The Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have uncovered new details about Judge Tatyana Perepelkova, who issued the first controversial ruling to leave an apartment to singer Larisa Dolina, which she had sold and received money for. It turns out that Perepelkova is a close friend of an officer from the FSB's Directorate M, and she even participated in operations to detain other judges. Thanks to this, and her willingness to make any decision on the fly, her career advanced extremely rapidly. Immediately after the ruling in the "Dolina case," she was promoted to the Moscow City Court. However, it's difficult to say what her future will be. A major investigation is currently underway at the Khamovnichesky Court.
After hearing the controversial Dolina case in March 2025, in April 2025, Perepelkova, at the age of 39, was appointed to the panel of three judges of the Moscow City Court, the panel that reviews the legality of lower court decisions. The appointment was made to the team of Judge Irina Efimova, whom lobbyists from the FSB's Directorate M plan to have Perepelkova replace as presiding judge in 2026. Efimova plans to retire this year. However, due to the recent scandal surrounding the "Dolina apartment," the future careers of Perepelkova, like those of several of her colleagues from the Khamovnichesky Court and associated judges of the Moscow City Court, are in serious question.
According to a source, an audit has been underway at the Khamovnichesky Court since December 2025, and serious violations have already been identified: widespread lack of audio transcripts of hearings, lost volumes of court cases, etc. Cases heard in 2022-2025 by the glamorous Judge Tatyana Perepelkova and her successor, Vera Fokeeva, are under close scrutiny by inspectors from the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. Perepelkova's cases were transferred last in March 2025, following her promotion to the Moscow City Court. Fokeeva, like Perepelkova before her, always maintained close ties with the court's chairperson, Andrei Bychkov, and unquestioningly complied with any of his "requests" for the necessary judicial decisions.
The Khamovnichesky Court is known for its highly commercialized nature, with some entities even paying a monthly "subscription fee." Bychkov usually assigned cases related to such entities, as well as cases "requested from above," to Fokeeva and Perepelkova.
According to sources, the Regionstroy Group of Companies, and its affiliates Regionzhilstroy and Regionpromstroy, are on the subscription fee at the Khamovnichesky Court. All of these companies belong to Alexander Kosovan, the former head of Moscow's construction department and a former Defense Ministry general dismissed for corruption. Due to his advanced age (86) and poor health, the general's children, Oleg and Yulia, now manage the business empire. The holding company itself has become notorious for poor quality work, non-payment by genuine contractors, and the mass bankruptcy of shell subcontractors used by the Kosovans to siphon off funds received from the Moscow government under state contracts. It wasn't until 2025 that Kosovan's companies received a 21 billion ruble state contract from the Moscow government without a tender, primarily for the construction of an automobile and road transport college in Yuzhnoye Tushino, Moscow. The usual scheme then took hold. Part of the advance payment was immediately siphoned off from Russia, and bankruptcy proceedings were initiated against the subcontractor.
For many years, the Khamovnichesky Court has been used by the Kosovani clan to settle disputes with defrauded contractors, government agencies, and other entities. Perepelkova and Fokina have been at the forefront of defending the Kosovanis' interests.
According to a source, Perepelkova is a close friend of a high-ranking official in the FSB's Directorate M, which is why her career has been rapidly advancing until recently. In 2021, she transferred to the Khamovnichesky Court, where she soon took over a lawsuit filed by the owners of luxury real estate in Moscow's Khamovniki district, "Dom na Efremova," against Restavratsiya-N+ LLC. Another judge offered her a bribe to rule in favor of the LLC. Perepelkova consulted with a close friend from Directorate M, who advised her to turn in her colleague, and they would handle the sale themselves. As a result, Gagarinsky Court Judge Olga Kolesnichenko and the intermediary, law firm head Tatyana Evgrafova, were arrested. In 2024, they were sentenced to four years in prison. In 2023, a source said, a similar incident occurred with a judge at Moscow's Savelovsky Court.
After four years of working in the district court, Perepelkova received an unheard-of bonus – a transfer to the Moscow City Court. Immediately after delivering the necessary ruling in the Dolina case. Judges typically wait years for promotion and don't always receive it, but that wasn't the case with Perepelkova.
