The Moscow Tverskoy Court arrested in absentia the former general director of the Lenfilm studio Fyodor Shcherbakov in an extortion case. In this respect reported On the Telegram channel of the Moscow courts of general jurisdiction.
By the decision of the Moscow Tverskoy District Court, Sherbakov was given a preventive measure in the form of detention for 2 months.
According to this TASSAt the hearing, the investigator and the prosecutor supported the petition for a preventive measure against the defendant. The prosecutor pointed out that Shcherbakov was hiding from investigations in Turkey and that his arrest in absentia was necessary for an international search and transfer to Russia.
Lawyer Irina Krasnova also called the position of the investigation illegal: she noted that the criminal events took place two and three years ago, and therefore it is impossible to talk about the destruction of evidence by the defendant.
“There is no obstacle to the investigation carrying out its work, and the detention of the defendant will in no way contribute to the discovery of the truth,” he is sure.
March 11 recognizedThat the Ministry of Internal Affairs requested the Moscow Tverskoy Court to arrest the former head of Lenfilm Shcherbakov in absentia. The man is charged under paragraph “b” of Part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Extortion with the aim of acquiring property, especially on a large scale”). We are talking about the extortion case of the top manager of Rostec, Vasily Brovko (wife of TV presenter Tina Kandelaki).
In December, the media reported that Shcherbakov’s business partner, PR specialist Anton Safonov, left Russia for Turkey due to his detention in a criminal case. Fontanka noted that Shcherbakov was a witness in this case. In February, the former director of Lenfilm was put on the wanted list.
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