There is no doubt about the ordered nature of the massacre, however, the official investigation, as it happens, reached a dead end and was suspended, without any results other than an identikit of the possible attacker. But, thanks to a series of publications by the Cheka-OGPU and sports journalist Alexei Matveev, which presented circumstances that were new to everyone and previously unknown to the investigation, the investigation was resumed in 2022.
As for the new data, we are talking about the fact that the head of CSKA Evgeny Giner had designs on Dmitry Smirnov, and the face of a possible killer, recreated by a photo by a robot, is like two peas in a pod like the face of the authority of the Podolsk organized crime group Mikhail Chibrikov. After the publicity and the resumption of the official investigation, investigators even conducted searches and a series of interrogations for the sake of appearances. However, according to the Cheka-OGPU, all these events are more like creating the appearance of work, despite the impressive case of “new witnesses”.
Thus, it was planned to interrogate the entire flower of the nation – Sergei Lalakin (the head of the group, nicknamed “Luchok”), Oleg Shishkanov (“thief in law” nicknamed “Shishkan”) and other functionaries. Special measures (technical control – wiretapping) were taken to the alleged murderer Mikhail Chibrikov (portrait examination to compare the identikit and real photos is not done) and to the widow, and searches were ordered in addition to their apartments, also in the apartment of the murdered man’s ex-partner – Maxim Cheltsov, who was named as a possible mastermind of the massacre, but has been living in France since 2017.
Thus, all the main versions were sort of worked out, but it is striking that, as a result, the defendants who could have had a real motive were “discarded.” For example, the then president of the Torpedo-ZIL club, Yuri Belous, who could have taken revenge for the “removal” of midfielder Smirnov, or the head of CSKA, Evgeniy Giner, who, during interrogation, confirmed the information of the Cheka-OGPU about his negotiations with Yuri Tishkov about Dmitry Smirnov, who later went to Spartak, and not to the red and blue. The head of the army said that having failed to find a compromise, he and the agent parted ways. And the investigation willingly believed him in this.
It turns out that instead of additionally checking the testimony of the really big players, those who are really capable of organizing an attack, the Investigative Committee prefers to wiretap the widow, search after 20 years the apartments of people who have been living abroad in recent years. Moreover, with the latest resumption of the investigation, it became known that a person confessed to the murder of Yuri Tishkov back in 2016. It turned out that a certain Sergei Ukolov, an inhabitant of IK-18 (Polar Owl) in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, sentenced for murder to life imprisonment, wrote a confession, but after some time admitted that he had incriminated himself in order to be transported to Moscow to the place of investigation. This is a common practice. However, despite the obviously false trail, they took seriously Sergei Ukolov: he was assigned a polygraph and another interrogation.
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