The Moscow Garrison Military Court terminated the criminal prosecution of Andrei Vasilyev, a former employee of the K department of the FSB, who was detained in 2019 in the case of Kirill Cherkalin, the former head of the K department of the economic security service of the department. Thus, the petition of the defense of the defendant in the case was granted.
According to Kommersant, the case was closed on December 27 due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. By a court decision, Vasiliev and his relatives were returned almost all of the previously arrested property. The man himself was released from house arrest.
The court concluded that the fraud imputed to Vasiliev on an especially large scale was ended on December 11, 2011 and the ten-year limitation period for prosecution under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code.
Among the property that was returned to Vasiliev were land plots in the Istra and Odintsovo urban districts, houses and apartments in Moscow and the Moscow region, bank accounts with about $ 10 million, a Lexus LX-450 car and a collection of luxury watches Breguet, Tourbillon, Hublot and Rolex. At the same time, the Prosecutor General’s Office intends to challenge the decision to remove the arrest from Vasilyev’s property.
Recall that in April 2021 Cherkalin was found guilty of fraud and bribe-taking and sentenced to seven years in a maximum security colony. The investigation established that he received bribes from the former owner of the Transportny commercial bank.
Read more about the “Cherkalin case” in the materials of “Rosbalt” here and here.
Source: Rosbalt
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