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Particularly valuable evidence
The next investigation has been completed on the sale of fictitious evidence
The Moscow Office of the UPP, as it became known “News Time”, completed the investigation of the criminal case against the former investigator for especially important cases (ATS) of the prosecutor's office of the Central Administrative District (CAO) of Moscow, 33-year-old Sergei Kosterev. He is accused of abuse of authority, which, according to investigators, was expressed in the falsification of criminal cases of smuggling. Under the guise of investigating these cases, three trading companies were illegally seized and large batches of goods were sold out for nothing. The total damage from the “illegal actions” of Mr. Kosterev, according to the investigation, amounted to more than 456 million rubles. The accused himself, however, does not admit guilt.This criminal case of the UPC opened during a large -scale investigation of fraud with confiscat, in which metropolitan businessmen, prosecutors and police officers were involved (see “News Time” of July 13, 2009) . They were looking for old criminal cases of smuggling, which lay at the prosecutor’s investigators and the investigation of which for one reason or another was suspended. Along the way, scammers on ads on newspapers and the Internet found victims - firms that traded imported running products: household appliances, expensive hours, computers, etc. After that, investigators, under a far -fetched pretext, illegally “introduced” such a company into an old criminal case, to which it actually had nothing to do. On this basis, police and investigators conducted searches in warehouses from businessmen, withdrawing all the goods as material evidence. Further, investigators, through “their” supposedly independent experts, assessed the confiscate, underestimating its value ten times, after which the goods with the permission of the RFFI was sold for nothing to firms controlled by the scammers.
When this scheme was identified, several criminal cases were opened at once, one of which is now listening in court. 17 people are held on it, including several prosecutors and police officers who are accused of fraud, official crimes and falsification of criminal cases. During the investigation of this large -scale case, many searches were carried out, during which the USC went to the investigator Cao Sergey Kosterev. In February 2008, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow allowed him to attract him as the accused.
The investigation came to the conclusion that with the participation of Mr. Kosterev, at least three similar scams were committed with the sale of illegally withdrawn goods. True, it remained unclear whether he was somehow connected with other participants in such scams, whether he had accomplices, and he passes alone in a criminal case.
As follows from the materials of the capital’s SCP, on July 20, 2004, Mr. Kostev “accepted the case to his production, initiated on November 21, 2003 in relation to the heads of FPG Service LLC under the article of value added tax (VAT)”. And a little later, the investigator “received information” that the general director of the Laran Trading House LLC Alexander Petruchenko in 2003 allegedly smuggled a large batch of household appliances into Russia. The investigator did not report this to the leadership, and, “without conducting any information verification, on September 17, 2004 he issued a decision on the search in the office of the Laran, located in Dzerzhinsk near Moscow.” He did not bring the results - “subjects or documents indicating the smuggling of property”, the detectives did not find, in connection with which the goods were simply sealed, and the seized documents were transferred to the investigator to Kosterev. And he, according to the investigation, “continuing to gross roughly his powers, without inspection, study and analysis of the seized documentation, without establishing the circumstances of the receipt of the discovered goods at the company’s warehouse, contained it in a sealed form, preventing the legal owner to dispose of property.”
On January 12, 2005, Mr. Kostev, according to the SCP, launched the case of smuggling in relation to the leadership of TD Laran, connecting it with the tax case of the Service FPG. Within its framework, a “obviously illegal and unreasonable resolution was issued on the recognition of part of the goods found in Laran in the amount of 35,074 units of material evidence in the case of the FPG“ Service ”. At the same time, as follows from the materials of the case, Mr. Kosterev did not enter in the book of accounting for material evidence and, without concluding an agreement, transferred them to the responsible storage of CJSC PVC “Agro-98”. When transporting the seized on the warehouse of this company on a polar street, as the investigation established, part of the goods was damaged, but this fact was again not documented. Then the investigator Kosterev issued a decision on the conduct of a commodity forensic examination seized by the Consult-Service LLC, “deliberately” without submitting documents “containing information about the balance and purchase value of property.” As a result, the expert in the conclusion indicated that the market price of the confiscate is about 17.6 million rubles, although more than 141.4 million rubles were released according to the documents. And a few days later, by order of Mr. Kosterev, the goods were sold.
Similarly, according to investigators, he also used the criminal case of the smuggling of the Casio, Citizen, Seiko, Q & Q, Festina grades of the grades of grades, which was discovered at Kihortorg LLC in February 2003. In December 2004, Mr. Kosterev was appointed head of the investigative group in this case. The accused was not able to establish it, and soon the investigation was suspended. It resumed only in February 2006, when Mr. Kosterev received information from employees of the Moscow UBEP that MTT Holding LLC allegedly illegally imports the expensive Swiss watches of Ulysse Nardin.
The investigator, as follows from the case file, did not register this information in the book of records of crimes, but instructed the colleague to make a decision on the search in the MTT Holding office, allegedly as part of the investigation of the suspended case of Chikhontorg. On the same day, police came to the company, having seized more than 2 thousand hours, 103 jewelry and six gold feathers, the total cost of which was almost 260 million rubles. At the same time, as follows from the case file, among the seized was the personal collection of CEO of the company Yuri Yakovlev.
The investigator Kosterv had no data that the goods were really smuggled. Nevertheless, immediately after the seizure, he instructed him to transfer him to the warehouse of the Rodin M "Rodin M" proposed by the RFF, where the clock and jewelry "were stored in conditions that do not meet the requirements for accurate mechanics." Kosterev instructed the commodity forensic examination of the material evidence of the Consulting Group Mlits, whose representatives estimated them at only 4.4 million rubles. After that, Kosterev opened a new case of smuggling-already in relation to the leadership of MTT Holding, and within its framework the withdrawn goods from the notification of the RFFI was sold. As it turned out during the investigation, part of the material evidence was lost, but the investigator also did not fix it. And a little later, he issued a decision on the suspension of the MTT Holding case due to the impossibility of establishing the perpetrators.
According to the third episode, the sane of Mr. Kosterev, a party of expensive Swiss watches was also illegally sold. True, in this case, according to the UPP, the fraud was carried out quite simply, without the use of old criminal cases. According to the investigation, in April 2006, Kosterev issued a decision on a search at the office of Imperial M LLC on Yakimanka, 22, only on the basis of the information of the OBEP operatives who suspected that this company was trading illegally imported Swiss hours. The detectives immediately fulfilled the order and seized 442 hours of hours of stamps such as Ulysse Nardin, Debey & Shandenbrand, Jaeger Le Coultre, Chronoswiss and others, with a total cost of about 55.3 million rubles. By order of Kosterev, all this was the good was transferred to the same LLC Rodan M, and the experts of the Consulting Group of the Expert M LLC concluded that it could only be realized for 2.1 million rubles, which was soon done. Investigator Kosterev first opened the case of smuggling against the leadership of “Imperial M”, and later also suspended it due to the lack of accused.
Now Sergey Kostev is getting acquainted with the case file, and the general directors of the companies of TD Laran, MTT Holding and Imperial M in the case are held by victims. The cases fabricated against them were discontinued.
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