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In Vladimir Region local man found guilty of solicitation to tamper with evidence in civil act

A court has found the evidence gathered by the investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee for the Vladimir Region sufficient to convict resident of the city of Vladimir Vadim Piskunov, 38. He was found guilty of a crime under part 4 of article 33, part 1 of article 303 of the RF Penal Code (solicitation to forge the evidence in a civil act).

The court and investigators found that Piskunov during a long time misled the citizens by concluding with them preliminary sales contracts on the land in Suzdal District and taking deposits from some of them. He did not carry out his obligations and had the money to himself, so the victims had to recover it through court.

In the period between October 2009 and April 2012, courts passed over 20 rulings on compulsory damages, by May 2012 there was a combined enforcement proceeding on over 23 million rubles.

Realizing that the money from selling his arrested property would go for paying the damages, the man came up with a scheme to deceive the citizens again and keeping his property from selling by putting a fictitious person into the overall list of lenders. For that he persuaded an acquaintance of his to make a fictitious loan agreement worth 120 million rubles. In June 2012, he made a counterfeit agreement dated August 2009, under which he allegedly received the said some form the man, and papers on compulsory exaction of the money, which he allegedely did not give back on time.

Acting on Piskunov’s instructions the man filed those falsified papers to the court and received a writ of execution, which he filed to the Bailiffs Service.

Later, realizing that his actions were illegal, the Piskunov’s acquaintance applied to the court asking to cancel the court decision, revoke the writ of execution and reported the crime to law enforcement.

The court has sentenced Piskunov to 1.5 years of community work and charging 15% from his salary to the state.

Damages to the victims are paid from the property of the accused, including lands confiscated by the bailiffs.