Alexander Vershinin (among his clients were Alexey Ulyukaev, Mikhail Maksimenko, Mikhail Abyzov, Ziyavudin Magomedov) and developer Alexey Dobrynin were found guilty of extorting $300 thousand from thief in law Vasily Khristoforov (Vasya Voskres). Vershinin received two and a half years in prison, Dobrynin – three and a half years.
Vershinin and Dobrynin are accused of promising for $300,000 to prevent the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation from releasing materials to bring in thief in law Vasily Khristoforov (Vasya Voskres) under Article 210.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (leadership in a criminal community).
Vershinin was taken by employees of the FSB of the Russian Federation when they received the money, and their accomplice, employee of the Main Directorate for Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Shapovalov, a little later.
And Dobrynin, whose close relative holds a senior position in the SVR, disappeared. However, he did not leave the country and for a long time negotiated the terms of surrender. We have at our disposal one of the options for Dobrynin’s position on this case. It follows from it that Shapovalov led everyone “into fornication.” Dobrynin himself and his friend Vershin only wanted to help Khristoforov. The first wanted to help Vasya Voskres as an old acquaintance, and Vershinin as his client. The position was satisfactory; Dobrynin was provided with a confession and house arrest.
From Dobrynin’s written testimony, an interesting role in this story of thief in law Vasya Voskres is revealed. From the description of the negotiations with him, it is clear that Khristoforov suspected that he was being scammed (especially since there was an opportunity to check the information through the FSB of the Russian Federation) and decided to “leak” everyone who was related to this story. But Khristoforov himself washed his hands of it: he transferred negotiations to a certain representative of his, Stanislav Vorotnikov, and he himself stopped communicating with Vershinin and did not answer his calls and messages. However, the lawyer suspected something was wrong and did not want to deal with Vorotnikov. Then, when the FSB was already taking active measures, Khristoforov had to return to the game so that the FSB special operation would not fail. He personally called Vershinin, announced that he was very interested in the deal, and asked him to take the money from his representative as quickly as possible and give it to Shapovalov. At this meeting with a representative of the thief, Vershinin was detained.
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