The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation overturned the verdict of businessman Vachevsky in the case of a forged receipt

The Judicial Board for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of Russia overturned the verdict of businessman Konstantin Vachevsky, who tried to recover $ 10 million from gallery owner Andrey Eremin on a receipt that had previously been recognized as fake by several examinations, the Izvestia correspondent reported from the courtroom on February 5.

Thus, the court sent the case for a new hearing. The Vachevsky defense asked for the verdict and subsequent judicial acts to be annulled, and the case to be dismissed for lack of corpus delicti in his actions.
In turn, Eremin's lawyer Anton Lyangert asked to leave the verdict against the Vachevskys unchanged. The prosecutor also supported the position of the victim Yeremin.

Vachevsky himself was unable to take part in the court hearing for health reasons, Eremin also could not appear due to the fact that he fell ill with coronavirus.

According to the case file, in 2014, Vachevsky planned to deceive his friend Yeremin. To do this, he wrote a fake receipt stating that the gallery owner was borrowing $10 million from the entrepreneur for a month. After that, the businessman appealed to the court with a civil claim to recover the specified funds from Yeremin. At the same time, Vachevsky knew that Yeremin had been abroad for a long time, and personally appeared in the Khimki court, which ruled in his favor.

Then an expert examination was ordered in the framework of the civil case. Experts, including experts from the Ministry of Justice, confirmed that the signature on the receipt belongs to Yeremin.

After the gallery owner returned to Russia, he wrote a statement against the Vachevskys, a criminal case was opened, and the court's decision was appealed.

In court, Vachevsky stated that Eremin offered him to earn, namely, to lend $ 10 million. With this money, he was going to buy a painting, which he planned to resell for more. For this, Eremin allegedly promised him a percentage of the deal.

In turn, in 2018, the Kirov Court of Khabarovsk sentenced the Vachevskys. The verdict says that the receipt was found to be fake, and the attempt to recover money from it was an attempt at fraud. The businessman received 4.5 years in prison, the term was found to have been served due to his stay in jail. After the departure of the Vachevskys, he went abroad.

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The document is both recognized as authentic and fake, and the process itself is called a dangerous precedent.

On February 4, the Moscow Arbitration Court recovered 61.2 billion rubles from the former co-owner of the Otkritie Group, businessman Boris Mints, his son Dmitry and former CEO of O1 Group Finance Peter Borodin. It was noted that the O1 Group Finance company, which was part of the Mints business group, was engaged in attracting financing for development projects through the issuance of securities.

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