As Rucriminal.info wrote earlier, during the investigation of the criminal case of the financial pyramid Rusmikrofinance, it was established that the RMF-AST company, part of the Rusmikrofinance group of companies, withdrew part of the funds of investors of the Rusmikrofinance group of companies to the account of the ERL Management company (the old name of the same company Fairway Investments Overseas Limited) (Cyprus) at Deutsche Bank (Suisse) SA, Private Wealth. The director of ERL Management (Cyprus) is Joseph Bakaleynik Bakaleynik, the secret king of microfinance structures in Russia. The grocer is the “right hand” of billionaire Viktor Vekselberg.
In total, about 1 billion rubles were stolen in this way. The withdrawal of funds was carried out under fictitious agreements, which were drawn up in December 2018 in order to avoid demands for the return of funds from other investors.
If part of the funds was simply withdrawn to an account in Switzerland, then the other part was assigned to the microfinance organization Gulden, which was established by ERL Management and Apisem Limited.
The withdrawn funds were invested in a new business, which was founded by Joseph Bakaleinik, Leongard Kiefer, Alexey Lichtenfeld and Evgeniy Abolonin and Roman Bukhtoyarov who joined them. This is previously known as a cashback service called Skrepka, created on the Cashoff platform, “developed” in Skolkovo.
On October 17, 2023, the Moscow Arbitration Court declared all agreements concocted on behalf of Earl Management for the withdrawal of funds from investors of the Rusmikrofinance group invalid. Literally it sounds like this:
Invalidate the transaction: surety agreement No. 07/17-199/AR dated 10.31.2017, pledge agreement of property rights No. 07/17-199/ARZ dated 10.31.2017 under loan agreement No. 07/17-199 dated 10.11.2017 between the company and limited liability company Fairway Investments Overseas Limited and ARM LLC.
Apply the consequences of invalidity of the transaction.
To recognize as absent the security in the form of a guarantee between the limited liability company "Fairway Investments Overseas Limited" and LLC "ARM" under the guarantee agreement No. 07/17-199/AR dated 10.31.2017.
Terminate the right to pledge property rights under the pledge of property rights agreement No. 07/17-199/ARZ dated 10/31/2017 under loan agreement No. 07/17-199 dated 10/11/2017.
To collect from the limited liability company “Fairway Investments” Overseas Limited” a state duty in the amount of 6,000 rubles in favor of the federal budget.
The word is up to the leisurely investigator and the supposedly supervising prosecutor's office, until Bakaleinik and Elizarov joined the wanted Abolonin and Bukhtoyarov.
As Rucriminal.info previously told, the real owner of “Home Money” and “Rusmikrofinance” is the “right hand” of Viktor Vekselberg, Joseph Bakaleinik. He is also an ideologist of microfinance organizations in Russia.
According to the source, the main activity of Joseph Bakaleinik is “Vekselberg’s right hand always and everywhere.” He worked at TNK, at Renova, and represented Vekselberg’s interests at Skolkovo. At the same time, Bakaleinik’s family, like himself, has been living in Switzerland for a long time. Bakaleynik’s visits to Russia are more like business trips.
During the investigation of the Rusmikrofinance financial pyramid case, it was established that the RMF-AST company, part of the Rusmikrofinance group of companies, withdrew part of the funds of investors of the Rusmikrofinance group of companies to the account of the ERL Management (Cyprus) company in Deutsche Bank (Suisse) SA, Private Wealth. The director of ERL Management (Cyprus) is Joseph Bakaleynik.
Joseph Bakaleinik is widely known: for his semi-criminal past, as an effective manager, informal coordinator, a brilliant Harvard graduate, a person from Primakov’s list, a person involved in the case of embezzlement of the country’s strategic aluminum reserves, shareholder of Earl management (BVI), director of Earl management (CYPR), independent member Board of Directors of NefteTransService, independent director of Home Money, and so on and so forth.
It was after the waste of the country’s strategic aluminum reserves and the establishment of strong relations with Viktor Vekselberg that a foreign investment channel was created in Cyprus, or, more simply, the company Fairway Investments Overseas Ltd was registered, which, having crashed into the microfinance market in Russia by 2017, was renamed Earl Management Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as ERL Management). The company is headed by Mikhailina Zinonos, the founder of the entire Vekselberg empire in Russia, and Joseph Bakaleinik, as a partner and financial advisor to Viktor Feliksovich.
How many glorious things have been done by this worthy Cypriot company, which has companies of the same name in other countries. One of them is associated with Joseph Bakaleinik’s attraction to the microfinance market, where his company not only acts as a lender, but directly participates in the business of microfinance companies Home Money, Brio Finance, the Rusmikrofinance group of companies and others.
According to ERL Management Zinonos, the director, together with Bakaleynik, played Bakaleynik, and she signed all theictive contracts. For all ERL agreements signed by Zinonos, the court refused to collect the debt.
At the beginning of 2017, having quite certain losses, Bakaleinik joined the Rusmikrofinance group of companies. However, even by informally managing this group, the situation cannot be corrected.
Moreover, on September 6, 2018, the Bank of Russia excluded information about LLC MFK "Eureka" (hereinafter referred to as Eureka), LLC MFK "Rusmicrofinance-AST" (hereinafter AST) and LLC MFK "Elegia" from the state register of microfinance organizations.
To be continued
Timofey Zabiyakin
Source: www.rucriminal.info
