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Meanwhile, the preparations for his arrest included an episode that from today's viewpoint is truly sensational. Yuriy Burtovoy, head of the Procuracy General's investigation team, sent two similar letters just nine days before Pichugin was detained. One was to Yuriy Zaostrovtsev, head of the FSB's Economic Security Department. The other was to Nurgaliyev, first deputy minister of internal affairs. I doubt that I'm entitled to quote verbatim, but the contents of this classified correspondence is so important for the continued understanding of the case that I'm duty-bound to describe the substance of it (and I wonder what our media laws have to say about publication in the public interest?).

The letters report on the Gorin affair and suggest investigating a number of scenarios that might explain the abduction and possible murder. It turns out that prior to Pichugin's arrest Burtovoy, as part of his job, was planning to follow up a whole number of leads, some of them entirely plausible, which journalists were pointing to.

What the investigator asked of the FSB and Interior Ministry

In all, Burtovoy put forward over a dozen of these leads. For example, he wanted a man called Vorobyev checked out for possible complicity, and to know if Gorin had figured in some bribery cases in Moscow. He wanted checks on the mobile phones of Pichugin and Gorin and also of three of Pichugin's friends, Zabelin, Dronov and Pavlyukov. Gorin was known by many, and Burtovoy thought the murder might have been committed by his partners in a financial pyramid called Algoritm, so he wanted Gorin's involvement in that scam to be examined as well.

Someone working for Menatep Bank in Tambov, or a business rival, might have commissioned the Gorins' murder. The possible involvement of people from the Rameks investment company, or of Gorin's associates in the Don company, was also worth looking into. Or, he might have been taken out for trying to get Plakhotnikov sacked as head of the Tambovnefteprodukt oil distribution company.

Perhaps it was a purely criminal affair motivated by theft, including of valuables hidden in the home. If so, they would need to check out two men called Smirnov and Shapiro, both with criminal records and associates of Gorin (Shapiro owed Gorin money). Finally, Burtovoy had not overlooked the standard line of inquiry for any investigation and the first to be followed up - the possible role played by local criminals from Tambov's organised crime gangs. Other possible figures were family members (Dedov, Izmaylov and others), or casual labourers from other ex-Soviet countries circulating on the construction jobs market and known or subordinate to Gorin.

Finally, it follows from the letters that Gorin had passed information to the police about some of their number being involved in oil thefts from a pipeline. They were jailed, and their associates had to be checked for complicity in Gorin's killing: revenge is common in such instances. And Gorin also indicated that people from an investment company in Moscow had been to see him about money he owed.

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