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Two years ago, a scandal erupted in Russia over the detention of former submarine officer Alexander Pumane and his death. As a result, the prosecutor's office found a criminal community that was executing orders to eliminate businessmen. Most of those arrested make confessions. Many of them were associated with government officials both in St. Petersburg and at the federal level.
Two years ago, a federal scandal erupted in Russia over the detention of former officer of the country's nuclear submarine fleet, Alexander Pumane, and his subsequent unnatural death in Moscow police custody. Explosive devices and recordings discovered in Pumane allowed the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation to contact a criminal community that has been executing orders for the elimination of businessmen in several regions for a long time. In November this year, the criminal case against all 14 arrested will be transferred to the Moscow City Court. They are accused of 11 contract killings. All of them are directly related to the Kingisepp district of the Leningrad region. Moreover, many of them were closely connected with government officials both in St. Petersburg and at the federal level. The majority of those arrested confess.
Intelligence agencies are considered omniscient, but not omnipotent. From the Pumane case there are threads to the past, along which operational work continues.
Alexander Pumane:
Where does the investigation begin?
On September 18, 2004, in Moscow, near house 2 on Spiridonyevsky Lane, traffic police officers accidentally stopped a Zhiguli-five, driven by thirty-eight-year-old St. Petersburg resident Alexander Pumane. The driver acted nervously. Without in any way offending those guys who “slowed down” Pumane, I still want to draw attention to how unpredictable the world works. If Pumane had offered $200 in his own way, then most likely nothing would have happened. You understand?
If the police wanted to inspect the vehicle, Pumane offered 30 thousand US dollars. By that time, the memory of “Nord-Ost” and Beslan was firmly ingrained in our minds. The Zhiguli was immediately searched. We came across explosives and wires, everything became tough. While Pumane was being beaten at the territorial police station of the Presnensky district, 200 grams of TNT, two MON-50 mines, 3 electric detonators, and a 5-liter container with flammable liquid were taken from the car. The explosive device was assembled into a chain and ready for use.
What happened next, you remember. Pumane died. Society did not believe that he was guilty of anything. There was everything. Loud publications. They were followed by statements from the prosecutor's office and thorough checks (the Organized Crime Control officer accused of Pumane's death is still wanted). The main reason for Russians to doubt was Pumane’s crystal biography that became public. Unfortunately, it turned out to be only the outer shell. But our story is not about those handsome men who beat him to death.
It is now known that Pumane drove a “charged” car to the office of a large businessman, Yuri Bushev, who has business connections with Bashneft.
Seized weapons from the Pumane garage, rented using forged documents:
The name of Pumane did not shock only the St. Petersburg operational services
As a result of a rapid study of all Pumane’s contacts in the last years of his life, employees of the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB quickly found out that he could be a member of the so-called “Moscow” group, the sphere of influence of which extended to the commercial and administrative resources of the Kingisepp district of the Leningrad region. Moreover, earlier he himself came into the operational field of view of the criminal investigation department of St. Petersburg during the investigation of the explosion in 2002 near the building of the regional prosecutor's office on Lesnoy Prospekt. This crime was not solved, but it was no secret to the operatives that the explosion was planned on the direct order of Sergei Finagin, whom law enforcement agencies consider the leader of the group. The purpose of the action was to discredit competitors from the community of a certain Litvinov.
Then a mobile phone was found at the crime scene, from which false calls were made for a long time to the fighters of the Litvinov group and their connections. It only later became clear that the phone originally belonged to Finagin’s subordinate, Oleg Kobzev, who is now serving a twenty-five-year sentence in Belarus for a triple murder. And at first the police officers followed the path outlined by Finagin.
It was then that the name Pumane appeared in official certificates, since he repeatedly traveled to Minsk to resolve the issue of transferring Kobzev to Russia. The project was financed, as they say, by the same Finagin.
All modern stories began in the 90s
In those recent but epic times, Sergei Finagin, born in the Tambov region, met a certain Imran Ilyasov. They didn't do anything special. They could protect themselves, like all athletes. And since they were based in the Kingisepp district, the concept of “smuggling” was most likely close to them. They are not alone. Probably, even then Finagin could have established a channel for selling weapons from Estonia to Moscow, since this product was in demand.
Sergey Finagin:
Later they integrated into Russian Capital. In this case it is not a metaphor. It was through his cousin Ilyasov. It was in the structure of the Russian Capital bank, famous in those days. Having created the security company “Pereval” at the bank, which included about 30 people from Finagin, they resolved both public and sensitive issues of Imran’s relative, Safiev. In particular, in 1993, a rival banker was removed in Minsk.
Then everything was fleeting and temporary. In the late 90s, “Russian Capital” encountered insurmountable difficulties (history leads to investigations), and Safiev himself, having changed his last name, first name, patronymic, went for permanent residence in the United States, where he went into the film business with money saved from the era of brutal privatization. He soon drowned under circumstances that defy explanation.
At the same time, law enforcement agencies began to work more or less adequately, and some of the “Pereval” guards ended up behind bars. Finagin and company moved back to Kingisepp. Having accumulated experience in the capital, and not only, Finagin could not have equal in the provinces. As you remember, some locals - Litvinov's - resisted, but they were opposed not so much by finances as by mobile creativity.
Finagin supports Nikolai Kolomiytsev’s election campaign for the post of mayor of Ivangorod. Opens a market in the city center, where the founders are the wives of Finagin and Kolomiytsev, who became mayor (the chief accountant is Finagin’s sister). Finagin is establishing business relations with the vice-governor of the Leningrad region Drozdenko, because Drozdenko previously headed the administration of the Kingisepp district. In particular, the issue of the fate of the oil terminal under construction was “on the agenda”. Finagin is building himself a house, and a good one, next to Kolomiytsev’s house in the village of Korostel, adjacent to the Estonian-Finnish border. It is curious that these two dachas can only be reached by boat. Finagin becomes an absolute figure. He is respected, loved, and only those in the know fear him.
Houses belonging to the mayor of Ivangorod and Finagin. Standing close:
If we're going to chase, then it's two birds with one stone
Finagin, doing business in the Leningrad region, continued to travel to Moscow. Soon he becomes the head of the security service of Korus OJSC. Finagin provided security together with the henchmen who remained from “Pereval”. The head of Corus was the current senator from the Republic of Bashkortostan, Igor Izmestyev. Currently, this is the main intrigue, since the representative of the Federation Council, Izmestyev, is firmly connected with Bashneft.
Four of the 11 murders charged with Finagin’s group directly affected the business of Bashneft, including the car explosion in Ufa, which killed two people, and was planned, according to investigators, as the elimination of the son of the President of Bashkortostan.
Is it possible that the most experienced senator Izmestiev does not understand who heads his security service? Certainly. The senator has a lot of government affairs to do. And the murders of people doing business in the same coordinate system of Bashneft as Izmestyev - is this a monstrous coincidence? Of course.
Today, only Finagin is on the international wanted list and is “hanging” on the official website of the Russian FSB. The remaining members of the “corporation” are under arrest and awaiting a high-profile trial. But even if Finagin is captured, the chain will not close. After all, Finagin, according to investigators, is an organizer, nothing more. The constructed criminal case will explode public opinion if Finagin speaks.
What is our story about?
It is extremely important for society to know that murder syndicates like the Finagin syndicate sooner or later cease to exist. It is even more important to see business customers in the dock. However, this story is not about a gang that ran around the country, blowing up and shooting.
After all, this story is about Pumane. Son of a Navy officer. Graduates from Baku College with honors. Champion in military pentathlon. The navigator, that is, the intelligentsia of the fleet. Seeks distribution to a nuclear boat. Serves brilliantly. In a strong government, such an officer is a symbol and is extremely in demand. But changing historical formations is an evil thing. At one harmful moment, Pumane leaves the fleet and gets divorced. His pride and anger were mixed. An internal revolution took place. He changes in appearance. His consistency, knowledge, and innate discipline became in demand among people socially alien to him. Pumane, using forged documents, becomes Borisov.
And further. He didn’t just bloodily and unjustly earn money from Finagin. It seems to us that he secretly helped to kill those because of whom, according to the Hamburg account, his brilliant naval life turned into spit. And he did this with the help of the same enemies - the Finagins. He took revenge "an eye for an eye." And it turned out “mind for mind.”
And the end of the group began with his death. Pumane died twice. The first time, changing the fleet to shish. The second, physically, by destroying the “shish”. Maybe not consciously (the second time), maybe not outwardly.
The now arrested special forces officer of the State Drug Control Service, Yuri Vasiliev, walked near Pumane. Vasiliev is a typical man of war. The whole hot Caucasus passed through. And worthy. Mining specialist. Outside the war he could not exist. He was looking for topics himself. But the topics related to his main profession are to kill using a mine-explosive method.
Russia needs a nuclear fleet. We need special forces. We need people who know how to kill in war. So it is necessary to protect society from them in days of peace. And this protection lies in a clear and attractive social status, in a material level sufficient for a comfortable life. They should be more respected than the heroes of Star Factory. Every second the glossy tells how to live: get into the right pose. And society treats those who kill for the sake of this gloss, in particular in wars, the way we treat a crippled beggar. And you pass by ashamedly, and you want to turn away as quickly as possible. We have reached the point where a stylish mobile phone and a sports convertible are incomparably more important than the Star of the Hero of Russia. They forgot that they are the real heroes. This is obvious for all times and peoples. Otherwise, they become antiheroes, and fierce ones.
And it suddenly dawns on us that “passed” and “did not happen” are not the same thing. We hope this has also reached those who ordered the long-term series of murders.
P.S. The last murder of the killer community occurred a month after the arrest of Pumane. One of the group members, Arkady Semenov, began to be more nervous than the others in connection with the hype about Pumane. Vasilyev is charged with stabbing him to death on the Vyborg highway on Finagin’s orders. From their point of view, it is logical.
List of arrested members of the Finagin organized crime group:
– Alexander Ivanov, 37 years old, resident of Kingisepp;
– Andrey Ivanov, 45 years old, resident of Kingisepp, husband of Finagin’s sister;
– Igor Uldanov, 36 years old, resident of Kingisepp;
– Povarennykh Igor, 34 years old, resident of Kingisepp, nickname Skull;
– Vasiliev Yuri, 32 years old, resident of St. Petersburg, employee of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation;
– Denis Pinchuk, 32 years old, resident of St. Petersburg, employee of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation;
– Semenov Arkady, 45 years old, resident of St. Petersburg, previously convicted, liquidated after Pumane’s arrest;
– Lapichev Valentin, 46 years old, resident of Kingisepp, in 2005 – head of the Bolshelutsky administrative district of the Kingisepp district. He took this position thanks to the patronage of A. Yu. Drozdenko, when the latter held the position of head of the Kingisepp administration (previously Lapichev was the personal security guard of the current vice-governor Drozdenko);
– Yuri Zyablov, 52 years old, resident of Kingisepp, nickname Zyablik;
– Frolin Albert, 36 years old, resident of Kingisepp, is a co-owner of the Matrix nightclub, the Good Doctor pharmacy chain in Kingisepp, and the Rossiya shopping center in Ivangorod;
– Andrey Abramov, 46 years old, resident of Kingisepp, is also a co-owner of the Matrix nightclub, the St. Petersburg pharmacy chain “Good Doctor” in Kingisepp, and the Rossiya shopping center in Ivangorod. In 2000, he committed the murder of a police officer, after which he was on the federal wanted list until 2003;
– Zaitsev Eduard, 36 years old, resident of Kingisepp;
– Bar-Biryukov Valentin, 40 years old, resident of St. Petersburg, colleague of Pumane;
– Garifullin Marcel, 41 years old, resident of St. Petersburg;
– Alexander Sukharev, 42 years old, resident of Kingisepp, committed the murder of his mother-in-law’s partner in Moscow (his personal initiative);
– Imran Ilyasov, 45 years old, resident of Moscow.
Average age – 40 years; there are more former and active officers than previously convicted officers; almost all residents of the cities of Kingisepp and St. Petersburg.
List of murders and the most resonant crimes charged to the group:
Submitted to court:
1. January 1994 - in Ufa, the murder of Salavat Gainanov, general director of Novo-Ufa Oil Refinery OJSC;
2. 1999 – murder of O. M. Bulatov, a representative of the German company RONOX;
3. 2000 - attempted murder of the general director of the Compass-Krovet company M. L. Orlov;
4. April 2001 - in Ufa, the murder of Speransky, who was part of the leadership of JSC Bashneftekhim, who controlled the financial flows of the largest oil refining complex in Bashkiria for more than ten years. One of the “patrons” of this joint-stock company was the son of the President of Bashkiria;
5. November 2001 - in Moscow, the murder of Krasnogir, a member of the board of directors of the First OVK bank, chief accountant of Plaza Group LLC;
6. December 2002 – murder of one of the leaders of VMS-Oktan LLC, Khitarishvili.
Moved into separate proceedings:
1. May 1993 - in Minsk, the murder of one of the leaders of a large commercial bank, Lisnichuk;
2. July 2001 - in Moscow, the murder of G. I. Perepelkina, the wife of one of the founders of Bashneft JSC, Yuri Bushev;
3. August 2002 - in St. Petersburg, the explosion of the building of the prosecutor's office of the Leningrad region;
4. November 2003 - a car explosion in Ufa, which killed two people. This crime was planned against the son of the President of Bashkiria on the eve of the elections;
5. December 2003 - in St. Petersburg there was an explosion of an Audi car in which there was a former member of the Finagino organized crime group - Abramov;
6. September 2004 - in Moscow, preparations were being made for the assassination attempt on Yuri Bushev, when Pumane was detained;
7. October 2004 - Leningrad region - murder of Semenov, a member of the Finagino organized crime group, the direct perpetrator of many crimes.
Reference
Izmestiev Igor Vladimirovich.
Member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Igor Izmestyev began his political career at the end of 2000, when he assumed the position of assistant to the chairman of the State Assembly (Kurultai) of the Republic of Bashkortostan, and in December 2001 he was elected as a representative to the Federation Council. In April 2003, deputies of the State Assembly of Bashkiria approved Izmestyev’s work in the Senate and elected him as their representative for a new term.
This happened precisely when Igor Izmestyev made an attempt to become president of Bashkortostan. Then the senator initiated the removal of another candidate for the presidency of Bashkiria, Sergei Veremeenko, from the pre-election race, explaining this by the fact that the opponent “actively used administrative and law enforcement resources.” The 2003 elections in Bashkiria, Izmestyev believes, were associated with the redistribution of the republic's fuel and economic complex. However, the Kremlin decided on its candidate, and Murtaza Rakhimov became the president of Bashkortostan again (as now).
In 2003, the name of Igor Izmestyev flashed on the newspaper pages in connection with the scandal surrounding the Baikonur cosmodrome, when several Baikonur companies entered into financial deals with the Bashneftekhim company and two companies associated with Korus-Holding OJSC, which at one time was the head of was Izmestiev. At the same time, tax officials revealed the fact of non-payment of excise taxes by Bashkir companies in the amount of 10 billion rubles.
In an interview with the Parliamentary Newspaper that followed this event, Igor Izmestyev explained that the shortfall in taxes to the treasury was due to nothing more than the “retroactive” cancellation of certain financial benefits for these companies. The senator also told Parliamentary Newspaper that this conflict will be resolved together with the Ministry of Taxes and Duties and with the help of the Constitutional Court.
Russian media note that Igor Izmestyev had problems with environmental legislation. Thus, the website NEWSru.com, citing the deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor Oleg Mitvol, writes that Izmestiev’s house near Moscow may be demolished, since it was built outside the zone where construction is permitted.
Currently, Senator Igor Izmestyev is deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Industrial Policy.
(1966-02-15 )Pumane, Alexander Gennadievich(1966 - 2004) - criminal, hired killer, part of the Kingisepp organized criminal group.
Biography
Alexander Gennadievich Pumane was born on February 15, 1966 in the city of Pushkin, Leningrad Region. His father was a Navy officer. In 1989, Pumane graduated with honors from the navigation department of the Baku Naval School named after Kirov. After graduating from college, he served as a navigator with the rank of captain of the second rank in the Third Submarine Flotilla. He played sports and earned the title of champion in military pentathlon.
Pumane was married, and in this marriage he had two daughters. Pumane's wife Natalya worked as an accountant at the headquarters of the Northern Fleet, and later began working as a psychologist at the same headquarters. In addition, she was an instructor in working with military families, was involved in resolving domestic conflicts, and conducted psychological studies of submarine crews before autonomous navigation. In 2000, Natalya received the position of psychologist at the Northern Fleet headquarters, but did not work there for long. Pumane himself, in 2000, after completing his military service in Murmansk, achieved a transfer to Moscow, to the headquarters of the Navy, but soon after that he retired with the rank of captain of the third rank and moved to permanent residence in St. Petersburg, where he entered the law faculty of the State Pedagogical Herzen Institute. After graduating from college, Pumane did not practice law. He made a living by reselling auto parts, and later became involved in moving and reselling cars. In 2002, he divorced his wife and began to live in St. Petersburg, and his wife and daughters lived in Gatchina. Pumane did not pay child support, but regularly gave several hundred dollars to his children.
Killer career and death
Pumane was part of the Kingisepp organized crime group, headed by Sergei Finagin and engaged in contract killings. Pumane was an excellent explosives technician and the main specialist in the group. At the same time, he was listed as an assistant to lawyer Emil Kuliev from the St. Petersburg Bar Association. Some of Pumane’s acquaintances claimed that they saw him with an ID card of an employee of the Russian branch of Interpol.
Pumane participated in the execution of four contract killings and one attempted murder. In 2002, he came to the attention of the St. Petersburg criminal investigation department during an investigation into an explosion near the regional prosecutor's office building on Lesnoy Prospekt. This crime was not solved, however, according to operatives, this explosion was planned by order of Sergei Finagin, and the purpose of the action was to discredit competitors from another organized crime group.
In 2004, Pumane prepared an assassination attempt on the former financial director of Slavneft, Yuri Bushev. On September 18 this year, Pumane was detained in the center of Moscow by criminal investigation officers. In the trunk of his car, two MON-50 mines with electric detonators, a two-hundred-gram TNT block, an electrical circuit control unit and a twenty-liter canister of gasoline were found. The detainee was taken to the police station; initially he was mistaken for a terrorist. During the interrogation, Pumane said that a few days ago an unfamiliar man approached him and asked him to drive a car to Moscow for a thousand dollars, and then carry out several more assignments in the capital - in particular, to drive the car to the Borodino panorama.
During the interrogation, Pumane was beaten by the interrogation officers. When the detainee became ill, at approximately 5 o'clock in the morning he was transported in a coma to the Sklifosofsky Institute. There Pumane was diagnosed with a closed craniocerebral injury, severe brain contusion, fracture of the vault and base of the skull, cerebral edema, and massive hematomas. A few hours later, after unsuccessful attempts at resuscitation, Pumane died without regaining consciousness. According to Natalia Pumane, who was invited to the morgue to identify her ex-husband, his body was mutilated beyond recognition. The identity of the deceased was established only after a genetic examination. According to doctors, Pumane's death was caused by internal hemorrhage and loss of about two liters of blood.
After Pumane's death, several police officers who conducted the interrogation were put on the wanted list. Among them was Major Vyacheslav Dushenko, who was put on the federal and then international wanted list. Dushenko went into hiding for two years, and only later was it proven that he had nothing to do with Pumane’s death. In March 2006, the former head of the police department, Andrei Semigin, and Joseph Smereka, who was on duty the night Pumane was detained, were convicted. They were found guilty of negligence resulting in the death of a person by negligence, and were sentenced to two years of suspended imprisonment and two years of imprisonment in a penal colony, respectively.
In February 2005, Pumane's accomplice Alexander Ivanov was detained and confessed to five murders. Thanks to his testimony, in 2005-2006, almost all ordinary members of the Kingisepp organized crime group and its leaders Finagin and Ilyasov were detained. In 2007-2008, two trials of members of the Kingisepp organized crime group took place in the Moscow City Court. 16 bandits were sentenced to terms ranging from 4.5 to 19 years in prison, two were acquitted.
Pumane's relatives and his common-law wife denied his involvement in the failed terrorist attack, claiming that Pumane was simply “set up”, using him “in the dark.”
The strange story surrounding the death of the killer Alexander Pumane is still not really clear. He was killed on September 19, 2004 during interrogation at the Moscow police station, where he was taken after an explosive device was discovered in his car. The operatives then assumed that they had managed to catch the terrorist. But as it turned out, the killer of a gangster group fell into the hands of the police.
Military submariner
Alexander Pumane was a native of the city of Pushkin, Leningrad region. After graduating from school, he followed in the footsteps of his father, a naval officer. Graduated from underwater school in 1989. And with distinction. Then he entered service as a navigator. I went on a nuclear submarine. He always excelled in sports and was a champion in military pentathlon.
He married an employee of the Northern Fleet, Natalya. They had two daughters. In 2000, Alexander Pumane finished his service in the navy in Murmansk and transferred to the naval headquarters in Moscow. Having worked here for a short time, he retired with the rank of captain of the third rank and went to live in St. Petersburg, where he graduated from the University of Law.
Sergey Finagin
In St. Petersburg, Pumane began running a small business selling auto parts. Then he began to drive cars for sale.
Apparently leaving the service somehow influenced Alexander, and in 2002 he divorced his wife and joined the Kingisepp criminal group. Since Pumane knew explosives well, the leader of the group, Sergei Finagin, assigns Alexander to the group’s combat unit. Or, more simply, a killer and demolitionist.
Officially, Pumane is hired as an assistant to St. Petersburg lawyer Emil Kumiev.
Under the leadership of Alexander, Yuri Vasiliev, who went through the war in the Caucasus and then worked in special forces, begins to work in the brigade. Yuri was also experienced in the field of mining and demolition.
While working for bandits, Alexander Pumane committed four contract killings and an attempted murder. There is also some evidence that he was involved in the explosion at the city prosecutor's office building. This was done by order of Finagin, so that after the explosion all the arrows would be transferred to the group of competitors. By the way, that’s what happened. For a long time, the security forces were developing a completely different gang in this case.
Failed assassination attempt
In 2004, the group’s plans included the liquidation of Yuri Bushev, the financial director of Slavneft. To carry out the murder, Alexander Pumane went to Moscow. Here he filled a VAZ 2105 with explosives. The killer was let down by the fact that he could not come to an agreement with the police officers who noticed a tinted car while on patrol at night. They approached her and asked the driver to get out. Pumane came out and began offering the policemen 30 thousand dollars. They were taken aback by such a sum and decided to conduct a search. As it turned out, it was not in vain. The car was stuffed with explosives. Alexander was tied up. They took me to the department. They thought they had caught a terrorist. Therefore, literally half an hour later, cars with generals of various units pulled up to the squad.
Pumane was interrogated with particular passion. So that he suffered a closed craniocerebral injury. And also during the interrogation he lost 2 liters of blood. At 5 am the killer was taken to the Sklifosovsky Institute. There he died without regaining consciousness. Then the ex-wife could not identify his body, it was so mutilated. Even the familiar scars were not visible. The fact that it is Alexander Pumane will later be confirmed by genetic examination. The deceased will not be allowed to be cremated by the relatives, explaining that in the future it may be necessary to exhume the body.
It is after the capture of Pumane that the security forces will come to grips with the Kingisepp criminal group. Soon the second killer, demolitionist Vasiliev, will also be arrested. And the crime boss and leader of the group, Sergei Finagen, will be put on the wanted list. In the future, he will be found, as well as the second leader of the group, Imran Ilyasov.
Why did a man who was an excellent submariner join the bandits? And besides, he started killing people on order? This remains unknown. Just like “colleague” Pumane Vasiliev - what made the military change their base camp, moving to selfish and greedy people? It is possible that such people exist everywhere, even in the navy. And you have to obey them. And here is the same greed, only they pay more. And Alexander had to kill not ordinary people, but people just as greedy for money as his employers. Perhaps in a similar way, Pumane took revenge on the entire system around him, having become disillusioned at the end of his service in the navy, being already in the main office, where there were no longer ordinary people, unlike those who served on the submarine. Is this why Alexander was unable to work for a long time at the headquarters and resigned? And then he joined the bandits, who have the same harsh laws as on the boat. And by killing people disliked by the group, Pumane subconsciously took revenge on those high-ranking officials sitting in the main headquarters?
Who came up with the "Pumane case"?
The story of the deceased submariner is surrounded by tons of unverified information
All Russian media have written about the “Pumane case” or “Pumane’s body” in recent days. They write differently. Official versions speak of the heroism of law enforcement agencies, day and night preventing terrorist attacks in the very heart of our homeland. Politicized publications are full of versions and conduct their own investigations. The tabloid press savors the details and torments relatives, trying to humanize this story. But still nothing is clear. Many publications admit this right in the headlines: there are supposedly more questions than answers.
Judge for yourself.
Who is the customer? A certain terrorist organization is preparing a major terrorist attack in Moscow and sends a random person to carry out the task in order to take advantage of the hype and carry out an even larger terrorist attack. At the same time, no one was planning any terrorist attack, it was just that one of the security forces showed excessive official zeal and “framed” the fake “terrorist.” The “terrorist” was given the task by persons of Caucasian nationality, Interpol, of which he was an employee, and former colleagues. Yes, he himself decided to blow something up as a sign of protest.
How many cars were there?"Zhiguli" of the seventh and fifth model, green, blue-green or red, "Volga" of an unspecified color and several more cars on the neighboring streets of Moscow, as well as various foreign cars on the Moscow-Petersburg highway, in St. Petersburg and the city. Pushkin.
Who detained? Citizen Pumane was detained by police officers, and then processed by prosecutors and the FSB. Of the three policemen who participated in the arrest, one was a young trainee of the internal affairs department, another was a recent graduate of a police university, and the third was a police officer. The policemen were alarmed that a frightened, nervous man with sweaty palms was closely and attentively watching them from the car. At the same time, according to representatives of the investigation, Pumane’s detention was not accidental, but was the result of a special operation by the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The detainee calmly and with pleasure presented documents for the car, driver's license, passport and ID. The police had doubts about the authenticity of the documents, which Pumane did not have and which he refused to present; moreover, he behaved inappropriately and was in a state of drug intoxication. Pumane allowed the car to be inspected and refused to let the car be inspected.
What did they find? A homemade explosive device was found in the car. One explosive device was found in the trunk. The car contained two MON-50 mines with electric detonators, a 200-gram TNT block, an electrical circuit control unit and a 20-liter canister with white liquid. They found a TNT stick under the driver's seat with wires coming from it. The system of mines and checkers was equipped with an antenna and a control panel, that is, it could go off at any time. Or, as counterintelligence reports, it was not ready for detonation, since it did not have fuses. An anti-personnel mine and two TNT blocks were also found in the car, and a canister of gasoline was located nearby. The TNT bomb - one - was discovered much later; it was found not by the police, but by sappers. The MON-50 mine and two cans of gasoline were lying in the trunk, first hidden, then in plain sight. There was a plastic bottle of gasoline on the seat. There were two MON-50 mines under the seat, and a TNT block was in the back of the passenger seat, from where wires ran through the glove compartment to the battery. Two electric detonators were hidden in the opened spare wheel. There were no detonators. Two MON-50 military mines were installed in the left rear door and in the spare tire in the trunk. The key fob for the bomb was located along with the bomb near the electronic board for receiving radio signals from the car alarm.
Who interrogated? Pumane was interrogated by 15 people, several dozen people, about 150 people, who drugged him, while he was in a state of drug intoxication beforehand and was even beaten. Generals and colonels from the FSB, GUBOP, UBOP and the capital's MUR arrived. In particular, the head of the Terrorism Directorate of the Main Organized Crime Control Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and some other generals were seen at the department. Currently, everyone involved in one way or another in the death of Alexandru Pumane has gone into silent “refusal” and is nodding at each other. The FSB says that the submariner was beaten by the police, and they point the finger at the security officers. Doctors claim that Pumane was tortured, beaten with a baton on the heels, back, sides and face. During the interrogation, Pumane received a brain contusion, a fracture of the base of the skull, and all kinds of soft tissue hematomas. Perhaps Pumane was beaten even before his arrest, before his detention and before his appearance in Moscow.
What did he die from? The prosecutor's office stated that "Pumane's death occurred as a result of bodily injuries found on the deceased," and opened a criminal case under Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code of Russia (exceeding official powers) and Part 4 of Article 11 of the Criminal Code (infliction of grievous bodily harm resulting in death). Pumane was taken to the Emergency Medical Institute feeling unwell. The news reported that he died of a massive heart attack or multiple injuries to internal organs. Doctors said that the patient suffered several cardiac arrests; he was given a full range of resuscitation measures, but in vain. The main suspects in the death of the detainee were the police, who said that the young man, either 38 or 48 years old, was in a state of drug intoxication and died from an overdose. It was also reported that Poumane's age could be near retirement. Doctors concluded that death was due to internal hemorrhage and loss of about two liters of blood. One of the doctors explained to reporters that if Poumane had had a heart attack, he would have been placed in the cardiac intensive care unit rather than in the general intensive care unit, which indicates the presence of severe injuries. Pumane died without regaining consciousness from a massive brain hematoma and multiple bruises of the soft tissues of the back, abdomen and thighs, as well as fractures of the jaw and base of the skull.
Who killed. Obviously others killed. In interviews with the Russian press, police officers deny accusations of causing the suspect’s death, shifting the blame to colleagues from the FSB and other structures. The FSB says that the police did it. There is an opinion that during the interrogation a “black man” came to the police station, who took Pumane away, beat him and returned him to the police. Or - didn't return it.
Who died. The man who was detained with documents in the name of Alexandru Pumane cannot be identified by either relatives or friends. According to the documents, a reserve officer, military pensioner, former submariner, captain of the 2nd or 3rd rank, Alexander Gennadievich Pumane, born in 1966, a native of Pushkin, Leningrad Region, died. He graduated from a nautical school in Baku, served as a navigator, lived in either St. Petersburg or the Leningrad region, and four years ago he transferred to Moscow. At the police station, a 48-year-old detainee suffered a heart attack. At the same time, Pumane died, and then did not die, or rather, he did not die, which means that former submarine officer Alexander Pumane, accused of preparing a terrorist attack, may be alive. Pumane was declared dead as part of the witness protection program to prevent revenge from the terrorists who hired him.
Who identified? Already on the morning of the next day after the incident, Pumane’s corpse was not in Sklifosovsky. The body was found later and in a completely different morgue. The first identification of the body was carried out by the wife, Natalia Pumane. She could not recognize her ex-husband because, firstly, she was in serious condition, secondly, the body and face of the man’s corpse presented to her were mutilated beyond recognition, and thirdly, “nothing was visible at all.” The corpse was also tried to be identified by either classmates or colleagues of the officer, as well as residents of house number seven on Bogoslovsky Lane and other houses. To help the wife, colleagues and residents, the prosecutor's office called on other relatives of the corpse and the attending doctors of Pumane. They sent for a dental card to St. Petersburg, where Pumane lived for many years, while at the same time being in Moscow. The dental record was provided by Pumane’s common-law wife, Ksenia Vologdina. The map and Ksenia clearly showed that there was a completely different person in the morgue.
Husband or not husband. Neighbors of Pumane’s ex-wife claim that he almost never visited the city of Pushkin, divorced his wife Natalya, occasionally visited his parents and two daughters, while he had three children, he loved his wife, and doted on his children. Pumane lived in St. Petersburg in a civil marriage with his wife Ksenia. In recent years, he lived in Moscow, where he was a bachelor. Pumane was registered in his parents' apartment in Pushkin. Relatives are sure that Alexander has disappeared and his documents were stolen. Alexander's parents are in shock. Everyone says that he was a faithful husband, a wonderful father, a caring son and a good friend, an excellent student and loved his homeland.
Whether he wanted it or not. It is believed that the car with the suspicious driver was discovered by accident. The police said in an interview with reporters that the retired sailor cried and begged not to detain him, and promised to bring 30 thousand dollars. Pumane said during interrogation that he was driving his personal Volga car to Moscow to meet a friend. He left his Volga at the VDNH metro station, and then went by metro to Kutuzovsky Prospekt, went to an exchange office there, where he met a man he did not know. The man offered to move two stolen cars for a thousand dollars. Moreover, he made this offer the day before and several days ago. Pumane agreed to this because of the urgent need for money. He also showed that it was used by terrorists. But there is an opinion that the organizer and executor of the planned terrorist attack was Alexander Pumane himself, who was in collusion with the special services. He didn't need money.
Organization or individual. Pumane admitted that he collaborated with Interpol, worked on orders from people from the Caucasus, fulfilled the request of former colleagues, succumbed to the persuasion of an unfamiliar man who looked like a Chechen, and decided to carry out several assignments for him and spend the night in the capital. The operatives immediately found and interrogated one of Pumane’s colleagues, a certain Emil Kuliev, a graduate of the same school as Pumane, now a lawyer, whose assistant the detained and killed submariner worked. They did not detain Kuliev. One of the stolen cars is registered to Rauza Abdulkadyrova, and under this name the wife of one of the Chechen militants is listed in the intelligence databases. Abdulkadyrov was put on the wanted list, but then they changed their mind.
For money or for an idea. A hereditary submariner, a real officer with traditions, really could not agree with terrorists, especially because of money. Pumane was a very wealthy man who had two wives, two children and two mobile phones. According to one version of the investigation, Pumane knew whose car he was moving and why. According to another version, I didn’t know. According to the third version, he was going to organize a terrorist attack on his own initiative, being offended by life, by power, by fate and by women.
What should we think now? No one seems to doubt that a terrorist attack was being prepared, although the case was opened under an article that provides for liability for the illegal transportation of explosives. There are also independent versions: one of the security forces framed the terrorist, then he was silenced or hidden. The enemy, nevertheless, has been found, but everyone is either happy and laughing, or sobbing in complete helplessness. Citizens reading news and analytical articles develop their own versions of what happened and thoughts about it. The main idea, perhaps, is this: this is not without reason. Otherwise, why all the noise? It's good when you know what to think. In the story with Pumane, nothing is clear, it’s just a joke - “it’s 15 o’clock in Moscow, midnight in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: what a mess in the country!”
Secondary Thought #1: The state duck. As you know, we are strengthening the vertical of power, coupled with the state border and the national spirit. To unite, unite and repel the enemy. For this purpose, various means are used, from amendments to the Constitution and other laws to the active life position of government agencies responsible for our peace and security. For example, you can cunningly identify an enemy in order to expose and punish. Then report on the successful operation, as Channel One did: “Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB prevented a terrorist attack in the center of the capital.” Well done, these employees! And we would have given them a medal, and we would have lived peacefully, feeling protected, but the prosecutor’s office suddenly faced great difficulties - the client died, and they still couldn’t identify him.
Secondary Thought #2: The Secret Service Duck. This is a diversionary operation to cover up a larger terrorist attack, which, of course, all intelligence services were aware of in advance. At the same time, this is a large-scale exercise, during which one person was injured, and an investigation is underway. It was necessary. St. Petersburg operatives are interrogating people with whom the former submarine officer had contact. They go around the neighbors, tormenting their parents and both wives. Pumane's possible connection with Interpol and global terrorism is being studied. And the State Duma gave a protocol instruction to the Security Committee to request information from law enforcement agencies regarding the case of former submariner Alexander Pumane. This decision was made on Friday at a plenary meeting of the chamber. Everyone has a lot of work to do. Complete red herrings. Something is actually happening, but it’s not our business what exactly it is.
Secondary Thought #3: The Media Duck. The media has another great news opportunity. You can “go through” the police and military, ministries and services, scold the president and demand the truth from heaven. It is terribly interesting to look for photographs and a passport of a person who died due to a misunderstanding, died tragically in a dungeon, or became a pawn in someone’s game. It is surprisingly appropriate to rush to the suburb of St. Petersburg called Pushkin and have tea with the wife of the deceased. And how great it is to find out by chance that the wife is an ex-wife, she hasn’t seen her husband for several years, so how can she identify him. The wife will tell some journalists that the children love their dad and are afraid to leave the house, others that Pumane has not lived with them in the suburbs for a long time, but lived in a civil marriage with a city young lady.
Last thought: How dare he die? Let's put a name to what happened. The media offer their own options: news, events, incidents, comments, life, conflicts, terror. People say: nightmare, nonsense, chaos, it’s time to get out, they’re all assholes. And he swears. The authorities assure: we will investigate everything, we will punish everyone. Relatives deny everything. The children are afraid again. What about global terrorism? He's probably having fun and rejoicing. Nothing worked - neither for the terrorists, nor for the intelligence services, nor for the journalists. The terrorist attack seems to have been averted. The terrorist was captured, but starved to death. Or his heart could not bear the burden of guilt and responsibility for what he had done. The corpse has not been identified. The culprits have been named - it's all around. The investigation is at a dead end. The news contradicts each other. Analytics fails. Everyone is covered in mud. Everything is in turmoil. Once again they made idiots out of us. Nobody knows how to work. Ugliness. And how dare he die?
Buried at the Kuzminskoye cemetery in the city of Pushkin, the former St. Petersburg submariner Alexander Pumane became famous throughout the world on the last day of his life - September 18, 2004. The police officers who stopped his car in the center of Moscow found two MON-50 mines and a TNT block in it. A few hours later, in the capital’s 83rd police department, Pumane wrote a confession that he had been helping Caucasian militants for 6 years and was now carrying ammunition for a terrorist attack in the capital on behalf of a Chechen named Alim. Then the author of the testimony was taken to the Sklifosovsky Institute, where he died - according to the diagnosis, Pumane was beaten to death during interrogation.
The case of the murder of a former sailor lasted almost 3 years, and its ending can hardly be called anything other than a mockery of justice. Major Vyacheslav Dushenko, who was initially accused of murder and had been hiding from the investigation for a long time, was acquitted, the head of the 83rd department, Andrei Semigin, was given a 2-year suspended sentence, and the duty captain Joseph Smereka received 2 years in a penal colony. For giving a rubber baton to an unidentified person, with which the anonymous person (under the noses of hundreds of policemen and FSB officers) killed Pumane and disappeared into the fog.
The full version of the text was published in the newspaper "Our Version on the Neva" No. 178, May 30 - June 5, 2011