Lawyer from Stavropol will be convicted of fraud for 37 million rubles

The Prosecutor’s office of the Stavropol Territory approved the indictment in a criminal case against a 45-year-old resident of Stavropol. He is accused of fraud on an especially large scale.

According to the investigation, the lawyer defended the entrepreneur in several criminal cases. From June 2016 to December 2022, he systematically received large sums from the principal in excess of the official remuneration. The money was supposedly intended for the transfer of bribes to investigators and judges for reclassification of charges to less serious compositions, failure to prosecute for new episodes, the election of a preventive measure without deprivation of liberty and the appointment of a milder sentence.

As the investigation established, the lawyer did not intend to fulfill the promised one and had no agreements, and disposed of the funds received at his discretion. The damage to the principal amounted to 37 million rubles.

In addition, in 2017, the lawyer took a loan of 2 million rubles from the client, which he did not plan to return. Part of the amount he credited to the payment of legal services, and 1.8 million rubles stole, making a fictitious receipt on the transfer of debt to a third party acting on behalf of the principal. The criminal case has been sent to court.