We've covered it millions of times and I am not usually provoked by yet another mentioning of Lakernik, Shekhovtsova, Sochi, etc. I do not share popular by some views of conspiracy and scandal - I think that they are delusional. But I do respect the people's right for their own point of view, including those on competency of Lakernik. I just cannot bear the labels like "fraudster".
What kind of delusional conspiracy it is when people can count / identify & track steps and see striking discordance with attributed tech level noticing shady call? Or when they do see the very same skater skating almost virtually the same with miraculous increment in points on everything they do and receiving how conveniently no calls for what they did wrong again like someone used to throughout the season. It results in fraudulent result, so calling a fraud a fraud is not egregious from that stance.
Convoluted rules, various top-down powers and subjective factor unfortunately makes it easier to cheat and it still does continue even if nothing beats that one instance in my memory. You can always trust in people to defend and proclaim that they ''saw everything differently because they were there, they are tech specialists, skilled judges, they were closer ...''.
The thing stays, they are not willing to deal with the core of their corruption, because they'd have to get rid of themselves essentially.