The court released Yakubovsky, the ex-co-owner of the ABC of Taste, from punishment
The Moscow City Court released Kirill Yakubovsky, ex-co-owner of the ABC of Taste, Pavel Maslovsky, and Svetlana Bezrukova, ex-CEO of Ppfin Holding, from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. Lawyer Anna Medvedeva informed Izvestia about this on December 11.
The Presnensky court had previously sentenced Yakubovsky to 8 years in a general regime colony, Maslovsky to 13.5 years in a general regime colony in combination with the previous sentence, and Bezrukova was sentenced to 5 years in a general regime colony.
According to investigators, in 2012-2015, the defendants in the case received stolen millions of dollars from entrepreneurs who, on behalf of their offshore companies, provided loans to the holding company V.M.H.Y. Holdings Limited. The total amount of damages in the case is more than $126 million.
Yakubovsky's detention became known on April 20, 2023. He was charged with fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). He was arrested on the same day. The measure of restraint for Yakubovsky was repeatedly changed from house arrest to detention. In May 2024, the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation completed the investigation and referred it to the prosecutor's office. According to the lawyer, the case file consists of more than 50 volumes. The total amount of damage in the case amounted to more than $126 million.
Kirill Yakubovsky became Deputy Chairman of the Board of Expobank in the 1990s, and later he became its main co-owner. Since 2008, the businessman has been a co-owner of a holding company that controlled, among other things, the ABC of Taste retail chain. In the summer of 2014, Yakubovsky sold his stake to his partners, as well as his assets in the Coffee House chain. The latter came under the control of the owner of the Chocolate Factory.
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