Novosibirsk businessman Mikhail Kolmogorov, who was on the international wanted list in a criminal case of corruption, was detained in Kazan. According to investigators, in 2017-2018, the businessman, through intermediaries, transferred a bribe of more than 3 million rubles to Andrei Turbin, deputy prosecutor of the Novosibirsk Region. for information on the progress and results of the investigation of the case against his friend and assistance in reclassifying the charge to a less serious article of the Criminal Code (CC). Mikhail Kolmogorov was taken under escort to Novosibirsk and placed in a pre-trial detention center.
In the capital of Tatarstan, the Novosibirsk businessman Mikhail Kolmogorov, who was put on the international wanted list, was detained. Kommersant was told about this by sources familiar with the investigation.
The Siberian businessman was detained when he was walking with a friend in the center of Kazan. The operatives who tracked down the businessman laid him face down on the asphalt and handcuffed him. The merchant was escorted to Novosibirsk and placed in a pre-trial detention center. In the near future, investigators from the central office of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) will charge him with giving a bribe (Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). His lawyer could not be contacted.
According to the investigation, in 2017, businessman Mikhail Kolmogorov began to look for ways out to the deputy prosecutor of the Novosibirsk Region, Andrey Turbin, who oversaw the criminal-judicial and operational-investigative areas in the department.
The entrepreneur allegedly wanted to help his friend, who was accused of robbery and could spend from 7 to 12 years behind bars.
The robbery case was conducted by employees of the Kirov regional police department, the investigation was controlled by the district prosecutor’s office. The deputy prosecutor was allegedly required to provide information about investigative actions, make the necessary procedural decision and assist in reclassifying the charge to a less serious article of the Criminal Code on arbitrariness, the maximum punishment for which is five years in prison.
All communication between the businessman and the high-ranking prosecutor, according to investigators, took place through two negotiators – Oleg Yarovoy, a former member of the board of directors of JSC Zavod Ekran, who had extensive connections in the law enforcement agencies of the region, and his acquaintance Sergei Belous.
The investigation found that in 2017-2018, 3 million rubles were transferred for the deputy prosecutor of the region. and $1 thousand
In February 2022, employees of the central office of the ICR, sent to Novosibirsk, detained Andrei Turbin, who by that time had already left his job in the supervisory department and was retired. He was charged with taking a bribe on an especially large scale (part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and taken into custody. Following him, the alleged intermediary in the transfer of the bribe, Sergei Belous, went to the pre-trial detention center. The case against the second mediator, Oleg Yarovoy, as it became known, was dismissed under the note to Art. 291.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (mediation in bribery). The note states that a person is released from criminal liability if he actively contributed to the disclosure of the case and voluntarily reported the crime to the investigating authorities.
Mikhail Kolmogorov, against whom a case of bribery was brought, was put on the international wanted list, the court ruled on his arrest in absentia. While the businessman was being searched, the Novosibirsk court began considering the criminal case of the former deputy prosecutor of the region Andrei Turbin and Sergei Belous. On the first day of the hearing, the defendants, who had already been released from the SIZO, pleaded guilty.
