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The court process in 1999 was covered by the correspondent of "Literaturnaya Gazeta," Igor Gamayunov. Unfortunately, our suggestion of a possible connection between the defendants in that case and the bombing case seemed too absurd to him, and he refused to speak with us. The widow of one of the factory directors also canceled a scheduled meeting—as could be understood from her words, on the advice of her current husband, who works for the FSB.

The "Moven" factory stands on Plekhanov Street in the same Perovo district where the Zander family lives. Regardless of whether Scientology—the philosophical basis on which the first director (and according to some publications, the second as well) built the production—is correct or not, the economic part of the teaching, by all appearances, yielded a good result. Almost second-by-second control over every worker, carrot-and-stick stimulation for technological creativity, and a quick transition to popular products (air conditioners) made the factory a very attractive property object.

And from all the publications about the trial, one gets the impression that the administrator Proshin waged the bloody struggle for the enterprise alone. Aside from two auto mechanics, no one helped him in this struggle.

But Proshin was not the only contender for the director's chair; he must have had overt or covert rivals. Committing such a daring crime and leaving practically direct witnesses, Proshin could not rely solely on the loyalty of the staff, even one raised according to Scientology recipes. Only a very naive person could count on all ill-wishers trembling with fear before his pistol (just whisper something—and he'll come and shoot you himself), which the schemer Proshin could not have been.

One can be sure that a person who twice committed "high-profile" murders had some more powerful force behind him than his own "TT" [pistol]. The factory could well have been of interest to some financial-industrial group, but such groups seize enterprises by other methods, and if they do shed blood, they do it in such a way that the crime cannot be solved for years and even its motive is unclear. The style we see in Perovo is more characteristic of territorial criminal groups.

In the neighborhood of Plekhanov Street, on 2nd Vladimirskaya, lived the head of one such group—Maxim Lazovsky. People from his gang also very easily used a pistol, an automatic rifle, or a knife. Judging by the press and the court sentence, this gang did not commit crimes in Perovo: what leader would arrange a shootout under his own windows? Lazovsky's men conducted bloody commercial showdowns in various parts of the city (mainly in the Nemetskaya Sloboda, where the "Lanako" office was located in Perevedenovsky Lane) and bombings on transport in the Prospekt Mira area. Apparently, the only exception was the murder of Said Nataev in a remote place on Biryukova Street.

On the other hand, it is hard to imagine that Lazovsky would allow any other gang to operate in his home district.

But we found no links between Lazovsky, Zander, and Mylnikov.

VECTOR

Recently, Yuri Felshtinsky published ("Novaya Gazeta," No. 84, 2003) the results of an analysis of information about the accused and people associated with them (including information found by Trepashkin). The results are very interesting and easily verifiable.

The firm that helped Gochiyayev register a fake legal entity and in which his mistress Tatyana Koroleva worked or still works, indeed turned out to be connected with Lazovsky's firm.

We checked the information on which Felshtinsky builds this conclusion. We seem to have found one mistake: that Koroleva's firm registered the firm "Kapstroy-2000." In Syun's article, which started this line of investigation, another Gochiyayev firm is mentioned—"Brand-2." This seems more correct because Koroleva's firm "Delovaya Kompaniya" [Business Company] came into existence slightly later than "Kapstroy."

The firm "Delovaya Kompaniya" (later "Lantana-L") is listed at the address Shokalsky Passage, 17. Telephone: 928-50-39. Felshtinsky believes that the firm was named "Lantana-L" in honor of Tatyana Lazovskaya or Tatyana Koroleva. We think it more likely that Tatyana Khaustova—the founder of both firms—was meant. The address of "Delovaya Kompaniya" changed several times; at one time it was registered opposite the main FSB building (Furkasovsky Lane, 3)—in the same place as the scientific-production association (NPO) "Priroda" that founded it. The telephone number remained the same—928-50-39.

The firm "Lanako" is listed at the address Michurinsky Prospekt, 31, bldg. 1, but its telephone number 267-61-19 is at the old address of "Lanako": Perevedenovsky Lane, 2. The managers were initially Lazovsky V.O., then Kasna G.N.; no information could be found on either of them.

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