Mikhail Ivanovich Trepashkin

Mikhail Trepashkin (2017)

Michail Iwanowitsch Trepaschkin ( Russian Михаил Иванович Трепашкин , scientific transliteration Michail Ivanovič Trepaškin ; born  April 7, 1957 ) is a Moscow lawyer and was Colonel of the Russian domestic secret service KGB and its successor FSB until 1997 .

Life

Mikhail Trepashkin was at the invitation of the Russian politician Sergei Adamovich Kovalyov consultant an independent commission that examined, among other reports of involvement of the FSB in the bomb attacks on the Moscow apartment buildings and Volgodonsk in 1999, after the official presentation Chechen should have done rebels. Trepashkin was also an attorney for members of the Caucasian minorities who were suspected of being the perpetrators of the attacks and who were sentenced to prison terms. Since mid-2002 he was the family lawyer for one of the victims of the attack.

He was arrested in October 2003 and found guilty in May 2004 in a trial before a Russian military tribunal that Amnesty International (AI) and other human rights groups believed did not meet international fair trial standards and sentenced to four years in prison in the IK penal colony -13 sentenced at Nizhny Tagil in the Urals. He is said to have disclosed state secrets to Great Britain and illegally possessed ammunition. AI "fears that his prosecution should serve to prevent his further research as a lawyer in connection with the bomb attacks". One week after his arrest, Trepashkin was supposed to represent the family of someone killed in the bombings in court.

On August 30, 2005, Trepashkin was released on parole. After declaring his intention to reopen the investigation, he was arrested again on September 18, 2005, without a court order, and remained in custody until November 30, 2007.

According to AI, he is not receiving the medical care needed to treat a chronic asthma condition and is being pressured to withdraw complaints. According to AI, according to a government decree of February 2004, he is actually entitled to release from prison.

According to Andrei Nekrasov , a friend of the murdered ex-KGB / FSB officer and Putin critic Alexander Litvinenko , Litvinenko asked him about Mikhail Trepashkin's health in the hospital shortly before his death. According to the British newspaper The Times , Litvinenko's friend Alex Goldfarb also handed over letters from Trepashkin's to Scotland Yard , which revealed that Litvinenko and others were the target of a secret command. In one of the two letters dated November 20, 2006, Trepashkin warned Litvinenko that he and his family were in danger (Litvinenko died three days later). Goldfarb received the other letter two days after Litvinenko's death. Trepashkin offered himself as a source for the investigations planned by Scotland Yard in Russia in this matter. Trepashkin said in the letters that he had been asked to participate in the plot against Litvinenko. But he refused. According to the British weekly Sunday Telegraph of December 10, 2006, Trepashkin named a senior FSB employee as a key figure in the Alexander Litvinenko murder . He was one of the four ex-FSB employees who, together with Litvinenko, claimed at a press conference in Moscow in 1998 that they had received an order from the FSB leadership to kill Boris Berezovsky .

So far, however, the Russian authorities have refused to question Trepashkin's question, as he had accused the Russian authorities of state terrorism .

In 2010 he co-signed the Putin Must Go manifesto .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Source of all of the above information: BZ dossier: Letters against forgetting - Russia: Michail Trepaschkin . badische-zeitung.de. June 20, 2006. Archived from the original on February 12, 2007. Retrieved on July 2, 2013., identical to URGENT ACTION - Michail Ivanovich Trepashkin, lawyer . Amnesty International Germany. May 31, 2006. Archived from the original on June 10, 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
2. ↑ Putin is responsible . In: taz , December 7, 2006
3. ↑ Lisa Erdmann: Secret Service Affair: Traces of Polonium also in Litwinenko's contact man and widow . In: Spiegel Online , December 1, 2006. Accessed July 2, 2013. 
4. ↑ Imprisoned ex agent unpacks . In: Die Welt , December 10, 2006. FSB colonel named in Litvinenko poison plot . Telegraph, December 10, 2006
5. ↑ also Sunday Telegraph of December 10, 2006, cited from Russland-Aktuell , December 11, 2006. According to the article on the English language Wikipedia on Litvinenko , the persons mentioned are : Andrey Ponkin, V. V. Shebalin, Constanyin Latyshonok, German Scheglov.
6. ↑ Ex-Russian spy Trepashkin is due to be released on Friday. Former Russian secret agent Mikhail Trepashkin, who accused Russian authorities of state terrorism, is due to be released on Friday. Trepashkin is said to be released from a prison camp in the Ural Mountains, as the Interfax news agency reported on Thursday, citing a spokeswoman for the local prison administration. November 30, 2007, accessed December 31, 2018 .