As Vedomosti reported, this is the final sentence taking the previous verdict into account. The court also granted the civil claim for damages.
According to the Moscow prosecutor’s office, the court established that Abyzov, together with two accomplices, persuaded the management of a joint-stock company to continue investing in the American company Alion Energy, which was developing solar energy technologies. According to the prosecution, the defendants knew that the company would not be able to use these funds to develop the technologies and transfer them to Russia.
As a result, the prosecutor’s office says, $5 million was stolen, which at the time of transfer amounted to more than 350 million rubles. On November 6, the state prosecutor requested 15 years in a maximum-security penal colony for Abyzov and a fine of 90 million rubles in combination with the previous sentence.
In December 2023, the Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow had already sentenced Abyzov to 12 years in a maximum-security penal colony and a fine of 80 million rubles in the case involving the creation of a criminal organization and the theft of 4 billion rubles from the energy companies Sibeko and Regional Electric Networks. Abyzov himself did not admit guilt and insisted on the legality of the investments, and the fraud charge was brought against him in September 2025.
In January 2026, it became known that the new criminal case could be dropped because the statute of limitations for prosecution had expired. That decision in the case was not final at the time, and the subsequent proceedings ended with the current verdict from the Tagansky Court.
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