MOSCOW, September 28, Vasily Bogdanov. The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow sentenced the former director of the football Academy «Chertanovo» Nikolai Larin to three years in prison in a general regime penal colony, a correspondent reports from the scene. The court also ruled to recover 20 million rubles from Larin in favor of the Moscow Sports Committee. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale or resulting in the deprivation of a citizen's right to housing). According to investigators, the ex-director of Chertanovo deliberately overestimated the number of players in the academy in order to receive increased funding. The court found that the total damage from his actions amounted to 36 million 211 thousand rubles. The prosecutor's office requested four years and four months in prison for him. Larin headed the Chertanovo school from 2008 to 2021.
