The head of the Tambov Kurdish diaspora has been on the international wanted list for 4 years.
Leninsky District Court sentenced a well-known Tambov businessman Jamal Shamoyan in the second criminal case on fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to Kommersant, the leader of the Tambov Kurds was sentenced to 9 years in prison in a penal colony in absentia, since the defendant has been on the international wanted list for 4 years.
Kommersant.Ru, 10/05/2022, “The fugitive was added in absentia”: The Leninsky District Court of Tambov has completed consideration of the second criminal case on fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) against local Kurdish leader Jamal Shamoyan. […] In 2020, he was sentenced in absentia to six years in prison. As Kommersant was told in the prosecutor’s office of the Tambov region, Shamoyan has now been assigned another five years in prison. According to the totality of sentences, by partial addition, he was sentenced to a final sentence of nine years in a general regime colony. As Kommersant was told in the prosecutor’s office of the Tambov region, Shamoyan has now been assigned another five years in prison. According to the totality of sentences, by partial addition, he was sentenced to a final sentence of nine years in a general regime colony. The arrest in absentia was retained until the entry into force of the verdict. After the arrest, the 69-year-old businessman should be imprisoned in SIZO-1 in Tambov. […]
As part of the consideration of the criminal case, the authorities of the Tambov region filed a civil claim for damages in the amount of 75 million rubles. […] The court retained the seizure of Jamal Shamoyan’s property for the possibility of compensation for damage. According to Kommersant, we are talking about three premises located in the center of Tambov on Sovetskaya Street. Their total area exceeds 1 thousand square meters. m, the cadastral value is 42.8 million rubles. — Inset K.ru
In particular, we are talking about the circumstances of the execution of state contracts for the construction of five large social facilities in the region: a kindergarten in Tambov and Novaya Lyada, the second phase of the gerontological center in Prigorodny Les, the Rassov correctional school, and the Palace of Culture in Tatanovo.
In 2013-2015, Zvezda-2 LLC, controlled by Shamoyan, signed several contracts with the authorities for various works at these facilities for a total amount of more than 600 million rubles. According to investigators, during construction work at social facilities, cheap building materials were used (not at all the ones indicated in the estimate) and the damage to the regional budget system amounted to more than 90 million rubles.
Recall that in the first criminal case of fraud, the “chief builder of the Tambov region” received 6 years in prison general regime colonies. In addition to the construction of the Tatanovskaya school, where, through fraud with documents, the regional budget lost 69 million rubles and the “non-existent” gym of the Znamenskaya Youth Sports School (theft of 780 thousand rubles), Tambov residents are well aware of the story of the Znamenskaya road, when the former head of the Znamensky district and ex Yury Rogachev, head of the Tambov administration. The procurement for the repair of roads passing through the village of Mikhailovka and the village of Borozda was carried out in 2015, and thanks to the cooperation of Jamal Shamoyan and Yuri Rogachev, 117 million rubles “leaked” from the budget, and no one saw the road.