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Authors: Alexander Litvinenko

Tags: #History, #Europe, #Russia & the Former Soviet Union, #Political Science, #General, #Intelligence & Espionage, #Terrorism, #World, #Russian & Former Soviet Union, #Social Science, #Violence in Society, #True Crime, #Espionage, #Murder

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In February of 1996 the Moscow Criminal Police arrested Lazovsky's personal driver Vladimir Akimov who testified against his boss. Lazovsky was taken into custody. Six FSB operating officers were discovered w ho worked for Lazovsky, including Major Alexey Yumashkin with the Moscow FSB Office for Illegal Armed Formations, and two FSB officers Karpychev and Mehkov. However, the FSB Office representatives refused in show up in court, involvement in terrorist attacks was not discussed in court at all, and
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defendants were found guilty of illegal po ssession of weapons and sentenced by the humane Russian court to two years in jail (counting in the time spent in custody during investigation). In February of 1998 Lazovsky was released, bought himself a fancy house in the elite suburb Uspenskoe in Odin tsovo region near Moscow (along Rubliovo highway), created a Foundation "for prom oting peace in the Caucasus" called the Yedinenie [the Unity] and became its Vice-President. On April 28th, 2000, on the steps of the Uspensky Cathedral in his suburb he was shot from a Kalashnikov gun equipped with a silencer and a scope sight. Four bullets (one hitting him in the throat) were lethal.
Shooting came from the bush approximately 150 meters away. A jeep with bodyguards that was accompanying Lazovsky everywhere as of lately, this time was not anywhere close for some reason. The killer dropped the gun and disappeared. Somebody dragged the body covered in blood to a nearby hosp ital and put him on a bench. Local police invited a doctor from the Odintsovo clinic to examine the corpse. The paperwork concerning examination of the deceased and of the crime scene was done very carelessly and unprofessionally, and that allowed for a llegations that it was not Lazovsky but his double that was killed. Later at least three FSB officers have confirmed to me the version that Lazovsky is still alive.
So, according to the Moscow Legal Entities database:
1. Lazovsky's company Lanaco was headed by a certain G.N. Kosna (other spellings Kasna and Kosia) since 1997.
2. G.N. Kosna also headed the MAM-1 company registered in Moscow at the address: 17, Shokalskogo Proyezd; phone numbers: 928-81-72, 928-5039.
3. The same phone number was listed as the phone for an environmental organization NGO Priroda, registered at the address: 3, Furkasovsky Alley. The Priroda NGO is located at the same address today, but with a different phone number: 924-42-14. The NGO Priroda deputy head was Andrey Yevgenievich Mamchitz, a Mytischi town resident. Obviously, the company name MAM-1 is composed of the first three characters of Mamchitz' name.
4. Registration of the Capstroy-2000 company founded by A. Gochiyaev and Alexander Yurievich Karmishin (who unlike Gochiyaev was never declared wanted by the FSB for some reason) was processed by legal companies Delovaya Compania registered at the address: 17, Shokalskogo Proyezd, i.e. the same address, as the MAM-1 headed by G.N. Kosna who was also heading since 1997 the Lanaco company owned by Lazovsky, and the NGO Priroda mentioned above.
5. On June 23rd, 1998, another company was founded in Moscow: the Lantana-L registered at the address: 31/3, Stremiannyi Alley, but with the same phone numbers as Delovaya Compania, MAM-1 and NGO Priroda companies, that is:
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928-8172 928-50-39.
6. It is also obvious that Lantana-L company name is composed of the first three characters of Lazovsky's company Lanaco name - LAN, and characters taken from Lazovsky's wife name - Tatiana Lazovskaya: TAtiaNA. L is the first character of Lazovsky's and his wife's family name. Altogether it makes:
928-8172 928-50-39.
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LANTANA-L. It could have been a different Tatiana, though, but we will come to this later.
7. The NGO Priroda was founded by Yekaterina Markovna Bykhovskaya who resided in the same apartment block as Lazovsky's wife Tatiana, which can hardly be viewed as a random coincidence in this case.
8. Taking into account that Yu.Krymshamkhalov and T.Batchayev in their Open Letter also call Lazovsky one of the terrorist attacks' organizers, Lazovsky's involvement in the 1999 terrorist attacks may be considered formally proven.
9. Furkasovsky Alley is at the rear of the main FSB building; number 4 on Furkasovsky Alley is straight across, at 20 meters from it. Let's consider this a fact of no significance whatsoever.
But this is just one side of the medal. There is another one. On October 10th, 1999, the Kommersant newspaper published a story entitled "The Kashirka Bombing Could Have Been Avoided":
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The Kashirka Bombing Could Have Been Avoided By Yuri SIUN The FSB and Interior Ministry agents could have prevented the terrorist attack at the apartment block on Kashirskoye Highway where 130 people were killed. Several hours before the bombing Tatiana Koroliova, 26, was detained - a mistress of Achemez Gochiyaev who organized this terrorist attack and the previous one on Gurianova Street. Investigators could have learned everything from her, but without a proper interrogation they had let her go for some reason. Now she cannot be found anywhere.
The FSB agents happened upon Tatiana Koroliova, an employee of the Delovaya Compania law firm, while investigating the terrorist attack at Gurianova Street.
They have established that the bomb that destroyed the apartment block had been planted in the office of a Brand-2 company located on the ground floor.
A Karachayevsk resident Mykhit Laipanov was listed as the Brand-2 founder. He was immediately declared a wanted person, but it became clear soon that they are searching for a dead man. Laipanov was killed in a road accident back in February of this year, and his townsman Achemez Gochiyaev was using his passport.
The FSB agents were told at the Moscow Registration Chamber that documents for the Brand-2 registration were prepared by the Delovaya Compania firm. But when a police squad arrived to its legal address at Volgogradsky Avenue, they found its office closed.
After digging through huge heaps of garbage in trash cans at the back yard, the FSB agents found some paper scraps. From these scraps it transpired that the firm was going to re-register. They managed to establish its new name too - the Lantana-L Agency.
At the Agency they said that Laipanov's documents were prepared by Tatiana Koroliova, although she was registering the Brand-2 through a third-party legal entity - the Consul-Business.[& ] Questioning employees of the former Delovaya Compania, the FSB agents learned that Koroliova was not only preparing Gochiyaev's documents, but that she was his mistress. She came to Moscow from Volgograd, rented an apartment here, and had no registration.
Koroliova was detained on the night of September 13th. But when the law enforcement agents came to her place, Gochiyaev was not there. Apparently, at that very time he was at Kashirskoye Highway, in that very apartment block where the bomb had been planted.
Koroliova who was three months pregnant with Gochiyaev's child (his wife Madina Abayeva is sterile - the Kommersant's note) said that her boyfriend ran into some business problems and that he told her to leave Moscow for a while. "I knew that he used another person's passport and I suspected something wrong, but he was not letting me on his business," - she said.
Questioning had to be continued on the next day, and Koroliova was booked into custody. But in the morning, a few hours after the bombing at Kashirka, she was
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released for some reason. Perhaps, agents were hoping that the pregnant woman would lead them to Gochiyaev, but a few days later she disappeared. Presently declared a wanted person, Koroliova, according to the police information, is in one of Chechnya mountain regions. The Gochiyaevs are hiding there too.
This article contains some errors. It was written in hot pursuit, and its author had no opportunity to verify the accuracy of information.
Was Koroliova indeed Gochiyaev's mistress and was she pregnant indeed? Obviously, a woman's three-month pregnancy is not showing (it is unlikely that Koroliova was subjected to such a close medical examination immediately after her arrest). Whether it was Gochiyaev who made Koroliova pregnant (if she were pregnant) is an even bigger question. The statement that Gochiyaev's wife was sterile is not accurate. This is confirmed by numerous photographs that Gochiyaev sent me to establish his identity, that included Gochiyaev's pictures with his children.
We will leave on the FSB and Russian investigating authorities' conscience the absence of any explanation for Koroliova's swift release from police custody. The statements made in the Kommersant article, that Koroliova was searched for by investigators, that she disappeared from Moscow and escaped to Chechnya, are not accurate. According to the table below that lists companies headed or founded by Tatiana Viktorovna Koroliova, she continued to practice law in Moscow until at least June 20th, 2000. (We will regard as a mere coincidence the fact that a number of these companies are registered at Malaya Lubyanka Street and at Maly Kiselnyi Alley in a building adjacent to the Moscow FSB Office.) Companies founded or headed by Tatiana Viktorovna Koroliova Registratio n date dd/mm/yy
Company name
Head Address Founders Phone
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1.3.1993 Lombard dlya
vas
Bobko Z.O. 13, Molodogvardeiskaya
St.
K. and very many others
241-06-61
23.12.1999 Unificon-
Stroy
Gumba Nat. Bor. 44,
Novocheryomushkinskay a St., building 1
K. Same as above Trans-Mega Gumba Nat. Bor. 8/7, M.Lubyanka St., building 10 K. Same as above
UTK
Spetsmontazh
Gumba Nat. Bor. 44,
Novocheryomushkinskay a St., building 1
K. Same as above
Same as above
Gumba Nat.Bor. (changes as of
26.9.2000)
1.3.1993 Lombard dlya
44,
Novocheryomushkinskay a St., building 1
K. Same as above
44,
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Same as above
Alexeyev Yuri Nik. (changes as of
24.7.2001)
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44,
Novocheryomushkinskay a St., building 1
K. 422-15-65
Remcomplect -99
Gumba Nat. Bor. 44,
Novocheryomushkinskay a St., building 1
K. 241-06-61
Same as above
Yakobiva
Tat.Alexandrovna (changes as of 10.2000 and
44,
7.2001)
44,
Novocheryomushkinskay a St., building 1
K. 422-01-44;
488-95-55
30.12.1999 Dasti-Tur Gumba Nat. Bor. 8/7, M.Lubyanka St., building 10
K. 241-06-61
Unificon-S Gumba Nat. Bor. 8/7, M.Lubyanka St., building 10 K. Same as above Dial-Cont Gumba Nat. Bor. 6, M.Kiselnyi Alley, building 1 K. Same as above Decont- Service Gumba Nat. Bor. 6, M.Kiselnyi Alley, building 1 K. Same as above Decont- Design Vasileva Yelena Anat. 15ŕ, Pechatnikov Alley K., Vasilieva, Medvedie v, Shulaia Same as above Same as above Gumba Nat. Bor. 6, M.Kiselnyi Alley, building 1 Same as above Same as above
18.1.2000 Denti-Cont Maiev N.B. (+changes as of
7.2001) 44,
25.7.01)
44,
Novocheryomushkinskay a St., building 1
K. 422-01-44
TVK-
Business
Koroliova T.V. 44,
Novocheryomushkinskay a St., building 1
K. 241-06-61
19.1.2000 TVK-Cont Koroliova T.V. 15ŕ, Pechatnikov Alley K. 241-06-61 20.1.2000 Consul- Classic Mikailov Omar Dalgatovich
25.7.01) 44,
44,
Novocheryomushkinskay a St., building 1
K.,
Mikailov
O.D.
217-41-22
Mega-Consul Koroliova T.V. 6, M.Kiselnyi Alley, building 1
K.,
Bashori,
Khudoshi n
241-06-61
Same as above
Koroliova T.V. (changes as of
44,
4.2000)
15ŕ, Pechatnikov Alley Same as above
Same as above Vilar-99 Koroliova T.V. 6, M.Kiselnyi Alley, building 1
K.,
Shokhirev ,
Same as above
4.2000)
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Kashansk y, Gorelov
Same as above
Koroliova T.V. (changes as of
24.3.2000)
15ŕ, Pechatnikov Alley Same as above
Same as above
Same as above
Venediktov Sergey
Borisovich (changes as of
28.11.2000)
15ŕ, Pechatnikov Alley Same as above
229-75-52
19.6.2000 Remservicem ontazh Koroliova T.V. 21/29, Odesskaya St. K. 241-06-61 Interlink Koroliova T.V. 21/29, Odesskaya St. K. 241-06-61 Alumineks Koroliova T.V. 21/29, Odesskaya St. K. 241-06-61 20.6.2000 Recom-Trast Koroliova T.V. 21/29, Odesskaya St. K. 241-06-61 So, what conclusions should we make? Conclusion number one is that Gochiyaev's "mistress" T.V. Koroliova could have been a co-owner of LANTANA-L company together with Lazovsky, and that the four characters TANA from the second half of the company's name were contributed by Tatiana Koroliova and not by Lazovsky's wife Tatiana. Conclusion number two is that Koroliova was released from police custody not accidentally and not by some odd people from Russian security services; that those people were somehow related to the 1999 terrorist attacks; that Koroliova too was perhaps a Russian security service (FSB) agent and was immediately related to the terrorist attacks; that she was not declared a wanted person either in September of 1999 or later. Conclusion number three is that for the same reasons Alexander Yurievich Karmishin, Gochiyaev's partner and co-founder of the Capstroy-2000 company, was never declared a wanted person. Conclusion number four is that Lazovsky, killed (and maybe not killed) in 2000, was definitely related to the 1999 terrorist attacks. And all other conclusions of general political character concerning the situation in the country, I am sure, the readers can make for themselves.
Yuri Felshtinsky
Boston
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