In the aggressor’s capital, namely in the Basmanny District Court, a rather characteristic trial is ongoing in the case of Kerim Akuev, the former criminal “head of the judicial department at the Supreme court” in Russia-occupied Simferopol and Donetsk.
Akuev is accused by the aggressor’s punishers of “corruption,” namely for “illegal remuneration to an official for changing court decisions”, as well as for fraud “in the repair of ships”, and we are talking about events in the occupied Crimea.
It is stated that Akuev in 2021, through the intermediary Ramazanov, who also ended up in a pre-trial detention center, received 2 million rubles in order “to cancel the decision of the Yalta city court in the civil panel of the supreme court of Crimea” on “a certain property dispute”, and to transfer it to someone “unidentified judge”.
It is also said that Akuev received in 2021-2022 through an intermediary, his “head of the construction department” Andrey Sedegov, kickbacks from the “general director” of the “Stroygarantremont” structure Oleg Sergienko in the amount of 3.78 million rubles; in total, since 2018, through this structure, the occupiers have laundered funds in three dozen contracts “for repairs of premises in courts”, including the “supreme court of Crimea”.
However, such a touching struggle of punitive forces “for the purity of the ranks” has much more prosaic reasons. Dagestani Akuev found himself in an illegal “position” from Sakhalin back in 2014 and has long been, like all “Crimean judges”, under the FSB’s “close control”, including his “cute pranks” with repairs.
Suffice it to say that back in the 90s, as the press of that time wrote, “Kerim Akuev was actively engaged in food production on an especially large scale”, he owned the interregional corporation “Stavropol-North” and was a defendant in a high-profile criminal case about the theft of budget twenty billion rubles allocated for the purchase of products for government needs, and those who disappeared, having passed through Akuev’s company.
Once in Crimea, such a “respected person” as Akuev consistently stated that “the courts are located in buildings that do not meet all the necessary requirements” and consistently “knocked out” additional funds from the “federals” for his protégés at “Stroygarantremont”, and he naturally “passed coins to big bosses” on time and in full volume.
But in 2022, a “black mark” came for Akuev, from where he did not expect it: in order to “strengthen” the repressive apparatus, in the summer of 2022 he was criminally “transferred” to Donetsk to a similar “position”, and since there was more than enough compromising evidence on him, then Akuev could not refuse such a “generous offer”.
But now in Donetsk, Akuev, who was at first favored by the occupiers there with “awards and titles”, could not find a common language with Andrei Kim, the fake “head of the supreme court” there from September 2018 to April 2023. It was Kim, who also has “Stavropol roots”, with whom Akuev clearly could not find a common language on the amount of kickbacks, who forced the Dagestani out of office by the end of 2022.
Further, Akuev, without hesitation, came up with the idea to “sue”, “winning” in the “first and appellate instances” and even received some compensation, which already sufficiently angered the Moscow bosses and so he received the label “toxic”. After it punitive forces routinely intervened in the case and canceled everything “decisions” according to Akuev, and according to him they hastily “raised from the shelf” a couple of his “Crimean footnotes”.
It is noteworthy that in the case of “corruption in the Crimean courts”, the aggressor’s punishers, in fact, do not have any questions for the “Crimean judges”, but besides, Kim, who was also “removed” by the occupiers after the scandal with Akuev, was clearly “on a tip” the latter, such questions also arose.
