The service investigation lasted almost 2 years, until the end of April 1997. During this time, the author could not engage in their primary activity.
Note: In 1994, the author managed to expose and catch a group of individuals who committed bombings in the metro in Baku and in southern Russia, and conducted many other operational cases.
In May 1997, the author was forced to resign from the FSB of the RF because further service with Patrushev became impossible.
On February 08, 1996, the author was unjustifiably punished for detaining Chechen field commanders in Moscow and decided to appeal this punishment in court.
In May 1997, the author applied to the Moscow Garrison Military Court, and despite the defendants including three army generals—Kovalev, Barsukov, Patrushev—the author won the case, and it was recognized that the punishment was unjustifiable.
During the service investigation and the trial, various attempts on the author's life were organized.
In November 1998, the author took part in a press conference of FSB employees, where facts of the involvement of special services, particularly the FSB of the RF, in a number of bombings in Moscow (terrorist acts) and other crimes in Moscow and other regions of Russia were made public. The FSB leadership openly promised to deal with the participants of the press conference.
Legal Career
From January 2001, the author became a lawyer.
Along with others, the author entered into an agreement to represent the interests of victims of the apartment building bombing on Guryanova St. in Moscow, the Morozov sisters, whose mother died in the explosion and who lost all property located in apartment No. 100. Furthermore, one of the Morozovs was herself wounded.
In the course of the author's legal work, attention was drawn to the reluctance of the authorities, primarily the leadership of the FSB of the RF, to objectively and fully investigate the circumstances of the bombings and the persons involved in the terrorist act. The author stated this in motions, as well as in the press and on television.
After the author's appearances on the 4th channel of French...