MOSCOW, May 12. The prosecutor in the debate of the parties asked lawyer Mikhail Tsivin for 7 years in prison in the case of embezzlement of the property of actor Alexei Batalov, his wife, actress Natalya Drozhzhina — 6 years, reports a correspondent from Hall of the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow.
“I ask you to finally impose a sentence of 6 years for Drozhzhina to be served in a general regime colony, with a fine of 200 thousand rubles,” the state prosecutor said.
He asked Tsivin for 7 years in prison and a fine of 400,000 rubles, and for the third defendant, former notary Dmitry Bubliy, 5 years in prison and a fine of 300,000 rubles.
The spouses are accused of fraud on an especially large scale, committed by a group of persons by prior agreement (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Bubliy is accused of abuse of office (Article 202 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and complicity in committing fraud.
The meeting was attended by Batalov's daughter.
According to investigators, the scam was organized by actress Drozhzhina and her husband, lawyer Tsivin, who, having entered into the confidence of Batalov’s widow and his youngest daughter under the pretext of providing support, helped the family for several years, but then, using a power of attorney, withdrew almost all the savings of the victims — more 20 million rubles.
In addition, according to the investigation, a notary friend Drozhzhina and Tsivina Bubliy prepared life maintenance agreements with dependents, on the basis of which they transferred Maria Batalova's share in an apartment located on Serafimovicha Street, an apartment in 1st Samotechny Lane and non-residential premises. Subsequently, Bubliy certified the signatures of the victims in violation of notarial procedures.
The court deprived Bubliy of the right to engage in notarial activities and invalidated the contracts of life maintenance with dependents, the subject of which was real estate, notarized by him.