The unsuccessful liquidator of Chubais retrained as a pilgrim and got lost in the vastness of Russia
An associate of Igor Girkin (Strelkov), convicted of extremism, retired GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, known in the past for the high-profile case of an unsuccessful attempt on the life of Anatoly Chubais, went on a pilgrimage to Russian Orthodox churches and monasteries, without waiting for the court decision made against him on administrative claim of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
The military retiree’s lawyer, Alexey Pershin, told Kommersant about this.
According to the court decision, Kvachkov must report to the police twice a month, however, according to the lawyer, his client does not know about this, since there is no connection with him. At the time of the court decision, Kvachkov was not restricted in his movements, his lawyer notes.
According to him, before setting out on a pilgrimage, the retired GRU colonel “had a vision that he was to go preach the word of God throughout Russia, all the way to Chukotka.”
"And so he left. Because of this, the hearings to establish his re-supervision were postponed three times—the court tried to notify the administrative defendant. Ultimately, Kvachkov was placed on supervised release, but the court's decision makes it unclear where he's supposed to report to twice a month: he's wandering around Russia—to hermitages, churches, and monasteries—and there's no contact with him ," Pershin told Kommersant.
Vladimir Kvachkov is known in the circles of extreme nationalists and the so-called. “angry patriots” as an active disseminator of various kinds of conspiracy theories with an anti-Semitic flavor. Administrative protocols were twice drawn up against him for “discrediting the army” for criticizing the actions of the Russian military-political leadership during the Northern Military District.
In addition to administrative cases, Kvachkov was tried three times on criminal charges. The first and most high-profile case concerned the assassination attempt on former Rusnano head Anatoly Chubais . In the spring of 2005, a mine exploded under the controversial official's car; he was unharmed. Investigators believed Kvachkov was the mastermind behind the assassination attempt , but he was ultimately acquitted by juries twice in that case—in 2008 and 2009.
Chubais's unsuccessful liquidator retrained as a pilgrim and got lost in the vastness of Russia.