Alexander Chernyshov
Alexander Chernyshov, born 1972, Perm Krai. Charges: Article 226.1 part 3 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Illegal movement across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union or the State border of the…); “Perm Memorial's case of attempted smuggling of cultural property”. Sentence (April 4, 2024): 3 years' suspended imprisonment. Status: at large.
In brief
Perm Krai · Perm · Entrepreneurs
Sentence
3 years
suspended imprisonment
Upheld June 4, 2024
Charges
- Article 226.1 part 3 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Illegal movement across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union or the State border of the Russian Federation with the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union of strategically important goods and resources, cultural values, especially valuable wild animals, aquatic biological resources, plants and mushrooms, committed by an organized group
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigators' version, together with Robert Latypov, he tried to "export from Russia to Germany the documents of Memorial, which are of cultural and historical value".
Latest event
June 4, 2024 — appeal
The court upheld the verdict.
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Imprisonment begins
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 3 years
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
Perm Memorial's case of attempted smuggling of cultural property
Criminal case
Perm Memorial's case of attempted smuggling of cultural property
Other defendants in the case
- Robert Latypov — Not in Russia
Details and sources
Full summary
On 5 May 2023, he was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. According to the law enforcers, Chernyshov was behaving aggressively and cursing, so he was charged with petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences) and arrested for 15 days. At the end of the administrative arrest, the court sent him to custody in a criminal case on smuggling of cultural property. On 4th April 2024, Chernyshov was sentenced to three years' suspended sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 226.1 part 3 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.