Trial chronicle, 02/05-09/2001

5 February 2001

The announcement of the documents of the case is over. The videotapes with the Cho Son Uh's interrogation and his search in the FSB office and with the search at the Moiseyev's working place were seen.

The Defense submitted a petition that the materials illegally taken from the Korean diplomat during his personal search (the Moiseyev's report "Russian policy on the Korean peninsula") should be excluded from the materials of the case.

The statement made by Cho Son Uh that his relations with Moiseyev were strictly friendly and nothing illegal was done and he get no documents (except the report mentioned above) from Moiseyev and didn't give him money should be taken into account.

The Defense submitted the petition that a personal definition should be done in regard to the FSB officials who committed unlawful actions toward the Korean diplomat.

The videotape with the search at the Moiseyev's working place was not seen, which goes with the violation of law (it's impossible to say when, by whom, where the search was hold and whether there were any witnesses). The Defense draw the attention to the point that during the search at the working place the envelopes were found in which later the money taken during the search at home were put.

The petition that a personal definition in regard to Plotnikov investigator should be done in connection with the violation made by him during the search was submitted.

The audiotapes were played and it was impossible to distinguish what was on them.

7 February 2001 (Wednesday)

The interrogation of the FSB official Ptatih on the search circumstances and the documents translation into Korean.

He answered in the same way as he did during the trial presided by the judge Gubanova. Special attention were paid to the envelopes with the embassy of the Republic of Korea mark on them in which they say money were placed.

A witness confirmed that he did not do an official translation but wrote an annotation. He give the texts the names (titles) on his own and the text was done for the internal usage. There was no direct pointing on Moiseyev in the texts. All the connections identified by his own conclutions.

8 February (Thursday)

the interrogation of witnesses Trimaylova and Burov who presented during the search in Moiseyev's flat. They beard the same witness with the one they did during the previous hearing.

Buriv said that he was at work when he was told to go the Moiseyev's flat and were taken there by official car.

Trimaylova fail to give distinct explanation about how it happened that she participated in the search. It is strange how it can be that two officials of the same organization, according to their words, did not know each other before that.

Trimaylova and Burov beard different from Pyatih explanation about the circumstances of finding the envelopes.

9 February (Friday)

the interrogation of the Director of the First Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who said that during the preliminary investigation they pressed on and the witnesses beard during the hearing of case were badly misrepresented (twisted) by the judge Kuznetsova.

The judge Gubanova considered notes added to the protocol and put them down.

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