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Last Updated: Oct 14, 2008 - 7:34:59 AM |
As has already been stated multiple times, a large part of the criminal
proceedings regarding the murder of Novaya Gazeta correspondent Anna
Politkovskaya has been put into a separate case. This is the part that
concerns the killer, client (or clients), financiers, middlemen, and
other persons involved in the crime.
All this time, our editorial office has been conducting its own
journalistic investigation, based on the results of which we have
accumulated quite a few questions for the law enforcement agencies and
special services. Without an answer to them, the picture of Anna
Politkovskaya's murder cannot be complete. Here are some of them.
Who Other Than the Murderers Was Following the Journalist?
>From our sources in the Russian FSB (Federal Security Service) (for
which there have been numerous confirmations), we have learned that
beginning in summer 2006 a full set of operational-investigative
measures (ORM) were taken against Anna Politkovskaya. The full set
assumes, in addition to collecting basic facts, outside surveillance by
a so-called box for up to 180 days. The ORM were conducted by FSB
agents. On what basis did FSB agents establish the journalist's address
of residence, tap her telephone, and conduct outside surveillance?
Beginning and ending when was Politkovskaya being watched? Is it true
that the official surveillance was done by criminals who followed Anna,
after which FSB sleuths received an order to lift the surveillance? Is
it true that official outside surveillance was conducted all the way up
to the second half of 7 October 2006?
Who Organized the Leak on the Progress of the Investigation?
Ever since August 2007, as soon as suspects were arrested, leaks about
the progress of the investigation have been continuous. First to leak
information was FSB General Kupryazhkin, head of the Internal Security
Administration (USB), whose leaks undermined several investigative
actions. In response to Novaya's inquiry, the Russian FSB officially
and cynically reported that Kupryazhkin had not broken the law since he
had not signed an undertaking not to divulge secrets of the
investigation. Later, through the media, facts were reported that
gravely complicated the investigation: about suspects before their
arrest; about a vehicle being sought before it was found; and finally,
about the killer's assumed location. Who gave the order to Kupryazhkin,
who previously had never spoken to the press, to divulge facts of the
investigation? Who gave the order to the press secretary of the Moscow
municipal court to divulge the entire list of people arrested in the
case? Who told TV reporter Karaulov about the arrests days before they
were made?
Who Provided the Killer with Documents?
We know that an international manhunt is under way for the
killer--presumably Rustam Makhmudov. We know that Makhmudov has been
sought by the federal authorities since 1998 for an abduction by a
criminal group.
Who could have given Rustam Makhmudov, a wanted man, a foreign passport
in a false name? Why didn't Lieutenant-Colonel Ryaguzov, whose agents,
according to Novaya's information, were Rustam's brother and his uncle,
Lom-Ali Gaytukayev, take any measures to find the criminal?
The Killer Was Known the Next Day?
The day after the murder, according to Novaya's information, the
Russian FSB's hotline received a report from a Moscow resident who said
he had recognized the supposed killer on a videotape from an outside
surveillance camera. Is that true? If it is true, is it correct that
this information was not immediately brought to the investigations
organs, which learned of it only a few months later?
Who Sent the Provocateurs?
Throughout the investigation and inquiry, they have attempted to put
even Novaya journalists on a false trail. The professional provocateurs
who have no interest in the announced monetary reward number a good
dozen. For instance, how is it that four days after the murder a
certain Litvinenko (a namesake), speaking in reference to conversations
with an USB officer by the name of Melnichenko about the "Berezovskiy
lead" in the case, appeared in Moscow, risking arrest and extradition
to Ukraine? Why is it that special services associates Lugovoy and
Zharko, "witnesses" in the case of the poisoning of FSB officer
Litvinenko, have been trying to horn in on this case with their
"testimony" (which they themselves spoke about to the media)?
What Happened to the Eavesdropped Conversations?
We know (from General Kupryazhkin) that Lt-Col Ryaguzov was in
investigations at the Russian FSB's USB. From sources in the Ukrainian
SB (Internal Security), Novaya has learned that Ryaguzov's
agent--Lom-Ali Gaytukayev (one of the leaders of the Lazan gang, an
uncle of the Makhmudovs, and a close friend of Khadzhikurbanov)--was
also being eavesdropped on by the Russian FSB: before his arrest in
August 2006 and afterward, including in October 2006. What happened to
the eavesdropped conversations of Ryaguzov and Gaytukayev, who was
convicted of organizing the assassination of Ukrainian businessman
Korban, and were they handed over to the investigation? Has it been
established that there were contacts between Ryaguzov and the accused
in the Politkovskaya case, including at the restaurant in the
Sverchkov, 8 Hotel, which is 100 meters from the UFSB (FSB
Administration) building where Ryaguzov worked? Was the investigation
given the operations reports and personal files of Ryaguzov's agents,
who, according to Novaya's information, were Gaytukayev (he himself
stated his involvement with the Russian special services in court) and
one of the accused Makhmudov brothers? How did the internal
investigation end at FSB, which could not pin down the longstanding
criminal group that included Ryaguzov, Khadzhikurbanov, Gaytukayev,
Lebedev, an officer in the 5th department of Moscow GUVD (Internal
Affairs Main Administration) (outside surveillance), and others? For
example, did anyone check the reports about possible plans to kill
entrepreneur Volkov; about Moscow businessmen who were natives of the
Caucasus being sheltered by members of this group; about unsanctioned
trips (according to reports from sources in the Russian FPS (Federal
Border Service)) abroad by Lt-Col Ryaguzov and his agents?
Who Abducted the Witness?
This January, in the middle of Moscow, Movladi Atlangireyev, a former
organizer of the Lazan criminal group, an agent of the Russian special
services, and an acquaintance of highly placed FSB associates, was
abducted. He was close to Gaytukayev and Khozh-Akhmed Nukhayev, whom
Dovgiy, the now arrested head of the Main Investigations Administration
of the Investigations Committee under the Russian General Prosecutor's
Office, called the possible client for Anna Politkovskaya's murder. Why
is the criminal case over the abduction of a valuable special services
agent who had carried out delicate orders, including outside Russia,
only being conducted by Moscow's Meshchanskaya Prosecutor's Office? Has
he gone from being a valuable agent to a dangerous witness? Or do the
special services already know who abducted him and what his further
fate is going to be?
Source:Ocnus.net 2008
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