A defendant in the Dolina apartment scam case has applied for temporary release from the military.

Artur Kamenetsky, who, according to investigators, found an accomplice in the Larisa Dolina apartment fraud, submitted an application for a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense for participation in the Special Military Operations. This information is contained in official court documents obtained by RIA Novosti.

According to the documents, the lawyer stated in his appeals that his client's application to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense and be sent to the SVO zone characterizes him positively.

Three other defendants are in the dock in this case: Andrei Osnova, Anzhela Tsyrulnikova, and Dmitry Leontyev. All are accused of committing large-scale fraud as part of an organized group and are being held in pretrial detention.

Earlier, the Moscow prosecutor's office reported that Kamenetsky and Leontyev fully admitted their guilt.

According to investigators, the defendants, acting in concert with other unidentified accomplices, stole over 175 million rubles between April 2 and July 12, 2024. They also deprived Dolina of her right to an apartment on Kseninsky Lane, the market value of which exceeds 138 million rubles. The total damages in the case are estimated at over 317 million rubles.

A criminal case was opened on the day the singer filed the complaint. Within 24 hours, the alleged accomplice, 53-year-old courier Angela Tsyrulnikova, was arrested. According to the prosecutor's office, Kamenetsky recruited Yoshkar-Ola resident Dmitry Leontyev to the scheme, and it was to Leontyev's card that Dolina transferred 10 million rubles on June 21.

At the end of December, a fourth defendant, Andrei Osnova, was arrested. According to the Moscow prosecutor's office, the 20-year-old Tolyatti resident, acting on instructions from his accomplices, registered a bank card in his own name and handed it over to them. After the money was deposited, he withdrew 2.7 million rubles in cash, under the pretext of receiving a transfer from his mother, and handed the funds over to his accomplices.

In January, a court in Yoshkar-Ola upheld a claim for 69 million rubles from the defendants.

Larisa Dolina herself filed a lawsuit to invalidate the apartment sale, which was upheld by Moscow's Khamovnichesky Court, and she regained her apartment. The apartment's buyer, Polina Lurye, appealed the decision, but the Moscow City Court upheld it. Lurye's lawyer then stated that he intends to continue seeking to overturn the court's decision.

Read the article on the topic: The court will verify the legality of the return of Dolina's apartment.

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