As it became known to Kommersant, the search for manager Alexander Dagutsa, accused of withdrawing $ 24 million abroad, was stopped. Already under trial, the young man signed a contract and went as part of an air assault regiment unit to the NVO zone. The court considered this a good reason and suspended the proceedings against Daguta for an indefinite period. The ex-manager has already been awarded a medal and wants to link his future with the armed forces.
Last autumn, a native of Moldova, Alexander Daguta, was on trial in the case of illegal withdrawal of funds abroad, as a preventive measure, he was chosen not to leave. However, shortly after the start of the trial in the criminal case, Daguta disappeared. To the judge of the Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow, Elena Galikhanova, the defendant handed over a written statement in which he asked to “suspend the process” in connection with his participation in the SVO. “At the end of the special operation or my contract, I undertake to voluntarily appear in court,” Alexander Daguta wrote.
However, the state prosecutor stated that the note did not in any way confirm the accuracy of the information provided by the defendant, and obtained court decisions on arrest in absentia and putting Daguta on the international wanted list. Judge Galikhanova suspended the process against the fugitive until he was caught.
But then the situation changed fundamentally. Lawyer Oleg Tselipotkin filed a complaint with the Moscow City Court against the illegal search and arrest of his client.
The defense counsel explained to the court that his client, a citizen of Russia and a patriot of his new homeland, could not remain aloof from the events taking place in the Donbass.
After discussing the situation with his wife and his defender, Alexander Daguta decided to participate in hostilities as a volunteer. With this, as the defender explained to the court, some problems arose. A businessman who did not serve in the army was refused to be hired under a contract, first in the Moscow district military registration and enlistment office, and then in the capital’s representative office of the Wagner PMC.
Dagutse was unexpectedly helped by a large commercial structure, where he was advised to contact the Novorossiysk military registration and enlistment office, which the merchant did through his lawyer.
As a result, Alexander Dagutsa became a driver-grenade launcher of the second category of a self-propelled artillery battery to strengthen the anti-sabotage struggle of the 108th Guards Air Assault Kuban Cossack Order of the Red Star Regiment stationed in Novorossiysk.
In accordance with the contract, Private Daguta pledged to “participate in hostilities and perform special tasks to maintain international peace and security or to suppress international terrorist activities outside Russia.”
By the time the complaint was heard in the Moscow City Court, it became known that the defendant Dagutsa not only assumed obligations, but also adequately fulfilled them. The grenade launcher, together with fellow soldiers, participated in the liberation of several settlements and received for this, if not the state, but quite respected among the paratroopers, the departmental medal “Army General Margelov”.
The merits of private Dagutsy are indirectly evidenced by a reference-characteristics issued to him by the chief of staff of the regiment for “providing at the place of demand.” In this document, the commander noted that in April of this year he was going to extend the contract with Alexander Daguts.
Lawyer Oleg Tselipotkin explained to the court that his client does not have the right to report the exact place of his current location and generally discuss the details of the service. According to the defender, in a short telephone conversation, Alexander Daguta said that “everything is fine” with him and that he plans to participate in the SVO “until the victory” and, perhaps, will connect his future life with the Airborne Forces.
Noting that the defendant’s fulfillment of his constitutional and civic duty to defend the Fatherland cannot be considered an escape, Oleg Tselipotkin asked to qualify the absence of his client in accordance with paragraph 4 of part 1 of Art. 238 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, which prescribes the suspension of the trial due to the impossibility of the participation of the accused in it. The Moscow City Court agreed with the lawyer, and the decisions made earlier by the Lefortovsky District Court on the search and arrest in absentia of the SVO participant were canceled.
As defender Tselipotkin explained to Kommersant, law enforcement officers have no complaints today about the person involved in the criminal case, who is absent for a good reason. The issue of criminal prosecution of Alexander Dagutsy will be resolved after the completion of his participation in hostilities.
It is worth noting that his involvement in the “transfer of funds to non-residents by a group of persons by prior agreement on an especially large scale with the provision of a bank that performs the functions of currency control with knowingly false information about the grounds, purposes and purpose of the transfer” charged to him by the police of the Western District of Moscow (Part 1 of Art. 3 article 193.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) Alexander Daguts never recognized.
According to investigators, Alexander Daguta was a member of a criminal group created by “unidentified organizers in order to extract” direct financial benefits.
The leaders of the group, as follows from the accusation, took control of the Moscow LLC “Tempo”, instructing the manager Dagutsa and accountant Vasily Alkova “the real management of the company.” These two, according to the police, transferred $24 million to the account of the company indicated by the organizers in Turkey as payment for a large consignment of building materials. At the same time, they received goods for only $263,000, and simply withdrew the rest of the money, undermining, as the criminal case says, “the stability of the Russian foreign exchange market.”
The defense of the manager Dagutsa did not agree with the conclusions of the investigation, calling them vague and incomplete. In her opinion, the police brought to justice two Tempo employees who were unaware of the criminal scheme, while its main participants, the organizers of the currency withdrawal, remained behind the scenes. The key defense argument in this dispute was the results of the searches conducted at the accused Dagutsa’s place. The manager did not have any large savings in bank accounts, nor expensive cars, and the only apartment owned by his family was burdened with a mortgage loan, which its owner could not pay for several months.
After the ex-manager signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense, this problem was also successfully resolved, for which the wife of Alexander Dagutsy, according to lawyer Tselipotkin, said special thanks to her husband, his lawyer and the entire Russian army.