The former vice president of VIM-Avia was convicted in absentia for fraud for eight years
The bourgeois court of the capital in absentia sentenced to eight years the colony of the former vice president of the VIM-Avia Alevtin Kalashnikov, who is on the international wanted list for a number of crimes. It is planned to compensate for the damage caused by her at the expense of land arrested in the suburbs.
The correspondence process over the former vice-president and financial director of the VIM-Avia Alevtina Kalashnikova lasted almost two years in the Meshchansky Court of Moscow. The woman was accused of abuse of authority, transferring the currency to non -residents of the Russian Federation using false documents and illegally obtaining a loan (part 2. Article 201, part 3 of article 193.1 and part 1 of article 176 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). As a result, judge Anna Mayorova found the defendant guilty of all points, appointing her eight years of a general regime colony.
As the court established, the crime 51-year-old Alevtina Kalashnikova committed In conspiracy With other defendants in the investigation-the search for the former co-owners of VIM-Avia, the spouses Rashid and Svetlana Mursekaev, living in the UK, as well as the ex-general director of VIM Avia and former chief accountant Ekaterina Panteleeva. The last two in June 2021 the same bourgeois court Sentenced By three years and eight months and three and a half years, respectively. And since the defendants managed to leave these terms under arrest in the pre -trial detention center, they were released in the courtroom.
Alevtina Kalashnikova herself flew to Turkey just a few hours before the search.
Subsequently, she, like Rashid and Svetlana Mursekaeva, moved to the UK. In December 2017, she was put on an international wanted list. On the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office on Extradition of Alevtina Kalashnikova, the Westminster Magistral Court of London refused.
The very criminal case of fraud in the “VIM-Avia” in the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (TFR) was instituted on September 25, 2017. At first, the basis for pre-investigation was the numerous delays in the international and internal flights of the airline, after which the announcement of the termination of flights due to financial problems followed. At the end of October 2017, when the company’s losses exceeded 2.5 billion rubles, the Federal Air Transport Agency suspended the air carrier, and a year later the company was recognized as bankrupt.
According to the investigation, with the help of Alexander Kochnev and Ekaterina Pantelevevo, VIM-Avia gradually turned her into a financial pyramid. So, in 2015-2017, they falsified reports to receive loans that were withdrawn from VIM-Avia to fictitious contracts to the accounts of foreign companies. In particular, in 2016, they stole about 1.6 billion rubles, which the airline received in the Absolut-Bank for the purchase of aircraft motor. The loan was never returned, but at the same time more than $ 9 million under the fictitious contracts of the sale of aviation equipment, which were Alevtina Kalashnikov, were on the account of the Irish company affiliated with the Mursekaev spouses. They were transferred from it to one of the Luxembourg banks.
In addition, the investigation and the court found that VIM-Avia acquired aircraft fuel at high prices from affiliated structures and evaded the fulfillment of obligations to counterparties.
Thus, accomplices, including the defendant Alevtina Kalashnikov, caused damage to the airline in the amount of at least 117 million rubles, as well as their business partners.
This was reflected in the quality of services to passengers, which, in turn, “entailed causing grave consequences in the form of a long stop of transport and damage worth more than 892 million rubles,” Kommersant was reported to the Prosecutor General.
It should be noted that in the framework of the investigation of the case against Alevtina Kalashnikova, at the request of the investigation in January 2018, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested the property of her former spouse – the owner of the Bank « Power » Sergei Entz. Then 19 real estate in the Moscow Region worth about 157 million rubles fell under the burden. In the TFR, they considered that in this way she could wash the stolen means. The investigation considers the divorce of the spouses fictitious, because from 2001 to 2017, until the top manager escaped abroad, they lived together with the children. In the event of a sentence entry into legal force, assets will go to repay the damage.
