Statement by M.I. Trepashkin

C) it is possible to disclose information constituting a state secret only in the event that a person is cleared for such and has given non-disclosure obligations. I was not cleared for such and did not sign any undertaking. No facts of disclosure have been established either.

The entire prosecution is built according to a similar scenario, which clearly shows their political coloring. It has reached the point where "experts" from the FSB have begun to claim that in the Law "On Operational-Search Activity", among the bodies carrying out search activities, the KGB of the USSR has appeared!
They are crushing me, keeping me in custody and on trial not at all according to the laws of Russia, not according to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, but by some lawless bandit methods.

M.I. Trepashkin

Mikhail Trepashkin (website www.grani.ru)

Biographical Facts

• Mikhail Trepashkin's military service began in the nuclear submarine fleet.
• After his conscription service, he entered the Higher School of the KGB.
• Since 1976, he was an investigator in the KGB investigation department, specializing in cases of smuggling cultural property and works of art.
• In the 1990s, he worked in the Internal Security Directorate of the FSB. His superior was Nikolai Patrushev, the current head of the FSB.
• Among Trepashkin's successful cases was the exposure in 1995 of a criminal group in the FSB and GRU that was engaged in selling weapons to Chechnya. However, the case was ordered to be closed.
• A conflict with the leadership arose. In the same year, he was dismissed from the agencies.
• In early 1996, he sued the FSB for illegal dismissal, and the court granted his claim. But the court's decision was never implemented.
• In early 1997, an attack was carried out on Trepashkin in the street; he was beaten. By this time he had given