Lawyer Yurkin arrested in the case of ex-Fonbet CEO Anokhin until March 29

The court arrested the lawyer Valery Yurkin, who is a defendant in the bribery case against the former CEO of the company "Fonbet," Sergey Anokhin, for two months. This was reported by a correspondent of "Izvestia" from the courtroom on January 31.

He will remain in custody until March 29.

Also arrested until March 29 are deputy head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the capital's VAO Sergei Bivol, lawyer Stepan Gritskov and Anokhin himself. During the meeting it was announced that the businessman admits guilt and has already given detailed testimony on the other defendants in the case. It is established that Anokhin has citizenship and residence permit in Montenegro, in the case materials there is a copy of a Mexican passport in his name. Two unidentified defendants are on an international wanted list.

Anokhin was detained on January 29 on suspicion of bribery, the next day he, Bivol and Gritskov were charged under Part 5 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Part 4 of Article 291.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. According to Izvestia's source, six people were detained, and $2 million was seized during a search in the house of one of them.

The investigation believes that Anokhin tried to conceal data on embezzlement at his former place of work for 60 million rubles. However, one of the intermediaries and the operative who was to receive the money participated in the operational experiment.

At the trial, the entrepreneur said that he was the CEO of the company "Fonbet". At the same time, the bookmaker itself stated that Anokhin left his post in January to focus on the development of his own business projects. Later "Fonbet" announced its intention to file a lawsuit against Anokhin to "protect the honor, dignity and reputation of the company in business circles".

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