"Mobi.Money" and Krasenkova serving underground casinos

VTB's "daughter" "launders" in front of the Central Bank



As sources of the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reported, VTB's subsidiary "Mobi.Money" was caught servicing illegal casinos and bookmakers. The scheme is simple. Mobi.Money employees issue terminals for a fee, supposedly for legal resources, but in reality the terminals process payments for offshore casinos and other underground structures every day (see examples below). The amounts are gigantic and sometimes reach about 100 million rubles per day.

"Mobi.Money" has long been engaged in this kind of money laundering business. In 2021, the Central Bank issued an order to VTB's "daughter" due to transactions by non-residents, including illegal casinos.

Sources believe that Mobi.Dengi CEO Maria Krasenkova is not only aware of what is happening, but is the direct organizer of such shadow financial schemes.

In particular, Mobi.Dengi launders money for such structures as Joycasino Mostbet JoinUS.

According to Rucriminal.info, this is not news on the market, where Mobi.Dengi has an extremely bad reputation.

In 2001, the Mobi.Dengi payment service received an order from the Central Bank for an unusual reason - the bankruptcy of its CEO Ivan Kuznetsov. The Central Bank reported that it issued the order due to the "unsatisfactory business reputation of the current management in connection with the bankruptcy."

Mobi.Dengi is the owner of the intellectual property of PayCash, according to the service's website. PayCash has an ambiguous reputation. There are many negative reviews of the company on websites and financial forums. Users complained that the service was involved in "unscrupulous" schemes.

After the scandalous situation, many large structures limited cooperation with Mobi.Money.

Thus, MTS Bank left only the payment of state services, parking and tax payments through the service. The bank disabled other operations. MTS Bank also stopped transfers through the company's providers - UnitPay, Kassa.com, WinPay / Cauri. The bank disconnected 25 partners associated with Mobi.Money.

At the same time, MTS Bank stated that they "stopped cooperating with some partners" in compliance with the requirements of Federal Law 115 - the so-called "anti-money laundering law".



The Central Bank did not comment on the actions of financial institutions. The Bank of Russia added that it planned to revoke the foreign exchange license of Mobi.Money, but the company complied with the restrictions, and the regulator did not resort to extreme measures.

At the same time, VTB maintained its partnership with Mobi.Money. The bank is a shareholder of the payment service. Therefore, it is interested not only in working with the company, but also in expanding cooperation.

It is noteworthy that the Central Bank of the Russian Federation issued an order to Mobi.Dengi after Maria Krasenkova, head of the department for development and regulation of the national payment system, left the Bank of Russia. Or rather, she was shown the door after disagreements with Alla Bakina, head of the NPS department, and with the management of the payment department. It was too obvious to them that Krasenkova was acting in the interests of VTB (she worked there before joining the Central Bank of the Russian Federation) and Mobi.Dengi.



Krasenkova herself did not disappear over time, having headed Mobi.Dengi, which continues to launder money.

Denis Zhirnov

To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info

Bloody "Donstroy"

Construction leech VTB is mired in deceiving apartment buyers



The scandalous company Donstroy, maintained by the state bank VTB, positions its apartments as business class, which, according to reviews from their customers, is often not true. Details at Rucriminal.info.

Donstroy has repeatedly become involved in scandals, including the deaths of people on its construction sites. According to the telegram channel VChK-OGPU, in 2016, an elevator broke off in the Scarlet Sails residential complex, killing a woman. And in 2022, the cladding of the complex collapsed - bricks fell on parked cars. The prosecutor's office had to deal with the incident. In the same year, sewerage flooded the parking lot and warehouses of the Heart of the Capital residential complex.

In 2023, two workers were injured due to the collapse of scaffolding in the Reka residential complex. Again the prosecutor's office had to get involved. Others sometimes make their way through the laudatory reviews of this residential complex - there is dirt and impassability around the construction site, the nearest store is very far away, it takes at least half an hour to get out of the yard onto the road due to the fact that everything is dug up, it is impossible to live. Similar complaints can be seen online from residents of other Donstroy residential complexes.



The reality for buyers of apartments in the Ogni residential complex did not coincide with expectations. Instead of a block thought out to the details, created for a life full of happy events, they had to put up with cracks in the floor slabs of apartments and parking, hidden behind communications, the absence of a school and kindergarten, and very expensive services from the management company.

Banker Andrei Kostin and his assistant Alena Deryabina, who runs the Donstroy company, are not the first to mislead gullible customers. For example, the Ostrov residential complex was positioned as an environmentally friendly house, but was built next to the territory of the former Galalit chemical plant, where dichloroethane was stored and production waste was dumped into the river. Naturally, this information was not disclosed to potential buyers of apartments in the Ogni residential complex.

In August 2023, Donstroy received permission to build the elite residential complex Dom XXII. Terraces, own mini-park and pond, gyms, oriental bathhouse (hammam) and tutoring rooms - this is what Alena Deryabina’s employees attract potential buyers with. The commissioning of the residential complex is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026. Time will tell what home owners will actually see and whether they will receive it on time. According to statistics, the delay in delivery of the project at Donstroy is 25%.

Alena Deryabina, in an interview she gave to one of the leading federal media in 2022, said that the guarantee of “infrastructure kits” is only the reputation of the developer; the promised can only be verified in hindsight. Judging by the complaints of residents of Donstroy residential complexes, the company shamelessly enjoys the trust of apartment buyers.

According to Deryabina, economic crises cannot kill the construction industry, but only change it. Therefore, the head of Donstroy openly spoke about the change of suppliers from European to Chinese and Indian. For some reason, this did not result in a decrease in housing prices.

“Donstroy” cannot be called a business, since the company uses VTB money unlimitedly and that’s the only reason it stays afloat. Moreover, through structures controlled by Deryabina, money can be withdrawn from the state bank, despite the vaunted reputation of Donstroy, supported by various awards and places in ratings.

The Sobytie residential complex, notorious for the death of workers due to the collapse of forests, is being built by Specialized Developer Development LLC. In fact, this office cannot build anything, since it only employs 1 person, but VTB is probably suitable for pumping money. “Donstroy” is again deceiving its potential buyers by putting an ordinary “dummy” in place of the builder.

In 2023, with revenue of 4.7 billion rubles. NGO "SZ "Razvitie" received a loss of 5.2 billion rubles, although a year earlier it had a profit of 4.8 billion rubles. Over the year, it fell by 10 billion rubles, and revenue only by 3.4 billion rubles. The shares of the founders of the company JSC SK Donstroy and LLC MD are under the encumbrance of VTB. The MD structure, created back in 2011, has received neither revenue nor profit during its entire operation.

The founder of MD LLC is the closed-end mutual fund "Massive Investments" under the management of Management Company KL-Invest LLC, which also manages other closed-end mutual funds associated with Donstroy structures. And previously, the founders of the company were the Cyprus offshore Antilonia Investments (until 2021) and RMN Invest LLC, owned by RNT Holding LLC, the head of which is Roman Gromozdov, associated with the management of VTB. Gromozdov is considered the “gray eminence” of the Donstroy company.

SZ Razvitie LLC has 2 “subsidiary” structures - Reka LLC and SZ Dom XXII LLC. Their names are probably associated with the Donstroy residential complex of the same name. Reka LLC, created in 2018, has 0 employees, and the company has had no revenue or profit in recent years. The financial situation is similar in SZ Dom XXII LLC, created in 2020. The share of SZ Razvitie LLC in both subsidiaries is under the encumbrance of VTB. Similar dubious schemes are also visible with other Donstroy structures.

The company clearly needs close attention from tax and law enforcement agencies, as it can artificially lower profits in order to evade taxes, which is a criminal offense in Russia. However, for now, the figure of Andrei Kostin guarantees Donstroy and Alena Deryabina immunity and financial well-being. At least until the head of VTB falls into the “millstone” of the Kremlin showdown, like the recently arrested former Deputy Minister of Defense Timur Ivanov.



Felix Rozanov

Source: www.rucriminal.info

How the Moscow police garrison was sent to Andrei Kostin

Money for a house in Colorado was sought with the help of generals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation

Vadim Belyaev, the former head of FC Otkritie, was detained in the United States. They detained him using his new documents - Vadim Volfson. But the funniest thing is the reason for the detention. He helped launder money for Andrei Kostin (who heads VTB), and also looked after the property. Quite by chance, he found a house in Aspen (a ski resort in Colorado).

“If anyone was expecting justice, that the fugitive bankster would be chased and he would return the trillions that were spent on saving Otkritie Bank, then you can breathe out. When you are looking after the house of a top banker and close to Putin, they will apparently only look for you in Moscow, in the Investigative Committee building on Tekhnichesky Lane, in case you look there,” the VChK-OGPU telegram channel ironically says.

The detention of Vadim Belyaev (ex-head of Otkritie Bank) for helping Andrei Kostin (head of VTB) in circumventing US sanctions is a more than long-running story. In the flow of news, few people noticed that Kostin was also detained in absentia. Thus, he will be put on the international wanted list through Interpol. Kostin is not Putin, he will not be able to fly with 4 escort fighters, thus, most likely he will become restricted from traveling.

It seems the United States has found the key (not to Kostin’s house) to a way to take away the seized property of Russian oligarchs, officials and the powerful of all Russia. Now they will be accused of money laundering and evading sanctions, namely maintaining their property. For this they will be sentenced to long terms and their property will be confiscated in favor of the state.

As for Kostin and his VTB, being completely cut off from Western funds, they are looking for funds within the Russian Federation. Corruption is at work. Rucriminal.info will tell you about one such story.

Each of us has had to deal with annoying bank employees who, when visiting such institutions, offer to issue unnecessary cards, loans and other services.

However, have you seen the annoying general who forces you to apply for a bank card? No, but we will tell you about it.



Due to low wages, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs often treat New Year bonuses with great trepidation, and deprivation of them creates many problems and puts an end to plans for the New Year holidays.

The former chief of police of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate, Igor Zinoviev, acted as that same annoying bank employee. While it is possible to get rid of a bank employee, it is difficult to get rid of Igor Viktorovich, especially when he threatens to deprive him of his long-awaited bonus.



According to a source from Rucriminal.info, at the end of 2022, on the eve of the New Year's bonus, Zinoviev gave an urgent order to the entire Moscow police garrison to change the bank and open cards at VTB PJSC, where they would transfer their wages.

As blackmail, Zinoviev conveyed through managers that employees who did not switch to VTB would be deprived of their New Year bonus, which in itself is illegal. This is a kind of serfdom of the 21st century.

90% of the police officers, who were dependent on the management, were forced against their will to move to VTB, and everyone who dared to speak out against them faced an unenviable fate.

According to the interlocutor, Zinoviev’s actions are qualified as “Excess of official powers” (Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

It is clear that not a single police officer at that time and now is able to report Zinoviev to the RF IC, since he is a friend of the head of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate Oleg Baranov, and the investigation will refuse to initiate a criminal case.



In addition to Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the question arises about Zinoviev’s possible commission of a crime under Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Taking a bribe,” otherwise how to explain such an annoying desire to transfer thousands of employees against their will to another bank?

One can ask whether the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Oleg Baranov knew about this. This question, however, is rhetorical.

Yuri Prokov

To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info

Kostin-Asker-Zadeh: Love worth billions

State Bank VTB suffered a record loss in 2022




In November, VTB Bank decided to invest 160 billion rubles in the development of artificial intelligence (AI). On the day this information appeared in her Telegram channel, journalist and TEFI award winner Nailya Asker-zade made a post with positive comments from Elvira Nabiullina and Sergei Sobyanin about AI and thereby showed that VTB is keeping up with the times. Although the bank itself has not mentioned Asker-zade since April 2022, and there are good reasons for this. Details at Rucriminal.info.


The first post about VTB in the telegram channel of the famous journalist appeared in April 2019. Then she wrote that documents on the bank’s supervisory board had been requested by only 2 shareholders - she and Alexei Navalny - and expressed gratitude to him for recognizing her journalistic talent.



In August of the same 2019, an investigation appeared online that Naili Asker-zade’s real estate could be worth $50 million. It is clear that you cannot earn that kind of money through journalism. And Asker-zade refuses to talk about her beloved and insanely generous man. They say whoever needs it already knows. And it’s true, only the lazy didn’t discuss Naila Asker-zade’s relationship with VTB head Andrei Kostin.



The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reported that the TV presenter loves to travel on her yacht SEA&US, exploring the coast of Italy. Nailya Asker-Zadeh prefers expensive Mediterranean resorts, but is not averse to relaxing in Sochi, where she flies on the personal jet of VTB CEO Andrei Kostin.



An apartment in the elite residential complex “Novaya Ostozhenka” was registered in the name of his close associate Kirill Zamarin, which a month after the purchase was re-registered in Nailya Asker-Zade’s name, as the Cheka-OGPU wrote about. The residential complex overlooking the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was built by the Donstroy company, owned by VTB Bank.



The romance between Andrei Kostin and Nailya Asker-zade has been going on since about 2011. The journalist worked for Vedomosti, specialized in banking, and wrote that Navalny had unearthed information about VTB’s purchase of Chinese drilling rigs at 1.5 times their cost.



At the same time, Asker-zadeh’s interview with Andrei Kostin came out. Then the banker made the media diva an offer she couldn’t refuse. Any girl loves diamonds and a beautiful life, for the sake of them you can sacrifice your professional duty.



Due to a conflict of interest, Naila Asker-ada had to leave Vedomosti and go to work at VGTRK, where she was hired by phone. The new position of presenter made Asker-zade even more recognizable and popular. She interviews famous personalities, including Kremlin oligarch Alisher Usmanov. There is nothing to say about Russian officials; here Nailya Asker-zade earns her living to the fullest, asking the necessary questions to members of the government and receiving pre-agreed answers. From a combat journalist who wanted to “tear” everyone, Nailya Asker-zadeh turned into an ordinary media doll, clearly fulfilling her tasks.



Recently, the journalist has not been prominent in the media space. In 2021, she maintained a direct line with Vladimir Putin; in 2022, she came under sanctions and disappeared into the shadows. I worked for a year on the film “1993. The Turning Point,” which was broadcast in October.



It is significant that Nailya Asker-Zade did not comment on Yevgeny Prigozhin’s march to Moscow, but was having fun with her friends in Sochi at that time. This was reported by the VChK-OGPU telegram channel.



Roskomnadzor mercilessly blocks all links to materials in which the names of the head of VTB and the journalist appear together, although Nailya Asker-zade herself previously liked to post photos from African safaris on Instagram. With this, she really set up Andrei Kostin, since everyone knows that the banker is a famous lion hunter. Nailya Asker-zade loved to amuse her vanity until Instagram became a banned social network in Russia.



In addition to the development of AI, VTB decided to invest 1 trillion rubles. into floaters, bonds with floating interest rates, which became known in September. The larger the amount, the more difficult it will be to verify it, and it is unlikely that anyone will do this. In June, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPEF), VTB signed an agreement with the Government of Sevastopol to invest 6 billion rubles. from 2023 to 2026 into the city’s tourism industry.



VTB Bank does its best to support Channel One, so Andrei Kostin is no stranger to television. Kostin has been trying to raise the issue of the ineffective operation of the country’s first button for several years. A source from the VChK-OGPU telegram channel reported that the main contenders to replace Konstantin Ernst are Margarita Simonyan from RT, Sergei Novikov from the AP, and...Naila Asker-Zade.



VTB's loss in 2022 amounted to a record amount of 613 billion rubles, exceeding the previous negative value by 10 times. Naturally, everything was attributed to sanctions. This year, the bank, according to its head, plans to make a profit of 400 billion rubles, but does not intend to pay dividends. Last year's loss crippled VTB so much that in the next 5 years, about 1 trillion rubles must be invested in the bank's capital in order to meet the Central Bank's standards. How much of this sum we will go to Nailya Asker-Zade Andrey Kostin did not say.



Yuri Prokov

Source: www.rucriminal.info