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2024: Arrest in Merlion shareholder case
On April 12, 2024, a Moscow court arrested ex-investigator Alexander Chernov, who is accused of complicity in falsifying evidence in the Merlion case. He faces up to seven years in prison.
 | The Basmanny District Court of Moscow granted the petition of the preliminary investigation authorities and elected Alexander Alexandrovich Chernov, accused of committing a crime under Part 5 of Art. 33 of the Criminal Code (Types of accomplices of an accomplice crime), part 3 of Art. 303 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Falsification of evidence and results of operational-search activities), a preventive measure in the form of detention for a period of 1 month 1 day, until May 12, 2024, - reported in the Telegram channel of the courts of general jurisdiction of the city of Moscow. |  |
We are talking about a trial that lasts from 2020. Then the ex-head of Merlion Vyacheslav Simonenko accused the co-owners of the company Oleg Karchev, Vladislav Mangutov and Alexei Abramov, as well as top manager Boris Levin of the assassination attempt - they allegedly set fire to his country house in Krasnogorsk in 2015. In 2022, the Investigative Committee of Russia stopped the criminal prosecution of the defendants in the case for the absence of a crime event, and later Vyacheslav Simonenko was charged with falsifying evidence. The former Merlion CEO faked an arson attack on his home, an inquest heard. The defendants in this case are also the former head of the Khoroshevsky department of the capital's headquarters of the Investigative Committee Rustam Yusupov, as well as his ex-colleagues Andrei Zhiryutin and Sergey Romodanovsky.
According to TASS, citing case materials, there are at least 14 identified defendants in the case, some of whom fled from law enforcement officers. In addition, the investigation believes that the accused have other accomplices. Former investigators are accused of organizing a criminal community, receiving a bribe, falsifying evidence, illegal detention or detention, bringing a knowingly innocent person to criminal responsibility and illegally initiating a criminal case.[1]
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