Anton Astakhovson of a former children’s ombudsman Pavel Astakhovsentenced to 3.5 years in a penal colony in the case of a scam with loans from the Saratov NVK Bank, RBC was told in the Frunzensky District Court of Saratov.
Astakhov was found guilty of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code). The maximum penalty under this article is ten years in prison.
The court found that in 2019, Astakhov, with the participation of another defendant in the case, helped the head of one of the firms get a loan for 75 million rubles, after which he stole 74 million rubles. from this amount, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in power structures.
Astakhov’s lawyer Tatyana Shilova told the agency “Version-Saratov”that there is no direct evidence of the guilt of her client, and all the testimonies of the victims and witnesses are distorted. “The verdict, we believe, is not only illegal, it contradicts everything,” she said. According to Shilova, it will be appealed.
The fraud case was opened against Astakhov in December 2021. According to the investigation, Versiya-Saratov writes, Astakhov and his business partner Dmitry Arseev (who is on the wanted list) illegally gained control over the Omega LLC company, and then issued loans to it and made several sham transactions. Astakhov pleaded not guilty. According to himhe became a victim of a provocation: for initiating a case against him and Arseev, the prosecutor allegedly received $500,000.
vzsar.ru, 06/23/2022, “NVKbank loans. Pavel Astakhov’s son sentenced in Saratov”: In addition, the court partially satisfied the civil suit of the director of Omega LLC. The defendant must pay the full amount of damage caused to the company. Astakhov was taken into custody in the courtroom.
“The judge did not take into account the circumstances, he fantasized. We assumed that there could be such lawlessness. The judge was a coward, did not look at what we provided him … He made unreasonable, illegal conclusions,” the defendant said after the verdict was announced, adding that he was going to ” keep fighting.”
Recall that the investigation believes that Anton Astakhov, his business partner Dmitry Aresyev and other unidentified persons entered into a criminal conspiracy. From June to September 2019, in one of the Moscow banks, they met with the director of Omega LLC Evgeny Razgonyaev.
Upon learning that he could not get a loan from credit institutions, Astakhov and Aresyev offered to help, hinting at the authority of the Astakhov family and extensive connections in the banking sector, the prosecution believes. On Aresiev’s instructions, Razgonyaev arrived at the Nizhnevolzhsky Commercial Bank (NVKbank; the beneficiary is Vladislav Burov) in Saratov and opened a credit line.
To create the appearance, Razgonyaev, on behalf of Omega LLC, left false documents for a small boat and a tractor as a pledge, the UK believes. As a result, NVKbank provided a loan of 75 million rubles. After that, as the investigators believe, Aresyev made several sham transactions, transferring the amount from the account of Omega LLC to other settlement accounts. — Inset K.ru
@vchkogpu, 21.11.2022 11:21: Astakhov Jr. was sentenced for gigantic theft … to three and a half years in prison, of which he served a significant part of the term under comfortable house arrest. The hearings began in June, were postponed under various pretexts, and on August 23 the proceedings were completely suspended. The wording is “the accused is seriously ill, which is confirmed by a medical report.” The case of “Astakhov Jr.” can be safely included in textbooks on corruption.
Initially, Astakhov was charged with embezzling 1.2 billion rubles by fraud, but by the end of the investigation, the alleged amount of damage had greatly decreased. However, then the court, as in all cases with the Astakhov family, began to “be weird”. Judge Kozlova, completely on a far-fetched pretext, agreed with the position of Astakhov’s defense that the case did not fall under the jurisdiction of the Savelovsky court and sent the case to the Frunzensky court of Saratov.
According to investigators, after Astakhov and his friend Dmitry Arseev (who is wanted) raiderly took over the Omega company, they took and stole loans, drove more than 3 billion rubles through the stolen company … They also managed to illegally receive a VAT refund for 127 million rubles. — Inset K.ru
@mozhemobyasnit, 21.11.2022 12:22: Zigzags of the fate of Astakhov Jr. – from the best universities in the USA and Britain to the Russian colony. The children’s ombudsman made his son a brilliant career, but Anton’s personal business went bankrupt. […] Anton Astakhov was getting business education in New York – at Oxford International College St Clare’s College. And then – at the European School of Economics and the London Metropolitan College. Tuition there is tens of thousands of dollars. “My friends were all brokers and traders there,” he said.
– After returning to Russia, Anton became an assistant to his father, the Ombudsman. Last remembered thanks to the active lobbying of the “Dima Yakovlev law” – which closed the United States for orphans from the Russian Federation (but not the children of the elite). In 2012, Pavel Astakhov placed his son in his legal center. This October, the organization was liquidated.
— Made a drunken accident and lost his rights. In the same 2012, a young man got into an accident in the center of Moscow and refused a medical examination. The police said that Astakhov was drunk. As a result, he was deprived of his rights for a year and a half. But soon he was back behind the wheel. Judging by the traffic police database, he has a Jaguar XJ.
— Astakhov Jr. worked at the Regional Development Bank in Crimea and owned a block of shares of 8.5%. Because of this, his father was also accused of corruption. In 2014, the children’s ombudsman announced a fundraiser for refugee children into an account with this bank.
– Despite the appropriate education, almost all of Anton Astakhov burned out, learned “MO”. For example, the Medpromholding company, which produced medicines, was closed. And his “Center for Assessment and Consulting” (the founder of the insurance company “Glosso”) lost 221 million rubles last year. — Inset K.ru