The accusation introduced two witnesses who, together with ex-banker Vladimir Antonov (we wrote about his speech in the Presnensky court) can be considered the most powerful trump cards. However, there are serious reasons to believe that the charges are ending on this trump cards.
The first was the ex-chairman of the board of directors of the European Express bank, former partner of the fugitive banker German Gorbuntsov, Oleg Kuzmin. This personality almost legendary in the market of semi -legal banking operations appeared in the court in handcuffs, a black hoodie with a hood and tried to speak in a barely audible voice. Two years ago, he was arrested for participating in the “Moldavian scheme” to withdraw money from Russia, today he immediately said that he was signed under all previously these indications. According to Kuzmin, he had never done things with the members of the Kum group (Krapivin, Useovich, Markelov), he knows about them only from the words of the banker Ivan Stankevich (he was arrested in absentia for money laundering). Kuzmin said that in his banks supposedly functioned the shadow accounting program “Square” through which the money was laundered. However, Kuzmin said, he did not see anything with his own eyes and knows everything exclusively from other people’s words (Stankevich and Gorbuntsov). Moreover, he was able to talk only about what happened before 2011, because then the “Base took the hunchbacks.” Under the smiles of people present in the hall, he said that Zakharchenko (whom Kuzmin also does not know) appeared in the then conversations under the name “Uncle Vasya” (Zakharchenko himself was outraged by this statement). The judge’s direct question, whether the participants of the “schemes” of some money “Uncle Vasya” paid, Kuzmin replied – “I suppose yes.” Nevertheless, he emphasized many times that he did not see his own eyes to the transfer of money and knows everything exclusively from other people’s words.
After the interrogation of Kuzmin, the hall froze in anticipation of Peter Chuvilin (banker, who participated in many semi -criminal schemes since 2018 under state protection). However, the state prosecutor Milan Digaev, unexpectedly for those present, made a request that his testimonies were “for security reasons” are listened to closed mode. Despite the unanimous objection of the lawyers of the accused, the judge satisfied her petition, and the participants who did not participate in the process were removed from the hall. At 13:05, the very weighty Chuvilin, accompanied by two equally dressed guards, was introduced into the courtroom, and the door behind him slammed shut. It remains only to guess why the accusation decided to take such a step, but most often on the sidelines of the court there was an opinion that Digaeva specially went to such a trick, because “there was nothing to catch on the testimony of Chuvilin.”
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