There were other witnesses, weren’t there? There were, right?

Since people occasionally ask what the other witnesses testified about there besides Ashurkov, I’ll write a bit about them too.

For example, according to the NY court materials, the “expert” David Aminov — a professor in the Department of Public Law and Legal Support of Governance at the State University of Management — was needed by the bankers in order to discredit the testimony of the Russian witnesses in the Probusinessbank case — Alekseev and Krylova — and to explain why their statements should not be considered genuine witness testimony.

For instance, because they were allegedly obtained “under pressure.”

Or because the interrogation time isn’t indicated in them (I’m not kidding — see the image below!)

Alekseev and Krylova — former employees of Probusinessbank — described in their statements what was happening at the office during their time there, and the details align quite well with the published schemes. It’s clear that testimony from employees was not the most pleasant fact for the fugitive bankers, and to counter it, they brought in this kind of “expert.”

Chez’s note: David Aminov is not just some nobody.