Court Keeps Seized 10-Carat Diamond in TBSS Bribery Case as 163.2 Million-Ruble Fines Stand

Overview

• TBSS executives Sergey Khiryakov and Alexander Rakovsky were convicted of giving a large bribe and each fined 163.2 million rubles after the court credited time spent in custody.
• The court preserved arrest on a D/IF 10.02-carat diamond valued at about 112.19 million rubles and sent it to the Odintsovo investigative directorate for another probe.
• Frozen assets remain in place to secure penalties, including over 195.5 million rubles in a Khiryakov bank account, a Moscow apartment worth more than 47 million, a Sochi land plot around 23 million, and a numismatic collection near 80 million.
• Rakovsky’s assets under arrest total about 37 million rubles across vehicles, bank accounts, and property, and the seized cash bribe of 2.36 million rubles was confiscated to the state.
• Investigators recorded the bribe in an operational experiment with customs official Vitaliy Krasilnikov, who reported the approach as the executives sought preferential customs clearance for TBSS shipments.