Evgeny Semechkin, the main defendant in the case of a financial pyramid in Rostov, died in a pre-trial detention center, a representative of the press service of the regional Federal Penitentiary Service reported. He clarified that the arrested person died last Saturday. “During a walk, citizen Semechkin fell and lost consciousness,” said a GUFSIN employee. According to him, the prisoner was taken to the medical unit and an ambulance was called, however, medical assistance measures did not bring results. “Preliminarily, the cause of death was acute cardiovascular failure,” the press service noted.

The case of fraud began to be considered by the Leninsky Court of Rostov in February 2011. Chairman of the Board and General Director of the Garantiya cooperative Evgeny Semechkin and Sergey Vlasenko were accused of abuse of power (Part 1 of Article 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In addition, Evgeny Semechkin was charged with deliberate bankruptcy (Article 196 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), and Vlasenko was charged with causing property damage by deception (clause “b” of Part 3 of Article 165 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to information from the regional prosecutor's office, the cooperative was created to attract funds from shareholders, which were withdrawn from the "Guarantee" through loans and invested by the cooperative's leaders in the organizations they created, or appropriated. From 2004 to September 2008, the defendants managed to steal more than 614 million rubles. shareholders. 2.83 thousand people were recognized as victims in the case.

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