The Moscow City Court published a ruling of the appellate court, which upheld…

The Moscow City Court published a ruling of the appellate court, which upheld the decision of the Golovinsky Court of Moscow to select a preventive measure in the form of house arrest for Anton Astakhov. The latter wanted him, when accused of embezzling 1.5 billion rubles, to be left free, as initially everything was organized by his father, a former children’s ombudsman, and now a lawyer-fixer Pavel Astakhov. From the resolution it becomes known that Astakhov committed “the theft of funds belonging to Omega LLC on an especially large scale as a result of deception of the head of the specified legal entity.” The resolution also states that Anton Astakhov’s house arrest expires on February 18, 2022. According to sources of the Cheka-OGPU, Astakhov Sr. is now making great efforts, using all his corruption connections and “fixer” capabilities so that the investigation does not go to court with a petition about the extension of the house arrest and returned to his son the old preventive measure in the form of a written undertaking not to leave.

Although, if not for the intervention of Pavel Astakhov, then, of course, Anton should have been sent to a pre-trial detention center. From previously announced court documents it follows that “before and after the initiation of a criminal case, A.P. Astakhov. exerted psychological pressure on the victim during telephone conversations, as he indicated in his testimony.” Also Astakhov’s accomplice A.P. Arseev disappeared, his whereabouts are unknown, the investigation has operational data that Astakhov A.P. may provide an accomplice with information about witnesses and the victim in order to put pressure on them to change their testimony. According to investigators, the son of the ex-ombudsman may take additional actions aimed at preventing the proceedings in the case, establishing in full his role in the crime, as well as exposing other accomplices in the crime. In addition, Anton Astakhov and his wife (daughter of the governor of the Tomsk region Sergei Zhvachkin) do not work anywhere and were unable to provide documents on income.

To this we can add that after a four-year struggle, the DIA managed to initiate a case of deliberate bankruptcy (Article 196 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) of the Zerich bank, the beneficiary of which was Anton Astakhov. There is another case on the way – the theft of bank assets. This is an additional reason for Anton to leave the country.
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