Potshkov Vladimir Aleksandrovich

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2022: Sentenced to 6 years in prison for embezzlement of 50 million rubles earned on cryptocurrency

In November 2022, the Railway District Court Novosibirsk sentenced a 33-year-old man who was accused of being obtained stealing a bag of money from the sale. cryptocurrencies

According to the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Novosibirsk region, in August 2021, in a parking lot near the Antares business center, the defendant and his acquaintances broke the glass of the car in which the victim was sitting, took his bag and fled the crime scene. The cash belonged to two young people.

Железнодорожный районный суд Novosibirsk

It is clarified that a 33-year-old man was found guilty under Part 3 of Art. 161 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Robbery"). The defendant pleaded guilty in part. The court, taking into account the position of the state prosecutor, sentenced him to six years in prison with serving in a maximum security correctional colony. The court also satisfied two civil claims for 25 million rubles each.

According to the prosecutor's office of the Novosibirsk region, the defendant said that he stole 500 thousand rubles from young people, but it was proved that the amount was an order of magnitude higher. Therefore, the court took into account only a partial admission of guilt. The man stole the money using a gas spray.

The prosecutor's office does not name the accused. According to the NGS.ru newspaper, we are talking about Vladimir Gorshkov, who at the time of his arrest was a reserve soldier. Gorshkov testified that he had committed a crime with another person, and with his 23-year-old comrade he was just going to rest together for a long time.

{{quote 'He did not deny his involvement in the crime, testified that, together with an unfamiliar comrade, he was going to punish a drug dealer, but on the spot he lost his accomplice from sight and decided to take some action on his own, - the state prosecutor cited the testimony of the convicted^[1] }}

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