The criminal case against the leaders of Altyn has been terminated, Babosyuk will return a bail of 30 million

The Moscow City Court terminated the criminal case against the heads of the Altyn jewelry holding, accused of the contraband of gold, including the vice president of the company Antonina Babosyuk .

According to Interfax , this was thus satisfied the corresponding application for the defense of the defendants in the case.

According to the court’s decision, preventive measures were canceled in relation to all the defendants in the case. Three of the five accused who were in custody were released in the courtroom for the applause of the audience.

Antonina Babosyuk, by decision of the court, should be returned to the amount of the pledge contributed for her - 30 million rubles. The fate of material evidence, among which 1.5 tons of gold, did not decide, explaining that this is not entitled to do this, that they are taking place as evidence in another case.

"Due to the fact that the crime of this act was eliminated, the court decided to terminate the criminal case against all the accused," the judge said, announcing the decision.

Antonina Babosyuk’s lawyer Tatyana Khobskin explained to the agency that the protection of the former defendants in the case would study the issue of the requirement of compensation for criminal prosecution. “We will think about it,” the lawyer said.

Zhozhkina added that the former defendants intend to insist on the return of gold confiscated by the special services. “We will fight for this, because it is not known how much the investigation will last in another case, in which gold passes proof,” she added.

On December 7, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed amendments to the Criminal Code, according to which the so -called commodity smuggling was decriminalized. In this regard, the protection of the leaders of Altyn on Monday in the Moscow City Court filed a motion to terminate this criminal case.

In October 2009, the Investigative Department of the FSB of Russia opened a criminal case against a number of employees of the Altyn jewelry holding on the grounds of smuggling jewelry and conducted searches in chain stores in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Omsk. A large number of jewelry were seized as material evidence.

It also turned out during the investigation that Altyn was renting one of the corps of the Red Triangle plant in St. Petersburg. However, production at this facility was minimal and in terms of its capacities did not correspond to the specifications of the goods sold by the holding, or its volumes.

This enterprise also actively used the work of citizens of Kyrgyzstan, who did not have permits to work in the Russian Federation. The servers that contained information about the current activities of all departments of the holding, including those located on the territory of foreign states, were located in separate premises and were carefully masked.

The investigation established that in Istanbul the leadership of the Altyn jewelry holding organized an illegal office, whose employees were engaged in the purchasing of jewelry with small Turkish manufacturers with the aim of their subsequent smuggling into Russia. Citizens of Kyrgyzstan worked in this office who went there on tourist visas.

In mid-October 2009, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow issued sanctions for the arrest of five defendants in the case of gold smuggling in the Altyn chain stores, in particular, the vice president of the supervisory board of Antonina Babosyuk, her wife, executive director of the holding in St. Petersburg, Vladimir Fenkov, General Director Altyn hypermarket Valentina Shadrina, director of Tien Shan LLC Vladimir Sukhoveev and former senior employee of the Kyrgyzstan Ministry of Internal Affairs, Eltugan Dzhaparov.

Babosyuk charges under Art. 210 of the Criminal Code (organization of the criminal community), under Part 1 of Art. 188 (smuggling) and Art. 30 h. 188 of the Criminal Code (attempt on smuggling). On May 17, 2011, the accused was released from the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center on bail of 30 million rubles.