstance greatly facilitated our work. Being originally from Poland, the father of General Tal, rose to the rank of captain of the Red Army in the Great Patriotic War. As I understood from further communication, Mr. Tal had a benevolent attitude towards our country.

I had to visit Israel. Together with investigators from the Department for Combating International Crime in the city of Petah-Tikva Reuven Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

Roskis and Chaim Kaspi interrogated several citizens of the State of Israel. Conducted two searches in this country. Moreover, as the Israelis explained to me, this was the first case in their country when an investigator from a foreign state received a court decision against them. The fact is that the consultants of the Ministry of Justice of the State of Israel reacted without much enthusiasm to our request for searches. With this conclusion, the Ministry of Justice, together with Reuven Roskis and Chaim Kaspi, arrived at the Tel Aviv court. Moreover, General Tal said that in their country everything is decided by the court, and if me and co-rapporteurs Roskis and Kaspi manage to prove the need for such permission, then we can get it.

It should be noted another feature of the situation in the Tel Aviv city court. When we got out of the car and headed towards the main entrance to the court, we were surrounded by a mass of photojournalists who continuously photographed us all the way until they entered the courtroom.

When I asked what this excitement was connected with, my colleagues replied that, most likely, the reporters did not even know who we were. They just take pictures of us, and if some kind of sensation later emerges related to our stay in court, they will immediately sell our photographs to any news agency.

The appeal was considered by a single judge. As it seemed to me, a thoughtful young woman, no more than 40 years old. At the court session, she lifted me up and asked what the searches were for. With the help of an interpreter, I briefly told her what I was investigating and what searches were for.

Investigators Roskis and Kaspi said that they delved into the materials presented by me and believe that searches should be carried out, and, therefore, a court decision is necessary. The judge retired to the deliberation room. Returning, after 10-15 minutes, she announced her decision - to satisfy the request of the Russian investigator - to allow searches to be carried out in two offices! And this despite the opposite opinion of the Ministry of Justice of the country. From Israel I received all the requested documents, including copies of the materials of the entire criminal case, investigated by Israeli investigators. For obvious reasons, I can't provide details.

The time of my stay on a business trip in Israel (September 1996) coincided with the Jewish New Year, and I was invited to a solemn meeting of the administration that accepted me.

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Some employees were awarded awards, certificates, regular special titles. Then, unexpectedly, they gave me the floor. At the beginning I was a little confused, but then I pulled myself together and went out in front of the audience. There were about three hundred employees in the hall. Congratulated them on the holiday. He told a little about our organization. He said that the prosecutor's office oversees the observance of the Constitution, the implementation of laws, and coordinates the activities of all law enforcement agencies in the fight against crime. At the same time, the investigative apparatus of the prosecutor's office investigates the most serious crimes in the country. He noted the positive significance of cooperation between our two countries in the criminal law sphere. I thanked my colleagues for their interaction and said that in case of their appeals, we would reciprocate. People applauded warmly after my brief speech.

I know that after me, my colleague, senior investigator for especially important cases, Tamaev Ruslan Sugaipovich, went on a business trip to Israel. He was also pleased with the results of the joint work.

The Israelis also came to us and, as far as I know, they were also satisfied with what had been done.

Cooperation in the framework of the investigation of the criminal case with the attache for legal matters Embassy of the United States of America in the Russian Federation - Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officer Denis Cosgrove.

Based on our requests for legal assistance, through Mr. Cosgrove, I received from the United States all the documents of interest to us. Denis also answered other inquiries on criminal cases that our investigators sent to the United States.

Denis has been to work with us as well. It was hosted by our immediate supervisor. Not without a "glass" of tea. During the "tea party" one of my colleagues presented Denis with his white general's tunic. How we laughed when, during the next visit to us by Denis, a colleague said that today at the meeting he needed to wear a white tunic, and he gave it to us.

In response, Denis joked: “Vladimir, 20 dollars and I will give you a tunic for two hours to participate in the meeting.”

“This is the American trait of enterprise,” one of his colleagues remarked, smiling. Denis, of course, was a professional, obligatory and pleasant person to communicate with.

Petr Georgievich Triboi | "The murder of Listyev. An investigation that has become irrelevant"

I remember, in my opinion, at the celebration of the Independence Day of the United States - July 4, along with other employees of law enforcement agencies: the prosecutor's office, the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, we were also invited from the investigative department.

At the residence of the US Ambassador to Russia - Spaso House, Denis cordially met us, introduced us to the US Ambassador, Mr. James Collins, and to his chief boss, US FBI Director Louis Freeh, who was visiting Moscow at the time. We shook hands and some festive phrases, and then stepped aside.

But with the gentlemen of the French, the interaction did not really work out. They did not respond to our request for legal assistance for a very long time. Moreover, they simply lost the first appeal. In connection with such negligence, at the direction of Yury Ilyich Skuratov, I had to meet with the legal attache of the French Embassy in Russia. I don't remember his last name. He said that since our request for legal assistance in such a most important criminal case for us is being carried out so carelessly, the Prosecutor General of Russia authorized me to inform that the same attitude could be shown to the requests of the French side to Russia. Moreover, their requests for the production of legal proceedings in Russia go through the Prosecutor General's Office. As I was told, at that time there were two or three requests for legal assistance in Russia, including, I remember, on a gang murder committed by a minor in France. The French representative offered to send a new request, which, after some time, was executed.

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IS THE RASPBERRY JACKET AGE RETURNED?

Yuri Skuratov, Prosecutor General in 1995-1999:
- There are no such accidental deaths, especially since the killers knew exactly where Kozlov was, when and where he was moving. As a rule, such crimes are worked out quite seriously.
At the heart of all contract killings is economic interest, a conflict situation over some big money. Since the Central Bank of the Russian Federation is a special institution, there can be several versions: either Kozlov promised something to someone, received money and did not do what he promised, or, conversely, for some reason did not give people the opportunity to earn money on something, took up an obstructive position.
Why is all this bad? It turns out that the officials of our banking system are so high level still in the reach of crime. This means that the banking system has changed little over the years. We thought it was over, but it turns out not.

Petr TRIBOY, former investigator for especially important cases of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation (Listiev case):
- There are fewer high-profile contract killings compared to the nineties. I think the work of arbitration courts has had an effect, that is, businesses have the opportunity to solve various critical problems in the legal field. Contract killings were also under socialism. Their number depends not only on the quality of the work of law enforcement agencies, but also on how perfect the legal field is. Unfortunately, we have it far from ideal, so when a business reaches a dead end, it is tempted to solve the problem in a radical way. Some of its representatives as an arbiter choose not the state with its insufficiently developed legislation, but a killer.

Vladimir DANILOV, former investigator for especially important cases of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation (explosion at the Kotlyakovskoye cemetery):
- Civil servants of this level, who oversee very dangerous issues leading to serious conflicts, should be protected, at least behind the scenes. In our country, it turns out that officials, whom no one will even remember, are escorted by jeeps with armed machine gunners. And the leaders who are at the forefront of the attack go with one guard. This is a clear miscalculation on the part of the state.

Gennady GUDKOV, State Duma Committee on Security:
- I do not think that now we have a certain repetition of the situation of the 90s. And in any case, with regard to contract killings, which, in my opinion, have become rare. I am not saying that life has become safer, but I associate the reasons for the reduction in cases of such a radical showdown with the work of the investigating authorities. Crimes of such a plan began to be disclosed - now they can be disclosed.
On the other hand, such attention of the state to the work of law enforcement and investigative agencies leads to “tightening the screws”, and this, in turn, results in major conflicts of interest. I mean pressure on customs and on banks. For people with an old mentality, this is an occasion to "order" the offender.
Now the prosecutor's office is working in a new way, the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs are trying to justify the budget funds invested in them. Therefore, skipping contract killings is not profitable in the hardware sense. In the case of Kozlov, the investigators, of course, will dig the ground.

"Novaya Gazeta" No. 71

18.09.2006

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This work is devoted to the circumstances of the investigation into the murder of the General Director of the Public Russian Television, the famous TV journalist Vladislav Nikolaevich Listyev. It describes the features of the preliminary investigation of one of the most resonant crimes in the criminal history of Russia in the 90s of the last century.
The author, as far as it was possible in the conditions of an incomplete investigation, lifted the veil of secrecy over some aspects of this case. The book contains specific facts about the behavior of well-known politicians, journalists, heads of law enforcement agencies during investigative actions with their participation or when discussing the progress of the investigation. Brief descriptions of some members of the investigative-operational group are given. The author also talks about international legal cooperation with representatives of law enforcement agencies of a number of foreign states.
The topic of opposition to the investigation, opportunistic use in this media is not ignored.
The book is intended for a wide range of readers, and primarily for people who knew and loved Vladislav Listyev well from his popular TV programs in the 80s and 90s of the last century.

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On March 1, 1995, late in the evening, Vlad Listyev was shot dead by hired hitmen in the entrance of his own house on Novokuznetskaya Street in Moscow.

Despite the fact that the murder was clearly ordered in nature, and more than half of the defendants involved in the order were identified within one and a half to two years from the date of the murder, a guilty verdict was never issued, and the perpetrator of the tragedy has not been convicted to this day.

In the course of the search activities and the long-term investigation, several investigators were replaced, and the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yu. Skuratov, who has the maximum amount of information on this case, was dismissed.

Fifteen years after the murder, the Listyev case was suspended and sent to the archive after the statute of limitations had expired, but the investigation was resumed last year on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation.

The killers and customers of Vlad were established back in the 1990s

At the time of the murder, all the airtime on Channel 1 was shared equally by three companies: InterVid, headed by V. Listyev, Lisovsky's Premier-SV, and Gleb Bokiy's BSG.

At some point, Listyev was tired of the miserable existence of the most popular and powerful media platform in the country, and he asked Boris Yeltsin live on Channel 1 with a question about when the channel would be financed properly, and when producers would be able to be creative, and not looking for money to create programs and pay salaries to employees.

Berezovsky was involved in the murder, but...

Around this period, the name of Boris Berezovsky pops up in the anthology of the assassination of Listyev, who, using his proximity to the first person of the state, managed to convince President Yeltsin that Channel 1 should be privatized, making it half state, half private enterprise. This will help attract private investment for the development of the channel, but at the same time keep it as a tool of state propaganda.

Yeltsin, this idea seemed right, and now, at the end of January 1995, Vlad Listyev became not only the favorite host of the whole country and the producer of all post-perestroika programs on Channel 1, but also CEO. What is important, under the patronage of Mr. Berezovsky.

This decision of Listyev not only seriously harmed, but actually destroyed Lisovsky's super-profitable, million-dollar business, which, according to numerous sources, was deeply indebted at that time.

Moreover, in the 90s, racketeering was actively flourishing, and Lisovsky's company had to pay considerable monthly "profits" to the Solntsevo organized criminal group, the absence of which already threatened the life of Lisovsky himself.

The version that the oligarch Berezovsky acted as the direct customer of the murder of Vlad Listyev was initially key for Skuratov / Triboy, but did not pass numerous tests for the truth. Investigators came to the conclusion that Berezovsky was actually involved in this crime, but indirectly.

According to the testimony of Vlad's wife, Albina Nazimova, they turned to Berezovsky for help with a request to protect Vlad literally a day before the murder. Vlad received threats and foresaw trouble, perhaps even had insider information about placing an “order” on him and asked Berezovsky to resolve the issue - to stop the “order”.

However, the oligarch at that moment decided to leave everything as it was and not interfere, because although Listyev was initially his protégé, as the general director of Channel 1, however, unfortunately for himself, he could not become a controlled puppet in the hands of Berezovsky. That is why Boris Abramovich instantly lost interest in him and did not consider it necessary to act as a defender. Most likely, because he knew exactly who was standing over Lisovsky.

Ernst version

The version about the direct involvement of Sergei Lisovsky in placing an “order” for Vlad Listyev was also spoken by K. Ernst in a scandalous interview with journalist E. Levkovich. The audio version of the interview is freely available on the Internet.
The printed version was published in 2013 on the Snob magazine website on the journalist's personal blog.

During an interview for one of the Western magazines in the dialogue between the journalist and K. Ernst, the phrase appears: "I know who ordered the murder of Vlad Listyev." After that, Ernst asks Levkovich to turn off the recorder and the offrecords utters a phrase, the essence of which is that he is sure that it was Sergey Lisovsky who ordered Listyev, but after so many years it is very difficult to prove.

This revelation did not appear immediately, but 5 years after the meeting. Journalist Levkovich commented on this by saying that the concept of offrecords has an important ethical meaning for him (in the world journalistic practice, it is customary to keep the informational secret of the interviewee if the conversation took place without a voice recorder at his request), however, the severity of the information received nevertheless forced him to make the facts public .

Ernst himself even officially uttered a streamlined phrase

“That’s what I didn’t tell Levkovich ...”, however, to this day he openly declares on the air of Channel 1 that he knew and knows the customer of Listyev’s murder, but for certain reasons he cannot name him.

After the scandal with Ernst's revelation, an information duck appeared on the network about Ernst's alleged suicide attempt after he slandered Senator Lisovsky. Not a single official source picked up the duck, neither Ernst nor Lisovsky gave a single informative comment on this fact.

It was necessary to confuse the investigation

Throughout the investigation, employees of the Investigative Committee and the prosecutor's office were faced with the fact that the investigation every now and then tried to consciously set off on a false trail and in every possible way prevented the receipt of information.

Starting with the shell casings left at the crime scene and the folder with the interview of witnesses, which was returned to the police by friends and defenders of the Listyev family, and ending with the appearance of 33 people who at various times confessed to the murder of Vlad. Confessions were given, as a rule, by people from brigade organized crime groups, and the study of each such version delayed the investigation for at least six months.

By order from above, a lot of time was spent on carefully working out the version of the order for the murder of Listyev's wife, Albina, in order to receive an inheritance.

And, of course, the notorious Masonic trail. It is no secret that Vlad Listyev covered and made public many pressing and political issues within the framework of the Vzglyad and Theme programs, which means that the investigation had to check whether Jews or Zionists were the customers of this unprecedented murder in the media environment.

Who is behind all this?

As soon as the Skuratov/Triboy team came close to the version of the likely involvement of Sergei Lisovsky, accumulated enough testimony and evidence, was able to locate and find out the location of the direct perpetrators, trace the criminal trail that stretches further behind Lisovsky, a command came from above - to reject the version, to stop development.

The investigator, and after him the prosecutor, were removed from the case, and the direct perpetrators of the murder, the Ageikin brothers, died one after another, as they often say, under strange circumstances.

Banned version

After Vlad Listyev was removed from the case and retired, the former Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Skuratov wrote a book in which he outlined a version that managed to move as close as possible to the solution, but which was officially banned at the final stage before the disclosure of the case.

The logic of the most likely version according to Skuratov/Triboy was as follows:

Vlad Listyev, thanks to his natural talent and high professionalism, became the most beloved and significant journalist in Russia in the 90s. He is the king of the live broadcast, his word is trusted by everyone without exception, his programs can start and stop strikes and one hundred percent control public opinion. From boring Soviet television, the main channel is turning into a prototype of the current ORT. After perestroika, journalism begins to blossom, and financial condition television media on the contrary to rot.

Listyev brings the problem of the channel's financial insecurity to discussion with President Yeltsin and does it live.

At first, 3, and then 2 companies, InterVid and Premier-SV, become owners of airtime on Channel 1. And if in the first case the money goes straight into the hands of Listyev, the producer of television shows on Channel 1, then in the second, directly into the hands of Sergei Lisovsky.

Thanks to Listyev, the whole country watched TV in the mid-90s. By 1995, everyone was also able to appreciate the significance and, most importantly, the monetary value of television broadcasting: the state, criminals, special services, and the first oligarchs.

During the airtime, a real massacre begins, in which the crumbs go to the channel itself, and the bulk of the money goes further through Lisovsky's company.

The most cunning in this war is none other than Berezovsky. He persuades Yeltsin to sign a decree on the privatization of Channel 1 according to the scheme: half to the state, half to LogoVaz (Berezovsky's company), he also proposes to appoint a talented and authoritative media manager, Vladislav Listyev, as the director of ORT.

During this period, objectionable journalists and public figures are eliminated one by one, contract killings are massive, and therefore Vlad Listyev begins to fear for his life. He tells his friends and family that his deeds in terms of resolving the security issue are very bad, and literally a day before his murder, Vlad and his wife come to the LogoVaz office for a conversation with Berezovsky, during which he asks for help and protection of his life and family.

Berezovsky, perhaps, promises to help, but realizing what level the “hit” is organized against Listyev, he decides not to interfere, because he already a priori has a 50% stake in ORT, and therefore, in fact, he no longer needs Listyev. With his non-intervention, he makes Vlad's death inevitable.

Popular love and popularity could not protect Vlad from two bullets fired at landing entrance by the killer Ageikin (a former paratrooper and member of the St. Petersburg organized crime group). The first bullet pierced the shoulder, the second temporal lobe of the CEO of Channel 1.

The death of the popular choice shakes the public and terrifies the journalistic crowd in Moscow. With the death of Listyev cynical contract killing for the sake of money and power, he enters the house of everyone living in Russia. It becomes quite obvious penny cost of human life. Shock and hatred, the streets of the capital are drowning in crowds of people and flowers.

President Yeltsin apologizes live for not saving the legend and takes the investigation under his personal control.

The most likely customer of the crime is Sergey Lisovsky. The performers are members of the St. Petersburg criminal organized crime group, the Ageikin brothers.

It is most likely that Lisovsky did not single-handedly make the decision to liquidate Listyev, the authorities of the St. Petersburg organized crime group stood above him, and someone else was above the authorities.

Despite the presence in the case file of a sufficient amount of evidence and testimonies, Sergei Lisovsky is not allowed to be held accountable by order from above. After a short time, the direct suspects in the execution of the order, the Ageikin brothers, go to another world.

And investigator Triboi and Prosecutor General Skuratov are removed from the case.

Personal control of President Yeltsin over the case lasted until the moment he left his post, not a single suspect from the Skuratov/Triboy version was ever brought to justice.

After the statute of limitations, after 15 years, 200 volumes of the criminal case on the death of Vlad Listyev were written off to the archive, however, due to the unceasing demands of the indifferent public, the President of the Russian Federation, V. Putin, ordered the resumption of the case on the disclosure of the murder of V. Listyev.

hope dies last

Both Yu. Skuratov and P. Triboi today without looking back and directly say that the case of Vlad Listyev could have been solved in the 90s, and can be solved now. By virtue of the law on the presumption of innocence, none of them directly accuse the defendants in the case, but they unequivocally allude to the fact that Vlad Listyev’s customers are still public to this day, and therefore, even after 21 years have passed since his death, no one has the opportunity bring the matter to a close.

And yet, the scale of the personality of the murdered, as well as the presence of an acute interest of the public and the journalistic community in this case that has not subsided for decades, leaves, albeit an illusory, but still hope for a fair retribution.

The material was prepared on the basis of open sources.

Elena Petrova