The Zakharchenko girl took over everything. Zakharchenko threw millions at the feet of his mistresses The Prosecutor General's Office closed the case against the common-law wife of Zakharchenko

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.

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The Prosecutor General's Office closed the case against the common-law wife of Zakharchenko

The Prosecutor General's Office closed the case against Anastasia Pestrikova, wife of Interior Ministry Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko

The decision to cancel the criminal case against Pestrikova was made by the Deputy Prosecutor General, her lawyer Valeria Tunikova told RBC.

“We do not have more detailed information, because we have not been acquainted with the materials of this case and are not going to do so,” the lawyer said.

In the case of Zakharchenko, a new bribe and a restaurant where Medvedev used to visit

The Moscow City Court on Wednesday decided the fate of the arrested 16 million, found on the account of his friend, but possibly belonging to the former deputy head of department "T" of the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption (GUEBiPK) of the Russian Interior Ministry Dmitry Zakharchenko. At the meeting, one of the secrets of the colonel was revealed - his common-law wife, the mother of his second child, Anastasia Pestrikova, appeared before Themis. And in general, the process smelled of fried, literally and figuratively - in the case, a new bribe appeared, allegedly received by Zakharchenko from the owner of an elite restaurant.

Anastasia Pestrikova, who is the common-law wife of Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko, was released on bail

Anastasia Pestrikova, who is the common-law wife of Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko, was released on bail. However, she remains a suspect in the case of embezzlement of $16 million.

Anastasia Pestrikova was released due to the expiration of the detention period, said the lawyer of the suspect, Valeria Tunnikova. According to her, cited by Interfax, the court, for unknown reasons, did not consider the petition of the investigation to arrest the common-law wife of Interior Ministry Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko. Pestrikova is suspected of trying to steal $16 million from her alleged relative, Lilia Gorshkova. Previously, the state prosecution believed that the money that ended up in Gorshkova's account was part of a large bribe that Zakharchenko received. The investigation also believes that the total family income cannot afford to carry such funds. Now a security arrest has been placed on the money, and Pestrikova faces up to 10 years in prison.

Colonel Zakharchenko was arrested last September. During the searches, 9 billion rubles were seized from him.

Dmitry Zakharchenko took his family as accomplices

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. At MIA-Bank, Mr. Zakharchenko's father may also place under house arrest the common-law wife of Anastasia Pestrikova, a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. She is suspected of trying to hide $16 million belonging to Dmitry Zakharchenko in bank accounts.

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, and the other one and a half. However, after the materials of the case against the suspect were brought to court, Ms. Pestrikova was not brought to it for some reason.

Zakharchenko was "pressed" by relatives

Dmitry Zakharchenko, a former employee of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, is cooperating with the investigation. He, in particular, testifies about the sources of origin of $120 million and 2 million euros confiscated from an apartment associated with him. Negotiations with the colonel, which were extremely difficult, made significant progress after the arrest of Zakharchenko's friend Anastasia Pestrikova.

As a source familiar with the situation told Rosbalt, until recently, Dmitry Zakharchenko refused to give any evidence at all, referring to Article 51 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. “He behaved rather defiantly with the operatives, believing that the investigation had nothing really on him,” the agency’s interlocutor said. According to him, the situation began to change in July 2017, when the Investigative Committee seized expensive real estate registered on Zakharchenko's daughter Ulyana and his girlfriend Anastasia Pestrikova (they have two joint children).

Media: Prosecutor General's Office dismissed the case against Zakharchenko's common-law wife

The case against Anastasia Pestrikova, the common-law wife of the infamous Interior Ministry officer Dmitry Zakharchenko, was terminated by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, a TASS source close to the investigation informed.

The civil wife of Colonel Zakharchenko was detained at Samara airport

A year has passed since the detention of the former Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Zakharchenko. At the moment, virtually all members of his family are under investigation. As it turned out, the next in line after Dmitry Zakharchenko's father, who was arrested for fraud and embezzlement of 4 million rubles from MIA-Bank, is the common-law wife of a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Anastasia Pestrikova.

Dmitry Zakharchenko began cooperation with the investigation

Recall that the name of Anastasia Pestrikova in connection with Colonel Zakharchenko was first heard in the Moscow City Court in May 2017, where she acted as a witness. Then the woman said that she was the one who owned the $16 million arrested earlier in the Zakharchenko case on the accounts of a certain Lilia Gorshkova at VTB 24, when the colonel's lawyers tried to protest their arrest. This was confirmed by Lilia Gorshkova, and Pestrikova herself stated that the money belonged to her businessman father. According to the investigation, Pestrikova received money from Zakharchenko some time before his arrest, when the colonel already felt threatened.

He categorically denies this. Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Zakharchenko himself was detained during a special operation by the FSB on September 9, 2016. During searches in his car, office and apartments belonging to his family, at least 8.5 billion rubles were seized, mostly in foreign currency. In mid-September, Zakharchenko was charged under three articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - 285 (“Abuse of official powers”), 290 (“Taking a bribe”) and 294 (“Obstruction of the administration of justice and the conduct of a preliminary investigation”).

Civil wife of Colonel Zakharchenko detained for fraud

On suspicion of fraud, the Investigative Committee detained Anastasia Pestrikova, the common-law wife of police colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko. Referring to the words of the press secretary of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, Yunona Tsareva, the Izvestia Internet portal reports that the investigation is seeking to place her under arrest.

The court arrested the apartments of the common-law wife and nine-year-old daughter of Zakharchenko

The Basmanny Court of the capital arrested the apartments of the common-law wife and daughter of Interior Ministry Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko. At the same time, the defense tried to challenge this decision, arguing that the seized property does not belong to Zakharchenko himself, who is under investigation in the case of bribes.

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.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on falsification of evidence against Anastasia Pestrikova. The girl is called one of the civil wives of the infamous Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko.

According to media reports, the new criminal case became known during a court hearing on the girl's lawsuit against the state. The Khamovniki Court is considering Pestrikova's claim for monetary compensation for illegal criminal prosecution. She considers the detention for 48 hours in September 2017 at the Samara airport illegal and demands payment of compensation in the amount of three million rubles.

“For almost two months after the incident, my client did not know what her procedural status was, and the coverage of the incident in the media caused her significant reputational damage,” Pestrikova’s lawyer said.

During the meeting in the Khamovnichesky court, the representative of the Ministry of Finance, who is the defendant in this lawsuit, asked that a decision on a new criminal case against the plaintiff be attached to the case file.

“The case was initiated by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on May 10 under Article 303 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Falsification of Evidence”),” he clarified RIA Novosti, refusing to comment in detail. Pestrikova's lawyer Valeria Tunnikova also declined to comment, since she herself learned about the initiation of the case only during the court session.

History of the first detention

In September 2017, Anastasia Pestrikova was detained while trying to fly to Cyprus from Samara. The investigation accused her of stealing $ 16 million from a relative and attempted fraud.

In October 2017, the prosecutor's office closed the case without explanation. And only a month later, in November, Pestrikova explained that she had received the money to buy real estate abroad at the request of a friend. At the same time, she intended to take only € 500 thousand for her help. Then the girl claimed that, having learned about the arrest of her roommate, Colonel Zakharchenko, she was afraid for the fate of other people's funds entrusted to her. Therefore, she decided to transfer money to the account of a relative, Lilia Gorshkova. It was there that the investigation found them and arrested them.

Four women of Colonel Zakharchenko

Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko, known to the Russian public for millions found during an FSB investigation in his sister's apartment, came to Moscow in 2005 to fight corruption. During the investigation, hidden assets worth £113 million were seized from him. Zakharchenko is accused of taking bribes, thanks to which he could lead a luxurious lifestyle.

The colonel himself claims that he never took or received bribes. about four women in Zakharchenko's life, whom he showered with expensive gifts, allegedly with money received in the form of bribes. One of the leading anti-corruption officials in the Russian police force presented his wife and three “unofficial” partners with jewelry, gave them real estate and premium cars.

The last common-law wife

The infamous colonel met Anastasia Pestrikova at a party in one of the Moscow nightclubs. In early 2016, she gave birth to Zakharchenko's son. Perhaps realizing that he would soon be caught red-handed, the colonel registered the boy in one of the expensive apartments that the policeman had once bought for his mother. Anastasia received a Range Rover, as well as a luxury Moscow apartment worth £2.2 million on Efremov Street. Zakharchenko also opened a bank account in her name, where he deposited about $16 million. After the colonel was detained, the money was frozen until the end of the investigation.

Already after the arrest of Zakharchenko, Pestrikova gave birth to his second son. A Life.ru source in law enforcement commented on the actions of the policeman before the arrest: “Perhaps Colonel Zakharchenko had a premonition that he might be arrested and, knowing about Anastasia Pestrikova’s pregnancy, he decided to provide the mother of his children with a decent existence.” Now the mother of Zakharchenko's sons lives with her parents in a rather modest apartment in Khimki.

Interior Ministry Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko was arrested in September 2016 on suspicion of taking a bribe of 7 million rubles. In addition to bribery, he was charged with abuse of office and obstruction of a preliminary investigation. During a search of Zakharchenko's apartment, more than $120 million and €2 million in cash were seized. In total, more than 8.5 billion rubles were seized from the colonel and his relatives. In April 2018, the defendant stated that most of the seized money belonged to relatives, and only 93 thousand rubles belonged to him. - monthly allowance for the month.

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.

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