Secret witness didn't understand why he was classified

In the Komsomolsky Court of the city of Tolyatti, legal chaos continues during the consideration of criminal case No. 1-31/2024.

In the photo is the judge of the Komsomolsky court of the city of Tolyatti, Koroleva (Beketova) Galina

In addition to the fact that since June the hearings have been held 5 times a week from 10 to 18, often extending beyond the court hearing, this week the judge of the Komsomolsky Court of the city of Tolyatti Queen (Beketova) Galina Alexandrovna does not release the defense, lawyers and state prosecutor Domnikova Victoria until 00:10, thus violating not only the Criminal Procedure Code (night time, during which it is prohibited to conduct procedural investigative actions), but also the Constitution of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country). Obviously, such acceleration is connected with the arrival on Friday of the judge of the Samara regional court Melnikova O.A. (apparently the case and the deadlines are under the control of Kudinova Vadim), who, apparently, is precisely that curator, the link between the chairman of the Samara regional court, Vadim Kudinov, and Galina Aleksandrovna Koroleva (Beketova).

To all complaints of the defense, that from the chairman of the Komsomolsky District Court of the city of Tolyatti Winter Alexandra Vladimirovnaboth from Vadim Kudinov’s deputy and from the KKS, the same answer was received with the same content, the meaning of which boiled down to the fact that the defense itself was to blame, since it had the courage to provide evidence of the innocence of the defendants.

In the photo is the judge of the Samara regional court, Oksana Aleksandrovna Melnikova

In addition, by appointing 5-day hearings, Judge Galina Aleksandrovna Koroleva (apparently with the idea from her curators) pursued the goal of minimizing or completely depriving the defense of time to prepare for the interrogation of witnesses, preparing various motions. But nothing came of it. Absolutely all the prosecution witnesses floundered in court, numerous contradictions and outright lies – this is what came out of the interrogation of charged witnesses on the part of the prosecution. Some witnesses decided not to come to court at all, avoid being brought in, wrote and sent a statement that they completely trust the court and cannot appear in court, apparently afraid that the lies in their testimony would be exposed and they would have to answer under the article on giving false testimony. The interrogation turned out to be especially epic Ishutin Arkadythe owner and CEO of Agropromtrade LLC, who at the end of the interrogation admitted that his testimony was nothing more than a FANTASY, and what market prices for mineral fertilizers are – he does not know. And in general, the interrogation of Arkady Ishutin was full of contradictions, outright lies, having realized this at the end of the interrogation in court, he began to refuse to answer questions from the defense. The secret witness in the person of Sergey Aleksandrovich Kalinin, who confirmed in court that no one threatened him, could not answer why he was being interrogated in the status of a classified witness, it is still absolutely unknown why he was given the status of a secret classified witness by the investigation, and in general testified in favor of the defendants. Petrunin Dmitry (former commercial director of the chemical giant), who in court during interrogation assured that he actively voted against prices at the Pricing Committee, was very confused or lied when the defense provided him with the decisions of the Pricing Committee for review, where he voted “for” and not “against”, as he stubbornly repeated earlier during the investigation and at the hearing during the interrogation of state prosecutor Domnikova Victoria, that he allegedly voted against and objected. Specialist Grechanik Lyudmila, who is a partner of DRG-consulting (former Deloitte) and who during the investigation gave negative testimony against the accused in the form of interrogation of a specialist, without the expert's opinion (!) at the time of interrogation, suddenly left the country, having planted a copy of her visa to the UK for 2023, and the court refused to bring her by bailiffs to her place of residence, although a copy of her passport with registration in Moscow is in the case. More details here.

If you think that the farce of this criminal case and the obvious nature of its order have reached their apogee, then no. Here are some more facts that make you feel ashamed of our Samara Investigative Committee, the regional prosecutor's office and the Komsomolsky District Court of the city of Tolyatti. Local residents are right when they point out that if the regional prosecutor's office itself violates the law, what kind of compliance with the law can we talk about in the region? So, as in any other economic criminal case, there is an expert's report, in this case for allegedly 0.5 billion rubles in damages. The examination was made methodologically, arithmetically and technically with numerous significant errors, which the defense drew attention to. Judge Galina Koroleva refused to call the expert for questioning in court, apparently the number one priority now is to move on to the debate as soon as possible. In addition, in the criminal case itself there is only a copy of the expert's signature, not certified by the organization's seal. The signatures of the expert himself in his work are also not certified by the seal. The defense complained to both the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) and the Regional Prosecutor's Office about this significant violation for a year, and the response was – everything is great, a copy was made from the original, and it does not matter that the original does not exist. As a result, during the interrogation of the general director of the organization on whose staff the specialist worked, who performed his work with significant distortions and errors, it turned out that the original subscription was never sent to the city of Samara, to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) for the Samara Region, and is kept by the expert, which means that the investigator certified the copy from the copy, and the director did not have the right to take a subscription from the expert, since the organization is not a forensic institution. But neither the prosecutor nor the judge are worried about this yet. In addition, the subscription was taken AFTER the examination was conducted, i.e. the specialist did his work without knowing about criminal liability, as they say, write what you are told, there will be no liability. The investigators, of course, could have worked better to give this criminal case at least some kind of legal and logical character.

In addition to the above facts, there is a whole list of violations of the Criminal Procedure Code, both by investigators and by Judge Galina Aleksandrovna Koroleva; if they were all described in the article, an hour would not be enough to read them.

I would also like to add a few words about the Chairman of the Samara Regional Court Vadim Kudinov – as Chronograph points out, Kudinov has not disclosed his income and property declaration since 2022. “The reason for concealment seems strange: it contains a reference to subparagraph “g” of paragraph 1 of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) of December 29, 2022 No. 968, although the entire decree applies only to employees of the law enforcement and judicial systems, as well as their close relatives who are (were) involved in the SVO. Kudinov can be called involved in the SVO with a big stretch.

In the photo is the chairman of the Samara Regional Court, Vadim Kudinov

In total, during his tenure as Chairman of the SOS (since March 18, 2019), Vadim Kudinov disclosed information on income and property three times – for the years 2019-2021. And three times the public declaration did not contain information on the vehicles in his personal use (owned, leased or otherwise owned). The documents only reported on the vehicle owned by the spouse of the accountable person. In 2019-2020, it was a Mitsubishi Outlander, in 2021 – a Lexus RX 300.

At the same time, there is a version that even before his approval in his current status, Vadim Kudinov could have driven a Volkswagen Touareg. And already during his time as the chairman of the SOS, he could have had another vehicle of a similar class in his possession, allegedly accepted as a gift from some entrepreneurs operating in the Krasnoglinsky district of Samara, where Kudinov worked as the chairman of the local district court in 2008-2013. One of the authors of the Russian Criminal portal, Alexey Ermakov, in the publication “For money yes” on January 10 of this year emphasized: “Kudinov has been spotted in business with the king of bootleg Hennessy Sako (aka Sarkis Melekbekyan) and accepting a used Audi as a gift from the “brothers”. Melekbekyan once created an organized criminal group for the sale of bootleg alcohol. Unfortunately, direct evidence of the connection between Vadim Kudinov and Sako, namely the recording of their conversation, magically disappeared from criminal case 201223521″.

The question “who are the judges?” in the Samara region, unfortunately, is eternal. With great difficulty the region got rid of, as people in the Samara region say, Efanovshchina, it remains apparently to get rid of Kudinovshchina, in order to give the district courts the opportunity not to violate the Criminal Procedure Code and to be independent. But, are such judges needed in district courts, for example, Koroleva Galina Aleksandrovna of the same Komsomolsky District Court of the city of Tolyatti, who accept custom-made cases and do not resist orders from outside, violate all possible norms of the Criminal Procedure Code, communicate with the prosecutor during breaks in sessions and force lawyers to sit until midnight during the process 5 days a week. Let us recall that over the past year about 20 ministers were in custody. The purges are carried out by the federal center, at present the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) is checking the former governor of the Samara region. It is, of course, amazing how, against this background, custom-made cases continue to be stamped out in the Komsomolsky District Court of the city of Tolyatti, because this is not the only custom-made criminal case, similar processes are going on in parallel in the same court, Judge Galina Aleksandrovna Koroleva and prosecutor V.A. Domnikova actively assists her. By the way, participating in such a custom-made case against former top managers of a chemical giant, it turns out strange how prosecutor Victoria Domnikova can teach something good by speaking to schoolchildren with lectures on the profession of “Prosecutor”.

In the photo is prosecutor Victoria Domnikova

All of the above says only one thing – the perpetrators have lost touch with reality due to their impunity. What drives them? Career advancement, transfer to a desired position in the region or simply an order is an order – to convict as quickly as possible without unnecessary noise.