The Cheka-OGPU received a recording of the preparation for answers on a polygraph by expert Nikitin (RF IC) Mistryukov, Furgal’s former business partner, on the basis of whose testimony Furgal was charged. This interrogation took place in November 2019, immediately after a pre-trial agreement under the terms of which Mistryukov was to testify against the then-current governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Furgal.
All the other defendants are sitting on this testimony. Now Mistryukov himself is avoiding trial, has been moving around Moscow calmly since September 2020, bought himself an apartment with the money he received, and everything is fine with him. He even got his driver’s license back.
Mistryukov: Today the prosecutors laid out everything for me, today I signed the pretrial agreement, and Yuri Aleksandrovich (Burtovoy’s note) laid out everything for me, I am perfectly aware and understand everything. But I don’t want to lie, I may not actually remember somewhere.
Nikitin: If you remember the conversation, the three of you got together, do you remember that the conversation was to figure out what was going on, to the point of being so harsh?
Mistryukov: Should we tell it like it is? Is that how it was? You know, I don’t even really remember the conversation, I guess that it happened.
Nikitin: Was there an agreement with Karepov to take Smolsky’s life?
Mistryukov: Most likely no.
Nikitin: Hmm, but do you have any doubts?
Mistryukov: There are doubts…
Nikitin: And if I ask you questions, reformulate them, do you remember exactly?
Mistryukov: As the investigator says, so it will be… And so – no
Nikitin: No? Wasn’t it originally? And then is it possible? Because there were threats or something, he continued to attack and perhaps something happened that you decided to take his life?
Mistryukov: … it’s hard to say, in fact, it’s like memory loss, he claimed there that let’s say we drove up to his house, in fact, I don’t remember that we drove up to his house, and even together with Furgal and we scared him there , this was not the case…
Nikitin: Still, you found out later, right, that Furgal had an agreement with Karepov to take his life?
Mistryukov: I don’t know whether he had such an agreement, maybe yes, maybe not, whether he talked to him about this, I don’t know either.
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