Former Chekist Mikhail Trepashkin Received a Sentence Without Signs of High Treason

A letter in which, according to Trepashkin, accusations of contacts with MI-5 are presented, it is stated as follows (quoting the defendant's note to the outside): "... (in this intelligence report) there are proposals, it is necessary to stop Trepashkin's criminal activity regarding collecting compromising material on the FSB, primarily to prevent him from accessing the materials of the criminal case on the apartment bombings, to seize secret documents in his apartment, to initiate a criminal case and change the measure of restraint to detention." A question arises: if the case was investigated in accordance with the law, then what kind of compromising material is the FSB afraid of? — the defendant asks and answers it himself: "Conclusion: it means not everything is clean and smooth..."

Recall, the USB (Internal Security Directorate) letter sent to the Chief military prosecutor in January 2002. And already on January 22, they came to the lawyer's apartment with a search. Formally, it was conducted as part of the investigation into the case of Alexander Litvinenko. True, Trepashkin did not even appear in it as a witness. As the lawyer claims, documents of long standing were seized then, including notes on Marx, Engels, and Lenin. "To give significance to the search and justify their illegal actions, cartridges were planted on me," Trepashkin wrote to the outside. Soon after, he was charged and placed under a recognizance not to leave.

On October 31, 2003, the trial of Adam Dekkushev and Yusuf Krymshamkhalov, involved in the apartment bombings in Moscow, began in the Moscow City Court. Mikhail Trepashkin was supposed to represent the interests of the victims there. But on October 22, the lawyer was detained at the 47th kilometer of the Dmitrovskoye Highway. Traffic police officers found a pistol in the car, for which Trepashkin had no permit. Thus, another criminal case appeared. And the Dmitrov City Court on October 24 issued a warrant for arrest. The accused claims that the weapon was planted on him. The preliminary hearing for the second case will take place on June 2. As for the current sentence — state secrets and cartridges — the defense will appeal it. "My client told me two months ago that in 'Matrosskaya Tishina' an operative told him: 'Everything is decided, you will get four years in a settlement colony,'" Trepashkin's lawyer Valery Glushenkov told "RK". "We are glad that the case for abuse of power was dropped; it was the most serious charge. We will continue to prove that the cartridges were planted on Trepashkin. As for the state secret, there is no secret here."

The state secret, as Valery Glushenkov believes, consists in the fact that Mikhail Trepashkin passed a "certain document" to another former FSB officer. The document contained data "about one person" involved in the hostage-taking at Dubrovka in October 2002. According to the lawyer, his client wanted this acquaintance to pass the information to the FSB through "his contacts."