Former adviser to Kadyrov and key witness in the case of Colonel Zakharchenko, Pyotr Chuvilin, has died in Moscow.

On February 27, a former adviser to Ramzan Kadyrov and a key witness in the case of Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko, banker Pyotr Chuvilin, died in a Moscow hospital. RBC reports this with reference to a source close to the deceased.

According to journalists, Chuvilin was undergoing treatment in one of the private capital hospitals. “He was sick for a long time and developed sepsis,” a source told RBC. The VChK-OGPU telegram channel wrote about the banker’s death “under strange circumstances.”

In the nineties and zeros, Chuvilin headed the joint-stock company Spetsremstroymash, held the positions of general director at Confitum-1 LLC and vice president at Incredbank. From 2006 to 2009 he was the general director of the Spartak hockey club.

In 2012, Chuvilin was accused of organizing an assassination attempt on banker Alexander Antonov - Antonov previously owned Converse Bank-Moscow, which in 2006 was bought by Chuvilin together with his partner German Gorbuntsov.

Two years later, Chuvilin became involved in a fraud case. According to investigators, he promised bankers to solve their problems in exchange for large bribes. In particular, for five million dollars, with the help of his accomplices, he promised to resolve the conflict between the European Express Bank and the Central Bank. In 2016, he was sentenced to four years in prison; two years later he was released from prison on parole.

After this, Chuvilin became one of the key witnesses in the case of former Interior Ministry colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko. According to Rosbalt, Chuvilin told investigators that he and Gorbuntsov paid Zakharchenko $150,000 a month for “cover through the Ministry of Internal Affairs.” In addition, Chuvilin’s testimony appeared in the case of laundering Russian money through Moldovan banks, as well as in the case of the “king of government procurement” Valery Markelov.