Why was Andrey Cherkasenko’s case reanimated and his status changed from victim to suspect?
At the end of September last year, the Tver Court of Moscow arrested Andrey Cherkasenko, Director General of the Atompromresursy group of companies, in absentia on charges of fraud on an especially large scale.
According to the court, Cherkasenko was charged in a criminal case on fraud by an organized group on an especially large scale. Cherkasenko himself fled from the investigating authorities and is allegedly on the international wanted list. According to investigators, the damage from his actions could be about 100 million rubles.
Against the backdrop of corruption scandals that have shaken Russia in recent months, in which persons from the highest offices are involved, a petty fraud by an unknown person by Russian standards seems of little interest. However, more and more intriguing details of the criminal case regarding Andrei Cherkasenko and his person are gradually becoming known.
It turned out that the criminal case No. 11701450014001110, according to which Cherkasenko A.I. charged under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, was initiated at the request of Cherkasenko himself back in 2017 on the fact of embezzling money from him and other victims on an especially large scale.
At least, this is what the press service of the APR-Resources group of companies said, calling Cherkasenko “the former CEO”:
Although, according to official registers, Mr. Cherkasenko, as of January 14, is listed as the current head of APR-Resources:
But much more interesting is another statement of the press service: “With the start of the special military operation on February 24, 2022, Cherkasenko A.I. publicly opposed it.” And allegedly it was after this statement that Andrei Cherkasenko turned from a victim into a suspect and was arrested in absentia.
Apparently, in this case, the statement of the press service is true: on March 28, 2022, the decision to recognize Andrey Ivanovich Cherkasenko as a victim in a criminal case was canceled, and on April 4, 2022, he was charged with committing fraud on an especially large scale.
But one should not think that Cherkasenko received arrest in absentia precisely for his position. Because along the way it turned out that traces of “investment activities”, as a result of which the mentioned criminal case appeared, lead to the highest offices.
And the change of status has become a public reminder that it is necessary to remain loyal to the country’s top leadership, and this reminder is addressed precisely to Cherkasenko’s patrons. Threads from Cherkasenko reached the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Because after the statement of the press service about the “political motives” of the persecution, there were quickly those who wanted to recall the other side of the criminal case, in which Andriy Cherkasenko’s status changed.
The Russian press published material that was previously published in the German edition of Aussiedlerbote, and which presents Cherkasenko in an unkind light. It was based on an interview with Artyom Orzhevsky, a former beneficiary of the collapsed MosOblBank, a partner of Russian Senator Igor Kozhin and his alleged comrade Andrey Cherkasenko.
It was Igor Kozhin who in recent years has been called a possible patron of Cherkasenko. And Mr. Orzhevsky, apparently, simply did not know with whom he had contacted.
And Orzhevsky’s interview, we can conclude that Igor Kozhin and Cherkasenko could engage in financial fraud, while investing in the companies of Orzhevsky and his companion Yaroslav Ivantsov. The answer then came quickly – in Moscow, in places associated with Artyom Orzhevsky, searches were carried out.
What exactly the machinations could consist of is not clear, just as the role of Cherkasenko’s companies is not clear. This whole story is shrouded in darkness, which law enforcement officers, referring to the secrecy of the investigation, are in no hurry to dispel.
So the story with Cherkasenko’s position regarding the NWO has a place to be. But it is unlikely that it is the only and main reason for the change in his status in the criminal case, in which he was held for more than four years – on December 11, 2017, by the decision of the investigator Cherkasenko, Andrey Ivanovich was recognized as a victim in the above criminal case and was in this status for more than four years. At the same time, the criminal case was repeatedly checked by officials of the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office and the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation. After 3 years of investigation, accused Ivantsov Ya.V. was extradited to Russia from France. In the extradition of another accused – Orzhevsky A.O. The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation was denied.
Ivantsov’s testimony also did not change Cherkasenko’s status, but in March last year, the investigation’s position suddenly changed, and the case was quickly reanimated. Something clearly happened, and this is by no means Cherkasenko’s statement about the NWO. It is possible that his patron, Senator Vladimir Kozhin, messed something up. There may have been other factors that we can only speculate about.
As for Andrei Cherkasenko himself, he is also a very interesting person. For many years he was engaged in business close to nuclear energy, was a member of high bureaucratic offices. Another noteworthy thing is that Cherkasenko is a professional military man by education, and he never received any special knowledge on the issue of nuclear energy.
This did not prevent him from creating a business related to this particular industry. In 1995, the Atompromresursy company appeared. According to legend, this structure is the legacy of the Soviet Ministry of Atomic Energy, allegedly the former Glavsnab of this structure, although in fact the private LLC had nothing to do with these institutions.
But in any case – this is already a very old story – the company was liquidated back in 2009:
Now Cherkasenko has three legal entities: A9.ITS LLC, NUCLEAR.RU LLC and the already mentioned APR-Resources, which is a non-profit organization:
In both, one employee each, that is, the director, they do not conduct any activity and exist only on paper.
This brings us back to the fact that Andrey Cherkasenko’s change of status can hardly be explained only by his attitude towards the NWO. A public statement condemning her, of course, commands respect, but you should not attribute all your troubles in commerce to it, which lead us into the jungle of transactions made five years ago – it was then that the criminal case was opened, in which Cherkasenko appeared.
In addition, due to the fact that Andrei Cherkasenko left Russia, a logical question arises – and with what money? Of course, he is listed as a businessman, but only his firms do not bring any income. So the version that Mr. Cherkasenko is a white and fluffy victim of the regime does not hold water. In addition, the socio-political position did not prevent anyone in this country from cutting budgets, there are enough examples.
As for the future, it is also very vague – in the international isolation in which Russia found itself in the last year, one can hardly expect the extradition of Mr. Cherkasenko to his homeland. And besides, for some reason, law enforcement agencies are in no hurry with such a request to colleagues in the European Union. Which also makes me think.