"You were supposed to pass it on, weren't you?.. Wow, so much"

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The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel and Rucriminal.info continue to acquaint readers with the case of the former head of the anti-corruption department of the Federal Customs Service of Russia Dmitry Muryshov, who turned out to be not a "colonel" of the customs service, as previously announced, but a major general of the FSB of the Russian Federation, seconded to the FCS. The general became a "bargaining chip" in the game to remove his good friend from the FSB, the then head of the FCS Vladimir Bulavin.

As follows from the case materials, since June 2022, FSB officers have been working very closely with the contacts of Okorokov, a fixer at the FCS, who is listed in the case as a person accused, and today even convicted, of mediating bribes to Mr. Muryshov.

So, for six months, all movements and negotiations of Mr. Okorokov were monitored very carefully and in detail.

And then one fine day, in November, in the 20th, suddenly there appeared recordings of wiretapping of Okorokov's conversations, which, by the way, do not have a court permit. In general, the prosecution has only one court permit, and it concerns wiretapping of telephone conversations of the driver of a service car assigned to the Federal Customs Service of Russia. And for some reason, the FSB officers provided the court with several more telephone numbers with a note that these are precisely those alleged employees of the Federal Customs Service to whom this driver probably transfers bribes from someone. And presumably - from acquaintances of Mr. Okorokov.

Then it turned out that these are not the phones of FCS employees, but of the relatives of the driver himself, who have no relation to the FCS. But nevertheless, in the 20th of November, a conversation of Okorokov is recorded regarding the fact that there is some money from a certain Mr. Kolganov, which needs to be transferred to someone. Pay attention, to someone. What kind of people are these, is this connected with some kind of entrepreneurial activity of Okorokov himself, or are these some officials, and this, accordingly, is a bribe - nothing follows from these conversations.

But such an interesting point comes to light: Mr. Kolganov Konstantin Evgenievich is a former employee of the Central Customs Base (CCB), who was engaged in the same thing as Muryshov Dmitry Nikolaevich, only at his level, that is, at a lower level, namely, the fight against corruption.

And in May of 22, Mr. Kolganov came under the close attention of law enforcement agencies in connection with information that he received funds for providing "assistance" to a certain individual in returning expensive watches confiscated by customs. Well, a fairly common story when people, through ignorance, do not declare expensive goods imported or exported.

And here Mr. Kolganov had serious grounds to believe that any day now he would be brought to criminal responsibility in this regard. This became known to Dmitry Muryshov, who was the one who exposed cases of corruption among customs officers.

At one time, it was Muryshov who conducted - not personally, but with the help of his subordinates - an investigation into what kind of person Kolganov was, whether he met the requirements imposed on FCS officers, whether there were any discrediting circumstances behind him. Kolganov also underwent an investigation by the FSB, and Muryshov was provided with the results of this investigation.

It is noteworthy that Mr. Okorokov recommended this same Kolganov both by the FCS and the FSB, being a former FCS officer and having high-level connections in the FSB. Having received this information, Muryshov, according to the interlocutor of Rucriminal.info, asked Kolganov the question: "Come on, you decide the issue of your resignation of your own free will, because you would not like the Anti-Corruption Department to be cast a shadow. Well, in general, decide the issue. How are things with you? What's going on? We are not an investigative body. Deal with those who are investigating you." What is noteworthy is that the information that Kolganov came to the attention of law enforcement agencies was provided by the same Okorokov, or more precisely, through his then wife, who was a lawyer. He received a copy of Kolganov's confession, in which he described the illegal actions he had committed with the watch. Since the 20th of November, preparations have been underway to detain Muryshov, this is already clearly evident from the materials that the prosecution presented in court: wiretapping, respectively, surveillance, including wiretapping installed in Muryshov’s office. There are no court decisions on this topic.

Now the prosecution is voicing the following explanation to the court: the requirement of the law that only the court gives permission for a person to negotiate without his consent applies only to the telephone. And if he is talking on the phone in a room where wiretapping equipment is installed, then no court decision is needed. This is, they say, a right that exists in operational agencies.

“Indeed, there is a law on operational investigative activities, where pcases are envisaged when it is necessary to urgently, without waiting for a court decision, take measures to prevent crimes being prepared. And in this case, among other things, technical means are used. But when does this happen? When there is information about terrorist attacks being prepared, about some serious crimes against public safety. That is, when people or the interests of the state can be seriously harmed, - said our interlocutor, - It is absolutely obvious that in our case, when a businessman tries to slip a bribe to someone, this is probably not the kind of story when it is necessary to ignore the requirements for judicial control and do whatever you want, including in the office of a manager of such a level." As a result, the following configuration was created: Okorokov - Kolganov, and between them is included ... who completely accidentally turned up under the arm - this is again evident from the position of the prosecution - a certain Mr. Nesterenko, whom Muryshov had never met. In fact, Mr. Nesterenko himself did not know about the existence of Muryshov and the position he occupied in the FCS, he himself explains this both from the moment of his arrest and in court. Yes, he worked in the field of foreign economic activity, and for more than 30 years of his work he did not have the need to contact any managers at all, and such a high level as Muryshov, especially since all the practical issues that arose in his work were resolved at the level of inspectors directly in those customs bodies - grassroots, workers, field, where, in fact, the registration of transactions related to foreign economic activity takes place.

Kolganov is assigned the task of making Mr. Nesterenko a defendant in a criminal case. He is given a very thorough briefing (in order to avoid accusations of possible provocation in the future): a list of questions that he should ask Nesterenko at the meeting is compiled on several sheets of paper, and a list of answers that Nesterenko needs to be led to. And so, in December, Kolganov and Nesterenko meet, and for the first time in the entire six-month stormy history of operational activity, some money appears. What kind of money is this? Where did it come from? It is absolutely unknown. According to Kolganov, he suddenly began to find large sums of money in Russian and foreign currency in the mailbox of his deceased relative's house. And so he found them, found them from August to November, and in the end his soul could not stand it, and he decided to tell the FSB officers about it. And exactly the same ones, as it is reasonable to assume, who asked him in May: why did you, dear comrade, behave so badly with the return of the watch. Well, apparently, it was a coincidence.

A completely anecdotal story. Nevertheless, it is this that is taken as a working basis and on it a further operation is built, a complete failure, called "Operational Experiment", in which it is recorded that Mr. Okorokov persuades Mr. Nesterenko to go to a mutual friend, with whom they have known each other, one for 15 years, the other for 20 years. And to take some envelope from him, since he is sick and cannot meet with Okorokov, who himself is very busy. Nesterenko comes to Kolganov, where a video recording of a conversation between two people is made - Nesterenko and Kolganov, who has undergone instructions. For some reason, Mr. Kalganov does not say a single word during this conversation about the fact that Nesterenko actually came for money, and especially for money that is intended as a bribe, and moreover, as a bribe to Dmitry Muryshov. Although the court was provided with a paper with his signature, that there was such an instruction with him, that he was supposed to ask such questions. Not a word. And at the end, already on the way out, Nesterenko says: "Listen, you were supposed to give him something there, weren't you?" Kolganov gives him a package, packed so that the contents are not visible. To which Nesterenko says: "Wow, so much." Pay attention to this phrase because in the subsequent recordings, which were examined by investigators and experts, this phrase appeared and then disappeared, then appeared and then disappeared again - this is evident from the results of the examinations presented to the court. And that's it. After that, the active work, apparently, consisted of detaining Okorokov, to whom Nesterenko somehow managed to give this envelope-package, which turned out to be a package. And about 40 minutes later, Okorokov was detained in the best spirit of Chinese militants, when cars block the roadway, preventing the parked car of Okorokov, who was already a suspect at that time, from driving away. People with machine guns, wearing masks, jump out from there, and silence... After that, some time passes, and some students from one of the Moscow universities who were walking there by chance appear. Well, it was just a coincidence, they were walking nearby. They were invited as witnesses.

And the next event begins, and it is not an "operational experiment" during which an inspection report should be drawn up. That is, there is no document called "operational experiment", but There are reports, there is an inspection report. From this inspection report it turns out that either on the right, or on the left, or in front, or behind, or in some other place in this car they find a package. Moreover, who opened the car, where the keys were at that time and why the suspect Okorokov is actually participating in this case without a lawyer, is somehow unknown - nothing is written about this. But it is written that an expert in rubber gloves carefully removes this package, it is unknown from where - from the depths of the car, apparently, and then on the spot conducts an inspection of it under the light of appropriate lamps while processing it with appropriate reagents, and sees money - rubles, dollars - and on them - traces. The denomination of the bills and their numbers are shown to the witnesses and copied. But, to be honest, it is not written that during all this action there are still a dozen unidentified persons present, and it is also not described that this money is being confiscated. If you read the law, then during such surveillance, if something is discovered, then it must be seized in accordance with the requirements of the Criminal Procedure Code. Namely: the operative officer should have informed the FSB investigator, that is, the person who is authorized to carry out procedural investigative actions at the scene of the incident, or the FSB investigator. And, accordingly, these people - the investigator or the investigator - should not have carried out surveillance, but should have drawn up a protocol of inspection and, accordingly, during this inspection, seize the discovered funds. And then this would have been material evidence obtained in accordance with the law, and the protocol of such action would have been admissible evidence. None of this is happening. For what reason? One can only guess. Because if it had been done by an investigator or an inquirer, he would have been guided by the law, and not by some order, I suppose, received by the operatives, whose goal was, I suppose again, to create such a noisy, active, stormy, frightening activity and, in passing, to record Mr. Okorokov's explanation that this money was not someone's, but a bribe intended for Mr. Muryshov. That's where Muryshov's bribe on December 8, 2022 came into the case.

Arseniy Dronov

To be continued

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