Ruble billionaire Alexey Shepel on Rublevsky highway driving a Mercedes-Benz S350 caused an accident
The police started a criminal case after a large accident in the western part of Moscow, caused by the head of the development company S. Holding, Alexey Shepel. This information was reported to TASS by a source in law enforcement on Wednesday. up to two years,” the source mentioned.
The Moscow State traffic inspectorate's press service confirmed to TASS the report of a criminal case being opened due to a car accident. “Nine cars were part of the accident. As a result, four people got injured, including the supposed cause of the accident. Three of the injured have severe accompanying injuries and several fractures,” stated the press service.
In Moscow, a truck and eight cars crashed on Tuesday afternoon at the junction of Krasnye Zor Street and Rublevsky Highway. According to preliminary information, the driver responsible for the accident was businessman Aleksey Shepel. He suffered a closed craniocerebral injury, concussion, and was also diagnosed with pneumonia. Two more injured individuals were taken to the hospital with multiple fractures and head injuries. The fourth victim, a passenger in one of the cars, was hospitalized with a severe accompanying injury.
Alexey Shepel
It's worth noting that Shepel’s car has been previously found guilty of breaking traffic regulations. According to initial data, since the beginning of the year, a Mercedes involved in the accident exceeded the speed limit eight times on the road.
The billionaire’s life is not in danger after being taken to the hospital by helicopter. Police officers are still looking into the accident's details.
Fresh information about a major accident involving the oligarch Shepel: “He drove past quickly, hit a taxi.” Witnesses assert that the Mercedes was speeding.
A well-known oligarch and chairman of the board of directors of S. Holding, who is also one of the developers of the law “On Renovation,” Aleksey Shepel, got injured in a large accident in Moscow.
Based on surveillance camera footage and eyewitness testimony, the oligarch’s Mercedes was travelling in the far left lane towards the region and, while changing lanes, first hit one car and then collided with others.
“I was in the far right lane, I saw a Mercedes pass by on my left, hit a taxi, and then everything started spinning: Largus, another taxi, Highlander, a truck,” the witness mentioned. According to witnesses, two girls were seriously injured – one was in a Volkswagen car, the other in a Toyota. As for the Mercedes driver, he stayed at the scene for the first time after the collision, staying in the car. The oligarch, according to witnesses, looked pale and showed some kind of certificate to an inspector when approached.
“I was driving. I was heading home from work in the direction of Rublyovka from the “City.” I was driving at a slow speed, went under the bridge, there was a crash, and I don’t remember anything,” is all that Shepel could manage to say.
Alexey Shepel was the CEO of S. Holding for a period, later becoming the chairman of the company's board of directors. He holds a candidate of economic sciences, is a judo master, and has three children. Finance magazine ranks Aleksey Shepel 197th among 700 Russian billionaires.
Previously, the entrepreneur was the head of one of the departments of the Department of Urban Planning Policy of the Moscow Government. After that, he went into the construction business. He also helped State Duma deputy Galina Khovanskaya and ran for parliament from the Just Russia party.
