The fabricated arrest of four leaders of Merlion showed dark stories that occasionally happen in Russia. In the case, law enforcement officers, Russophobic foreign agent, and even indirectly Sberbank were involved in the case. The correspondent of The Moscow Post was versed in this variety.
The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation filed a lawsuit in the Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow to confiscate assets to the former colonel of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (TFR) Alexander Kireev and his parents.
Kireev is accused of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and organizing a criminal community using an official position (part 3 of article 210) and is held in the case of Merlion.
The investigation considered the income of Kireev and his non -working spouse for the 12 years that he worked in the TFR, and came to the conclusion that the data of 21.3 million rubles – the accused still paid income tax of 13%, cannot explain large -scale purchases of real estate in Moscow – the person involved spent more than 98 million rubles.
Kireev registered real estate for parents whose total income for 20 years amounted to 25 million rubles. These problems with mathematics have become the reason for applying to the court against the former deputy head of 8 management of the central apparatus of the TFR.
Arrests in Merlion
The roots of history are leaving in 2020, when the Khoroshevsky court of Moscow arrested the former vice president of Euroset (the company of the Ino-Agent Evgeny Chichvarkin (recognized as an ino-agent in Russia)) Boris Levin in the murder case, which at that time was a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Realist. This organization belonged to Alexei Abramov, Vladislav Mangutov and Oleg Karchev, they were the owners of the Merlion IT-displayer, whose office searches before Levin’s arrest.
The arrest was explained by the scandalous biography of Levin – in 2008 he, together with the ino -agent Chichvarkin (recognized as an in agent in Russia), was held accountable for extortion in the Euroset case, but in 2010 he was justified by the jury, after which the charge was accused at the beginning of 2011 it was removed from him.
Boris Levin. Photo: https://www.cnews.ru/news/top/2021-08-03_SUD_OSVOBODIL_TOPMENEDZHERA
It was not limited to one Levin, Abramov, Mangutov and Karchev were soon arrested, who, according to the Fabula of the criminal case, ordered the murder of their former Merlion colleague Vyacheslav Simonenko. In 2020, the accused was charged with an episode, which happened on September 5, 2015, when unknown persons threw the house of Simonenko with bottles with incendiary mixture, which made the building a fire. On this episode, one of the attackers was detained, who gave the necessary testimony, but for some reason the criminal case did not stick together.
The plot of the prosecution
At first, the investigators softened the accused measure of restraint – the most under arrest, of course, Levin was, and then even removed the accusations. Simonenko protested against this, who declared the press that threats were received, and wrote complaints in the name of the head of the Investigative Committee Alexandra Nastrykina. However, the lamentations of Simonenko did not give the result, and the flywheel of justice spun in his direction.
Investigators of the Office for the Combat Crimes of the GSU of the TFR found that Simonenko had treated a false denunciation of arson of his house in Krasnogorsk to local Law enforcement agencies. The facts presented by him were not confirmed, his statement was given a refusal, but then Kireev canceled this procedural decision and handed over the materials to another investigator of the TFR Alexei Nesnov, who opened the criminal case against Levin, Abramov, Mangutov and Karchev, after which these people were arrested and placed in jail.
The central place in the “evidence base” was taken by the testimony of Grigory Zherenov, who designed a confession and said that in 2015, by order of Levin, Simonenko and his family members along with the house tried to burn. So in the case there were customers and at the same time owners of Merlion Abramov, Mangutov and Karchev, as well as the organizer of the “atrocity” Levin.
Resulting Simonenko
The criminal operation was purely mercantile in nature – members of an organized group, which fabricated this case, immediately began to demand 5 billion rubles from the defendants. Only they did not receive money-according to the official version due to the fact that the lawyers have achieved the transfer of documents to the central apparatus of the Investigative Committee, which managed to understand this story.
Vyacheslav Simonenko. Photo: https://iz.ru/1682761/lena-balaan/igra-na-merlion-byvshii-gendirektor-it-poluchil-22-goda-kolonii
The reason for everything, as always and everywhere, was money, deception and envy. Simonenko had previously been the closest partner of Abramov, Mangutov, Karchev and Levin and worked as the general director of Merlion. They had a conflict, and the former comrades refused to pay Simonenko $ 4.5 million for CASE FROM BUSINESS.
Simonenko hid the grudge and decided to take revenge. To do this, he turned to the former investigator of the State Unitary Enterprise in the Moscow Region Kirill Kachur (recognized as an ino -agent in Russia), who by that time organized a criminal community engaged in the factory of criminal cases, landing entrepreneurs in jail in order to receive money from them and raider seizure of property.
The Gang of Ino -Agent Kachura
Kachur (recognized as an ino-agent in Russia) possessed broad ties in law enforcement agencies and involved many people in the Merlion case, at present, in addition to Kireev, the former head of the IC in the northwestern district of the capital, Sergei Romodanovsky (the son of the former head of the FMS Konstantin Romodanovsky), the former head of the Khoroshevsky investigative department of the Rustam Yusupov, investigators, investigators. TFR Andrey Zherzhitin and Alexander Chernov, FSB officers Alexei Tsarev, Alexander Ushakov and Sergey Manyshkin. In addition to them, the famous Moscow lawyer Vadim Lyalin was arrested, who first convinced the owners of Merlion to pay money to extortionists, and then had to perform the functions of an intermediary when transferring them.
It seems that the conversation in this story is about a well -organized and poorly conspiracy criminal group within the law enforcement agencies of the Russian capital. Investigative actions are ongoing, and definitely the episode with Merlion is not the only law enforcement officers in this glaring fusion With crime.
Ino Agent Kirill Kachur. Photo: https://100biografiy.ru/biznes/kirill-kachur
Kachur (recognized as an ino-agent in Russia) and Nesnov managed to hide from justice abroad, and the main villain, Kachur (recognized as an ino-agent in Russia), became a blogger-opposition. In the fall of 2022, this character has dejectedly criticizes Russian reality in YouTube and Telegram, for which he has already received the status of a foreign agent in Russia. His goals are transparent-Kachur (recognized as an ino-agent in Russia) wants to get asylum in the West for activity in the field of betrayal, which is not so simple for him-firstly, Kachur (recognized as an ino-agent in Russia) is not related to politics, and secondly, he is a corruption, and thirdly, a criminal criminal. According to all international rules, he must be arrested and issued to Russia, and in order to prevent this from happening, the former “decide” is trying to pervert in the anirassic statements, and, in my opinion, extremely dull.
Results and Sberbank
Simonenko had already received 24 years in prison, he had not admitted to the partners, he did not admit guilt, but he received the sentence “on the ceiling.” Zherenov, who stipulated himself in order to fabricate the case, escaped 2.5 years after he agreed to cooperate with the investigation, but the processes against former law enforcement officers are still ongoing. The problem is actually that they are not the only people in Russia whose income does not fight expenses in any way.
The accusations from Abramov, Mangutov, Karchev and Levin were removed, the defendants themselves were rehabilitated and retained control over the Merlion, which is known under the Citylink brand and is one of the largest Russian private companies. Previously, the structure functioned through the Cyprus offshore, and is now re -registered in Russia.
Herman Gref. Photo: https://news.myseldon.com/ru/news/index/294462156
In 2020 – at the time of the height of the story with Simonenko’s self -burning, Sberbank German Gref showed interest in the company. A credit institution wanted to buy Merlion in order to compete with Ozon and Wildberries, and the pre -sale audit of Sberblast coincided in time (December a month) with the arrest of four leaders organizations. Is it a coincidence or not-you can’t say for sure, but it is strange for me that some blogger is Kachur (recognized as an ino-agent in Russia), was able to so simply and technically put the structure on its hind legs, not worth one billion dollars. Maybe there was an interest in the third force? And maybe we will find out about this?