The trial of the lawsuit of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation against the former chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court Alexander Chernov is ongoing in the Vidnoye City Court of the Moscow Region. On March 20, the Prosecutor General's Office increased the amount of the claim. And although the current amount of the additionally identified property is not disclosed, we will risk assuming that neither the initial amount of the property and land "complex" of Chernov and his accomplices of 7 billion, nor the current "extended list" are final. In particular, the Prosecutor General's Office has not yet shown interest in Chernov's property in Germany, which he last went to "inspect" right before the start of the SVO.
The prosecutor's office has filed a new lawsuit against the chairman of the Krasnodar Regional Court Alexander Chernov. On March 11, 2025, the Sochi prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit against Chernov and three other defendants for damages in the amount of over 50 million rubles.
As follows from the lawsuit, which is at the disposal of the VChK-OGPU telegram channel and Rucriminal.info, Alexander Chernov, being the current chairman of the regional court, together with other co-defendants, erected a 7-story apartment building in the very center of the resort. Naturally, when you are the chairman of the regional court, it is not at all necessary to obtain a building permit. The house, in the best traditions of the resort, was legalized by the Khostinsky District Court (Judge Pilipenko), which has invaluable experience in this matter, the chairman of which at that time was Chernov's old friend Bakhmetyev.
What is noteworthy is that the latter is also among the co-defendants.
Subsequently, Chernov and his accomplices sold apartments in it, extracted excess profits, and the municipality was given the responsibility to provide social infrastructure, which caused the latter corresponding losses.
On the same day, the claim was accepted for proceedings by the Adler Court and all the property of the defendants was seized.
What is noteworthy in this case is not even the figure of Chernov himself in the now familiar role of defendant in claims by the prosecutor's office or other co-defendants (note: among the co-defendants are Bakhmetyev V.N., who previously held the positions of chairman of the Central and Khostinsky district courts of Sochi, Syrtsova L.V., Sukhareva E.V.), but the unprecedented level of publicity and openness of the proceedings with his participation.
Alexander Dmitrievich himself, in all likelihood, is only at the very beginning of the path to accepting his fate and is counting on his deep-rooted corrupt connections. In this case, he again turned to his old friends from among the still active representatives of the judicial branch, V.V. Momotov, A.S. Kharlamov, A.V. Gusev and others.
Acting according to the already rehearsed scenario, on March 17, 2025, A.D. Chernov filed a petition with the Adler Court to send the case to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation for consideration by the Krasnogorsk City Court of the Moscow Region.
Most likely, this time, old friends will not abandon Chernov and, in order to avoid emergency situations, will send the case closer to themselves in the Moscow Region, where a multi-billion dollar lawsuit from the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation against him in connection with the violation of anti-corruption prohibitions is already being considered. And in this situation, one can even understand the chairmen of the Adler District and Krasnodar Regional Courts, who, realizing that the Supreme Court itself is already waiting for this case, and perhaps having already received the relevant instructions from there by telephone, are hardly ready to risk their careers by refusing Chernov.
In this regard, some lines from Chernov's petition sound like a confession: "... the long period of Chernov A.D.'s stay in the specified position, his personal authority, as well as the significance and role of the defendant in the formation and development of the judicial system and the entire judicial community of the Krasnodar Territory, may cast doubt on the decisions made by the courts of the region, regardless of their essence, since the impartiality and disinterestedness of judges will not be ensured." This is how we need to develop the judicial system and the judicial community of all impartiality...
In connection with such increased attention to the activities of the Chernov clan, according to Rucriminal.info, Chernov's first wife, the president of the notary chamber of the Krasnodar Territory Galina Chernova and a number of her accomplices, may also end up under investigation.
And this is connected with the case of the "black" Kuban realtors and notaries (and one of the key figures in numerous apartment scams is precisely Chernova). In this criminal case, practically destroyed by the Kuban Investigative Committee and the judges, an unexpected turn occurred, finally explaining the entire circus work of both law enforcement officers and courts on the mass fraud with housing of elderly residents of the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygea.
One of the apartments taken away from the elderly by the swindlers belongs to... the family of the Krasnodar regional (at the time the investigation began), and now the best investigator of the Rostov Investigative Committee, Evgeny Chernoskutov! New facts were revealed during the investigation of the property and the Prosecutor General's Office to the former Chief Judge of the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Chernov.
We have already reported on this high-profile crime more than once. During the pandemic, a team of black realtors rewrote dozens of apartments and houses of lonely elderly residents of Krasnodar, Sochi, and Maikop "in their own name." The swindlers failed to hush up the fraud worth tens of millions of rubles for one reason - the story became known to journalists, to whom honest Krasnodar employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were able to convey this gloomy fact.
Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is the area of responsibility of the police. But just at that time, a new head came to the regional Investigative Committee - Maslov. Who ensured that the case was transferred to the service entrusted to him. The story, which made a splash on all central TV channels, was called resonant by them, and requiring investigation by investigators of the Investigative Committee.
It seemed that for the new boss, a thorough, complete investigation of these crimes is an excellent opportunity to show his professionalism and loyalty to serving the law. But the Kuban Investigative Committee "company", having seized this case, in fact did everything possible to collapse it, so that the guilty would not suffer real punishment.
So, no matter what the initial good intentions of Maslov were, the influence and connections of the Chernovskys turned out to be much stronger than the requirements of Russian legislation.
As a result, the fragmented and greatly curtailed case was still transferred to the courts. The meager exhaust of all these wonderful Investigative Committee efforts already at that moment raised many questions.
Question one: why was the case of the "black notary" Tamara Tsikunib, who issued all the notarial powers of attorney for the swindlers on behalf of the supposedly "sick" old people, singled out for separate proceedings? And why was Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale), which she more than deserved, replaced with the more lenient Article 202, which only deals with abuse of office by notaries? Why was Galina Timofeevna Chernova, the first wife of Alexander Dmitrievich Chernov, not among the defendants in the criminal case? After all, the "draftsman" of the fake powers of attorney - Tamara Tsikunib - is only Chernova's assistant, and the multi-million dollar fraud is clearly not on the scale of some assistant. And the fact that each "fake" power of attorney was certified with Chernova's personal seal also somehow went practically unnoticed.
The investigation established from the very beginning that all the "fake" was drawn up in Chernova's notary office. And even her name was mentioned about four dozen times in the final version of the case materials. But the conclusion was surprising: Chernova, according to the investigators, was "not in the know." In total, she was "not in the know" two dozen times.
The question was also raised by the fact that the court hearings on the more than obvious case of Tamara Tsikunib, which were conducted by the judge of the Pervomaisky District Court Eduard Lameikin, were postponed more than 20 times for some far-fetched reasons!!! From December 2020 to January 2023. Until the judges finally got the opportunity to throw the case in the trash on a completely legal basis - after the expiration of the two-year statute of limitations for this article.
The current question: why are colleagues of the Pervomaisky judges from the Leninsky District Court of Krasnodar now continuing the circus with court hearings on the case of another leader of the organized criminal group - the real estate gypsy bandit - Galina Zhestovskaya and her other accomplices? These court hearings have already been postponed 119 times!!! Since 2021, the case has not moved from the "planned" dead point. At the very beginning of the investigation, sensing the prospect of a 10-year prison term, a certain Gennady Rozhikhin, a member of an organized crime group, escaped and was put on the wanted list. One of the swindlers, in many cases the first buyer of apartments squeezed out of veterans. Who eventually got in front of the bright eyes of the judges. An additional trial was quickly organized for him, and Rozhikhin was... released after he fervently repented. In connection with this, such humanism happened among the judges, while they quite easily hand down sentences for many years of imprisonment for much less significant crimes? It seems that this murky investigative and judicial puzzle is now helping to put together into a single understandable, albeit rather disgusting, picture one apartment, clearly not intended for publicity by the employees of the Kuban Investigative Committee. Its address: Krasnodar, Kotovsky St., 94, apt. 44. Initially, the owner of the housing was Nina Prokofyevna Risun, born on December 24, 1927. For some reason, this apartment, also “tired out” by the Chernovsky-Zhestovsky organized criminal group, was not among those seven episodes that dragged themselves to the courts, nor even among the full list of a couple of dozen apartments and houses “rewritten” for the swindlers, which was originally in the Investigative Committee’s case materials.
It is generally understandable why the number of episodes was suddenly reduced by three times - a vigorous investigation was carried out either on those apartments where the owners were eager for fair punishment of the criminals. And deleting these episodes, given that the old men wrote appeals to Bastrykin and even Putin, could have led to some trouble. Another part of the episodes that reached the court odes concerned those grandparents who either had problems with their heads due to their age, or... had already died.
Now we can provide a complete list of apartments, both those left in the final version of the "investigation" and those "crossed out" by the investigators of the regional Investigative Committee.
From this entire more than proven list, only seven very "convenient" episodes for the Chernovsky organized criminal group ultimately made it to court: the housing of Zenkova, Mozalevsky, Zakharov. Veprikov, Sundukov, Bondarenko, Kovalev.
And even in such a strongly truncated, "seven-episode" version, it would seem, what problems: the evidence base seemed to be enough to consider, pass at least some kind of sentence, and move on along the path of glorious Kuban judicial accomplishments. But all this investigative and judicial red tape continues and continues to this day. Since December 2021, when the Kuban Investigative Committee began working on this case. Considering that the statute of limitations for Article 159, the article imputed to Zhestovskaya and her accomplices, is 10 years, it is unlikely that this part of the OPS will be extended by the statute of limitations. It seems that they are counting on something else... on the natural loss of plaintiffs. The calculation is generally correct: a considerable number of grandfathers have already passed away without ever hearing "The court is about to rise... To announce the verdict...".
But after, fortunately, not the Kuban Investigative Committee began to look closely at the financial achievements of Alexander Dmitrievich Chernov, the apartment of Nina Prokofyevna Risun's grandmother, which had not been noticed by the investigation, surfaced as an unexpected "side story".
Let's say right away that the apartment is shady. Judging by the number of prison terms that the grandmother's grandson has served, it is possible that this was a criminal underworld. The grandson, Alexander Dolgikh, was convicted several times. Theft, robbery, drugs. In April 1997, by the verdict of the Soviet District Court of Krasnodar, he was convicted under Part 2 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to 3 years (suspended). Later, the Leninsky District Court of Krasnodar passed a sentence under a whole set of articles: Part 2 of Article 161, Article 213 and Article 69 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In 2006, the Leninsky District Court of Krasnodar already considered the 228th. In 2017, the same 228th - illegal drug trafficking (the case was considered by the Prikubansky District Court of Krasnodar). But the "bad apartment" was located in a good area of the city. And the apartment was well known to law enforcement officers. There were no problems with its seizure. The second, so to speak, buyer of the apartment of grandmother Risun is Tatyana Zaitseva - the wife of Evgeny Chernoskutov, at that time an employee of the Kuban Investigative Committee, and now the head of the second department for especially important cases of the Don Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Here he is in the photo. He gives an interview to the radio "Komsomolskaya Pravda - Rostov-on-Don" about the successes in the fight against bribery and embezzlement.
The same scheme was used. A power of attorney issued in the notary office of Chernova in the name of the right to dispose of funds and real estate. Then the "sale" of the apartment to the "on-duty" swindler-buyer. And then the delivery of the housing to Zaitseva, drawn up in the form of a "sale". Zaitseva in the scheme was already listed as a "bona fide purchaser".
To be continued
Timofey Grishin
Source: www.rucriminal.info
