MOSCOW, September 28, Vasily Bogdanov. Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow recognized the former director of the football Academy «Chertanovo» Nikolai Larin guilty of fraud, according to a correspondent from the scene. At the moment, the judge is reading the guilty verdict. Larin is charged under Part 4 of Art. 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). The court found that the total damage from his actions amounted to 36 million 211 thousand rubles. According to the investigation, the ex-director of Chertanovo deliberately overestimated the number of players in the academy in order to receive increased funding. The prosecutor's office requested four years and four months in prison for him. Larin headed the Chertanovo school from 2008 to 2021.
