MOSCOW, July 15 The Tverskoy Court of Moscow has arrested Alexander Sanin, an aide to Mikhail Polyakov, who, according to media reports, is the administrator of the telegram channel «Kremlinskaya laundress» court.
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"The court ruling granted the investigator's motion to take a measure of restraint in the form of detention against Alexander Aleksandrovich Sanin, who is suspected of committing a crime under paragraph b of part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, for a period until September 13 2023,” the court said.
Polyakov, who holds the position of deputy security director of the ANO Directorate of the World Youth Festival, is suspected of extorting 40 million rubles from Lanit JSC, the leader of the Russian information technology industry «. According to the investigation, from 2020 to 2023 he received 40 million rubles from JSC Lanit. The money was extorted for not publishing information (the so-called negative block), which could cause significant harm to the rights and legitimate interests of JSC Lanit and
A case of extortion on an especially large scale was initiated, the maximum sanction is imprisonment for 15 years. The court arrested the suspect until September 13.