The Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info examined the verdict issued to Chechen residents Satuyev and Shatayev, which allowed relatives of Chechen Prime Minister Magomed Daudov (aka Lord) to seize 30 luxury cars from bona fide buyers in various Russian regions. The scheme used was the same one later used by Larisa Dolina with her apartment, only it was sold before the incident with the singer. We also found a wealth of interesting information in the verdict.
Let's recap the gist of the story. After the war began and the withdrawal of the world's largest automakers from the Russian market, Chechen residents Kaimov, Tsagarev, and Khakhayev decided to set up a business selling luxury cars from brands such as Audi, BMW, Mercedes, and others. According to a source, Lord himself provided the funds for this. The sales took place through Satuyev and Shatayev, who had long been involved in this business in Moscow. They sold the cars with all the necessary documentation. However, Kaimov, Tsagarev, and Khakhaev then filed a complaint with the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs, claiming that Satuyev and Shatayev had allegedly failed to pay them, and a case of large-scale fraud (Article 159, Part 4) was opened. As part of this case, the cars were seized and were seized from buyers across Russia. The Grozny District Court of Chechnya then upheld the claims of these three residents of the republic to reclaim 30 cars from illegal possession. The Supreme Court of Chechnya upheld all decisions. Thus, the cars were returned to Kaimov, Tsagarev, and Khakhaev.
The verdict describes the scheme by which the brand-new cars were delivered to Russia. First, they went to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, where they were registered to local residents, who then sold the cars on paper to residents of Chechnya (these were not Kaimov, Tsagarev, or Khakhaev, but front men).
However, the most interesting aspects are elsewhere. The verdict repeatedly states that the "victims" were "under the influence of deception." A familiar phrase. It was later used in the bizarre rulings in the case of Larisa Dolina, who was left with the apartment Polina Lurye had purchased from her for 112 million rubles and was not required to return the money.
Satuyev and Shatayev received their first cars from Kaimov in August 2022, and Kaimov kept handing over the cars for sale, one after another, along with all the necessary documents, until February 2023. Furthermore, Kaimov brought Tsagarev and Khakhaev into the business, and they also began handing over cars to Satuyev and Shatayev for sale. Then the trio of sellers trusted a couple of intermediaries so much that they instructed them to pick up the cars immediately after they arrived in Moscow from abroad and immediately put them on sale.
It's ironic that Kaimov, Tsagarev, and Khakhaev, to whom the Chechen courts "returned" the cars confiscated from bona fide buyers, never officially owned them. The cars were registered to fictitious Chechen residents, and as a result, the verdict lists Kaimov, Tsagarev, and Khakhaev as the "actual owners" of the cars.
These same "fictitious individuals" signed sales contracts with Satuyev and Shatayev, handled all the paperwork with the Chechen State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, etc.
And then Kaimov, Tsagarev, and Khakhaev claimed they never received payment for the cars from Satuyev and Shatayev and had been handing them premium cars for seven months.
The defendants themselves "confessed" to everything during the investigation. One of them once let it slip that he had given money to Kaimov, but then immediately added that it was some old debt. Satuyev and Shatayev refused to testify at the trial.
As a result, they received more than humane sentences: Satuyev received four and six months in a general regime penal colony, and Shatayev received five years.
It can also be added that it's hard to believe that anyone in Chechnya could have cheated Daudov's relatives out of their money, especially knowing that Lord himself had invested in the cars.
