Former businessman Dmitry Mikhalchenko soften the prosecution

Mikhalchenko, who is accused of smuggling, transferred almost all the assets of the wife of Yevgeny Murov and his partner from the FSB. As it became known to The Bell, now the prosecution against him should be softened.

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The scandalous business of one of the most influential businessmen of St. Petersburg is nearing the end. Mikhalchenko broke up with most of his assets, including the most valuable port of Bronka. Now accusations against him can be softened, the sources of The Bell say. The case that Mikhalchenko was passing was excited in early 2016, after two containers with Courvoisier cognac, which was designed as a building sealant and, according to the investigation, was intended for Mikhalchenko, were discovered in the port of Ust-Luga.

• Porto operator-Fenix ​​LLC in September belonged to Mikhalchenko for a third , but now the company through the chain of firms is fully controlled by its former partners-the Major General of the FSB in retreat Nikolai Nekodov and Lyudmila Murova, the wife of the former director of the Federal Security Service (FSO), Yevgeny Murova.
• Bronka is not the only asset that Mikhalchenko had to part with. If you believe the “spark”, in December 2017, a significant part of his business passed to Bronka Group LLC, which Murov and Uddov own equal shares: for example, restaurants of Buddha-Bar Saint Petersburg, Il Lago Dei Cigni, 10% of the TSE FUNG restaurant and even the shops of clothing, which Mikhalchenko owned by which Mikhalchenko owned Mikhalchenko. He managed by HC FORUM. Now in the forum group, which used to have more than a dozen firms, there remained only the “production company Lemon” (net profit for 2016 - 15 thousand rubles) and 90% of the TSE FUNG restaurant.
• The fact that Mikhalchenko began to leave the business previously wrote the "Interlocutor" and Republic .

Parting with all assets - no coincidence, in exchange of accusations against Mikhalchenko can be softened.

• Indirectly, this version is confirmed by the fact that in January the Basmanny Court returned the Mikhalchenko case to the prosecutor's office "in connection with significant violations of his rights to defense." What exactly means this is not explained, but the source of The Bell in the Investigative Committee claims that the return of the case is associated with the transfer of assets, and Mikhalchenko eventually soften the prosecution. Now he is accused of smuggling.
• The Bell source, close to the side of protection, claims that lawyers expect that they re -qualify the charge for less serious, removing aggravating circumstances from it in the form of a crime by an organized group of persons by prior conspiracy, and then Mikhalchenko will be able to get off with a fine or imprisonment of up to 7 years. In the current edition of the prosecution, he faces up to 12 years.

• The official representative of the Forum called the transfer of assets "planned reorganization." “Mikhalchenko is in prison, the situation is incomprehensible, someone should manage with assets. If earlier he thought that he was about to come out, now these illusions are not, ”says the source of The Bell in the company. “He handed over assets to those to whom he trusts, who can lead the company in normal mode.”

• Lawyer Mikhalchenko Alexei Kirsanov claims that the transfer of the Mikhalchenko case back to the prosecutor’s office is in no way connected with the transfer of assets and is caused exclusively by objective reasons.

Mikhalchenko is a well-known businessman in St. Petersburg, a co-owner of the Forum Group of Companies, which previously included companies that engaged in a wide variety of business-from the restoration of state facilities to the production of threads. The Forum Group of Companies also included Baltztri JSC, which received solid state contracts - first from the Federal Security Service (FSO), and then from the Ministry of Culture. In 2015 and 2016, the volumes of the Baltstroya state contracts amounted to about 15 billion rubles a year. During the period of cooperation, Baltstra with the FSO was headed by Evgeny Murov. The colleague of Murov in the FSB used to be the partner of Mikhalchenko, Nikolai Nedov, wrote to RBC.

Anastasia Yakreva, Svetlana Reuters, The Bell