“Rumors about the withering away of Dvorkovich’s connections in Moscow are greatly exaggerated”

Who is behind the deal to sell a sanctioned bank?



The Central Bank of Russia has agreed on a deal between Izhevsk BystroBank and the capital's Realist Bank - Rucriminal.info sources in the Moscow banking sector confidently report this. The registration procedures are proceeding under force majeure, they are being driven up by the 13th package of US sanctions, where, as you know, Bystrobank is included in the sanctions list. That is why, according to experts immersed in the topic, the sale comes with an adult discount - presumably at least 50%. Ex-Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, who is historically and economically connected with the co-owner of BystroBank Kogan, took upon himself to resolve the issues in agreement with the Central Bank. Despite Dvorkovich's excommunication from the levers of power, rumors about the complete extinction of Dvorkovich's connections are greatly exaggerated.



For obvious reasons, the money will go to the overseas accounts of the beneficiaries of BystroBank. As for the motives for the quick and unprofitable deal for BystroBank, it is believed that in this way businessmen give their families the opportunity to cope years later with explanations in Europe for the origin of their fortunes.

As Rucriminal.info has learned, the Central Bank of Russia has agreed on a decision to sell Izhevsk PJSC Bystrobank, which specializes in auto and mortgage lending, included in the 13th package of sanctions.

The buyer, Realist Bank, receives the asset at a large discount, since the actual owners, who have Australian, British and Cypriot citizenship, are outside the Russian Federation and want to receive money for the sanctioned bank within the time period determined by the US Treasury.

In 2023, negotiations were held on the sale of Bystrobank PJSC to Uralsib Bank, which fell through due to the inclusion of Uralsib in the sanctions package. Uralsib was represented at the negotiations by Evgeniy Kogan; on behalf of the shareholders of PJSC Bystrobank, the negotiations were conducted by Philip Gens.

Actual owners:

Vladislav Kolpakov - chairman of the board, undergoing treatment for cancer, lives in England;

Sergey Budkin is a citizen of Australia, formally withdrew from the participants;

Gens Philipp - lives in Russia, the Lanit company is the real owner, also as a nominal owner represents the interests of the actual ones in the amount of half the share, he received his share as an inheritance from his late father;

Naumov Igor (Nyenschanz company, Russia);

Viktor Yarutov (Nyenschanz company, the share was re-registered as nominal due to the initiation of a criminal case);

According to a source of Rucriminal.info, the actual co-owner Igor Kogan has a close connection with Arkady Dvorkovich, who at one time included Kogan on the board of directors of Aeroflot; the formal share is small, the real share is in the name of Mikhail Yakovlev, Philipp Gens and Igor Naumov; previously was the chairman of the board of ORGRES Bank, which was subsequently sold to the Nordea group and renamed;

Tikhomirov Sergey - lives in Russia, citizen of Russia and Cyprus, actual and formal shares are the same, also represents the interests of his business partner in St. Petersburg Mokhovikov Sergey;

Irina Mamkhegova, lives in England, citizen of Cyprus and Russia, close connection and former deputy of Igor Kogan, formal share is small, real shares are registered in the name of other shareholders by analogy with Kogan;

Mikhail Yakovlev is the nominal representative of Kogan and Mamkhegova.

Timofey Grishin

Source: www.rucriminal.info

"Thanks to the position of Arkady Dvorkovich"

For the sake of the exchange fund, a spy was made from a bribe-giver



The Lefortovo court arrested on charges of espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) the former chairman of the board of directors of the Medpolimerprom Group of Companies, US citizen Eugene (Evgeny) Spector. The telegram channel of the Cheka-OGPU was the first to report this. Previously, Spektor was found guilty of mediating the giving of a bribe on an especially large scale (part 3 of article 291.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) to Anastasia Alekseeva, the former assistant to former Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, for assisting in the promotion of drugs produced by companies involved in the case. The Ostankinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Spektor to four years in prison in a strict regime colony. However, in the spring, as reported by the Cheka-OGPU, he was transferred from the colony to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. According to our sources, in this way Russia is increasing the "exchange fund". Not without reason, Spector is in Lefortovo next door to the American journalist Evan Gershkovich.



According to Rucriminal.info, the American Spektr, whom the FSB arrested today for espionage, was first convicted by the Ostankino court in June 2021. for mediating a bribe to the assistant of the then deputy chairman of the Dvorkovich Government, Anastasia Alekseeva. Then he was sentenced to 4 years in a strict regime colony with a fine in the amount of three times the amount of the bribe - 14,116,805 rubles 55 kopecks. But last year the verdict was overturned by cassation. And reviewed again. Now the Specter's sentence was reduced - 3.5 years in prison, but with the same fine. According to the verdict, he was even returned the seized money, including 1,500 Ukrainian hryvnias (the Moscow City Court later canceled the return of the money, but upheld the deadline).

As Rucriminal.info found out, the bribe was transferred from Promomed Rus LLC, which produced drugs for the treatment of obesity Reduxin (R) and Reduxin (R) Met. The composition of these drugs included a substance - sibutramine, it is included in the list of potent substances. The second active substance of the preparations was microcrystalline cellulose, therefore, Reduxins were not included in a special list and, unlike all other preparations of a similar purpose, remained on free sale, that is, they were dispensed without a prescription, which provided Promomed Rus with a monopoly position in the domestic market obesity drugs.

But the Ministry of Health began to prepare a new order, according to which Reduxins would also be included in a special list, and sales by prescription would hit Promomed Rus volumes hard. Thus, the idea arose to resolve the issue of non-inclusion of drugs in the List through the Government.

For this Alekseeva and her daughters, at her request, the bribe givers paid for the January and May holidays in 2016. In January, she was sent to Thailand in business class and checked into the BANYAN TREE PHUKET hotel, and in January in business class on the route Moscow - Paris - Punta Cana and back. In the Dominican Republic, she and her daughters were accommodated at The Reserve at Paradisus Palma Real.

Thanks to the developed position of the then Deputy Chairman of the Government Dvorkovich, the amendments to Order No. 183n prepared by the Ministry of Health of Russia were not agreed with the Federal Drug Control Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, which resulted in positive consequences for Promomed Rus LLC in the form of not including Reduxin (R) drugs and "Reduxin (R) Met" in the List.



Specter made a deal with prosecutors and testified extensively. But the short term appointed as a result did not save him from a new, more serious charge of espionage (up to twenty years in a colony).

Roman Trushkin

Source: www.rucriminal.info

“Hiding behind the letters of A. Chubais and A. Dvorkovich”

How a modest investment director of RUSNANO got access to billions



Arrested for embezzlement of RUSNANO funds, Nail Gubaev had a very low position in the Rosnan hierarchy - just an investment director, below him only analysts, above him - managing directors, senior managing directors, members of the board and Chubais. For more than ten years, he oversaw only two, but very large projects: ELVIS-NeoTech JSC and Termointekh LLC, which are now under the close attention of the security forces.

Why did the criminal case against such a completely ordinary swindler cause such a powerful response?

The Telegram channel of the Cheka of the OGPU and Rucriminal.info are trying to evaluate the labor achievements of Nail Gubaev.

Money makes money if it is properly shared - this principle, inherited from a relative of Nail's wife - R. Arashukov, Nail learned very well. The first test of it in practice showed that the scheme works very successfully.

The Cheka of the OGPU described in detail the scheme for the purchase of "non-existent" licenses from the Sensor Design Association (SDA) in the amount of 932 million rubles. for 2011-2017

Having received his share (about 500 million rubles), Nail thought for a long time - how to divide this money? As a result of much thought, he came up with a rule: half should be given to patrons. Nail also compiled a list of his patrons, it included member of the Board Pimkin D. (and through him Kiselev O. and Chubais A), Member of the Board Trapeznikov A. (hereinafter - again Chubais A.), lawyers, auditors and someone else on trifles.



The result of the distribution of money exceeded all expectations: the green light was opened for the financing of Nail's projects! Very soon, the amount of funding provided by RUSNANO to the project of ELVIS-NeoTech JSC increased from 1.0 to 2.0 billion rubles. More than 600 million funds were additionally allocated to Termointekh LLC. Needless to say, the money was again withdrawn, cashed out and distributed to the right people.



According to a Rucriminal.info source, Nail signed himself up as a mega effective manager, which guaranteed him support at the highest level. Chubais A. himself is already helping with the search for clients and formats for financing projects: the project of Termointekh LLC is presented to the head of GAZPROM PJSC, at the highest level Chubais discusses the issues of concluding and paying for contracts between JSC ELVIS-NeoTech and Lukoil. The Board easily and freely decides on the provision of additional funds to Nail's projects.

The withdrawal of a huge amount of money could not but alert the leadership of Rusnano, but the money does its job and very soon the bosses of Nail simply stopped delving into the schemes for withdrawing money. "The less you know the better you sleep". Nail became the full owner of the projects and little was required of him: regularly bring money and competently justify his requests for funding. In return, he received unlimited power in design companies with the right to dismiss and appoint any employees (from ordinary engineers to the general director), approve and coordinate any transactions, and submit any changes to projects for approval by RUSNANO management bodies.



Very soon, Rosnano's ability to finance additional projects will run out, and Nail will make great friends with Andrey Trapeznikov, who was responsible for GR and PR on the Corporation's Board. Unrealistic greed and the desire for big money united Nail and Andrey. As a result, ELVIS-NeoTech JSC gained access to subsidies from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation and large government contracts.

In 2017, Nail, through the relatives of his wife, met V. Brovko, director of special projects at ROSTEKH and husband T. Kandelaki. The acquaintance was superficial and it is unlikely that Vasily Yuryevich (Brovko) himself remembered the young middle manager from RUSNANO, but Nail tried to squeeze the maximum out of the fact of his acquaintance.

Nail Gubaev and Andrey Trapeznikov, under the banner of cooperation between the two state corporations, flaunting their connections and opportunities, tried to gain access to government contracts of RUSNANO project companies. Interested in huge kickbacks, A. Trapeznikov went ahead, hiding behind the letters of A. Chubais and A. Dvorkovich, various government instructions and protocols.

Nail's problems began after Chubais, Pimkin, Kiselev and Trapeznikov left RUSNANO. Very serious problems



Nail began after the senior managing director M. Kuzyuk, who previously worked at ROSTEKH as the head of one of the holdings, joined RUSNANO.

The information was conveyed to the Director General of RUSNANO S. Kulikov and Nail was promptly fired from RUSNANO.

But Nail did not give up, he persuaded S. Kulikov to appoint himself the head of ELVIS-NeoTech JSC.

Once at JSC ELVIS-NeoTech, Nail continued his adventures, but the situation changed: the patrons left, it became simply impossible to steal on a large scale and without looking back. It would seem that Nail needed to soberly assess the situation, stop, but greed often outweighs the sense of self-preservation! Nail begins an active struggle for his right to steal and share with impunity. The effect turned out to be the opposite - long-buried schemes and closed contracts began to crawl out like mushrooms after rain. But now no one is trying to cover for Nail, and the security service is asking more and more questions.

In the summer of 2021, a scheme for theft was revealed during the supply of equipment from Lukoil (Middle East) in 2012-2014. The Cheka of the OGPU wrote in detail about this deal, as a result of which Nail received about 140 million rubles in cash. Nail falls into hysterics and tries to get protection from Chubais. But Anatoly Borisovich is not interested in Nail's problems, Asnis and Partners is given the task to assess the personal risks of the members of the Management Board.

To discuss the situation, Pimkin D. repeatedly flies to Italy, where O. Kiselev currently lives. As a result, A. Asnis receives a task: to stop a big case, leaving one episode in it - a deal with Lukoil and one accused - Nail Gubaev!

In September 2021, Nail leaves ELVIS-NeoTech JSC, a year later, in September 2022, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation initiates a criminal case on the facts of embezzlement of funds from ELVIS-NeoTech JSC, Nail Gubaev is detained and arrested. But has justice prevailed? We will learn this only by evaluating the full composition of the episodes and the defendants in the case.



To be continued

Timofey Grishin

Source: www.rucriminal.info

Will prisoner Ulyukaev testify against Anatoly Chubais

The financial pyramid of Rusnano was built thanks to the "amendments" of Ulyukaev and Dvorkovich





The government is working on mechanisms to improve the efficiency of Rusnano, including for withdrawing from the "historical project portfolio," the Finance Ministry said in a statement. Options for increasing the efficiency of the company do not provide for non-fulfillment of its debt obligations, secured by state guarantees, the message says.

As an informed source of Rucriminal.info and the VChK-OGPU telegram channel told, the situation with a default on Rusnano bonds could have been avoided if not for two factors:

1. As you know, loans and bonded loans attracted by Rusnano are secured by state guarantees. The rules for the provision of state guarantees were approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 09/10/2010 N 709.

Changes have been made to the rules several times - mostly technical, but there have been changes that fundamentally change the architecture of borrowing.

So, starting from 2016 (Clause 14), newly attracted loans and bonded loans can be used to repay previously received loans and bonded loans!

What was strictly prohibited, for example, in 2010, turned out to be allowed in 2016. This is how the construction began by Anatoly Chubais and his team of the Rusnano financial pyramid.

This mega important amendment to the rules was dragged through by Chubais thanks to the Minister of Economic Development Ulyukaev A.V., Deputy Prime Minister A.V.Dvorkovich (and at the same time the chairman of the board of directors of Rusnano).

2. The financial condition of Rusnano, according to clause 13, is subject to verification. This is being done by the Agent of the Government of VEB RF), who could not see the inability of Rusnano to serve the debt. The agent should also have been alarmed by the company's raising funds without a state guarantee, but not alarmed.



The pyramid was built. It was built thanks to the pressure of Chubais, unprecedented support for his activities from the liberal part of the government, and the lack of control from the government agent.

Now the pyramid is falling ...

Key question: What to do next?

According to the source Rucriminal.info, first you need to look at the structure of the loaned bond portfolio:

- 3 issues for the amount of 31.4 billion - these are issues secured by state guarantees;

- 6 issues for the amount of 40.2 billion rubles - unsecured issues.

That is, in any development of events, the owners of bonds for 3 issues will receive from the state the value of the bond, however, according to the terms of state guarantees, this will happen in 3 years! It is clear that the owners will not receive the coupon, but these are the conditions of the guarantees provided.

6 issues are investors who took Chubais at his word and the state did not promise anything here. It will be correct if they receive their money through the mechanism of bankruptcy, subsidiary liability of partners, etc.

That is, the price of the issue for the state is 31.4 billion rubles, and then after 24 years.

But the news background is different - fans of the Russian Elon Musk want much more from the state: give money in capital and we will continue to receive both interest and a body of debt!

I hope M. Mishustin will understand the background of the news background and make the right decision.

Timofey Grishin

To be continued