^^ On the sixth day, the judges began to speak
On Thursday, December 1, the Meshchansky Court in Moscow found Ziyavudin Magomedov, co-owners of the Summa group, and his brother Magomed, a former member of the Federation Council, guilty of various crimes. It took six days for the three judges to announce the decision.
RIA Novosti quotes the words of Oksana Mendeleeva, head of the judges troika, “Magomedov Ziyavudin and Magomedov Magomed created a criminal group connected with other crimes”. “The court finds the guilt of the defendants fully proven,” the decision further states.
Former Russian senator Magomed Magomedov was sentenced to 18 years in a strict regime colony. delivery Agency reporter from the courtroom. Ziyavudin was sentenced to 19 years in prison – he will also lie in a strict regime colony. He was also deprived of the Orders of Friendship and Honor by a court decision.
In the case of the Magomedovs there are about 830 volumes, they are accused of embezzlement of more than 11 billion rubles. Magomedov was also charged with forming an organized crime community (section 1 of Article 210 of the Criminal Code), nine divisions of particularly large-scale fraud (section 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code) and embezzlement (section 4). Article 160 of the Criminal Code).
The prosecution also demanded that each of the brothers be fined 1.5 million rubles and that their freedom be restricted for two years after leaving the colony. The judge decided to fine the Magomedovs 2.5 million rubles.
Ziyavudin and Magomed Magomedov do not admit their crimes.
Correspondent BFM informs“the judges began to speak openly” on the sixth day of the verdict’s announcement.
One of the judges said that the Magomedov brothers led the criminal community for “about eight years”, although in the opinion of the prosecutor’s office they were engaged in criminal activities from 2010 to 2016. Another judge stated that Magomed Magomedov committed firearms “theft” despite being charged only with illegal possession and possession (Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
The judges also excluded the illegal transportation of weapons and ammunition.
Other defendants in the criminal case also received heavy sentences and fines. Artur Maksidov, general director of the Inteks company, Sergey Polyakov, head of the economic security department of the United Grain Company, and Roman were sentenced to imprisonment from 7 to 12 years and a fine from 700 thousand to 1.5 million rubles. Gribanov, general director of the company ” Energy-M ” Yuri Petrov. While most of the defendants’ funds were in foreign accounts, the court ordered the confiscation of their property.
The three judges accepted the investigation’s allegations as valid and found the witnesses’ anonymous testimony under the pseudonyms Petrov, Cook, and Spaniard acceptable.
sister job
Magomed Magomedov was born in 1964, in 1968 in Ziyavudin. According to open sources, they formed a cooperative in 1988 and sold Soviet electrical goods to Poland.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1993, the brothers and their partners founded the company Interfinance. In the late 1990s, the Magomedovs turned to the wholesale oil trade.
The elder brother soon became interested in politics. From 2002 to 2009 he was a member of the Federation Council from the Smolensk region.
Ziyavudin remained an entrepreneur and founded the Summa Capital holding in 2007 (since 2011 it has become Summa Group LLC). In the mid-2010s, the company acquired shares of Yakut Fuel and Energy Company, Stroynovatsiya, Transengineering, United Grain Company, Fesco transport group and Novorossiysk Commercial Port.
Magomed soon joined his brother and became a co-owner of Summa. At the same time, Ziyavudin was included in the list as chairman of the board of directors. Until 2017, Forbes magazine estimated the fortune of young Magomedov at $ 1.4 billion.
Ziyavudin, who is also the owner of the Hazar VC Parters venture fund, invested in the Hyperloop high-speed vacuum train project of American entrepreneur Elon Musk. Magomedov Sr. led the Night Hockey League in 2016-2018. NHL is a Russian amateur sports organization founded on 15 December 2011 at the initiative of Vladimir Putin.
Searches and arrests
On March 30, 2018, the office of the Summa group was searched. The next day, March 31, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that a criminal case was opened against the Magomedov brothers and Artur Maksidov, the head of the Inteks company, which is part of the Summa group, under the Fraud and Criminal Organization articles. community or participation in it. “.
At the time, they were suspected of embezzling 2.5 billion rubles from the budget allocated, among other things, for the construction of infrastructure and energy facilities.
On the same day, the brothers Magomedov and Maksidov were arrested until May 30, since then this preventive measure has been repeatedly extended. At the same time, all the defendants in the criminal case denied their crimes. However, Maksidov insisted that he was unfamiliar with the Magomedovs.
The investigation gradually added new fraud charges to the brothers’ case. By 2020, St. They were accused of embezzlement during the construction of football stadiums in St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad, as well as during the reconstruction of the Kaliningrad airport Khrabrovo.
The case continued ^^^
On January 30, 2019, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced that a total of 16 people were involved in the brothers’ case, six of which were placed on the international wanted list. According to the section, 13 criminal cases were combined into a single case. Added to the brothers’ accusations were embezzlement and arms smuggling.
According to the lawyers of the arrested, by May 2020, assets worth 100 billion rubles were confiscated from them. In 2020, the property of the Magomedovs with a total value of 45 billion rubles was arrested. In 2022, the Khamovnichesky Court confiscated $750 million in favor of the state from the Magomedovs.
According to investigators, by 2010 the Magomedov brothers had created a criminal society, in whose activities 15 people participated. The material basis of the organization was the Summa Group. This allowed attackers to steal about 11 billion rubles from 2010 to 2016 under government contracts and agreements. Including the brothers, 5.4 billion during the construction of the Kyzyl-Kuragino railway, St. 2.1 billion during the preparations for the construction of the Zenit Arena in St. Petersburg, 1.2 billion during the reconstruction of the Khrabrovo airport, 874 million during the construction of the substations, and 753 million during the construction of the high-voltage lines in St. Petersburg and Yakutia, the Kaliningrad stadium rubles and 613 million fictitious transactions with the participation of United Grain Company (OZK).
The injured parties in the case were recognized by OZK, Sibmost JSC and the Federal Air Transport Agency, among other things. After the arrests, a number of Summa’s major assets moved into government structures.
At the same time, Ziyavudin and Magomed Magomedovs have influential intercessors – in 2021, businessman Gennady Timchenko acted as a guarantor of the former senator from the Smolensk region, Ruslan Aushev, the former president of Ingushetia, hockey players Alexander Yakushev and Alexei in 2022 . Kasatonov vouched for one of the brothers.