Cherkalin Kirill Vladimirovich

Biography

Kirill Cherkalin was born on April 13, 1974 in the city of Moscow.

Education

After school, he received a higher economic education.

Career

Cherkalin was a member of the interdepartmental commission to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and also represented the Federal Security Service in the interdepartmental council to optimize payment turnover in Russia^[1].

2020: Recovery in favor of the state 6 billion rubles

On November 30, 2020, it became known that the prosecutor's office returned more than 6 billion rubles to the Russian budget after the sale of real estate and luxury goods of the former head of the 2nd department of the "K" department of the economic security service of the FSB of Russia, Colonel Kirill Cherkalin, accused of fraud and taking bribes:

Cherkalin's property seized by the court, including expensive cars, luxury goods and real estate, were sold on the international market. Wristwatches, handbags, jewelry, apartments in Moscow, suburban areas, cars and cash found during searches of the FSB colonel were turned in favor of the state. Cherkalin recognizes in full the recovery of amounts seized in various places in the amount of 200.5 thousand dollars, 900 thousand rubles, 50.49 million dollars, 1.978 million euros, 16.145 million rubles, 22.056 million dollars, 6.522 million euros, 4 thousand pounds sterling, 793 million rubles, as well as four Porsche Cayenne cars.

2021: 7-year sentence

In April 2021, Cherkalin was sentenced to 7 years in prison. Two of them he had already served during the investigation.

2024: Release from Prison

On October 14, 2024, it became known about the release of Kirill Cherkalin from prison. The former head of the "K" department of the economic security service (SEB) of the FSB of Russia was serving a sentence for receiving a bribe in the amount of $850 thousand.

According to Izvestia, earlier Cherkalin was replaced by correctional labor serving his sentence in the colony, later he achieved the replacement of correctional labor with a fine of 500 thousand rubles.

According to the investigation, Cherkalin was in collusion with the former owner of the bank "Transport" Alexander Mazanov, from whom he received $50 thousand a month for "general patronage," according to the publication of the publication.

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