According to investigators, the founder of Lawyer 24 LLC, registered in the Northern capital, Ekaterina Marinenko, cashed out several tens of millions of rubles. In fact, it turned out that the mother of four minor children herself became a victim of fraudsters – Maria Kozlova (now Zaitseva) and Yanina Isakova.
“They convinced her to create a transport company and a company that would provide accounting and legal support to clients. Later, my client conducted an audit and found out that her “friends” withdrew 70 million rubles from Lawyer 24 LLC,” said the defendant’s lawyer Andrei Komissarov.
However, although a case was opened against them, it was suspended. But Marinenko herself sat in the dock, becoming a victim of an “order” from her former friends who spent 15 million rubles on it, and Kozlova did not hesitate to tell Ekaterina about this.
“During the trial, it turned out that the accusation was based on the testimony of witnesses who gave them under pressure, outright falsification of evidence and the opinion of a specialist from the street who conducted a forensic accounting examination,” – Komissarov notes.
According to him, the customized nature is obvious at least from the results of the examination, which was appointed by the head of the economic department of the Investigative Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Admiralteysky District of St. Petersburg, Nikolai Pankratov. He brought in an expert with an expired license, and the research itself was completed in two weeks free of charge.
The next court hearing in the case of Ekaterina Marinenko ended on March 13. A mother of many children is accused of illegal banking activities with millions in profits. Marinenko did not admit guilt – according to her, the case against her was ordered by her former partners…
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