Peskov does not doubt attack on journalist Kashin will be solved
MOSCOW. Sept 7 (Interfax) - The inquiry into the beating of journalist Oleg Kashin will be completed, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said.
"This is always about unavoidability of punishment, and investigative bodies always keep on working till the end. There is no doubt that every required effort [will be taken] to continue the investigative procedures," he told reporters who asked whether the search for the person who ordered the attack on Kashin would continue.
"Our history shows that such cases, especially those perpetrated on somebody's orders, are very hard to investigate and take a lot of time, but this does not mean they are forgotten," Peskov said.
Peskov found it difficult to say whether Russian President Vladimir Putin was aware of the progress of the inquiry into Kashin's beating. "I cannot be sure but, on the other hand, this is a high-profile case and related reporters are included in the general information flow," he said.
Kashin reported on his website that he deemed solved the attack perpetrated on him in 2010. "My case is solved. The perpetrators have been identified. Two of the three have been arrested," Kashin wrote.
He claimed the attack was committed by Leninets Holding employees Danila Veselov, Vyacheslav Borisov and Mikhail Kavtaskin. Veselov and Kavtaskin have already been indicted. Borisov is on the federal wanted list and has been accused in absentia.
Former Kommersant chief editor Mikhail Mikhailin confirmed that the attack on journalist Oleg Kashin had been solved.
"I was the Kommersant chief editor in 2010 and I can confirm that everything Kashin has written about the attack on him being solved is correct," Mikhailin told Interfax on Monday.
Kommersant journalist Kashin was attacked on November 6, 2010. He was severely beaten near his home on Moscow's Pyatnitskaya Street. The journalist was discharged from hospital in December and returned to work shortly afterwards.
Research and Production Association Leninets (currently Leninets Holding) was established in 1953 in a merger of three enterprises. The holding has about 40 business units - plants and research institutes making special-purpose and civilian products.
According to the SPARK Interfax database, St. Petersburg InvestGroup LLC has an 89.43% stake in the holding, Holding General Designer and President of the St. Petersburg Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Anatoly Turchak controls 9.02%, and Boris Turchak has 0.33% in the holding. InvestGroup LLC is fully owned by Anatoly Turchak.