Alexander Ushakov received 5 billion rubles
Two officers from the “M” department of the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the region Alexey Tsarev And Sergey Manyshkin
admittedthat they participated in extorting 5 billion rubles from the owners of the IT company Merlion for completing the investigation into a fabricated case.
Sergey ManyshkinThe employees made a deal with the investigation, testified against their accomplices and are under house arrest. Another person involved in the case Alexander Ushakov arrested, he is also accused of organizing a criminal community (under Part 3 of Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country)).
As for the operatives sent under arrest, then, as the Cheka-OGPU found out, Sergei Manyshkin is a hereditary security officer, his father is a 49-year-old retired colonel Vladimir Manyshkin, until 2009, he headed the counter-terrorism department in the Togliatti branch of the regional FSB Directorate. He was killed on April 25, 2011. The killer shot the former officer in broad daylight – Manyshkin was driving a black Gelendvagen with license plate number 777 when two people on a motorcycle caught up with him at a traffic light and shot the ex-colonel at point-blank range with a pistol. The retired security officer, who by the time of his death had become an influential businessman in the Samara region, managing the land, gasoline and auto businesses, was liquidated by a gang of gypsies, according to the local investigation. The true customer was never found. Meanwhile, Manyshkin Jr. was taken under the wing of his colleagues and over time, on recommendation, was assigned to Department M in the capital region. Also, like many of his bosses in the FSB, Sergei is fond of hockey, at one time he played in the youth team for the Tolyatti club Ladya.
According to the Kommersant newspaper, Tsarev, Manyshkin and Ushakov extorted a bribe for completing the investigation from the management of the Merlion group of companies. In November 2023 The media reportedthat in the case of the Merlion company, the ex-head of the investigative department for the North-Western Administrative District of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Moscow was detained and interrogated Romodanovsky (son of the former head of the Federal Migration Service, General Konstantin Romodanovsky) and the former head of the Khoroshevsky department of the Investigative Committee, Yusupov. It was also reported that several FSB officers were detained, but their names were not given.
Aleksey Tsarev and Sergey Manyshkin, detained on November 23, from the M department of the FSB, entered into a pre-trial agreement. It is also possible that Ushakov was transferred to the Kremlin Central for further development. All this could lead to the imprisonment of some high-ranking department officials.
Another person involved in the case is a former investigator Andrey Zhiryutin. Alexey Nesnov, investigator of the Investigative Directorate for the North-Western Administrative District of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, whose leader was Romodanovsky Jr., also passes through it.
Nesnov led the investigation into the case of “attempt” on the former CEO of the distributor of IT and household appliances Merlion Vyacheslava Simonenko. The owners of Merlion were detained in this case in 2020 Alexey Abramov, Oleg Karchev, Vladislav Mangutovas well as the head of the company’s security service and former vice president of Euroset Boris Levin. In February 2022 the case against them stopped due to the absence of a crime event.
Now Nesnov is on the international wanted list on charges of corruption and he was arrested in absentia. Simonenko claimed that they tried to “burn him along with his country house” because of a monetary conflict with the owners of Merlion. The suspects denied their guilt; their defense called Symonenko’s actions an attempt to “take over the business.” After the prosecution of Abramov, Karchev, Mangutov and Levin ceased, the investigation detained Simonenko himself for attempting to slander the owners of Merlion and take control of their company.
By versions of the investigationin 2019 “fixers” Vladimir and Kirill Kachur created an OPS. According to their plan, the former general director of Merlion, Vyacheslav Simonenko, filed a false denunciation of the arson of his house to law enforcement agencies. As a result, co-owners of Merlion Oleg Karchev, Vladislav Mangutov, Alexey Abramov and the company’s top manager Boris Levin were arrested, and members of the organized criminal group began to extort 5 billion rubles each. each of the co-owners. After exposure, three members of the organized crime group, including Vyacheslav Simonenko, were taken into custody.
While the management team of the Merlion Group of Companies was under investigation, the former lawyer of the co-owners of the Group of Companies tried to take advantage of the situation Vadim Lyapin and his assistant Dmitry Noev. Lyapin invited Noev to participate in the theft of property of Citylink LLC, Tegrus LLC, Verisel-Trading LLC and Haskel LLC, which belonged to his clients, who were being held in a pre-trial detention center at that time. According to investigators, the lawyer informed the general directors of these LLCs that in connection with the persecution of the owners of the Civil Code, their companies would face trouble, and offered to enter into agreements with the legal company Logos, controlled by him, for the provision of legal services. As a result, the general directors agreed and entered into contracts with a company controlled by Vadim Lyalin. Under these agreements, from November 2020 to February 2021, they paid the defendants 7.5 million rubles, while no one provided any legal assistance to their companies. Lyalin was detained on charges of fraud, arrested, but during the investigation he managed to escape, but was detained again.
As a result, the court found Vadim Lyalin and Dmitry Noev fully guilty and sentenced the former five and a half years in prison general regime, and the second – three years. The latter was under house arrest, and he was taken into custody in the courtroom. In addition, each was fined 300 thousand rubles.
Member of the SVO in Ukraine Grigory Zherenov, who admitted to setting fire to the house of Mr. Simonenko, who was not there, at trial received 2 years 6 months in a special order.
The main case is about an attempted raider seizure of the assets of the Merlio Group of Companies sent to the Prosecutor General’s Office for approval. Karchev, Mangutov, Abramov and Levin, as victims, filed a civil claim to recover 2 billion 200 million rubles from the accused. for compensation for material damage. In addition, they filed a petition for compensation for moral damage in the amount of 20 million rubles, which they intend to donate to charity. Simonenko denies guilt.
