The common-law wife of Zakharchenko spoke about “$16 million from a friend. Media: Prosecutor General's Office dismissed the case against Zakharchenko's common-law wife
The high-ranking policeman did not skimp on women close to him. Even when Dmitry Zakharchenko parted with another passion, his kindness knew no bounds.
Dmitry Zakharchenko. Photo: Dmitry Serebryakov / TASS
At first, Irina Petrushina was his common-law wife, reminds L! fe. With her in 2005, a young officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs moved from Rostov-on-Don to Moscow.
In 2007, they were going to get married, but they never reached the registry office. The woman decided to leave Zakharchenko because of his betrayals. The future colonel already then met with Marina Semynina.
The policeman parted with Petrushina on good terms, rewarding her (apparently for her long patience) in a royal way - a Mercedes ML luxury car, an apartment and a parking space in the Dominion residential complex on Lomonosovsky Prospekt in Moscow worth about 50 million rubles .
In 2008, Zakharchenko and Semynina had a daughter. This did not make their union stronger - they either converged or diverged. In order to "smooth out sharp corners", the policeman presented his common-law wife and daughter with two apartments - in a pyramid house on Dmitry Ulyanov Street (about 30 million rubles) and in the luxurious residential complex "Imperial House" in the very center of the capital, on Yakimansky Lane, with an area of 170 sq. m (about 150 million rubles). In addition to this went Porsche Cayenne and Mercedes CLS (about 10 million rubles).
In general, the policeman catered to the second girlfriend in everything. In March 2016, in one of the talk shows, Semynina saw Nikolai Volkov, who was left without housing and money, and asked Zakharchenko to help this man. A house for Nikolai Volkov was built in one of the villages of the Tver region, but Zakharchenko owed 400 thousand rubles to the foreman.
The colonel did not save on one more lover - Yana Saratovtseva. She very eccentrically, according to acquaintances, "moved" Marina Semynina. Moreover, the girl, who became famous thanks to the show "The Bachelor", managed to become the official wife of Zakharchenko in 2013.
The wedding gift to the bride was a $6 million Porsche Cayenne and $350,000 worth of jewelry. Over time, Saratovtseva acquired luxurious jewelry from Jacob & Co, David Morris, de Grisgono, some of which contain diamonds with a total weight of 20 carats. The cost of one such thing can exceed $ 300 thousand.
After the wedding, the new family settled in an apartment of 250 sq. m on Prechistenskaya embankment overlooking the Moscow River, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Kremlin. Now it is put up for sale for 635 million rubles.
In 2014, on the eve of the divorce, as it became known to the investigation, Saratovtseva blackmailed her husband. She threatened that she would go to the Internal Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and tell about his "business".
The colonel paid off his wife with an apartment of over 100 square meters. m in the metropolitan area of Khamovniki, not far from the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, in the 1st Zachatievsky Lane. Realtors estimate the cost of this apartment at 85 million rubles.
In May this year Saratovtsev party for 3 million rubles. at the La Marée restaurant, which appears in the Zakharchenko case.
The current beloved of Dmitry Zakharchenko, Anastasia Pestrikova, who bore him two sons, does not live in poverty either. In early 2016, after the birth of their first child, the colonel registered the woman and child in one of the three apartments owned by his mother in the Shuvalovsky residential complex in the south-west of Moscow and presented her with a Range Rover.
And in August of the same year, a few weeks before his arrest, he gave her an elite apartment in a new building on Efremov Street in Moscow with an area of almost 170 square meters. m and cost more than 160 million rubles.
Also, $ 16 million was deposited into a specially opened account in the name of Pestrikova. Only bad luck: after the arrest of Zakharchenko, the money was blocked.
During the investigation, dozens of apartments, houses, cars registered on Zakharchenko and his relatives were discovered. The value of the property is estimated at almost 1 billion rubles.
The colonel was detained in September last year. He is accused of taking a bribe on an especially large scale, abuse of office and obstructing the lawful activities of an investigator. It's only his own fault.
During searches in the apartment of Zakharchenko's relatives, about 9 billion rubles. cash in rubles and foreign currency. The millions of rubles, dollars and euros discovered after the arrest of Dmitry Zakharchenko, deputy head of department "T" of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, were a percentage of the funds of bankrupt financial structures withdrawn abroad. A high-ranking police officer and his father, according to investigators, the management of troubled banks to minimize losses.
In addition, the colonel is connected with criminal authorities, the withdrawal of funds from a bankrupt bank and the concealment from justice of the former general director of Beeline.
Anastasia Pestrikova, a witness in the case of Interior Ministry Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko, who is also his lover, said that the $16 million arrested in the criminal proceedings belonged to her family. She told about this on Wednesday, May 17, in the hall of the Moscow City Court, where the complaint of the accused against the decision of the Basmanny Court of March 2, 2017 to extend the arrest of funds was considered.
Dmitry Zakharchenko. Photo: Dmitry Serebryakov / TASS
Recall that the arrest was imposed on two bank accounts in VTB 24 for a total amount of just over $16 million. According to the case file, the accounts were opened by Pestrikova's relative Lilia Gorshkova. Later, she testified that the money belonged to a 24-year-old girl, Zakharchenko, who, as BFM notes, is raising a one and a half year old child from the colonel. The investigation believes that Zakharchenko obtained these funds by criminal means.
The ex-deputy head of department "T" of the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption (GUEBiPK) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs himself denies this. "There is not a single confirmation in the case file that this money was received by me allegedly as a result of criminal activity," the colonel is quoted as saying. He claims that "Pestrikova became a hostage of the situation."
In turn, the girl reported to the Moscow City Court that she herself transferred the money to Gorshkova.
“To be honest, we were scared in connection with Dima’s arrest. We didn’t want unnecessary questions and so on. This, of course, is the deepest mistake. Gorshkova is our close relative and always helps us,” said Pestrikova. At the same time, she noted that she did not tell Gorshkova where the money came from.
According to Pestrikova, her father is aware of the origin of such funds, but no one has yet interrogated him.
“Zakharchenko, of course, helped me, helped with the child, but these were insignificant amounts,” she stressed. The girl admitted that she “never worked at all” (according to the MK, for some reason, it was the investigator’s question about her work that almost brought Pestrikova to tears), and she doesn’t know the amount of the total family income at all.
According to the investigation, this money belongs to Zakharchenko, who, after his arrest in September 2016, to Pestrikova, and she, in turn, summoned Gorshkova from St. Petersburg to open accounts in her name.
In addition, at a meeting of the Moscow City Court, it became known that the FSB investigation additionally charged Zakharchenko with the episode of receiving a bribe from the owner of the elite fish restaurant La Mare in the amount of $ 800 thousand and a discount card of the institution.
As a result, the court recognized the lawful extension of the arrest of $16 million.
Zakharchenko was detained on September 8 last year in the case of abuse of power and obstruction of the investigation. The next day, a new case was opened against him for taking a bribe of 7 million rubles. Later, the investigation established two more episodes of bribery.
The colonel became famous throughout the country after, during a search of Zakharchenko's sister's apartment on Lomonosovsky Prospekt, law enforcement officers with almost 9 billion rubles. in different currencies. Zakharchenko could not explain the origin of this money.
Anastasia Pestrikova spoke about the origin of the money that was arrested on the account of her relative Lilia Gorshkova. The cohabitant of the Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Zakharchenko was later suspected of trying to steal $ 16 million from Gorshkova
Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko in the Basmanny Court. March 2017 (Photo: Dmitry Serebryakov / TASS)
Explanations of the common-law wife of Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Zakharchenko, who is being investigated in a corruption case, Anastasia Pestrikova, were heard on Friday, November 10, in the Nikulinsky Court of Moscow during the consideration of a claim for confiscation of the property of the colonel and his relatives, RBC correspondent reports.
“I received the amount from my friend Maria. In 2015, we were observed in one pregnancy clinic. In the spring of 2016, Maria said that she wanted to buy property abroad. Just in the summer of 2016, we had to go with the whole family to Cyprus to relax. I offered to help Maria find a suitable property. Knowing that my father understands construction, I introduced him to Maria, and on July 14, 2016, an agency agreement was concluded between them. My father had to find a suitable property for my girlfriend and receive a reward of €500,000 from her. On the same day, Maria gave me €14.7 million in cash, which I credited to my account at VTB-24 Bank, ” Pestrikova said. This figure roughly corresponds to the $16 million later discovered by the investigation in Gorshkova's account.
“In September, I learned about the arrest of the father of my child. I knew that I had a large amount of money in my account, and I was afraid that the investigation might link them to Zakharchenko. This basically happened. I asked Lilia Gorshkova to open accounts in the same bank. We credited money to one account for the purchase of a villa, to the other - my father's funds and his agency fee, ”added Pestrikova. After this operation, Gorshkova's accounts were seized, she recalled.
“As for the apartment, I was supported by my parents all my life, and in 2015 my father decided to buy me a property. In July, a contract was signed, and my father gave me the funds to buy an apartment. Zakharchenko did not give me any money for these purposes. His only material contribution is the purchase of a stroller for my son. I want to emphasize that we never lived together and did not run a common household, ”she emphasized.
Prosecutor Sergei Bochkarev, in turn, drew attention to the fact that before the €14.7 million received from her friend was credited to the account, they were kept in a safe in the apartment on Michurinsky Prospekt, where Pestrikova lived. This apartment belongs to Valentina Zakharchenko's mother, the prosecutor pointed out.
“She provided us with a child this housing, because in Moscow we had nowhere to live. We needed registration. After all, this is the grandmother of my child, ”Pestrikova answered this. Relations with Zakharchenko himself Pestrikova called "a matter of one night."
September 28 Pestrikova, from where she tried to fly to Cyprus. She was suspected of trying to steal $16 million from Gorshkova. Gorshkova herself pointed out that although she opened an account with $ 16 million, in fact this money belonged to Pestrikova. Later due to lack of corpus delicti.
Earlier on Friday, in court, the defense and the prosecution spoke about the testimony of the mother and sister of Colonel Zakharchenko about. According to the defense, the money is not related to corruption. According to the prosecution, the relatives claim that the money was planted on them.
Colonel Zakharchenko was arrested in September 2016. Initially, he was accused of taking a bribe of 7 million rubles. During searches in his apartments and at the place of residence of his relatives, the police found more than 8.5 billion rubles.
Anastasia Pestrikova
Recall that the 25-year-old Anastasia Pestrikova, the civil wife of the infamous ex-colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Zakharchenko, was detained last Thursday at Samara airport. From "Kurumoch" she was going to fly to rest in Cyprus. Apparently, Pestrikova, who lives in Khimki near Moscow, chose such an unusual route in the hope that in Samara, unlike the capital, they did not put a so-called gatehouse on her - a notification from law enforcement agencies both about a person purchasing a ticket and about an attempt to leave for borders of the country. However, according to Kommersant, when passing through passport control, the woman was stopped and asked to go to the office. There, employees of the TFR were already waiting for her, who announced to Mrs. Pestrikova that she would not fly anywhere. Yesterday in the Basmanny Court of the capital it was planned to consider the petition of the investigation for her house arrest. According to the publication, there is no question of a stricter measure of restraint, since the woman is raising two sons, one of whom is a little over six months, and the other one and a half. However, after the materials of the case against the suspect were submitted to the court, for some reason, Ms. Pestrikova was not brought to it. So far, it is only obvious that the investigation considered the departure of the civil wife of Colonel Zakharchenko abroad as an attempt to hide. Until recently, she served as a witness in her husband's case, and the investigator did not impose any restrictions on her movement. Pestrikova's status changed along with her detention. According to Kommersant, the investigation charges her with part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (large-scale fraud). We are talking about $ 16 million arrested on accounts at VTB24 Bank. Mrs. Pestrikova claimed that this was the money of her father, an entrepreneur Vladimir Pestrikov. According to her version, having learned about the detention of the colonel, she decided to hide the funds so that they would not fall under interim measures. To do this, she transferred $ 16 million to her relative, but the money still did not escape arrest. Dmitry Zakharchenko himself claimed that he had nothing to do with this money, and called his common-law wife a “hostage of the situation”, guilty only of the fact that she had him a one and a half year old child. The investigation, according to Kommersant, adheres to the opposite point of view and believes that it was Colonel Zakharchenko who received this money from the implementation of various corruption schemes. In particular, the TFR believes that, for example, $800,000 was received by the officer as a bribe from the owner of the La Maree restaurant Medi Dussa.Anastasia Pestrikova has become the fourth member of the Zakharchenko family to come under investigation. Recall that the former deputy head of department "T" of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Zakharchenko, was detained in September last year for taking a bribe of 7 million rubles. "for general patronage" from Anatoly Pshegornitsky, who is the chairman of the board of directors of Rusengineering. During a search in the apartment of the officer's sister, FSB officers found about 9 billion rubles. in various currencies. Soon after that, Zakharchenko's brother-in-law, an FSB colonel, was put on the wanted list. Dmitry Senin- the alleged intermediary when receiving a bribe from a restaurateur. And in April of this year, the Basmanny Court arrested Viktor Zakharchenko, father of Dmitry Zakharchenko. He is accused of complicity in embezzling money from MIA-Bank, where he, perhaps with the help of his son, was fictitiously employed and from 2014 to 2016 received about 4 million rubles. Neither the son nor the father admit their guilt.
Almost all family members of the infamous ex-colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Zakharchenko, in whose apartment almost 9 billion rubles were found, were under investigation. Following the officer's brother-in-law, FSB Colonel Dmitry Senin, who was put on the wanted list, and arrested for embezzlement of 4 million rubles. father at MIA-bank Mr. Zakharchenko may also be placed under house arrest and the civil wife of the former Interior Ministry officer Anastasia Pestrikova. She is suspected of trying to hide in bank accounts belonging to Dmitry Zakharchenko $16 million.25-year-old Anastasia Pestrikova was detained last Thursday at the Samara airport. From this city she was going to fly to rest in Cyprus. Apparently, Anastasia Pestrikova, who lives in Khimki near Moscow, chose such an unusual route in the hope that in Samara, unlike the capital, they did not put a so-called gatehouse on her - a notification from law enforcement agencies both about a person purchasing a ticket and about an attempt to leave outside the country. However, when passing through passport control, the woman was stopped and asked to go to the office. There, employees of the TFR were already waiting for her, who announced to Mrs. Pestrikova that she would not fly anywhere. At the same time, according to Kommersant, when trying to find out what was the matter, the detainee was told that she would find out about everything in Moscow. Yesterday in the Basmanny Court it was planned to consider the petition of the investigation for the house arrest of Anastasia Pestrikova. According to Kommersant, there is no question of a stricter measure of restraint, since the woman is raising two sons, one of whom is a little over six months old, and the other one and a half. However, after the materials of the case against the suspect were submitted to the court, Ms. Pestrikova was not brought to it for some reason.
[ : The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation changed its mind about detaining the common-law wife of Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko, Anastasia Pestrikova, as part of the fraud case and released her, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti.
"Pestrikova was released from the IVS (temporary detention center - ed.) due to the expiration of her detention," the source said. […]
On Friday, Pestrikova was taken to the Basmanny Court of Moscow, where the investigation filed a petition to take the suspect into custody, Yunona Tsareva, the official representative of the court, told RIA Novosti. However, a few hours later, the Investigative Committee withdrew its request, returning Pestrikova to the temporary detention center on Petrovka Street, where she spent the night on Saturday, a source in the law enforcement system told RIA Novosti. - Inset K.ru]
[IA "RBC", 09/30/2017, "The detained common-law wife of Colonel Zakharcheno was released from the detention center": The common-law wife of Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko accused of fraud, Anastasia Pestrikova, was released from the temporary detention center. This was reported to RBC by her lawyer Valeria Tunikova. […]
Until the middle of the day on Saturday, Pestrikova was in a temporary detention center and on investigative actions in the Investigative Committee, the defender added. “She was only released a couple of hours ago,” the lawyer said. Pestrikova remains a suspect and has not been charged, Tunikova said. - Inset K.ru]
So far, it is only obvious that the investigation considered the departure of the common-law wife of Colonel Zakharchenko abroad as an attempt to hide. Until recently, she served as a witness in her husband's case, and the investigator did not impose any restrictions on her movement. The status of Anastasia Pestrikova changed along with the detention. According to Kommersant, the investigation charges her with part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (large-scale fraud). We are talking about $ 16 million arrested on accounts at VTB24 Bank.
Mrs. Pestrikova claimed that this was the money of her father, businessman Vladimir Pestrikov. According to Anastasia Pestrikova, having learned about the colonel's detention, she decided to hide the funds so that they would not fall under interim measures. To do this, she transferred $ 16 million to her relative, but the money still did not escape arrest.
Dmitry Zakharchenko himself claimed that he had nothing to do with this money, and called his civil wife a “hostage of the situation”, guilty only of the fact that she had a one and a half year old child from him. The investigation, according to Kommersant, adheres to the opposite point of view and believes that it was Colonel Zakharchenko who received this money from the implementation of various corruption schemes. In particular, the TFR believes that, for example, $800 thousand were received by the officer as a bribe from the owner of the restaurant La Maree Medi Douss.
It is worth noting that Anastasia Pestrikova has become the fourth member of Dmitry Zakharchenko's family to come under investigation. Recall that the former deputy head of department "T" of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Zakharchenko, was detained in September last year for taking a bribe of 7 million rubles. "for general patronage" from Anatoly Pshegornitsky, who is the chairman of the board of directors of Rusengineering. During a search in the apartment of the officer's sister, FSB officers found about 9 billion rubles. in different currencies.
Shortly thereafter, Zakharchenko's brother-in-law, FSB Colonel Dmitry Senin, was put on the wanted list. The investigation believes that he acted as an intermediary when an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs received a bribe from a restaurateur. And in April of this year, the Basmanny Court arrested Viktor Zakharchenko, the father of Dmitry Zakharchenko. He is accused of complicity in embezzling money from MIA-Bank, where he, perhaps with the help of his son, was fictitiously employed and from 2014 to 2016 received about 4 million rubles. Neither the son nor the father admit their guilt.