The first businessman whom Ombudsman Titov persuaded to return to Russia received three years in prison

Businessman Andrei Kakovkin, the first member of the " Titov list " to return to Russia, was found guilty of fraud and sentenced to three years in a general regime penal colony. Kakovkin's sentence was handed down by the Kirov District Court of Rostov-on-Don.

The court found the businessman guilty of the fact that, together with an accomplice, he “stole 10 million rubles on August 11, 2015, between 09:00 and 19:00 Moscow time,” which belonged to one of the commercial companies.

• Andrei Kakovkin returned to Russia in February 2018. He was detained upon entering the country, but later released on bail. In August of that year, the police dropped the criminal case against Kakovkin, but it was later reopened.
• In total, eight members of the "Titov list" had returned to Russia as of the end of October, the business ombudsman's letter to the Prosecutor General's Office stated . There are more than 40 people on the list.
• On October 30, the Prosecutor General's Office proposed providing guarantees to participants in the "Titov list" that they would not be subject to preventive measures involving imprisonment until sentencing.