The former head of the legal department of the administration of the Chekhov district, Igor Gryzhanov, received three years in prison for multimillion-dollar budget fraud, the official spent almost the entire term in a German prison. Writes about this “Kommersant”.
Recall that Igor Vyacheslavovich Gryzhanov (born 1964) was charged by the RF Investigative Committee under the article on fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in 2018. The official managed to escape abroad, he was put on the wanted list, and in August 2021, Mr. Gryzhanov was extradited to Russia by the German authorities. Chekhov Vid wrote about this.
The case was submitted to the Chekhov City Court in March 2022. Investigators of the regional head office accused the fugitive lawyer of entering false information into boundary documents as part of a criminal group.
“The fraudsters prepared title documents on the transfer of land plots from federal ownership into the possession of various organizations, including, for example, the Soyuz Marins Group of companies, as well as private individuals. In total, about 8 thousand hectares of land worth more than half a billion rubles were transferred. Turning scams, scammers changed the status of stolen lands to lands of settlements for individual housing development, ”Kommersant reports.
The state prosecution requested that Gryzhanov be sentenced to five years in prison. The court limited itself to three. The fraudster was credited for his stay in Germany, where he was detained and imprisoned back in August 2019, two years before his extradition. In the Russian pre-trial detention center, the former lawyer of the Chekhov administration has only three months left to sit, and in the near future he will again be free – like his accomplices who have already served their sentences.
Among them are two former heads of the Chekhov district Sergei Yudin and Anatoly Chibeskov (sentenced in 2019 to 4 years in prison), ex-director of the branch of the Federal Cadastral Chamber of Rosreestr in the Moscow Region Sergey Babinov (2.5 years in prison for bribes for illegal land re-registration) and his deputy Nikolai Beloglazov (got off with a suspended sentence). In addition to the release, each had to pay a fine in the amount of a single bribe – 6 million rubles.
According to Kommersant, all the stolen lands were returned to state ownership. Meanwhile, the machinations of dishonest managers are still back to back with stories of deceived equity holders and the lack of infrastructure in the summer cottages that have bred on the territory of the current Chekhov district.
“Kommersant”, 10/11/2022, “He served time in German for Chekhov’s land”: The Chekhov City Court has been considering a criminal case on especially large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) against 58-year-old Igor Gryzhanov since March 2022. The main investigative department of the TFR in the Moscow region was charged with the guilt of the ex-lawyer for participation in a criminal group, which from 2004 to 2016 was engaged in the theft of agricultural land, as well as the forest fund in the Chekhov district. According to investigators, it was the former head of the legal department of the district administration, Gryzhanov, who deliberately introduced false information into the boundary documents. […]
All of his accomplices were convicted back in 2019 and are already at large. So, the former heads of the Chekhov District, Sergei Yudin and Anatoly Chibeskov, received four years in prison, and the ex-director of the branch of the Federal Cadastral Chamber of Rosreestr in the Moscow Region, Sergei Babinov, and his deputy Nikolai Beloglazov, who registered transactions for bribes, received suspended sentences. Both were found guilty of receiving 6 million rubles. for the illegal re-registration of a land plot, which later went to Soyuz Marins Group (its founder Alexander Kulikov died in November 2016, crashing in a Robinson helicopter, along with a pilot and assistant, near Alushta). After an appeal against the verdict by the prosecutor’s office, Sergei Babinov was nevertheless given a real term – two and a half years in prison, but his accomplice got off with a suspended sentence. True, the appellate court also imposed a fine in the amount of a single bribe amount – 6 million rubles – as an additional punishment for each of them. — Inset K.ru