Comunque, quando Stalin morì, il caso si spense e lo stesso Rjumin venne arrestato. ###>When Abakumov refused to believe the story, in spite of being present at a later interrogation of Etinger (Etinger died under interrogation the next night), Ryumin went over the head of Abakumov, directly to the Central Committee and Stalin, who saw the malpractice story as part of a wider conspiracy to kill off the Soviet leadership.