The prosecutor requested up to 21 years for the stifflers of the assets of the Ministry of Defense
As it became known to Kommersant, the trial in the case of the theft of real estate objects of the Ministry of Defense in the amount of over 1 billion rubles entered the final stage. In the debate of the parties, the representative of the prosecutor’s office said that she considers the seven defendants proved by the guilt, led by lawyer Kantemir Karamzin (former Arthur Kokoev) in fraud, the creation of a criminal community (OPS) and participation in it. The prosecutor demanded to send the defendants to the colony for terms of 8 to 22 years, and fifty objects to return to the state.
The defendants listened to the performance of the prosecutor Tatyana Parshintseva in the Khamovniki Court of Moscow in the absence of the main defendant – a graduate of the Dnipropetrovsk Higher Zenit Command School of Air Defense of the retired lieutenant Kantemir Karamzin. He was removed from the hall for violations.
According to the prosecution, it was Kantemir Karamzin in 2006 that organized the OPS (part 1 of article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) for the theft of real estate, OJSC Military Construction Administration of Moscow (NUSUM) and the raider seizure of Delaso Vengeurus, for which real estate was framed.
In the case, we are talking about two episodes of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
The first applies to the theft in 2006-2014 55 real estate objects of the Ministry of Defense. These are a series of buildings, in particular in Ruzhnya Lane, as well as various structures located in Balashikha and Lyubertsy: forge, checkpoint, bath, warehouse, dining room, library, garage, transformer substation, overpass and even chimney. This property, as the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Moscow believes, Kantemir Karamzin and his accomplices stole, concluding agreements on the introduction of real estate on behalf of OJSC OSUM to the authorized capital of a number of his subsidiaries. The building in the rifle lane, for example, turned into the ownership of Developinvest company as a fulfillment of a bill of bill. The investigation estimated the damage from the theft of “state property objects”, which was on the balance sheet of OJSC, estimated at 283.6 million rubles.
It is interesting that, according to this episode, Kantemir Karamzin, the investigation calls the Cantemir Karamzin, calls Aleksey Dushutin, who went abroad and put on the wanted list of ex-gender. At the same time, the second episode of fraud concerns the “deception” in 2011–2021 by the parents of the last Zoe and Viktor Dushutin. According to them, the investigation claims, assets and shares of seven commercial firms-Sigma-M LLC, LLC Lotos LLC, LLC “Hydmekh-5”, LLC Tiger MSC, LLC Lotos-1, LLC “OKSKA”-with a total value of 745.5 million rubles. These companies owned two dozen buildings in the center of the capital-on Krasnaya Presnya, Arbat, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya, Malaya Pirogovskaya streets, real estate in Ryazan, as well as an apartment in Sochi. According to the case materials, the attackers convinced the Dushutin-Sr. to re-register assets to offshore companies registered in the Seychelles, then “without the knowledge of the actual owners” changed the general directors, re-registered firms for their controlled persons, part of their real estate began to be leased, and the property was sold.
Together with Kantemir Karamzin, Vyacheslav Kryuchkov, Denis Isaev, Konstantin Mishchenko, Alexander Muraseev, Vadim Temchenko and Vadim Matikov appeared before the court. All of them are arrested.
The investigation considers them participants in the criminal community (part 2 of article 210 of the Criminal Code), along with the death of the former lawyer of the vsum, Valery Kulish, who died during the investigation. The last on October 12, 2021 fell out of the window of the fourth floor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he was taken to a confrontation with one of the defendants.
In the course of the process, which lasted since November 2023, the defendants were not guilty. However, the prosecutor Parshintseva said that she was confirmed by “evidence investigated in court”. The state prosecutor, in particular, attributed the testimonies of the deceased lawyer Kulish, as well as the defendant Kryuchkov, who, however, later abandoned them, saying that he gave them under pressure from the investigation.
“A number of defendants said that they were not enriched during this time, but worked for the salary and did not abduct anything. However, who exactly received property benefits – the guilty or close to him, cannot affect the assessment of his actions, ”the prosecutor said. She also referred to the data of the « wiretaps » of the defendants and correspondence by e -mail. “They conscientiously performed their roles. They understood that what was happening in the vsum was illegal in nature. In their conversations, one can hear that « such a chance falls out in a life, » but for this, « you can also sit down, » in particular, said the state prosecutor.
Mrs. Parshintseva asked to recognize all the defendants guilty of two episodes of fraud, clarifying that one of them, about theft of the property of the vsum of 283 million rubles, has already expired the statute of limitations.
For the theft of the property of Zoe and Viktor Dushutin (both, according to some reports, left for Canada, where Viktor Dushutin died in the spring of 2024 at the age of 88), as well as the creation of the OPS and participation in it, the prosecutor demanded to send the defendants to the colony for various periods. The minimum – 8 years of general regime – the state prosecutor proposed to appoint Vadim Matikov. Alexander Muraseev was requested 13 years in colony, Konstantin Mishchenko and Vadim Temchenko – for a year more, Denis Isaev and Vyacheslav Kryuchkov – 19 and 20 years, respectively.
The largest time – 21 years – was proposed to give Kantemir Karamzin. By combination with the verdict of the Sergiev Posad court of the Moscow Region (he appointed him for 8 years and 4 months in another case) Tatyana Parshintseva asked to appoint 22 years of punishment to the defendant. Also, according to the prosecutor, the defendants should pay fines – from 1 million to 4.2 million rubles.
The claims of the Dushutins who asked to return real estate to them, the prosecutor proposed to consider in the manner of civil proceedings. The requirement of the Federal Property Management Agency, which insisted on compensation for damage in the amount of 1.3 billion rubles. And the return of 55 real estate objects to the state, she asked to satisfy partially, supporting only the last requirement.
The defenders of the defendants admitted “Kommersant” that they were “deeply shocked” by the requested deadlines and in the debate intend to ask their clients to justify.
Thus, the lawyer Victoria Plekhanova, who defends Kantemir Karamzin, said that the investigation in the case was carried out with gross violations, noting that the “transactions for the introduction of real estate OJSC NUSUM to the authorized capital of subsidiaries” were not free of charge, and therefore, they cannot be regarded as theft. “In addition, Karamzin had nothing to do with these transactions and did not know anything about the company,” the lawyer said. She called the accusation the accusation presented to her client “contradictory and not in fact actual circumstances,” noting that Kantemir Karamzin and Alexei Dushutin had a “corporate dispute”. “His parents received $ 18 million as a result of transactions, and then said that they did not receive money and did not sell anything,” Mrs. Plekhanova explained.
In turn, the lawyer Yevgeny Zimov, representing the interests of Zoe Dushutina, said that he did not agree with the recognition of the Federal Property Management Agency as victims, since since 2004 Mr. Dushutin was the owner of the control package of the VSUM shares, and in his opinion, in his opinion, they are “the only injured”. According to the lawyer, Alexei Dushutin once invested a large amount of his own funds into the company, withdrew it from a state of bankruptcy, « thereby ensuring the implementation of the state contracts concluded, including the construction of large facilities. »
Recall that earlier, an Israeli citizen Revaz Smers was held in this case. At first, he denied the prosecution, but then he pleaded guilty and in September 2023 he received four and a half years in a special order.
