The producer of the Chikatilo series, the former general director of Kino Group, Dmitry Bolshakov, received five and a half years for bribing police officers during filming, RBC was told in the press service of the Shcherbinsky District Court. He will serve his sentence in a penal colony.
The Chikatilo series was filmed in 2020 for the Okko online cinema by director Sarik Andreasyan. The filming was organized by the Okko production center, and the Kino Group company was engaged in preparing the film sets. According to investigators, Bolshakov bribed police officers to block roads in the Timiryazevsky district and in the center of the capital for the duration of filming, RIA Novosti reports. For this service, he offered the police officers 400 thousand rubles.
The police agreed, but the film crew attracted the attention of the Federal Security Service (FSO). Later it turned out that the creators of the series did not have official permission to shoot.
Police officers who received a bribe were also convicted. Dmitry Smolin, deputy head of the Kitai-Gorod police department, was sentenced to seven and a half years in a strict regime colony, Igor Faizullin to eight and a half years in prison, RBC was told in court.
“Kommersant”, 02/20/2022, “Overlappings for “Chikatilo” did not work”: During the investigation, the number of episodes, depending on the testimony of the accused and witnesses, changed. So, the police officer Fokin had six of them. And according to Sergey Kulishov’s lawyer Dmitry Zakharkin, during the investigation, his client was generally acquitted of taking a large bribe, but then he was charged with committing another crime of corruption, which the defender categorically refused to discuss. […]
“Yes, indeed, the Okko production center turned to us through an intermediary Andrei Khabarov so that we would ensure the filming of the first part of the series about Chikatilo, which, by the way, was successfully released,” Mr. Bolshakov explained in an interview with Kommersant, adding that the second part of the series due to the criminal case “will be filmed without us.” According to the producer, he wrote many letters to all possible authorities, so that “we could agree on the time and date of permission to film in those areas and on those streets that were listed in the script.” However, Mr. Bolshakov emphasized, “the solid bureaucracy turned its back on us, although we called various officials, explained the situation that we were ready to transfer money by bank transfer for each shooting day, but no one cared about us.”
“And then, in order to get out of this situation, I turned to the police for help,” the entrepreneur explained, adding that the law enforcement officers themselves named the price depending on the number of people and cars involved in filming a particular scene. “I called these amounts to Khabarov, he received the money in the center and handed it over to me, and I to the policemen,” Mr. Bolshakov emphasized. — Inset K.ru
TASS, 08/29/2022, “Producer Bolshakov received 5.5 years in prison for taking bribes while filming the Chikatilo series”: In the same case, Igor Fayzullin, former deputy head of the third department of the public order protection department (UOOP) of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, was found guilty of two episodes of receiving large bribes. The court sentenced him to 8.5 years in a penal colony. Dmitry Smolin, deputy head of the Kitay-Gorod police department, was found guilty of only one episode of taking a large bribe and sentenced to 7.5 years in a strict regime colony. According to the prosecution, Fedorov, Fayzullin, Kulishov and other defendants in the case received money through Bolshakov for blocking car and pedestrian traffic in the Timiryazevsky district and the center of Moscow in order to ensure safe conditions for filming the Chikatilo series. — Inset K.ru
The defendants in the cases were detained back in 2020. As Kommersant wrote, the police received bribes from Bolshakov three times: on October 9, 2020, for filming on Listvennichnaya Alley Street in the north of Moscow, at the end of the month – for filming in the Krivoarbatsky Lane area in the city center, and on November 18 – for work in the Theater Square area. The amounts amounted to 140 thousand, 180 thousand and 80 thousand rubles. respectively.
“Mediazona”, 08/29/2022, “The court in Moscow appointed up to 8.5 years in prison to the security forces and the general director of Kino Group in the case of bribery during the filming of the series” Chikatilo “: In addition, the Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow will consider the cases of the deputy head of the public order department of the Moscow Ministry of Internal Affairs Sergey Kulishov and his subordinate, department inspector Vitaly Fokin. The first is charged with taking a bribe (point “c” of part 5 of article 290 of the Criminal Code), the second – six episodes under the same article and one episode of giving a bribe (point “a” of part 4 of article 291 of the Criminal Code). — Inset K.ru
The series “Chikatilo” had two seasons. It received a low rating from users (6.3 points on “Kinopoisk”). The series tells about the search for the maniac Andrei Chikatilo, the main role was played by Dmitry Nagiyev.
@sarik_andreasyan, 08/29/2022: Friends! Today my phone is torn, as the telegram channels began to write that the producer of the Chikatilo series was put in jail for giving the police a hand in order to film the series on some street.
Firstly, the producers of “Chikatilo” in this photo! The series has no other producers! At first, the information was that Dmitry Bolshakov was a location manager, but this info did not work, and then Mash began to write that he was a producer. Our location manager was Sergey Nekrasov, and the executive producer was Artem Sudzhyan. We have never seen any Dmitry Bolshakov and have no idea who he is. — Inset K.ru
