The bail amounts to 50,000 lari — about 1.6 million rubles according to The Insider and Ekho, or $19,200 according to Current Time. The court also imposed a series of obligations on Timofeyev: he must report to the Prosecutor General's Office three times a week, notify authorities within 24 hours of any change of address or receipt of any documents, and hand those documents over to the prosecutor's office. He is barred from leaving Georgia and from leaving his home between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
The release was reported by lawyer and human rights advocate Roman Kislyak (The Insider, Ekho) and by Timofeyev's defense lawyer, Rusudan Mchedlishvili (Radio Liberty's Georgian Service).
Timofeyev was detained in Georgia in January. He arrived in the country in March 2024 and requested asylum, citing political persecution in Russia, but the Georgian authorities refused him.
The local prosecutor's office cited a letter from Interpol's Moscow bureau dated April 24, 2024, and a red notice from Interpol dated April 29, 2024, as grounds for his arrest. The Russian national's lawyer told the BBC Russian Service that Interpol later annulled the international wanted request, finding the Russian side's accusations unmotivated.
In early September, the Tbilisi city court authorized Timofeyev's extradition to Russia. On September 29, the UN Human Rights Committee demanded that Georgia refrain from his "extradition, deportation, expulsion or other return" to Russia until its review of his complaint is completed. Formally, the letter is worded as a request to the state, but the Committee's rules stipulate that failure to comply with interim measures is incompatible with a state's obligation to comply in good faith with the individual communications procedure.
The defense intends to appeal the extradition decision to Georgia's Supreme Court and to use international mechanisms to prevent the handover, lawyer Mchedlishvili said.
In Russia, Timofeyev is accused of involvement in the murders of and attempts on the lives of businessmen in 2004–2005. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, he was part of an organized group created by Furgal and his business partner Nikolai Mistryukov to eliminate business competitors. Timofeyev rejects all the charges and links his prosecution to the political activities of Furgal's team. Memorial has recognized Furgal as a political prisoner and the case against Timofeyev as politically motivated.
Furgal was sentenced to 22 years in a penal colony in this case in February 2023, and was convicted in a fraud case in December 2025. Taking the first sentence into account, the court imposed a cumulative term of 25 years in prison.