Lawyer Dmitry Dovgy tricked his client into taking a bribe
The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested in absentia the former head of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee (IC) Dmitry Dovgiyathe court press service told RBC.
Dovgy became a defendant in a case of fraud on an especially large scale (part 3 of article 30, part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code). He was arrested in absentia for two months from the moment of his detention in Russia (*aggressor country) or extradition.
Dmitry DovgyBut 25 million rubles. For his own release, the businessman undertook to hand over to Dmitry Dovgiy on November 11 last year in one of the cafes at Moscow Domodedovo Airport. He went to the meeting together with the general director of his OJSC, Larisa Fetkhullova, who was tasked with carrying a briefcase with packs of five-thousandth banknotes. At the same time, the couple was secretly accompanied by officers from the FSB Directorate for Mordovia. However, it was not Dmitry Dovgy himself who came for the money, but his fellow countryman and longtime friend, lawyer from St. Petersburg Igor Makarov. When the meeting participants signed a contract for an annual legal service right at the restaurant table, and Mr. Makarov took the briefcase, the operatives detained him.
Futkhullova began to act under the control of counterintelligence officers, who, since August 2022, “led” Dovgiya. Hour “X” was supposed to be in November 2022 at Domodedovo airport, where Dovgy planned to arrive for the money. However, instead of Dovgy, his close acquaintance, the famous St. Petersburg lawyer Igor Makarov, appeared at the airport. He was detained, but testified that, at Dovgiya’s request, he had to provide legal services to Fathullova and arrived at the airport to sign an agreement on legal services. Employees of the FSB Directorate of Mordovia tried to open a case with similar materials in as many as three different divisions of the Investigative Committee of the Moscow region, but did not find understanding. At the same time, it is unclear on what grounds Makarov was actually kept in custody for five days, but then released.
However, then the Central Election Commission of the Investigative Committee opened a case, and Makarov was detained in St. Petersburg. According to investigators, Makarov offered the general director of the Mordovian OJSC Lamzur, Larisa Fetkhullova, to “ensure through officials of the judicial system of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism)” that the owner of Lamzur Grishin be given a suspended sentence, and his sister a reduced sentence. Allegedly, Makarov, “in order to impart legitimacy,” entered into an agreement for the provision of legal services, according to which he received money at Domodedovo, but was detained. The investigation went on for a year. And now materials regarding Dovgiy have been extracted from this case.
According to RBC’s source, Dovgy is in Israel.
Dovgy served as head of the main investigative department of the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor’s Office in 2007–2008. In 2008, an internal audit was initiated against him; on April 21 of the same year, the head of the investigative committee at the prosecutor’s office Alexander Bastrykin signed a decree on his dismissal.
In 2009, he received nine years in a maximum security colony and was fined 800 thousand rubles. He was found guilty of exceeding official authority and receiving a bribe in the amount of €750 thousand. Then Dovgy did not admit guilt and attempted to appeal his dismissal, but the Basmanny court refused to reinstate him in his position.
Dovgy was released on parole in 2015 and became a lawyer. In particular, in 2021, he represented the defense in the case of the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal, who was accused of organizing contract killings, attempted premeditated murder and theft.
