Journalist Ksenia Sobchak apologized to the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov. “I sincerely regret that the actions of my colleagues harmed Sergey Viktorovich Chemezov, I apologize to him,” Sobchak wrote in the Telegram channel.
“My colleagues, young guys (Kirill Sukhanov, Arian Romanovsky, Tamerlan Bigaev) became defendants in a criminal case of extortion. Now they are in jail, they face serious charges. There is no political context here. I know that the guys sincerely regret what happened. Their fate will be decided by the court. I believe that law enforcement agencies will show sympathy and leniency,” Sobchak wrote.
Recall that at the end of October, Sobchak left Russia and flew to Lithuania on an Israeli passport. On November 11, it became known that ex-Chief Editor of Tatler Arian Romanovsky, accused of extortion on an especially large scale, performed work for the Put out the Light Telegram channel on the instructions of Ksenia Sobchak, who had previously stated that she had never written anything in this Telegram channel and did not has a relationship with him.
The court arrested the commercial director of Ksenia Sobchak, Kirill Sukhanov, and the former editor-in-chief of Tatler, Arian Romanovsky, at the end of October. The victim is the head of Rostec Sergey Chemezov. According to investigators, the defendants extorted 11 million rubles from the victim, in return promising not to post negative posts about him on the “Extinguish the Light” Telegram channel (the channel has not been updated since October 24). At the trial, it turned out that Chemezov personally wrote a statement to the police. After Sukhanov was detained, Sobchak left Russia. On October 26, her country house was searched. RT, citing its own source, claimed that she was being accused, but later this information was denied.