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- 25 January 2008, 18:01
- The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation
The competent authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany satisfied a request for extradition of Russian citizen Konstantin Konovalenko submitted by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation. Shortly, he will be escorted to Russia where he faces criminal prosecution and a sentence.
The investigative authorities established that in September 2004 K.Konovalenko invented a fraudulent scheme in order to quickly and unlawfully receive proceeds of crime. He is charged with crimes under Article 159, part 4 and Article 30, part 3, Article 159, part 4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud and/or attempted fraud committed by a group of persons on especially large scale).
For the purposes of implementation of his criminal intentions, K.Konovalenko set up an organized criminal group and became its leader. The group consisted of an executive officer of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation and a non-staff assistant deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, who were sentenced to a long-term imprisonment in 2006.
Moreover, other persons who claimed to be high-ranking officers of the Russian intelligence services and of the Council of Federation acted as members of the criminal group. Depending on the circumstances they used their own or false names, forged documents and false mobile phone numbers registered under third persons.
The perpetrators of crime gained trust of the directors of lending institutions by creating an image of people who could solve necessary issues within the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, other regulatory and law-enforcement authorities. For this purpose, they used expensive cars, business clothing and appointed meetings with their victims in posh cafes and restaurants in downtown Moscow. During negotiations the members of the criminal group provided information to the victims on their acquaintances with the heads of different Ministries and other authorities, mentioned the names of famous people. In order to psychologically affect the victims, the members of the criminal group told them false information in particular, that certain criminal cases were initiated against them.
As a result, in Moscow from September 2004 till May 2005, the members of the organized criminal group led by K.Konovalenko, by way of deceit and breach of trust, stole the property of the directors of lending institutions and persons engaged in business, on especially large scale, in the amount of over 30 million rubles. Moreover, they intended to fraudulently steal more property in the amount of over 29 million rubles, but their criminal activity was terminated in due time.
The competent authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany met the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office for extradition of Russian citizen Konstantin Konovalenko.
On January 25, 2009 he was brought to Moscow and placed in a detention facility. The Moscow City Court sentenced Konstantin Konovalenko to 7 years of imprisonment. The sentence has entered into legal force.
The Prosecutor General's Office
of the Russian Federation
The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation
25 January 2008, 18:01
Extradition of Konstantin Konovalenko, Charged with Fraud, to Russia
The competent authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany satisfied a request for extradition of Russian citizen Konstantin Konovalenko submitted by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation. Shortly, he will be escorted to Russia where he faces criminal prosecution and a sentence.
The investigative authorities established that in September 2004 K.Konovalenko invented a fraudulent scheme in order to quickly and unlawfully receive proceeds of crime. He is charged with crimes under Article 159, part 4 and Article 30, part 3, Article 159, part 4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud and/or attempted fraud committed by a group of persons on especially large scale).
For the purposes of implementation of his criminal intentions, K.Konovalenko set up an organized criminal group and became its leader. The group consisted of an executive officer of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation and a non-staff assistant deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, who were sentenced to a long-term imprisonment in 2006.
Moreover, other persons who claimed to be high-ranking officers of the Russian intelligence services and of the Council of Federation acted as members of the criminal group. Depending on the circumstances they used their own or false names, forged documents and false mobile phone numbers registered under third persons.
The perpetrators of crime gained trust of the directors of lending institutions by creating an image of people who could solve necessary issues within the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, other regulatory and law-enforcement authorities. For this purpose, they used expensive cars, business clothing and appointed meetings with their victims in posh cafes and restaurants in downtown Moscow. During negotiations the members of the criminal group provided information to the victims on their acquaintances with the heads of different Ministries and other authorities, mentioned the names of famous people. In order to psychologically affect the victims, the members of the criminal group told them false information in particular, that certain criminal cases were initiated against them.
As a result, in Moscow from September 2004 till May 2005, the members of the organized criminal group led by K.Konovalenko, by way of deceit and breach of trust, stole the property of the directors of lending institutions and persons engaged in business, on especially large scale, in the amount of over 30 million rubles. Moreover, they intended to fraudulently steal more property in the amount of over 29 million rubles, but their criminal activity was terminated in due time.
The competent authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany met the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office for extradition of Russian citizen Konstantin Konovalenko.
On January 25, 2009 he was brought to Moscow and placed in a detention facility. The Moscow City Court sentenced Konstantin Konovalenko to 7 years of imprisonment. The sentence has entered into legal force.
