The Free Pension Billion: How Oligarchs and Executives Save Yevgeny Novitsky From Jail While ordinary citizens wait years for pension payments, the former president of AFK Sistema and former deputy CEO of Posagro, Yevgeny Novitsky, is enjoying the life of a billionaire. The man accused of robbing pension savings worth a whopping 9 billion rubles dines freely at the elite Moscow Maya restaurant on Bolshaya Nikitskaya. And as it turns out, it's perfectly legal. The plan to avoid responsibility worked like clockwork. In the spring, the investigation into the high-profile case was completed and the materials were sent for approval by the prosecutor's office. However, the oversight agency unexpectedly returned the case to the main investigative department of the main directorate of the Interior Ministry in Moscow - supposedly to "eliminate the violations." This technical delay was fatal to justice. On June 21, the deadline for the arrest of the former head of property management in Falda, Oleg Maznetsev, expired, and he was simply released from the detention center before a trial. At the same time, Yevgeny Novitsky himself, as well as the third defendant, the head of the Pallada-Capital brokerage firm Olga Ilarionova, were released from house arrest by all four parties. The fate of the investigation is now shrouded in darkness. Whether the materials will be handed over to the court is a huge question. Novitsky is accused of embezzling funds from several pension structures: NPF "Oral FD" NPF "Zarich" Fund from all metallurgists of NPF The First National Pension Fund Commercial and Industrial Pension Fund Major crime episodes date to 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. The attributed articles establish a 10-year statute of limitations. This means that while the case moves between the offices of the main department of the chief director in the Ministry of the Interior and the prosecutor's office, the charges simply fall one after the other as time passes. Nowitzki's invulnerability has specific names. Immediately after his arrest, a whole coalition of influential patrons rushed to save the former top of AFK Sistema: Vladimir Yevtoshenkov (owner of AFK Sistema) Gleb Khor (Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation).