As the Source learned, at least one of the four men who participated in the fraudulent scheme to defraud a total of almost 50 million rubles from gullible pensioners turned out to be a mobilized serviceman. We are talking about a criminal group consisting of Evgeny Borisov, Artem Kachkovsky, Yegor Belyakin and Denis Moiseev. All of them, acting as couriers to receive funds, were arrested by the Presnensky District Court of Moscow on February 12, 2024 on charges of fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
Unidentified persons, according to the investigation, made calls to old people on Telegram and introduced themselves as employees of the Bank of Russia security service. According to legend, they were supposed to inform the elderly person that criminal actions were being committed against him, in order to suppress which it was necessary to cash out the funds, and transfer them to a representative of the FSB for subsequent transfer of the funds to the security service of the Central Bank to ensure the safety of financial assets.
According to the Source, Kachkovsky was called up for military mobilization in September 2022, and was on sick leave at the time of his arrest. That is why the man’s defense insisted that the criminal case against him should be investigated by military investigative authorities, and the question of the preventive measure should be decided by the garrison military court. The court then decided that the fact of mobilization in itself does not indicate that, as of 2024, Kachkovsky is an active serviceman.
In the final version, the man, in addition to fraud, was also charged with unauthorized abandonment of his unit or place of service (Part 5 of Article 337 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The criminal case against Kachkovsky and his accomplices was submitted for consideration on the merits to the Moscow Garrison Military Court.
