Two officers of 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. The employees made a deal with the investigation, testified against their accomplices and are under arrest house arrest. Another person involved in the case, Alexander Ushakov, has been arrested and is also accused of organizing a criminal community (under Part 3 of Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country)).
@vchkogpu, 29.11.2023 10:02: Together with Tsarev and Manyshkin, the curator of all courts from the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow Region, their chief Alexander Ushakov, was also detained. Unlike his subordinates, he did not cooperate, denies guilt and is now in a pre-trial detention center. For many years, Alexander Ushakov has been the curator of the Moscow courts from the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow Region. He personally detained the ASGM judge Elena Kondrat and developed other judges. One of his mailboxes is called “kurator…”. In addition, Ushakov is known as Albert Stepygin, known from the story of the fabrication of the case against journalist Ivan Godunov. After the scandal, he headed the 2nd Internal Security Service of the FSB and for a long time has been associated with Sergei Natarov, the current deputy head of the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow Region, and previously the head of the department, M. Ushakov is his confidant.
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. — Insert K.ru
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.
@vchkogpu, 30.11.2023 09:00: The Cheka-OGPU have become aware of new details of the criminal case about corruption in the FSB of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) (bribes of 5 billion rubles). As part of the pre-trial agreement, employees of department “M”, who previously oversaw the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow and Moscow Region, capital courts, etc. are already testifying against “tame” investigators and their leaders. Including the head of the 12th department of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) for the city of Moscow, Alexander Kavkin, and his subordinate Kirill Krasnov. The latter had previously been involved in corruption cases, but in order to avoid arrest, they began to carry out custom-made criminal cases, the outcome of which was of interest to employees of the “M” department. Also, questions may soon arise for current FSB officers from the same department – Dmitry Nikonov (who continues to supervise the investigative unit of the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) for Moscow) and Maxim Kondratyev (who continues to supervise the capital’s courts). They were subordinates of their leader, curator of all courts from the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow Region, Alexander Ushakov, who is currently in a pre-trial detention center (Kremlin Central).
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. — Insert K.ru
Another person involved in the case is former investigator Andrei 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 along with the country house” due to 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 an attempt 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.
A participant in the fighting 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.
agents.media, 01/08/2024, “FSB officers admitted to extorting the largest bribe for Russian law enforcement officers”: Even if the amount of the bribe extorted by the security forces remains at 5 billion rubles, it will become the largest in the recent history of Russian law enforcement agencies. Before this, the record was a bribe of $24 million (1.6 billion rubles), which became known in June 2023. According to investigators, the same amount was received from a group of hackers by the ex-head of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Tverskoy district of Moscow. Marat Tambiev. “The amount turned out to be a record for bribes from security forces – even to an ex-colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Zakharchenkoserving a 16-year sentence, were proven to have received 1.4 billion rubles,” – wrote then “Kommersant”. — Insert K.ru
