The meeting began with a deviation of the petition of the defenders Zakharchenko to familiarize themselves with how the notorious database is arranged, which, according to the prosecution, recorded illegal financial transactions in favor of the accused. Judge Sergei Artemov considered that the expert study of the program (it insisted on the defense), and the participants in the process only meet with the base during court hearings.
Further, events began to unfold more interestingly. The accusation was introduced by four witnesses – Natalia Smirnova (former employee of the New Time Bank), Elena Anisimova, Irina Zvereva (both former employees of the Federal Tax Service in Moscow) and Margarita Malinka (ex -employee of the New Age).
Contrary to the witnesses in the process of a rather long interrogation of the witnesses, the testimonies of all four met a little more than an hour. They did not add anything to the accusation: no new details and even more direct accusations against Zakharchenko were sounded (the surnames of the ex-leaders of the Civil Code of 1520 were not mentioned in the testimony at all). Smirnova only said that once she saw Zakharchenko at the New Time bank (she could not report anything about the purpose of this visit, saying that the flow of visitors to the bank was huge), and Zverev and Anisimov remembered that Zakharchenko was interested in the results of tax audits Russian Railways. “In principle, this is a fairly common practice: representatives of law enforcement agencies are often interested in details, but Zakharchenko did not ask any specific questions and even more so asked,” Anisimova said.
The real sensation of the last witness – the Margarita Malinka, was testified. She really could not answer any question of the investigation. Malinka even found it difficult to inform what the company in which she worked, and what was her functionality. “How did you at all end up at work?” Said Judge Artemov. “I got to the subway,” the obviously embarrassed Malinka said. She does not know any of the accused, she does not remember the name of computer programs. In the process of interrogation, it even turned out that Malinka (we emphasize: a former bank employee who is now taking place under Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) does not understand what the auditors are doing. The obviously dumbfounded representative of the state prosecution hastened to turn the interrogation as soon as possible. Apparently, forgetting, Malinka said that the state prosecution “sent to the mail to remind them of her written testimony.” “You didn’t even read them,” one of the representatives of the defense at the laughter of those present in the hall threw in response.
The next meeting is scheduled for September 8th. We will follow the development of events.
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