A week after Sobchak and Churbanov met, the highly anticipated "Chronic-Consort case" finally entered the trial stage. In view of the political purpose behind the case, Ligachev was very dissatisfied with the public trial of Churbanov, but Yakovlev insisted on making the trial process public to the media. He believed that if a secret trial was held like Churbanov, it would greatly reduce the open policy that the Soviet Union has always advocated, which was to reverse the Soviet political reform and opening up. In the end, the Politburo chose to stand on Yakovlev and negated Ligachev's proposition.

So under this situation, people across the country began to pay attention to the fate of the former son-in-law. For a moment, the trial was hard to find a ticket to the bystander, and many local media rushed to Moscow to wait for the latest news. This trial has mobilized the curiosity of the people across the country. People were curious about their private lives with Churbanov and Galinna, and were angry at the huge wealth exposed by Churbanov. The people were eager for the former son-in-law to be imprisoned. However, many people with conscience in the Soviet legal community do not think so. They are not populists. They only hope that the judicial authorities can handle Churbanov's case without interference and maintain the dignity that Soviet laws should have.

The significance of criminal law is to provide the prosecution and defense with an opportunity to sit down and bargain. In a country like the Soviet Union with a civil law system, both prosecution and defense must refute the other party from a legal perspective to win. This is very different from the laws of British and American countries. In countries with an Anglo-American legal system, the final judgment is actually a jury selected from ordinary citizens. Therefore, lawyers in the Anglo-American legal system usually regard persuading the jury as their main strategy for defense.

Sobchak seemed full of confidence in this trial. After the prosecutor read out the indictment, both sides entered the trial debate stage. Sobchak first defended innocence based on the abuse of power proposed by the prosecutor. Although the prosecutor prepared sufficient materials and the confession given by the head of the border defense engineering unit that participated in the construction of the villa, under Sobchak's defense, the evidence given by the prosecutor was simply full of loopholes. They could not prove that Churbanov was not built by the instructor of former Minister Aoluokov, who had committed suicide, which made the prosecutor's first killer move suddenly become useless.

The morning trial ended here. After the judge announced the recess, Sobchak left the court with his assistant. After a brief rest at noon, Sobchak mercilessly overturned the prosecutor's accusations one by one during the afternoon trial. Sobchak was able to teach at Leningrad University, and his legal literacy was naturally unspeakable. The prosecutor was powerless to fight back by Sobchak, and even was questioned for a while and could not speak. The reporters present pointed the camera in their hands at the law professor in his fifties, surprised at the absolute advantage that Sobchak showed in court. Because of Sobchak's outstanding performance, the highly anticipated trial showed a one-sided situation early.

The judges and prosecutors present had actually received pressure from the top, but Sobchak was too powerful. In addition, the prosecutor was too confident and careless to underestimate the enemy, which made the judge unable to help. In the end, the judge even asked the prosecutor anxiously: "Comrade Prosecutor, are you really not going to speak? Can't you say something?" The prosecutor was sweating coldly.

In the end, the judge couldn't stand it anymore. After the prosecutor asked for an adjournment to be heard at a later date, the judge happily ended the painful trial. Even the layman Churbanov could see Sobchak's extraordinaryness. Churbanov, who was already disheartened, was lifted out of court by the bailiff with a laugh.

After Sobchak walked out of the court, he returned to his residence. Seriosha's phone call came quickly. Seriosha watched the trial report on TV. He already knew Sobchak's performance. Seriosha felt that there was nothing to worry about in this trial. But the experienced Sobchak still retained it, and he reminded Seriosha that the prosecution might try his best to deal with him.

Seryosha expressed his gratitude to Sobchak for his reminder. This sudden rectification movement seemed to deliberately imitate Chairman Andropov's policy, but the protagonist of the implementation changed from the KGB to the judicial system. This is one of the few departments that Ligachev can fully control. Ligachev seems to want to solve the situation that local and ministries are too big to be eliminated once and for all, so the crackdown on this rectification movement is really not small. A large number of people drawn from Moscow went to various regions of the Soviet Union to collect evidence. Even some retired old comrades were not spared.

. However, Seriosha felt that Ligachev would never last long. Brezhnev was the supreme leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years and was always as tolerant as his father to most officials. An upright official like Serepin was simply rare. Most of these officials were not promoted or reused. Only officials like Suslov and Andropov who were flexible and capable of dealing with things would be reused. It is conceivable that if Ligachev really planned to pursue corruption, the bureaucracy of the entire country would have to collapse.

Seriosha asked about some of Sobchak's views on the case. Sobchak said that according to the current situation, Seriosha does not need to do anything for the time being, and everything can be decided until the prosecution takes further action.

After putting down the phone, Selyosha's hanging heart was relieved. At present, he had many other things to deal with, such as inspecting the joint venture factory of the hypothetical Volkswagen and Gorky Automobile Factory that was under construction, such as the fact that the Marlboro cigarettes of Philip Morris were entering the Soviet market, such as McDonald's opening his first restaurant in Moscow, and the establishment of a branch in Kraft Food in Moscow. All of this depends on Selyosha himself to investigate. After all, this is the first time that the American company entered the Soviet market since the Stalin era. Many work has no routine to follow and must start from scratch.
Chapter completed!