Somov Dmitry

History

2024: Sentence - 3 years in prison

On November 29, 2024, the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow sentenced Dmitry Somov, a programmer, as part of a criminal case against Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of the international processing company ChronoPay, accused of fraud, theft, money laundering and illegal circulation of payment funds. Somov received three years in prison with serving in a general regime colony.

According to the investigation, in 2019, Vrublevsky developed a plan for embezzlement of funds from citizens' accounts using fake sites with false information about large cash prizes in exchange for participating in polls, predicting the values ​ ​ of exchange rates and shares. At the same time, it is alleged that Somov was responsible for the technical part of the fraudulent scheme: he controlled the work of the relevant software and kept accounting records.

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Somov pleaded guilty, and also entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement. He, as noted by TASS, denounced the rest of the accomplices in the crime, and also testified against them. The state prosecution asked the court to determine the punishment for the programmer in the form of seven years in prison, but the sentence turned out to be milder. Somov was found guilty of fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code), theft (article 158 of the Criminal Code) and money laundering (article 174.1 of the Criminal Code).

According to the totality of crimes by partial addition of punishments, finally appoint the accused Somov a punishment in the form of imprisonment with serving in a general regime correctional colony for a period of three years, take into custody in the courtroom, - said in the decision.

At the same time, the defendant himself was counting on a milder punishment. In this regard, Somov appealed the verdict to the appellate instance of the Moscow City Court. Materials in relation to the programmer are separated into a separate proceeding from the main case of Vrublevsky.^[1]

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