The state prosecution requested 12 years in prison for ChronoPay founder Vrublevsky

The state prosecution has requested 12 years in prison for Pavel Vrublevsky, the founder of ChronoPay company, accused of fraud. This was reported to "Izvestia" on January 9 in the Khamovnicheskiy District Court of Moscow.

The man is also accused of theft, money laundering and illegal circulation of payment means.

In addition to Vrublevsky, the case involves ChronoPay employees Alexei Belyaev and Matvey Vedyashkin, as well as Nadezhda Akimova. According to the investigation, the defendants stole money from the accounts with the help of the company "Vangud" (ChronoPay's client) by deception.

Vrublevsky and Belyaev are in pre-trial detention center, Akimova is under house arrest, and Vedyashkin is under a custodial sentence. Another defendant, programmer Dmitry Somov, pleaded guilty during the investigation and entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement. In November 2024, he was sentenced by the Khamovnichesky court to a three-year prison term.

Vrublevsky was detained by law enforcers on March 10, 2022. The investigation believes that the businessman, together with ChronoPay employees, posted inaccurate information on the Web, offering financial rewards for participation in surveys and for successful forecasting of currency and stock rates. On March 12 of the same year, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow arrested Vrublevsky and three of his accomplices. They were charged with 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.

According to "Izvestia," law enforcers conducted searches in the country house of the businessman. 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.

Later, on July 24, 2024, the court arrested Vrublevsky's son Peter in absentia on charges of willful destruction of other people'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.