Polyakov Mikhail V.

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2023: Arrest for 2 months on charges of extortion from the Lanit group

July 15, 2023 Tverskoy District Court Moscow arrested for two months the administrator Telegram of the channel "Kremlin laundress" Mikhail Polyakov, suspected of major extortion (paragraph "b" part 3 of article 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation; the maximum punishment is 15 years in prison) from the leadership of the IT group LANIT"." We are talking about the amount of 40 million. rubles

According to the prosecution, from 2020 to 2023. Polyakov received a large sum of money from Lanit for not publishing information (the so-called "negative block") that could cause significant harm to the rights and legitimate interests of the group and its leadership, the press service of the Moscow courts of general jurisdiction reported on July 15, 2023.

Mikhail Polyakov (center) - administrator of the Telegram channel "Kremlin laundress"

At the hearing, during which petitions were considered for the arrest of Mikhail Polyakov, who is officially listed as deputy director for security of the ANO "Directorate of the World Youth Festival," journalists were not allowed in, since on Saturday day (July 15, 2023) the court was closed to visitors. When the court decision was announced, Polyakov threw a hoodie hood and a medical mask over his head, so it was impossible to consider his face. The court arrested the suspect until September 13, 2023.

By July 17, 2023, the Kremlin Laundress Telegram channel has more than 260 thousand subscribers. Since the evening of July 13, 2023, the channel has not been updated. Polyakov is also associated with other Telegram channels. Baza wrote that the ex-colonel was detained due to publications in Nezygar and Kompromat-GROUP about Lanit with "false and defamatory" information about the company's management. According to the Telegram channel VChK-OGPU, Mikhail Polyakov previously worked in the service for the protection of the constitutional system of the FSB in Moscow and the Moscow region.

2024: The investigation of the criminal case of extortion of 42.5 million rubles from Lanit has been completed

On July 24, 2024, it became known that the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Moscow completed the investigation of a criminal case on extortion of more than 40 million rubles from Lanit. His defendants were retired FSB colonel Mikhail Polyakov, translator Denis Savinsky and general director of Heritage Production and Construction Company Alexander Sanin.

We are talking about the removal of negative posts related to Lanit in Telegram channels controlled by Polyakov, nicknamed "Uncle Misha FSB." According to the investigation, according to the Kommersant newspaper, Polyakov and his accomplices received a total of 42.504 million rubles for installing the "block on negative." The case file says that initially his defendants demanded $66 thousand, and then transfers with an interval of once a quarter were carried out in cryptocurrency.

source = Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian federation

The investigation believes that Sanin and Savinsky, who is married to Polyakov's sister, were engaged in cashing out the money received. The participants in the process themselves do not admit guilt. They declare that only one publication is mentioned in the materials of the criminal case, which was posted on the Nezygar Telegram channel in November 2021. It dealt with the relationship between Lanit and the tax authorities. The defendants claim that the Telegram channel actually repost the article, which was published in the Versiya newspaper on November 15, 2021 under the heading "You are getting away, and I am catching up." Moreover, this message was removed from the Nezygar Telegram channel just nine minutes after publication - in accordance with the Lanita request. Data on other publications in the case file are said to be missing.

Lawyers for the accused insist that the criminal case was investigated by the Main Directorate of the Metropolitan Police illegally. The defense claims that at the time of the events under consideration, Polyakov was an acting FSB officer, in connection with which his case should have been conducted by military investigators of the TFR. At the same time, Polyakov categorically denies negotiations with representatives of Lanit regarding the installation of the "block on negative." The defendants in the process and their lawyers must familiarize themselves with the case materials until October 13, 2024, after which it will be approved by the prosecutor's office, and then to the court.^[1]

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