Novosibirsk Counterfeiter Sentenced, Accomplice Died in Court
During the raid, authorities seized thousands of counterfeit U.S. dollar banknotes from the suspects.
Resident of Novosibirsk Oleg Goldyrev was sentenced to three years in a penal colony for manufacturing counterfeit money. The verdict was delivered on February 2 by the Central District Court, according to the press service of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) for the region.
The counterfeit money operation was run from the basement of a residential building in Novosibirsk.
According to the court, Oleg Goldyrev and his accomplice Vyacheslav Brukhanov were manufacturing counterfeit $100 banknotes from the 1996 series.
During searches at the production site, operatives found thousands of banknotes, sheets of paper with printed blanks, and various printing equipment. The counterfeiters were operating in the basement of a residential building.
Oleg Goldyrev and Vyacheslav Brukhanov were detained by FSB officers in June 2022 — the security forces conducted a test purchase. The defendants were charged with manufacturing counterfeit foreign currency (Part 1 of Article 186 of the Russian Criminal Code).
Oleg Goldyrev was sentenced to three years in a standard-regime colony, and he must also pay a fine of 200,000 rubles (approximately $2,200 at current rates) to the state.
The case against Brukhanov was terminated posthumously; he died in October of last year in the courtroom, wrote NGS.RU.
