On Wednesday, Judge Tatyana Vasyuchenko began to read the verdict in the case of resonance, the correspondent of RBC from the courtroom.
«Vasilyev and other partners have committed fraud by using his official position”, – the judge read out.
The sentence began exactly on schedule. Vasilyeva, dressed in severe black jacket and white shirt, arrived in court for a few minutes before the meeting. Declined to comment, she walked into the courtroom. To hurry her lawyer Hassan Ali Bohrok.
In the courtroom listening to court decision standing only defendants, their lawyers and prosecutors. Almost all journalists are located on the floor above, where the video feed organized process.
The sentence for a few days
It is expected that the sentencing judge Tatiana Vasyuchenko will read for a few days and only at the end will announce the size of the punishment to which sentenced the defendant. Terms court sentence the defendant will call at the end.
Earlier, the prosecutor’s office asked to sentence Vasilyev and four other defendants in the case to eight years’ probation.
The defendants and their lawyers demanded acquittal.
In the dock are also four others: the former general director of “31 GPISS” Yuri Grehnev, the former head of “Oboronstroy” Larissa Egorina, financial director of “Peace” (formerly the “Expert”) Irina Egorova, and and former head of the “District of material warehouse Moscow District” Maxim Zakutaylo.
The history of the case
Yevgeny Vasilyev, a former head of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense, was arrested in late November 2012. Before this arrest came her friend – Smetana Catherine and her husband Maxim Zakutaylo.
In the detention center Smetana began to cooperate with investigators, pleaded guilty and testified against Vasilyeva. After that Vasilyev was detained and placed under house arrest in his four-room apartment in the dairy side street in the capital. The first year she could leave home for the daily three-hour walk.
In the summer of 2014 to deal with 12 episodes of fraud and abuse of power were sent to the court. The process kicked off in July. For ten months in the courtroom were several dozen witnesses, but the court examined hundreds of documents: expert advice, contracts for the sale of objects, minutes of the Board of Directors of the Ministry of Defense agencies.
The prosecution insisted that Vasilyeva “misled the Minister defense, “persuaded to appoint agents for the sale of property controlled by the Ministry of her company” LAC Expert “and pay her compensation in the amount of 5% of each transaction. Before that agency services are carried out by LLC “ICS” on the same conditions.
Director of the company has become a friend Vasilyev – Catherine Smetana, it follows from the case. In court, Smetana told me that a few months all the agency fee was in the accounts of the company. Then Vasiliev gave her an order to create a company, which itself will act the buyer of assets of the Ministry. Thus was created the company LLC “VitaProdzhekt” says Smetana.
According to the case materials, the company has become a customer of several assets – two buildings on the Arbat and Grand Serpukhov street, and about 70% of the shares’ 31 GPISS “. The price for these facilities has been underestimated, insists the prosecution.
According to investigators, Vasilyeva and the company “Expert” specially understated assets. So the campaign “31 GPIS” were sold for 142 million. Rubles, but a consequence of the cost estimates at 2.1 billion. Rubles. And the building of the Institute on Smolensky Boulevard was sold for 1.627 billion. Rubles – less at 500 million. Rubles.
The court Vasiliev denied that the company “Expert” and “VitaProdzhekt” belonged to her. She insisted that the charges for applications built Smetana, who did not know who the benefetsiarom, but I think those Vasilyev.
On Vasilyeva insisted innocence and ex-Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. Speaking in court, he said that he does not feel cheated and sees no corpus delicti in the actions of the accused.
Initially, around the criminal case got a lot of rumors. Reference was made more than a dozen different objects allegedly sold violations, including hotel “Union” on University Avenue and the complex of buildings “GUOB” in the Great Baptist Lane.
On the eve of the verdict in the media rumors that Vasilyeva can lay charges and other assets of the theft counts.
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