Putin’s ‘Justice’ a Nightmare for One American Citizen
If you thought Russian dictator Vladimir Putin was concerned last week as race riots swept the Russian capital of Moscow, think again. He was grinning from ear to ear.
Putin has two reasons to be delighted by race violence.
First, Putin himself is a virulent racist. He is surrounded by white men, and has never once spoken out in support of the notion that dark-skinned people are the equal of white Slavic Russians, not even as dozens fall victim to race murder each year. To the contrary, Putin’s rabidly nationalist rhetoric has clearly fanned the flames of race violence. There’s nothing strange in this; Russia is a racist country, as any dark-skinned person who has ever lived there can readily attest. Racism is popular; it wins votes.
Second, riots beget calls for more dictatorship. Valery Zorkin, chief justice of the Russian Constitutional Court, stated in the wake of the riots it was “no longer a dystopia” to believe that “the state will no longer be able to protect its citizens from mass violence.” This means only one thing: the state must become even more powerful if it is to crush these outbursts as was done in Soviet times.
In other words, race riots help Russians ignore people like Arkady Gontmakher.
In September 2007, the Seattle resident and American citizen was arrested in Moscow. The CEO of Global Fishing Inc., a leading worldwide purveyor of arctic crab, was accused of poaching millions of pounds of king crab from Russian waters, a charge that could draw a two-year prison term.
Under Russian law, prosecutors were not required to put Gontmakher on trial for eighteen months after his arrest, and they were not required to offer him reasonable bail while he awaited trial.
This meant that on the day he was arrested, Gontmakher was also, for all practical purposes, convicted and sentenced without trial to three-fourths of the maximum sentence allowable under the law, unless the prosecutor chose to show mercy.
Unsurprisingly, they didn’t.
This abomination must be highly exposed: may I suggest billboards located across the nation–should some wealthy Americans join in my personal rage?
Vladimir Putin’s ongoing dictatorship seems to be known to everyone, except our President, Barack Obama–and his mentally deprived minions…
How, indeed, can the USA enter into a nuclear arms agreement with such despicable, tyrannical governorship?!
Please–everyone listening–express your own comments! Thank you.
Leftists support leftists Obama was raised by his Marxist Grandparents, his mentor in Hawaii was Frank Marshall Davis a card carrying communist, how could he be anything other then a Marxist. Putin is a non repentant communist who wants to bring a communist government back to Russia. Connect the dots and see the scary picture.
So the Russians are behaving Russian?
The Russians ought to slug it out and create a country of their own liking. Not our business.
On the other hand, we – the United States – ought to recognize whom we’re dealing with and proceed accordingly.
Slava Rossiya!
Is he Jewish? usually Jews, like Khordorovsky, are accused in Russia and imprisoned without trial and then when tried, always founds guilty – old ways never change.
“First, Putin himself is a virulent racist.”
Typical EUropean governor.
I’m shocked! shocked! that a country that has staggered from Czarism to Communism to EUro-Putinism doesn’t have real laws; that its arrests, imprisonments, and executions are the arbitrary and capricious will of the executive. My condolences to its victims. Sometime in the 22nd century your name will appear on a wall of remembrance, similar to the the one the EU has built to remember the victims of communism.
Oh, wait. No, I’m not shocked.
why would america’s primary adversaries be more adversarial during our “greatest” president’s reign?
nothing to see here folks; let’s get on to more important stuff like america’s obesity problem and moochelle’s wardrobe
Russia …….History repeats itself yet again. Hand writing on the wall ?
….a few good men do nothing ? Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Justice
and Mercy are only peoples names … its all about power. What a shame that the Russian people will be subjected to yet another dictator.
“These wanton actions against Gontmakher were taken by the Kremlin despite the glare of a worldwide spotlight shining on his case.”…..and this is pretty well explained by the sentence in the next paragraph: “Needless to say, Obama turned a deaf ear to these protests, just as he has done in regard to all human rights and security issues where Russia is concerned.”
Putin is just being Putin. A snake is a snake is a snake. And a tiger is a tiger. Pitiful, actually, that people apparently still think that if this is just MADE PUBLIC! RAISE A HUE AND CRY! PUT UP BILLBOARDS!!!!….THEN everything will be made right. Get a grip, folks. Will you now begin to understand that this is what obama has done with regard to America’s influence on the international scene? This is NOT about “one American citizen.” If you have the ears to hear it, this is about 330 million American citizens. We don’t even have standing within our own nation any more. Why on earth are you surprised that we wouldn’t have standing in Putin’s Russia? (or do you know as little about Putin as you apparently do about obama?)
Forgive my pointy opinion. But I have about HAD IT with people who refuse to realize that the ground is collapsing under their feet and want to keep on building little tiny fires so they can pretend it’s still summer.
Read Putin. Listen to Putin. Study Putin. And think about why he and his ilk around the world have absolutely no respect, regard, fear or concern about the United States of America.
“Forgive my pointy opinion. But I have about HAD IT with people who refuse to realize that the ground is collapsing under their feet and want to keep on building little tiny fires so they can pretend it’s still summer.”
Emma, you are preaching to the choir. Your post would do more good on some liberal blogsite.
“…Your post would do more good on some liberal blogsite”;
where, it would be “moderated” into non-existence.
I briefly considered putting my comment directly under #1, but had no desire to give Ms. Jancourtz an unpleasant sense of being personally attacked. Her comment does not make me think she is a member of the choir.
Thanks for bringing this story to the forefront, PJM, and Kim Zigfeld.
And meanwhile, our embarrassingly sophomoric Man-child President, elected by a puerile electorate that is lobotomized by entertainment and superficiality, makes calls, not to the Russian leader, but to the Philadelphia Eagles president, congratulating him on the hiring of the similarly infantile dog butcher, Vick. (He was equally obsessed about Tiger Woods’fall from glory.)
God, please save us from these fools that surround us. Amen.
With the election of a Republican majority to the House of Representatives, people are already saying, well, Obama isn’t so bad, we still like him, he could be reelected in 2012. My response is, “Are you people crazy?”
If we don’t get rid of this cardboard cutout president in 2012, we’ll deserve whatever horrible thing happens. He can make all the “centrist” noises he wants; he’ll never give up his hard left ideology, his disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law, and his belief in his own magnificence. I think he secretly envies Putin’s dictatorial powers, and we are stupid indeed if we don’t recognize that.
Elsewhere today, there are predictions of $5 gas in 2012.
If that happens, Teh Won’s chances of re-election will be nil.
And he is making plans to make an end run around Congress and the Constitution with his seizing control of the internet and having the EPA call co2 a pollutant.
Putin is a thug.
I’m not buying the Slavic-supremacist bit. No Slavic-supremacist would be a member of the KGB- not while the Soviets were oppressing the Polish, Czech and Slovak Slavs.
Why would a fascist tool like Obongo interfere with a fellow fascist like Putin? They are cut from the same cloth and if the interloper in the White House had all his secret wishes granted there would be race riost in America and he would have the power to do exactly what the iron man of SOVIET Russia is doing today.
B0 has his way of shaking down the business community…the Russians have theirs. Gontmakher should of simply paid the ‘rent’.
I wonder i obama looked into his eyes and knew he could trust him?
Jury’s verdict surprised many
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY. December 24. VOSTOK-MEDIA – The verdict of the jury, defendants have justified a loud “crab” of the case, denied the stereotypical view that the Russian village are not like the Muscovites, millionaires and people with difficult names, the newspaper said “the Kamchatka Territory.
But if Embarek, Suslov and Gontmakher innocent, I ask: who the mafia then? Perhaps it is we, the citizens of the country where such judgments are possible, says the correspondent of publication.
Gontmakher freedom!
In September 2007 in Moscow were detained by the president of the American company «Global Fishing Inc» U.S. citizen Arkady Gontmakher and its Russian partners of ZAO Eastern Fish Resources: President Aziz Embarek and Alexander Suslov, the chief accountant.
They were charged with three charges: criminal community leadership, development of natural resources of the continental shelf and exclusive economic zones of Russia without permission, as well as money laundering, proceeds of crime. According to police, the Russian crab illegally harvested by the courts “of the Eastern fisheries, through the Busan under the guise of legal products supplied to the« Global Fishing »for further sales in the U.S..
Corollary went about 2 years. In 2010, the criminal case was referred to the Kamchatka regional court, which granted the defendants’ participation in the process of jurors.
Jurors listened to it for 3 months. During this time, the prosecution presented to them for almost 80 witnesses (mostly members of the crew), records of telephone conversations defendants in the case, the data from the laptop, which was withdrawn from Gontmakher at the time of arrest, etc. All this, in its view, prove the guilt of the defendants.
The final stage of the process before the jury was put 30 questions, which contained the charges. December 16 was announced the verdict, which sounded like a thunderbolt. 24 questions the jury was left without an answer. At 5 responded: “not proven”. And only 1 item found proven, but with substantial reservations (for example, was excluded final digit economic damage). As a result, all the defendants who were detained in September of 2007, were acquitted and released in the courtroom.
Of course, the indictment was not ideal. It was assumed that the jury can remove 1 of 3 charges. But to all 3! Reality has surpassed expectations.
Thus, the jury decided that Gontmakher, Embarek and Suslov were not the ringleaders of the criminal community, not stolen from the Russian 9000 tons of crab, not caused her damage by 5 billion rubles. Now these three citizens the right to punish our country for the warrantless arrest, the detention of ships and destroyed businesses. According to the most approximate estimates, the amount of lawsuits can drag on dozens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.
In addition, the jury ruled mention of the defendants’ connections with the staff of the Coast Guard of the FSB. This means that the ranks of guards was not a “werewolf” that they are not “kryshevali” poaching, not trade secret data on the status of patrol vessels and aircraft of the FSB (apparently a leak of this information is by itself).
The verdict of the jury have to take this for what it is. But it’s worth noting that the jury has its own specifics. It can be compared with the theatrical action. The sympathies of justice, there may be on the side does not matter who is right and the one who speaks more convincingly and emotionally. I admit that lawyers Gontmakher, Embarek and Suslov showed a more interesting spectacle than prosecutors. In their speeches sounded fun, witty suggestions, quotations from movies that could not win the hearts of viewers.
We probably still too quick with the introduction of jury trials for 50 years. But this is only my subjective opinion. Those who are interested in it, is the next part of this publication.
Inventions of the author
I followed the process and attended court hearings, even though the defense tried to keep my presence. As a result, I had a lot of questions. Will focus on the most simple. Next, I will use the data that I heard in court. Perhaps not all of them exactly, but close to the truth.
As mentioned above, the defendants were accused of organizing illegal catch more than 9,000 tons of crab in the period from January 1 to June 30, 2007. Fishery were 17 vessels that were owned firms “holding” “Oriental fish resources” or they were rented (I write holding in quotes, because officially it does not exist).
At trial, Aziz Embarek said that the fleet of “holding” is not physically able to produce such a volume of 0.5 years. Let us count ourselves. Take 6 months. You can take 2 months by storms and other force majeure. Remains 4. Multiply by the average number of days per month – 30. We get 120 days. Multiply 120 by the average daily catch krabolova – 5 tons (note that the last number called himself Embarek). It turns out that a crabber during this period could get about 600 tons. Now multiply this amount by the number of vessels – 17. As a result, we are the same more than 9,000 tons. More precisely, 10.200. Maybe the Navy “holding” was nevertheless afford to catch so many?
Now another zadachka. Embarek told the court that a “holding company” have quotas for 7000 tons of crabs: its own quota – 4.5 thousand tons, plus 2,5 thousand tons of companies that were “holding company” bought. I will not dispute this figure. We take it for truth. Now divide 7000 by 17 ships. It turns out that for every crabber had, on average, 400 tons. Divide the 400 tons of the daily catch – 5 tons. Hence, the vessel could learn the scope for about 80 days or 2.5 months. And what was supposed to take it to the rest of the year? Buying products at sea from vessels of other companies for resale «Global Fishing», as they say the defendants? But why Gontmakher fly through the Eastern fisheries’ products, which it directly could buy cheaper?
Come back to Embarek said that one day crabber, on average, 5 tons of catches. It is perfectly true. But here the court itself Embarek rarely showed such a catch. Krabolovy “holding” may in the long term to show the daily catch is less than a ton (0.112 m, 0.124 m, 0.138 m, and so on). What capitalist would keep the sea mob fleet with such miserable performance? However, the fleet of “holding company” remained in the fishery. Moreover, work is clearly at a loss, having a duty to «Global Fishing» $ 50 million, “holding company” continued to buy the company and the navy (and even took the court for rent)! Find the logic in these actions is possible only if we assume that, in fact krabolovy extracted much more, but concealed part of the catch. If this were so, how fleet owners might not know about it? If they relied only on official data on catches, then why such low numbers going to pay the salaries crews pay for other expenses (about profits here and there is no speech)?
But look for the answer to these questions after the jury’s verdict did not make sense. I just wonder why they themselves jurors such questions do not arise.
“The animals” in uniform
At trial, defense lawyers say many good things about their clients. According to them, the defendants were honest businessmen who developed a business in Russia, created jobs, paid taxes. But they forgot to mention one more unquestionable advantage defendants. “Eastern Fish Resources (” CDF “), as well as their American partner, not only had nothing to poaching, but also themselves struggling with him, not sparing their own funds. Now we can openly say that the company “PFP” played a prominent role in the development of marine protection in the Far East in the face of the North-Eastern border control (SVPU).
The most active cooperation between them began to develop when the frontier was headed by Valery Putov. One of the first interview Kamchatka Valery was published under the suggestive title: “Everything in this life you have to pay.” Considerable attention was given to the problem of corruption. Here is what V. Putov said of officials who collect bribes from business: “You have corrupted them in Kamchatka for yourself. If it was an honest fisherman – why pay him? And when he was a poacher – a different matter. ” But to further the narrative these words are nothing, of course, do not have.
So, about 2003 UAB “PFP” was actually an official sponsor of the frontier. For example, the company financed the publication of a book edited by Putov North-Eastern regional border management FSB: Past and Present “, which was of great educational value for young guards (incidentally, co-sponsor of this publication acted ZAO Malkinskiye, whose founder was “Iyanin Koutya” read – Ivan Mikhnov, also a very decent man).
In addition, according to my data, ZAO “PFP” presented a border management Jeep made in Japan. Gift was accompanied by the following words: “Historically, (!) SVRPU between the FSB and ZAO Eastern fisheries resources” have developed business (!) And warm relations. Realizing all the inherent difficulties in providing logistical support and funds Border Service of Russia, to enhance mobility for the protection of state borders enable us to address the group ZAO Eastern fisheries, as mentoring to bring a gift SVRPU FSB car “Toyota Land Cruiser.
Of course, “luxury” SUV was greatly increase the “mobility to protect the state border.”
3 years ago I asked for border management to confirm or deny the fact of such mentoring. Then I got no answer. But today the frontier there is no reason to hide such a fact if it was because of ZAO Eastern fisheries “exonerated.
But that’s not all. After the arrest of Arkady Gontmakher Internet statement was issued employee of his company Gene Ehasz, which has these words: “Arkady and« Global Fishing »spent millions of dollars to improve the status of border guards and tried to put an end to illegal fishing.”
Word for word in the English phrase sounds so: «The fact of the matter is that Arkady and Global Fishing have spent millions of dollars to help upgrade the border guards and try to do away with the illegal fishing». And the context of the letter casts doubt on the fact that we are talking about the U.S. border.
But who will turn the language to call all this corruption? Indeed, in our country since ancient times has become a tradition to thank the sovereign’s modest offerings of people for their heroic work. This is done is always absolutely selflessly, with a pure heart.
However, sometimes the police somehow painfully react to such facts. For example, last year was brought before a court officer of the Kamchatka regional hospital for the fact that under the guise of sponsorship from the citizens took 9.300 rubles. Although he has spent money on himself, and to improve the financial position of one of the departments of the hospital, the man was found guilty of abuse of office and punished. Apparently, the aggravating circumstance of his guilt was that he was not a general.
I regret to say that in the short term ZAO Eastern fisheries would not be able to provide sponsorship Border Service and other government agencies. But I am sure that as soon as the company’s fleet once again working at full force, again she would take over their patronage.
And one more interesting detail. At the trial was made that the negotiations within the fishing expedition “holding” patrol vessels designated a code word “animals”. And this is symbolic. After all, animal, we usually call harmless and friendly members of the animal world, which can be easily tamed.
Who is to blame?
If Gontmakher, Embarek and Suslov innocent, the question arises: who is to blame then who is the same – the mafia? The number of suspects is unusually wide.
Too many people who work in areas such as fishing business, the protection of living aquatic resources, industrial science and so on and so forth, well knew what the “holding” “Oriental fish resources.” Yes, we knew, but said nothing, turned a blind eye, permit, warrant, which amounts to complicity. Let’s lift the stone with soul and admit that we are the mafia.
Cyril Marenin.
P.S. Arkady Gontmakher happy release for long. Shortly after the announcement of the acquittal tried to detain him again. According to our source, it happened in another criminal case in which an AA Gontmakher. It is about the same scheme as described in the indictment for “Eastern fisheries, but here are named other firms producing for the crab« Global fishing »(presumably, Inc.” Sea Raven “and” Sea Eagle “).
However, on December 17 Petropavlovsk city court dismissed the petition of the senior investigator for especially important for the investigation of the Directorate-General for Internal Affairs of Russia Far Eastern Federal District on measures of restraint in the form of detention.
According to city court spokesman Alexander Zhuravlev, author of the application has not provided evidence that this citizen will disappear from the bodies of preliminary investigation, or may conduct criminal activity.
In addition, from the submitted to the court documents show that the suspect will be provided in Petropavlovsk place of residence and registration.
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