Several interviews about corruption in the FSB. On the same topic, the former special services officer sent a letter to the President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin.
Early Conflicts and Accusations
In mid-1997, Alexander Litvinenko, who at that time worked in the Directorate for the Investigation of Criminal Organizations (URPO), received an order to organize an attack on Trepashkin.
Subsequently, in a complaint to the prosecutor's office, which Litvinenko filed against the URPO as a criminal organization, Trepashkin was mentioned along with Boris Berezovsky and Umar Dzhabrailov.
The latter two were also under URPO investigation:
Berezovsky was to be killed.
Dzhabrailov - kidnapped.
In 1999, Trepashkin took part in a press conference at which FSB officers Litvinenko, Ponkin, and Shcheglov accused the FSB of criminal activity. Trepashkin was present at the press conference as a victim.
Legal Scrutiny and Cooperation
After this, Trepashkin spent two years in private law practice.
In September 2001, he gave an interview to French journalists who were filming the movie "Assassination of Russia," in which he spoke about the activities of the FSB in the context of the apartment bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk.
Immediately after this, a search was conducted at his home. A criminal case was opened against Trepashkin on the facts of disclosing state secrets and illegal possession of weapons.
The second charge was subsequently dropped, but the first remained.
In early 2002, Trepashkin met Sergei Yushenkov and began to actively cooperate with him within the framework of the commission for the investigation of the bombings of residential buildings in Russian cities in 1999.
In the same year, he became a proxy for the Morozov sisters, living in the USA (they were recognized as victims in the apartment bombings case).
In August 2003, Tatyana Morozova came to Moscow and, together with Trepashkin, sought access to documents on the bombings case. This was the only attempt by the victims of the 1999 bombings to obtain at least some information on the case.
In the spring of 2003, he was invited by Boris Berezovsky's lawyers as a witness in the case of the businessman's extradition to Russia. Trepashkin was supposed to...