The criminal case against former State Duma deputy and former deputy of the Primorye Legislative Assembly Sergei Sopchuk was suspended. This was reported by RIA Newsreferring to the words of Primorye Prosecutor Sergei Stolyarov on the district prosecutor’s office board.
Sergey Sopchuk found He is wanted internationally on charges of money laundering and illegal entrepreneurship.
According to Stolyarov, seventeen criminal anti-corruption cases were suspended.
“Four names in total: [Рустям] Abushaev, Sopchuk, Stukov and former head of VPOPAT [Руслан] Samigullin. “Abushaev is defending his homeland at the front, Samigullin went to the Northern Military District, Sopchuk is wanted, and Stukov too,” the prosecutor explained.
According to Stolyarov, this is not the first time that any of these cases have been suspended due to the failure to identify the person. We are talking about the second and third articles of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. The second paragraph of Article 208 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides for the suspension of the preliminary investigation if the defendant is excluded from the investigation or if his location cannot be determined for other reasons, and the third paragraph provides for the suspension of the preliminary investigation if the location of the defendant cannot be determined. is known, but there is no real possibility that he will participate in the criminal case.
Primorye journalists write that Dmitry Stukov is Sopchuk’s nephew; is involved in one of the lawsuits filed against the former MP.
With data The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Sopchuk was the actual co-owner of the enterprise until 2020 and appointed a reliable person to replace the head of the enterprise. He also provided the company with loans totaling more than 1 billion rubles, both personally and through individuals and legal entities controlled by him.
The person involved in the case used his status as a government representative to patronize business activities and legalize the funds obtained.
Previously Moscow Zamoskvoretsky Court captured Sopchuk has assets whose value is estimated at 38 billion rubles.