As the Cheka-OGPU has learned, the Moscow Garrison Military Court will reexamine the criminal case against retired colonel Dmitry Frolov, former deputy head of Department "K" of the FSB's Economic Security Service; Department "K" officer Andrei Vasiliev; and shareholder of Kreditimpex Bank Georgy Shkurko.
Frolov and Shkurko were convicted on June 4, 2024, of fraud: the Cheka officer received six years in prison, and the banker received four years and eight months in prison. The former deputy head of Department "K" was released in the courtroom because the statute of limitations had already expired by the time the verdict was handed down. Shkurko was released due to time served in pretrial detention. The criminal case against Vasiliev was dismissed in 2021 due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.
The prosecutor's office appealed the verdict, and the 2nd Western District Military Court overturned it. The Military Court of Cassation upheld the overturning of the verdict and remanded the criminal case for a new trial in the same court, but with a different panel. The case has been assigned to Judge Anton Galkin of the Moscow Garrison Military Court.
According to investigators, between 2007 and 2013, Frolov received a bribe of approximately 87 million rubles from the management of Kreditimpex through an intermediary for general protection. Furthermore, Frolov and Vasiliev, abusing their official positions, coerced two businessmen, Sergei Glyadelkin and Igor Tkach, into transferring 49% of their shares in the companies Ecostock and Yurpromconsulting to their partners. As a result, the businessmen suffered damages totaling 638 million rubles. The defendants have pleaded not guilty.
As was revealed during the preliminary investigation, the former deputy head of the FSB department owns a villa in Italy worth approximately $2 million. It was seized, but the court lifted the interim measure along with the verdict.
