Many thanks to the journalists who are not letting the Chaika story drop and are continuing to pursue the leads from our investigation or gather politicians’ comments about it and about what the authorities should do.
Here is an interesting video from TV Rain (Dozhd) from the sidelines of yesterday’s address.
But of course, the prize for the best, most concise, candid, and accurate answer goes to State Duma deputy Zolochevsky, who told Fontanka the following:
When a parliamentarian, a supposedly untouchable representative of the people, responds to a request to comment on corruption in the prosecutor’s office by saying, “I want to stay alive,” it means we definitely did not make our film in vain. It has already passed 2 million views, by the way.
As for the media outlets digging further, take a look at RBC’s report. They found Natalia Tsepovyaz, the wife of murderer Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz, and she confirmed that she was a co-founder of the company Sugar of Kuban, but knows nothing else, because her husband handled the business.
At the very least, this suggests that the Lopatins were dealing not even with Tsepovyaz’s wife, but with him personally. And given that in the Greek documents Olga Lopatina is listed as a “housewife,” and her declared income at the time was 0 rubles, we have no doubt that it was the Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia personally who was in business with Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz.
Still in office. Here he is, on the prosecutor’s office website, if you’d like to admire him.
He received awards “for strengthening legality and law and order,” and then went off to celebrate them with Artyom Chaika and the Tsapok gang.