According to VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, the court refused to arrest Daniil Solyanik, CEO of the Zeppelin media group and winner of an FSB award for creating an interactive museum dedicated to the secret service. The company also actively received hundreds of millions of rubles from the Victory Museum. Zeppelin is owned by former MTV and STS producer Alexey Tsapalin.
Investigators charged Solyanik with embezzlement and requested pretrial detention. However, the court, quite unexpectedly for these times, denied the request, and Solyanik remained free on his own recognizance.
Daniil Solyanik and Alexey Tsapalin started out in Boris Zosimov's (BIZ) companies; both worked at MTV Russia, and Tsapalin also worked as a music producer at STS. But they later chose a much more lucrative career. They founded the Zeppelin media group, which began working on contracts with government agencies. From the Victory Museum alone, Zeppelin received approximately 200 million rubles. The media group also has a successful track record of collaborating with the security services. Solyanik, along with Tsapalin and Igor Ugolnikov, was awarded the FSB Prize for the creation of the multimedia interactive museum of the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow Region.
