This was the Investigative Committee’s first press release on the Oboronservis case:
Or here’s another early one: this one talks about 19 kilograms of jewelry and 57,000 precious stones.
And here Markin from the Investigative Committee is shouting it to the whole country: it’s us, we’re the ones in charge. It’s the Investigative Committee that is handling the Vasilyeva case, we bear all the responsibility (and of course get all the credit).
And here a certain Vladimir Putin tells us that there will be no leniency in the Oboronservis case:
And here an "expert" tells us that the anti-corruption campaign embodied by the Oboronservis case is the final nail in the coffin of the protest movement:
Well then, we can now sum up this anti-corruption campaign.
Serdyukov appeared in court only as a witness. He was amnestied. He now works in the state sector, at a military state-owned enterprise.
Vasilyeva was supposedly "jailed," but no one could find her in pretrial detention, while she was seen walking out of a bank in the city center. After the scandal flared up, she was supposedly "transferred" to a penal colony, where again no one could find her. The only person who claimed to have seen her was a human rights activist, not even sure it was really Vasilyeva.
Vasilyeva is repaying damages of 216 million rubles. No one even remembers anymore the previously claimed billions in damages, 19 kilograms of gold, and 57,000 diamonds. As people online aptly joke: she was just handing back the change.
Almost immediately after her supposed "transfer to the colony," the prosecutor’s office and the Federal Penitentiary Service are practically tearing their shirts off demanding parole. It is claimed that Vasilyeva has reformed, makes her bed well, and poses no risk of reoffending.
The judge orders Vasilyeva released immediately, even though the law completely rules that out. She could only legally be released after 10 days.
So that’s how well they fought corruption.
It is worth recalling that today, exactly today, Lutskевич was denied parole, even though he is imprisoned over the Bolotnaya case (the prosecution of protesters after the 2012 Bolotnaya Square rally in Moscow). Right now, Nepomnyashchikh is being tried in the same case on the charge that he "grabbed a police officer by the wrist."
Vitishko, who is serving time for the graffiti "SANYA THIEF" on the fence of the governor’s dacha, was denied parole because he did a poor job weeding tomatoes.
And meanwhile, Oleg Navalny is greeting Vasilyeva’s release from a solitary punishment cell, where his bunk is fastened to the wall at 4:30 a.m., and until nightfall you can either walk around the 1.5 x 5 meter cell or sit on a stool. In six months behind bars, Oleg has already received three disciplinary penalties.
In September, we must all come out to the rally.