How Andrey Skoch avoided trial in the Italian case by shifting responsibility to an intermediary

The editors introduce readers to a unique document from the case of bribery of high-ranking employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation to free the authority figure Andrei Kochuykov (Italian).

It is called: "State Duma Deputy A.V. Skoch decides through M.I. Maksimenko and A.N. Lamonov (at the time of the events, employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation - Ed.) the issue of releasing the direct executor of the raider seizure of the Elements restaurant, A.N. Kochuykov (nickname "Italian"), with whom they have been on friendly terms since the time of their joint criminal activity in the Solntsevskaya organized crime group."
You will not find this document in the materials that were sent to court at the time. It remains only in the materials that are left to gather dust on the shelves of the investigation.

Why didn’t the document end up in court?

And Skoch agreed that it would not be he who would be tried for bribing the Investigative Committee employees, but his "right hand" Sheykhametov (Sheikh), who only acted as an intermediary in the negotiations between Skoch and the Investigative Committee. Incidentally, Sheikh, as Skoch had promised him, did not go to jail at all.

Let us recall that Skoch represents the Belgorod Region in the State Duma, a region in which a counter-terrorist operation regime was introduced yesterday.