MOSCOW, February 6 Ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal, together with his defenders, will exchange charges of violation of order with the prosecutor's office trial, reports a correspondent from the hall of the Babushkinsky Court in Moscow.
Today's hearing in the case of the theft of SME Bank assets began with a statement from prosecutors about violations of the law by the defense. According to prosecutors, the lawyers published a link on the Telegram channel to the broadcast of one of the court hearings without the permission of the presiding judge.
The latter noticed that this was a simple audio recording of the meeting, which was posted on YouTube, for which the judge’s sanction, according to lawyers, is not required. The board sided with the prosecutors, recognized the actions of the defenders as a violation, also explaining that a repeated violation could lead to serious consequences and filed a statement with the Investigative Committee.
Furgal himself asked for a statement to the Investigative Committee, but for a different reason — allegedly, on leaving the court, he was placed in an “isolating glass” in a paddy wagon, “a room 50 by 50 centimeters, where there is no ventilation, light.»
“They put me in a glass and kept me in the cold for several hours,” complained the former head of the Khabarovsk Territory.
The court stated that, in accordance with Article 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, it would send the materials for verification to law enforcement agencies.
After this, for several more hours, lawyers and defendants filed motions, for example, with a request to soften the preventive measure, call new witnesses, seize property, request certain evidence, return the case to the state prosecutor to eliminate shortcomings. All of them were rejected.
There are 10 people in the dock, mostly employees of enterprises of the Torex group, which, according to investigators, is associated with Furgal. The defendants are charged with organizing a criminal community, fraud in the field of lending, money laundering and illegal participation in business activities — almost a dozen episodes in total.
As stated by the head of the RF Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, the total damage “as a result of the unlawful acts of members of the criminal community created by Furgal” exceeded 3.8 billion rubles.
According to the investigation, in 2017-2018 in Moscow and the Khabarovsk Territory, Furgal, illegally participating in the commercial activities of the enterprises of the Torex group, created a criminal community to steal the assets of JSC Russian Bank for the Support of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME Bank).
Accomplices under the leadership of Furgal and the lawyer of the Torex group of companies Nikolai Shukhov, from December 2018 to July 2020, stole more than 2 billion rubles belonging to the bank, as well as $8.7 million in foreign discretion,” the investigation says.
/>In addition, the attackers tried to steal property of the Torex-Khabarovsk company worth more than 1.2 billion rubles, but were detained by law enforcement agencies, the investigation reported.
In February, the Lyubertsy Court of the Moscow Region, based on the verdict The jury sentenced Furgal to 22 years in a maximum security colony for organizing two murders and one attempted murder. Later, the Moscow Regional Court recognized the sentence as legal.