Chapter one

Once he came home from work in the evening, Sergei found a summons to the prosecutor’s office; he was very surprised by this, because he never had any conflicts with the law, was a law-abiding citizen. Thinking that this might be some kind of mistake, he decided not to go to the investigator. Especially at work was an emergency, and he did not have time during the main working time to do all the work, so sometimes you had to stay in the workplace until late. He worked as a programmer in a large group. He lived alone in a two-room apartment, inherited from his parents who died. He could not arrange his personal life for the time being, as the work took up a lot of time, and at home he was constantly sitting at the computer. According to his character, he was a modest man, not an insolent one, but for some reason modern girls do not particularly like such people. Of course, he had friends with whom he met from time to time, but in order to start a family with one of them, Sergei could not. He considered himself a staunch bachelor and did not know whether to ever marry at all or not.

In the morning Sergey went to work, he was working and had already forgotten about the call to the prosecutor’s office, as he was called to the telephone.

- Nechaev Sergey Vasilyevich.

- Yes.

- This is the concern of the investigator of the Lazarev Prosecutor’s Office, Irina Nikolaevna, that you received a summons to arrive at ten o'clock today.

- Received, but I thought it was some kind of mistake.

- There is no mistake, I advise you to come to me by fourteen o'clock today, otherwise you will have to be subjected to a drive by the police, especially visiting me in your interests, - with these words she hung up.

Sergey stood and listened to the short beeps in the phone, he was confused and could not understand why he was called to the prosecutor's office. He went to the head of the department explained the situation and took time off from work.

The prosecutor's office was located in a large modern building. At the entrance, the policeman asked for a subpoena, but Sergei did not take it with him, but left it at home.

- I forgot the agenda at home, and was called by fourteen to investigator Lazareva Irina Nikolaevna.

- Well, wait a minute, I'll clarify.

Having called and having written out the admission, the militiaman said:

“Please, go to the second floor, office number twenty-seven, they are waiting for you there.”

- Thank.

- On the way back, do not forget to give the marked pass.

Sergey went up to the second floor, found the office he needed and knocked on the door. A voice at the door replied:

- Come in.

He entered the office and saw at the table a pretty young girl in the form of an investigator from the prosecutor's office. It was ridiculous to see in this government office, such a charming creature. She uttered:

- If I'm not mistaken, Sergey Vasilyevich Nechaev.

- Yes it's me.

- Lazareva Irina Nikolaevna. I, am an investigator who is entrusted with your case. Well, you, Sergey Vasilyevich, didn’t show up the first time, but make me call you again, call you to work by phone.

- Sorry, no matter what, I thought a misunderstanding happened, I am a law-abiding citizen and never broke the law. What do I owe you?

- Your business is not to think, but to execute, if you were called, it means that the investigator really needed you. You probably think that we in the prosecutor’s office have nothing more to do, how to send agendas to people to call them to the prosecutor’s office and just talk to them for a living. Or think that smarter than everyone else, and here the sheep are sitting. Everyone says that they didn’t do anything, only then, when it comes to the court, they begin to talk differently.

- Tell me, finally, what did I do, what do they show me? Why are you talking to me in riddles?

- Do not be nervous Sergey Vasilyevich. No need to hurry, let's start everything in order.

- I'm not particularly nervous.

- Good. Then answer my questions.

At first she asked formal questions: last name, first name, patronymic, date of birth, place of residence, place of registration, and so on.

- Everything is finished with the formalities, let's get down to business. You know Ms. Mastakova Victoria Pavlovna.

- How not to know, she is the president of our concern. Not familiar with her, I saw a couple of times and then from afar. With simple programmers, as I do not communicate. Moreover, she recently became president; before that, her father was president.

- I know it. So, you say that you do not know Victoria Pavlovna.

- No, I don’t know much, and I think that she, too, does not know about my existence.

- You're wrong. She just knows you. Victoria Pavlovna Mastakova wrote a statement to you and asked to deal with you, since she claims that you by her actions caused her damage to seven hundred thousand, but not American dollars, but euros.

- Seven hundred thousand euros ?! It can not be you, something confusing

- I have not asked you yet, listen to me first, and then you will argue, and ask your stupid questions.

Sergei was surprised at the change in the investigator’s voice; he became more powerful, more solemn.

- Victoria Pavlovna lost seven hundred thousand euros from the account, she hired highly qualified specialists, the best private detectives in Moscow who conducted their own investigations and found out that you transferred money from Victoria Pavlovna’s account, only the account number to which money transferred, they could not calculate. Thanks to the detailed materials provided to the prosecutor's office by a private detective agency, we carried out investigative actions, still double-checked the data and came to the conclusion that you are guilty of misappropriating money, since all the evidence against you. You are charged under article 158 part 4, paragraph “b” (theft on a large scale); article 159 part 4 (fraud on a large scale).

- This is some kind of misunderstanding.

- There is no misunderstanding here, computer experts have come to a single conclusion that all illegal actions were made only from your work computer when you were at the workplace. Tell me, were you at work on the 15th, 16th, 17th of December last year?

- Sorry, but you can find out what days of the week these were, because about two months have passed, I am not very familiar with the numbers.

The investigator gave him last year's calendar. Sergey looked and said:

- Yes, it was, it was weekdays, and I work on weekdays, I was not sick and did not take time off.

- You have been away from your workplace for a long time.

- No, the specificity of my work lies in the fact that I constantly stay near the computer, especially since I do not smoke and rarely leave my workplace.

- Please read now, please, with the expert opinion on December 15th, from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm, your computer was withdrawn from account no ... - two hundred thousand euros. On December 16, from 11.30 am to 1.20 pm — three hundred thousand euro and on December 17th, from 3.181 pm to 4.30 pm — two hundred thousand euro.

We checked, at this time you were at your workplace, this is confirmed by almost all the employees who work with you, and you yourself do not deny it. But there is still a technician, we looked at the video surveillance cameras that are installed in your work space, they also show that for a given period of time, you did not leave your workplace anywhere, and no one approached your computer, so darling, all circumstances against you.

- Mystic ...