Bankers, officials and mafiosi are fleeing Russia. Bankers, officials and mafiosi are fleeing Russia
Not only the name of the infamous Frenkel, but also some others have recently become known to the public.
In mid-April, it was reported that Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Grin had finally approved the indictment against the chairman of the board of the joint-stock commercial bank Rodnik Andrey Perminov. According to investigators, this case is obviously closely related to the Sokalsky case, and in addition to Rodnik, other credit organizations were most likely involved in criminal operations - AKA-Bank, Centurion, CB Vertikal, CB Vitas and others.
At the same time, with cases related to Sokalsky, Perminov and the company, there is obviously a rather strange fuss related to the question of which court will hear the cases. Last December, it was announced that the Sokalsky case had been transferred to the Tagansky Court of Moscow. Then there was a message that the materials were transferred to the Lefortovo court. At the end of February 2009, the Moscow City Court ruled that the trial of Sokalsky should still take place in the Tagansky court. Why are two apparently related cases being heard by different courts? Most likely, all the same departmental intrigues are to blame. But it is possible, of course, that someone made every effort to make the processes go as sluggishly and confusingly as possible. So that they do not suddenly come up too much.
It should be recognized that among the characters associated with the laundering activities of recent years, perhaps the most unpleasant and most prominent character is a native of Odessa, Evgeny Slusker, who became famous in Russia under the name of Evgeny Dvoskin (such a passport was once sold to him in the Rostov police) . It is usually customary to also mention his other other names - Susker, Shusker, Slushke, Shuster, Altman, Kozin and Lozin ... As Zheglov said: "You know, Sharapov, they make me sick." And there is something from.
A semi-criminal swindler, who in the 1990s in the United States engaged in petty fraud with excise taxes on diesel fuel and securities fraud, deceiving local pensioners, and, finally, expelled from the states, moved to Russia in the early 2000s, where he bought a Russian passport and became widely known in narrow circles as a Moscow "businessman" earning millions! Why, if all this was known for a long time, no one touched him, even if not for his financial activities, but at least because his documents are fictitious, which was reliably known for a long time? Is it because, according to the evidence cited by the New York Russian word"? Was Slusker-Dwoskin always extremely willing to make contact with the FBI? In return, he was never seriously touched, and he himself received the nickname "obermusor" in the "Russian American" criminal environment.
In Russia, too, the situation is piquant. The Ministry of Internal Affairs, the prosecutor's office, and the FSB were drawn into it. Slusker-Dvoskin got into the operational development of the police. It was conducted by investigators Dmitry Tselyakov and Alexander Nosenko, who, in particular, found a connection between the ongoing laundering and, as they say in Russia, "authoritative businessman" Alexander Malyshev-Gonzalez, who lives in Spain. It seems that it was they who gave information about illegal wires to the famous Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon, and about Dvoskin they informed colleagues from the FBI. Malyshev was soon arrested on the sanction of Garson, evidence was collected against Dvoskin in Russia, and a warrant was also issued. But the police did not succeed in detaining him - Tselyakov and Nosenko themselves were arrested by the FSB task force and handed over to the investigative committee of the prosecutor's office. They were presented with rather chaotic charges of extortion, despite the fact that there was no evidence - except for the statement of the injured party and the testimony of two Lithuanian businessmen (allegedly, intermediaries). If the case goes to court, something may be cleared up, but so far it seems that the main task of the operation was to move the Ministry of Internal Affairs away from the case.
After that, the FSB officers took Slusker-Dvoskin under their protection as an important witness (note that this protection was recently removed). It was during this year that he, traveling around Moscow under operational cover, took part in cash-out banking fraud, the story of which, quite possibly, could become the biggest scandal in history. last years.
It just so happened that this time, due to a number of circumstances, he failed to hide the ends in the water. Let's quote Gleb Zheglov again: "Today, citizens, you had a terrible slip - you blurted out the wrong number."
Not only Evgeny Slusker-Dvoskin participated in this story, many other characters also played an important role in it, including Igor Sitnikov, who introduced himself to the injured bankers as the son of the head of the second Moscow territorial department of the Central Bank, Galina Sitnikova. The same Galina Sitnikova, who at one time called Alexei Frenkel and advised on how to fight off the check that Andrey Kozlov sent to his VIP bank.
I'm on principle
As already mentioned, cashers usually operate by acquiring control over banks, which are then destroyed one by one. It costs them one and a half to three million dollars to get a bank, and in a month it can bring in profits of up to a billion or more. Of course, this money also has to be shared with someone, but still the game is worth the candle. However, the purchase of a bank, especially for nominees, is not an entirely simple procedure, and with an organized “business”, this work should be put on stream - customers do not wait!
According to the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the name of Slusker-Dvoskin is associated with a whole chain of banks - both the Dagestan "Rubin" and "Antares", and the Moscow "European Settlement", and others. Banks came under the control of the criminal group in different ways, but mainly through blackmail and bribery of the leadership. Shareholders often did not even suspect what was happening. Many of them found out about the real state of affairs after the fact, when the bank was already “burned down”, external management and the license has been revoked. Some of the owners were forced to accept bankruptcy, some preferred to invest their own money and nerves so that later for a long time to restore the activity of the bank, through which the horde of cashiers swept through.
The scheme worked successfully until the second half of 2007, when the Sitnikov-Dvoskin group chose another victim - the Moscow bank Intelfinance. This time, unexpectedly for them, they were rebuffed. First, the invaders made classic raider pressure attempts - threats, falsification of the register of owners, initiation of fictitious criminal cases. When this did not work, Igor Sitnikov personally showed up at the bank, offering to resolve the issue with money. In the conversation, the amount of compensation increased several times. The refusal was quite unambiguous - he was shown the door. Then, at the beginning of December 2007, the criminals decided on a forceful seizure. PSC employees guarding main office Intelfinance were bribed. On December 5, Slusker-Dvoskin broke into the office of the chairman of the board, Mikhail Zavertyaev, and, with the support of his bodyguard, broke his head, as a result of which he ended up at the Sklifosovsky Institute.
But why did Slusker-Dvoskin, accused under several articles in Russia and again wanted by the FBI, allow himself to behave so arrogantly and stubbornly? After all, according to the American press, he was never distinguished by special courage. Wouldn't it have been easier to choose another bank, more accommodating, as a victim? There are obviously two reasons. Home - a sense of impunity. By this time, the case filed against him by the police had been confiscated by the FSB operatives, and he himself was being guarded. According to the sources of the New Russian Word, he was even taken around Moscow in an operational vehicle camouflaged as an ambulance. The second reason is primitive greed. One of the members of the board of directors of Intelfinance, Anatoly Belyaev (now he is on the run), got completely confused and got into debt with Slusker-Dvoskin. Apparently, as a repayment of the debt, he promised to run him into the bank. According to criminal "concepts", the bank immediately owed something. True, a member of the board of directors is a nominal function, and when it became known about Belyaev's machinations, he was immediately expelled from the board. But the criminals did not take into account such nuances.
But this is all primitive criminality. Much more interesting is what happened next. Once in the hospital, Mikhail Zavertyaev immediately informed the Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Gennady Melikyan about the incident, asking him to immediately suspend the banking license. The main correspondent banks were also warned about the current situation and that the financial documents signed by Zavertyaev are invalid - this is an absolute fake. However, payments continued to go through, and the license was not revoked for another month and a half! Despite the meeting held on December 18 at the 5th Moscow State Technical University of the Central Bank, its manager, Alexander Korneshov, continued to sign checks and permits as if nothing had happened, according to which trucks full of cash went to Intelfinance every day.
The daily turnover of the bank increased hundreds of times. In total, during this time, at least 11.7 billion rubles were cashed out and transferred to fictitious firms and foreign accounts. As always happens in such cases, this is only a proven amount that can be documented, since, due to an oversight of criminals, traces have been preserved on these transactions. According to Mikhail Zavertyaev himself, there is every reason to believe that ten times more funds were actually transferred through the bank's accounts.
Naturally, a number of questions arise. How can it be that a criminal with an FBI arrest warrant, against whom a number of criminal cases have been opened in Russia and whose involvement in illegal financial activities is obvious, can freely intersperse around the city and participate in the bank seizure? Let's assume that he is indeed a very valuable witness under guard and surveillance. But why is this protection and surveillance not carried out somewhere else - for example, in a safe house?!
Why if available legislative framework, the existence of such a structure as Rosfinmonitoring, sufficiently clear criteria and technical capabilities on screening out questionable payments from the Central Bank, it takes so much time to check this or that bank and suspend its license? Especially when the bank's management warns of an impending crime even before the laundering paroxysm begins? Such a sharp (tens and hundreds of times) growth of cash ordered from day to day cannot but arouse suspicion. In the end, it's not just about computer algorithms for tracking electronic payments: physically, it is the Central Bank collectors who send trucks full of cash on the order of the “burned” bank!
Unfortunately, in recent years, the domestic reality has been such that such questions, as a rule, remained unanswered.
Who will answer?
We can assume that the management and shareholders of Intelfinance were lucky - they managed to fight back. The bank was recognized as the injured party, courts are being won and courts are being won, the owners hope that the bank's activities will gradually recover. True, Mikhail Zavertyaev figuratively compares the situation with the situation if the victim of an attack in a dark alley was brought to administrative responsibility for violating public order loud cry. But still, he hopes that the criminal cases related to the seizure will be combined into a common proceeding.
It is possible that Slusker-Dvoskin will also be attracted and convicted on some “simple” article (for example, for a Mauser found on him sometime during a search). But for some reason, it seems more likely that he will be handed over out of harm's way to the Americans, who also have accumulated a lot of claims against him. But with all this, the tenacity with which Intelfinance fights to restore its rights may have another highly interesting consequence.
Remember those 11.7 billion, traces of which, due to an oversight of criminals, have been preserved supporting documents? The bulk of these amounts, under fictitious contracts for front companies, were sent by Alfa-Bank and Uralsib from the accounts of TNK-BP and Lukoil, respectively. 4.8 billion rubles went from the accounts of the first company, about 5 billion from the account of the second. And since these transactions meet the signs of insignificance, now all these amounts must be returned to the state. But then, by all logic, banks should demand that these funds be written off from the accounts of TNK-BP and Lukoil. And the investigation to go further - after all, if we are talking about theft from the accounts of companies, then who exactly was responsible for it? Who signed the bills? Why did the bank management, warned about the current situation and the invalidity of the signature of the person in charge of Intelfinance, not suspend operations on his accounts?
And after all, no one, none of the correspondent banks responded to this call for help! No, however, there was one bank after all. Suspended operations of Converse Bank. The one whose president, Alexander Antonov, was seriously wounded during an assassination attempt on March 11 this year. Note that it is Alexander Antonov who is one of the main witnesses for the prosecution in the case of Sokalsky and NEP-Bank. But that, as they say, is a different story...
P.S.
Here is a far from complete list of banks involved in laundering activities in recent years, whose licenses have been revoked. We emphasize that only confirmed amounts appear in the cases, although, according to experts, this is almost always just traces - the visible part of the iceberg. The actual amounts of postings could be dozens of times larger:
Bank "Diskont", for some time headed by Alexei Frenkel. According to Major General of Justice Igor Tsokolov: “The case is under investigation, and it is rather complicated. We are talking, if my memory serves me, about 41 billion rubles, which were withdrawn from Russia. There are no suspects yet."
. Bank Centurion. From June 2005 to May 2006, the bank's clients carried out dubious transactions to transfer funds abroad in favor of non-residents in the amount of 5.5 billion rubles.
. European Settlement Bank. In March-April 2006, the bank's clients "cashed out" more than 20.6 billion rubles through the bank's cash desk.
. Investment bank "Belkom" Only in August 2006, the volume of cash withdrawals exceeded 17 billion rubles, and the amount of suspicious transactions amounted to 10 billion rubles.
MFD Clearing. In 2006, a number of clients of the credit institution were actively involved in the cash withdrawal scheme for more than 17 billion rubles.
Bank Migros. In October-November 2006, the bank's clients made payments in favor of non-residents that had signs of fictitiousness, totaling 12.6 billion rubles.
. Dagestan banks "Rubin" and "Antares". About 88 billion rubles were cashed out through their Moscow correspondent accounts.
. Bikbank. In the period of October-November 2007, the accounts of non-residents registered in the Seychelles and the Virgin Islands from residents on dubious transactions with goods that do not cross the customs border of the Russian Federation received cash in the amount of more than 14 billion rubles. Then the funds were transferred in favor of other non-residents to their accounts opened with banks in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Latvia, and Cyprus.
Falcon Bank. In the first half of September 2007, about 20 billion rubles were transferred to the settlement accounts of five English and three offshore companies opened with a bank from residents on dubious transactions with goods that do not cross the customs border of the Russian Federation, which were then transferred to offshore companies.
Foundation Bank. In 2007, the volume of illegally cashed funds exceeded 10 billion rubles. In May-September 2007, the settlement accounts of companies registered in the Virgin Islands received about 3 billion rubles from residents on dubious transactions with goods that do not cross the customs territory of the Russian Federation. Subsequently, the funds were converted into foreign currency and transferred in favor of offshore companies to accounts in Lithuania.
. OJSC Mortgage Bank for the Development of Regions. In October-November 2007, more than 29 billion rubles were transferred to the accounts of non-residents registered in the Virgin Islands and Hong Kong, from residents on dubious transactions with goods that do not cross the customs border of the Russian Federation, which were then transferred to accounts in banks in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Cyprus, Moldova , Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Kazakhstan. In addition, between January and October 2007, the IBRD disbursed over RUB 42 billion to banks that subsequently had their banking licenses revoked.
. Kitezh. In the first half of December 2007, the settlement accounts of six companies registered in the Virgin Islands and Hong Kong received about 9 billion rubles from residents on dubious transactions with goods that do not cross the customs border of the Russian Federation. Subsequently, on their instructions, funds were transferred in favor of non-residents - clients of banks in Ukraine, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Estonia, Moldova, Lithuania, Cyprus.
The list of victims of the actions of bank criminals can be continued for a very long time. It includes the banks Neftyanoy, Diamant, Electronics, East Bridge Bank, Orion, Lefko-bank, Zolostbank, EPIN-bank, AKAbank, Makprombank, Krasbank, Creditsoyuzkombank, Republican Reserve Bank, Industrial Development Bank, Mezhsotsbank, Image Bank, European Private investment bank, Russian investment group and many others. Some of them had their licenses revoked, some of the owners with great difficulty managed to restore the bank's activities.
Today, an interesting article appeared on one of the Internet resources called "Operation Cover". In it, the author describes the connection of some employees of Russian power structures with commercial organizations. In our opinion, this may be of interest to our readers, since the events described by our colleagues are periodically confirmed.
And so, as the publication reports: “In connection with the active activity of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in recent years, a significant increase in rates in the so-called market has begun to be observed. "gray" banking services (cashing out funds, converting and transferring funds abroad). This, in turn, led to the consolidation and consolidation of players in this market, as well as a sharp increase in income from these types of financial transactions. Accordingly, the market has become interesting for employees of law enforcement agencies, one way or another interacting and "roofing" the most prominent participants.
Questions arise, in particular, to a number of employees of the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, including the important investigator Gennady Shantin, as well as to his friendly operational staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, led by Dmitry Tselyakov, quite well-known in relevant circles.
Some participants in the cash market have recently considered them even almost the only controllers of this financial sector. It is known how the security forces can influence the situation: this is both assistance to “loyal” firms, and pressure on the “recalcitrant”, up to the initiation of criminal cases against those who do not want to share (according to some reports, monthly payments reach one to one and a half million US dollars per month), these are raider seizures of banks and other assets, and much more.
The reason for the rumors was, among other things, the story of the bank "Intelfinance". Businessmen Igor Sitnikov and Alexander Kotelnikov, who appeared in "gray" banking operations, having completed their "activities" in CB "Image" (previously this bank belonged to the disgraced oligarch Boris Berezovsky), not so long ago bought out CB "Intelfinance" from a certain Mr. Zhilenkov .
After the purchase, it turned out that the chairman of the board of CB "Intelfinance", Mr. Zavertyaev, refused to sign documents related to the conduct of dubious operations leading to cashing out, legalization of funds and their withdrawal abroad. Further events developed, according to Zavertyaev, almost according to the Hollywood scenario. The chairman of the board was beaten for "disobedience" right at the workplace by Mr. Sitnikov's security service. Soon he was summoned for interrogation to the above-mentioned investigator Shantin. The banker was allegedly offered to provide a credit organization led by him to carry out some kind of "special operation", authorized and agreed upon "at the level of the ministry." Zavertyaev was also offered to “remove the beatings”: he went to the Sklifosovsky Institute for treatment, having previously handed over a personal facsimile (signature) to the guards of the law.
In the premises of the bank "Intelfinance" the operational staff of the DBOPiT installed video surveillance. According to some information, while Zavertyaev was at the institute for treatment, huge amounts of money (more than $ 2 billion) passed through his bank. At the same time, to put it mildly, dubious operations were approved by Zavertyaev's facsimile, given for the "special operation". In itself, this was already a gross violation of banking legislation, in fact, a forgery of financial documents.
To the repeated complaints and fears of the banker who sensed something was wrong, the Ministry of Internal Affairs answered him that the "special operation" was close to completion and the funds passing through the bank were needed to "catch a group of intruders red-handed." For the entire period of work, the proceeds from the illegal activities of the bank "Intelfinance", according to the most approximate estimates of experts, could amount to two to three hundred million dollars!
Moreover, when, after more than a month of such work, the bank's license was successfully revoked, the same Shantin, without thinking twice, allegedly sent a letter to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation with a request to return it. Apparently, the perpetrators have not yet been caught.
In connection with all this, quite legitimate questions arise. Why investigation team still not interrogated the persons repeatedly mentioned by the banker Zavertyaev, who are the new owners and managed the work of the bank in the period from November until the revocation of the license in mid-January of this year? How and in whose hands did the facsimile signed by Zavertyaev get? Of great interest are the materials of video surveillance installed in the bank for the "special operation". Where, after all, are the Prosecutor General's Office and the Internal Security Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs looking? Or was the “special operation” really sanctioned at the very “top?”
According to unconfirmed data, part of the capital earned by the bank during the "special operation" could be transferred abroad to the accounts of the above characters, and the other part could be used to purchase CB "Far North", CB "Bastion" and CB "New lending programs ". It turns out that the "special operation" continues?
The Estonian Police and Border Guard Department has launched an investigation into 147 Russian citizens suspected of buying a residence permit. In the list of "semi-citizens" of Estonia, ex-vice president of the Bank of Moscow Dmitry Akulinin, former officials of the Ministry of Railways and the State Fisheries Committee, criminal "authority" Luchok and tennis player Anastasia Myskina were found.
The scandal broke out in Estonia last week. Then it turned out that at least 147 Russian citizens simply bought residence permits in this country and, accordingly, "Schengen visas." Moreover, two prominent representatives of the ruling nationalist party Fatherland-Republic Union (SOR) acted as sellers - MP Indrek Raudne and parliamentarian of the Tallinn City Assembly Nikolai Stelmakh. It was they who controlled the activities of Advisory Partners and Integer Invest, which provided dubious services to Russians on a ward basis. These structures, for an average of 65 thousand euros, made citizens of the Russian Federation shareholders of 78 companies registered at the same address. And having become shareholders, foreigners, according to Estonian laws, received residence permits and the right to receive an indefinite "Schengen visa".
After all these facts got into the media, Raudne and Stelmakh left the COR. In addition, there was a question about the resignation of the Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications Johan Parts and the Minister of the Interior Ken-Marti Vaher, but they remained in their posts. The Estonian police launched an investigation into 147 citizens of the Russian Federation, who received residence permits in this way. The Rosbalt correspondent, together with his interlocutors from law enforcement agencies and the heads of a number of banks, studied this list.
In the first place in it is the former vice-president of the Bank of Moscow Dmitry Akulinin and almost all members of his family. In total, they paid 260,000 euros to obtain residence permits. It is worth noting that Dmitry Akulinin and ex-president of the Bank of Moscow Andrey Borodin are now are on the international wanted list for embezzlement of the funds of this credit institution.
It is noteworthy that in some cases literally all the founders and heads of banks used the services of Estonian parliamentarians. So, for example, it was in the case of CB "Russian Financial Traditions", whose license was revoked by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in 2006 for violating the law "On counteracting the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime." Residence permits were received by its shareholders Sergey Kadanov, Ruslan Maksimenko, as well as the shareholders of the legal entities that owned the bank - Igor Sitnikov, Andrey Butorin, Alexander Veligodsky. Many of them had previous troubles with law enforcement agencies. Veligodsky was tried during the Soviet era for currency speculation. According to banker Mikhail Zavertyaev, Igor Sitnikov was a defendant in the case of the seizure of the Intelfinance bank, through which 11.7 billion rubles were later laundered and cashed out. Sergei Kadanov in 2001 was involved in criminal liability for fraud. In 2009, he was again taken into custody on the same charges.
Now Sitnikov, Maksimenko, Veligodsky are the beneficiaries of Investtrustbank. Another co-owner of this financial institution, Maria Kuzminova, also appears on the list that interested the Estonian police.
Almost all owners and managers received residence permits in the Baltic country former bank"Structure" (now called KB "Modern Business Standards"). The list that the police work with includes the chairman of the board of the credit institution Pavel Kuleshov, as well as the shareholders of firms that own CBs - Grigory and Natalya Polkachev, Evgeny and Victoria Predein, Sergey Minko and Victoria Kuleshova (Pavel Kuleshov's wife). All these businessmen paid a total of 650,000 euros to obtain a residence permit for themselves and their families.
Alexei Strunilin, who was recently appointed director of the Swiss Falcon Private Bank for Eastern Europe, was also involved in the scandal, and before that he worked in the Russian Credit, Impexbank, and Globex banks. He and his wife, according to the materials of the police, paid the firms of Estonian parliamentarians 131 thousand euros.
Among those wishing to obtain a residence permit in the Baltic country were several former officials. In particular, the ex-head of the Department of Capital Construction of the Ministry of Railways Sergey Novitsky and the ex-head of the department of the fishing fleet, sea fishing ports and ship repair of the State Fisheries Committee Valery Suraev. The residence permits cost them 65,000 euros each. Another Russian associated with the fishing industry had to fork out a much larger amount. The head of CJSC NTP Inrybprom, Eduard Vasiliev, paid the deputies 136,000 euros for himself and another 132,000 euros for his family members.
It is noted that all persons from the list were registered as equity shareholders of 78 companies registered in various apartments of one multi-storey residential building in Tallinn at the address: Kooli Street, 1/3. All surnames are published in Latin transcription, indicating the year of birth and place of residence. Most of these people live in Moscow (Moskva) and St. Petersburg (Peterburi). Several names are represented by residents of Minsk (Belarus). Almost all of these people paid 65,000 euros or more for a residence permit in Estonia. There are 147 names on the list, many belong to the same family. The youngest member of the list is 9-year-old Muscovite Viktor Predein, the oldest is 82-year-old Muscovite Sofia Akulinina.
List of suspects:
Alexey Akulinin (1979)
Dmitry Akulinin (1966) Moscow
Victor Akulinin (1933)
Sofia Akulinina (1929)
Andrey Akura (1961) Peterburi
Igor Akura (1987) Peterburi
Natalia Aleeva (1973) Vladivostok
Anna Andreeva (1976) Peterburi
Yulia Artiakova (1984)
Dmitry Artyakov (1983) Moscow
Anna Baranova (1970) Moscow
Mariia Baranova (1987)
Mikhail Berezin (1955) Moscow
Svetlana Berezina (1954) Moscow
Liudmila Beshchekova (1959)
Galina Bobela (1966) Moscow
Marina Bogan (1973) Minsk
Bogdan Budeev (1984)
Stanislav Budretskiy (1962) Zelenogorsk
Andrey Butorin (1970) Moscow
Svetlana Chechina (1969)
Ilona Chernenko (1974) Moscow
Evgeny Dakhno (1971) Peterburi
Bers Dzhambulatov (1992)
Liudmila Dzhambulatova (1965) Venemaa
Dmitri Efremov (1967) Minsk
Sergey Fomin (1972)
Victor Fomin (1984)
Natalia Fomina (1964)
Ekaterina Frolova (1973)
Oleg Gert (1957) Minsk
Olga Gert (1986) Minsk
Alexander Grinevich (1969)
Olga Grinevich (1971) Peterburi
Valeria Grinevich (1991) Peterburi
Viacheslav Gubernatorov (1972) Peterburi
Olga Gubernatorova (1966) Peterburi
Parviz Huseynov (1971)
Sabina Ismailova (1967) Moscow
Sergey Kadanov (1969) Moscow
Andrey Kalachev (1987) Peterburi
Igor Kalachev (1966) Peterburi
Larisa Kalacheva (1967) Peterburi
Alexander Kharkovskiy (1970) Vladivostok
Olga Kharlapenkova (1971) Peterburi
Taras Kharlapenkov (1969) Peterburi
Natalia Kimura (1981)
Ekaterina Kirillina (1980) Moksva
Nadežda Kirillina (1956) Moscow
Berd Kodzoev (1981) Moscow
Andrei Kokorev (1962)
Pavel Kokorev (1985)
Olga Kokoreva (1963)
Lyudmila Kokorich (1981)
Natalia Kudryashova (1957) Peterburi
Pavel Kuleshov (1970) Moscow
Victoria Kuleshova (1976) Moscow
Nikolai Kulikov (1991)
Irina Kulikova (1973)
Svetlana Kulikova (1967) Moscow
Sergey Kurbatov (1967) Engels, Saratovskaja oblast
Olga Kurbatova (1966) Engels, Saratovi oblast
Maria Kuzminova (1979) Moscow
Maxim Lalakin (1979)
Sergey Lalakin (1956)
Anna Lalakina (1981)
Valentina Lalakina (1957)
Igor Liashchenko (1972) Peterburi
Ruslan Maksimenko (1968) Moscow
Ruslana Maksimenko (1971) Moscow
Vadim Mamchur (1966)
Alexander Machine (1963)
Nadzeya Matveyonak (1964) Borovljanõ küla, Minski rajoon
Andrey Minko (1975) Moscow
Sergey Minko (1970) Moscow
Uliana Minko (1970) Moscow
Yulia Minko (1977) Moscow
Elman Mirzoev (1964) Moscow
Igor Molchanov (1949)
Liudmila Molchanova (1948)
Alexey Morozov (1977) Moscow
Dmitry Morozov (1975) Peterburi
Irina Morozova (1979) Moscow
Evgeny Mulyukov (1967)
Anastasia Myskina (1981) Himki
Galina Myskina (1959)
Sergey Novitskiy (1949)
Gleb Ognyannikov (1972) Peterburi
Ekaterina Okhlopkova (1972) Moscow
Denis Pavlov (1971) Vladivostok
Dmitry Perminov (1981)
Alexander Petrov (1982)
Vladimir Pisarev (1968) Moscow
Anatoly Pogrebniak (1957)
Liudmyla Pogrebniak (1958)
Sergey Pokazanyev (1971) Jekaterinburg
Grigory Polkachev (1973) Moscow
Natalia Polkacheva (1975) Moscow
Evgeny Predein (1969) Moscow
Victor Predein (1992) Moscow
Victoria Predeina (1970) Moscow
Maria Protasova (1987)
Mikhail Puchkov (1968)
Igor Reshetnikov (1969) Peterburi
Tatiana Reshetnikova (1976) Peterburi
Olga Revyakina (1969)
Evgeny Ryzhikov (1982)
Mstislav Samsonov (1967) Venemaa
Elena Savchuk (1978) Peterburi
Vladimir Savchuk (1973) Peterburi
Yulia Semenova (1974) Peterburi
Victor Shaposhnikov (1968) Moscow
Evgeny Sharovarin (1967) Jekaterinburg
Marina Shatrovskaya (1971) Peterburi
Vitalii Shatrovskii (1991) Peterburi
Andrey Shatrovskiy (1969) Peterburi
Aristakos Shaynyan (1956)
Larisa Shumova (1979) Peterburi
Olga Shurmina (1978)
Igor Sinikov (1970)
Natalia Sinikova (1970)
Igor Sitnikov (1969) Moscow
Olga Smirnova (1971) Moscow
Pavel Smotrin (1979)
Valeriya Sokolovskaya (1975)
Andrey Sosna (1971)
Alexey Strunilin (1970) Moscow
Elizaveta Strunilina (1970) Moscow
Timofey Sukonkin (1972) Peterburi
Valery Suraev (1960) Moscow
Vera Zernova (1967)
Olga Zheltova (1972) Moscow
Eduard Zubavichus (1967) Peterburi
Inna Zubavichus (1979) Peterburi
Alexander Tkachev (1965) Jekaterinburg
Marina Tsodykovskaya (1974) Moscow
Anatoly Valetov (1979) Moscow
Galina Valetova (1980) Moscow
Anastasia Vasilieva (1991) Moscow
Natalia Vasilieva (1968) Moscow
Eduard Vasilyev (1969) Moscow
Igor Vdovin (1971)
Alexander Veligodskiy (1968) Moscow
Tatiana Veremeeva (1954)
Polina Volchek (1974)
Igor Vygovskiy (1966) Peterburi
Viktoryia Yafremava (1973) Minsk
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In 2001, Russia was forced to hastily adopt the Law "On counteracting the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime" and create a body designed to monitor such crimes - Rosfinmonitoring. The reason for this haste was the inclusion of the country a year earlier in the so-called "black list of FATF" (Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering) - an intergovernmental body created by the "Big Seven" shortly before the collapse of the USSR. However, some of the cases currently in the courts, if widely publicized, could cause a high-profile international scandal. It seems that despite being a member of the FATF, in recent years Russia has become the world leader in money laundering…
Pitfall for international bureaucrats
The original goal of the FATF was declared to be the fight against international crime on the financial front. The leading countries of the West decided that in order to fight the international mafia, it would be easiest to cut off the financial flows through which it exists. After September 2001, in addition to combating the financial flows of drug lords and international crime, another extremely important goal began to come to the fore - the fight against international terrorism.
Inclusion in the FATF black list threatened Russia with serious troubles - primarily related to the restriction of opportunities for international money transfers and investment activities - both domestically and abroad.
For many years, the main “foreign” investor in Russia has been offshore Cyprus (that is, Russian impersonal capital), and the beneficiaries of large businesses are also Cypriot, Virginia and other non-resident companies. Not surprisingly, Russian legislators were exceptionally quick to write and pass the necessary laws and create the required financial control services. Russia, therefore, according to the FATF, has made "impressive steps" in the fight against economic crime. It was not only hastily removed from the black list (unlike, for example, Ukraine), but also recognized as "the most cooperative country in the fight against money laundering."
It's not like people
Nevertheless, paradoxically, it was after the entry into Russia of the FATF and other international organizations designed to combat money laundering that the shadow money turnover in Russia began to grow by leaps and bounds. According to the bankers themselves, by the beginning of the crisis it had reached tens and even hundreds of billions of dollars a year! What is the reason for this growth and why the FATF and similar organizations do not notice such a glaring fact?
The increase in the scale of this criminal business is caused by the influx of a fair amount of petrodollars into the country and the general growth of the Russian economy in 2000-2008. But "blindness" international organizations several other explanations can be found.
Firstly, apparently, it is connected with the unwillingness to understand obscure Russian realities. Indeed, Russia is an amazing country. All over the world, the main task of financial "laundries" is to turn illegal cash received from criminal activities into legal non-cash. In Russia, the opposite is true. The vast majority of funds “laundered” here are non-cash, which are converted into cash. That is, at first glance, we can talk not about laundering, but about the "pollution" of money. What for? The answer lies both in the scale and in the origin of these funds. The sums operated by the drug mafia and underground arms dealers are tens, sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars. Russian "laundries on the contrary" operate in billions, tens, hundreds of billions! At the same time, the open secret is that the vast majority of these funds are withdrawn from a completely legal economy for one purpose - tax evasion, primarily VAT and customs duties.
Therefore, the following seems to be an even more reliable explanation for the inaction of international organizations: this is the simple pragmatism of professional bureaucrats. After all, they are not “stupid Pindos” at all, they see everything and perfectly understand that the vast majority of such operations are connected with domestic tax crimes, that is, for their countries in the foreseeable future, this activity does not seem to pose a real threat. The conscience remains clear, and the fact that the Russians harm themselves is their internal problems.
We should not write off the fact that any “normal” bureaucrats, regardless of nationality and country, remember very well that any initiative is punishable, especially when the situation looks normal on formal grounds.
After all, according to the law, Russian banks must report on all major transactions to the supervisory authority - Rosfinmonitoring? Yes, and the vast majority of banks follow these rules! Does the Central Bank of Russia monitor the circulation of funds? Yes, of course - when, according to a number of criteria, the behavior of a bank becomes suspicious, they send it a check, after which the license is often revoked.
The first such case of revocation of a banking license due to violation of the requirements of 115-FZ (the so-called “anti-money laundering” law) occurred in 2004. The license was revoked from Sodbiznesbank. When, on May 14, 2004, the now murdered First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Andrei Kozlov announced this, it had the effect of an exploding bomb. But since then, the revocation of a license with such a wording has become almost commonplace; according to Law 115, dozens of credit institutions have been deprived of the right to engage in banking activities.
Financial technologies of Russian criminals
So, the main turnover and main income of Russian "laundries" come from funds withdrawn from taxation, although sometimes from budgetary and other theft. Cashed out funds are put into the recipients' pockets, used as "black cash" payments and used to pay for "gray" imports. The lion's share of them falls on bribes. Moreover, all these funds sooner or later return to the economy, Russian and world. This is where the pitfall lies, which the bureaucrats from the FATF are doomed to run into sooner or later. And it's not even that the goals declared by the FATF provide for the fight against the circulation of capital received from any criminal and fraudulent activities, including from corruption.
Such a sharp increase in the volume of illegal operations and the high profitability of this activity lead to its exclusive criminalization. Having built underground financial technologies, the criminals begin not only to transfer money for "grey" importers, embezzlers and bribe takers, but to become more and more involved in classic international laundering operations, including those related to drugs, terrorism, and arms trafficking... Although, of course, Russian corruption in these streams still plays a major role.
Today, not only non-governmental organizations such as Tranperancy International, the Indem Foundation or the National Anti-Corruption Committee, but even government officials admit that bribes in Russia amount to hundreds of billions (!) dollars a year. So, back in 2007, Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Buksman said that "the volume of the corruption market in our country is comparable in terms of income to the federal budget, and is estimated at more than 240 billion dollars." Of course, such large turnovers are not connected at all with a bribe to a passport officer or a traffic police officer, but with business corruption, an area where the size of one-time bribes is not five hundred or a thousand rubles, but hundreds of thousands and tens of millions of dollars. But you can’t put millions in your pocket, even a hundred or two hundred thousand can hardly fit into an elegant bureaucratic portfolio! Therefore, funds withdrawn from taxation are sooner or later cashed out again.
Of course, most often cashless deals with funds used for the needs of "gray" importers. After all, suppliers still have to pay the real price for goods using bank transfers. But a big bribe-taker also does not keep millions under his pillow, he invests them - in property and business. And, all over the world. That is, naturally there is a need for schemes that are recognized throughout the world as classic criminal money laundering - not cashing out, but cashless. “Depreciation” for the Russian ear sounds, of course, unusual, but in recent years some international, clearly criminal money has appeared in circulation more and more often (we will conditionally call it “Colombian client money”), and none of the financial criminals disdain them . The cash-out business employs people for whom there is only one criterion in life - money.
How to get to the laundry?
At the very beginning of the 1990s, cash-in offices were openly printed in national newspapers. It disappeared pretty quickly, but for a long time, almost always, your bank could provide such a service without much difficulty, even if the banker did not even know you very well. Even later, especially after the revocation of the license from Sodbiznesbank, the question "on the forehead" to an unfamiliar banker about cashing out, moved into the category of not very decent ones.
But that didn’t mean that cashing out was incredibly difficult. It's just that the prices for these services have risen - until 2004, for a long time it was one percent of the amount, then two, then three ... It even reached eight or ten, but after the murder of Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Andrey Kozlov, the price of illegal cashing fixed on average at about five or six percent.
Now, of course, it is not the beginning of the 90s and you will not find advertising of illegal cashing in newspapers. But now there is the Internet. If you drive the word “cashed out” into the line of a search engine, then most of the links that appear in the top ten, including the first positions of contextual advertising, will be an offer of such services. Naturally, often among them there are offers of scammers, but knowledgeable people say that basically these services are offered quite realistically, although not by the cashiers themselves, but by intermediaries who increase the percentage. That is, finding such a service, even without knowing anyone personally, is not so difficult. What is the risk of someone who takes advantage of such an offer? Basically, all the same, the fact that you are simply "thrown". Exactly so, because in the case of “normal” relations with the tax service and the Economic Crime Department and properly completed documents, the risk that you will then be attracted, convicted and imprisoned is close to zero.
However, the number of small businesses using these services has been steadily declining in recent years. Tax liberalization, the creation of a simplified system of taxation of individual entrepreneurs have created a situation where small businesses, whose need for cash rarely exceeds several hundred thousand or million rubles a month, do not need such risks, are unprofitable. But the unheard-of growth of the illegal laundering business continues. It occurs at the expense of large companies - those who need millions and hundreds of millions of cash every month. For him, the risks, compared with small businesses, are minimal. Such amounts are not so easy to throw. And your relationship with the tax authorities is probably normal. Unless, of course, you are Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Intrigue fuels crime
When the CIA courted and supported Osama bin Laden in every possible way in the 1980s, hardly anyone seriously considered him as a potential threat to US national interests. Surely he was treated as a not very intelligible fanatic in a turban, which is convenient to use, not only for a routine confrontation with the USSR (this time in Afghanistan), but also for a momentary tactical hardware game within the US law enforcement agencies. The fact that the American intelligence services in the person of Bin Laden raised a dangerous monster became clear only after the explosions on August 7, 1998, which almost simultaneously thundered near the American embassies in the capitals of Kenya and Tanzania - Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. And the vast majority of the townsfolk - both in the United States and in Russia for the first time learned and remembered this Arabic surname only after September 11, 2001.
A little different, but, in fact, the structuring of financial laundering activities that has taken place and is taking place in Russia in recent years is somewhat similar. The special services, which have a lot of information about it, extract momentary benefits from this information. Moreover, it is not necessarily financial at all - often this can become a help in interdepartmental intrigues, collecting compromising evidence, and so on. What happens next, no one really cares. After all, tactical tasks are being completed! Thank God, of course, that it is not fanatics of the caliber of Bin Laden who are involved in this activity, but bankers and criminals, primitive in their greed. However, even with this audience, one can often get highly unexpected and unpleasant surprises.
The most famous surprise is the murder of Andrei Kozlov, deputy chairman of the Central Bank, the case because of which the customer, the young Moscow banker Alexei Frenkel, became famous. But today, Alexei Frenkel is not "public enemy number one" at all. And he’s not of that caliber, and he doesn’t pose a danger, he’s sitting. But at this time, many of his "comrades-in-arms" still feel great at large. And you can expect any trick from them at any moment.
According to Novaya Gazeta journalist Yulia Latynina, who conducted a thorough investigation into the circumstances of the murder, Alexei Frenkel suffered from a certain sense of megalomania, repeatedly stating that he was "the leader of the Moscow laundering business." Of course, it is possible that this is due to his psychotype. But cash-out operations in the first decade of the new century became so profitable in Russia that for many of their participants, from a sudden level of income, they could easily “go crazy” and develop megalomania. Frenkel turned 30 in 2001. And imagine what is going on in the head of a 23-year-old graduate of a financial university who, by coincidence, suddenly gets into a “business” where you can “earn” tens of millions of dollars within a few months! The main thing is to be at the right time in the right place and have the right connections.
How it's done
The scale of laundering activities in modern Russia could easily arouse the envy of Meyer Lansky, treasurer of the New York mafia in the thirties of the last century. However, only the scale, not sophistication. Most of the schemes used are quite simple. How laundering works has already been written more than once, but we will briefly repeat it.
Since none of the reputable banks has been taking on transactions with illegal cash for a long time, this at least requires a one-day firm (with which fictitious contracts are concluded) that has an account opened with a bank, initially doomed to revoke a license (it is called "burned" ). In fact, many firms and several banks are most often used. There are also schemes with the withdrawal of funds through a "burnt" bank under fictitious contracts abroad, and some others. But, in any case, the main and most valuable link for cashers is the doomed bank. In a few weeks, when colossal amounts are pumped through it, it is he who brings hundreds of millions of dollars in commissions to the owners of the scheme.
So, the trial on charges of laundering the former head of the New Economic Position bank, Boris Sokalsky, should begin very soon. It is expected that Sokalsky will be charged with the shadow turnover of funds in the amount of about 71 billion rubles. According to investigators, Sokalsky could cash out about 250 billion rubles in total, but proving this is much more difficult. It is easy to calculate how much a few percent of commissions from such amounts make up.
The story of the NEP Bank is atypical in some respects. Cashiers usually do not interfere in other matters and remain at large. So far, only Frenkel and the same Sokalsky are the exception that confirms the rule. According to the materials of the investigation, he was involved not only in cash-out activities, but also in other frauds, which, in fact, was why he was arrested.
In most cases, until recently, everything happened much more banal. Criminals "burn" banks one by one, acting according to the very primitive scheme described above. And when the bank is liquidated, their names, unlike the name of Sokalsky, do not even appear anywhere. The system works surprisingly well. Any opposition - even the intervention of the police, until recently, they managed to extinguish at the very initial stage. However, as they say, "no matter how much the rope twists ..."
Marginal Millionaires
Not only the name of the infamous Frenkel, but also some others have recently become known to the public.
In mid-April, it was reported that Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Grin had finally approved the indictment against the chairman of the board of the joint-stock commercial bank Rodnik Andrey Perminov. According to investigators, this case is obviously closely related to the Sokalsky case, and in addition to Rodnik, other credit organizations were most likely involved in criminal operations - AKA-Bank, Centurion, CB Vertikal, CB Vitas and others.
A piquant detail is that Andrey Perminov has a certificate of mental insanity. And if Serbsky’s institute confirms insanity, then it’s generally unclear who will be responsible for the cashed out billions?
At the same time, with cases related to Sokalsky, Perminov and the company, there is obviously a rather strange fuss related to the question of which court will hear the cases. Last December, it was announced that the Sokalsky case had been transferred to the Tagansky Court of Moscow. Then there was a message that the materials were transferred to the Lefortovo court. At the end of February 2009, the Moscow City Court ruled that the trial of Sokalsky should still take place in the Tagansky court. Why are two apparently related cases being heard by different courts? Most likely, all the same departmental intrigues are to blame. But it is possible, of course, that someone made every effort to make the processes go as sluggishly and confusingly as possible. So that they do not suddenly come up too much.
It should be recognized that among the characters associated with the laundering activities of recent years, perhaps the most unpleasant and most prominent character is a native of Odessa, Evgeny Slusker, who became famous in Russia under the name of Evgeny Dvoskin (such a passport was once sold to him in the Rostov police) . It is usually customary to also mention his other other names - Susker, Shusker, Slushke, Shuster, Altman, Kozin and Lozin ... As Zheglov said: "You know, Sharapov, they make me sick." And there is something from.
A semi-criminal swindler, who in the 1990s in the United States engaged in petty fraud with excise taxes on diesel fuel and securities fraud, deceiving local pensioners, and, finally, expelled from the states, moved to Russia in the early 2000s, where he bought a Russian passport and became widely known in narrow circles as a Moscow "businessman" earning millions! Why, if all this was known for a long time, no one touched him, even if not for his financial activities, but at least because his documents are fictitious, which was reliably known for a long time? Is it because, according to the evidence given by the New York "New Russian Word"? Was Slusker-Dwoskin always extremely willing to make contact with the FBI? In return, he was never seriously touched, and he himself received the nickname "obermusor" in the "Russian American" criminal environment.
In Russia, too, the situation is piquant. The Ministry of Internal Affairs, the prosecutor's office, and the FSB were drawn into it. Slusker-Dvoskin got into the operational development of the police. It was conducted by investigators Dmitry Tselyakov and Alexander Nosenko, who, in particular, found a connection between the ongoing laundering and, as they say in Russia, "authoritative businessman" Alexander Malyshev-Gonzalez, who lives in Spain. It seems that it was they who gave information about illegal wires to the famous Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon, and about Dvoskin they informed colleagues from the FBI. Malyshev was soon arrested on the sanction of Garson, evidence was collected against Dvoskin in Russia, and a warrant was also issued. But the police did not succeed in detaining him - Tselyakov and Nosenko themselves were arrested by the FSB task force and handed over to the investigative committee of the prosecutor's office. They were presented with rather chaotic charges of extortion, despite the fact that there was no evidence - except for the statement of the injured party and the testimony of two Lithuanian businessmen (allegedly, intermediaries). If the case goes to court, something may be cleared up, but so far it seems that the main task of the operation was to move the Ministry of Internal Affairs away from the case.
After that, the FSB officers took Slusker-Dvoskin under their protection as an important witness (note that this protection was recently removed). It was during this year that he, traveling around Moscow under operational cover, took part in cash-out banking fraud, the story of which, quite possibly, could become the biggest scandal in recent years.
It just so happened that this time, due to a number of circumstances, he failed to hide the ends in the water. Let's quote Gleb Zheglov again: "Today, citizens, you had a terrible slip - you blurted out the wrong number."
Not only Evgeny Slusker-Dvoskin participated in this story, many other characters also played an important role in it, including Igor Sitnikov, who introduced himself to the injured bankers as the son of the head of the second Moscow territorial department of the Central Bank, Galina Sitnikova. The same Galina Sitnikova, who at one time called Alexei Frenkel and advised on how to fight off the check that Andrey Kozlov sent to his VIP bank.
I'm on principle
As already mentioned, cashers usually operate by acquiring control over banks, which are then destroyed one by one. It costs them one and a half to three million dollars to get a bank, and in a month it can bring in profits of up to a billion or more. Of course, this money also has to be shared with someone, but still the game is worth the candle. However, the purchase of a bank, especially for nominees, is not an entirely simple procedure, and with an organized “business”, this work should be put on stream - customers do not wait!
According to the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the name of Slusker-Dvoskin is associated with a whole chain of banks - both the Dagestan "Rubin" and "Antares", and the Moscow "European Settlement", and others. Banks came under the control of the criminal group in different ways, but mainly through blackmail and bribery of the leadership. Shareholders often did not even suspect what was happening. Many of them found out about the real state of affairs after the fact, when the bank had already been "burnt", external management was appointed to it, and the license was revoked. Some of the owners were forced to accept bankruptcy, some preferred to invest their own money and nerves in order to restore the activity of the bank after a long time, through which a horde of cashiers swept through.
The scheme worked successfully until the second half of 2007, when the Sitnikov-Dvoskin group chose another victim - the Moscow bank Intelfinance. This time, unexpectedly for them, they were rebuffed. First, the invaders made classic raider pressure attempts - threats, falsification of the register of owners, initiation of fictitious criminal cases. When this did not work, Igor Sitnikov personally showed up at the bank, offering to resolve the issue with money. In the conversation, the amount of compensation increased several times. The refusal was quite unambiguous - he was shown the door. Then, at the beginning of December 2007, the criminals decided on a forceful seizure. Employees of the private security company guarding the main office of Intelfinance were bribed. On December 5, Slusker-Dvoskin broke into the office of the chairman of the board, Mikhail Zavertyaev, and, with the support of his bodyguard, broke his head, as a result of which he ended up at the Sklifosovsky Institute.
But why did Slusker-Dvoskin, accused under several articles in Russia and again wanted by the FBI, allow himself to behave so arrogantly and stubbornly? After all, according to the American press, he was never distinguished by special courage. Wouldn't it have been easier to choose another bank, more accommodating, as a victim? There are obviously two reasons. Home - a sense of impunity. By this time, the case filed against him by the police had been confiscated by the FSB operatives, and he himself was being guarded. According to the sources of the New Russian Word, he was even taken around Moscow in an operational vehicle camouflaged as an ambulance. The second reason is primitive greed. One of the members of the board of directors of Intelfinance, Anatoly Belyaev (now he is on the run), got completely confused and got into debt with Slusker-Dvoskin. Apparently, as a repayment of the debt, he promised to run him into the bank. According to criminal "concepts", the bank immediately owed something. True, a member of the board of directors is a nominal function, and when it became known about Belyaev's machinations, he was immediately expelled from the board. But the criminals did not take into account such nuances.
But this is all primitive criminality. Much more interesting is what happened next. Once in the hospital, Mikhail Zavertyaev immediately informed the Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Gennady Melikyan about the incident, asking him to immediately suspend the banking license. The main correspondent banks were also warned about the current situation and that the financial documents signed by Zavertyaev are invalid - this is an absolute fake. However, payments continued to go through, and the license was not revoked for another month and a half! Despite the meeting held on December 18 at the 5th Moscow State Technical University of the Central Bank, its manager, Alexander Korneshov, continued to sign checks and permits as if nothing had happened, according to which trucks full of cash went to Intelfinance every day.
The daily turnover of the bank increased hundreds of times. In total, during this time, at least 11.7 billion rubles were cashed out and transferred to fictitious firms and foreign accounts. As always happens in such cases, this is only a proven amount that can be documented, since, due to an oversight of criminals, traces have been preserved on these transactions. According to Mikhail Zavertyaev himself, there is every reason to believe that ten times more funds were actually transferred through the bank's accounts.
Naturally, a number of questions arise. How can it be that a criminal with an FBI arrest warrant, against whom a number of criminal cases have been opened in Russia and whose involvement in illegal financial activities is obvious, can freely intersperse around the city and participate in the bank seizure? Let's assume that he is indeed a very valuable witness under guard and surveillance. But why is this protection and surveillance not carried out somewhere else - for example, in a safe house?!
Why, given the existence of a legislative framework, the existence of such a structure as Rosfinmonitoring, sufficiently clear criteria and technical capabilities for screening out dubious payments from the Central Bank, does it take so long to check a particular bank and suspend its license? Especially when the bank's management warns of an impending crime even before the laundering paroxysm begins? Such a sharp (tens and hundreds of times) growth of cash ordered from day to day cannot but arouse suspicion. In the end, it's not just about computer algorithms for tracking electronic payments: physically, it is the Central Bank collectors who send trucks full of cash on the order of the “burned” bank!
Unfortunately, in recent years, the domestic reality has been such that such questions, as a rule, remained unanswered.
Who will answer?
We can assume that the management and shareholders of Intelfinance were lucky - they managed to fight back. The bank was recognized as the injured party, courts are being won and courts are being won, the owners hope that the bank's activities will gradually recover. True, Mikhail Zavertyaev figuratively compares the situation with the situation if the victim of an attack in a dark alley was brought to administrative responsibility for violating public order with a loud cry. But still, he hopes that the criminal cases related to the seizure will be combined into a common proceeding.
It is possible that Slusker-Dvoskin will also be attracted and convicted on some “simple” article (for example, for a Mauser found on him sometime during a search). But for some reason, it seems more likely that he will be handed over out of harm's way to the Americans, who also have accumulated a lot of claims against him. But with all this, the tenacity with which Intelfinance fights to restore its rights may have another highly interesting consequence.
Remember those 11.7 billion, traces of which, due to an oversight of criminals, have been preserved supporting documents? The bulk of these amounts, under fictitious contracts for front companies, were sent by Alfa-Bank and Uralsib from the accounts of TNK-BP and Lukoil, respectively. 4.8 billion rubles went from the accounts of the first company, about 5 billion from the account of the second. And since these transactions meet the signs of insignificance, now all these amounts must be returned to the state. But then, by all logic, banks should demand that these funds be written off from the accounts of TNK-BP and Lukoil. And the investigation to go further - after all, if we are talking about theft from the accounts of companies, then who exactly was responsible for it? Who signed the bills? Why did the bank management, warned about the current situation and the invalidity of the signature of the person in charge of Intelfinance, not suspend operations on his accounts?
And after all, no one, none of the correspondent banks responded to this call for help! No, however, there was one bank after all. Suspended operations of Converse Bank. The one whose president, Alexander Antonov, was seriously wounded during an assassination attempt on March 11 this year. Note that it is Alexander Antonov who is one of the main witnesses for the prosecution in the case of Sokalsky and NEP-Bank. But that, as they say, is a different story...
P.S.
Here is a far from complete list of banks involved in laundering activities in recent years, whose licenses have been revoked. We emphasize that only confirmed amounts appear in the cases, although, according to experts, this is almost always just traces - the visible part of the iceberg. The actual amounts of postings could be dozens of times larger:
Bank "Diskont", for some time headed by Alexei Frenkel. According to Major General of Justice Igor Tsokolov: “The case is under investigation, and it is rather complicated. We are talking, if my memory serves me, about 41 billion rubles, which were withdrawn from Russia. There are no suspects yet."
Bank Centurion. From June 2005 to May 2006, the bank's clients carried out dubious transactions to transfer funds abroad in favor of non-residents in the amount of 5.5 billion rubles.
European Settlement Bank. In March-April 2006, the bank's clients "cashed out" more than 20.6 billion rubles through the bank's cash desk.
Investment bank "Belkom" Only in August 2006, the volume of cash withdrawals exceeded 17 billion rubles, and the amount of suspicious transactions amounted to 10 billion rubles.
MFD Clearing. In 2006, a number of clients of the credit institution were actively involved in the cash withdrawal scheme for more than 17 billion rubles.
Bank Migros. In October-November 2006, the bank's clients made payments in favor of non-residents that had signs of fictitiousness, totaling 12.6 billion rubles.
Dagestan banks "Rubin" and "Antares". About 88 billion rubles were cashed out through their Moscow correspondent accounts.
Bikbank. In October-November 2007, the accounts of non-residents registered in the Seychelles and the Virgin Islands received more than 14 billion rubles from residents on dubious transactions with goods that do not cross the customs border of the Russian Federation. Then the funds were transferred in favor of other non-residents to their accounts opened with banks in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Latvia, and Cyprus.
Falcon Bank. In the first half of September 2007, about 20 billion rubles were transferred to the settlement accounts of five English and three offshore companies opened with a bank from residents on dubious transactions with goods that do not cross the customs border of the Russian Federation, which were then transferred to offshore companies.
Foundation Bank. In 2007, the volume of illegally cashed funds exceeded 10 billion rubles. In May-September 2007, the settlement accounts of companies registered in the Virgin Islands received about 3 billion rubles from residents on dubious transactions with goods that do not cross the customs territory of the Russian Federation. Subsequently, the funds were converted into foreign currency and transferred in favor of offshore companies to accounts in Lithuania.
OJSC Mortgage Bank for the Development of Regions. In October-November 2007, more than 29 billion rubles were transferred to the accounts of non-residents registered in the Virgin Islands and Hong Kong, from residents on dubious transactions with goods that do not cross the customs border of the Russian Federation, which were then transferred to accounts in banks in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Cyprus, Moldova , Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Kazakhstan. In addition, between January and October 2007, the IBRD disbursed over RUB 42 billion to banks that subsequently had their banking licenses revoked.
Kitezh. In the first half of December 2007, the settlement accounts of six companies registered in the Virgin Islands and Hong Kong received about 9 billion rubles from residents on dubious transactions with goods that do not cross the customs border of the Russian Federation. Subsequently, on their instructions, funds were transferred in favor of non-residents - clients of banks in Ukraine, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Estonia, Moldova, Lithuania, Cyprus.
The list of victims of the actions of bank criminals can be continued for a very long time. It includes the banks Neftyanoy, Diamant, Electronics, East Bridge Bank, Orion, Lefko-bank, Zolostbank, EPIN-bank, AKAbank, Makprombank, Krasbank, Creditsoyuzkombank, Republican Reserve Bank, Industrial Development Bank, Mezhsotsbank, Image Bank, European Private investment bank, Russian investment group and many others. Some of them had their licenses revoked, some of the owners with great difficulty managed to restore the bank's activities.
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1. Good neighborly relations. ... the daughter of the Gurzuf deputy Daria Shiro; legal entity, Khladokombinat-service LLC company (founders - Zurab Buziashvili and Igor Zozulya); son of Belgorod businessman Dmitry Kravchenko Bogdan Kravchenko; pawn shop owner Viktor Kudryashov; rector...... Sergei Sitnikov Governor Sergei Sitnikov Neighbors: family of businessmen Shuvarins; LLC "Techproject" and LLC "Stroydesign" (founder Andrey Kobozev). Land plot and the house, which, according to the declaration, is used by the governor Sitnikov ...
Date: 09/09/2016 2. Roskomnadzor came under supervision. Boris Boyarskov was replaced by Sergei Sitnikov, in May 2008, Rossvyazkomnadzor was created on the basis of Rossvyazohrankultura, and in December 2008 the latter was transformed into the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor). Perhaps the period of maturation of the updated department complicated the implementation of state tasks. But while it seems that the team Igor Shchegolev and the young team of Roskomnadzor led by Sergei ...
Date: 28.10.2009 3. Political strategists of the Rada. Also Active participation in the pre-election work of the Timoshenko-2014 team takes the 10th number of their list, political scientist Igor Zhdanov - known as the president of the analytical center "Open Politics". An active participant in the Maidan and a party functionary of Our Ukraine in the past. There is also information that Oleksiy is helping the Batkivshchyna in the pre-election efforts Sitnikov- Russian political strategist, doctor of psychological sciences, doctor of economic sciences, professor.
Date: 06.11.2014 4. Declarations of the governors - 2017. ... Rashid Temrezov (Karachay-Cherkessia) 0.9 Andrey Klychkov (Oryol region) 1 Alexey Orlov (Kalmykia) 1.2 Murat Kumpilov (Adygea) 1.50 Yury Kokov (Kabardino-Balkaria) 2.1 Kondratiev Veniamin (Krasnodar Territory) 2.1 Vasiliev Igor (Kirov region) 2,1 Sitnikov Sergey (Kostroma region) 2.1 Alexander Kozlov (Amur region) 2.3 Yevkurov Yunus-Bek (Ingushetia) 2.4 The most impoverished Decrease in annual income (million rubles) Alexey Ostrovsky (Smolensk region) 65.5 Andrey Vorobyov (Moscow region) ...
Date: 06/18/2018 5. Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications headed by Igor Shchegolev sets an Olympic record. ... Goryachev, as well as the head of the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications Sergey Shchegolev Sitnikov. The company will be divided into two "charters" - in one of them, which will make its way through Paris dear to the ministerial heart, Shchegolev and a member of the board of directors of OJSC Svyazinvest Konstantin Malofeev and his family will fly. The true reason for the Canadian voyage of the Minister of Communications Igor Shchegolev is easy to understand if you look back a little...
Date: 18.02.2010 6. Criminal connections of the employees of the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs Tsokolov and Shantin. According to the deputy, this criminal community was headed by a businessman Igor Sitnikov, and the employees of the Department for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism, Majors of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Tselyakov and Alexander Nosenko, helped him in this.
Date: 12/24/2008 7. Krivoy was given a deadline. So, the organized criminal group is credited with the murder of the head of the Doverie company, the leader of the hostile group Roman Gorodchikov, the director of the private security company Ajax Pavel Senin, the entrepreneur Yevgeny Elkin, the director of the tea-packing factory Igor Gaidash...
Simultaneously with the detention of Prokop in Kirov, his close associate Vladimir was captured. Sitnikov, who oversaw the "economic block". Sitnikov and his assistants negotiated with businessmen who were "protected" by bandits, received money from businessmen and...
Date: 10/26/2016 8. Communication expropriation. ... of the fourth generation, using the administrative resource of Minister Shchegolev Igor Shchegolev Scartel (Yota brand) is suing Roskomnadzor...
According to Yota CEO Denis Sverdlov, these “some officials” are the head of Roskomnadzor Sergey Sitnikov and his deputy Alexander Katulevsky, who personally signed orders for the allocation of frequencies to the company.
Date: 08/10/2010 9. Political and business PR market. Partner of the Maslov, Sokur and Partners agency Mikhail Maslov believes that about $300 million is circulating in this market. According to the chairman of the board of directors of the Nikollo M group of companies Igor Mintusov, today "there is no monopoly on the designation ...
Alexei Sitnikov, President of Image-Contact consulting group: Many businessmen are thinking about what will happen in 2008.
Date: 06/19/2006 10. Declarations of governors - 2018. Mikhail Vedernikov's income fell to 1.9 million rubles from 5.5 million a year earlier; earnings of Stanislav Voskresensky from 8.7 million rubles in 2017 decreased by about six times. Kostroma region, Sergey Sitnikov(since 2012) - 2.2 million rubles Kirov region, Igor Vasiliev (since 2017) - 2.2 million rubles Vladimir region, Vladimir Sipyagin (elected in 2018) - 2 million rubles Krasnodar Territory, Veniamin Kondratiev (since 2015) - 1.9 million rubles Pskov region ...
Date: 06/14/2019 11. 25 most active entrepreneurs in Russia. *** Place Name Number of firms 1 Igor Sumkin 2200 2 Baev-Gorsky family 1104 3 Elena Akhlebinina 1000 4 Vladimir Ledenev 851 5 Alexey Mizgin 807 6 Stepan Bogucharov 736 7 Roman Verbitsky 690 8 Dmitry Sitnikov 673 9 Brothers Alabushev 589 10 Yuri Nazarovsky 500 11 Vladimir Lagunov 480 12 Grigory Finkin 478 13 Ivan Beglov 389 14 Timur Konev 378 15 Dmitry Afonin 367 16 Aleksey Sinyagovsky 359 17 Irina Medova 331 18 Sergey Anosov 300 19 Vladimir Mayorov 3 Valentine...
Date: 04/04/2013 12. The diagnosis of Auror Alexander Dvorkin. Actually, there was only one well-known secular religious scholar on the council - the head of the department of philosophy of religion and religious studies of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University Igor Yablokov.
... the so-called Russian Association of Centers for the Study of Religion and Sects, Photo: via "Portal Credo.Ru" Alexey Muravyov, Mikhail Sitnikov Alexander Dvorkin [...] Alexander Leonidovich Dvorkin was born into an intelligent Moscow family on August 20, 1955...
Date: 09/29/2014 13. Protected highway for Putin. Highway to Lunnaya Polyana (52 km for 24 cars per day) - 2 billion rubles, cable car (9.2 km) - 1 billion rubles. from the budget Sitnikov ...
At the hearing, a representative of the design organization Igor Voloshin cited the amount of expenses for the reconstruction (in fact, for the construction) of a new road to the integrated scientific monitoring center at Lunnaya Polyana.
Date: 05/18/2012 14. "There is one politician in the country - Putin, and one political strategist - Surkov." A typical example [ Igor] Mintusov (Chairman of the Board of Directors of Niccolo M. - Vedomosti), who published a book about electoral fraud. Didn't like the book. But there are many other specialists on the market. They are not as famous as Alexei once was. Sitnikov, Igor Mintusov, Efim Ostrovsky.
Date: 11/18/2011 15. Boyarskov replaced Sitnikov. Sitnikov, according to Igor Shchegolev, possesses such qualities.
Date: 14.01.2009 16. 6.30 October 4 - October 5 ... 1968 Kuzmin Sergey Valerievich, 1976 Malkin Evgeny Evgenievich, 1958 Markov Evgeny Viktorovich, 1976 Mikhailov Yuri Egorovich, 1958 Mokin Sergey Ilyich, 1960 Morgunov Igor Vladimirovich, 1963 Nikitin Evgeny Yurievich, 1970 Peck Rory, 1956 Petukhova Natalya Yuryevna, 1970 Ponomarev German Petrovich, 1933 Sitnikov Nikolai Yuryevich, 1974 Skopan Ivan, 1944 Sokushev Anatoly Semenovich, 1945 Temlyantsev Yuri Anatolevich, 1962 Titorenko Alexander Konstantinovich, 1972 Khaibulin Stanislav Maratovich, 1969 Khakimov ... 17. Block in the law. - Inset K.ru] *** Original of this material Igor Korolev Bolotnaya Square as an impetus for Internet regulation By regulating the Internet, the Russian authorities wanted ...
The former head of Roskomnadzor Sergey became its governor shortly before. Sitnikov.
Date: 04/24/2018 18. Governors Declaration - 2014. ... Igor(Nenets Autonomous District) 12.66 Minnikhanov Rustam (Tatarstan) 11.83 Shport Vyacheslav (Khabarovsk Territory) 10.62 Alexey Gordeev (Voronezh Region) 10.55 *** Circassia) 0.83 Menyailo Sergey (Sevastopol) 1.34 Orlov Alexey (Kalmykia) 1.46 Turchak Andrey (Pskov region) 1.59 Aksenov Sergey (Crimea) 1.62 Mamsurov Taimuraz ( North Ossetia) 1.69 Khudilainen Alexander (Karelia) 1.98 Kozlov Alexander (Amur Region) 2.07 Sitnikov ...
Date: 06/18/2015 19. The origin of United Russia. But, having threatened the secretary with sanctions, the personnel officer got through to Gurov, and an hour later he was on Staraya Square, where he was met by the first deputy head of the presidential administration Igor Shabdurasulov.
... Alexei Sitnikov with the help of an expert network that included 6,200 experts throughout the country, found out that "many regional groupings have not been able to realize their interests through any existing political force." Thereafter Sitnikov ...
Date: 01.10.2007 20. Russia's Best Political Technologists. Top - 20. Head of the department for interregional and cultural relations of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. Responsible for promoting Russian interests in the CIS countries. 12. Alexey Sitnikov 37 mentions. President of Image-Contact, the oldest political consulting company in Russia. Popularizer of NLP methods. His students work as officials in many regions of Russia. thirteen. Igor Mintusov 36 references.
Date: 06/04/2007
