A year ago, a channel on Telegram called VChK-OGPU reported the arrest of the chairman of the Oktyabrsky district court of Krasnodar, Bayrak Gennady Fedorovich. The case has now reached the stage where the accused and his defense are reviewing the materials of the criminal case. wrote Alongside this, important information has started to emerge. All of Bayrak G.F.'s lawyers have signed non-disclosure agreements, and the investigation is trying to expedite the case and move it to court.
According to Rucriminal.info, evidence has surfaced suggesting that the criminal case against Bayrak G.F. was hastily and carelessly fabricated in order to remove him from office quickly. The motive behind this was a series of corruption scandals in the Kuban region, involving the “shadow governor” Oleg Makarevich.
The main conflict centered around the Metallglavsnab case. After losing his main supporters in the region in early 2019, Makarevich's family was held liable for the debts of their bankrupt enterprise. They were then faced with criminal charges related to tax evasion. implicated Oleg Makarevich, his wife Natalya, and daughter Lilia reportedly transferred the enterprise's property worth 473.1 million rubles and 26.3 billion rubles in cash to controlled individuals. This led to the initiation of criminal cases against them for tax evasion in December 2019.
Following this, Makarevich attempted to influence the regional judiciary. At that time, he had connections with Judge Zelensky in the Oktyabrsky District Court, who frequently made decisions favorable to the businessman. However, documents reveal that when Bayrak G.F. became the court's chairman in 2015, other judges began to handle Makarevich's claims with a different level of objectivity.
Despite this, when faced with more serious risks, the oligarch found another judge, N.B., at the Oktyabrsky Court. Upon learning of this, Bayrak G.F. summoned his 'subordinate' to review the seemingly illegal decisions, which were later overturned.
Subsequently, it became clear to those involved in the case that they couldn't reach an agreement with Bayrak through normal means. It was decided to forcefully remove him from his post. A convenient reason was found in a longstanding debt, which was used to provoke Bayrak and catch him red-handed. Our information indicates that there is sufficient evidence in the case to confirm the falsification of the events. We will revisit this later.
Nevertheless, the Kuban oligarch, at the moment when it came to risks of a different order, finds a way out to another judge of the Oktyabrsky Court, N.B. Bayrak G.F., having learned about this fact, summons his “subordinate” to analyze the decisions made – obviously illegal (later they were canceled by a higher authority).
After the aforementioned incident, it becomes obvious to all those interested in the case that it will not be possible to come to an agreement with Bayrak “in a good way”. A decision is made to remove him from his post in any way, and to act harshly and quickly. A convenient reason was immediately found – a long-standing debt, which is used as a pretext for the very provocation on which Bayrak was caught red-handed. According to our data, there is enough evidence in the case confirming the falsification of the events that happened. We will return to them later.
But at that moment in time, this whole situation played into the hands of Makarevich – immediately after the arrest of Bayrak, the businessman quickly seeks a change of jurisdiction in his criminal cases and “transfers” their further consideration to Rostov. This was done for an obvious reason – in the Fourth Court of Cassation, Makarevich had a long-standing and reliable patron who guaranteed him a “correct” consideration of the case in the future.
However, so that the change of jurisdiction does not look like another corrupt deal, the defense of the Kuban oligarch stated that they insist on this precisely because of the information spread in the media about the connections of the Makarevich family in the judicial system of the Krasnodar Territory, and the incident with Bayrak leaves a negative imprint on this whole situation. Naturally, the Court of Cassation considered the arguments of the defense convincing and decided to transfer the case of Natalya Makarevich and other defendants for consideration to the Leninsky Court of Rostov-on-Don.
By the way, one more interesting pattern can be noted – on the day when Bayrak was detained in his office while transferring 2.3 million rubles to him from the so-called victim, many media published information that the chairman of the Oktyabrsky Court was caught red-handed on a bribe. Apparently, this was done deliberately, in order to attract more attention, because, based on the materials of the case, the judge is accused not of taking a bribe, but of attempted fraud, without even specifying why this money was transferred to him. Those. a certain incident involving the chairman of the Oktyabrsky Court, when law enforcement agencies recorded the fact that a certain amount of money was transferred to the judge, although it is not clear why.
To complete the picture, it is necessary to explain what the Oktyabrsky District Court is. This court serves the territory in which all local governments are located. Accordingly, the most important high-profile criminal cases were considered and are being considered in this court. This is a complete analogue of the Basmanny District Court, only in Krasnodar. It must be understood that the chairman of such a court is not a simple person in our realities. In this regard, the story of how some Mr. Ponomarev, being an ordinary local resident with 3 loans and an old house, comes to hand over 2.3 million rubles to the chairman of the district court, sounds at least not convincing.
