How can you characterize Blinov? 
Alcoholic, cocaine addict, gambling addict. As soon as the money appeared, he immediately went to gambling establishments in Spain and spent it.
How did he earn money while living in Europe?
I went to various events with the participation of rich people, recalled my relationship with Boris Berezovsky, and casually started talking about the fact that I was able to resolve various issues, both in the Russian Federation and in Europe. In Russia, he referred to his relative; his wife’s brother is a prosecutor at the transport prosecutor’s office in one of the regions. Through it he proposed creating “corridors” – illegally delivering and exporting goods and even people. In Europe, he undertook to provide people with false documents, collect information about people, and organize physical influence on them. His partner once told me that Blinov had long “crossed the line” and had “blood on his hands.”
How long ago did you meet Blinov?
Blinov’s partner once called me and said: “Have you heard about the story of the attack on Volkov with hammers?” This was around March 15-16. And then he told me that there was a Blinov who organized the attack on Volkov and others. The amount for materials about this was 5 million euros. I said right away: “Don’t you give a damn?” But the interlocutor replied that Blinov, since the time of Berezovsky, knows how to work with incriminating evidence and how much incriminating evidence costs. At the same time, he made a reservation that Blinov himself would go 3.5 million, and the rest would be divided by me and Blinov’s partner. I agreed, and they began to consider me their accomplice.
Will you reveal the secret of how to get materials for free that are asking for 5 million euros?
Everything was primitive. Blinov’s partner brought phones with materials to Moscow. I told him that the money was ready, but I would not give it away without checking the authenticity of the materials. A man arrived, whom I introduced as a specialist from the authorities. He said that checking the authenticity of materials from each phone will take him 6-7 hours. Blinov’s partner said that he would not sit for so long and press with us, he had work to do. He left and thus I got the pipes. As you understand, I never returned them back. Everything went smoothly. But just in case, I had a force option ready, I didn’t come alone…
How did Blinov react?
He shouted: “This is my property, return the phones!” He threatened and said: “I have appointed the guilty and I will not forgive them.” In short, he pretended to be Don Corleone. Despite this, he continued the relationship with me, hoping that he would receive money. Blinov also contacted the Russian special services.
And what special services?
I don’t know, he himself said that he has friendly relations with the Ninth and Fifth Services of the FSB of the Russian Federation.
Why wasn’t he taken to Russia then?
At first he didn’t want to. He said, I’m not going anywhere, why don’t they prove anything here in Europe. And when he realized it, it was already too late, Russia was no longer interested in him either…
The recording shows a fragment of a conversation between Matus and Blinov, in which the latter discusses his future fate
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