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The botched job

The defence team had seen much in their time, but when they came to study the evidence they were shocked. They had been looking forward to seeing what was in the file. Take the episode with Gorin, the most difficult episode. They were thinking: where's the victim and the witness testimony that proves Pichugin's guilt, which the Procuracy General keeps telling the public about? The defence found nothing to convict Pichugin. Nor was there anything about Gorin. To this day, there's nothing there. Except that he was allegedly in fear of Pichugin. And that was it.

For example, Peshkun said several times, and in several different ways, that Gorin was afraid of Pichugin. He was questioned five or six times in quick succession, with the investigator asking about same thing over and over again. Peshkun answered variously that Gorin had "been scared", or "there was some kind of trouble between them". Why was he questioned like this? To bulk up the body of testimony. The case supposedly had numerous accusations and lots of direct testimony. But this was no testimony. It was a single, from Peshkun alone, being repeated in various forms in various places. It could all be boiled down to a single paragraph, but it helped pad out the evidence.

According to Galina Dedova, Gorin's mother-in-law, Gorin was still going and forth to Moscow to visit Pichugin as before, and showed no signs of fear. So how was he afraid of Pichugin if he kept going to see him? Smirnov, who used to take him to Moscow, clearly stated during questioning that Gorin was not afraid of anything. Only after the case had been transferred to Moscow did he suddenly "remember" - yes, Gorin had been afraid of Pichugin.

Dedova accused Pichugin under questioning. Her reasons are curious. Her story was that after Gorin disappeared, Pichugin came to Tambov to visit her. And kept asking how the Gorins could have been abducted. He wanted to know the details of how they were taken away, and kept talking about them. On the basis of that, Dedova concluded that Pichugin killed Gorin.

Pichugin was a former counterintelligence officer, so of course he wanted to find out the reasons and circumstances of the crime. To do that, he even brought of his former colleagues with him to Tambov. But Dedova said: "This immediately made me suspicious. What were they sniffing around for? What did they want?" So, if you show an interest, then you must be the killer. That was her logic, and the court swallowed it.

And if Pichugin had not gone to see her or not shown an interest? Then Dedova could have said that he did not need to ask, because he obviously already knew!

There was another interesting trick used by the prosecution. At one time, Peshkun and Gorin had frequently travelled to Moscow together. Then they allegedly fell out, and Gorin started going to the capital with Smirnov. Peshkun's interest in going to Moscow, incidentally, was that his child was in hospital there.

But investigators and later prosecutors insisted on publicly referring to him as Gorin's driver. They did that to demonstrate the relationship of trust between them: a driver often knows everything about his boss. But Peshkun was never a chauffeur! We do not even know who used to drive them. They could have hired anyone.

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