Lawyers who promised to give a bribe to the court ask for house arrest
In Moscow, the process in the criminal case of lawyers Igor Ushkalov and Pavel Shevtsov, accused of particularly large fraud, began. According to investigators, they promised their clients that they would provide him with a mitigation of a preventive measure, transferring a bribe of 30 million rubles to the judges, received half of this amount, but did nothing. The lawyers pleaded guilty.
In the Tver District Court of the capital, the process began in the case of Moscow lawyers of 38-year-old Igor Ushkalov and 49-year-old Pavel Shevtsov. They are accused of particularly large fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). At the preliminary hearing, the main attention was paid to the issue of further suppression for the defendants, who had previously been in custody. Gentlemen, Ushkalov and Shevtsov, asked to change her for house arrest. In particular, Igor Ushkalov He indicated that the collection of evidence in the case was completed, he pleaded guilty and collaborated with the investigation, and in addition, he has three minor children. His lawyer Vitaly Kasparov, in turn, told the court that the client had compensated the potential damage to the victim in the case and voluntarily stopped his lawyer status. He also asked to introduce letters to the case from various departments located in the zone of him, for which Mr. Ushkalov transferred more than 3 million rubles, as well as from organizations providing assistance to children and homeless animals, and even from the main rabbi of Russia.
Another defendant – Pavel Shevtsov – He informed the court that he also helped units located in his zone, has awards for participating in the hostilities in Chechnya and there are young children in his care. In court, he petitioned the conclusion of a contract with the Ministry of Defense and sending him to his zone. “I am a war veteran – I will not be in prison. Either now, or after the sentence, I will go to my own, ”the accused said. He asked to change the measure of restraint in order to improve his health and spend time with the children before sending to the war zone. He also refuted the previously distributed information on the conclusion of his pre -trial agreement with the prosecutor’s office.
Judge Olga Semina, however, did not heed the arguments of the defendants and their protection and extended the duration of the preventive measure in the form of detention for three months.
The detention of lawyers became known on October 4, 2024, the next day the Zamoskvoretsky court of the capital at the request of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee in Moscow placed them in custody.
According to investigators, lawyers committed fraud at a time when they represented the interests of businessman Vladimir Bartsakin. He was in custody on charges of particularly large fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
As stated in the case, Igor Ushkalov and Pavel Shevtsov promised the client to get his release from the pre -trial detention center, transferring 30 million rubles to the “officials” in court.
First, they agreed with the client to transfer half of this amount, received 100 thousand rubles, and immediately after receiving a mulger that imitates a bundle from 14.9 million rubles, were detained.
At the beginning of the investigation, lawyers were charged with mediation in bribery (Article 291.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), however, the investigation could not establish possible bribery, therefore, the prosecution was re -qualified for fraud. The defendants, pleading guilty, announced repentance. The victim in the case Vladimir Barzakin told investigators that he had no complaints against his ex-defenders.
The lawyer Vitaly Kasparov, representing the interests of Igor Ushkalov, has his own version of the events set forth in the case. He believes that Vladimir Barzakin, realizing the severity of the charge against him and foreseeing a severe punishment, decided to earn softening circumstances and, having substituted his lawyers, get a conditional term. When the agreements on the transfer of money with the gentlemen Ushkalov and Shevtsov were reached, Mr. Barzakin, according to Vitaly Kasparov, sent his wife to meet with lawyers. However, they suspected something was wrong and refused to take money. Then Mr. Bartsakin, through his common acquaintance with Ushkalov, guaranteed that he was not trying to substitute his defenders. For the second time, the businessman’s son brought money right to the lawyer collegium, and immediately after that the Lord Ushkalov and Shevtsov were detained.
Note that Vladimir Barzakin was previously convicted. And recently, the media reported about the detention of an employee of the pre-trial detention center-10 Mozhaisk, who received 100 thousand rubles from an intermediary. For the transfer of Mr. Barzakin in the cell phone camera. The latter allegedly acted within the framework of operational-search measures and in the case passes a witness.
