According to investigators, in December 2014, the entrepreneur fraudulently acquired someone else’s property. Being the beneficiary of CJSC Vnukovo Technics, together with accomplices, he prepared fake assignment agreements between CJSC Vnukovo Technics and CJSC Vnukovo Investment Company. On this basis, Vnukovo Technics received the equipment allegedly as a debt repayment. As a result, Vnukovo Investment Company suffered damage in the amount of 79 million 800 thousand rubles.
Lyudmila Rulnova, the former general director of ZAO Vnukovo Technics, is also being charged in the case of fraud on an especially large scale. She was given a 5-year suspended sentence with a 4-year probationary period.
In addition, the court satisfied the claim of the injured party for almost 80 million rubles. This amount will be recovered from the accused jointly and severally.
Chertok’s lawyer Vladimir Isaev, in an interview with REN TV, said that the verdict would be appealed and his client would not admit his guilt.
“Kommersant”, 05/29/2023, “Airfield equipment was given a deadline”: To 7.5 years in prison, the Solntsevsky Court of Moscow sentenced Dmitry Chertok, the beneficiary of ZAO Vnukovo Technics, son of the former deputy head of Rostransnadzor Vladimir Chertok. […] Lawyers in the debate argued that their clients were the victim of a slander and were not involved in fraud with equipment.
At the same time, the businessman’s lawyer Vladimir Isaev claimed that Dmitry Chertok was not a beneficiary of Vnukovo Technics at all and therefore could not give instructions to the company’s employees. Also, the defenders argued, Mr. Chertok did not hide from the investigation, therefore, he was illegally put on the international wanted list, which was confirmed by the commission for the control of Interpol archives, which eventually deleted the data on the search for Dmitry Chertok.
Ms. Rulnova’s defense argued that she could not have known about the forgery of the assignment agreement, since it was not reflected in the accounting records of Vnukovo Technics. “The court was not presented with evidence that the sale of equipment to third parties was carried out in pursuance of the assignment agreement, since it was concluded later,” summed up the businessman’s lawyer Konstantin Rogozin. The defense and the defendants demanded an acquittal. However, the court sided with the prosecution. Moreover, Dmitry Chertok was appointed even for six months more than the prosecution asked for. […] After the verdict was announced, lawyers Rogozin and Isaev told Kommersant that they were shocked by the verdict and would appeal it after they received the full text of the court decision. — Inset K.ru
Chertok was hiding from criminal prosecution outside of Russia. The businessman was put on the international wanted list. In the summer of 2019, he was detained in Hungary.
In June 2021, it was possible to obtain permission to extradite the man at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office. In July 2021, he was extradited from Hungary and taken to Moscow, accompanied by employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia and the Russian bureau of Interpol.
