The former lawyer of the Amurstal plant previously, until 2008, worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Khabarovsk and was directly subordinate to the main prosecution witness Pershin.
This witness Shukhov is extremely unfavorable to the prosecution, which the prosecution actually did not hide at this meeting.
Under the protocol in the jury trial, Shukhov said that after Mistryukov’s arrest in November 2019, he saw his wife Natalya several times. The woman was very frightened because Nikolai Mistryukov was threatened that his wife would also be prosecuted.
At the end of December 2019, Shukhov met with Natalya Mistryukova on the Khabarovsk-Moscow plane, and she said that she had arranged a meeting with her husband at the Russian Investigative Committee in Moscow and that they had agreed with Balsky and the Investigative Committee that Mistryukova would not be brought to trial in the case and that he will sell a share of the Amurstal plant and a stake in Torex for 350 million rubles.
In the same interrogation, Shukhov explained that, according to independent companies, Mistryukov’s share in the Amurstal plant in 2019 was worth 3-4 billion rubles.
Shukhov also denied the existence of the notorious note about crimes, which he allegedly reprinted at Pershin’s request. Shukhov also explained that he witnessed a spontaneous conversation in the summer of 2019 (when the investigation began) between Furgal and Mistryukov, in which Furgal asked Mistryukov: “Tell me honestly, are you really involved in crimes, tell me as it is?”
The prosecution cynically disputed all questions to the witness, interrupted and tried to disrupt the interrogation.
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