A court in Moscow arrested former lawyer Sergei Furgal in absentia

The court in Moscow arrested in absentia the former lawyer Sergey Furgal and the ex-head of the Main Investigative Department of the SC Dmitriy Dovhiy. He is accused of a large-scale personal fraud, but the details of the case are not given.

Long was declared wanted in a criminal case. Now he is in Israel. He joined the criminal case as the lawyer of Sergei Furgal on July 5, 2021.

Since the end of the 1990s, Dovgiy worked in the Ministry of Justice with the current head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin. In 2007, Dovgiy headed the Main Investigative Department of the Prosecutor’s Office (a structure that was later replaced by the SC).

During his work, he was involved in the investigation of several high-profile cases, including the murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya and the case of Yukos Vice President Vassily Aleksanyan.

After a series of disagreements with Bastrykin on several matters, in 2008, Dovgiya was fired. In 2009, a criminal case was opened against him on charges of bribery and abuse of authority. He was sentenced to nine years in prison, in 2015 he was released on parole.

• The mass media call Dovgiy “the highest-ranking of the convicted security forces of the Putin era.”
• The governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal, was detained in July 2020 on charges of organizing murders 14-16 years ago.
• In Khabarovsk, after his arrest, residents held mass actions in his support every week for more than six months. People of Khabarovsk still go on daily pickets.
• On February 10, the Moscow Regional Court sentenced Sergei Furgal to 22 years in a strict regime colony. Jurors found the former governor guilty of organizing an assassination attempt on three business competitors. Furgal himself did not admit guilt, considering his persecution to be political. The lawyers considered the sentence illegal and unfounded.