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Throughout the current week the Pacific Fleet Court has not only been occupied with witness interrogations and expert evaluations. It has also evaluated various documents, which has been sent to the Court on its request, but not all the requested documents were available.
– FSB hides the traces of their crime
Some of the documents the Court has asked for have disappeared, Ivan Pavlov said after yesterdays court session. Although the documents according to the regulations shall be kept for at least five years, they have apparently been destroyed. The FSB hides the traces of their crime against Grigory, the attorney said.
Some important documents were however, still available. They show that Grigory addressed the chiefs of the Pacific Fleet urging them to pay more attention to the problems related to nuclear waste decommissioning and asking for permission to visit the navy bases in order to write an article on the subject, Pavlov said. While one admiral thought that no articles were needed, another issued permission because decommissioning is needed at the fleet.
Later the FSB charged Pasko with having drafted an article on the subject, in which he allegedly had included some state secrets. The draft was confiscated at the illegal search of Paskos flat in November 1997, and the local chekists then made up charges against Pasko, claiming that he had kept this article at his flat for a subsequent transfer to Japan.
We managed to prove that Pasko was acting in accordance with the regulations, said Pavlov. Grigory worked openly. His articles touched upon actual and acute problems of the fleet. Would he have made several calls asking for permission to write an article on decommissioning of nuclear waste if he really was engaged in espionage and wanted to disclose secret information, asked Pavlov rhetorically.
While it until recently was reason to believe that the trial would be over in early October, the latest buzz around town here in Vladivostok is that the trial may continue well into November, and maybe even longer.
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