Source: www.rucriminal.info

The Telegram channel VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info learned the story of Kirill Sergeevich Vertikov, who, being a Moscow businessman, decided to take the head of the FSB of the city of Kropotkin (previously holding the position of curator of health care in the UFSB for the Krasnodar Territory) Kozlov K.E. as a business partner. The story of such cooperation ended, as always similar ones. Kozlov gave the go-ahead and a criminal case was fabricated against the partner. At the moment, Vertikov is abroad, since he has been wanted since February 2023 on charges of theft by fraud (Article 159.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

In 2022, financial misunderstandings occurred between the partners, and Vertikov incurred a debt. He asked for some time to settle it. However, Kozlov refused to wait, began to threaten, and eventually, using his connections, managed to initiate a criminal case.

The essence of criminal case No. 12201030050003711 is as follows: allegedly Vertikov took money from a certain Charkov I.S. and disappeared.

At the same time:

- Vertikov had no financial relations with Charkov and did not take any money from him

- Charkov is a friend of Kozlov and was used as a “victim” in order not to involve FSB officer Kozlov himself as such.

When Vertikov contacted investigator Menyailova Ya.E., she directly said that he received money from Kozlov.

Then Vertikov asked a direct question: if he received money from Kozlov, how can Charkov be a victim? There was no answer.

Verikov also began to explain to the investigator that part of the funds had been returned and he had personally transferred them to Kozlov.

However, his arguments were not included, and this was done deliberately in order to initiate a criminal case for the purpose of pressure. After all, in fact, this is just a civil dispute (but it is not one, because there were no agreements between the partners).

There is no documentary evidence of their cooperation with Kozlov K.E. In order to somehow achieve justice, Vertikov wrote a statement to the police of the Central District of Krasnodar (KUSP) on 03/07/2025 Nº 8799, because on their territory Kozlov withdrew Vertikov's money from the card and should have been recorded by ATM cameras.

 

The essence of the statement: that funds were withdrawn from Vertikov's card, and he asks to establish who did it.

This was the return of the debt to Kozlov:

- The application was lost,

- It turned out that it was transferred from the Central District of Krasnodar to the Prikubansky District, and. there it was assigned a new number KUSP No. 19858 dated 03/24/2025.

- Where, in fact, everything is under Kozlov's control.

- there it was "lost"

A complaint to the prosecutor's office about the lost KUSP got to the deputy prosecutor Borokh D.A. and he successfully closed the investigation.

Only through lengthy correspondence with the prosecutor's office (appeals) did Vertikov manage to get the head of the investigation to recognize the application as part of an already initiated criminal case.

 

What happened next

Through long appeals to the regional prosecutor's office, the materials were attached, but in order to avoid verification, the case was immediately suspended.

 

- The suspension date is March 25, and the KUSP was registered in Prikubanka on March 24 - this was done retroactively, so as not to conduct an audit.

- No one carried out an audit on the return of the money, because if the data presented is confirmed, the case will fall apart and it will turn out that the FSB employee gave deliberately false testimony.

The prosecutor's office covers up (full chronology)

Vertikov wrote to the prosecutor's office of the Krasnodar Territory that the case was falsified and asked to conduct an audit:

Who is this victim (Charkov) and why does he have the status of a victim?

After all, Vertikov has not communicated with him since 2016 and has not seen him, Vertikov did not have a relationship or agreements with him, and he did not take any money from him.

Vertikov constantly asks to transfer the case to the Investigative Committee of the Krasnodar Region, citing the participation of an FSB officer in the case (regular agencies cannot handle this case when an FSB officer is involved), but they ignore the requests, because the FSB officer is only a witness in the case.

Vertikov has already written an appeal to the Central FSB and again to the Prosecutor General's Office, but there is silence in response.

Arseniy Dronov

Source: www.rucriminal.info