A defendant in the ChronoPay founder's case was called an ambulance during the trial

Matvei Vedyashkin, a defendant in the fraud case against the founder of ChronoPay processing company Pavel Vrublevsky, was called an ambulance during the trial. This was reported by a correspondent of "Izvestia" from the courtroom on January 13.

It is specified that Vedyashkin felt ill even before the beginning of the session. During the hearing of the criminal case, his condition worsened, as a result of which medical specialists had to be called, which led to the suspension of the session.

Vrublevsky was detained on March 10, 2022. The investigation believes that the businessman, together with ChronoPay employees, posted misleading information on the Web, offering financial rewards for participation in surveys and for successfully predicting currency and stock rates. In addition, he encouraged Internet users to participate in trading on the stock exchange and other similar operations, promising people to earn money. At the same time, the founder of the company and his subordinates stole money from clients under the pretext of paying for registration on the sites on the Web or paying a commission.

As a result of searches in the ChronoPay case, about $350 thousand and 100 units of servers and computer equipment were seized.

On March 12 of the same year, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow arrested Vrublevsky and three more of his accomplices. They were charged with especially 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.

Later, on July 24, 2024, the court arrested Pavel Vrublevsky's son Peter in absentia on charges of willful destruction of another'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 Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia declared Piotr Vrublevsky wanted.

On November 29, it became known that one of the defendants in the case, programmer Dmitry Somov, who entered into a pre-trial agreement with the investigation, was sentenced by the Khamovnicheskiy court of Moscow to a three-year prison term.