The court overturned the sentence of FSB Colonel Dmitry Frolov, sentenced to six years for bribery

During a search, 6.3 billion rubles in cash were seized from another person involved in this criminal case; the weight of the money was 911 kilograms

The 2nd Western District Military Court overturned the sentence of the former deputy head of the “K” department of the FSB economic security service, reserve colonel Dmitry Frolov, TASS reported. In addition to overturning the sentence, the court dismissed Frolov's case due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

In 2019, Frolov became a defendant in a criminal case along with retired FSB major Andrei Vasiliev and FSB lieutenant colonel Kirill Cherkalin, who headed the “banking” department of the “K” department. According to investigators, while working for the FSB, from 2007 to 2013, he received 87 million rubles from the shareholder of the Creditimpex bank Dmitry Shkurko for “patronage”, which he carried out through Cherkalin. As Novaya wrote, during a search, 911 kilograms of money and 6.3 billion rubles in cash were confiscated from the latter. Cherkalin was sentenced to seven years in prison for bribery and fraud; he has already been released on parole.

Lawyer Andrei Andrusenko told Meduza* that the money found on Cherkalin had nothing to do with Frolov.

In June, the Moscow Garrison Military Court sentenced Frolov to six years in prison. The charge was reclassified from receiving bribes to fraud, and Frolov himself was released from punishment due to the time he spent in a pre-trial detention center. Now his sentence has been canceled altogether, although earlier the court and investigation considered Frolov’s guilt proven.

Meanwhile, former deputy Aleksey Gorinov received seven years in prison for calling the “SVO” a war, and while serving time in a colony, he became involved in a second criminal case about “justifying terrorism,” again for words after a conversation with a cellmate.

*Recognized in Russia as a “foreign agent” and an “undesirable” organization.
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