Articles 105 and 222 (murder and illegal possession of weapons) of the Criminal Code were brought against Ali Belkhoroev, Batyr Tumgoev, Bagaudin Kostoev.
The investigation was unable to find any solid evidence of the guilt of this trio. Moreover, the case went to court without a motive, but they tried to correct the situation right during the hearings.
Thus, as the Cheka-OGPU learned, a classified witness, the former head of the Vidnoye police department, spoke at the trial. According to his version, Kalmanovich actively participated in the fight against the local slaughterhouse (located in the vicinity of Vidnoye next to the base of the women’s BC “Spartak”, owned by Kalmanovich), which was allegedly a breeding ground for crime in the city, was at meetings about the fate of the slaughterhouse and for this position he and could have killed.
Moreover, an attempt was made on the life of another participant in the meetings, an official of the Leninsky urban district.
The police also told a sad story about how they encountered the victim – a tramp who was detained and forced to work in a slaughterhouse. Everything seemed convincing. But it seemed that way until the moment the lawyers started asking questions.
And then it turned out that the story with the slave happened already… in 1994. At the same time, the classified witness was forced to admit that no criminal case was opened, since the police did not find any evidence that the tramp was kept at the slaughterhouse.
The policeman also admitted that he met Kalmanovich only in 2008, less than a year before his death. It was then that he allegedly began to participate in meetings about the fate of the slaughterhouse. At the same time, the attempt on the official’s life took place in 2004. The policeman could not explain how the attempt and the murder that occurred five years later could be connected.
Moreover, it turned out that there are no minutes or evidence that these meetings took place at all. The classified witness was so upset that he answered “I don’t know” and “I don’t remember” to all further questions.
As a result, by the end of the prosecution’s presentation of evidence, no motive had emerged. Just as the prosecution does not have the car of the criminals, weapons, the commission of the crime (not found), witnesses who saw the killers, etc. But there are billings that the phones that the accused could have used were “lit up” near Kalmanovich’s office and in the area of the murder scene . True, from the billings it follows that the driver of the attackers began the conversation 10 minutes before the murder and ended 10 minutes after. At the same time, with a pipe in one hand and a steering wheel in the other, in a car with a manual transmission, he managed to make a professional drift, leaving the scene of the murder, about which Kamanovich’s surviving driver testified. And for some reason these tubes did not light up near Kalmanovich’s country house, where he lived and where the ideal place for an attack was.
Let us remind you that the businessman was demonstratively shot dead in the very center of Moscow when he was on his way to a meeting with the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation A.S. Abramov.
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