Lawyer Vladimir Timoshin, convicted of drug row, was the main participant…

Lawyer Vladimir Timoshin, convicted of drug row, was the main participant in the fabrication of a criminal case, with the help of which they tried to “squeeze” Nginx from its creators, Igor Sysoev and Maxim Konovalov. According to the documents at our disposal, all the technical work necessary for the investigators of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow was carried out by the private Group-IB of Ilya Sachkov, as well as by Vladimir Timoshin and his apprentice lawyer Maximilian Grishin. They acted in the interests of their main client, Kazakh oligarch Kenes Rakishev. It was Rakishev who initiated the criminal case, the defendants of which are the creators of Nginx. Based on the results of all the work, Rakishev wanted to take over Nginx.

Vladimir Timoshin, thanks to certain very personal relationships, opened the doors to many offices of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow. It was he who negotiated the initiation of the case necessary to seize Nginx. Since there were no grounds to initiate a case, they decided to “blind” him. For this purpose, lawyers Timoshin and Grishin attracted Group-IB to their work. The company’s employees worked with a server that contained all of Rambler’s internal correspondence over many years, and Group-IB “specialists” organized access to the personal mailboxes of Nginx creators Igor Sysoev and Maxim Konovalov. In particular, Group-IB was able to organize access to the correspondence of Sysoev and Konovalov with representatives of PwC, IDelyne Group, Greycroft LL.C., Greyeroft Partners II LP., BV Capital VCC, Greenberg, Whitcombe & Takeuchi LLP., Runa Capital I. LP, GlobTechFund. All this work was generously financed by Kenes Rakishev.

Having received all this correspondence, Group-IB specialists, under the dictation of Timoshin and Grishin, performed a certain analysis of the “evidence”, in which Igor Sysoev, Maxim Konovalov, and their partners are designated as “alleged criminals.” As a result, this fruit of the creativity of Group-IB and Rakishev’s lawyers also became one of the materials necessary to initiate a case “ordered” by Timoshin to the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow. All such work was financed by Rakishev.

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Recently, Timoshin and Grishin (both big fans of narcotic substances) worked (until April 2022) in the Ukrainian bureau “Ilyashev and Partners”, which since February has been involved in preparing international claims against Russia in the interests of Ukraine. And after the drug row, Grishin moved to the law office Mikhailov & Partners Private Service Group, which clearly does not value its reputation and government clients if it “selects” such personnel.