Case Details

• The materials of the criminal case include a letter from the FSB of the RF, which unambiguously states that the author must be arrested to prevent access to the materials of the criminal case concerning the apartment bombings.
• The criminal case against the author is currently being considered in the Moscow District Military Court (Judge Sedov S.P., curator – acting deputy chairman of the court Ababkov).
• The case materials include a letter from the FSB of the RF, which suggests the author allegedly intends to collect compromising information on FSB of the RF bodies while familiarizing themselves with the case materials, necessitating isolation by custody.
• Furthermore, the letter states that the author is familiarizing themselves with the case on the instructions of the English service MI-5, Litvinenko, and Berezovsky.
• The author remains in custody on these contrived grounds.

Documents Read Out in Court

On February 13, 2004, at the author's insistence during a court hearing, five documents were read out in the case at the Moscow District Military Court. The indictment states the following regarding these documents:

"Thus, in February 1996, M.I. Trepashkin, having stated to the management of the 3rd department of the USB FSB RF about the alleged destruction of materials on the terminated operational search case '......', secretly removed from the USB FSB RF building, located at the address: Moscow, Bolshaya Lubyanka St., 21, five official documents containing information constituting a state secret - revealing the means, methods, plans, status, and results of operational-search activities, namely:

• summary No. 18, reg. No. 2/5332 for object '70-3982-95' for June 23, 1995;
• summary No. 19, reg. '2/5927 for object '70-4741-95' for July 20-21, 1995;
• summary No. 29, reg. '2/6119 for object '70-4741-95' for July 25-26, 1995;
• summary No. 31, reg. '2/6159 for object '70-4741-95' for July 28, 1995;
• a draft report on the results of work on the operational search case '.....' dated February 27, 1996."