Programmer-figurant in the case of the founder of СhronoPau was sentenced to a three-year term.

The defendant in the case of the founder of ChronoPay processing company Pavel Vrublevsky, programmer Dmitry Somov, who entered into a pre-trial agreement with the investigation, has been sentenced by Moscow 's Khamovnichesky court to a three-year prison term. This follows from the court materials, as reported by TASS on Friday, November 29.

"On the totality of crimes by partial addition of punishments to finally assign the accused Somov punishment in the form of imprisonment with serving in a penal colony of general regime for a term of three years, to take into custody in the courtroom," - stated in the text of the verdict.

Vrublevsky was detained by law enforcers on March 10, 2022. The investigation believes that the businessman, together with ChronoPay employees, posted false information on the Web, offering financial rewards for participation in surveys and for successful prediction of currency and stock rates. In addition, he encouraged Internet users to participate in trading on the stock exchange and other similar operations, promising people to earn money. At the same time, the founder of the company and his subordinates stole money from clients under the pretext of paying for registration on sites on the Web or paying a commission.

According to Izvestia, law enforcers conducted searches in the country house of the entrepreneur. The total number of searches in the ChronoPay case exceeded 30, the law enforcers seized about $350 thousand and 100 units of servers and computer equipment.

On March 12 of the same year, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow arrested Vrublevsky and three of his accomplices. They were charged with especially large-scale fraud and theft under part 4 of article 159, paragraph "a" of part 4 of article 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Later, on July 24, 2024, the court arrested Pavel Vrublevsky's son Peter in absentia on charges of intentional destruction of another person's property (part 2 of article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In addition, the son of the ChronoPay founder is a defendant in criminal cases of extortion, arson and advertising of a large marketplace for the sale of drugs in the shadow segment of the Internet. On the same day, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs declared Piotr Vrublevsky wanted.