As the Cheka-OGPU learned, employees of the Moscow criminal investigation department, while trying to…

As the Cheka-OGPU learned, Moscow criminal investigation officers recently detained Omsk scam businessman Konstantin Petrenko while trying to buy a ticket to Omsk using a fake passport. Previously, he was sentenced by the Tver court of the capital to 5 years in prison, but hid from the court and did not appear for the verdict, sending his driver-accomplice Valery Pesotsky in his place. Petrenko assured the latter that all defendants would be allowed to go home from the courtroom. However, the miracle did not happen: Petrenko even deceived his accomplice, who went to serve his sentence in a colony.

It couldn’t have been any other way, because they and other members of the criminal group, which includes A.A., cheated. Khatin, E.E. Maltsev and A.B. Chayanov, or anyone else, but businessman Andrei Sevagin, ex-owner of the ECCO company. Petrenko and his accomplices gained confidence in him and decided to deceive him by selling non-existent shares of PJSC CB PFS-Bank. The investigation into the case against the above-mentioned trio of multi-million dollar thefts is still ongoing. The investigation and operatives will have to identify all the participants and accomplices of the crimes they committed, as well as those who helped Petrenko hide from the investigation and trial for more than a year. They will find out where Petrenko got a fake passport in the name of Konovalov, for which the swindler faces an additional three years in prison in addition to the previously assigned five-year sentence. After all, “faking a passport” is a criminal offense under Part 2 of Art. 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

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The investigation also had questions about Petrenko’s wife, who actually acted as an accomplice in concealing the criminal from the investigation and trial. In addition, the investigation plans to bring additional charges against Khatin, Petrenko and Pesotsky, as well as other defendants in two other cases previously initiated by the Central Administrative District Investigative Committee. Their actions there already point to a criminal community (Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), because according to available information, all of Petrenko’s accomplices are involved in these cases. Now investigators and criminal investigation officers are identifying additional victims. We already know about businessmen from at least three companies who were deceived by a group of scammers led by Petrenko. These are Ramstroy LLC, Aerofirst CJSC and Yashma Zoloto. The damage he caused exceeds 1 billion rubles, because while Petrenko was free, he kept the entire city of Omsk in fear.

So far, only businessman Sevagin could not tolerate such an attitude towards himself and sent Petrenko to the bunk, where he had already been for more than a year, being held in a pre-trial detention center. The Cheka-OGPU will continue to monitor the development of the situation, which promises to be interesting.