On April 27, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow continued to consider the case of the ex-pol…

On April 27, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow continued to consider the case of ex-Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko. The investigation believes that he received billions in bribes for general patronage from the largest contractors of Russian Railways – GC 1520. On the sidelines of the court, rumors are increasingly circulating that the prosecution’s version of bribes by the ex-co-owner of the 1520 Group of Companies, Viktor Markelov, may fall apart, and that the money found in Zakharchenko’s apartment generally belongs to the DIA, as in the case of FSB Lieutenant Colonel Kirill Cherkalin. Details are in the report of the VChK-OGPU correspondent.

The meeting began with quite lively negotiations between Zakharchenko and the audience: the ex-colonel was clearly in a great mood and joked on his usual topics that everyone should get to know each other and perhaps even find couples. His monologue was interrupted by the bailiffs. Judge Artemov considered several petitions, the main one of which was the study of the written testimony of the driver of the head of Gazprom-Avtomatization, Avsholum Yunaev, from which it followed that Zakharchenko, through him, returned 850 thousand rubles to Yunaev for the trip to Sochi (the investigation insisted that Zakharchenko received voucher as a bribe for general patronage).

Markelov’s defense asked the court to return to the study of the “Site” (later state prosecutor Milana Digaeva called the “Site” the software base of GUVR – the main department of virtual operations within the banks of the fugitive banker Gorbuntsov and Stankevich). From what was shown by lawyer Alexander Gofshtein, it followed that transactions that could theoretically be associated with his client were carried out (if they were carried out: the very fact of the passage of money is not supported by any documents, there are only entries in the database, the source of which is German Gorbuntsov) no later than May 2009 year (the investigation insists that the cash transactions took place significantly later). The only exception is the alleged postings for June 2019, which, Gofshtein believes, is no less strange, because at that time his guarantor was already in custody.

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After consideration of the listed petitions, the judicial investigation was completed and the debate began. They were discovered by Milana Digaeva. Having once again outlined the details of the accusations (including those quite convincingly refuted in court), each of which the Cheka-OGPU wrote in detail over the past year, she requested the following punishments for the defendants in Zakharchenko’s second case. Zakharchenko – 17 years in prison and a fine of 500 million rubles, Markelov – 12 years in prison and a fine of 500 million rubles, Belevtsov and Kritinin – 9 years in prison and fines of 100 million rubles each. These are the upper limits of the charges against them.

The next meeting is scheduled for April 28. The Cheka-OGPU will follow the news.