As I already wrote, I’ll soon be in the dock, absurd as that may sound. The Kirovles case has been sent to the Kirov city district court. The date of the first hearing will be set soon; Judge Blinov has sharpened his pencil. Obviously, you can’t prove a damn thing in Kirov’s Leninsky District Court. Or rather, you can prove everything, but no one will listen. Of course, we will make every necessary legal effort and demonstrate the complete groundlessness of the charges, but if verdicts in Russia were handed down by courts rather than dictated over the phone from the presidential administration, we would be living in a different country—one without the "Bolotnaya case" (the prosecution of protesters after the 2012 Bolotnaya Square rally), for example. There is no doubt whatsoever that the verdict will be guilty. Otherwise, a case so obviously fabricated would never have made it to trial. And our Botoxed Chief Crook needs a guilty verdict for two practical purposes:
A formal ban on political activity. Why else would Putin have pushed through amendments saying that anyone convicted under a serious criminal article can never run for office again? Elections are closed to him. Elections are only for those who don’t call it the "party of crooks and thieves" and who say, "I’m not going to criticize Putin; I’m for a constructive agenda". General discrediting along the lines of: "This Navalny keeps shouting that he fights corruption, but he’s corrupt himself!" This was shown in its most perfect form in a report by TV "journalist" Kiselyov, listing the country’s main corrupt figures: Serdyukov, Skrynnik, the Navalny brothers.
http://youtu.be/6QD4kaxHGeI It’s worth thinking about how stunned people must be when they get all their information from the zombie box—that is, state TV. They’d never heard a thing about any Navalny, and then suddenly it’s one report after another: Navalny stole timber worth 16 million rubles, Navalny and his brother stole 50 million from Yves Rocher, Navalny stole 100 million from SPS, Navalny stole a distillery. Anyone would cry out: what on earth is going on in your Moscow?! Is there no way to stop this Navalny? He does whatever he wants. A mafioso. So what matters most to me now? Point 1—I don’t care about it. You can fight the Kremlin riffraff without a seat in the State Duma or the Moscow City Duma. And after the revolution wins, all this Putin-era election legislation will be repealed anyway. But point 2 matters. I can’t get onto the zombie box and explain anything there, but you are here. You are my jury. You’re the ones I’ll be proving it to. This is genuinely super-mega-important to me. What I absolutely do not want is for someone to think: sure, it’s obvious Navalny is being persecuted for political reasons, but the case is murky. They clearly cooked something up there. You can’t just pin the theft of 16 million rubles on someone out of absolutely nothing. But yes, you can. And that is exactly what happened. We did something very simple. Here is a special website: http://navalny.ru/kirovles It simply contains all the financial and accounting documents of LLC "VLK," the company through which, according to the investigation, 16 million rubles were stolen.
My unfortunate "accomplice," Pyotr Ofitserov—whose only guilt is that he knows me, and in order to jail me they need to jail him too—is the owner of this company. He provided all the materials. He has five children, and he has absolutely no desire to go to prison. So Ofitserov runs around with his papers, shouting at the top of his lungs: how exactly did I steal 16 million if here are the bank records showing that I BOUGHT everything at market price for 15.5 million rubles, then sold it for 17 million, and the 1.5 million difference stayed in the company and went to employee salaries? But Bastrykin’s investigators don’t want to listen to Ofitserov. And the most important feature of this investigation is that it contains no accounting or economic expert analysis. None at all. Normally, if they want to accuse Ivanov of stealing a million rubles from the company "Petrov" through deliveries of some rubber junk, they are supposed to commission an expert review showing: a) the market value of the rubber junk, b) where and how the money moved, c) where that money ultimately ended up and in what amount, d) who took it and how much, and so on. In any economic case, that kind of expert review is crucial. In the Kirovles case, the crucial thing—the "queen of evidence"—is the full confession of citizen Opalev, on whose testimony the entire case is built and which gives the investigators the desired prejudicial effect. So here’s the point: this unfortunate LLC "VLK" operated for only a few months. Its total turnover for the entire period was 17 million rubles. And anyone familiar with arithmetic can easily understand the difference between: Took goods worth 16 million, sold them, and pocketed the money. and Bought goods for 15.5 million, sold them for 17 million, and the difference remained in the company. Surely you have an accountant aunt or an auditor mother? Or a finance professional you know? Or maybe you are one yourself? Or maybe you’re not an accountant or a finance specialist, just a meticulous person. All I’m really asking is that you look at the materials posted there in a format convenient for professionals. They are completely authentic and are exactly the same as they appear in the case file. Then read the text of the formal charges. That’s all. If you have absolutely no desire to look through the primary documents, then you can read the first two opinions prepared by professional experts. You can read just the conclusions, or review them together with all the source materials. Of course, for the trial and during the trial we will commission more expert reviews in the case, but my financial resources are limited, so it would be truly invaluable if you (as an expert able to confirm your qualifications), or an expert you know, would spend some time and, using all the available primary documents, write your own opinion. We will also publish such opinions for everyone to see. I do not need any "friendly" experts; I’m completely calm about that. Any objective expert will immediately establish that the charges are fabricated and that no one stole any 16 million. It would even be great if some "hostile pro-Putin accountant" looked through all this. They’d become less pro-Putin right away. So that’s it, basically. This is where I "need help." I need you not to believe, but to verify. And then, when you hear on the zombie box and from various Kremlin hacks that "Navalny stole timber," you’ll be able to say with complete confidence—to yourselves and to others—that it’s a lie, the case is entirely fabricated. http://www.navalny.ru/kirovles/ Sharing the link, of course, is welcome. Thanks in advance to everyone who responds.