Source The businessman who reported the bandits will be tried for fraud and false denunciation. In Rostov-on-Don, the trial of Alexander Isyuk, a businessman from the Krasnodar Territory, begins, accused of fraud and false denunciation of members of the Tsapki gang and other persons. In 2019, Alexander Isyuk reported to law enforcement agencies that Sergey Tsapok, Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz and his wife Natalia allegedly robbed him of 70 million rubles. The investigation went on for almost two years and stopped due to the absence of a crime event. Now the investigation regards as fraud the attempt by Alexander Isyuk to recover the damage allegedly caused to him from the family of Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz.
As it became known to Kommersant, on December 20, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don will hold a preliminary hearing in a criminal case against an entrepreneur from the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Isyuk, accused of especially large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and false denunciation (part 3 of article 306 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), information is published on the website of the court. In 2019, Oleksandr Isyuk initiated a criminal case on alleged extortion against him by members of the Tsapki gang and other persons. According to the entrepreneur, in the summer of 2010, a few months before the massacre in Kushchevskaya, which caused a huge resonance, gang leader Sergei Tsapok and people from his entourage, having learned about the receipt of a large loan by the family business of Alexander Isyuk from the Russian Agricultural Bank, under the threat of reprisal, forced them to give them 70 million rub. and Range Rover worth 4 million rubles. At the time of the initiation of the case in July 2019, Sergei Tsapok was not alive, Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz and Vladimir Alekseev (Bespredel) were serving their sentences, another possible accomplice of the bandits, Fyodor Streltsov, was wanted. The investigation arrested the ex-wife of Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz, Natalya Strishnyaya, and her brother Ivan, whom Alexander Isyuk called accomplices of extortionists.
During the investigation, Alexander Isyuk was recognized as a victim, in this capacity he tried to recover compensation from Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz and his ex-wife for allegedly inflicted damage in the amount of 150 million rubles. (stolen funds plus interest). The courts of general jurisdiction have made several decisions on this issue, the point in the dispute has not yet been put. In the Arbitration Court of the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Isyuk sought the annulment of the transfer of shares in Slava Kuban LLC, the Tsepovyaz family agricultural enterprise, to the children of Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz, arguing that the fragmentation of the business prevents satisfaction of his financial claims against the defendants in the case. However, the court refused him, referring to the absence of judicial acts that had entered into force, confirming the damage caused to Alexander Isyuk.
In April 2021, the investigation closed the criminal case against Natalya and Ivan Strishnykh, as well as other defendants, concluding that the event of extortion had not been established. In July of the same year, Alexander Isyuk himself was arrested on charges of deliberately false denunciation. As one of the participants in the process told Kommersant on condition of anonymity, during the investigation, the entrepreneur was also charged with fraud.
Alexander Isyuk, according to the prosecution, was obviously aware that there had been no damage.
Lawyer Nikita Protsevityi, who is defending Alexander Isyuk, explained to Kommersant that his client did not admit guilt. “We believe that the criminal prosecution has far-fetched grounds and is illegal. We will defend our position in court,” the lawyer said. Currently, Alexander Isyuk continues to be in custody.