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The pack hired by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska for discrediting businessman Michael Chernoy doesn`t push only for swaying the London Court. Deripaska`s guys do their best to embitter Chernoy`s life in Israel. This, in their opinion, will mar his reputation worldwide. Indeed, worst comes to worst when somebody spoils your life at home. And Chernoy`s home is Israel. To attain their goal the oligarch`s team employs connections, money and string-pulling in the Israeli state institutions. Deripaska is resolved to wrap up his black PR campaign against Chernoy. His staunch aide in this campaign is Russian investigative journalist Andrey Kalitin. The latter has mapped out an action plan for any situation and Deripaska doesn`t spare money to implement these plans.
At the end of 2008 Kalitin received an email from mergerito@gmail.com. The letter was made available to The Standart. Actually this is a detailed analysis of the decision by BAGATZ, Israeli High Court of Justice that ruled to restore to Chernoy his passport taken away because of Deripaska`s accomplices` scheming.
This decision was a failure for the Russian oligarch as it turned out the bribes he had given were actually in vain. This is the reason why the author of the letter tried to explain to Deripaska`s hired journalist the real situation in Israel. He would have never confessed that in the case against Chernoy simply the law was kept and this was the reason why he won the lawsuits. `The minister is a political figure and that is why he does not want to bear the responsibility for revoking the citizenship (of Chernoy, ed.`s note). So that he could not be blamed anyway. If the rumours that MCh (Michael Chernoy) is going to leave Israel are true, there will be no point in depriving him of his citizenship. Most probably this is what his lawyers have agreed with the Interior Ministry,` reads the letter dated November last year. It also offered a solution aimed against Chernoy and the Israeli institutions. He insisted on clarifying the stand of the prosecutor`s office on this case and decide what would be the future actions of the Ministry of Interior.
It doesn`t matter that in Israel, like elsewhere in the world, these institutions are independent. One more thing becomes clear from the letters: Deripaska approved the recruitment of private eyes who were perhaps the same that went on trial for wiretapping and espionage in Israel. The accomplices` plan involved pressure against Israeli Interior Ministry. `Without public or legal pressure on the ministry, Chernoy would receive a passport and use this in London. Why are those legal experts not doing anything` Maybe they wish to protract the process because they are being paid well. After all, there is nothing we lose - at least the new minister of interior will know that the case is complicated and problematic,` the letter concludes.