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> 「犯人 **とはいわないまでも** 何があったのか尋問できるのはお姉ちゃんだけだ！」

Does this pattern have the same meaning as the one explained here:
[とまではいかないまでも
meaning](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/30100/%E3%81%A8%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A7%E3%81%AF%E3%81%84%E3%81%8B%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A7%E3%82%82-meaning)?

I think it is different from the explanation linkend above. The linked example
‘includes’ statement A and B as true, while here statement A (犯人) is
’excluded’ while statement B (尋問できる) is ‘included’ as property/"feature" of
「お姉ちゃん」 (Translated along the lines of "not going as far as to say that
something/someone/etc. is X but something/someone/etc. (obviously) is Y ")

Context:

The speaker talks to a female prisoner that was caught in a mysterious
incident (invoving around 50 deaths) within the prison. She herself is not the
culprit in this but at the same time the only person that survived the
incident...

(Preceding sentence: 「懲罰房東で生き残ったのは刑務所側からすればお姉ちゃだけで！」 Original "separation" of
the sentence": 「犯人、とはいわないまでも、何があったのか、尋問できるのは、お姉ちゃん、だけだ！」)
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grammar meaning
Figuring out what 「言わないまでも」means in this sentence
Aとは言わないまでもB and Aとは行かないまでもB are usually interchangeable, and they mean "B, if
not A", "I don't mean A, but B" or "I won't go so far as to say A, but (at
least) B". This までも is an old way of saying "even though", so you can think of
it simply as と(まで)は言わないが. Your sentence roughly means "I'm not saying she has
killed them, but (at least I would say) she's the only person you can
interrogate".

The linked example is the same; read the answer carefully. The sentence means
"It's **not** something that can fulfill every wish, but still it's more than
valuable for a magician."

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By the way, many J-E and E-J dictionaries list "not to say A" as a valid
translation of Aとは言わないまでも, but according to
[this](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/22135/what-is-meant-by-
saying-x-not-to-say-y) and online E-E dictionary definitions, it may be a
mistake. (Isn't this English idiom counter-intuitive?) For example,
暑いとは言わないまでも暖かい means "It is warm, if not hot" rather than "It is warm, or even
hot".
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