This morning, Lyubov Sobol’s door was broken down. She herself was taken away for questioning, and her apartment was searched, with all electronic devices seized, including the phone of Sobol’s 7-year-old daughter.
The reason is that on Monday, when I released the video of my conversation with Kudryavtsev, one of the members of the assassination squad, Sobol was on the landing outside his apartment. And she rang his doorbell.
That’s it. You ring a killer’s doorbell — and they break down yours and take you away for questioning.
Such a hysterical reaction not only confirms that the conversation with Kudryavtsev was genuine, but also, incidentally, gives us more information about how much the FSB officers who tried to kill me were paid.
Many people were struck by the run-down apartment building entrances of the assassination team members Tayakin and Kudryavtsev. Or rather, “run-down” is not quite right — they were ordinary entrances. The kind everyone has. Still, the question remains: even setting aside the moral side of it, why the hell would they agree to kill people if they weren’t being paid for it?!
But it seems they do get paid. At least enough for an apartment in Novokosino, a district on the eastern outskirts of Moscow.
As you know, early in the morning Lyuba went to pay a visit to Kudryavtsev, at an address that was not at all difficult to find.
She spent many hours there, repeatedly ringing the bell of apartment 38 and trying to lure out the hapless FSB poisoner. In essence, she was doing the most important and dangerous kind of journalistic work — patiently waiting to ask Kudryavtsev the questions that, unfortunately, investigators will never ask him.
Here is the property record for the apartment where we were looking for Konstantin Borisovich Kudryavtsev. The housing appears to have been state-provided; it previously belonged to the city of Moscow, and in 2014 it was privatized and transferred into the ownership of Kudryavtsev’s son, wife, and mother-in-law.
And, as the genre convention would have it, Kudryavtsev’s mother-in-law gave her son-in-law away completely. Though not intentionally.
At one point, a woman came out to speak to Lyuba — Galina Subbotina. But she did not come out of apartment 38, one-third of which she owns, but from the neighboring apartment, number 37, in the same shared vestibule.
What kind of paranormal phenomenon is that? What was she doing in the neighboring apartment? We pull the property record, and a secret world of rewards for FSB officers for murders committed with chemical weapons opens up before us.
On October 28, 2020, the poisoner and cleaner of my underpants, Konstantin Borisovich Kudryavtsev, bought the neighboring apartment, number 37. Two months after the special operation in Tomsk and Omsk.
Yes, it’s not a villa in Dubai or Miami like the ones Russian lawmakers have, nor even an apartment on the “Golden Mile” in central Moscow. Just 40 square meters (about 430 square feet) in Novokosino. But still. An apartment like that costs around 7.5 million rubles. And our FSB man Kudryavtsev bought it without a mortgage. He brought 7.5 million rubles and bought it.
Could it be a coincidence? Of course it could. But personally, I don’t think so.
I think what we are seeing is a “compensation” payment for the operation. The failed one.
Presumably, for a successful one, he could have bought an apartment within the MKAD (the Moscow Ring Road). Maybe even inside the Third Ring Road.
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