As it became known to Kommersant, the Main Investigative Committee of the ICR in Moscow completed the investigation of the criminal case against lawyer Yulia Lyga, adviser to the command of one of the capital’s military units Olga Raslina, her husband lawyer Viktor Raslin and two of their alleged accomplices. The defendants are accused of embezzlement of 62.5 million rubles. from the bank cell of ex-colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yevgeny Kashmatov, who is serving a term for a bribe. Ms. Lyga, who previously rejected the claims of the investigation, pleaded guilty and concluded a pre-trial agreement with the prosecutor’s office. Her accomplices maintain their innocence.
According to Kommersant’s sources, the defendants in this criminal case have already signed protocols on the completion of investigative actions and have begun to familiarize themselves with almost 30 volumes of investigation materials. It was based on events related to another criminal case – against a former employee of the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, Police Colonel Yevgeny Kashmatov. As previously reported by Kommersant, according to investigators, Mr. Kashmatov, together with his colleague from the main department of internal security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, police colonel Dmitry Ataev, received 20 million rubles in several tranches. from the head of JSC “Company “EMK-Engineering”” Andrey Chesnokov. The money was paid for the termination of the audit on the facts of non-payment of taxes (Article 199 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and deliberate bankruptcy (Article 196 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) of the company. The intermediary, according to the investigation, was a former law enforcement officer Timur Dzusov. The colonels denied the guilt of taking a bribe (part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), but the court sentenced them to 11 years in a strict regime colony and 100 million rubles. everyone’s penalty.
In the course of this investigation, it turned out that in the safe deposit box of one of the offices of Alfa-Bank, Mr. Kashmatov kept €177 thousand, $629.6 thousand and almost 24 million rubles. They were first arrested, and in the summer of 2021, the Royal City Court of the Moscow Region, at the suit of the prosecutor’s office, confiscated these funds in favor of the state.
However, as follows from the materials of the investigation, having learned about the presence of a large amount of money in Kashmatov’s safe deposit box, the attackers made several attempts to take possession of them.
At first, according to the investigation, Margarita Martirosyan, the policeman’s lawyer, did this by obtaining a fake power of attorney to manage the safe. However, the documents submitted by her raised doubts in the bank, and a criminal case was initiated against her under Art. 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (use of a knowingly false document). The lawyer did not deny her guilt and received a special six-month restriction of freedom.
The next attempt, according to the materials of the case, was made by the 37-year-old lawyer of the board “Veselova and Partners” Yulia Lyga. On March 17, 2022, Andrey Strizhov, the head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the ICR for Moscow, initiated a case under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (large-scale fraud). In addition to her, Mrs. Lyga’s acquaintances Sergei Kotov and Mikhail Nechaev, adviser to the command of one of the capital’s military units Olga Raslin and her husband, lawyer Viktor Raslin, are involved in the case.
During the investigation, it was established that lawyer Yuliya Lyga and her accomplices prepared a false loan agreement dated September 8, 2017 between Sergey Kotov and Yevgeny Kashmatov, as well as a false receipt, according to which the colonel allegedly received 80 million rubles from Mr. Kotov. with an obligation to return them within three years. However, the officer allegedly did not fulfill his obligations. With this receipt, Sergey Kotov filed a lawsuit with the Zyuzinsky District Court of Moscow to recover the debt from Mr. Kashmatov, and in May 2021 he ruled in favor of the applicant. In addition, Mr. Kotov received a writ of execution for the forced collection of the debt. Together with the bailiff of the GUFSSP of Russia in Moscow, Sergey Kotov seized the colonel’s funds, which by that time were already under arrest.
After that, the case says, the bailiff converted the currency at the rate of Sberbank, as a result of which he received 62.5 million rubles, which, according to the investigation, he transferred to various accounts provided by Lyga, Kotov, Nechaev and the Raslins.
As a result, according to investigators, the perpetrators, by their actions, caused damage to the state for the specified amount. The bailiff does not appear among the accused, since, according to the investigation, he was misled by the attackers.
It should be noted that Lyga’s lawyer, according to investigators, having received part of the stolen funds in order to avert suspicion from herself, already on behalf of Kashmatov filed an appeal to the Moscow City Court against the decision of the Zyuzinsky court. However, they did not have time to examine it: Ms. Lyga herself was detained by FSB operatives. It should be noted that the investigators have not yet been able to find traces of Kashmatov’s stolen money.
Initially, Mrs. Lyga categorically did not admit her guilt, but in the end she concluded a pre-trial cooperation agreement with the Moscow prosecutor’s office. The other defendants maintain their innocence. Defense defendants have so far refrained from commenting.