Banker Urin, who beat up "Putin's daughter's husband", released from prison

Former banker Matvey Urin has been released from a penal colony in the Tambov region, Gennady Shilo, a legal consultant on the case, told The Bell. In 2015, Urin was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for several counts of fraud, money laundering, and the beating of Dutch businessman Jorrit Faassen, whom Vedomosti called an acquaintance of Vladimir Putin's daughter, and Reuters called her husband .

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• Shilo told The Bell that the businessman was released from custody on September 7. Since then, says Sergei Komkov, a friend of the Urins' family and assistant to deputy Oleg Smolin, Urin has been traveling to Moscow. "He is currently in touch with his father, but he promised to return to the capital soon. Perhaps he is enjoying his free life," Komkov believes.
• Urin was released because his sentence was recalculated according to a new rule , which equates one day in a pretrial detention facility to 1.5–3 days of various types of restriction of freedom.
• From 2010 to 2015, the banker was in the capital's Lefortovo and Butyrka pretrial detention centers, after which in September 2015 he was transferred to penal colony No. 3 of the Tambov Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service. In total, he spent just under eight years in prison.
• The owner of several banks (Slavic Bank, Trado-bank, Mint, etc.) was convicted, among other things, of producing counterfeit papers, laundering and cashing money through shell companies. In just one of these cases, the Investigative Committee estimated the damage at 16 billion rubles.
• However, Urin’s case began and became widely known when he was charged with hooliganism and organizing beatings for the beating of a former member of the board of directors of Gazprom’s subsidiary Stroytransgaz, Dutch businessman Jorrit Faassen.
• "Urin was driving along Rublevskoye Highway when his motorcade was cut off by a BMW. The banker asked his security - employees of the private security company Bastion - to teach the impudent fellow a lesson. They caught up with the BMW, beat the driver and the car with bats, and drove away. But not far: that same evening, Urin, his driver, and the security guards were detained by employees of the Federal Security Service. The head of the Moscow Main Directorate of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev [now the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs] approached Urin's car and personally went to detain him. "Do you recognize me?" he asked. Urin nodded," the publication described Urin's conflict with the businessman.
• Vedomosti emphasized that Vladimir Putin’s daughter “was practically sitting in [the businessman’s] car when the windows were being smashed.”

Artem Gubenko, Anton Baev