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- 15 May 2011, 17:56
- The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation
Today, upon request of the General Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation the competent authorities of the Kingdom of Morocco are extraditing a citizen of the Russian Federation Alexey Kalinichenko. By the investigation bodies he is charged with committing crimes foreseen by part 4 of article 159 (fraud, i.e. misappropriation of other's property by a deceit and breach of trust committed on an especially large scale) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
It is determined that in the period from 2003 to 2006 Kalinichenko with the purpose of possession of the money of the citizens carried out on the territory of Russia a wide advertising campaign promising high income at the expense of the operation in the interbank foreign exchange market "Forex". He called on people to invest money into the firms which were under his control. Additionally, Kalinichenko systematically published in the Internet falsified reports about positive results of his financial activities. The received monetary means from citizens the malicious penetrator transferred to the specially opened Bank accounts and misappropriated them.
In total out of the actions of Kalinichenko there were more than 4 thousand of victims, inhabitants of the cities of Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, Sverdlovsk and Yaroslavl regions, Krasnodar Krai as well as a number of other regions of Russia, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Germany, Israel and Kazakhstan. On the facts of his criminal activities there were initiated 119 criminal cases which have been gathered in one production.
The investigation is conducted by the investigatory division of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the Urals Federal District under the supervision of the Board of the General Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation in the Urals Federal District.
In the course of the investigation regarding Kalinichenko in his absence it was selected the measure of punishment in the form of the imprisonment; in 2007 he was placed into the international wanted list.
In June 2008 the accused was detained on the territory of Italy and at the same time the General Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation forwarded to the law-and-order bodies of Italy a request for his extradition.
However, by the lawyers of Kalinichenko there were undertaken unprecedented measures of pressurizing on the Italian law-and-order bodies. Among such "non-traditional" methods they applied the method of "creation of an image of a victim of persecution in Russia". Moreover, using the stolen funds Kalinichenko created Internet web sites on the pages of which the experienced PR-specialists placed falsified materials including so-called coming threatening from the side of aggrieved victims about physical elimination of Kalinichenko. This should have made the Italian judges to think that in the case of his extradition to Russia his life would be in a real risk.
In October 2009 by the Supreme court of cassation of the Republic of Italy it was accepted a decision about extradition of Kalinichenko to Russia. But he managed to escape using the advantage of the fact that he was under guarantee, then after a few months he was again detained on the territory of the Kingdom of Morocco.
In January 2010 the General Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation forwarded to the competent authorities of that state a request for his extradition.
In June 2010 by the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco it was accepted a decision to satisfy the request of the General Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation.
In April 2011 the competent authorities of the Kingdom of Morocco accepted the final positive decision on the matter of extradition of Kalinichenko to Russia.
Today, accompanied by the employees of the FSIN (Federal Service of Execution of Punishment) of Russia and the Russian Bureau of Interpol, Aleksey Kalinichenko is extradited to Russia and numerous victims the citizens of Russia as well as the ones from other countries aggrieved by his actions, will have their opportunities to recover the harm caused by him after his conviction.
The Prosecutor General's Office
of the Russian Federation
The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation
15 May 2011, 17:56
About the extradition to Russia from Morocco of the founder of a huge "financial pyramid" a citizen of the Russian Federation Alexey Kalinichenko who has appropriated more than a billion rubles
Today, upon request of the General Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation the competent authorities of the Kingdom of Morocco are extraditing a citizen of the Russian Federation Alexey Kalinichenko. By the investigation bodies he is charged with committing crimes foreseen by part 4 of article 159 (fraud, i.e. misappropriation of other's property by a deceit and breach of trust committed on an especially large scale) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
It is determined that in the period from 2003 to 2006 Kalinichenko with the purpose of possession of the money of the citizens carried out on the territory of Russia a wide advertising campaign promising high income at the expense of the operation in the interbank foreign exchange market "Forex". He called on people to invest money into the firms which were under his control. Additionally, Kalinichenko systematically published in the Internet falsified reports about positive results of his financial activities. The received monetary means from citizens the malicious penetrator transferred to the specially opened Bank accounts and misappropriated them.
In total out of the actions of Kalinichenko there were more than 4 thousand of victims, inhabitants of the cities of Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, Sverdlovsk and Yaroslavl regions, Krasnodar Krai as well as a number of other regions of Russia, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Germany, Israel and Kazakhstan. On the facts of his criminal activities there were initiated 119 criminal cases which have been gathered in one production.
The investigation is conducted by the investigatory division of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the Urals Federal District under the supervision of the Board of the General Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation in the Urals Federal District.
In the course of the investigation regarding Kalinichenko in his absence it was selected the measure of punishment in the form of the imprisonment; in 2007 he was placed into the international wanted list.
In June 2008 the accused was detained on the territory of Italy and at the same time the General Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation forwarded to the law-and-order bodies of Italy a request for his extradition.
However, by the lawyers of Kalinichenko there were undertaken unprecedented measures of pressurizing on the Italian law-and-order bodies. Among such "non-traditional" methods they applied the method of "creation of an image of a victim of persecution in Russia". Moreover, using the stolen funds Kalinichenko created Internet web sites on the pages of which the experienced PR-specialists placed falsified materials including so-called coming threatening from the side of aggrieved victims about physical elimination of Kalinichenko. This should have made the Italian judges to think that in the case of his extradition to Russia his life would be in a real risk.
In October 2009 by the Supreme court of cassation of the Republic of Italy it was accepted a decision about extradition of Kalinichenko to Russia. But he managed to escape using the advantage of the fact that he was under guarantee, then after a few months he was again detained on the territory of the Kingdom of Morocco.
In January 2010 the General Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation forwarded to the competent authorities of that state a request for his extradition.
In June 2010 by the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco it was accepted a decision to satisfy the request of the General Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation.
In April 2011 the competent authorities of the Kingdom of Morocco accepted the final positive decision on the matter of extradition of Kalinichenko to Russia.
Today, accompanied by the employees of the FSIN (Federal Service of Execution of Punishment) of Russia and the Russian Bureau of Interpol, Aleksey Kalinichenko is extradited to Russia and numerous victims the citizens of Russia as well as the ones from other countries aggrieved by his actions, will have their opportunities to recover the harm caused by him after his conviction.
