A court in Moscow did not make a decision on the request for parole of the founder of the Russian Milk agricultural holding and the company Your Financial Trustee, Vasily Boyko-Veliky, who was sentenced to six and a half years for embezzlement of 89 million rubles. from the funds of Credit Express Bank. A request will be sent to the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center when the businessman’s sentence ends—June 12 or early July. To do this, it is necessary to clarify the method of counting the days spent in custody during the investigation and trial. In the first option, he will no longer need parole.
The process to consider the petition of 66-year-old Vasily Boyko-Veliky for parole in the Preobrazhensky Court of the capital started on June 9, and on the third attempt. Since the end of April, the hearings have been postponed twice due to the refusal of the management of the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center to bring the convicted entrepreneur to the meeting: the detention center explained this by the fact that the relevant requests were received late.
Finally finding himself in the courtroom in the “aquarium” (relatives came to support him at the trial), Vasily Boyko-Velikiy, who was wearing a loose red T-shirt, immediately placed Orthodox icons around him and began to quietly pray.
He did the same before, at numerous court hearings in his criminal cases.
The issue of parole did not come to consideration this time either. When presiding judge Dmitry Yani invited the parties to submit petitions, the convict himself stated that he was asking for a request to be sent to pre-trial detention center No. 1, where he had been kept for the last time, to set a date for serving the sentence and for release.
According to the convicted person, the sentence will expire on June 12, 2026. The entrepreneur’s lawyer, Victoria Shonina, explained that this became possible thanks to the decisions of the Moscow Regional Court and the Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction.
Let us remind you that recently two sentences were handed down to Mr. Boyko-Veliky.
In October 2023, the Cheryomushkinsky court of the capital admitted businessman guilty of particularly large embezzlement (Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) of funds from the Credit Express Bank in the amount of 89 million rubles. by drawing up fictitious loan agreements for controlled organizations and sentenced him to six and a half years in prison.
In November 2025, the Mozhaisk City Court of the Moscow Region appointed Mr. Boyko-Veliky, in total with an unserved sentence of 15 years and 6 months in the case of theft in 2003–2011 of land plots with a total area of 2 thousand hectares in the amount of 347.9 million rubles.
The Moscow Regional Court, to which the defense appealed, changed the verdict, excluding Art. 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organized criminal community) and releasing all defendants from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution. And the Second Court of Cassation changed the first sentence in January of this year, reducing the term of imprisonment by two months. At the same time, the court recalculated the sentence, counting the time the entrepreneur was kept under house arrest according to the formula “a day in a pre-trial detention center – a day under house arrest” (and not one to one and a half, as it was before).
As a result, the convict and his lawyer calculated that the businessman should be released on June 12. But since this is a holiday, Ms. Shonina clarified, “the defendant should be released the day before—June 11.”
Let us note that without taking into account the latest court decisions, the entrepreneur was supposed to be released at the beginning of July this year.
The prosecutor did not object to submitting the request to the pre-trial detention center. Chairman Yani decided to do so, after which he announced a break until June 23. By this time, the judge said, he “hopes to clarify the issue with the release of the convicted person.”
On the way out, lawyer Victoria Shonina noted that in pre-trial detention center No. 1 “they cannot decide on the release date of the client, because the latest court decisions that reduced the sentence of a previously convicted person have not yet been taken into account.” “If my client is not released on June 11, we will appeal to the FSIN and the Prosecutor General’s Office,” said Ms. Shonina.
