In today's update, firstly, I want to report on the incredible result of my work on summarizing the number of death threats that are being investigated in the framework of the Latvian criminal case of death threats. Since the flow of threats from PhosAgro is almost never interrupted and I report each new fact of threats to the Latvian police in a separate document, I decided, for the sake of curiosity, to summarize the list of threats in one document. The result has stunned me - the list, which is still not exhaustive, today consists of 89 positions. Let me remind you that the initial list of the investigated threats was 37 positions (it is contained in the main text of the petition).

The shareholders of PhosAgro, whose shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange, are not stopped even by the fact that there is already the criminal case on death threats. Moreover, the flow of threats has recently become almost daily, the last threat was yesterday.

I think that the police of the small country of Latvia have never encountered criminal activity of such magnitude and such a degree of arrogance. I also think that the English courts (since my dispute with PhosAgro and its shareholders is being considered in the English court) have never, in principle, encountered cases in civil proceedings in which the defendant threatens the plaintiff with murder. Moreover, the courts have never faced death threats of this magnitude.

In one of the previous updates, I wrote that PhosAgro loves to bring the situation to the point of complete and absolutely inexplicable (from the point of view of common sense) absurdity and grotesque. I'll remind you of a couple of examples.

When PhosAgro fabricated the absolutely crazy criminal case against me, it did not limit itself to only using this criminal case as a tool to demand that I agree to a fivefold reduction in the amount of PhosAgro's obligations to me. There has been also the second demand - that I pay for the "services" of the investigators whom PhosAgro had recruited to fabricate this criminal case. That is, so that it would be me (not PhosAgro as a customer of the investigators' "services") who would pay the bribe to the investigators. But this is not enough - the size of the bribe (4 million dollars) is an absolute record. In a thoroughly corrupt Russia, corruption stories periodically become public knowledge, including corruption stories involving the law enforcement agencies themselves. So, in none of the known cases, it was a question of a bribe of such a fantastic amount.

Further (when I was able to escape and refused this incredible “business offer”), PhosAgro, with the help of the investigators who were angry about not receiving four million dollars from me, arrested me in absentia and put me on the international wanted list and made a new “business offer”, which also has no analogues in terms of the degree of absurdity and impudence. PhosAgro offered to stop my international search in exchange for a complete waiver on my part of financial claims against PhosAgro (the English lawsuit). But this is not the strangest thing in this offer, but the way PhosAgro proposed for the termination of the criminal case - to recognize me as mentally insane within the framework of this criminal case. That is, PhosAgro has offered me not only to be left without money, but also with the official status of a mentally insane person for the rest of my life.

Approximately the same degree of absurdity and grotesqueness has reached the situation with death threats. Why can't they stop at the 50th threat, for example? Why do they need the 51st, 61st, 77th and 89th? To force me to do what exactly?

And what happens to threats of a legal (non-criminal) nature? I received the last non-criminal threat on 28 February from law firm CANDEY, my last lawyers, whom I have been accusing for a year and a half of colluding with PhosAgro. In its letter, CANDEY threatened me with an IMMEDIATE defamation lawsuit if I did not withdraw my allegations: “We invite you to make amend by removing all defamatory statements made in respect of this firm, including all statements made on LinkedIn, Change.org, UK Herald, UK Reporter, and any other published outlet in which this firm has been defamed, and to further undertake not to publish any other defamatory statements in the future absent any evidence. In the absence of your agreement to our proposal, we shall proceed to issue proceedings against you immediately”.

I refused to withdraw my allegations and 10 weeks have passed since then, but no lawsuit followed (as there was no such lawsuit in the previous year and a half, because the first time CANDEY began to threaten by such a lawsuit in September 2021). By the way, PhosAgro, being an accomplice of CANDEY in this story, for some reason does not accuse me of defamation at all, although my accusations apply to PhosAgro exactly to the same extent as they do to CANDEY.

After 28 February, I several times (both in simple correspondence and even publicly) asked CANDEY why it had not yet filed the promised immediate lawsuit. No answer. In 10 weeks, even I, who was left without lawyers as a result of PhosAgro's collusion with CANDEY, could have prepared and filed such a lawsuit. And what can we say about CANDEY - the law firm, which employs a huge number of lawyers?!

I try to imagine myself in the place of the leadership of CANDEY and this picture is drawn in my head. First, at some big meeting, they decided to notify me that they would file a lawsuit immediately. Then, apparently, there was another big meeting, at which numerous participants came to the conclusion that it was useless to refute my accusations about the CANDEY collusion with PhosAgro - the picture is too obvious - it is as grotesquely phantasmagoric as everything else in the history of my relationship with PhosAgro.

Thus, two companies that consider themselves respectable - CANDEY and PhosAgro (which is also represented by respectable English lawyers) came to the joint conclusion that they will not be able to get anything from me with the help of non-criminal threats - there are no arguments. I can't think of any other explanation. That is why the flow of criminal threats - death threats - does not stop.

Above, I have already written about the unjustified senselessness of the absurdly grotesque nature of the actions against me. One would think that with the help of death threats, PhosAgro wants to force me to some conditions. But no - after much thought, I received a refusal to my question-offer about transferring the situation from the criminal field to a civilized one. I publish my letter in response to this refusal because I hope it will cheer up readers. In short, the essence is this - in the absence of legal arguments, how can a civilized dialogue look like? Of course, respectable English lawyers of PhosAgro and its shareholders, such as Mr Crosse or Mr Riem, partners of the respectable firms Simmons & Simmons and PCB Byrne, will not be able, within the framework of civilized dialogue, to replace the absence of legal arguments with “arguments” that if I agree to some of their conditions, they won't kill me.

I demand from the authorities of Latvia and the UK to take immediate action in connection with the flow of threats and other criminal actions of Russian oligarchs in Europe and the UK. And with regard to PhosAgro and its accomplices, I ask the question, what do you want from me, playing another grotesque-absurd game with a stream of death threats?

In the photo - the meeting of the main shareholder of PhosAgro with Putin last week

Kind regards,

Igor Sychev