The former policeman, accused of extorting a record for Russia, a bribe in the size of 2119.5 bitcoins at the co-founder of the WEX crypto-tank Alexei Bilyuchenko, could die abroad, and his relatives began to design inherit, the St. Petersburg Fontanka said.

According to the investigation, the officer of the Bureau of Special Technical events of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Dmitry Sokolov and his boss Georgy Satyukov received a bribe from Bilyuchenko in 2023. At the time of the crime, the amount of a bribe amounted to about 5 billion rubles. Today is more than 15 billion rubles.

Sokolov and Satyukov did not fall into the hands of Russian law enforcement agencies, as they managed to hide abroad after the start of criminal prosecution. Presumably, the former police officers found themselves in the United Arab Emirates. Sokolov, according to the investigation, could own apartments in the Burdzh Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai.

Investigators arrested bank accounts, real estate and other property of former police officers in Russia.

According to Fontanka, in January 2025, one of the Petersburg notaries sent a request to another notary public with a request to provide copies of contracts and additional agreements for seven real estate objects. The basis for the request was the design of the hereditary case after the death of Sokolov Dmitry Alekseevich, who died on July 9, 2024.

From a legal point of view, the death of the accused creates a legal conflict, since under Russian legislation, criminal prosecution against the deceased is usually terminated on non -rehabilitating grounds. In this case, Sokolov’s fault remains not proven, which means that formally he and his heirs have no obligations to the state. Consequently, from property and bank accounts that may be inherited should be removed.

On January 17, records of the corresponding numbers appeared in the Rosreestr that seven real estate objects that were mentioned in the hereditary case changed the owner, the Fontanka reports.

Earlier, the Moscow Legal Company Lidings announced the start of receipt of applications for payments from Russian and foreign users of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchanges BTC-E and WEX.