The investigation into the death of Russian businessman Alexander Perepilicihnyy heard evidence of a suspicious payment of $ 500 million., which was found on your computer. Mr. Perepilichnyy died in Surrey in 2012 after going for a jog, as authorities in Russia and Switzerland investigated a huge fraud involving companies with which he was engaged.
The inquiry in London heard testimony on Friday, April 13, about how Surrey police used an untrained civilian to translate the contents of your computer Mr Perepilichnyy, and then managed to lose a hard drive.
Chief inspector Ian Pollard claimed that it was “appropriate” to use Catherine Clark-O’connell, a civilian who worked in the personnel Department of the police of the Thames valley to find and translate relevant material on the computer Mr. Perepilichnyy.
Better than giving the task for MI5 or MI6 agent or to a police officer he is assigned to Ms. Clarke-O’connell, a native Russian speaker who moved to England in 2002.
Giving evidence, Mrs. Clarke-O’connell admitted it was not the police or the Investigation and preparation of case Perepilichnyy was the first criminal investigation it has ever worked.
The inquest at the old Bailey heard that she was instructed to look for certain keywords and phrases and guidance of Mr. Perepilichnyy was threatened or had problems with health.
Link to us$500 million of payments on the computer
She recalled finding a reference on the computer to pay for “half a billion dollars” in Perepilichnyy about the same time, his Swiss Bank accounts were frozen by authorities in 2012.
But she didn’t notice the Skype message which included and try to get one million euros of bribes or attempts to negotiate its way out of a giant prosecuted for the fraud perpetrated against Hermitage capital management.
Det. Supt. Pollard was also asked Lucas fear-Segal, counsel for the company, which insured Mr Perepilichnyy of life, the document, in French, which Ms. Clark O’connell was seen, because it contains the name, city cartel, a company that allegedly was used to launder money and was suspected by the authorities in Switzerland.
He admitted his inability to transfer or to investigate the document was one of the “shortcomings” of the investigation.
Ms. Clark-O’connell testified that she found no evidence of any death threats in the last 12 months of life Mr. Perepilichnyy, despite speculation he was a target of the Russian mafia, including the “Klyuev group”.
The extortion attempt in 2011
However, there were three messages sent from your phone in Belarus in June 2011, which turned out to be an extortion attempt.
“Alexander, if You don’t want to go to jail, if you want safe, free life, you will have to pay 300,000 rubles ($10 000), and you must answer with your answer at 2.00 tomorrow,” said the first text message.
“Don’t do stupid movements. We have everything under control,” said the second text message, and the third was on how to transfer the money.
At the inquest it was said Mr. Perepilichnyy was involved with a company called Hermitage capital management, who argued that the victims of tax fraud in Russia $ 240 million.
Investor William Browder
Henrietta Hill QC, lawyer for the Hermitage, has been repeatedly asked det. Supt. Pollard if he saw a comparison between the death of Mr Perepilichnyy that of Alexander Litvinenko and the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia.
Det. Supt. Pollard argues that they were not comparable, since there was no evidence of any nerve agent or toxin that caused the death of Mr Perepilichnyy.
He said that the hard disk drive from Mr. Perepilichnyy’s computer, which was transferred to his widow Tatyana, has vanished from the computer server belonging to the South-East group on combating terrorism (SECTU), which includes Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire and Thames valley police.
Last year, before the inquest was adjourned, Bob Moxon-Browne QC, a lawyer for insurers, Mr. Perepilichnyy, I have demanded to see original documents from the computer.
Computer Evidence Disappeared After A Server Failure
But Det. Supt. Pollard was forced to admit SECTU could not find it, or a backup on their server and came to the conclusion that he was “crashing the server”.
Fiona Barton QC, for Surrey police, asked if there was any evidence that have emerged since 2012 — including documents on a computer Mr. Perepilichnyy-did any evidential difference in his estimate of causes of death.
“There is nothing at all to suggest that he was a target or a victim of murder. Nothing at all,” det. Supt. Pollard answered.
Ms. Barton then criticize like buzzfeed, which, she said, claimed that the deal Perepilichnyy was resumed in connection with the events in Salisbury and “the investigation of a journalist episode, Jane Bradley”.
“The case is reopened?” asked Miss Burton.
“No, no,” replied det. Supt. Pollard.
Peter Skelton QC, counsel for the inquiry, then read a statement that was made by bill Browder, the American head of the “Hermitage capital Management”, in which he attacked the son-in-law, Mr. Perepilichnyy it. Ismagilov.
Bill Browder is a CIA agent known as “Solomon”?
“Mr. Ismagilov has made a series of impressive claims about me, that I was responsible for the death of Edmond Safra (banker killed in Monte Carlo in 1999) that I was an agent of the CIA and MI6 by the code name of Solomon and that I was involved in the theft of $4.8 million from the International monetary Fund,” said Mr. Browder.
Mr. Browder said he said that comments Mr. Ismagilov was “exactly the same complaint to the Russian government, which participates in the torture and murder (of a lawyer Hermitage) of Sergei Magnitsky”.
Then Mr. Browder said Mr. Ismagilov was a Director in the cartel, the company that allegedly laundered $ 10 million.
“Mr. Ismagilov not being honest about the death of Mr Perepilichnyy and knows more about death than he’s telling,” said Mr. Browder.
Perepilichnyy ‘milked like a cow’
Prior to that, Ms. Clark-O’connell recalled how she found messages on his computer from his wife Mr Perepilichnyy, Tatiana, referred to by Mr. Ismagilov “milk Mr Perepilichnyy as a cow”.
Ms. hill then asked the investigator to get him to understand that he did not take a statement, Mr. Ismagilov was “true” because it has not been proven and Mr. Ismagilov refused to attend the inquiry to answer questions.
The investigator, judge Nicholas Hilliard QC, said that he approved of what she said.
“Evidence, Mr. Ismagilov not accepted, and I will look at it carefully,” said judge Hilliard.
The hotel Bristol in Paris, where Alexander Perepilichnyy stayed the night before he died
Prior to that, Ms. hill refers to the list of names of people who have already stayed at the hotel Bristol in Paris at the same time as Mr. Perepilichnyy, just hours before his death and it included “Nikolai Patrushev,” she said, was the same name as the FSB, who allegedly ordered the murder of Mr. Litvinenko.
Ms. hill also said that the Russian Embassy has issued a press release on 11 April, which made a number of statements about the coroner and the process of inquiry.
“Representatives of William Browder, the Hermitage capital Management Fund, included in the investigation, as the person concerned was challenging the results of the autopsy made by the Home office, which is not found any third-party involvement or foul play in Los Perepilichnyy’s death,” said the Russian Embassy statement.
Attempt to discredit the widow’
“They tried to discredit the widow of Mr Perepilichnyy (throwing in the theory of poisoned sorrel soup) and even the police, who were initially stakeholders in the inquiry,” she added.
“All these circumstances around the investigation into the death of Alexander Perepilichnyy, and the delay to 2012 clearly show that the British authorities want to get the most out of this in order to promote the idea of another ‘Russian connection’ in the case of another Russian citizen murdered on British soil,” said the Embassy.
Judge Hilliard insisted the investigation independent investigation, and he adjourned the case until next month for further investigation.
“There is a sense that each query that we make, in turn, can lead to a lot of other requests and there comes a time when you have to draw a line,” said judge Hilliard.
The coroner also said that he received a letter from the interior Minister, amber Rudd, in which she said that the investigation into the death of 14 Russians in the UK will be completed by the end of the month.
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