Singer Linda was sought after because of her disagreement with producer Maxim Fadeev. They share copyrights to 90s songs. Linda is interrogated by the police in a fraud case

On May 12, a search was conducted at the home of singer Linda (real name Svetlana Gaiman) in Moscow, and she was then interrogated at the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Interior in Moscow. After interrogation, the singer was released.

The next day “Kommersant” I mentioned Citing an unnamed source, Linda is a suspect in a particularly large-scale criminal fraud case. The interlocutor of the publication did not rule out that the investigation will file a petition with the court to impose a preventive measure on Linda – although it is unclear whether we are talking about arrest. TASS and Ren TV They, in turn, claim that Linda is a witness in the case, and during the period that has passed since the interrogation, her procedural status has not changed.

The investigation activities and the essence of the case were not officially reported. According to media reports, the reason for the interrogation was Linda’s disagreement with composer and producer Maxim Fadeev. They collaborated in the mid-90s – Fadeev wrote Linda’s songs and did the arrangements. Together they recorded three albums – “Songs of Tibetan Lamas”, “Crow” and “Placenta”. “Vorona” is considered one of the most important Russian pop recordings of the 1990s.

Linda’s conflict with Fadeev concerns copyright

Her director and sound producer Mikhail Kuvshinov was interrogated along with Linda on May 12. He has been detained as a suspect and is about to be arrested. I mentioned Ksenia Sobchak. “news” He claimedthat the director of the Profit Music publishing house Daria Shamova was also brought in for interrogation. According to Telegram channels shot and “112”Inspections were conducted at the profit office.

“Profit” is located on the site of the former office of “Jam”. Both companies Reports REN TV, directed by Andrey Cherkasov. Since November 2025, he has been detained on fraud charges. Cherkasov is accused of stealing copyrights to songs from Linda’s group. Maxim Fadeev has been identified as the victim in this case.

A source from the REN TV channel claims that the searches that took place on May 12 are related to forged documents, through which Daria Shamova and Linda allegedly seized Fadeev’s rights to the singer’s songs.

Fadeev Comment This news is in your telegram on the morning of May 13th. He said that for 30 years he had been trying to solve the problem through Linda’s “representatives” – Kuvshinov and Cherkasov, and now he regretted that they all “found themselves at this point.”

Andrei Cherkasov was arrested due to a dispute with the founders of the group “Hands Up!”

At the end of 2025, shortly after the arrest of Andrei Cherkasov, Maxim Fadeev His name He is one of the participants in the “scheme” that led to Fadeev’s rights to Linda’s songs being fraudulently “rewritten” to her. According to the producer, 30 years ago, Cherkasov bought albums of Linda and Fadeev from Crystal Music, and besides Cherkasov, many other people were involved in the “scheme”. Among them are Kuvshinov, director of Crystal Music, his mother, the company’s accountant, and Lev Gaiman, Linda’s father. In particular, Fadeev stated that Kuvshinov “forged with his own hand” his signature on the 1998 documents on the transfer of rights to the Linda tracks.

Cherkasov was arrested in another case – namely, due to a conflict with the founders of the “Hands Up!” group. Sergey Zhukov and Alexei Potekhin. According to investigators, Cherkasov and “persons affiliated with him” in December 2024 “took illegal and dishonest measures” to prevent the screening of the film “Hands Up!” In online cinemas “Kinopoisk”, “Premier”, “Ivy” and “Start”.

Cherkasov claimed that Zhukov was illegally using 15 songs whose rights belonged to Jim. Zhukov, in turn, complained that Cherkasov claimed the rights to the songs “Hands Up!” Using a 2006 document signed by the group’s former producer Andrei Malikov, who at the time had not collaborated with the group for seven years.

Linda claimed that her father “gave Fadeev a start in life.”

He gave Linda and Mikhail Kuvshinov interview Ksenia Sobchak. Here’s what they said.

• Kuvshinov and Linda’s father, Lev Gaiman, brought Fadeev to Moscow in the 1990s and gave him a job.
• The Crystal Music label was created by Gaiman specifically for his daughter, and Fadeev was assigned to the Linda project.
• Fadeev wrote Linda’s songs, the rights belonged to Crystal Music and then passed to the singer.
• Fadeev received money to transfer the rights; She described the accusations of forging the signatures of Linda and Kuvshinov as ridiculous.
• The conflict with Fadeev began when Linda’s father became seriously ill.
• Fadeev tried to use Cherkasov’s arrest to “take away what had been theirs for a long time.”

“Now what Maxim has in mind is, in principle, me. That is, what does he want? To make me disappear? Destroy my values? And my values ​​are my creativity, my family, my team. Does he want to build, renew and satisfy his financial well-being by exploiting my father’s illness? The one who gave him a start in this life,” Linda said in a comment. I don’t know what he wants. But judging from what’s happening, this is what it looks like.” Interview.

This is not the first conflict between Fadeev and other musicians.

In 2023-2024, Maxim Fadeev argued with Natalia Ionova over the name of the project “GlukʼoZa”. The producer stated that he was looking for legal opportunities to deprive Ionova of the right to perform her old songs and use a pseudonym. Glucose said that she had already paid Fadeev $600,000 for the permanent right to perform 20 of their joint songs.

Singer Yulia Savicheva He said Regarding the imposition of a temporary ban on the performance of Fadeev’s songs. The ban was eventually lifted in 2023. Artists from his label Malfa, including singer Nargiz Zakirova and former soloist from Serebro Elena Temnikova, also spoke about conflicts with Fadeev.