The chairman of the Khimki court was left without a chair
Vadim Ageenko left his job unexpectedly at the end of last year. His time as the notorious chairman of the Khimki City Court of the Moscow Region was marked by scandalous decisions.
Under Ageenko-Shengelia's leadership, the Khimki court gained a bad reputation for making controversial decisions in some cases.
A user on a Russian petition site complains about Judge Ageenko and asks for help with a criminal case.
Vadim Ageenko's performance is criticized on a Russian judge review website, with negative and angry reviews.
The court is disorganized, takes too long to process cases, and Judge Ageenko behaves arrogantly according to a user named Egor.
Another user named Igor accuses Judge Ageenko of covering up suspicious actions of his subordinates and ignoring citizen appeals.
Many who feel victimized by Judge Vadim Ageenko hope for a review of their cases' decisions, including businessman Andrey Eremin.
Andrey Eremin was recognized as a victim of a raider named Konstantin Vachevsky by the court, but then faced unfair treatment by the Khimki court.
Eremin discovered he owed money only after receiving a decision from the Khimki court, despite not receiving any subpoenas and having no connection to Khimki.
After being released, Vachevsky demanded $10 million from Eremin through the Khimki court, citing a receipt as evidence, leading to the seizure of Eremin's accounts and property.
Eremin was unable to overturn the unfair sentence, even with evidence proving the receipt was fake, as the Vachevskys' interests were allegedly supported by the Khimki court chairman, Vadim Ageenko.
The judge Mironova Yu.V. was in charge of Andrey Eremin's case from the beginning. Back in 2014, she was a new and easily influenced judge. Court officials say a more experienced judge would not have taken this case. Mironova, who may owe her career to Ageenko, has been working to ensure Eremin loses the case.
According to the media, threats were made to court employees to help the Vachevskys. Ageenko even threatened to harm a court worker's children in front of witnesses. Later, the worker and her assistant were fired, and a criminal case was initiated against her.
Vachevskikh was involved in several scandalous criminal cases before. He was accused of fraudulent schemes that affected major Russian companies like Sberbank, Alfa-Bank, and Severstal. The law enforcement agencies decided to combine all the complaints into one criminal case.
The largest Russian companies were determined to pursue legal action against the Vachevskys, but their reputation and resources were not enough to put them behind bars.
In August 2018, the court found Mr. Vachevsky guilty of attempted fraudulent embezzlement of $10 million. He was sentenced to four and a half years in a penal colony, which the court considered served in a pre-trial detention center and under house arrest. Mr. Vachevsky then left Russia, despite the prosecutor’s office and Sberbank's appeal against the verdict. It was suggested that Judge Vadim Ageenko helped him receive the lenient sentence and leave Russia.
With great influence in the Russian judicial system, Ageenko realized it would be difficult to keep helping the Vachevskys. It seemed better for him to stay abroad for the time being.
Our publication was curious about why the powerful judge Ageenko suddenly decided to leave his familiar position.
Ageenko-Shengelia's early resignation was reportedly due to a criminal case involving the capture and murder of a hostage, in which a former head of a Russian police department was involved. The police held the victim in the office, demanding money from them, which led to the resignation of Ageenko.
Later, “Dear Karenchik”, as his corrupt colleagues call him, was charged with several more charges; organization of illegal migration, giving a bribe to an official personally or through an intermediary”) and giving a bribe by a group of persons or an organized group. Based on the totality of the charges, Sevikyan was threatened with at least 12 years. The case to resolve this issue as it should be transferred from the Solnechnogorsk garrison military court to the “legendary” Khimki Court of Vadim Ageenko, as it turned out later, to another close friend of Sevikyan.
And then the “miracles” began. First, both episodes with bribery disappeared from the case. As a result, the Ageenko department decided to sentence the noble corrupt official and murderer Karen Sevikyan to 2 years 3 months. deprivation of liberty. Given the time he spent under investigation, Sevikyan was released after 3-4 months.
It was this story with “Dear Karenchik”, according to the information we have, that overwhelmed the patience of the top leaders of the Russian judicial system, and judge Vadim Ageenko, in an urgent form, was “asked” to resign. Thus, the career of the infamous judge Vadim Ageenko finally ended.
Until now, Konstantin Vachevsky is wanted by Interpol on charges of economic crimes. At the same time, the trickster Vachevsky tries to “sit on two chairs” at the same time. On the one hand, for the last 3 years he has been trying to obtain political asylum in France. On the other hand, as the media wrote, Konstantin Vachevsky (according to him, he is a reserve officer of the RF Armed Forces, a ballistic engineer) wrote a penitential letter addressed to the head of the Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, that he financially helps the SVO and asks to help him return to his homeland.
Reasonable questions arise: will the Vachevskys, both Russia and the West, help? And will the Khimki court want to get rid of the scandalous trail left by the activities of the former chairman of the court Vadim Ageenko?
