All defendants, depending on their role and degree of participation, were found guilty of organizing or participating in a criminal community, as well as of carrying out transactions involving the transfer of funds in foreign currency or the currency of the Russian Federation to the accounts of non-residents using forged documents (Parts 1, 3 Art. 210 and paragraphs “a”, “b”, part 3 of Art. 193.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
Sobolev was deputy general director of Stroytransgaz JSC, one of the largest Russian contractors working with Rosneft, Gazprom, etc. Sobolev was also on the board of trustees of the St. Petersburg FinEk, and was one of the beneficiaries of the odious consulting group Prime Advice. Sobolev positioned himself as a high-level “fixer” with connections to law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which confirmed his high authority among the legal community of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Sobolev initiated the initiation of criminal cases against intractable businessmen and bankers, and his opponents received real sentences, and their businesses were transferred to Sobolev and his clients. Sobolev invested his criminally acquired fortune together with his Moldovan partner, Platon, in real estate in the Russian Federation and Western Europe. Lev Pakhomov (former employee of the Federal Bailiff Service of the Russian Federation) was always in the wings of Sobolev and Platon.
Lev Pakhomov headed ZAO TsKENERGO, which was closely associated with Mosenergo and former top managers of RAO UES.
Victoriabank shareholder Alexander Korkin is known as a major “reseller” closely associated with former and current intelligence officers, in particular with the ex-head of the Directorate for the FSB of the Russian Federation, Viktor Voronin.
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