As it became known to Kommersant, the Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow refused the lawyers of the repeatedly convicted solver Dionisy Zolotov (Tumarkin) to replace the unserved term with corrective labor or a fine. Petitioning for this, the defenders referred, in particular, to the fact that their client had been in a pre-trial detention center since 2014, the administration of which testified to the exemplary behavior of the prisoner, but the court decided that his correction was possible only in custody.
Dionisiy Zolotov received his last term in August of this year following the results of the trial in the Meshchansky Court of Moscow. He found the fixer guilty of fraudulently embezzling 80 million rubles. from the widow of the top manager of Roskosmos Vladimir Evdokimov, which she handed over to Dionisy Zolotov for help in transferring her husband from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest. However, the promised Mr. Evdokimov did not wait, and soon died under unclear circumstances (cellmates found his body with stab wounds in the toilet of the cell). Dionisiy Zolotov received 3.5 years, and taking into account his earlier sentences for other frauds – 7.5 years of general regime.
But since Dionisy Zolotov is a witness in the criminal case of Denis Nabiullin, a member of the public monitoring commission of Moscow accused of fraud (Kommersant wrote about this on January 13), the fixer was not sent to the colony, leaving him in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center. Taking into account the fact that Mr. Zolotov has already spent four years in detention centers (there a day of detention is counted as one and a half in a colony), his total period has been reduced to a year and two and a half months. Thanks to this, Zolotov was able to apply for the replacement of the real term with corrective labor or the payment of a fine. This was what the lawyers of Dionisiy Zolotov asked the Preobrazhensky District Court, where they filed a corresponding petition after the entry into force of the verdict of the Meshchansky Court.
Speaking in court, the lawyers pointed out that their client had already served more than half of the term, was positively characterized by the administration of the detention center and had no complaints or disciplinary sanctions. The lawyers also reported that the fine of 14.4 million rubles imposed on the convict. their client regularly repays, having achieved payment by installments for five years.
“Starting from September of this year, Dionisy Zolotov has been paying 283 thousand rubles each. monthly,” lawyer Roman Kondaurov told the court. “And taking into account the fact that he fully compensated the damage to some of the victims, they do not object to changing his punishment.”
The lawyers also reminded the court that in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, Dionisy Zolotov, with the approval of the administration, organized a team of prisoners who repaired 20 cells and a gym. At the expense of the solver, the plumbing was also replaced in them, and new washing machines were installed in the laundry, thanks to which 600 prisoners were able to regularly wash their things.
Recall that the work in the pre-trial detention center was perceived ambiguously. Human rights activists raised a scandal, claiming that Dionisy Zolotov set up a whole network of VIP cells in Matrosskaya Tishina, in which prisoners are allegedly placed for money. Based on the results of the inspection, the leadership of the Federal Penitentiary Service punished the administration of the institution: the deputy head of the pre-trial detention center, who was responsible for the resettlement of prisoners, was dismissed, and three more representatives of the administration received reprimands. However, the initiation of criminal proceedings against them was denied.
The representative of the pre-trial detention center who arrived at the court did not object to the demands of the lawyers. He, in particular, confirmed that Dionisiy Zolotov, together with other prisoners, repaired the cells. But when Judge Olga Orlova tried to find out whether Dionysius Zolotov personally worked or led this process, the convict decided to give an explanation himself:
– There the cells were in a terrible state, and with the permission of the administration, I organized a construction and installation team of prisoners, in which I myself worked. Walls were plastered, floors were laid, plumbing was changed. And all with your own hands!
— Whose money? Judge Orlova asked.
– With the money of friends and acquaintances of prisoners. Including my money,” Zolotov noted.
However, the prosecutor who appeared in court did not support the defense’s petition, stating that it was filed prematurely, since the convict had not yet been transferred to a colony to serve his sentence. It should be noted that, while under investigation for fraud, Dionisy Zolotov entered into pre-trial cooperation agreements with the supervisory authority several times, under which, in particular, he handed over to the investigation the former head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Western District of Moscow, Vladimir Rozhkov. As a result, the colonel, including for a bribe in the form of repairing his apartment, received a ten-year sentence.
Announcing her decision, Judge Orlova announced that she was rejecting the lawyers’ petition because the correction of Dionisy Zolotov was possible only in conditions of isolation from society. She noted that Dionisy Zolotov, having received his first suspended sentence for fraud in 2013, did not learn a lesson from this, but, on the contrary, committed three more scams, including against the manufacturer of the popular “Royal Water” Iosif Badalov and the honored builder from the Moscow region Viktor Krulikovsky. To all of them, he promised the termination of criminal prosecutions for a reward, and when he received the money, he threw them away.
Dionysius Zolotov took the decision calmly, as if he expected such an outcome.