Library of Doubtful Criminal Cases: Doubt

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Dossier

AKIMOV Vladimir

Former driver for Max Lazovsky [11], co-founder of the firm "Lanako".

• In February 1996, he was detained by MUR while attempting to sell a pistol.
• While in custody, in August 1996, under the impression of the trolleybus bombings that occurred in Moscow in June and July, he reported that on 27.12.1994, together with Vladimir Vorobyov, he carried out a bus bombing [11, 13].

• He later changed his testimony [13].

• At the end of April 1999, the Moscow City Court, presided over by Irina Kulichkova, found A. insane and released him [12] or sentenced A. to 3 years of imprisonment for attempting to sell a pistol.

• Since he had already served this term, Akimov was released in the courtroom [11].

• On 4.12.2001, a trial began in the Moscow City Court charging A., Marat Vasilyev, Marsel Kharisov, and two others with banditry.

• A. refused a lawyer [own info].

VOROBYOV Vladimir Lvovich

• Born in 1952 or 1953 [8].
• Has children, a sister [13].
• Until 1920, his grandfather headed the Tula arms factory "Arsenal" [11].
• During his studies at the Kiev Military School, he manufactured an explosive device that exploded in his hand; the consequences were the amputation of the nail phalanges of two fingers of his right hand [8].
• He worked at the N.E. Zhukovsky Air Force Academy on an anti-missile defense system [11], and taught [13].
• Candidate of Technical Sciences [11, 13].

• Retired Colonel [7, 9, 10] or Lieutenant Colonel [11, 13].

• Detained in August 1996 [13] (on 28.8.1996 by the head of the MUR department V.I. Tskhai [11]) on suspicion of the bus bombing in Moscow on 27.12.1994.

• V. Akimov identified Vorobyov as the perpetrator of the bombing.
• The bus driver [13] Dmitry Trapezov [11] was slightly injured in the explosion.

• Vorobyov committed this terrorist act under pressure from an unidentified Chechen [7, 8, 9, 13].

• The court of first instance sentenced V. to 5 years of imprisonment [7, 11].

• Vorobyov called this sentence a "mockery of the special services" [8].

• In 1999 [7] (at the end of August 1999 [11]), the Moscow City Court [13] or the Supreme Court [11] in a closed session (state prosecutor - Nina Barkova from the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office [13], presiding judge - Irina Kulichkova [12]) reduced the sentence to 3 years, and Vorobyov was released in the courtroom [11, 13].

ZAOSTROVTSEV Yuri Evgenievich

• Born in 1956 into the family of a KGB officer.
• Graduate of the Leningrad (as some claim) KGB school.
• Served in the Economic Counterintelligence Directorate of the FSB - supervised the State Customs Committee.
• In 1993, with the rank of colonel, he resigned from the agencies from the position of head of a branch of the UBKK (Directorate for Combating Contraband and Corruption).
• He received a management position at Tveruniversalbank, where he headed the security and protection service.

• In early 1996, he moved to the firm "Medox", part of the "Siberian Aluminum" group.

• In November 1998, he was reinstated in the FSB personnel and assigned to the Economic Counterintelligence Directorate, while continuing to be listed as an employee of the presidential administration, where in July 1998 he was accepted for the position of assistant to Nikolai Patrushev (then head of the Main Control Directorate), head of a GKU department with the rank of State Councilor of the 1st Class.

• He then headed the Directorate for Counterintelligence Support of the Financial and Banking Sphere of the FSB.
• Currently, with the rank of Deputy Director of the FSB, he heads the Department of Economic Counterintelligence.
• He planned and conducted the operation against Gusinsky and "Media-MOST". [14]