Tushino dispute

The district prosecutor was allowed to prosecute

Yesterday, the Tushinsky District Court of the capital allowed the prosecutor of the Tushinsky district, Boris Nersesyan, to be held criminally liable. He is accused of exceeding his official powers, namely the illegal sale of confiscated property. True, Mr. Nersesyan is now considered a former employee of the prosecutor's office - on June 1, he was dismissed from his post.

As the Vremya Novostei newspaper has already reported , the district prosecutor came under the suspicion of his colleagues from the city prosecutor's office at the end of May in connection with a criminal investigation into the sale of illegally seized goods from several capital companies, in which several officials from the Russian Federal Property Fund (RFFI) participated. . This case emerged as a result of inspections carried out by the supervisory unit of the Moscow prosecutor's office in district prosecutor's offices. Then, according to Art. 160-4 of the Criminal Code (embezzlement or embezzlement on an especially large scale), two businessmen were arrested - Roman Chubatov and Boris Lisagor. Another businessman, a certain Fedin, was released on his own recognizance. The investigation established that all three at different times collaborated with the Russian Federal Property Fund as intermediaries in the sale of illegally confiscated household appliances from two capital companies - Fazar LLC and Components and Systems LLC. During the interrogations, it turned out that Tushino prosecutor Boris Nersesyan was also involved in the implementation of the criminal plan. “Mr. Nersesyan, for some reason unknown to us, personally issued a resolution on the sale of material evidence (household appliances - Ed. ), although this should have been done by the investigator,” said our source in law enforcement agencies. According to him, on May 31, Moscow Prosecutor Yuri Semin sent a proposal to the Tushinsky District Court to issue an opinion on the presence in his actions of “signs of a crime under Art. 286-3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (exceeding official powers causing grave consequences).”

As our sources said, the case of the Tushino prosecutor was separated into separate proceedings, and soon three more defendants appeared in it - employees of the Department of Economic Crimes of the North-Western District. On June 6, the Tushinsky court chose a measure of restraint for them in the form of arrest. The detained operatives were also charged with malfeasance. According to the source, the police completely deny their guilt. “We found the OBEP operatives, who are still listed as its employees, thanks to the testimony of Chubatov, Lisagor and Fedin,” our source explained. — Businessmen testified that it was these three fighters against economic crimes who first found companies involved in the sale of household appliances, then leaked information about them to the prosecutor’s office, including the Tushino prosecutor, and to the Russian Federal Property Fund. And then the scheme was simple - the warehouses were sealed, the goods were confiscated, with the help of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research they were sold through intermediary firms, and everyone received their share for the work performed.” According to the source, it was as part of this investigation that searches were carried out at the head office of the Russian Federal Property Fund at the end of June.

The Tushinsky District Court twice postponed consideration of the possibility of bringing Mr. Nersesyan to criminal liability due to his illness - the former prosecutor is being treated in a Russian cardiology center with a diagnosis of coronary heart disease. Nobody expected that the court would still hold a hearing despite his absence. “This was a complete surprise for us,” prosecutor’s lawyer Igor Trunov, who yesterday tried to postpone the hearing again, told Vremya Novostei. - There was practically no opportunity to prepare. My client is not hiding, he is seriously ill, his entire left side is paralyzed. And it’s completely unclear why there’s such a rush.”

For the court to resolve the issue, the arguments presented by the city prosecutor's office were sufficient. And in the end, the court came to the conclusion that Mr. Nersesyan “maliciously evades judicial review and his presence in the Russian Cardiology Center in the emergency cardiology department is not due to treatment.” Trunov's lawyer's request to postpone the hearing was thus rejected, and the prosecutor's office's request to bring their former colleague to criminal responsibility was granted.

According to our source in law enforcement agencies, it is possible that this week the Moscow prosecutor’s office will submit a new petition to the court to impose a preventive measure on Mr. Nersesyan in the form of detention. But Mr. Trunov recalled that the prosecutor’s office cannot do this until the court’s decision comes into force, and he intends to seek its cancellation in a higher court. “On June 29, the City Prosecutor’s Office conducted a search in the apartment of my client, although at that time Mr. Nersesyan was neither a suspect nor an accused, that is, the search was illegal,” Igor Trunov complained. Law enforcement agencies denied this claim. “The investigation team acted strictly within the law,” said our source. “We must admit that we did not find anything valuable for the investigation in the prosecutor’s apartment.” The inventory and protocol were drawn up in accordance with the form, and all seized items will soon be returned to the suspect.”

Law enforcement agencies do not rule out that very soon several more officials and police officers may appear in this criminal case.

Ekaterina KARACHEVA