Yesterday, TV Rain featured deputy Sergei Zheleznyak. A recurring subject of our investigations.
For example:
This guy promised us his children would study in England and come back. Let’s check
There, he claimed that “Navalny’s people” contacted him before each publication about his daughters and demanded money in exchange for not publishing.
And Zheleznyak was extremely specific — $100,000 for the first publication and $150,000 for the second, the recent one.
But when they started asking follow-up questions and asked, “What if Navalny sues?”, Zheleznyak rather comically backtracked. Basically, he said he wasn’t even sure they were really “Navalny’s people” — maybe it was a provocation. And he never filed any complaint about blackmail.
It starts here at the 55-minute mark. Take a look — it’s very revealing: https://tvrain.ru/teleshow/harddaysnight/zheleznjak-425707/
If you don’t have a subscription, here’s the news report:
You can’t help but pity deputy Zheleznyak. Obviously, I’m such a powerful person that it’s terribly dangerous to complain about blackmail by “my people.” File a complaint with the Investigative Committee (Russia’s main federal investigative agency) about extortion, and my reach is so long that I’ll get you — razor to the throat, and into the well.
Well, it’s good that he has finally found the courage to admit it.
Let’s help the timid deputy. The elements of the crime under the article on “extortion” are clearly all there. And it works out very nicely for a future investigation too: if some people spoke to Zheleznyak, then he can tell investigators about them. Give descriptions, phone numbers. Maybe they passed along some note. Something like this.
Complaint:
People