Mayevsky Leonid Stanislavovich

Mayevsky Leonid Stanislavovich

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2022: Ex-State Duma deputy from the Communist Party received 11 years in prison for extortion from Friedman

In March 2022, the Meshchansky court of Moscow sentenced Leonid Mayevsky to 11 years in a maximum security colony. Former State Duma deputy from the Communist Party and ex-shareholder of Unitail Holding (a large manufacturer of ceramic tiles) was found guilty of extorting $37.5 million from Alfa Group co-owners Mikhail Fridman, Peter Aven and German Khan.

According to investigators, Mayevsky and accomplices from October 31 to November 8, 2018 threatened Friedman, Aven and Khan to talk about their allegedly fraudulent actions and possible involvement in the disappearance and murder Latvia of Leonid MegaFon Rozhetskin as co-founder of "." The victims for visibility agreed to the conditions of the ex-deputy, after which they turned to the FSB, and then the ex-deputy was detained, writes. Kommersant At the same time, it is not known exactly what evidence Mayevsky and accomplices had.

According to the newspaper, one of Mayevsky's lawyers made it clear that the ex-deputy was forced to blackmail after leaving Unitail. According to the results of the settlement agreement, either his former business partner and founder of the holding Lazar Shaulov, or already the company A1, which received control of Unitail in 2014, allegedly paid him not the entire agreed amount.

Mayevsky's financial dispute and Alfa Group shareholders tried to resolve in the London International Arbitration Court. The claims were due to the fact that A1, affiliated with Alfa Group, allegedly did not pay the entire amount to the ex-deputy after the acquisition of Unitaila in 2014.

Also, for 10 years, lawyer Vladimir Afonkin and former press secretary of Unitail holding Maxim Bukin received the colony, who, according to the investigation, helped Mayevsky extort bribes from entrepreneurs. Bukin's defender called the sentence "unjustly harsh."^[1]

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