The Vakhitovsky District Court in Kazan seized six properties owned by Finiko pyramid founder Kirill Doronin and barred deals with a car registered in his name. As Real Time reports.
According to the publication, law-enforcement authorities seized Doronin’s Sochi residence on Beregovaya Street and two apartments with rough finishes in a 25-storey building in the Festivalny district of Krasnodar.
The accused of fraud and his family members are prohibited from transactions with an apartment in a six-storey building on Nazarbaeva Street in Kazan and two houses on the same plot in Vvedenskaya Sloboda, Verkhneuslonsky District, Tatarstan. One of the publication’s sources claims that both houses are unfinished.
Doronin’s defence attempted to challenge the court’s decision. The lawyer argued that the first-instance court, in violation of the law, did not establish a time limit on the seizure, and did not check whether all the property belonged to Doronin and whether the only dwelling suitable for living for the accused and his family had fallen into the list. The defence noted that the court did not take into account the interests of Doronin’s wife and three children.
Also under arrest was a VAZ-21093 with registration number 368, registered in Tatarstan in the name of Kirill Leonidovich Doronin. However the defendant denied ever purchasing or using this car.
Despite the defence’s arguments, the Supreme Court of the RT dismissed both appeals and left the court’s decisions in force. Prosecutors noted the importance of this decision for further fraud on a particularly large scale. It is being handled by the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs together with the investigators of organized crime.
Harley-Davidson motorcycle belonging to Finiko co-founder Edward Sabirov was also seized. The authorities have not yet found other property belonging to the fugitive. Also seized are a residential house, an apartment, four parking spaces and a car owned by Zygmunt Zygmuntovich.
The only person who, through a lawyer, managed to appeal the seizure of his cars Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Chevrolet Cruze and Daewoo Gentra was the third co-founder Marat Sabirov. The appellate instance ruled that the district court’s decision was issued with violations — without a time limit on the seizure and without establishing specific circumstances. The Vakhitovsky District Court will review the investigators’ motion regarding the cars again.
Overall, the value of the seized assets of the defendants is estimated at 110 million rubles.
As reported, a criminal case has been opened into fraud on a particularly large scale in relation to Finiko. It is being handled by the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs together with the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime.
In early October, Kirill Doronin and three of his associates Ilgiz Shakirov, Liliya Nurieva and Dina Gabdullina (Akhmetzyanova) were transported to Moscow.
Co-founders Edward and Marat Sabirov, as well as Zygmunt Zygmuntovich have been declared internationally wanted and arrested in absentia. According to the investigation, they left Russia via Belarus and may be in the United Arab Emirates.
According to the latest data, 157 victims have been recognised in the pyramid case, of whom 110 became civil defendants. Official damages exceeded 300 million rubles. Additionally, more than 3,000 defrauded investors from the United States, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan are seeking victim status, estimating their losses at over 1 billion rubles.
According to independent estimates, the total losses from Finiko’s activities exceed $4 billion. The number of victims is no less than 850,000 people.
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