September Terror

Collection of materials about the apartment bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk
Supplement to issue 7
April 3003

The Mylnikov Case

Vladimir in a cafe near the editorial office. Even now we don't know whether to believe his revelations...

The Mylnikov Case

Supplement to issue 7 of the collection "September Terror"

Contents

• August 2002. For the apartment bombings in Moscow, a Shakespearean lover was imprisoned ... 2
• How to contact lawyer Chernousov ... 2
• 17.8.2002. Another spy trial ... 3
• 25.7.2002. Why did Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov end up in the "Lefortovo" pre-trial detention center? ... 3
• 4.12.2002. Consideration of the cassation appeal... ... 3
• 4.12.2002. Sentence left unchanged ... 3

DOCUMENTS

• 19.6.2002. Indictment ... 4
• 16.8.2002. Sentence ... 14
• 14.10.2002. Cassation appeal ... 23
• Response from the UBNON MVD ... 31

ARTICLES

• 1. Double murder ... 32
• 1.6.1999. Organizer and perpetrators convicted... ... 34
• 10.9.1999. "KP". The most incredible version... ... 35
• 1.7.2002. "Versiya". Open threat ... 36
• 2.8.2002. ASI. The accused denies guilt ... 42
• August 2002. Bulletin of the "For Human Rights" movement ... 43

• 17.8.2002. "Novye Izvestia". Victim of the epistolary genre ... 44

• Facsimile of the "Appeal" ... 39

• About the letter to "Novaya Gazeta" ... 46

• Addresses ... 47

• Index of names ... 48

A SHAKESPEAREAN LOVER IMPRISONED FOR THE HOUSE BOMBINGS IN MOSCOW

The Moscow City Court has sentenced a terrorist who threatened to blow up residential buildings in Moscow in September 1999. His letters containing threats to the authorities were received a few days before the bombings of the buildings on Guryanova Street and Kashirskoye Highway. It was never possible to prove that this was not a coincidence.

As "MK" was told in court, the 56-year-old native of Ivano-Frankivsk, Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov, head of the economic security service of the "Zolotye Stranitsy" publishing house, was accused of terrorism. Mylnikov spent more than 20 years in prison for murder, rape, and sodomy, and was only released in the summer of 1999. In prison, he met the husband of a woman who soon became his mistress. For her sake, he threatened to blow up the houses of Muscovites... After leaving prison, Mylnikov immediately came to the wife of his cellmate and stayed to live with her. But the love affair did not prevent the woman from remaining loyal to her husband. At the trial on charges of fraud against her unfaithful lady, appearing as a witness, she took all the blame upon herself. The loyal friend was arrested...

More details from Moskovsky Komsomolets (publication date could not be established)

From the website of E.A. Chernousov
http://www.chernousov.bestlawyers.ru/news.html:

SECULAR NEWS, REMARKS ON THE OCCASION

Another spy trial

"Yesterday, the trial of the terrorist-lover Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov, which 'Novye Izvestiya' wrote about at the beginning of this week, ended in the Moscow City Court...

Evgeny Chernousov is already preparing a cassation appeal to the Supreme Court. He believes that it is too early to put an end to this extraordinary case, from which, as in 'spy' trials, the FSB is stubbornly trying to create a precedent."
"Novye Izvestiya", No. 144, 17.08.02

Why did Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov end up in the "Lefortovo" pre-trial detention center?

Chernousov, as a former law enforcement officer, has his own answer to this: "Anatoly could have been imprisoned for operational reasons. Operatives usually have two ways: to conduct 'development' of a suspect and check his connections at his place of residence, establishing surveillance over him. Or put him in prison and there, in conditions of isolation, pressure him and achieve some kind of testimony."
"Novye Izvestiya", 25.07.02

RBC: 04.12.2002 Consideration of the cassation appeal against the verdict in Russia's first trial on charges of threat of terrorism.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will consider the cassation appeal against the first verdict in the practice of Russian legal proceedings in a case of a threat to commit terrorism, delivered on August 16, 2002, in the Moscow City Court. The defendant is Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov. Recall that on August 21, 1999, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and on September 7 of the same year, the editorial office of "Novaya Gazeta" received written appeals on behalf of the organization "Volunteers of Russia" with a report on the commission of explosions of communications and buildings in case of failure to comply with the demand for the release of citizen N. Zander, arrested by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The court session begins at 10:00.

RENTV December 4, 2002: The Supreme Court of Russia left unchanged the first sentence in the country's history in the case of a threat of terrorism

The cassation appeal of Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov, who was sentenced in absentia several months ago to 6 years and eight months of imprisonment, was rejected. In August 1999, Mylnikov, then head of the security service of one of the firms, warned law enforcement agencies that terrorist attacks were being prepared in Moscow. According to him, the terrorists demanded the release of a certain Natalia Zander. During the investigation, it turned out that this woman was Mylnikov's cohabitant, and he himself was an ordinary blackmailer. Then, apparently sensing exposure, Mylnikov disappeared from Moscow.

CONTACT LAWYER CHERNOUSOV

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e-mail: chernoysov@mtu-net.ru

DOCUMENTS

Spelling of all documents preserved

Prosecutor's Office of the City of Moscow
Certified copy
Acting Head of the Department for Supervision of Compliance with Laws on Federal Security
Razgonyaev P. A. (signature)
20.06.2002

I approve
Prosecutor of the City of Moscow
State Counselor of Justice, 2nd Class
M. A. Avdyukov (no signature)

INDICTMENT

in criminal case No. 970

On the charges against Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov for committing crimes under Part 1 of Art. 205, Part 3 of Art. 30 and Part 4 of Art. 150 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

This criminal case was initiated on July 18, 2000, by the Investigative Service of the Directorate of the Federal Security Service (UFSB) of the Russian Federation for the city of Moscow and the Moscow Region on the grounds of a crime under Art. 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

The grounds for initiating the criminal case were the materials of an investigation by the operational unit of the UFSB of the Russian Federation for the city of Moscow and the Moscow Region regarding the receipt on August 21 by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and on September 7, 1999, by the editorial office of the mass media outlet "Novaya Gazeta" of written appeals on behalf of the so-called "Volunteers of Russia," containing a demand to the authorities to release N.V. Zander, who had been arrested by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), and a threat that "...otherwise, every 7 days, communications, buildings, etc. will be blown up." Operational-search measures established the author of the text and the sender of the appeals — a resident of Moscow, Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov, born in 1946, a native of Ivano-Frankivsk, Russian, a citizen of the Russian Federation, who worked as the head of the economic security service of CJSC "Zolotye Stranitsy" (Golden Pages), previously convicted multiple times, including for committing particularly serious crimes. This information was confirmed by a statement from a resident of Moscow, A.E. Tumasyan, who applied to the UFSB of the Russian Federation for the Moscow Region on May 19, 2000, in which she identified A.V. Mylnikov as the author of the text of the "Appeal" and its sender to various organizations. She confirmed the circumstances of this crime during the preliminary investigation.

During the establishment of the circumstances of the committed act, A.V. Mylnikov was interrogated, who denied his involvement in the preparation of the "Appeal" and its distribution. After the interrogation at the Investigative Service, he went into hiding and did not respond to summons.

• On September 12 and November 15, 2000, the period of the preliminary investigation was extended by the Prosecutor of Moscow to 4 and 5 months, respectively.
• On November 8, 2000, a resolution was issued to charge (in absentia) A.V. Mylnikov with committing a crime under Art. 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
• On November 14, 2000, a resolution was issued for the forced appearance of the accused A.V. Mylnikov.
• On December 18, 2000, a resolution was issued to suspend the preliminary investigation and search for the accused A.V. Mylnikov on the basis of paragraph 1 of Art. 195 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR.
• On December 19, 2001, a resolution was issued to resume the suspended preliminary investigation and to initiate a petition to establish the period of investigation in the case until January 19, 2002.
• On January 15, 2002, A.V. Mylnikov was brought to the Investigative Service, where he was charged with committing a crime under Art. 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and a preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen.
• On January 18, March 7, and May 8, 2002, the period of the preliminary investigation was extended by the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation to seven months and twenty-four days, nine months and twenty-three days, and ten months and twenty-three days, respectively.
• On March 1 and April 26, 2002, the period of detention of the accused Mylnikov was extended by the Prosecutor of Moscow to 4 and 5 months, respectively.
• On March 13, 2002, the accused Mylnikov appealed the legality and validity of the extension of the period of detention in court; however, by the decision of the Lefortovo Inter-Municipal Court of Moscow, his appeal was dismissed.

Vol. 1, pp. 1-66; Vol. 2, pp. 60-68, 129-143

• On June 10, 2002, in accordance with the instructions of the Prosecutor of Moscow (pursuant to Art. 211 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR), the preventive measure in the form of detention applied to A.V. Mylnikov was changed to bail.

Vol. 2, pp. 200, 214

The preliminary investigation established that in the summer of 1999, at the apartment of N.V. Zander at the address: Moscow, Svobodny Prospekt, 28, apt. 82, who was in custody at that time in connection with criminal prosecution, A.V. Mylnikov, in the presence of his subordinate — a part-time security service employee of the "Zolotye Stranitsy" publishing house, the minor A.E. Tumasyan, personally prepared the handwritten text of the "Appeal" on behalf of the so-called "Volunteers of Russia," in which a demand was made to the authorities to release N.V. Zander, who had been arrested by the MVD, and a threat was made — "communications, buildings, etc. will be blown up" every 7 days, in case of failure to comply with the above demand by September 1, 1999. He handed the text of the said "Appeal" to A.E. Tumasyan and persuaded her to prepare letters addressed to...