MOSCOW, July 30 Moscow's Khoroshevsky Court has granted the Prosecutor General's Office's claim to appropriate the property of former employee of the central office of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Kireyev for state use, a correspondent from the courtroom reports.
«The claims are to be satisfied… to convert the premises… the parking spaces into the income of the Russian Federation… to collect jointly and severally from Sergei Ivanovich Kireeva and Natalya Aleksandrovna Kireeva in favor of the Russian Federation 26 million 212 thousand 500 rubles as an equivalent of the value of the property,» the judge announced the decision.
In the claim, the Prosecutor General's Office, according to the case materials, asks to transfer three premises and four parking spaces to the state's treasury, and also to jointly collect 26 million 212.5 thousand rubles from Kireev's relatives in favor of the Russian Federation — the equivalent value of the property, for which no evidence of legal acquisition was presented. How much, in total, according to the plaintiff, Kireev earned illegally, is not stated in the case.
In court, a representative of the Prosecutor General's Office reported that Kireev, a former employee of the HR department of the central office of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, did not declare or report his income or the registration of property in the name of his parents.
According to the plaintiff, they have documents proving that Kireyev and his wife have a common income that «would not allow them to acquire the disputed property,» and Kireyev's parents could not acquire the property with legally obtained funds. In this regard, the question was raised about the transfer to the state of property for which no evidence of its acquisition by legal means was presented.
«Kireyev is the accused. He is charged with committing 17 crimes, including corruption… We believe that he acquired these funds and, while hiding them from his employer, registered them in his parents' names, thereby illegally using this property and violating the legislation regulating the fight against corruption,» said a representative of the Prosecutor General's Office.
As Kommersant reports, the Prosecutor General's Office became interested in the assets of the Kireev family in connection with the investigation of a criminal case against the former deputy head of the eighth department of the personnel department of the RF IC. As part of this case, Kireev is charged with committing crimes under Part 3 of Art. 210 (organization of a criminal community using official position), Part 3 of Art. 30, part 6 art. 290 (three episodes of attempted particularly large bribes), part 4 of Art. 159 (fraud on an especially large scale) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
The publication, with reference to the investigation, clarifies that he was one of the main defendants in the so-called fixer case. The defendants, among other things, organized the arrests of the owners of the large company Merlion and extorted billions of dollars from them for further termination of the case and criminal prosecution.
In April, the Khoroshevsky Court of Moscow sentenced former CEO of Merlion Vyacheslav Simonenko to 22 years in prison for the scams committed by his organized crime group. The victims in this case are Merlion co-founders Oleg Karchev, Vladislav Mangutov, Alexey Abramov, and top manager Boris Levin. But before that, they were all involved in a criminal case — they were accused of ordering an assassination attempt on Simonenko, to whom they allegedly owed $4.5 million because of his dismissal. The men spent a long time in custody and under house arrest. It later turned out that the shareholders had been framed, the criminal case against them was dropped, and Simonenko himself was charged.