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Lom-Ali Akhmedievich Gaitukaev(b. 1958) - a well-known Chechen crime boss and businessman, involved in a number of high-profile criminal cases.

Biography

Lom Ali Gaitukaev born in the village of Achkhoy-Martan, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Belongs to the Terloy teip. He studied poorly at school; according to his own admission, made during an interview with the TV show “Criminal Russia”, he does not even know the multiplication table. Currently, as some media write, in his native village, where Gaitukaev has not appeared for many years, he is remembered with caution and respect. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Gaitukaev’s homeland, Chechnya, declared its independence from the Russian Federation. Gaitukaev decided to take advantage of this, and along with many of his fellow citizens, he began to engage in fraud, the purpose of which was to steal funds from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, and which would later become known throughout the world as “Chechen advice notes.” To cover up his criminal activities, he created a joint Russian-Austrian enterprise, and also received Greek citizenship and registered in the city of Thessaloniki.

Gaitukaev and “Chechen advice notes”

Gaitukaev met Vladimir Novikov, an employee of the East Siberian Bank, who is responsible for finding clientele for the bank. He agreed to provide false advice to the bank's management. Gaitukaev, arriving during the money theft operation, stayed at the Intourist Hotel. On June 3, 1992, Gaitukaev and several of his accomplices were detained in a hotel room by employees of the department for combating drug trafficking. During the search, one of Gaitukaev’s guards tried to escape with a package containing a large sum of money, but received a severe gunshot wound. The package contained 3 million rubles in 1992 money in packaging from a well-known Moscow bank.

Searches were carried out on all of Gaitukaev's contacts in Moscow, which yielded an unexpected result - instead of the drugs they were looking for, huge sums of money were found in their possession. Money was even found in Gaitukaev’s personal Mercedes car. Then the case was transferred to the department for combating economic crimes. The next day, Novikov and another accomplice of Gaitukaev, Norik Mesumyan, were arrested. The investigation of the case was difficult: all the suspects denied their involvement in the fraud, and there was a catastrophic lack of evidence. When the suspects were about to be released due to lack of proof of their guilt, the employees of the department for combating drug trafficking were found to have transcripts of audio recordings of conversations between Gaitukaev, Novikov and Mesumyan, made by their listening devices.

The testimony of several accomplices of Gaitukaev, who never admitted to anything, made it possible to reconstruct the scheme of operations with advice notes: Gaitukaev produced counterfeit seals and forms, then, through a person who had connections in banking circles (Mesumyan), he transferred false advice notes to a person who worked in the bank and to a former in collusion with him (Novikov), and he convinced the bank management of the profitability of the transfer and cashing. Advices were supposed to arrive at the cash settlement center of the Central Bank by special mail, but Gaitukaev and Mesumyan took advantage of the confusion that reigned at that time in all institutions of the country and managed to receive huge amounts of money from fake advices - hundreds of millions of rubles. The scammers stored the stolen money in a ten-ton sea container installed in one of the Moscow courtyards. Gaitukaev was going to value his next advice at one billion rubles, but was detained.

Novikov did not live to see the trial, dying in a pre-trial detention center, and Gaitukaev and Mesumyan became the first defendants to be tried for stealing money from the country's main bank. On November 30, 1993, the court sentenced Gaitukaev to 7 years in prison with confiscation of property.

Gaitukaev and the Korban case

After his release, Gaitukaev organized the so-called interregional social movement for the development of cultural and socio-political ties with the Chechen Republic “New Time”. There was evidence that he was one of the leaders of the so-called Alazani organized crime group.

In February 2006, Gaitukaev received an order to kill the chairman of the board of Slavutich-Registrar LLC, Gennady Korban. The identity of the customer was never established. Gaitukaev found the perpetrator of the crime, Arsen Dzhamburaev, to whom a little later he handed over a weapon - a Kalashnikov assault rifle, 80 rounds of ammunition, as well as a thousand dollars - at the Dnepropetrovsk hotel "Rassvet". The criminals were watching the businessman. On March 19, 2006, Dzhamburaev opened fire from a machine gun; Gaitukaev, according to investigators, personally gave the command to shoot to the killer. Korban survived only because his car was armored; only his guard was injured.

Gaitukaev was detained by employees of the Federal Security Service in January 2007. Testimony against him was given by Dzhamburayev, who was arrested almost immediately after the assassination attempt and sentenced in December 2006 to 14 years in prison. Since Gaitukaev was already a Russian citizen at that time, his criminal case was heard in the Moscow City Court. Gaitukaev convinced the court that in Ukraine he was exclusively engaged in business and collecting information about Chechen groups for the Russian special services. On March 27, 2007, Korban’s former business partner Maxim Kurochkin was shot dead as he left the courtroom. According to investigators, he could have ordered the assassination attempt. Gaitukaev directly stated Korban’s involvement in the murder of Kurochkin, but there was no evidence of this. On February 20, 2008, the court sentenced him to 15 years in prison, although the prosecutor insisted on a 17-year term. The sentence has entered into legal force and is currently being executed.

Further fate

Despite the condemnation, Gaitukaev's name often appears in the media. In particular, in September 2008, he stated that he knows for certain that the killers were paid $2 million for the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. And in December 2009, Gaitukaev announced that he had helped the Russian special services in eliminating a famous terrorist.

On September 2, 2011, it was reported that the investigation had information that Gaitukaev was the direct organizer. In particular, it was noted that Gaitukaev created a criminal group specifically for these purposes, which included former police lieutenant colonel Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, a former employee of the Central Directorate for Organized Crime Control of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, who had previously been convicted, and Gaitukaev’s nephews, the Makhmudovs. Currently, Gaitukaev has already been convicted in another case; his accomplice Pavlyuchenkov was arrested at the end of August

Helped in the destruction of field commander Shamil Basayev. He also personally traveled on instructions from the special services to Chechnya to participate in operations against the destruction of gang leaders. they say he trusted Lom-Ali, so he went personally to meet with the arms sellers whom Gaitukaev recommended. There he came across a bomb, which went off while the terrorist leader was inspecting the weapon.

But before working with the special services, Lom-Ali, as they say, was an independent bandit of some kind. His group was involved in financial scams in the Moscow banking market. They traded in false advice notes, a common occupation of Caucasian groups in those years. Every time there were money theft operations, Lom-Ali came to Moscow in person, and each time he stayed at the Intourist Hotel. Law enforcement agencies from the drug control department had by that time begun to develop Lom Ali.

Kilograms of money

In May 1992, operatives managed to obtain information that Gaitukaev would appear in the city in early June and that he would have drugs on him.
And so it happened. appeared in the capital on June 3, and, as always, rented a room at Intourist. The security forces who arrived did not find any drugs on the authority. But the main catch, as it turned out, was not drugs at all. The operatives, conducting a search, did not have time to control one of Gaitukaev’s guards, and he grabbed a package and rushed to run from the room. After several warning shots, one of the operatives shot the fleeing man, seriously wounding him. After examining the package, 3 million rubles were found in it, in packages from one of the Moscow banks. The amount is quite impressive.

Also during the search, an advice note with a face value of 1 billion rubles was discovered! Law enforcement officers immediately realized that the matter was dirty. And after searching Lom-Ali’s Mercedes, which was also filled with money, the operatives were completely confused. On the same day, searches were carried out in Gaitukaev’s inner circle. And these people found kilograms of cash. Lom-Ali was detained. But it turned out to be difficult to bring any charges. Despite the fact that the common fund of Gaitukaev’s group was discovered, which was stored in a ten-ton container in one of the residential areas.

But despite the difficulties, the investigation into the case of illegal cash withdrawal from the Central Bank of Russia using false advice notes was completed. Together with Gaitukaev, his accomplice Mesumyan was in the dock. The third defendant in this case, Novikov, did not live to see trial.

On the last day of November 1993, Gaitukaev Lom-Ali received 7 years in prison with confiscation of property. His accomplice received the same punishment.

Murder Organizer

Having served his time, the crime boss returns to the capital and creates here the social movement “New Time”, which is responsible for the development of cultural and socio-political ties with Chechnya. But crime doesn’t leave the Gaitukaevs either.
In February 2006, representatives of Ukrainian business circles approached him and ordered his murder. The authority of this case attracts a native of Chechnya, Arsen Dzhamburaev.

Having received 50 thousand dollars from the customer, Lom-Ali gives one thousand dollars to the killer, as well as a machine gun and ammunition for it. By the way, Gaitukaev personally acted as the killer’s accomplice. In his own Mercedes, he and Arsen followed the victim. And on the appointed day, the killer, on Lom-Ali’s instructions, opened fire on Korban’s car. But an armored car saved the businessman.

In the same year, Lom-Ali received an order to kill Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya. For this case, he involved former police lieutenant colonel Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, nephews of the Makhmudovs and, who was released from prison in September 2006, a former employee of the Central Directorate of Organized Crime Control of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate Sergei Khadzhikurbanov.
$2 million was paid for the murder of the journalist. The direct perpetrator of the murder was Lom-Ali’s nephew Ruslan Makhmudov.

In January 2007, Gaitukaev was detained on charges of organizing the murder of Korban. Testimony against him was given by the would-be killer of this murder, Dzhamburaev, who was detained by operatives back in 2006, almost immediately after the assassination attempt. At the trial, the prosecution asked for 17 years in prison for the crime boss. But the court took into account the defendant’s presence of minor children, and sentenced Lom-Ali to 15 years in a maximum security colony. Gaitukaev did not admit his guilt, in turn speaking at the trial that Korban himself was a murderer, and the last person he killed was businessman Maxim Kurochkin. The authority also stated that he knows of at least 10 murders committed. But these arguments did not convince the judge, and Gaitukaev was convicted.

While Lom-Ali was settling into his bunk, law enforcement officers investigating the murder of Politkovskaya arrested Pavlyuchenkov. In 2011, he began to testify. Investigators have accumulated a large evidence base against the participants in this murder. Gaitukaev was transferred from the colony to Moscow for investigative measures.

In June 2014, Gaitukaev and his nephew Rustam Makhmudov were sentenced to life imprisonment as the organizer and perpetrator of the murder, respectively.

The Moscow City Court yesterday sentenced 47-year-old Lom-Ali Gaitukaev, a former participant in scams with Chechen advice notes, co-founder of the interregional social movement for the development of cultural and socio-political ties with the Chechen Republic “New Time,” to a 15-year prison term. He was recognized as the organizer of the assassination attempt on Gennady Korban, the chairman of the board of Slavutich-Registrar LLC, a shareholder in the enterprises of the largest Ukrainian financial and industrial group Privat and one of the top managers of this group. The convict called the sentence limitless, promising the prosecutor to meet him in the next world, and also assured the court that he was not involved in murders in Ukraine, but was carrying out an assignment from the FSB.

The paddy wagon with Lom-Ali Gaitukaev stood in Moscow traffic jams for four hours on the way to the courthouse. This anticipation of the verdict clearly spoiled the mood of Lom-Ali Gaitukaev. When he was pushed into the glass “aquarium” for the defendants, he almost attacked the guards. “The Almighty gives us a deadline, and this is an infinite period, we will deal with it,” the defendant told his relatives who took a place near the “aquarium.” After this, Lom-Ali Gaitukaev switched to the state prosecutor: “You’ve been asking me for 17 years, but you don’t have any evidence!” “Stop it, Gaitukaev,” the prosecutor said wearily. But the defendant did not let up. “Why don’t you put Korban here?” he was indignant. “It’s Kurochkin (the famous Russian-Ukrainian businessman Maxim Kurochkin, killed in March 2007 - Kommersant) who killed, right in the courtroom, a Russian citizen, by the way, and you pretend that you don’t know who killed him. But we know, and the people know. Korban killed ten people from Kurochkin’s side, and you defend him.” Hearing the quiet but clearly approving exclamations of his relatives, the defendant concluded: “Nothing, we’ll meet in the next world, only there I’ll be the warehouse manager.”

At this time, Judge Andrei Korotkov entered the hall and began to read out part of the verdict. As follows from the document, in February 2006, Lom-Ali Gaitukaev received $50 thousand from an unknown customer for the murder of the top manager of the largest Ukrainian financial and industrial group Privat, Gennady Korban.

FIG "Privat" was created in 1992 on the basis of the largest Privatbank in Ukraine (Dnepropetrovsk), the value of which currently amounts, according to one of the largest shareholders Gennady Bogolyubov, from $6 billion to $7 billion. Co-owners of "Privat" (except for Mr. Bogolyubov ) are Ukrainian businessmen Igor Kolomoisky and Alexey Martynov, as well as a number of their partners. The group's main assets are the largest Ukrainian oil company Ukrnafta (two refineries and a network of more than 700 gas stations across Ukraine), a minority stake in the Ukrtatnafta company, fertilizer manufacturer Dneproazot, Zaporozhye and Stakhanov ferroalloy plants. Together with the Pridneprovye concern, Viktor Pinchuk controls the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant. The share of Privat enterprises in the global ferroalloys market is estimated at 20%. Among the financial assets of the group are Moskomprivatbank (RF), Paritate Bank (Latvia).

From the verdict it followed that after receiving the deposit, the defendant Gaitukaev found the perpetrator of the crime, to whom he later handed over a Kalashnikov assault rifle, 80 rounds of ammunition and $1 thousand at the Dnepropetrovsk hotel "Rassvet". The criminals began to spy on the businessman, finding out his daily routine, and on the eve of the assassination attempt Lom-Ali Gaitukaev, in his Daewoo, personally monitored the Mercedes G500 in which Mr. Korban was driving around Dnepropetrovsk. The assassination attempt on the businessman occurred on March 19, 2006, when, according to investigators, the order to the killer to open fire was given personally by the defendant. The top manager of Privat was saved by the armor of the car. During the assassination attempt, only his guard, who opened the car door, was wounded.

Lom-Ali Gaitukaev was detained by FSB officers at the end of January 2007 in Moscow. It is known that during his arrest, the information provided by the Ukrainian Security Service was used. Testimony against him was given to the Ukrainian investigation by the direct perpetrator of the assassination attempt, Chechen Arsen Dzhamburaev, who was detained in April 2006 (in December 2006 he was sentenced to 14 years). Since Mr. Gaitukaev is a citizen of Russia, and Russia does not extradite its citizens, his case was heard in the Moscow City Court. During the trial, Mr. Gaitukaev claimed that he was engaged in business in Ukraine and also collected information for the Russian special services. And they were interested in the Chechen groups operating there.

The Moscow City Court found the guilt of the defendant Gaitukaev proven, however, noting the presence of minor children as a mitigating circumstance, it sentenced him to 15 years in a maximum security colony. “Nothing, we’ll see you soon,” the convict said to the state prosecutor as he left the hall. The defendant's defense intends to appeal the verdict.

A native of Achkhoy-Martan, Lom-Ali Gaitukaev is a legendary figure in Chechnya. In his native regional center, where he has not appeared for many years (judging by the documents, he was registered in Thessaloniki, Greece, and lived in Moscow), they still talk about him with fear and admiration, calling him an “authoritative person.” The fact is that in the early 90s, according to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mr. Gaitukaev was the organizer of several large scams involving Chechen advice notes. For this he was convicted, however, upon being released, he joined the so-called anti-Maskhadov movement. In any case, in 1997 he was one of the nine co-founders of the interregional social movement for the development of cultural and socio-political ties with the Chechen Republic “New Time”. Along with Mr. Gaitukaev, one of the co-founders was Khamzat Arsamakov, the general director of the St. Petersburg Samson plant, where in 2006 the Chechen security forces carried out a notorious special operation. The chairman of the society was the former deputy head of the administration of Chechnya, and now the head of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Chechnya, Usman Masayev. “Indeed, this organization was founded by me and other well-known Chechen entrepreneurs as a counterbalance to Ichkeria at that time,” Mr. Masayev told Kommersant. However, he could not remember whether Lom-Ali Gaitukaev was among them. “I never knew him personally and had no business with him,” added Mr. Masayev, remembering, however, that he knew Mr. Gaitukaev’s brother, but he died several years ago. And the society itself was then closed.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine suspects that the possible mastermind of the assassination attempt on Gennady Korban was his former business partner Maxim Kurochkin, with whom they allegedly quarreled over control of the Dnipropetrovsk Ozerka market. In addition, Lom-Ali Gaitukaev is being tested for involvement in other high-profile crimes. In particular, to the murder of Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya. By the way, the alleged organizer of this crime, the ex-head of the Achkhoy-Martan district, Shamil Buraev, was initially detained precisely as part of the Lom-Ali Gaitukaev case, but he was accused only of organizing the murder of Mrs. Politkovskaya.

Yesterday, Gennady Korban told Kommersant that he had no motive for the murder of Maxim Kurochkin: “Honestly, it is even incorrect to comment on the words of a person who is making an attempt on your life. We have exhausted everything with him (Maxim Kurochkin - Kommersant) all conflicts. As of December 2006, I paid all the money (for the Ozerka market - Kommersant), and all issues between us were closed. Moreover, he himself wrote in some letters that it was not Korban who was hunting him ", not Kolomoisky (the head of the Privat group - Kommersant), but other people. You understand, I am a believer, I go to synagogue, so I cannot take sin on my soul, even for the same Chechen."

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Lom-Ali Akhmedievich Gaitukaev(b.) is a well-known Chechen crime boss and businessman, involved in a number of high-profile criminal cases.

Biography

Lom-Ali Gaitukaev was born in the village of Achkhoy-Martan, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He studied poorly at school; according to his own admission, made during an interview with the TV show “Criminal Russia”, he does not even know the multiplication table. Currently, as some media write, in his native village, where Gaitukaev has not appeared for many years, he is remembered with caution and respect. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Gaitukaev's homeland of Chechnya declared its independence from the Russian Federation. Gaitukaev decided to take advantage of this and, along with many of his fellow citizens, began to engage in fraud, the purpose of which was to steal funds from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, and which would later become known throughout the world as “Chechen advice notes”. To cover up his criminal activities, he created a joint Russian-Austrian enterprise, and also received Greek citizenship and registered in the city of Thessaloniki.

Gaitukaev and “Chechen advice notes”

Gaitukaev met Vladimir Novikov, an employee of the East Siberian Bank, who was responsible for finding clientele for the bank. He agreed to provide false advice to the bank's management. Gaitukaev, arriving during the money theft operation, stayed at the Intourist Hotel. On June 3, 1992, Gaitukaev and several of his accomplices were detained in a hotel room by employees of the department for combating drug trafficking. During the search, one of Gaitukaev’s guards tried to escape with a package containing a large sum of money, but received a severe gunshot wound. The package contained 3 million rubles in 1992 money in packaging from a well-known Moscow bank. Searches were carried out on all of Gaitukaev's contacts in Moscow, which yielded an unexpected result - instead of the drugs they were looking for, huge sums of money were found in their possession. Money was even found in Gaitukaev’s personal Mercedes car. Then the case was transferred to the department for combating economic crimes. The next day, Novikov and another accomplice of Gaitukaev, Norik Mesumyan, were arrested. The investigation of the case was difficult: all the suspects denied their involvement in the fraud, and there was a catastrophic lack of evidence. When the suspects were about to be released due to lack of proof of their guilt, the employees of the department for combating drug trafficking were found to have transcripts of audio recordings of conversations between Gaitukaev, Novikov and Mesumyan, made by their listening devices. The testimony of several accomplices of Gaitukaev, who never admitted to anything, made it possible to reconstruct the scheme of operations with advice notes: Gaitukaev produced counterfeit seals and forms, then, through a person who had connections in banking circles (Mesumyan), he transferred false advice notes to a person who worked in the bank and to a former in collusion with him (Novikov), and he convinced the bank management of the profitability of the transfer and cashing. Advices were supposed to arrive at the cash settlement center of the Central Bank by special mail, but Gaitukaev and Mesumyan took advantage of the confusion that reigned at that time in all institutions of the country and managed to receive huge amounts of money from fake advices - hundreds of millions of rubles. The scammers stored the stolen money in a ten-ton sea container installed in one of the Moscow courtyards. Gaitukaev was going to value his next advice at one billion rubles, but was detained.

Gaitukaev and the Korban case

Gaitukaev was detained by employees of the Federal Security Service in January 2007. Testimony against him was given by Dzhamburayev, who was arrested almost immediately after the assassination attempt and sentenced in December 2006 to 14 years in prison. Since Gaitukaev was already a Russian citizen at that time, his criminal case was heard in the Moscow City Court. Gaitukaev convinced the court that in Ukraine he was exclusively engaged in business and collecting information about Chechen groups for the Russian special services. On March 27, 2007, Korban's former business partner Maxim Kurochkin was shot dead as he left the courtroom. According to investigators, he could have ordered the assassination attempt. Gaitukaev directly stated Korban’s involvement in the murder of Kurochkin, but there was no evidence of this. On February 20, 2008, the court sentenced him to 15 years in prison, although the prosecutor insisted on a 17-year sentence. The verdict came into force.

Further fate

Despite the condemnation, Gaitukaev's name often appears in the media. In particular, in September 2008, he stated that he knows for certain that the killers were paid $2 million for the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. And in December 2009, Gaitukaev announced that he helped the Russian special services in eliminating the famous terrorist Shamil Basayev.

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Excerpt characterizing Gaitukaev, Lom-Ali Akhdievich

Obviously, the Russian nest was ravaged and destroyed; but behind the destruction of this Russian order of life, Pierre unconsciously felt that over this ruined nest his own, completely different, but firm French order had been established. He felt this from the sight of those soldiers walking cheerfully and cheerfully, in regular rows, who escorted him with other criminals; he felt this from the sight of some important French official in a double carriage, driven by a soldier, driving towards him. He felt this from the cheerful sounds of regimental music coming from the left side of the field, and especially he felt and understood it from the list that the visiting French officer read this morning, calling out the prisoners. Pierre was taken by some soldiers, taken to one place or another with dozens of other people; it seemed that they could forget about him, mix him up with others. But no: his answers given during the interrogation came back to him in the form of his name: celui qui n "avoue pas son nom. And under this name, which Pierre was afraid of, he was now being led somewhere, with undoubted confidence written on them faces that all the other prisoners and he were the ones who were needed, and that they were being taken where they were needed. Pierre felt like an insignificant sliver caught in the wheels of an unknown to him, but correctly functioning machine.
Pierre and other criminals were led to the right side of the Maiden's Field, not far from the monastery, to a large white house with a huge garden. This was the house of Prince Shcherbatov, in which Pierre had often visited the owner before and in which now, as he learned from the conversation of the soldiers, the marshal, the Duke of Eckmuhl, was stationed.
They were led to the porch and one by one they were led into the house. Pierre was brought in sixth. Through a glass gallery, a vestibule, and an antechamber, familiar to Pierre, he was led into a long, low office, at the door of which stood an adjutant.
Davout sat at the end of the room above the table, glasses on his nose. Pierre came close to him. Davout, without raising his eyes, was apparently coping with some paper lying in front of him. Without raising his eyes, he quietly asked:
– Qui etes vous? [Who are you?]
Pierre was silent because he was unable to utter words. For Pierre, Davout was not just a French general; for Pierre Davout, he was a man known for his cruelty. Looking at the cold face of Davout, who, like a strict teacher, agreed to have patience for the time being and wait for an answer, Pierre felt that every second of delay could cost him his life; but he didn't know what to say. He did not dare say what he said during the first interrogation; revealing one's rank and position was both dangerous and shameful. Pierre was silent. But before Pierre could decide on anything, Davout raised his head, raised his glasses to his forehead, narrowed his eyes and looked intently at Pierre.
“I know this man,” he said in a measured, cold voice, obviously calculated to frighten Pierre. The cold that had previously run down Pierre's back gripped his head like a vice.
– Mon general, vous ne pouvez pas me connaitre, je ne vous ai jamais vu... [You couldn’t know me, general, I’ve never seen you.]
“C"est un espion russe, [This is a Russian spy,"] Davout interrupted him, addressing another general who was in the room and whom Pierre had not noticed. And Davout turned away. With an unexpected boom in his voice, Pierre suddenly spoke quickly.
“Non, Monseigneur,” he said, suddenly remembering that Davout was a Duke. - Non, Monseigneur, vous n"avez pas pu me connaitre. Je suis un officier militianaire et je n"ai pas quitte Moscow. [No, Your Highness... No, Your Highness, you could not know me. I am a police officer and I have not left Moscow.]
- Votre nom? [Your name?] - repeated Davout.
- Besouhof. [Bezukhov.]
– Qu"est ce qui me prouvera que vous ne mentez pas? [Who will prove to me that you are not lying?]
- Monseigneur! [Your Highness!] - Pierre cried out in a not offended, but pleading voice.
Davout raised his eyes and looked intently at Pierre. They looked at each other for several seconds, and this glance saved Pierre. In this view, apart from all the conditions of war and trial, a human relationship was established between these two people. Both of them in that one minute vaguely experienced countless things and realized that they were both children of humanity, that they were brothers.
At first glance for Davout, who only raised his head from his list, where human affairs and life were called numbers, Pierre was only a circumstance; and, not taking the bad deed into account on his conscience, Davout would have shot him; but now he already saw a person in him. He thought for a moment.
– Comment me prouverez vous la verite de ce que vous me dites? [How will you prove to me the truth of your words?] - Davout said coldly.
Pierre remembered Rambal and named his regiment, his last name, and the street on which the house was located.
“Vous n"etes pas ce que vous dites, [You are not what you say.],” Davout said again.
Pierre, in a trembling, intermittent voice, began to provide evidence of the truth of his testimony.
But at this time the adjutant entered and reported something to Davout.
Davout suddenly beamed at the news conveyed by the adjutant and began to button up. He apparently completely forgot about Pierre.
When the adjutant reminded him of the prisoner, he frowned, nodded towards Pierre and said to be led away. But Pierre didn’t know where they were supposed to take him: back to the booth or to the prepared place of execution, which his comrades showed him while walking along the Maiden’s Field.
He turned his head and saw that the adjutant was asking something again.
- Oui, sans doute! [Yes, of course!] - said Davout, but Pierre didn’t know what “yes” was.
Pierre did not remember how, how long he walked and where. He, in a state of complete senselessness and dullness, not seeing anything around him, moved his legs along with the others until everyone stopped, and he stopped. During all this time, one thought was in Pierre’s head. It was the thought of who, who, finally sentenced him to death. These were not the same people who interrogated him in the commission: not one of them wanted and, obviously, could not do this. It was not Davout who looked at him so humanly. Another minute and Davout would have realized that they were doing something wrong, but this moment was interrupted by the adjutant who entered. And this adjutant, obviously, did not want anything bad, but he might not have entered. Who was it that finally executed, killed, took his life - Pierre with all his memories, aspirations, hopes, thoughts? Who did this? And Pierre felt that it was no one.
It was an order, a pattern of circumstances.
Some kind of order was killing him - Pierre, depriving him of his life, of everything, destroying him.

From the house of Prince Shcherbatov, the prisoners were led straight down along the Devichye Pole, to the left of the Devichye Convent and led to a vegetable garden on which there was a pillar. Behind the pillar there was a large hole dug with freshly dug up earth, and a large crowd of people stood in a semicircle around the pit and the pillar. The crowd consisted of a small number of Russians and a large number of Napoleonic troops out of formation: Germans, Italians and French in different uniforms. To the right and left of the pillar stood fronts of French troops in blue uniforms with red epaulettes, boots and shakos.
The criminals were placed in a certain order, which was on the list (Pierre was sixth), and were led to a post. Several drums suddenly struck from both sides, and Pierre felt that with this sound it was as if part of his soul had been torn away. He lost the ability to think and think. He could only see and hear. And he had only one desire - the desire for something terrible to happen that had to be done as quickly as possible. Pierre looked back at his comrades and examined them.
The two men on the edge were shaven and guarded. One is tall and thin; the other is black, shaggy, muscular, with a flat nose. The third was a street servant, about forty-five years old, with graying hair and a plump, well-fed body. The fourth was a very handsome man, with a thick brown beard and black eyes. The fifth was a factory worker, yellow, thin, about eighteen, in a dressing gown.
Pierre heard that the French were discussing how to shoot - one at a time or two at a time? “Two at a time,” the senior officer answered coldly and calmly. There was movement in the ranks of the soldiers, and it was noticeable that everyone was in a hurry - and they were in a hurry not as they are in a hurry to do something understandable to everyone, but as they are in a hurry to finish a necessary, but unpleasant and incomprehensible task.
A French official in a scarf approached the right side of the line of criminals and read the verdict in Russian and French.
Then two pairs of Frenchmen approached the criminals and, at the officer’s direction, took two guards who were standing on the edge. The guards, approaching the post, stopped and, while the bags were brought, silently looked around them, as a wounded animal looks at a suitable hunter. One kept crossing himself, the other scratched his back and made a movement with his lips like a smile. The soldiers, hurrying with their hands, began to blindfold them, put on bags and tie them to a post.
Twelve riflemen with rifles stepped out from behind the ranks with measured, firm steps and stopped eight steps from the post. Pierre turned away so as not to see what would happen. Suddenly a crash and roar was heard, which seemed to Pierre louder than the most terrible thunderclaps, and he looked around. There was smoke, and the French with pale faces and trembling hands were doing something near the pit. They brought the other two. In the same way, with the same eyes, these two looked at everyone, in vain, with only their eyes, silently, asking for protection and, apparently, not understanding or believing what would happen. They could not believe, because they alone knew what their life was for them, and therefore they did not understand and did not believe that it could be taken away.

Those who ordered the murder of Politkovskaya can sleep peacefully.

The last thread was interrupted, which made it possible to find those who ordered the murder of journalists Alina Politkovskaya and Paul Klebnikov - one of the most resonant crimes of the gangster nineties. Yesterday, Lom-Ali Gaitukaev, serving a life sentence for mediation in a crime, died in prison. The investigation has yet to find out how natural the death of the crime boss was.

As Lom-Ali Gaitukaeva’s lawyer Elena Kharionovskaya said, she was notified of her client’s death on June 10 from prison hospital N10 in Vologda, where the “authority” had recently been kept. Lom-Ali Gaitukaev was transferred to serve his life sentence in the Vologda region in the summer of 2015, after the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation rejected his appeal against the sentence. He was placed in IK-5 of the local administration of the Federal Penitentiary Service, better known as the “Vologda Pyatak”, located in the premises of a former monastery on the small island of Ognenny on Lake Novy near Belozersk.

However, in this colony, which in the 1990s became the first in Russia for “lifers”, prisoner Gaitukaev spent only a few months. Soon he began to complain of pain in the liver area. The local medical unit could not provide the necessary treatment, and on November 3, 2015, he was sent to the FSIN hospital in Vologda. “There is a special department there for life-sentence prisoners, where Gaitukaev was kept all the time,” explained Elena Kharionovskaya, noting that he was twice returned from the hospital to Ognenny, but was almost immediately sent back for treatment. According to her, chronic liver disease was diagnosed not only by prison doctors, but also by specialists from Moscow, who were brought by the prisoner’s relatives with the permission of the Federal Penitentiary Service. Mrs. Kharionovskaya noted that the patient did not complain about the conditions of detention, nor about treatment or lack of drugs. At the same time, the lawyer said that the convict did not rule out a connection between the onset of his illness and the brutal beatings that allegedly took place after the transfer from Moscow to the Vologda region. “That’s what he thought,” said Ms. Kharionovskaya, emphasizing that at one time the Investigative Committee conducted an investigation into this matter, but refused to initiate a criminal case.

According to the lawyer, about a month ago the patient’s condition worsened sharply; he could no longer walk. “The medical report names liver failure as the cause of death,” said Elena Kharionovskaya.

Two of his nephews have already arrived in Vologda to pick up Gaitukaev’s body. As one of them, Tamerlan Makhmudov, said, the coffin will be delivered by car to Moscow, and from there by plane to Chechnya, where on June 14 Lom-Ali Gaitukaev will be buried in the cemetery in the “ancestral village” of Achkhoy-Martan.

“He died due to an illness, but it could have been provoked by beatings,” believes Tamerlan Makhmudov. He also stated that the relatives never believed that Lom-Ali Gaitukaev was guilty and would try to restore his honest name.

Considering the criminal biography of Lom-Ali Gaitukaev, this will not be easy to do. In the 1990s, he was one of the organizers of high-profile scams involving so-called Chechen advice notes, for which he received his first term.

In 2007, Mr. Gaitukaev, who was a co-founder of the interregional social movement for the development of cultural and socio-political ties with the Chechen Republic “New Time”, was detained by FSB officers in Moscow on suspicion of involvement in another high-profile crime - organizing an assassination attempt in Ukraine on a famous businessman Gennady Korban. The Moscow City Court sentenced him to 15 years in prison. By this time, the “authority” had already been tested for involvement in organizing the murder of Novaya Gazeta correspondent Anna Politkovskaya in October 2006. In 2014, the Moscow City Court sentenced Lom-Ali Gaitukaev, as well as his nephew Rustam Makhmudov, who shot the journalist, to life imprisonment. Two other nephews, Ibrahim and Dzhabrail, received 12 and 14 years in prison, and former Interior Ministry officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov received 20 years. Another ex-policeman, Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, who was responsible for spying on the victim, received a special sentence of ten years. At the same time, as Kommersant reported, all those involved in the “Politkovskaya case” were checked by the investigation for involvement in the murder of the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Forbes, Paul Klebnikov, in the summer of 2004, but this did not lead to anything.

The lawyer of the convicted Pavlyuchenkov, Karen Nersesyan, believes that with the death of Gaitukaev, “the last thread” connecting the perpetrators of the murders of Anna Politkovskaya and Paul Klebnikov with those who ordered these crimes was broken. “Pavlyuchenkov directly pointed to Gaitukaev as the organizer of the murder of an American journalist,” said Mr. Nersesyan. “At the same time, he showed on the spot where Paul Klebnikov’s house was located in Moscow and where his “operatives” monitored the movements of the victim. But no one knew except Gaitukaev. "who gave the order for this crime, as well as the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. After all, Lom-Ali, according to the investigation, actually worked as a dispatcher, accepting orders for murders from everyone." According to the defense, operatives and investigators repeatedly tried to interrogate Lom-Ali Gaitukaev in the case of the murder of Mr. Khlebnikov and a number of other equally high-profile crimes, but he refused to testify.

“An attempt could have been made to establish who ordered the murder of Anna Politkovskaya without Gaitukaev,” believes, in turn, Anna Stavitskaya, who represents the interests of Anna Politkovskaya’s children, recognized as victims, “but simply no one wanted to look for him.” Let us remember that at one time the investigation tried on the disgraced oligarch Boris Berezovsky for this role, but after his death this version was no longer made public.

The Investigative Committee refrained from commenting yesterday, saying only that a pre-investigation check was being carried out into the death of Lom-Ali Gaitukaev. Previously, the Investigative Committee stated that “exhaustive measures” would be taken to identify those who ordered the murders of Messrs. Politkovskaya and Khlebnikov. As the Ruspres agency previously reported, at the trial in the case of the assassination attempt on Gennady Korban, Gaitukaev accused this now influential Ukrainian politician of murdering Russian businessman Maxim Kurochkin, but an investigation into this fact was not carried out either in Russia or in Ukraine.