The Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow sentenced Kirill Sukhanov, commercial director of Ksenia Sobchak’s “Caution, Media”, to seven and a half years in a maximum security colony for extortion (clause “b” of Part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by SotaVision.
The authors of the “Lights Out” channel, Arian Romanovsky and Tamerlan Bigaev, were each sentenced to seven years in prison. They were also found guilty of extortion for the purpose of obtaining property on an especially large scale. The state prosecution requested seven and a half years in prison for them, and eight for Sukhanov.
“There are no words. This is not just injustice. It's much more than that. I fulfilled everything, all the agreements, so that there would be a mitigation. Why are you ruining people's lives? For what? 7.5 years????? Why such a disproportion???? Just to take revenge?” wrote Ksenia Sobchak after the verdict was announced.
The case was initiated at the request of the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov. The investigation claims that the journalists demanded 11 million rubles for refusing to publish material on the “Lights Out” telegram channel. We are talking about extortion of money for «block for negative».
Sukhanov and former chief editor of Tatler Romanovsky have been in pre-trial detention since October 2022; in November of the same year, former Life employee Tamerlan Bigaev was arrested. Sobchak later apologized to Chemezov for the actions of her colleagues.
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In December 2022, Anatoly, the administrator of the Ulyanovsk telegram channel “Somehow Like This,” was accused of extorting 150 thousand rubles from the director for special assignments of the Rostec state corporation, Vasily Brovko. Spirin.
On November 27 last year, Alexandra Bayazitova, the author of the telegram channel “Hell Grandmothers” and Life.ru employee, was sentenced to five years in prison in an extortion case, and media manager Olga Arkharova was sentenced to four and a half years in prison.