Letter Text

• Involvement of the special services in these explosions, actively opposed the conviction of innocent people, and advocated for establishing the truth in the case.
• Previously, he was accused of disclosing state secrets in connection with his interview with journalists regarding the events related to the hostage-taking at the Theater Center on Dubrovka (the "Nord-Ost" case).
• We present to your attention the full text of the letter.

"On December 22, 2003, the interrogation of witnesses in the case of lawyer M. I. Trepashkin continued.

• Most of them are superiors and colleagues from the Special Department of the KGB of the USSR in 1984–1993.
• All witnesses had the question: what exactly did Trepashkin commit, if the event under investigation is 20 years old (note that none of the articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation charged against Trepashkin has a statute of limitations of more than 10 years) and what relation the FSB of the RF (the allegedly aggrieved party in the trial) could have to Trepashkin's activities in the 80s of the last century.

FSB representative V. S. Sheleg stated in court that they are the legal successors of the KGB of the USSR and bear responsibility for all cases, including criminal ones, of the KGB of the USSR for the entire period of time, regardless of the statute of limitations. He was unable to name the law that allowed Sheleg to make such a statement about succession and responsibility for all KGB USSR cases. But for Judge S. P. Sedov, this statement seemed sufficient for now. During the trial, it appeared that he took the side of the prosecution, in violation of Article 15 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. After all, they once studied together at the same military institute.

Nevertheless, such a clearly illegal statement and the investigation of 20-year-old deeds of the KGB of the USSR outraged a number of prosecution witnesses, representatives of the 'old guard' of Chekist investigators, servants of the law, who voiced their protest against the clearly illegal actions of the court and the clearly 'ordered' falsified case. Thus, one of the important witnesses called by the prosecution, the former deputy head of the department where Trepashkin served, Honored Lawyer of Russia A. G. Zhuchkov, who, according to the assumption of the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office, was supposed to..."