The corrupt ex-head of the Krasnodar regional court intends to voluntarily give his property to the state treasury.
Kommersant has learned that a representative of the former head of the Krasnodar Regional Court, Alexander Chernov, whose assets, estimated at 7 billion rubles, are being demanded by the Prosecutor General’s Office to be confiscated, has offered to voluntarily share them with the state. In this case, according to the defendant’s version, he bought real estate literally for pennies, repaired it at his own expense and sometimes sold it. So he turned out to be the owner of an apartment on Arbat and a house with a shooting range and a swimming pool in Krasnodar.
The Krasnogorsk City Court (Moscow region) has completed the consideration of the merits of the suit of the Prosecutor General’s Office against Alexander Chernov on the seizure of property obtained by corrupt means to the treasury. The stage of presentation of evidence, examination of witnesses and questioning of the parties has been completed. 127 volumes of evidence have been examined, consisting mainly of materials submitted by the prosecutor on Mr. Chernov’s property and its origin.
Mr. Chernov’s representative spoke at the hearing for the first time, admitting the facts that the property claimed by the judge belonged to him, that it was registered to nominal owners and that the transactions were cashless.
At the same time, according to Kommersant’s sources, he pointed out that it served as a way of distributing inheritance between relatives.
The defendant’s representative also admitted that the property had been used as a means of distributing inheritance between his relatives. The defendant’s representative also admitted that the property had been used as a means of distributing inheritance between relatives. Therefore, the expenses were covered by his salary. Among such items was an apartment on Arbat, which allegedly did not even have running water. Mr. Chernov, according to his representative, bought the property in the very center of Moscow for only 300 thousand rubles, and sold it for 50 million rubles. From improvised materials, apparently, was built the house of the judge in the elite district of Krasnodar with an area of 900 square meters. m with its own shooting range, swimming pool and garage for several cars.
According to the supervision, during the leadership of the judicial system of the Krasnodar region Mr. Chernov officially earned a little more than 38 million rubles, but turned out to be the unofficial owner of assets estimated at billions.
The lawyer of the main defendant expressed readiness to transfer most of the disputed objects to the state due to the “difficult situation in the country.”
Recall that three anti-corruption lawsuits were filed against Mr. Chernov, who was the chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court from 1994 to 2019. Two applications of the Prosecutor General’s Office for the amounts of 50 million and 1.5 billion rubles were satisfied. As a result, dozens of real estate properties, including land plots, were returned to the state.
The largest lawsuit for 7 billion rubles is being considered in the Moscow region. According to the prosecutor’s office, Mr. Chernov and his relatives are the owners of LLC Agrofirma Vozdvizhenskaya, Losevo and Agricultural Farm Dmitrievskoye, numerous land plots, residential and non-residential premises and buildings in Moscow, Sochi, Krasnodar, Gelendzhik and Kropotkin, as well as motor vehicles and bank accounts.
The status of a judge prohibited Alexander Chernov from engaging in business and receiving income from it. Despite this, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the high-ranking judge acquired companies and actually managed them, generating income for himself, his relatives and controlled persons. The funds received from illegal business were invested in the purchase of expensive real estate, which was used, among other things, for commercial purposes.