Vladislav Malyshev is suspected of fraud seven years ago

Deputy of the Saratov City Duma Vyacheslav Malyshev is suspected of stealing oil from Bogorodskneft CJSC in 2005. As part of the renewed criminal case, the parliamentarian's home and office were searched. According to the deputy himself, the police did not confiscate any documents from him. The Investigative Committee, which is investigating the case, does not provide any explanations.

Searches in the apartment and office of the general director of Volzhskaya Neft LLC, deputy of the Saratov City Duma Vyacheslav Malyshev, took place on Thursday evening. As reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Saratov Region, the measures were carried out as part of an investigation by the regional Investigative Committee of a criminal case into fraud related to the theft of funds on an especially large scale from the enterprise of Bogorodskneft CJSC. “As part of this criminal case, on behalf of the investigator and having in hand a warrant to conduct a search of Vladislav Malyshev’s home and office, UBEP officers carried out investigative measures. Malyshev himself was successively present during two searches. He was not delivered to the police at that time to give evidence,” the regional police explained.

Previously, a criminal case against Mr. Malyshev was already investigated, but was discontinued. Earlier, Kommersant wrote that it was initiated on May 30, 2007 under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Misappropriation or embezzlement”) in relation to Vladislav Malyshev, at that time the general director of Bogorodskneft CJSC. According to the investigation, in October 2005, Mr. Malyshev committed “embezzlement of funds belonging to Bogorodskneft, transferring 11 million 963 thousand rubles for a fictitious supply of oil to the accounts of Etalon LLC (Moscow).” Then Vyacheslav Malyshev was charged. During the preliminary investigation, it was established that Etalon turned out to be a cashing company, but all financial documents and payment orders for transferring money to the account of this company were signed by the chief engineer and accountant of Bogorodskneft. During the investigation, these employees stated that it was Mr. Malyshev who gave them the documents to sign. The deputy himself claimed that he had nothing to do with these payments.

In 2008, the criminal case was transferred to the regional prosecutor's office to be sent to court, but the supervisory authority returned it for further investigation, indicating that the main part of the accusation was based on the assumptions of the investigation, and there were no facts and evidence of the theft of funds from Bogorodskneft CJSC by Vladislav Malyshev. On September 17, 2008, the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Saratov Region decided to dismiss the case for lack of evidence of a crime. Later, a similar criminal case was initiated, but on the basis of fraud, which was also discontinued.

The deputy himself claims that the searches in his apartment were “an attempt to exert psychological pressure.” “I believe that this is due to the fact that tomorrow I will have to testify in the case of police officers falsifying evidence of an attempt on my life and illegally accusing an innocent man, Solodilov,” says Mr. Malyshev in an open video message distributed on the Internet.

Let us recall that at the end of last year, Vyacheslav Malyshev turned to the Investigative Committee with a request to check the actions of police officers who allegedly committed a large number of violations during the investigation of the attack on him. As a result, Saratov resident Sergei Solodilov came under suspicion. As Kommersant has repeatedly reported, the attack on the parliamentarian occurred on May 27, 2010 at 12 o’clock at night on the street. Barnaulskaya in the Zavodskoy district. The attackers cut Mr. Malyshev’s neck, hitting the trachea and jugular vein, after which they calmly left. Two months later, the police detained Sergei Solodilov, who was charged with attacking a deputy. On October 31, the prosecution abandoned criminal prosecution against Sergei Solodilov, stating that “the collected evidence against the defendant is insufficient, contradictory and cannot be used as an accusation.” As a result, the accused was released right in the courtroom.

Mr. Malyshev is convinced that the police have no grounds to criminally prosecute him. “My conviction that I am right remains as strong as it was. I think that in this case, regarding Bogorodskneft, a decision will once again be made on the absence of corpus delicti in my actions,” he says.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Saratov Region does not provide any comments on the case against Mr. Malyshev. The Investigative Committee also does not say when exactly the investigation of the criminal case against the parliamentarian was resumed and what his legal status is. The deputy himself claims that he has been charged.

Sergei Petunin

The deputy was reminded of the old