2024-04-26 05:47:00
The Primorsky Regional Court sentenced Sakhalin businessman Oleg Kan in absentia to 17 years in prison in a maximum security colony for organizing a contract murder, reports Interfax.
Kahn, nicknamed the “crab king” in the media, is accused of organizing the 2010 assassination in Vladivostok of businessman Valery Phidenko, also involved in crab fishing.
According to investigators, Kan suspected Phidenko of being involved in the attempt on his life – five years earlier, the “crab king” himself had been shot several times. The prosecution claims that Kan found the attacker and killed Phidenko with three shots in his car near the Three Bogatyrs restaurant in Vladivostok.
The prosecution requested 19 years in prison in a maximum security colony for Kan.
Kahn’s lawyers in late March 2024 at a hearing in a smuggling case involving the ‘Crab King’ request drops the lawsuit, alleging that the businessman died in the UK in February 2023. According to them, an inheritance case was opened in Russia, information about which is in the database of the Federal Chamber of Notaries . However, representatives of the Prosecutor General’s Office doubted Kan’s death. According to them, the civil registry offices of St. Petersburg and the Sakhalin region presented the same certificates stating that Kan’s death was not registered and called Kan’s death a staged act.
Kahn founded several large crab and seafood companies that were part of the Moneron group of companies. In 2018 he left Russia, and in 2020 he was accused of organizing a murder and suspected of smuggling crabs worth 2.6 billion rubles to China, South Korea South and Japan and evading taxes and customs duties amounting to more than 3.69 billion rubles. . The smuggling case in August 2023 was transferred At the Vladivostok court, the verdict had not yet been delivered at the end of April.
Following Kahn’s arrest in absentia in 2020, his assets were seized. TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak tried to buy them, but due to court arrest, the tax service refused to conclude the deal. Sobchak’s mother and senator Lyudmila Narusova suggested that the property was seized to prevent them from acquiring this business and asked the Supreme Court to investigate. The interim measures against Kan’s assets were canceled, but the court quickly arrested them again – in another case. As a result, Sobchak was forced to abandon the purchase of assets.
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