As the state prosecutor stated at the trial, according to their data, “the possible involvement in the murders of another witness, former criminal investigation operative of the Khabarovsk Territory Vladimir Pershin, will not even be discussed in the trial, since the investigation did not find evidence against him.”
However, the Cheka-OGPU became aware of the case materials. They contain a lot of evidence to which the investigation deliberately “turned a blind eye.”
Firstly, the hangar (for which Zorya and Furgal were sued) was used by Pershin from 2005 to 2013 (from the case materials). He sold spare parts in it and used it as a car service (from the case materials)
Secondly, there is evidence in the case that Zorya ordered the murder of Furgal, but this became known in the spring of 2004 to the then-current police officer Pershin. Pershin kept a TT pistol, which was voluntarily handed over to the police by the man who was supposed to kill Furgal on Zori’s order. Pershin used this pistol to blackmail Evgeny Zorya.
Witness Naumov testified at the jury trial on May 13, 2022 that he witnessed a crime, saw two seemingly familiar men pushing each other (fussing), then heard shots and one of them fell, and the second ran away towards the Kirovsky District Department of Internal Affairs of the city. Khabarovsk.
There is a report in the file that a dog picked up the killer’s scent that night. The trail ended next to the stairs leading upstairs, next to the Regiobank garage, at 18 Amursky Boulevard. Khabarovsk residents know this place very well. Just next to this place is Pershin’s house, where he lived before moving to the Black Sea coast, at the address Khabarovsk, Frunze, 76.
A few days after Zori’s murder, Pershin, taking his partner Mokshin with him, went to the crime scene and tried to interview possible witnesses to the murder, although he himself had no relation or authority to the investigation of this crime. From Krainov’s 2004 testimony: “I came to check the work of (Eduard Avlaev). Two men, aged 38-45, approached me and introduced themselves as police officers. The men were in civilian clothes and of strong build. They showed their official ID and introduced themselves, their last names were Pershin and Mokshin.”
From Avlaev’s testimony: “After the murder of Zori, Krainov, the ataman of Khabarovsk, approached me; with him there were two men who introduced themselves as law enforcement officers. They found out who spread the rumor that three men killed Zorya.”
However, in April 2019, when the senior investigator, Major General Burtovoy, took over this case, he gave instructions “to establish the identity of Maxim Pershin (the operational officer who interrogated Avlaev on the circumstances of Zori’s murder).”
The Cheka-OGPU clearly see in the case materials from interrogations in 2004 that according to Krainov’s testimony it is clear that these were employees Mokshin and Pershin.”
But the investigative group of the RF Investigative Committee, led by General Burtov, sent out requests everywhere and looked for the non-existent employee Maxim Pershin. Although at this time Vladimir Pershin was with investigators from the Investigative Committee and came up with evidence against Furgal.
It is predictable that as a general investigator at the head of a whole group of employees, as well as state prosecutors, they did not find any evidence against Pershin in the case.
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