Everyone below the stage, including Yevrogen, Medvedev, and Gebliev, turned their eyes toward the presidium.
Whether the three speakers would accept Yevrogen's account was the key issue.
After all, Yevrogen had now produced a result that looked fairly satisfactory on the surface. The gunmen had been caught, and the case had been solved. Under normal circumstances, the Duma should not continue making things difficult for the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They were all "brother departments," after all.
But everyone below the stage also knew that things definitely would not end so simply today. Before the meeting, Gryzlov and Zhirinov had spoken with quite a few senior legislators. What exactly they had discussed was something everyone understood without saying.
Although the Duma was legally entitled to hold the Ministry of Internal Affairs accountable, the two were not in a direct superior-subordinate relationship. To initiate an accountability procedure, they still needed a proper and reasonable justification.
Yevrogen had already played his "card." Now it depended on how the three speakers onstage would respond!
After exchanging glances onstage, Wang Ye and Gryzlov remained silent while Zhirinov switched on the microphone before him, preparing to speak.
His expression was equally solemn. Fixing Yevrogen with a sharp gaze, he asked in a low voice, "Minister Yevrogen, are you certain that the suspects you captured were the people who shot at Speaker Gryzlov?"
Yevrogen's heart skipped a beat. But arranging for stand-ins was something he had personally ordered his trusted subordinate to handle. By all rights, word should not have leaked. Perhaps this old bastard was just trying to scare him?
Or perhaps he was simply asking casually...
At this point, no matter what, Yevrogen could only force himself to answer. "Of course! The three suspects have already confessed that they planned and carried out