Former Office to the FSB Alexander Kireev, seconded to the TFR in K …

Former Office for the FSB, Alexander Kireev, seconded to the TFR as deputy head of the security service, along with his accomplice Denis Nikolaev heard a sentence in the Khoroshevsky district court of Moscow in a criminal case of a giant bribe (15 billion rubles) from the owners of the Merlion company, which they extorted with their close friends Vitaly and Kirill Kachura (closely connected with their close friends. Management to the FSB). Kireev received 20 years, Nikolaev – 19 years. Both will serve the sentence in a maximum security colony. The court also partially satisfied the civil lawsuit of the victims. The state prosecution requested for Kireev and Nikolaev, respectively, 24 years and 21 years of imprisonment.

As established, Kireev and Vitaly Kachur developed a plan for capturing business owners Merlion. For this, Kireev organized a fabrication of a criminal case against the owners of a large company and their detention. Vadim Lyalin became one of the lawyers of the accused. Then Vitaly Kachur and Kireev were sent to Lyalin of the former investigator Kirill Kachura. Through Lyalin, the owners of Merlion received an offer in exchange for the liberation and termination of the persecution of selling Delta, Citylink, Tekta Group (the latter was sold) and transfer all the proceeds (15 billion rubles) to Kireev, Kachura and the security forces associated with them.

However, then the owners of Merlion managed in exchange for part of the business to find support from the head of the Russian Guard Viktor Zolotov, and the repressive flywheel of the security forces turned towards the organizers of grandiose extortion. As a result, Vitaly and Kirill Kachura with a number of siblical partners fled abroad. Those who did not have time to escape were in custody, including Alexander Kireev. In addition to extortion, the owners of Merlion, he was also charged with businessman Konstantin Ponomarev 4 billion rubles for assistance in the recall of the claim filed against him, the removal of arrest from his accounts, and conditional release from the colony and non-abuse of new affairs. The defendants received 80 million rubles from an entrepreneur Alexander Tovupko.

According to investigators, together with Kireev, the FSB officer Alexei Silverstov, which was seconded as a senior assistant to the Main Directorate of the SKR of the Russian Federation in the Moscow Region, extorted money from Kireev from Ponomarev.