Russian TV host Ksenia Sobchak’s former business director was sentenced to seven and a half years for extortion. He’s free after four.
Kirill Sukhanov, Ksenia Sobchak’s former commercial director, has been released from a penal colony, the Telegram channels Mash, Baza, and 112 reported.
Kirill Sukhanov, Ksenia Sobchak's former business director, was recently released from a penal colony after spending four years in prison, according to reports from Mash, Baza, and 112 Telegram channels. The court decision allowing his release came from Skopin District Court in Russia's Ryazan region, likely due to a parole petition.
The charges against Sukhanov, Tatler editor-in-chief Arian Romanovsky, and former Life journalist Tamerlan Bigayev involved allegedly extorting 11 million rubles from Rostec head Sergey Chemezov for a "stop order" to prevent negative posts on Sobchak's Telegram channel, Tushite Svet. Sukhanov was originally sentenced to seven and a half years in a penal colony in February 2024, while Romanovsky and Bigayev each received seven-year prison terms.
However, an appeals court in September 2024 reduced Sukhanov's sentence by two years and cut Romanovsky's and Bigayev's terms to five years each. Romanovsky was released in May 2026.
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