Former law enforcement officers are accused of several articles of the Criminal Code
In Moscow, a military court began consideration of the case of an organized criminal community (OPS), which included, according to investigators, former employees of the FSB, the capital’s department of the Investigative Committee and the lawyer. He is charged with falsification of criminal cases against the management of Merlion in order to receive its assets, as well as bribes for terminating the investigation.
The 235th garrison military court in Moscow began to consider a criminal case against the former operative of the FSB economic security service Alexander Bibishev, an employee of the counterintelligence operations of the FSB in Moscow and the region of Pavel Krylov, the head of the Khoroshevsky department of the GSU of the SKRU in Moscow, Rustam Yusupov, the head of the Investigative Department of the Main Investigative Directorate (The son of the ex-head of the FMS General Konstantin Romodanovsky), investigator Andrei Zhiryutin, as well as lawyer Vadim Lyalin. Depending on the role of everyone in the crimes committed, they are charged with receiving bribes (Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), falsification of evidence and the results of operational-search activities (Article 303 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), illegal initiation of criminal cases (Article 299 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), illegal conclusion and maintenance of detention (Article 301 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), abuse of authority (Article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), Hearly false testimonies (Article 307 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the organization of the criminal community and participation in it (Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
According to the investigation, the defendants initiated the illegal prosecution of the co-owners of the major IT company Merlion Oleg Karchev, Vladislav Mangutov and Alexei Abramov, as well as the ex-head of her security service Boris Levin.
Attackers decided to incriminate the attempts to the former general director of the company Vyacheslav Simonenko to businessmen and the “security company”.
Investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Khoroshevsky district of the capital Andrei Zhiryutin, Rustam Yusupov, Sergey Romodanovsky took up the initiation of the criminal case. They achieved the arrest of entrepreneurs, and through their lawyer Vadim Lyalin requested 15 billion rubles for the release. Other defenders of businessmen who came to the bars, however, managed to get the case to the central apparatus of the TFR, where, having dealt with him, the former defendants were released, and new ones, including from the investigating authorities, were detained.
During the first court hearing, the party in the state prosecution petitioned for the extension of the term of arrest to all the defendants, arguing that the defendants are well familiar with the methods of investigation and therefore may try to hide, influence witnesses or hide the evidence.
All defendants, except Vadim Lalina, petitioned for a change in preventive measure to not related to imprisonment. Judge Tkachenko nevertheless satisfied the petition of the prosecutor.
It should be noted that the other day in a separate process, the state prosecution requested the deadlines to other defendants in this investigation – Colonel of Justice from the central apparatus of the Investigative Committee of Alexander Kireev and his civilian accomplice Denis Nikolaev. Their affairs in due time were allocated in separate production.
Earlier, the war veteran in the Donbass Grigory Zherenov, according to the false testimony of which the criminal prosecution of Merlion co-owners was initiated, concluded a deal with the Prosecutor General’s Prosecutor General, in which he acted in the interests of the ex-leader of the company Vyacheslav Simonenko, who was counting on large compensation after dismissal. He gave obviously false testimonies for Merlion co-owners Oleg Karchev, Vladislav Mangutov and Alexei Abramov, as well as the top manager of the company Boris Levin “from selfish motives”-for a major monetary reward.
Meanwhile, during the investigation, the employees of the Main Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee and the FSB entered the complex legal protection LLC, the founder of which is Kirill Kachur (recognized as an ino -agent), one of the alleged organizers of the scam, and the general director – Vasily Pashkevich. Both previously worked in the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the city of Odintsovo, Moscow Region. Vasily Pashkevich, together with the previously convicted resolving Oleg Pokrovsky, participated in another scam-fraudulent extortion of money with the owner of the Vimm-Bill-Dann David Yakobashvili. In June 2022, Oleg Pokrovsky sentenced the Khamovnican Court of the capital in this case to five years in the colony. Ino Agent Kachur and Pashkevich left for the UAE.
