Pravo.ru has previously written about the ups and downs of this complicated story: on November 10, the Moscow City Court once again extended the arrest of Israeli citizen Revaz Shmerts, who was charged with especially large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code, imprisonment up to 10 years).
He was arrested and placed in a pre-trial detention center in 2021 in a case initiated in 2014 on the basis of a statement from relatives of Alexei Dushutin, who is wanted for embezzlement of commercial real estate.
On the eve of the next possible extension of measures, the lawyer of Revaz Shmertz, Andrei Smetskoy, commented on the situation.
“I carry out criminal procedural protection of Israeli citizen Shmertz Revaz. And, I must say, this is probably the first time I’ve encountered such a situation. In simple terms, in the same case, Mr. Shmerts is both a suspect and a victim. Let me explain. A certain Markaryan A.V. 10 years ago, he prepared 2 contracts for the sale of a part of a share in the authorized capital of OOO X, according to which the seller, which is another OOO Y, represented by the gene. director Dushutina Z.P. sold to two foreign companies “A” and “B” 50 percent of the shares of LLC “X” for a total amount of about 17.6 million rubles.
Thus, according to civil law and common sense, the buyers – foreign companies “A” and “B” became the owners of this company.
Further, the investigator continued to state his conclusions, arguing that the subsequent actions of the new owners to change directors in LLC “X” belonging to them are “criminal”, contrary to the interests of the “actual owner”, which the investigator considers Dushutina Z.P. despite the fact that he himself indicated in the decision to prosecute as an accused that she had sold this property!
That is, she sold it, but remained the “actual owner” … This is the first thing that raises questions. I would like to pay special attention to the “victim”. Dushutina Z.P., is currently on the wanted list and is accused precisely for the same circumstances, though already in the framework of another criminal case. But both cases are in the production of one investigative body.
In addition, within the framework of this criminal case, a number of events occurred that have not been given a legal assessment. In particular, as you wrote earlier, the death of lawyer Valeriy Kulish, who fell out of the window of the GSU. According to the information we have, the relatives have not yet been informed about the initiation of a PD on this fact.
