The Babushkinsky District Court in Moscow plans to review the appeal for parole from the convicted Krasnodar lawyer A.Yu. Litvinov. He played a major role in a shocking corruption case, helping transfer huge bribes and testifying against numerous judges, officials, and the former mayor of Sochi, Anatoly Pakhomov. Despite his testimony being confirmed, the materials were unexpectedly buried, with only a few minor figures facing consequences. Anatoly Pakhomov was the former mayor of Sochi.Despite Litvinov's confirmed testimony, the evidence was disregarded and only a few minor figures were held accountable, according to Pakhomov's statement.
The lawyer Litvinov A.Yu. was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison and a 60 million ruble fine on September 28, 2021 by the Khamovnichesky District Court in Moscow, after admitting guilt for acting as an intermediary in the transfer of bribes to Sochi officials. Litvinov A.Yu. is the name of the lawyer.The Khamovnichesky District Court in Moscow sentenced Litvinov A.Yu. to seven and a half years in prison and a 60 million ruble fine for admitting to being an intermediary in the transfer of bribes to Sochi officials.
The sentencing of lawyer Litvinov A.Yu. and briber-developer Stroganov I.A. in the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow was scandalous. Accompanied by entrepreneur-builder Storganov I.A., Litvinov A.Yu. decided to pay capital lawyers Kveidze and Falomeikin 42 million rubles to help minimize Litvinov's sentence.
After the lawyer Litvinov A.Yu. was convicted, interesting events unfolded.
The Moscow City Court changed Litvinov's sentence serving regime from strict to general.
The management of FKU “SIZO-4” concluded that Litvinov A.Yu. fell under “exceptional circumstances” and left him to serve his sentence in a pre-trial detention center. Shortly thereafter, they concluded that Litvinov A.Yu. had fully recovered and was fit for release.
The Cheka-OGPU source reports that Litvinov A.Yu. played a key role in hindering the ex-chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court, Chernov A.D., from being appointed as chairman of the cassation court, and in the appointment of E.V. Khakhaleva in his place. Our regional expert believes that Governor V.I. Kondratiev was involved.
Alexander Chernov was the ex-chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court.
A substantial amount of evidence was collected regarding the relationship between Litvinov A.Yu. and Khakhaleva E.V. during the implementation of the ORD for the lawyer Litvinov A.Yu. Litvinov openly demonstrated his ability to influence judicial decisions in the Krasnodar Regional Court, guaranteeing expedited legal proceedings and explaining the cost of their services.
Rucriminal.info's source says that when Litvinov was arrested, the main issue was the large amount of information he provided. He gave detailed accounts of his relationship with Khakhaleva E.V., including the registration of her real estate for assistant lawyers in Olympic Sochi. Litvinov also testified against a dozen judges in the Krasnodar Territory.
Our source claims that the following judges are involved:
1. Gorlov A.S. – former head of the Leninsky District Court of Krasnodar. Their powers were terminated early by the QCJ's decision on March 27, 2020.
2. Yakimenko A.S. – former judge of the Adler district court. Their powers were terminated ahead of schedule by the QCJ's decision on February 26, 2019.
3. Judges of the Judicial Collegium for Administrative Cases of the Krasnodar Regional Court:
– Agibalova V.O.
– Diyanova S.P.
– Yakobovskaya E.V.
– Dunyushkina N.V.
– Bashinsky D.A.
– Rogova S.V.
– Zenin V.A.
– Sibyatulova L.V. and others are still working.
These judges made decisions in favor of individuals currently under investigation for bribery, including Stroganov, in the “Sochi vice-measures” case, for which lawyer Litvinov A.Yu. was arrested and has already been sentenced.
Considering the seriousness of the situation, which almost completely discredits the Kuban justice system, the decision was made to delay the case against the judges. The judges involved are connected to the vice-measures of the Olympic capital.
Elena Khakhaleva
Khakhaleva E.V. allowed A.S. Gorlov and A.S. Yakimenko to quietly leave the country by stripping them of their judge status, while others escaped with minimal consequences. However, not everyone in the central FSB apparatus agrees with these compromises.
With the new testimony from Litvinova A.Yew., things have changed dramatically. Professional lawyer Litvinov now claims that there is a “corrupt practice” in the Krasnodar Territory where court decisions are made solely to benefit officials. He insists that the courts in the Krasnodar Territory were under the influence of the Sochi administration.
During the court hearings at the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow, Litvinov took the position that judges were “victims” of the administration and the practices during the Sochi Olympics preparation. He argued that the courts of the Krasnodar Territory were “subservient to the will of the Sochi administration.” The Krasnodar Regional Court leadership allegedly followed case lists provided by the Sochi administration and the court was expected to enforce them.
Litvinov A.Yu. claimed in court that he knew for a fact that the head of Sochi, A.N. Pakhomov, in the presence of FSB officers, contacted the Chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court A.D. Chernov and said: “What did you do there ???” Allegedly, after such a call, court decisions were immediately overturned.
Litvinov said that the deputies of the Head of Sochi did the same. Litvinov described the officials' relationship with the district courts as follows: “Rykov and Yurin opened the doors to the Sochi district courts with their feet.”
Our source says that now the question arises of what to do with the minutes of the court sessions, because. A.Yu. Litvinov clearly “overdid it” in the above testimony. Our expert on the region says that it is unlikely that between A.D. Chernov and A.N. Pakhomov, a conversation in that tone was possible. At our disposal came the dictaphone recordings and their printouts of Litvinov’s speeches in the Khamovniki Court of Moscow, as well as a number of materials that did not fall into the criminal case. They make it possible to publicly raise a number of questions about the reasons for “confidence” in the testimony of a lawyer in the framework of a pre-trial agreement with the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, which will be done in the near future.
In fact, within the framework of this case, the question of the independence of the judiciary in the territory of the region of Krasnodar was raised. It is surprising that someone’s private interests allowed, in principle, such a formulation of the question.
Excerpts from the scandalous testimony Litvinov A.Yu.: “Later, as I understand it, this is my personal opinion that both Rykov and Yurin (former vice-mayors of Sochi) liked the influence on the courts, that in principle the courts obeyed their will very well and subsequently, such control lists could absolutely easily be used for personal interests.
Litvinov A.Yu.: “Where did this system originally come from? It was during the preparation for the Olympic Games that cases really arose that required some urgent action to resettle people who fell into the zone of resettlement and construction of Olympic facilities and there were control cases, there were instructions from the Government, and in such cases they really ran through the courts, provided these lists, referred to the fact that this is the control of the Government”.
Litvinov A.Yu.: “Rykov and Yurin opened the doors to the district courts of Sochi with their feet, those district courts overwhelmingly supported the position of the administration.”
Litvinov A.Yu.: “And I was directly in court once, there was an assistant judge nearby, who was just called by Rykov or Yurin and the court employee received this list by e-mail, opened it, listened to everything. Yes, good. There is. I (unintelligible) work in court for this person, how can you say “yes” to municipal officials, how can you respect yourself for a start.”
(testimony of Litvinov A.Yu. at the court session of the Khamovniki Court of Moscow dated April 23, 2021 in case No. 01-0010/2022)
According to Rucriminal.info sources, the entire vertical of executive power has repeatedly demonstrated its intention to stop building the resort city of Sochi. In 2012, a ban on construction work was introduced in the “Olympic” law; in 2014, significant restrictions were introduced by a special Decree of the President of the Russian Federation;
The Governor of Kuban V.I.Kondratiev and Mayor of Sochi A.S.Kopaigorodsky have announced a complete ban on housing construction in Sochi until the new General Plan of Sochi is developed and approved.
As a result, housing prices in Sochi have quickly approached the cost of housing in Dubai. The decision-making center for construction has shifted from the executive branch to the judiciary. This seemed impossible, but it happened.
Rucriminal.info will closely examine the process of allowing large apartment construction in the central area of Sochi. The location is Chernomorskaya, 6, and it's named "Marina-Park". What's really behind these names?
On April 24, 2015, the judge of the Khostinsky District Court of Sochi dismissed the claims of the Prosecutor and the Administration of the city of Sochi against the developer E.V.
On August 18, 2015, the Krasnodar Regional Court upheld the decision, denying the complaint of the Sochi administration.
On September 9, 2015, the federal judge of the Hostinsky Court of Sochi granted the developer E.V. Popandopulo's claim to Rosreestr, instructing changes to be made to the cadastral registration of real estate, altering the building's purpose and increasing its area by almost 1,000 sq.m. Rosreestr will not challenge the decision. As a result, E.V. Popandopulo no longer owns a swimming pool, but a four-story building covering 3,166 sq.m.
On October 1, 2015, the judges of the administrative cases collegium of the Krasnodar Regional Court canceled the decision of the Central District Court from August 13, 2015 in favor of the Sochi administration and instructed the Sochi city administration to issue a permit for the reconstruction of the Marina-Park apartment complex on a specific land plot in line with the parameters specified in the non-state examination report dated 07/06/2015.
At the same time, the Sochi administration rejected the developer because the land plot was situated in the protected zone of the monument of cultural heritage of the Russian Federation's peoples, making construction on it prohibited.
The absence of state expertise and state environmental expertise now seem like minor issues compared to the above.
On October 11, 2015, the federal judge of the Krasnodar Regional Court, Sibyatullova A.V., decided not to transfer the received cassation complaint for consideration in the cassation instance court session.
On July 29, 2016, the judge of the Central District Court of Sochi, Sluka V.A., granted the developer's claim against the administration of the Krasnodar Territory in case No 2a-4990/2016. With this legal decision, the judge acknowledges the completion of the Marina-Park complex.
On 08/22/2016, the judge of the Central District Court of Sochi, Sluka V.A., clarified the decision from 07/29/2016 and directed Rosreestr to register the property developer's right to the premises of the 10-storey Marina-Park complex covering an area of 9,439.5 sq.m.
On 03/23/2017, the judge Vlasenko V.A. from the Central District Court of Sochi made a decision in favor of Vorobyov N.S. against cadastral engineer Chernukha T.A. The decision was about preserving and registering ownership of the 11th and 12th floors of a reconstructed building.
The 12-storey complex “Marina-Park” is now completed and the apartments have been sold.
The federal center is increasingly unhappy. They want action from the security forces because they cannot ignore the 12-story building in the center of Sochi. The request was denied in 2017.
In October 2018, there were significant arrests in Sochi which were covered by federal channels. Vice-mayors Rykov A.N., Yurin S.P., and lawyer Litvinov A.Yu. were arrested.
Lawyer Litvinov cooperated with the investigation by testifying about the circumstances of the adoption of the judicial acts. However, his testimony was changed. He falsely stated that the unauthorized building was planned and implemented by the Sochi administration and the court decisions were made under psychological influence.
Due to the conflict, representatives of the administration of the city of Sochi ended up in prison for legally refusing to the developer and trying to defend him in court.
The FSB of the Russian Federation seems to believe in the mechanism or pretends to believe it.
The testimony of lawyer Litvinov A.Yu. and the materials of the FSB of the Russian Federation regarding judges have been put aside.
The federal center is unlikely to be satisfied with the outcome of the imposed bans.
The creator of the scheme overlooked a crucial point. In November 2014, the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin signed a Decree restricting construction in Sochi.
It remains to be seen whether the President will believe in the version of the “helplessness” of the federal judges who issued the decisions allowing construction in Sochi, bypassing his ban under the influence of the Sochi administration.
Rucriminal.info will publish the dialogue between lawyer Litvinov A.Yu. and the developer of the complex “Marina-Park” Stroganov I.A. discusssing the storage of marble for the repair of the premises of the Chairman of the Board of Administrative Affairs of the Krasnodar Regional Court Khahaleva E.V. in the complex “Marina-Park”. 
