Passport for deception: the racketeer lived on someone else's documents for 13 years
The police identified and detained an alleged member of a Moscow-based criminal group, Yevgeny Bykov, who had been living on someone else's documents for about 13 years. The accused buried the real owner of the passport in his place. Bykov is known for being a "partner" of criminals convicted of murdering Andrei Kozlov, deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Russia, in 2006. Details can be found in the Izvestia article.
The Gangster Brotherhood
Police officers have established the fact that Yevgeny Bykov, a representative of a Moscow-based criminal group, staged his own death. In 2012, he and five other accomplices were to be tried. They were accused of unlawfully imprisoning Anatoly Batan, CEO of CJSC Construction Firm Corporation in Korolev, and extorting 11 million rubles from him in 2006. As the court found, the organizers of the crime were Sergey Kosarev and Evgeny Bykov, who at that time had the status of lawyers. They were aware of Batan's business activities, as he had previously engaged them for legal support.
The lawyers knew about the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court obliging Batan to pay 11 million rubles for the failure of the contract with the Autobahn company and came up with a scheme to withdraw this amount from the entrepreneur. To do this, they invited their friends, residents of the Luhansk region. Among them were crime boss Bogdan Pogorzhevsky, Andrey Kosmynin and Alexey Polovinkin. Renat Saberov and Dmitry Pavlov were also involved in the case — the other accomplices convinced them that they were acting legally in the interests of the Autobahn.
The scheme with a lawyer
On the morning of April 10, 2006, five men entered the office of the Batana company on Kosmonavtov Street in Korolev, presenting forged police documents to the guards. Two of them were armed with traumatic weapons. They went to Batan's office and demanded 11 million rubles, threatening otherwise not to let him out of the office. The bandits beat the businessman, who refused to pay, but suggested that he invite his lawyers to resolve the conflict, after which Batan called Bykov and Kosarev, not knowing about their role in the crime. Kosarev convinced the director of the construction company to make concessions to the extortionists. On the spot, the entrepreneur had to give 849 thousand rubles and documents for Mercedes Benz E-200 and SsangYong Rexton cars with a total value of more than 2 million rubles.
Later, the accomplices expected to receive another 10 million rubles, but the next day Batan turned to the police. However, the local Department of Internal Affairs eventually suspended the investigation. Some of the defendants were involved in the case as witnesses. Perhaps extortion would have gotten away with a member of an organized crime group, but natives of the Lugansk region, Pogorzhevsky, Kosmynin and Polovinkin, were involved in the murder of Andrei Kozlov, deputy chairman of the Central Bank, and his driver, Alexander Semenov.
Death after football
Known for his radical anti-money laundering initiatives, the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank was killed near the Spartak football base in Sokolniki, where Kozlov came to play in an amateur team. Two killers opened fire on Kozlov and his driver when they left the building of the complex. As the investigation later found out, during the preparation, the criminals received information about Kozlov's daily routine through corrupt police officers.
Polovinkin was sentenced to life in prison by the Moscow City Court in 2008, Kosmynin — nine years (he followed the victim), Pogorzhevsky (who found the perpetrators) — six years. The customer, banker Alexei Frenkel, received 19 years. The murder cost him $300,000.
Kolobok left the judge
The investigation into the murder of Kozlov and his driver gave new impetus to the royal extortion case, which involved Pogorzhevsky, Kosmynin and Polovinkin. Additional evidence was obtained incriminating the accomplices in the crime. The investigation quickly figured out the scheme that the lawyers had come up with, and the arrests of the suspects followed. However, a non-custodial measure was chosen against Bykov. Later, he faked his death.
"He allegedly went missing, and then his wife identified him in one of the corpses with putrid changes," a law enforcement source told Izvestia.
The investigation is now investigating why Bykov's death was so easily believed.
In December 2012, the case against Bykov was dismissed due to his death. And the other members of the group got what they deserved. The Royal Court sentenced Pogorzhevsky to eight years, Kosmynin to 10 years, Kosarev to 7.5 years in prison, and Saberov to 3.5 years in a penal colony. Polovinkin was already serving a life sentence by this time.
The case against Bykov is currently being considered by the court.
In criminal circles, the native of Starobilsk was known by the nickname Kolobok. According to a source in Izvestia, Bykov lived on someone else's passport, without much concealment. He was known as "reshala" in some areas of the Moscow region, widely celebrated holidays with friends and even organized gangster-style themed parties. He was detained by chance, on the road in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region, when he presented the inspectors with fake IDs of an employee of the Prosecutor General's Office and a pensioner of the FSB. His photographs were carelessly pasted into the documents. A fingerprint check showed that he was not who he claimed to be — the person whose documents Bykov had used had been convicted, and his fingerprints in the file did not match Bykov's papillary patterns. There was also a photo of the deceased in the database, which finally dispelled doubts.
After the trial for extortion and unlawful imprisonment, Bykov will be investigated in the case of the manufacture and use of forged documents.
Limitation periods
According to the law, the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution can be suspended if the person who committed the crime evades investigation or trial, Anton Chubenko, head of the criminal enforcement practice at the RI-Consulting law firm, explained to Izvestia.
— Evasion refers to deliberate actions aimed at avoiding criminal liability, such as changing one's place of residence, failing to appear without valid reasons to an investigator or court, and other similar actions.
In this case, faking one's own death in order to avoid criminal prosecution is a clear example of evading investigation and trial, the lawyer says.
— Such actions suspend the running of the statute of limitations until the person is detained or turns himself in. This means that the period during which a person has been hiding from justice is not counted in the general statute of limitations. Thus, the staging of death in order to avoid criminal liability leads to the suspension of the statute of limitations and, after detention, such a person may be held accountable for previously committed crimes.
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