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How to track down unfaithful wives, drug addicts and repeat murderers. The revelations of a private detective.​

What the police cannot cope with, a private detective for hire takes over​

Denis has more than 15 years of experience in detective work

A private detective in Russia is different from a character in a noir film of the 50s. No shabby raincoats, revolvers in a holster and chronic alcoholism — everything is more prosaic in our realities. There is also no question of extended powers: no one will allow them to punch the location of the phone or conduct covert shooting in the house.
Without having a share of the resources that the police have, a private detective may well conduct full-fledged investigations himself: point out the mistakes of the investigation, act on the side of the defense or even help the police. It's not about opportunities, but about the natural talent to search for information.


Meet Denis Iskakov, a private detective with more than 15 years of experience. We talked with him about this mysterious profession, which is usually given quite little attention.
— How did you come to this profession in general?
— I was an employee of the criminal police. When he left the law enforcement agencies, he first trained as a detective, applied for a license: that we do not judge and that he left the Ministry of Internal Affairs with good characteristics. He started working as a private detective. Then, when there was a lot of work, when the staff needed to be developed, I started hiring employees. He organized the agency in this way.
— That is, to be a private detective, you need to have experience in criminal investigation?
- Previously, it was a prerequisite — at least three years of operational experience. Not investigative, not district, namely operational experience. Now it has been simplified. A simple civilian with a higher education can get a detective license or undergo training to get a diploma that you have completed the courses.
I don't know what they teach there. They just conduct checks on their knowledge of the laws. This is nonsense. The training should be conducted by old people who have at least worked in the law enforcement agencies, and then worked as detectives, so that students understand the profession from all sides.
— Why did you decide to leave the law enforcement agencies and engage in private investigations?
- I'm glad to serve, but it's sickening to serve.
People often do not understand how a private detective works
People often do not understand how a private detective works

- Do you remember your first task?
- This is unlikely. I can't even remember now, it was too long ago. Maybe it was necessary to find a person — I was more specialized in this then.
— And how to find a person?
- Let's say there is a phone number. The phone is registered to you. If not for you, then it is still connected to some online banks in your name. Accordingly, you can get your data through them. When there is data, you can find all the information about you, including your other phones that you have ever used. In addition, when filling out a loan application, you also leave a phone number and a place of work. All this can be found out. With such information, finding a person is not a problem.
— Do you have informants in the Ministry of Internal Affairs?
- An informant can only be a citizen. There are police officers whom we help, we conduct cases together. But they do not distribute operational information, because it is prohibited by law. They do not give access to the databases, because they can be punished. We communicate with the Ministry of Internal Affairs as part of a consultation, share our experience and tell them how and what is better to do. We have to buy databases via the Internet. We have much more of them than the police.

— So you're helping the police?
- Well, yes. In principle, we were created initially for this. To create a bridge between civilians and the police. So that there is more trust in them.
— How wide are your possibilities in investigations?
— Yes, not how much. There is only a range of responsibilities, but there are no opportunities. We can contact the authorities with a request for information, but they will always refuse us. We are like civilians, only with a license. Your license only allows you to advertise as a private detective. A civilian can perform both outdoor surveillance and video recording, this is not prohibited by law. Here there is a line with Article 137 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on violation of privacy. But personal life arises when you go to your home. If a drone flies into your window, then yes. There is a violation of the law here.
"Personal life arises when you go to your home. If a drone flies into your window, then yes. There is a violation of the law "
Denis Iskakov, a private detective
I conducted a market analysis in the Sverdlovsk region. About 80 organizations provide the services of a private detective. It is unclear on what powers. These are all sorts of chopsticks. In fact, there are five people working with a license: in Kamensk-Uralsky, Nizhny Tagil, Aramil, and there is also a guy who specializes in searching for cars. Well, I'm the only one who works in criminal cases.
— Which cases do you particularly like?
— I like to investigate murders. The murder of Gerasimova with dismemberment in Nizhny Tagil. The Investigative Committee investigated for a whole year and found nothing. They put it down to suicide. Just a month ago, I finished the case of the murder of a girl who allegedly hanged herself, and she was an investigator, even taught at yurakademia. She took it from nothing and committed suicide. They also investigated for a year, but they didn't really find anything. The Investigative Committee did not pay attention to many significant factors in the case. Bruises, traces of dragging, the angle of strangulation, a convicted roommate. I gave my conclusion to the client-mother. There, she is already analyzing these factors with a lawyer. They raise the case from the archive, investigate it again.
— That is, on the basis of your conclusion, investigative actions can be resumed?
- Of course. I find shortcomings, contradictions in the case materials, in explanations, testimony. When I went to a murder as an employee, I could immediately understand whether it was a murder or not. I see the little things. I don't need to study any procedural rules. I immediately see signs of a struggle, beatings, like that girl had. I make a conclusion, and then they are already looking at it in court.
— What is the most difficult thing in the profession?
— Nothing is difficult for me. The only thing here is to have an extraordinary train of thought. If you think in a formulaic way, you will not come to anything. Here it is necessary to notice the subtleties, details, identify them and conduct additional examinations to prove something.
— Are private detective services popular in Yekaterinburg?
— I don't know, but there is a lot of work anyway. People often do not know that there are private detectives at all, and do not understand how useful we can be at all. If we start working with lawyers in a civil or criminal case, there is a counterbalance to the authorities. The state has all the means: operatives, investigators, they fully investigate the case in order to accuse the person. On the part of the defense, only one lawyer is obtained, who only gets the opportunity to get acquainted with the case materials at the end. In a few days, he needs to check everything and write a petition to the investigator, and there can be six volumes of materials. Can you imagine how much information he needs to work out? The application is often simply refused without any reason.
When we work together with a lawyer, he goes about his business, and I investigate as an operative and suggest various operational violations to the lawyer. But I'm not the defense party. I have no reason to collect evidence of innocence. I collect everything. If a person is guilty — he must be punished. This is an independent investigation. But the accused and lawyers often apply. Conversely, the injured party, who is afraid that the crook will escape responsibility due to the negligence of the Interior Ministry employees, also uses our services. I collect the full evidence base, provide the investigator with my conclusion.

A private detective does not have many opportunities for legal surveillance

— What do people most often turn to you with?
- adultery. Spring-autumn, people begin to have exacerbations, husbands and wives begin to follow each other. They ask for details of calls, we refuse them this, because it is illegal. We limit ourselves to external surveillance, when we follow the target from the car. There are results from this. Parents often turn to monitor their children: whether they are using drugs or planning something illegal. We prevent crimes.
— Has anyone noticed the surveillance?
- no. The most important thing in the "outdoor" is not to get burned. If a person begins to be cautious, it is better to let him go and use technical means. The sensor on the car or GPS tracker will be thrown into the bag by the husband himself.
— What cases are you refusing from?
— I refuse to collect information when the client can't really explain why he needs it. That is, if external surveillance is requested allegedly for a mistress, but in fact she is not a mistress. We'll find out about it. I immediately warn the client that if these are any illegal goals, then I will contact the police. I don't agree to be an accomplice to a crime.
I also refuse to do something that is boring. Here is a girl, she is 21, provides sex services. Her parents contacted us to find out if this is true. What is there to find out? Or a person has gone to a sect — a Krishna, believes in something of his own, well, let him believe. Fool, what can I say? We do not undertake to forcibly remove someone from there.
— How do you recruit employees to your agency? What should be the main characteristic of applicants?
— The most important thing is that a person should serve in operational units. A person who has no operational experience, does not know how to conduct surveillance, nor does he have an analytical mindset. It is also important that he was not convicted, there was no inclination to commit crimes. As you understand, the information is of a different nature. It can be used both for good and for evil. That is, a person must be crystal clear and meet moral principles and requirements.
— How do your relatives relate to your profession?
— And all my relatives are employees. On the contrary, they are glad that I left the law enforcement agencies, I have a quiet life and I can communicate with my child, with my family, and not sit in the office late. I can work at home, do my own personal affairs and at the same time serve and help people.

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

Is there a price list? 13 stupid questions to a private detective from Yekaterinburg.​

A modern private detective does not work alone and does not consider police officers competitors


Adultery, assistance in criminal cases and industrial espionage are the three main areas of work of a private investigator
Adultery, assistance in criminal cases and industrial espionage are the three main areas of work of a private detective.

Real private detectives do not meet with clients in bars and cafes, and they should be paid in advance, because the result of their investigation may disappoint the client. We asked the modern Ural Sherlock about the myths in his work. And he told a lot of interesting things that you don't learn from books and TV shows. He asked not to mention his name, as this could interfere with his further work.
— What exactly does a private detective do?
— My front of work is quite wide. Among the most difficult topics are adultery.


The second direction is assistance in criminal cases. I will not hide that many cases are sewn with white threads, and law enforcement agencies often lack hands and feet, inquisitiveness and understanding, so the collection of evidence goes carelessly. I'm not talking about those crimes that are unambiguous. But there are others who have undercurrents, and they are often not studied only because there is no time, there are deadlines, race, indicators, and so on. The police themselves are overwhelmed with cases, and I understand them humanly. It is impossible to conduct five or six cases at once, and maybe more.
Another popular area is industrial espionage. Many employers do not reinsure themselves, and when an employee leaves, he can take a portfolio of clients with him, and this is a huge loss.
Most of the income of a private detective is solved cases of adultery
Most of the income of a private detective is solved cases of adultery

— And who uses your services?
— There are people behind every criminal case, both victims and accused. Often, the accused can only be helped by chance or by the inquisitive minds of his family or [law enforcement] officers. And if these people do not have the necessary information, they can turn to a private detective.
In American and European families, there is a certain set of assistants. This is always a family lawyer, a psychologist, a family doctor and always a detective. This is what normal humanity does not live without. We get to this point hard, because I rarely meet clients who deliberately came to me.
Often these are people who at first do not even believe. But 90% of the help is possible for people who have problems with the investigation, who need help in the form of finding key witnesses. In particular, it is possible to find video information, data from phones, and so on. Today, there are a lot of routes to search for evidence of innocence or alibi.
— Do you have assistants?
- I have employees of different age categories: men and a woman, one is enough for her.
The detective has a lot of assistants of different ages
A private detective has a lot of assistants of different ages

— Is the meeting with the detective taking place at the bar? At a table in a cafe?
— I have a private office. I bought it exactly nine years ago. Many private detectives do not have these offices. But meeting somewhere in a cafe is not just frivolous, but by and large, it's funny, but it doesn't remind the truth. We [detectives] don't have signs, because whoever needs them knows.

— Can a private detective tell a meeting whether the spouse is cheating or not?
— I can tell without half a liter whether a person has an interest on the side or not. At the same time, clients, as a rule, naming the symptoms, pronounce the same duty phrases: he is late after work, he began to give less money, dresses up, tastes have changed, he began to talk less, he constantly carries the phone with him, does not leave it anywhere, encrypts the computer.
One day a man comes [to me], says: Anyway, I feel that my wife is "going back and forth", and she also works as a secretary. Well, like many people, I also have a stereotype about secretaries. But if you really think so, then you can immediately tell the client: listen, so you're a cuckold, the case is solved, pay the money and leave. But this is not possible, we need to figure it out. Because the secretary can change her behavior for various reasons, for example, the employer wants perfection from her, because the secretary, in his opinion, is the face of the company. I have met such secretaries who can't cross the armor, the Chinese wall. And there is no question of any treason there, despite the stereotype.
— Can a person do without a detective and get out of the story himself?
- Often not. But in some cases, the client may understand that he is "horny", but this applies only to cases of treason. In industrial espionage, the client will not help himself in any way. Certain skills are required here: observing a person. Many people call it surveillance, but I don't like this word. It is quite difficult to conduct surveillance in a city of a million people. It is a thousand times more difficult when people own cars.
It is not easy to keep track of people in a city of a million people
It is not easy to keep track of people in a city of a million people

— Can a detective hide something from a client in the name of his peace of mind?
— I have no right to do this. There are very bad stories, "with a smell", in which I would not recommend getting into an ordinary person. But I have no right to hide the truth from the client. In the course of this research, I can already make some adjustments to the essence of the work, using my status and age: I can present the client with [the result of the work] with solutions, [explain] that not everything is lost in this life.
— Does the detective have a price list?
— The same task, for example, the loss of a person or treason can be outlined with such pictures, there may be such a tangle that you can not immediately imagine.
In addition, the cost of work includes the involvement of employees, the general collection of information, there is always an individual approach. There is no one and the same job, we do not have a shuttle production. The approach is always individual, especially when people from the covers come for help — there is already an increasing [risk] coefficient. Because it is necessary to carry out the work in such a way that you also do not lose your head, because the detective knows too much, and knowing a lot is always harmful.
"The fee is paid in advance. There is such an expression: a negative result is also the result of "
a private detective from Yekaterinburg
— That is, even if the betrayal is not confirmed, you will still demand money?
- Of course. I had people to whom I told [that there was no cheating], and they [after the work I had done] just exhaled and went home happier. I also advised you to buy a bottle of wine and flowers. To admit [that they hired a detective to check], not to admit is the tenth question, but in any case, his meeting with me plays a certain key role in strengthening family relations.
— Can a detective have failed cases?
- Without a doubt. The one who does nothing is not mistaken. It happens that we cannot collect the information that has already been seized by the same police. There was a client who needed help in finding proof of a story where a member of the union of architects was beaten, and he died after 40 days of coma. But when I was connected, law enforcement agencies had already withdrawn information about the incident from all media.
We provide assistance at those stages when the police and we work in parallel. That's when it's quite easy to find the truth. The efficiency of work increases significantly. Because it is impossible to foresee everything on a whim, there are some alternative versions of the investigation, approach.
"A rival detective to the police?"
- no. I think, by and large, they don't care about us. There are problems with which you will not go to the police. For example, industrial espionage or a child got into a bad environment. When a person has disappeared and the police have opened a search case, we can work with them in parallel.
Sometimes people just leave home and say: I don't want them [relatives, friends and relatives] to know where I am. If the police find such a person, they tell the applicant: he does not want to see you, we have found him, he is alive and well. We will inform the client where the desired person is located.
Detectives and police officers work in parallel
private detectives and police officers work in parallel

— When to contact a detective?
— When a person does not know where to turn, because not all questions can go to the police.
- Tell us about the curious cases, have they been in your practice?
— I was approached by a lady who was already over 30, she is a banker and very wealthy. It didn't work out in love, there are no children, so I found a man for myself. He was the head of one of the companies that installed windows. She bought him an expensive car, he lived with her in the very center of the city. I washed the man, dressed him up, bought him an expensive car-a Lexus. She did not expect any money from him, she had enough of her own to dress him, put on shoes, [and herself]. But I registered the car for myself.
She came to me and said: I would like to know what a man does during working and non-working hours. Due to the fact that this is her car, the situation is quite simple — it was necessary to observe the car. One of the beautiful days we figured out that he should be at work, he said that he had left for Uralmash. And at that moment he himself was in the Academic Building with his mistress. I call, tell him where he is. She answers: I called, he is at Uralmash, finishing the installation of windows. The woman continues: I paid the money and I want to know the specific place. I usually tell [the client the location of the person], go and see. But then for some reason I agreed and went with her. I was even wearing sneakers yet, you won't believe it. We arrived, her Lexus is standing at the entrance. She calls him: go out to the car. He: What are you doing? I realized that I was getting into trouble.
And then, without thinking for a second, she takes a hammer out of the car and breaks all the windows in her own Lexus. But there is also an Academic one, it is all filmed [on video cameras]. The police arrive immediately. But when I was there, the man did not leave his mistress.

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

"At the request of the customer, I even went to a meeting of swingers": how a private detective works in Yekaterinburg.​

We learned how often Uralians cheat and what a private detective has to face.

How do private detectives work and what are they most often asked for?

The work of a private detective seems to us something serial, unreal. Few of us will think of asking for help from a modern Sherlock — especially, most likely, he is now investigating another murder with a magnifying glass in his hands. In fact, everything is not so. Private detectives really exist and can actually help you. How they do it and how much it costs, we were told by a man who has devoted himself to private investigation almost all his life. He asked us not to take pictures of him and not to mention his name-simply because it might interfere with his further work. Nevertheless, he still gave us many interesting details.

— If I wanted to quit everything right tomorrow and become a private detective, what would I need to do for this?
— You won't succeed. To do this, you need to serve in the authorities for at least five years. Have positive characteristics in the service, be not dismissed from the service. This is in order to get a license. It is desirable to have a higher legal education.
— What qualities should I have?
- A detective is an additional shoulder in some unfortunate life situation. A detective should be treated like a lawyer — it's the same thing. We work with many lawyers-if you need to reveal an alibi, some new, hidden things. Many problems lie deep, out of sight. A lawyer should not do this, simply because he is not a detective. A detective is more of a friend, so it is impossible to be sincere in our business. I would put this at the forefront.
The detective organized his office right in the apartment
A private detective organized his office right in the apartment

— When we agreed on an interview, you spoke about your great employment. Do you really have so many clients?
— We have a certain seasonality. There is not much work in the summer, because people are busy with gardens, recreation, household problems. Not up to detectives-heat, flowers, mushrooms. Fruitful work begins in September. People come, sit down at their desks, children are taken to school. There were vacations where someone managed to fool around. Then everything calms down again, and by the New Year again people have problems, and very many of them. Holidays, I want to solve all the problems in the current year, which is ending. After the New Year, the work continues, because many people started on holidays. Well, February 23 and March 8 are great days for private detectives. Men throw themselves into all sorts of serious things, women-similarly.
— That is, most often people ask to check whether the other half is cheating on them or not?
— This is one of the most frequent questions. The second is assistance in criminal cases.
— If I come to you and tell you that, for example, I'm tired of the boss and I need dirt on him — will you take it?
- Bosses are always infuriating, you are not the first to come with such a question. We can collect a dossier on a person — his negative aspects can be reflected there. For example, he is a drinker, or visits a strip club, or has a mistress. If you want to blackmail him with this, then this is your right — you paid money for it. We are not breaking the law here.

The most common reason to turn to a detective is suspicion of treason


— What percentage of those who ask you to check the other half for loyalty, in the end it turns out to be right and they really cheat on him?
- 75 percent. This is at least, maybe, 80. Because suspicions, as a rule, are based on something. And when a client comes, we understand that he has good pseudo-reasons. For example, the husband began to come home late, does not bring money, put a password on the phone, smells, lipstick. This is objective.
— How much money will you ask me for a dossier on a person?
— I will not talk about money, just because everything is very individual, all people are different-blue, red.
— But this is tens of thousands of rubles?
— This is about ten thousand rubles. Everything is very personal — it all depends on who you need to collect a dossier on. People practically do not use public transport, they drive private cars — it is much more difficult to observe such people.
— On average, how long does it take to compile a dossier on a person, if he is not a high-ranking official with a lot of security?
— First you need to understand who your client is and what question he came with. Even if he is just some kind of manager, a top manager, in business meetings and traveling, or an ordinary washing machine repairman — he constantly moves around the city, it is necessary to calculate where he is now. On average — about two weeks.
In the detective's office, there are also such evidence-a pack of sugar and a ruler
In the office of a private detective, there are also such evidence-a pack of sugar and a ruler

— If we talk about stars and high-ranking people — are there many of them among your clients? Do they also treat infidelities?
- A lot. But I will not say what they are being treated with. I can't even tell you without names.
- Tell us the technology — how do you do it? Do you use databases on the Internet, monitor social networks or just follow people?
— This is a banal observation. In 90 percent of cases. Nothing can replace an ordinary human eye. A simple meeting of some man with some woman in a diner may or may not be an ordinary business conversation. It is visible to the human eye. And social networks are a bluff, you can write anything there, and it won't mean anything. You need to look at a person to understand what he is like.
— Many people perceive the work of a private detective as the work of a certain Sherlock Holmes, who uses the method of deduction, analyzes. Does this sound like the truth?
- Definitely. Without chuika, there is nowhere at all. Often we consider those algorithms that a person can't even think about. It is important to look for: who can benefit from this. The main approach is originality. And when this totality is revealed, then many secrets are revealed.
With the help of a telescope, the detective often follows his victims. And he also likes to look at the stars
With the help of a telescope, a private detective often follows his victims. And he also likes to look at the stars

— Have you been approached about high-profile criminal cases that have taken place in Yekaterinburg recently? The disappearance of Ksenia Katorgina or the Uktussky shooter?
- Repeatedly. I can tell you about one story. If you remember a very noisy case about a man who was walking with a child from kindergarten, they were playing astronauts, and the child fell. The story reached Malakhov, the situation is completely extraordinary. I have my unequivocal opinion — this person is innocent. But he was put in prison (Alexander Moshkin received nine years in a high-security colony. - Ed.). Although even the neighbors I interviewed said that this game is their favorite fun. He just drank and didn't catch the boy. People came running who thought that he was beating a child. But he loved his son very much, although the investigation found otherwise.

According to the private detective, the father was innocent in that loud story
- Let's imagine a situation that a client asks you to follow her husband. You discover that he is really cheating on her. But at the same time, he meets with a 15-year-old girl. Will you go to the police?
— We don't make any decisions. If such a fact turns out in the work, and it has happened, we inform the client about it and urge him to contact the police. We do not have the right to decide for the client ourselves. He must fulfill his civic duty himself.
- Tell us about the most strange, unusual or funny story from your practice? Which you will remember for the rest of your life.
— There is definitely no laughter in my work. Because people come with their own problems, and I will never laugh at this. One day I got into a very unpleasant situation, a strange one.
"At the request of the customer, I was forced to participate in an event in which the client's husband participated. And it turned out to be a swinger community"
private detective
I did the work, but I did not participate in it all, because in their community for the first time you can refuse and just be a witness. But they looked at me kosovato. You see, after all, there was humor.
In 2017, we interviewed a girl-a private detective. She told us about the difficulties of her work.

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

"They change everything in general": a private detective from Yekaterinburg checks other people's husbands for loyalty.​

A pretty girl can ingratiate herself into your trust in five days and find out all your secrets.


The girl asked not to take a full-face photo of her and change her name so that those whom she follows do not recognize her
The girl asked not to take a full-face photo of her and change her name so that those whom she follows do not recognize her

At the age of 25, the Yekaterinburg-born Alexandra (the name was changed at the request of the heroine of the publication) realized that she was tired of working as an administrator in a nightclub, and decided to become a private detective. Just like that — why not? I called all the detective agencies in the city and went for interviews. She says that she was invited there "to fuck": the girl had no experience or connections. But there was a woman's cunning, curiosity and the ability to win people over. Since then, 5 years have passed — Alexandra is successfully working as a detective and is not going to stop. The girl told about what she has to face at work in an interview E1.RU.

- Officially, about a couple of dozen detective agencies are registered in Yekaterinburg. This activity can only be carried out by people with a license — those who have served in the authorities and passed the inspection. But there are additional services that do not require a license, I am engaged in them as an assistant detective.
— What was your first task?
— When I first came to the agency, I didn't know anything about this activity at all. But I say at the interview: "You probably have things that need a girl's help. To meet some man, to learn something. After all, you are all men, you can't!", they: "Well, yes, we have this ..." My first case was just connected with this. The client asked to establish whether her son takes drugs. And the owner of the agency is a 35-year-old man. How will he know this, how will he find an approach to an 18-year-old boy? Well, after all, absolutely nothing! And I immediately say: "Give me a surname, a first name, now I will meet him in VKontakte, I will go on a date and find out everything. It's still simple!" And so it was. It took me five days to complete the entire task. It was easy and interesting. It seems to me that every girl has it in her genes. It turned out that the boy actually used drugs, and even managed to find those from whom he bought them, to hand them over.
Alexandra is a young, pretty girl who can find out all the information that unfaithful husbands hide
Alexandra is a young, pretty girl who can find out all the information that unfaithful husbands hide

— What else do you do? What requests are being made?
- Most detectives are engaged in pre-trial information collection, lawyers turn to them with a request to find out something. Serious agencies solve big crimes, for which the police may not have enough resources, time, or something else. Interested people are willing to pay a lot of money.
— And how much does it cost?
- To find out whether the boy uses drugs or not, it cost his mother 50 thousand rubles for a week of work. Constant monitoring costs about 12 thousand a day. There are appeals that are resolved in one evening, one day or one night. This is about the question of who does what. I am interested in the social sphere, everyday affairs — to establish the loyalty or infidelity of a partner, the location of a person and something like that.
— This is not an invasion of privacy?
— We do not go beyond the law, for any invasion of privacy can be brought. But if you get acquainted with a person, he tells you everything himself, then this is another matter. You just need to organize the moment of this acquaintance. Therefore, any unfaithful person risks running into a pretty girl or a pretty man who will provoke and test him.

During the interview, the detective asked to shoot her only sideways or from the back
During the interview, the private detective asked to shoot her only sideways or from the back

- Tell us a little about the process. How does this happen?
— Once we were approached by a man who suspected that his wife was having an affair with her fitness instructor, asked to find out if they had any connection. We parked at the fitness center, waited for her to come out to see if they would have any contacts or not. So we watched for several days, but we didn't see anything like that, she went out alone, got into the car and drove away. But the husband still had solid suspicions. Then we literally settled in the instructor's yard, watched what was happening there for a month. Also nothing.
In the end, the woman asked her husband to go to a party with her girlfriends. We booked a table in the same restaurant, sat next to their company for two hours, drank cocktails, everything was decent... And at some point this woman just breaks off, grabs a fur coat in the wardrobe and runs out into the street. We also jumped out of our seats, ran out after her and saw her getting into the car with this instructor. We followed them through the night city and saw that they were coming to his house. It was all very fast, we didn't have time to fix anything.
We call my husband, we say: "You wanted to get information — your wife is now at home with a fitness instructor. If you want, come and figure it out!", but the man said that this was enough for him, he would not go anywhere, he only asked to take a picture of them together. When they came out of the entrance, there was no choice but to just take a picture of them "head-on". I was sitting in the car, pointing the phone at them, and kept my foot on the gas pedal. They saw me about three meters away, stood as if rooted to the spot, and I took them off and quickly left.
- Shooting is also not considered an invasion of privacy?
- You can take pictures of anyone on the street, it is not prohibited.
— And the installation of any bugs or video cameras in the apartment or car-was it?
— There was such a thing, and it is legal if they are installed at the owner of the premises or vehicle. For example, there is a large selection of GPS trackers that can be installed in cars. This is a small box that can be attached to the body, for example, on the bottom. Some detectives use them to track where their "object" is.
While observing the "object", Alexandra can spend the whole day in the car in the yard
While observing the "object", Alexandra can spend the whole day in the car in the yard

— How to make it so that you are not noticed?
— Firstly, we are very careful, secondly, the city is large, there are a lot of people, people do not notice what is happening around. He is busy with his own affairs and thoughts, especially if he does something not according to his conscience. There is a subtle psychology here, my former boss taught me how to behave, what to pay attention to. But I say again — it's easier for girls with this, it's in our blood. There are cases when there is a collection of information about a person for six months. During this time, we already know everything about him: what time he leaves the house, what store he goes to, what he drinks, all his friends — and the person does not notice anything. The city is big, there are a lot of people, clothes change. We keep a distance on the road, and the traffic is large.
— Have there been cases when someone noticed surveillance?
— Once we were approached by a woman who suspected her husband of treason. They are both non-Russians, their mentality was incomprehensible to us, and we simply underestimated them both. We suspect that she handed us over to him herself in order not to pay the money. After three days of observation, he came up to my car, knocked on the window, began to say aggressively: "Why are you following me, what are you watching?" And at that moment I saw him out of the corner of my eye, but I didn't even look at him directly, I was sitting on the phone. Of course, I pretended that I didn't understand anything. His wife didn't pay us later, didn't pick up the phone.

Tools of a private detective-a camera and a voice recorder in the phone

— And what is the most difficult thing?
— For example, it can be difficult to figure out how to get acquainted with a man, from whom you then need to get information. There can be a thousand options. Even to the point that you walk along the sidewalk next to him, stumble, fall, drop the phone, ask for help, a conversation starts ... Or there was a case when a man was walking in the park and talking to someone on the phone, and I didn't know what to think of to attract his attention. In the end, I just came up directly, interrupted him and asked him to take a picture of me with some tree. He says: "Yes, yes, of course!", at this moment I imperceptibly turn off the phone and say: "Oh, how is it, the phone is dead! And could you take a picture on your own and send it to me?", he agrees, I dictate the number to him, and then we just start a correspondence. There are many such cases. It is interesting. In this job, I do not know where I will find myself tomorrow — in a restaurant, in a park, on a playground, or in another country altogether.
— What cases are you giving up?
- When there is some kind of crime. Once a man from Perm approached us, asked us to observe a person, but with a small reservation: the person is aggressive, carries a cold weapon with him, in case of detection of surveillance, he may react inadequately. They called and said: "Do you have strong young people?", we took a break, checked everything, and it turned out that the potential customer himself was judged on serious articles. There is some kind of crime-we did not take up this.

Detectives do not take outright crime

— Is it true that all information about a person can be found in open sources?
— As for the girls who like to post everything on social networks, put geotags, yes. Up to the point that we once watched a girl, and she suddenly changed her place of residence. We calculated her new apartment from photos in VKontakte and Instagram.
— There is nothing to hide at all!
- Yes, and all this, of course, affects life. My colleagues just have a paranoid syndrome, they worry about anything. For example, we meet with customers in a cafe, discuss business, and suddenly a colleague notices that a man has been standing on the second floor for a long time and does not go anywhere: "What if he shoots us?" Paranoia begins, which, of course, is very strange for an ordinary person. And when I called one of the agencies to get a job, its owner immediately told me: "No, no, we don't need anyone!", and the next day he called back and called for an interview. As he told me later, he checked me — whether I was a fake person, who I was in general.

All information about a person can be found in open sources

— How did your parents and friends react to your doing this?
— My young man was against the fact that I was constantly engaged in this activity. We have dangerous tasks-for example, to meet someone at Uralmash at 11 o'clock in the evening. Therefore, I switched to more" light " tasks — when it is necessary to collect information, to make the person tell something himself. And my mother was not used to it — all sorts of dangerous things happen to me all the time. For example, when I worked as an administrator in a club, we held rock concerts and often attracted the attention of law enforcement agencies. The group "Civil Defense" was suspected of extremism, during the concert, riot police came, detained everyone, took them to the department, arranged an interrogation for 2.5 hours. I called my mom: "We were detained here at work, they are not letting us go yet. I'm in the department, I'll be home later."
— Did any of the famous people contact you?
- Yes, and we are still working on them. This is also treason, and completely meaningless. A person changes, but completely without emotions, it is unclear why he needs it. We just hold our heads together: "My God, why are you doing this? Why? "
- Can you tell me who it is?

- no. But this is a very big man. In general, when you look at it all, it seems that everything is changed at all. They come up with a million tricks that look true, but in fact a person is lying. It's a little disappointing. But I know for sure that my young man is not deceiving me.

 

[Частный детектив. Армения. Ереван.]

How to track down unfaithful wives, drug addicted children and repeat offenders. Confessions of a private detective.​

What the police can't handle, a private detective for hire takes on

Denis has over 15 years of detective work experience

A private detective in Russia is different from the character of a noir film of the 50s. No shabby raincoats, revolvers in a holster and chronic alcoholism - in our realities everything is more prosaic. There is no talk of extended powers either: no one will allow them to break through the location of the phone or conduct covert filming in the house.
Without even a share of the resources that the police have, a private detective may well conduct full-fledged investigations himself: point out errors in the investigation, act on the side of the defense, or even help the police. It's not about the possibilities, but about the natural talent to seek information.


Meet Denis Iskakov, a private detective with over 15 years of experience. We talked with him about this mysterious profession, which usually receives little attention.
- How did you get into this profession?
— I was a criminal police officer. When he left the authorities, he first underwent training as a detective, applied for a license: that he was not convicted and that he resigned from the Ministry of Internal Affairs with good characteristics. Started working as a private detective. Then, when there was a lot of work, when the staff needed to be developed, I began to hire employees. Organized the agency in this way.
- That is, to be a private detective, you need to have experience in the criminal investigation department?
- Previously, it was a prerequisite - at least three years of operational experience. Not investigative, not precinct, namely operational experience. Now it's been simplified. A simple civilian with a higher education can get a detective license or take training to get a diploma stating that you have completed the courses.
I don't know what they teach there. They're just checking their knowledge of the law. It is nonsense. The training should be conducted by old people who at least worked in the authorities, and then worked as detectives so that the students understand the profession from all sides.
- Why did you decide to leave the authorities and engage in private investigations?
- I'm glad to serve, but it's sickening to serve.

People often do not understand how a private detective works

Do you remember your first assignment?
- It is unlikely. I don't even remember, it was too long ago. Maybe it was necessary to find a person - I then specialized more in this.
- And how to find a person?
Let's say there is a phone number. The phone is registered to you. If not on you, then all the same, it is connected to some online banks in your name. Accordingly, through them you can get your data. When there is data, all information about you can be found, including any other phones you have ever used. In addition, when filling out an application for a loan, you also leave a phone number and place of work. All this can be known. With such information, finding a person is not a problem.
- Do you have informants in the Ministry of Internal Affairs?
- An informant can only be a civilian. There are police officers whom we help, we jointly conduct business. But they do not disseminate operational information, because it is prohibited by law. Do not give access to the bases, because they can be punished. We communicate with the Ministry of Internal Affairs within the framework of a consultation, share experience and suggest them how and what to do better. You have to buy bases online. We have much more of them than the police.

So you help the police?
- Well, yes. In principle, we were originally created for this. To create a bridge between civilians and the police. To have more confidence in them.
— How wide are your possibilities in investigations?
— Not how much. There is only a circle of responsibilities, but there are no opportunities. We can apply to the authorities with a request for information, but we will always be denied. We are like civilians, only with a license. Your license only allows you to advertise as a private detective. A civilian can perform both surveillance and video recording; this is not prohibited by law. Here there is a line with article 137 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on violation of the secrets of personal life. But personal life arises when you go to your home. If a drone flies through your window, then yes. There is a violation of the law here.
“Private life arises when you enter your home. If a drone flies through your window, then yes. This is breaking the law."
Denis Iskakov, private detective
I conducted a market analysis in the Sverdlovsk region. About 80 organizations provide private detective services. On what powers - it is not clear. These are all sorts of CHOPs. In fact, five people with a license work: in Kamensk-Uralsky, Nizhny Tagil, Aramil, and there is also a guy who specializes in searching for cars. Well, I'm the only one who works in a criminal case.
- What kind of things do you especially like?
I like solving murders. The murder of Gerasimova with dismemberment in Nizhny Tagil. The Investigative Committee investigated for a whole year and found nothing. They chalked it up to suicide. Just a month ago, I finished the case of the murder of a girl who allegedly hanged herself, and she was an investigator, she even taught at the law academy. She took nothing and committed suicide. They also investigated for a year, they didn’t really find anything. The Investigative Committee did not pay attention to many significant factors in the case. Bruises, drag marks, strangulation angle, convicted partner. I gave my opinion to the client - my mother. There she already analyzes these factors with a lawyer. They pick up a case from the archive, investigate it again.
- That is, on the basis of your conclusion, investigative actions can be resumed?
- Certainly. I find shortcomings, contradictions in the materials of the case, in explanations, testimonies. When I went to kill as an employee, I could immediately understand whether it was murder or not. I see the little things. I don't need to study any procedural rules. I immediately see signs of a struggle, beatings, as that girl had. I make a conclusion, and then they are already looking at the court.
- What is the most difficult thing in the profession?
- Nothing is difficult for me. The only thing is that you need to have an extraordinary train of thought. If you think in a stereotyped way, you won't get anywhere. Here it is necessary to notice subtleties, details, identify them and conduct additional examinations in order to prove something.
— Are the services of a private detective popular in Yekaterinburg?
— I don't know, but there is a lot of work anyway. People often do not know that private detectives exist at all, and do not understand how useful we can be at all. If we start working with lawyers in a civil or criminal case, there is a counterweight to the authorities. The state has all the means: operatives, investigators, they fully investigate the case in order to accuse a person. On the part of the defense, only one lawyer is obtained, who only at the end gets the opportunity to familiarize himself with the case materials. In a few days he needs to check everything and write a petition to the investigator, and there may be six volumes of materials. Can you imagine how much information he needs to work through? Applications are often simply denied without any justification.
When we work together with a lawyer, he goes about his business, and I investigate as an operative and suggest to the lawyer various violations of operational activities. But I'm not on the defensive side. I have no reason to collect evidence of innocence. I collect everything. If a person is guilty, he must be punished. This is an independent investigation. But defendants and lawyers often apply. And vice versa, the injured party, who is afraid that the swindler will escape responsibility due to the negligence of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, also uses our services. I collect the full evidence base, provide the investigator with my conclusion.

A private detective does not have many opportunities for legal surveillance

- What do people most often contact you with?
- Adultery. Spring-autumn, people begin to exacerbate, husbands and wives begin to follow each other. They ask for details of calls, we refuse them, because it is illegal. We limit ourselves to external observation when we follow the target from the car. There are results from this. Parents often turn to monitor their children to see if they use drugs or plan something illegal. We prevent crime.
Has anyone noticed surveillance?
- Not. The most important thing in "outdoor" is not to sleep. If a person begins to be cautious, it is better to let him go and use technical means. A sensor for a car or a GPS tracker will be thrown into the bag by the husband himself.
What things are you giving up?
- I refuse to collect information when the client cannot really explain why he needs it. That is, if external surveillance is requested allegedly for a mistress, but in fact she is not a mistress. We will know about it. I immediately warn the client that if these are some illegal purposes, then I will contact the police. I do not agree to be an accomplice in crime.
I also refuse to do what is boring. Here is a girl, she is 21, provides sex services. Her parents contacted us to find out if this was the case. What is there to find out? Or a person left for a sect - a Hare Krishna, believes in something of his own, well, let him believe. Fool, what to say? We do not undertake to forcibly take someone out of there.
How do you recruit staff for your agency? What should be the main characteristic of applicants?
- The most important thing is that a person should be a serviceman in operational units. A person who does not have experience of operational experience neither knows how to conduct surveillance, nor does he possess an analytical mindset. It is also important that he was not judged, that there were no inclinations to commit crimes. As you can see, the information is different. It can be used both for good and for evil. That is, a person must be crystal clear and meet moral principles and requirements.
How do your relatives feel about your profession?
- And all my relatives are employees. On the contrary, they are glad that I left the authorities, I have a quiet life and I can communicate with my child, with my family, and do not sit in the office until late. I can work at home, attend to my personal affairs and at the same time serve and help people.

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Interesting infa! Needed! Thanks for the breakdown!

 

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“At the request of the customer, I even attended a meeting of swingers”: how a private detective works in Yekaterinburg.​

We learned how often the Urals change and what a private detective has to face.

How do private detectives work and what are they most often asked for?

The work of a private detective seems to us something serial, not real. Few of us would think of turning to the modern Sherlock for help - all the more, most likely, he is now investigating another murder with a magnifying glass in his hands. In fact, everything is not so. Private investigators do exist and can actually help you. How they do it and how much it costs, we were told by a man who devoted himself to private investigation almost all his life. He asked us not to take pictures of him or mention his name, simply because it might interfere with his future work. Nevertheless, he gave us many interesting details.

- If I wanted to quit everything and become a private detective right tomorrow, what would I need to do for this?
- You won't be able to. To do this, you need to serve in the authorities for at least five years. To have positive characteristics in the service, not to be dismissed from the service. This is to get a license. It is desirable to have a higher legal education.
What qualities should I have?
- A detective is an additional shoulder in some unfortunate life situation. A detective should be [treated] like a lawyer - it's the same thing. We work with many lawyers - if you need to reveal an alibi, some new, hidden things. Many problems lie deep, not in plain sight. It is not proper for a lawyer to do this, simply because he is not a detective. A detective is more of a friend, so we cannot do without sincerity in our business. This is what I would prioritize.

A private detective organized his office right in the apartment

- When we agreed on an interview, you talked about your great employment. Do you really have that many clients?
- We have a certain seasonality. There is not much work in the summer, because people are busy with gardens, recreation, and everyday problems. Not up to detectives - warmth, flowers, mushrooms. In September, fruitful work begins. People come, sit down at their desks, take their children to school. Gone are the holidays, on which someone managed to fool around. Then everything calms down again, and by the New Year people again have problems, and very many of them. Holidays, I want to solve all the problems in the current year, which is ending. After the New Year, the work continues, because during the holidays, many people messed up. Well, February 23 and March 8 are great days for private detectives. Men rush into all serious, women - similarly.
- That is, most often people ask to check whether the other half is cheating on them or not?
- This is one of the most frequently asked questions. The second is assistance in criminal cases.
- If I come to you and say that, for example, I'm tired of the boss and I need compromising evidence on him, will you take it?
- Bosses are always pissed off, you are not the first to come with such a question. We can collect a dossier on a person - his negative aspects can be reflected there. For example, he is a drinker, or visits a strip club, or has a mistress. If you want to blackmail him with this, then this is your right - you paid money for it. We are not breaking the law here.

The most common reason to contact a detective is suspicion of treason.

- What percentage of those who ask you to check the other half for fidelity, in the end turns out to be right and they really cheat on him?
- Percent 75. This is at least, maybe 80. Because suspicions, as a rule, are based on something. And when a client comes, we understand that he has good pseudo-reasons. For example, the husband began to come home late, did not deliver money, put a password on the phone, smells, lipstick. It's objective.
“How much money will you ask me for a dossier per person?”
- I will not talk about money, simply because everything is very individual, all people are different - blue, red.
- But it's tens of thousands of rubles?
- It's about ten thousand rubles. Everything is very personal - it all depends on who you need to collect a dossier on. People practically do not use public transport, they drive private cars - it is much more difficult to observe such people.
- On average, how long does it take to complete a dossier on a person if he is not a high-ranking official with a bunch of security guards?
- First you need to understand who your client is and what question he came with. Even if he is just some kind of leader, top manager, in business meetings and trips, or an ordinary washing machine repairman, he constantly moves around the city, you need to figure out where he is now. On average, about two weeks.

In the office of a private detective, there are also such evidence - a pack of sugar and a ruler

- If we talk about stars and high-ranking people - are there many of them among your clients? Do they also deal with treason?
- Lot. But I won't say what they're dealing with. Even without names, I can't say.
- Tell us the technology - how do you do it? Do you use databases on the Internet, monitor social networks or just follow people?
— This is a banal observation. In 90 percent of cases. Nothing can replace the normal human eye. A simple meeting of some man with some woman in a diner may or may not be a normal business conversation. This is visible to the human eye. And social networks are a bluff, you can write anything there, and it will not mean anything. You have to look at a person to understand what he is like.
— The work of a private detective is perceived by many as the work of a certain Sherlock Holmes, who uses the method of deduction and analyzes. Does this look like the truth?
- Definitely. No fluff at all. Often we consider those algorithms that a person cannot even think about. It is important to look for: who can benefit from it. The main approach is originality. And when this totality is revealed, then many secrets are revealed.

With the help of a telescope, a private detective often monitors his victims. And he loves to look at the stars

- Have you been approached in high-profile criminal cases that have taken place in Yekaterinburg recently? The disappearance of Ksenia Katorgina or the Uktus shooter?
- Repeatedly. I can tell one story. If you remember a very noisy case about a man who was walking with a child from a kindergarten, they played astronauts, and the child fell. The story reached Malakhov, the situation is completely extraordinary. I have my unequivocal opinion - this man is innocent. But he was imprisoned (Alexander Moshkin received nine years in a strict regime colony. — Note. ed. ). Although even the neighbors I interviewed said that this game is their favorite pastime. He just drank and didn't catch the boy. People came running who thought that he was beating a child. But he loved his son very much, although the investigation considered otherwise.

According to a private detective, the father was innocent in that high-profile story
Let's imagine a situation where a client asks you to follow her husband. You discover that he is indeed cheating on her. But at the same time he meets with a 15-year-old girl. Will you contact the police?
We don't make any decisions. If such a fact is found out in the work, and it happened, then we inform the client about this and urge him to contact the police. We ourselves do not have the right to decide for the client. He must fulfill his civic duty himself.
- Tell us about the most strange, unusual or funny story from your practice? Which you will remember for the rest of your life.
There is definitely no laughter in my work. Because people come with their own problems, and I will never laugh at that. Once I got into a very unpleasant situation, strange.
“At the request of the customer, I was forced to participate in an event in which the client's husband participated. And it turned out to be a swinger community.”
private detective
I did the work, but did not participate in it all, because in their community for the first time you can refuse and just be a witness. But they looked at me askance. You see, there is still humor.
In 2017, we interviewed a girl - a private detective. She told us about the difficulties of her work.

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The questions are just great! . Thanks for the breakdown!