{"id":30829,"date":"2020-10-28T11:53:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T09:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30829"},"modified":"2025-08-28T00:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:12:01","slug":"court-to-hear-case-of-former-fsb-investigators-accused-of-extortion-of-65-million-rubles-in-bitcoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/court-to-hear-case-of-former-fsb-investigators-accused-of-extortion-of-65-million-rubles-in-bitcoins\/","title":{"rendered":"Court to hear case of former FSB investigators accused of extortion of 65 million rubles in bitcoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The case of former FSB investigators Alexey Kolbov and Sergey Belousov, accused of extorting 65 million rubles in bitcoins, has progressed to the final stage and will be heard on its merits by the 2nd Western District Military Court, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/4549623#id1967525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00ab\u042a\u00bb<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The judge has already held preliminary hearings. The hearings are expected to be held in public. The defence has not commented on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colbov and Belousov were detained in 2019. They were accused of extorting 65 million rubles in BTC from Alexander Galumov, the son of former Izvestia publisher Erast Galumov, who was arrested in a case involving fraud with investment contracts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to investigators, the accused promised to ease the sentence for Alexander Galumov&#8217;s father and refrain from prosecuting his son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexey Kolbov pleaded guilty to fraud, but denied taking a bribe, and any involvement in the deal with Sergey Belousov. Belousov likewise did not admit to taking a bribe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Belousov and Kolbov face Part 6 of Article 290 of the Russian Criminal Code. They could face up to 15 years&#8217; imprisonment and a fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case of former FSB investigators Alexey Kolbov and Sergey Belousov, accused of extorting 65 million rubles in bitcoins, has progressed to the final stage and will be heard on its merits by the 2nd Western District Military Court, Kommersant reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1154,27],"class_list":["post-30829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-crimes","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30831,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30829\/revisions\/30831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}