The case was opened after the loss of jewelry seized from Lercek
The missing jewelry Lercek was estimated at 14.4 million rubles. According to media reports, the Rolex watch and Bulgari bracelet disappeared from the official safe of the investigator after the seizure during the investigation of the blogger and her ex-husband
Confiscated from the blogger Lerchek (real name – Valery Chekalin) during the preliminary investigation of the case jewelry in the amount of about 15 million rubles. disappeared. This writes TASS with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies, as well as REN TV. A criminal case has been opened on the disappearance.
"The amount of jewelry is estimated at almost 15 million rubles," the source said. The details of the initiation of a criminal case, the source did not specify.
Chekalina’s lawyer Viktor Dugin told TASS that one of the investigators in the criminal case Lerchek and her ex-wife Artem Chekalin did not return jewelry worth 14.4 million rubles to the blogger after the investigation ended.
According to the interlocutor of REN TV, valuable things Lerchek in the amount of 14.4 million rubles. disappeared from the office safe of the investigator in New Moscow. “We are talking about an expensive Rolex watch and a Bulgari bracelet, which were previously seized from Chekalina during searches,” the source said.
Lawyer Lerchek Konstantin Tretyakov refused to comment and recommended to contact the UK. RBC appealed for comment to the Investigative Committee of Russia.
The Gagarinsky court of Moscow on July 31 sentenced Lerczek to five years in prison probation in the case of illegal currency transactions. The blogger was also fined 765 million rubles and banned from promoting her commercial brand on the Internet for three years.
The court found that the blogger, together with his ex-husband Artem Chekalin and their business partner Roman Vishnak, sold online courses, the money received was withdrawn to the accounts of a foreign organization abroad. In total, 251.6 million rubles were transferred. According to court materials, the group provided documents containing knowingly false information about the grounds, purposes and purpose of the transfers, the prosecutor's office indicated.
Lercek appealed the verdict in August.
