Alexander Berezin, the story of a private detective with 30 years of experience. Part 2

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Alexander Berezin, the story of a private detective with 30 years of experience. Part 2

We talked to a detective who stood at the origins of a private investigation and completed his first order back in 88. Now Alexander Berezin is 60 years old, he lives in the Lugansk region and continues to work. Our communication is divided into two parts, in the first we paid more attention to past affairs and the history of detective work. And in the second - the current situation and the impact of political events.

First part

Hello, hello. We settled on the fact that you had many interesting cases, beautiful stories that you can share.

There are many stories, it is necessary to remember.

Any one, maybe two, the most vivid and memorable.

All memorable. I was the leader in the first place. Or do you need a private investigation?

Both that, and that is interesting.

I can tell you about production. We developed special equipment, special equipment. They sold successfully. From the very beginning, the A-53 rubber stick was developed. 7000 pieces were produced, sold right up to Czechoslovakia.

Rubber stick is what?

Club, RP. They also developed a sliding whip, a baton. I lost money on it. The experimental samples were cast, but the engineers asked for more money. I did not give them, so they abandoned her. Sewed camouflage uniforms. We bought four-color fabric in Rodniki, and the berets at the factory began to sew the uniform. Sold to security agencies, police. At that time, there was no supply, the Union collapsed. Therefore, we bought a lot of equipment, up to the point that the heads of regional departments came for goods.

You became a private supplier for structures, it turns out?

Like yes.

And in terms of private investigation?

And according to a private investigation, I’m out of business, somewhere from half a ton of the archive, all the cases are interesting. The most active one, perhaps, was when they worked for the so-called magicians. We traveled with such a friend, by the name of Rodionov. I traveled around Ukraine and offered my services. The astral robot was sacrificed, so to speak.

Astral robot?

It was such a concept, an astral robot.

And what did it give?

He made money like Kashpirovsky, these are all things ...

Does he understand to the customer what this gave?

There are no customers, they simply gathered audiences.

I understood. He showed tricks to the general public.

Well, it turned out that several people died.

Why did you die?

With the psyche, not everything was fine.

Suicide or what?

It turns out like this.

And how did you participate in this process? What's happened?

It was necessary to isolate this person, Rodionov. Hooked up the detectives, they worked.

What do you mean worked? How did the process take place?

(laughs) Pressanuli ...

And in the end, he disappeared from the radar?

He was taken out and that was all over. He then appeared on the horizon a couple more times, but already in the quality of ... he was quickly exposed there. The point was that a man was traveling in a train; in the Debaltseve district he jumped out of the carriage. He himself was Voronezh, his parents asked for help to establish the circumstances. They did not believe that it was an accident.

People tackled this issue and eventually it turned out that he died as if by accident. They connected people who went and took things. A note was discovered in these things, on the note was a cablegram to the one who would open it.

And how does it work?

Well, a cablegram is a certain symbolism, like a secret. If an uninitiated person opened it, looked at her, she acts magically. Like black magic. He just climbed into this note, looked and jumped out of the train. It seems like otherworldly, but very interesting. This man, Rodionov, we met several times and he had many such cases when people died.

And there wasn’t any more obvious mechanism?

No no. The police found that the forensic medical examination found that no one threw him away. And he jumped out of the train on the stage. He was traveling with this note from one city to another, it made no sense to kill himself, he was used as a messenger. Well, he climbed into this note and looked.

Then it was such that the employee who worked for me ... and I also climbed into this note. Well, there were troubles. I had to connect specialists in this field. So that they remove this magic.

Damage takers? Seriously?

Well, do not damage, but magic. Protection set. Here you can believe, you can not believe it, but it was so.

But you survived in the end.

Live here. I go, how many years have passed. But it was interesting there is a lengthy process. And the observation had to be done. Rodionov himself was calculated at the session when he again arrived in Lugansk, a year after the well-known events that were at first. In the evening they drove out of the city, took away the documents and said: "Do not appear here again." And then he showed up in Debaltseve.

Alive?

Of course, we didn’t kill. Only scared.



And if something more mundane to consider? When were the thefts, or some kind of household routine?

At one time he gave an interview, the newspaper also wrote that three goats were stolen from an Afghan, a veteran of Afghanistan. He turned to the police, and who will be looking there? And my guys found in three days. Moreover, they were given them free of charge.

How did you find it?

They interviewed people who saw where they saw. It turned out that a compassionate neighbor drove into her barn, hid it. Well, and found there. This is the simplest case, but no one took it. And we found.

And if you talk about the most significant success of the agency, or you as a private investigator? What was the most important thing about professional history?

All that matters is hard to choose. All stories have their own complexity, there are no simple ones. If you are engaged in any business, or invest fully, money is paid for it. Or don’t take it.

Then what was the most expensive? The most paid business?

In the field of private investigation, we did not take large payments. Rates were available all the time. When we started, even under the USSR, any worker could hire a private detective on his salary. Large amounts, as of now, were not. It was considered at first the costly part, and then a modest fee. At first, nobody received huge money in a private investigation. Yes, and now the prices, when compared with the regions ... I now receive a pension of 3000 per month. For me it’s a little money, because the prices are the same as in Russia. And many also live, pensioners.

Who is paying a pension in Lugansk now?

LPR

And what did you say when there were pocket expenses of 7-9 thousand dollars?

These were not private detectives earned. My second arms store was opened in Ukraine. Special equipment was sold, alarms. Then, through my channels, gas weapons were brought here, through the store we sold them. The purchase price of the gun is $ 50, and we have them dismantled at 150, 200.

That is, the main money was brought not by a detective, but by a business accompanying?

Yes of course. This is an economic security agency; we had 7 departments. Private investigation, private security, production and commercial department, scientific department. I have here special equipment, which then could not be bought freely, experts invented, made manually. Then we implemented it, used it. These are listening devices with directional microphones. We had on sale the device "Wave-3", "Wave-4", for protection against listening, radio bookmarks. And computer protection at that time.

And these devices were produced in a closed research institute in Yellow Waters. We received information that workers are paying off with devices. We went, bought from them and then sold here.

Now do not engage in microphones, wiretapping?

No, I’m saying that, in principle, war is not up to it. At first I refused the security guard, sometime in 2007. At the company, I had a school for training guards. I prepared them, put them to work, competitors paid them 100 hryvnias more, and they moved there. Even thank you did not say for the preparation.

And you are responsible for the people. In '93, in Lugansk alone, I had 6 branches and 2 subsidiaries in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions. Only in the city of Lugansk 350 security guards worked. We guarded large enterprises, bakeries, dairies, foundry-mechanical plants, there are a lot of them. It was the USSR. And then the competition began, new firms appeared, plus pressure. In 2007, I looked, there is a non-payment of salaries, delays began. With you, the client did not pay in time, problems began. The people are buzzing, you can’t explain to him that there is no money. I thought that you’re not so much earning from security activities as a headache. Therefore, he refused and was already engaged in a private investigation into the net.

Since we were talking about the war, how did it affect matters, your life? How did you adapt to these realities? What is happening now?

Initially, I was against all revolutions; there is a whole story. It was possible to resolve these issues in a more peaceful way. But what happened is what happened. When hostilities began, I could not be on the sidelines, so I did some work on the profile. Then he was a deputy of the first convocation of the LPR, and ended up in the parliament of New Russia. Which is now not dispersed, but frozen. The New Russia project, the so-called.

And what about activities? You say that you are still investigating. How does this fit in with everything else? With participation in political life.

Here you are spinning, moonlighting. Do what you can.

Are there any interesting things now? Conditions are not the most ordinary, something is happening for sure that others do not.

Is happening. These are difficulties only, you need to know the situation. Where it is possible, where it is impossible to work. Curfew, work time. A person from the side is unlikely to orient in this situation. And the work is ordinary - the background to check someone, grooms, brides, such a job. The search for people - the 14th, 15th year, when there was no connection here, there was no electricity, I had to dangle, look for people. They were found, docked, transported across the border, sent to the Russian Federation. Such a job, routine. There are no special cases and the work is semi-legal. Legislation has not yet been considered. They returned to the roots when it is not forbidden and not allowed.

You said that it’s good, it unties your hands.

Well yes. It depends on the authorities yet. If during the Soviet Union they ran into me, I legally proved. And how can one prove something here, even if there are no ships? 5 years now we have people without rights. Nowhere to protect the rights, there are no courts in civil cases, only in criminal cases.

And what else has changed, is it changing? And what happens on the fronts? Ukrainian events subsided in terms of media coverage. Few people understand what is happening, very fragmentary.

There is a sitting in the trenches. Trench warfare. On the line of demarcation, constant shelling, skirmishes. Behind the rear are saboteurs. And that’s all. The last shelling of the city was before May 9, when the howitzer battery fired according to the technique that was supposed to go to the parade. 34-ku tank set on fire. They were restored of course, but it was unpleasant. It was about two kilometers from me, it was unexpected. And on the line of demarcation, shooting is constant. Snipers, machine guns, mortars.



How do you feel about everything that happens? Can you tell me your position again?

My position is very complicated. I am for Russia to recognize the LPR and the DPR and join it. Here is my initial position. I understand that this is one of the options, but it is almost unrealistic. At the front, those who are fighting in the trenches, they are of the same opinion, all are fighting for New Russia. Not for the LPR, DPR, Ukraine, but for New Russia.

Following the example of the Crimea?

Well, for example ... Actually, it is not known who started earlier. Crimea is simply a strategic territory for the Russian Federation, it is geopolitics. If Russia had not taken Crimea, there would have been a base of Americans, that’s understandable. And Donetsk - here 10 thousand, 20 thousand were killed, well, nothing ...

If you type in the search, Google gives a page on the "peacemaker" about you. The page itself is already inactive at the moment.

She was not active, just posted the information and that's it.

What was the reason?

Member of Parliament of New Russia, ibid.

It did not create any additional threats?

In Ukraine, banned, and so, what are the threats? My son, even 16 years old, got into the “peacemaker”, was engaged in informational work, and got to the shooting lists even earlier than me.

But if you nevertheless come closer to reality, what will most likely be, or how do you see the end of this whole story?

I said the end of the story is joining Russia, something that suits me. And what happens is that only God knows.

And after joining, normalization of relations is possible?

Of course it is possible. But my opinion is that the inhabitants of the LPR and DPR who survived the 14th and 15th year, they do not want to go to Ukraine in any way. They want either to Russia, or at worst - on their own. And the government will change in Ukraine - well, for God's sake. Let politicians do it to make peace. Well, again, reconciling is relative. As for the war, there was an attitude in western Ukraine, that now, nothing has changed.

Last question on this topic. You said that you lived not only in Lugansk, but in Kaliningrad region. When the collapse of the USSR occurred, did you choose a country?

No, in the 73rd year I came to Ukraine. It was still the Soviet Union and there were no questions there. I would love to receive the citizenship of the Russian Federation now, but the legislation does not allow it. In order to obtain citizenship, I need at least six months to live there without leaving, but I can not.

At that time, there was no choice?

No, it was not. Of course there was no such choice. Under the USSR, Lugansk was supplied as a city of the first category, as a polar region. The only city in the Union, well stocked. The city is not very big, but industrial, sports cultural. It was interesting here. I lived in a district town in the Kaliningrad region. When I arrived here, in the regional center, it seemed to me that this is a huge city. I'm used to it already. And now I have the graves of my parents, the youngest son, the household. I can’t leave for Russia. Work here, responsibility.

I also worked as a lawyer before the war, as a human rights activist. I hope that the courts will work and I will have a lot of cases in a civil court. I don’t really want to work as a lawyer in criminal matters, but in civil matters I would love to.

Let us conclude about this. What are your personal plans for the very near future, a year or two?

Well, in a week I have an anniversary, 60 years. The 25th.

Congratulations!

Thank. So I want a decent retirement pension. And so that the courts work, finally, in 5 years. Continue your knowledge, help people. In the revolutionary movement, in addition to being a deputy, I was still the head of the department for the examination of bills in the LPR. But when I saw what was being done there, I decided to leave.

What is being done there?

Corruption, hooking up each other. As always, officials. After the political officer fired me, I made a promise to myself that I would never work in the civil service again. I was offered, I studied pretty well at school and college, I had enough knowledge. But I did not want to work in the civil service, and therefore I got into a private investigation, so that no one was above me.

And here, great difficulties began to arise. Dissatisfaction with me and those people who are for New Russia. Due to the fact that issues are being resolved ... I understand that geopolitics is such a thing, we cannot foresee everything. But in the 14th year, I met with one of Putin’s advisers in the Crimea. I went there for 4 days on a business trip. And he told me: “You're literate, you know the story. We have been building civilizations in the war all the time. Well, here it’s clear that as many as thousands of people will die, what now to do. " But when you find yourself in these thousands - this is not very good.

Yes, it’s not pleasant.

Before the war, I had one friend from school, 2 years younger than me, he fought in Afghanistan. 1.5 years urgent and 3 years extra urgent. When we talked with him, I said: "I envy you, I have seen everything in life, only I have not seen the war." And then, when we met in the 15th, I said: “I do not envy anymore. Already looked at the war. " It is one thing when you are telling, and another when shells fly overhead, explosions are nearby. My roof has been beaten for 4 years, the Hurricane exploded nearby, 5 cassettes hit the roof. Humanitarian and does not smell. Tomorrow we will cover the roof with our son.

Clear. It remains to wish you a peaceful sky.

Yes thank you. We strive for this.

Thanks for answers. Until next time!

Happily!


Original article

 

[НСК-СБ]

Thank you, interesting - peculiar, in another way, probably not like ...

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

Alexander Berezin, the story of a private detective with 30 years of experience.

Berezin, as well as Lucas, the legends of private investigation!

 

[Макаров Виталий Николаевич]

Thanks for the interesting dialogue!

 

[Плотников Юрий Михайлович]

Thanks, informative!

 

[Сергей Анатольевич]

Alexander Berezin, the story of a private detective with 30 years of experience. Part 2

We talked to a detective who stood at the origins of a private investigation and completed his first order back in 88. Now Alexander Berezin is 60 years old, he lives in the Lugansk region and continues to work. Our communication is divided into two parts, in the first we paid more attention to past affairs and the history of detective work. And in the second - the current situation and the impact of political events.

Worthy Vice!

 

[Николай Николаевич]

Alexander Konstantinovich, you are simply and not just well done !!!

 

[Alexander Konovalenko.]

Александр Константинович- Спасибо за интервью. Интересно - и познавательно.