The case of Senator Savelyev came to court
As it became known to Kommersant, a criminal case against the former senator from the Tula region Dmitry Savelyev, who, according to the investigation, prepared the murder of his business partner, has come to the court. The ex-parliamentarian did not admit his guilt and petitioned for the consideration of the case with the participation of the jury. This request of the Tver court of Moscow, where a preliminary hearing will be held in the near future, must satisfy.
In order to get acquainted with 45 volumes of the case, Mr. Savelyev, who is contained in the special block of pre -trial detention center No. 99/1 (“Kremlin Central”), took only two and a half months. As a result, he decided to entrust his fate of the jury. His case went to one of the most experienced judges of the Tver court of Moscow, Alexei Krivoruchko, who was fame after the first “posthumous” sentence in Russia, lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. At the preliminary hearing, he will clarify with the defendant whether he had thought about participating in the jury, and prescribe the formation of a collegium.
But the main issue of the first meeting, according to Kommersant, which, according to the law, will be held closed, will be the request of the defendant to admit him to the pre -trial detention center of the military enlistment office to pass the medical board in order to conclude a contract for sending on his own.
As Tatyana Lupandina, the lawyer of the defendant, said “Kommersant”, the corresponding petition of her client, who is a war veteran in Afghanistan and has two medals “for courage”, already filed twice at the preliminary investigation, but was refused. The lawyer explained that in most pre -trial detention centers permission of the investigator or court to visit the military enlistment office arrested by employees. “They just come to the insulator, the arrested people undergo a military medical examination, and then, if a person is suitable for service, write a petition to suspend the criminal case in connection with the conclusion of the contract,” said Mrs. Lupandin. “However, those who are sitting in the Special Unit of Disozo No. 99/1, we need the consent of the investigator or the court.”
The lawyer believes that the investigation showed to her client, who was the last time to send a “biased approach” in the course of familiarization with the case.
Recall that Mr. Savelyev was detained on August 2, 2024 right in the building of the Federation Council, was deprived of immunity and on the same day was arrested on charges of organizing preparations for the murder of his former business partner, 41-year-old co-owner of Optomonitoring, Sergei Ionov. The reason for the crime, according to the case file, was the disagreement in doing the business of this company, where Mr. Savelyeva belonged to a share of 40% through his assistant Irina Kudryashova, who has controlled the assets of the policy since the 2000s. According to her, he allocated about 50-60 million rubles to the CEO of Ionov for doing business, but did not receive a return: of the promised multi -millionaire contracts with Gazprom, the general director, who only took loans from partners and did not return them, was able to conclude only two trial ones.
Since the business did not bring business, Saveliev first demanded that Ionov participate in the expenses, and then the last transfer of his share in the company free of charge. Finally, the senator initiated the case of embezzlement with a business traffic partner.
In turn, Ionov accused the senator of his illegal dismissal from the company and began to write to the Federation Council, the TFR, the Presidential Administration and the Governor of the Tula Region, accusing Savelyev that, as a member of the Federation Council, he illegally engaged in business.
It was then that the senator, as the investigation believes, and decided to get rid of the partner.
It is worth noting that by the beginning of the implementation of the criminal plan, Sergei Ionov, who had previously had two criminal records, including for fraud, had already gone to colony No. 2 of the Kaluga region to serve a term of a half years for embezzlement of business trips. In order to kill him right in the zone, the senator, according to investigators, turned to his friend, also Afghan Veteran Yuri Nefedov, and he attracted his three times a convicted cousin to search Sergey Dyukova (Duke). A friend of the latter Roman Barinov (Barin) brought him to another intermediary – a former employee of the FSIN PESTUNOV, but he immediately reported an offer to him in the FSB, after which all his communication with attackers was recorded.
For eliminating the businessman, the Afghan Nefedov requested $ 100 thousand from the senator, while exactly half promised the performers, of which Mr. Dyukov took $ 5 thousand an advance.
Duke said that the murder could be committed when Ionov’s transfer in a pre -trial detention center to consider an appeal about the sentence. In conversations with Pestunov, he called the translation of the businessman a « car burner. » Due to the fact that, in the midst of preparing the crime, Dyukov was again in custody in another case, Pestunov began to contact directly with Nefedov. The latter on March 16, 2024, the ex-employee of the FSIN reported that Ionov was killed and presented a photo of a certificate of his death. After that, the senator handed over $ 100 thousand “noted” about his actions “ignorant” about his actions. Nefedov himself was taken on March 19 in the center of the capital when transferring Pestuunov $ 45 thousand. He and Dyukov were charged with inciting and aiding preparation for murder (part 4, 5 of article 33, part 1 of article 30, paragraph 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). And Saveliev is an organization of preparation for murder (part 3 of article 33, part 1 of article 30 and paragraph “3” part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
The first two pleaded guilty, and Mr. Nefedov also concluded a pre -trial agreement on cooperation with the prosecutor’s office, in connection with which his case was allocated into separate production. In turn, Dyukov, although he gave a confession, he said that he did not know who was the organizer of the murder of Ionov, why they wanted to eliminate him, and he was unfamiliar with Saveliev.
The ex-senator himself during the preliminary investigation refused to testify, taking advantage of the 51st article of the Constitution, which allows not to testify against himself. His lawyer Tatyana Lupandina claims that her client categorically rejects the charges of murder and believes that a provocation was committed against him. She emphasized that the complaints of Ionov recognized by the victims in the case that Savelyev was engaged in business, were previously attached to the materials of his own criminal case, and were checked in initiating a case against the senator for a long time. In this regard, he did not have a motive in 2024 to organize the murder of Ionov.
According to Tatyana Lupandina, her client, having gone into politics, stopped doing business and officially transferred all the assets (among them the Altufevo and Businovo shopping centers, as well as the Salyut hotel) to the trust of Irina Kudryashova.
“The investigation questioned the employees of the companies, and they all testified that they were dealing exclusively with Kudryashova and never discussed any business with Saveliev,” the lawyer said.
Meanwhile, the victim had already left his appointed term and went free. As part of the criminal case against Dmitry Savelyev, Sergei Ionov filed a civil lawsuit, evaluating the damage caused to him by the failed crime of 800 million rubles.
