Overview

• A Krasnodar appellate ruling left in place the jailing of Ivan Marchenko and found the suspicions against him properly substantiated for pretrial purposes.
• The Moscow Ostankino court is hearing the Prosecutor General’s bid to confiscate about 9 billion rubles in assets linked to Viktor Momotov through associates.
• A secret witness testified by video that Momotov helped arrange papers for a fictitious humanitarian shipment to the SVO zone for businessman Andrey Marchenko.
• The same witness said he heard Momotov steered cases to courts expected to rule for Marchenko and that he delivered cash from Marchenko to Momotov via the judge’s mother.
• The court ordered the arrest of property belonging to Marton builder Alexey Oleynik, a witness in the case, as prosecutors detail a portfolio including 95 real-estate assets and roughly 40 hotels.