Kremlin oligarch terrorizes deceived miners by special services

Methods of Alisher Usmanov in the Russian Federation: "Persuasion, blackmail, intimidation and threats"

Alisher Usmanov, one of the people closest to Vladimir Putin, pretended that he was “not like that”: he settled in Uzbekistan and claims that he is not connected with Putin. However, sources say that Alisher Usmanov continues to serve as Vladimir Putin's secret adviser on the UK and the Middle East. There was also information that Usmanov's friend and partner Vasily Anisimov (now living in Europe), being a friend of Vladimir Putin, acts as an agent of the President of the Russian Federation to control cash flows in Metalloinvest (with a 20% share). So Usmanov did not lose his ties with Putin, as he did with close ties with the FSB of the Russian Federation and other Russian special services. Andrey Burkin, the authorized representative of the miners of the Lebedinsky GOK, who lost their shares during a forced buyout at a cheap price, which was made by the structures of Alisher Usmanov, told this to the telegram channel of the VCHK-OGPU and Rucrimial.info. According to him, Usmanov, a billionaire close to Putin, is operating in Russia against the miners with the help of representatives of the security services and officials.

“As soon as the fifteen-year struggle of the Gubkinsky Goryanka women to defend their rights against the Metallinvest companies, owned by one of Putin’s best friends, part-time “the most generous philanthropist” (as he positions himself in Europe and around the world) Alisher Usmanov, reached the finish line , in the life of miners, returned the practice of the nineties. Persuasion, blackmail, intimidation and threats began to come to the shareholders who dared to declare their rights. Everything was used: surveillance, a show of force with the help of local law enforcement agencies, all power structures were involved. It got to the point that Vladimir Kuzmich, a deputy of the regional assembly, Yevdokimov, personally seeks a meeting with the miners in an attempt to withdraw the statements of claim to the European courts. They managed to intimidate and break three people (Chernikova Maria, Prokhorova Valiya and Zinoviev Nikolai). For fifteen years no one paid attention to the deceived, intimidated and slandered miners. And as soon as the shareholders had a chance not only to return what was stolen from them, but also to receive restitution, they immediately found themselves in the spotlight. There was simply no end to the "care" of all authorities. But the miners are not going to give up, and if they failed to defend their rights in the most “humane” court of the world, they are forced to turn to the European court, where they will definitely achieve a fair decision,” says Andrey Burkin.

As the VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have repeatedly told, in Russia the miners, deceived by Usmanov, have been trying to achieve justice for many years. The miners indicate that they lost their shares in the GOK during a forced buyout, which was made by Usmanov's structures at prices far from market ones. The assessment was carried out by Gorislavtsev & Co. Estimation”, which proceeded from the fact that the official revenue of the Mining and Processing Plant amounted to less than $1 billion. However, according to the applicants, in reality, the proceeds were underestimated by at least three times. For the purpose of tax optimization, products were sold at discounted prices to Usmanov's offshore companies (BGMT and FMC ltd.), and they already sold them at market prices. As a result, GOK's real revenue was at least $3 billion. The second already normal assessment of the GOK was carried out by Deutsche Bank for the placement of shares on the London Stock Exchange.

Why is Usmanov now in such a panic that he used the FSB to put pressure on the miners? The mountain women who suffered from it have come to such a point when they can objectively prove their position in the EU court, taking their money already from Usmanov's arrested accounts. However, the loss of money is not the main thing that threatens the Kremlin oligarch. Goryanka will hand over to politicians and lawyers in Europe all the papers on their history, which threatens Usmanov with criminal prosecution in Germany.

Now the miners have requested from Deutsche Bank a document on the evaluation of the mine. Since the new head of Deutsche Bank does not really need a scandal with a Russian company associated with a Kremlin oligarch, in such a situation, they are likely to transfer documents to a lawyer for minority shareholders.

Otherwise, this document, the existence of which the shareholders rightly claim, will become the reason for initiating a criminal case on participation in fraud. According to the German code, "failure to disclose information in the case of an alleged crime qualifies as complicity in the crime by attempting to cover up."

In any case, it seems to Usmanov himself that a criminal case in Germany cannot be avoided.

German law enforcement agencies will obviously not be like the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and will serve the interests of Usmanov.



Timofey Grishin

To be continued

Interrogations in the case of Anisimov and Usmanov began in Germany

The criminal police are investigating the activities of russischen Oligarchen



Over Alisher Usmanov, in addition to the already imposed sanctions, the threat of criminal prosecution in the European Union also loomed. As it became known to the Cheka-OGPU, Andrei Ivanov, one of the leaders of the miners of the Lebedinsky GOK, who lost his shares during a forced buyout at a cheap price, which was made by the structures of Alisher Usmanov, was interrogated in the State Criminal Police Department of Germany. As it turns out now, not only the miners were deceived, and the story is subject to investigation in the European Union. Ivanov told the details in an interview with Rucriminal.info and the telegram channel of the Cheka-OGPU.



Recall that the miners indicate that they lost their shares in the GOK during a forced buyout, which was made by Usmanov's structures at prices far from market ones. The assessment was carried out by Gorislavtsev & Co. Estimation”, which proceeded from the fact that the official revenue of the Mining and Processing Plant amounted to less than $1 billion. However, according to the applicants, in reality, the proceeds were underestimated by at least three times. For the purpose of tax optimization, products were sold at discounted prices to Usmanov's offshore companies (BGMT and FMC ltd.), and they already sold them at market prices. As a result, GOK's real revenue was at least $3 billion.

“When we arrived at the State Criminal Police Office (Landeskriminalamt) on Friday on the advice of a lawyer, it was exactly 15.00. End of the working day! The officer who received the documents (H. K.) said that he would write down our data in 15 minutes and call on Monday to clarify our application.

However, having heard about whom (!), and what, in question, they began to call Berlin and stayed until the evening (21.30) with us, recording under the protocol.

We continued to work with the translator the following week.

With great curiosity and in more detail, they asked to tell about the Russian practice of hiding the true beneficiaries behind the names of relatives and proxies.



For the former shareholder with a 20% stake, Vasily Anisimov and the one behind him, the officers questioned four times.

In Metalloinvest's Eurobond prospectus, the officer noted that Alisher Usmanov's company had made traditional inaccuracies with respect to Western bookrunners and Deutsche Bank. Namely, the trading group FMC, Gibraltar is presented as an independent company until August 01, 2008 with a multi-billion dollar revenue. The directors of Metalloinvest, who signed the prospectus, presented the acquisition of the FMC group as a profitable (otherwise, no way!) deal for the purchase of a trader for 17.5 billion rubles, instantly increasing Metalloinvest's revenue by 37 billion rubles. those. by $2 billion between August and the end of the year!

Officer L, at the sight of these official data, asked: "what is the amount by which Vasily Anisimov's friends cheated you?" We showed on the documents - less than 5 million. He was sincerely indignant: "Ich kann die russischen Oligarchen einfach nicht verstehen!" Yeah, we don't know either, to be honest.



On page 67 of the prospectus, information is provided that could be of interest to the investigating authorities, the prosecutor's office, and even personally the head of the ICR, Alexander Bastrykin. Well, it's just - "if only!", (as Odessa taxi drivers say about their grandmother). If a crow had pecked out a crow's eye, and in Russia corruption would not have become a systemic link between a friend of Vasily Anisimov and Alisher Usmanov.

Since the document was prepared for Western investors, it fully, down to the ruble, discloses the financial flows of offshore and, in black and white, recognition of tax evasion on an especially large scale: "As a result of the consolidation of FMC, in the Financial Statements for 2009, sales that prior to August 1, 2008 were reported as incurred by FMC, from that date shown as effected by the Trading Segment directly to the customer. As a result, most of the Group's (Metalloinvest) export earnings after August 1, 2008 are accounted for by the Trading Segment."

(As a result of the consolidation of FMC in the 2009 Financial Statements, sales that were shown until

1 August 2008 as being made to FMC are shown from that date as being made directly to the purchasing party by

the Trading Segment. As a result, the majority of the Group’s export revenues after 1 August 2008 are generated

by the Trading Segment)



or here, by the way, Usmanov's revelation on page F-31:



“Prior to August 2008, the Group (Metalloinvest) conducted its export sales primarily through the trading company FMC located in Gibraltar. On August 1, 2008, the Group acquired FMC (Note 27). Group's revenue for the period from the date of acquisition to 31 December 2008.

FMC's revenue for the period from January 1, 2008 to August 1, 2008 was over 10% of the Group's (Metalloinvest) revenue and included the Mining segment's revenue of RUB 28,961 million. (1.16 billion dollars), Steel segment in the amount of 31,113 million rubles. (1.25 billion dollars) and the Transport segment in the amount of 565 million rub. No other customers represent 10% or more of the Group's total income.



Prior to August 2008, the Group realized its export sales mainly though FMC, a trading company located in

Gibraltar. On 1 August 2008, the Group acquired FMC (Note 27). The allocation of revenue by customer

location for 2008 represents the Group's revenue for the period from the acquisition until 31 December 2008.

Revenues to FMC for the period from 1 January 2008 until 1 August 2008 represented more than 10% of the

Group’s revenues and included revenues of Mining segment of RUB 28,961 million, Steel segment of RUB

31,113 million and Transportation segment of RUB 565 million. No other customers represent 10% or more of

the Group's total revenue.



Following the ingenious logic of the efficient Ivan Strashinsky, who in February announced to the whole world that the FMC trade margin did not exceed 7% of the export price / revenue of Metalloinvest, it turns out that $ 4.5 billion (in 2008) in the offshore account is only 7% of the company's exports! You definitely do not want to shout - "where is the money, Zin?!".



But seriously, it is terribly disgustingly unpleasant to watch the attempts of Russian law enforcement officers to hide their anti-motivation to look at the crime of the company of Vasily Anisimov and Alisher Usmanov, really sorted into pieces, when they refer to the prejudice.

Goosebumps nice to see how the German officers of honor! 6.5 hours in a row, without a coffee break, and all this after hours, without personal interest! However, they are obviously very personally interested in a healthy society in their country, judging by the communication and determination to do their job first! Faith in humanity has returned to us!”







Thomas Gordon

To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info