The largest cashers turned out to be St. Petersburg owners

"Don Stone" named after Anatoly Sobchak



Rucriminal.info became aware of the details of the activities, St. Petersburg and Moscow region connections of the largest cashers, owners of the Donskoy Kamen group of companies Vladimir and Dmitry Korotkov.

Since 2023, among the “subsidiaries” of Donskoy Kamen LLC are LLC Law Firm “Nevsky Auction” and LLC “TD “Edelweiss”, registered in St. Petersburg. The first is engaged in the extraction of decorative and building stone, limestone, gypsum, chalk and shale, the second is in the development of gravel and sand quarries. Previously, Law Firm Nevsky Auction LLC, through its former founder Larisa Kalashnikova, was associated with the St. Petersburg PJSC Aurora, controlled by lawyer Vadim Zhimirov. Back in 1994, he became a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, and in 2002 he took the position of vice-president, deputy chairman of the Presidium of the Baltic Bar Association named after Anatoly Sobchak. Zhimirova was close to the famous St. Petersburg authority Konstantin Yakovlev (“Kostya Mogila”). Anastasia Vadimovna Zhimirova was the founder of Law Firm Nevsky Auction LLC from 2017 to 2019.

She was replaced by Valery Nazarov, who now heads Elektromash JSC, which produces electrical distribution and control equipment. Nazarov’s business partner is Alexey Potapov, co-owner of KPB Intra Trade LLC, whose traces lead to the Czech Republic. Valery Nazarov was previously a co-founder of Aurora LLC together with Aurora PJSC, which means he is associated with Vadim Zhimirov.

In 2019, the co-founder of Law Firm Nevsky Auction LLC was Pavel Andreev, who owns Nerudstroy LLC, which develops gravel and sand quarries, extracts clay and kaolin, the company was registered in St. Petersburg in 2017. Traces of Andreev lead to Podolsk, where he manages and owns companies active in the field of sports. Andreev is considered the most influential football agent in Russia, as well as the creator of an extensive mining business empire in Russia, about which almost nothing is known. Until 2023, Pavel Andreev was a co-founder of TD Edelweiss LLC, which is now owned by Donskoy Kamen LLC.



Valery Nazarov left the founders of Law Firm Nevsky Auction LLC in 2019, and Pavel Andreev in 2023. Behind him may be the leader of the Podolsk organized crime group Sergei Lalakin and State Duma deputy Boris Ivanyuzhenkov, known in certain circles under the nickname Rotan. In the 2000s, Andreev worked in the sports club FC Vityaz, which they supervised.



In July 2022, Oleg Gerasimenko became the general director of Donskoy Kamen LLC; since December 2023, he has owned KK Edelsevys LLC, the founders of which were previously Pavel Andreev and Kirill Kombarov. This suggests a connection between Andreev and the Korotkov brothers through Gerasimenko.

Fraudsters Vladimir and Dmitry Korotkov run their business in the Rostov, Tula, Kaluga and Sverdlovsk regions. Budget funds are cashed through Mashprom LLC and DK Carbonate Materials LLC, as previously reported by the VChK-OGPU telegram channel.



The first enterprise is owned by Andrey Elagin. From 2015 to 2022, he was the founder of the SIS PC “Rostovsky Vyezd”, which has been headed by Vladimir Korotkov since 2012. Since 2021, Elagin has been the head of HC ZKU LLC, the founders of which are Vladimir Korotkov and Alesandr Kireevnin, judging by his patronymic, the son of the Korotkovs’ partner in Donskoy Kamen LLC, Alexey Kireevnin, who solely owns DK Carbonate Materials LLC, established in Tula region in 2020



In 2023, the Rostov enterprise Donvzryvprom, previously owned by Donskoy Kamen LLC, received a new strategic partner - Spetsvmtekh, associated with the Rostec state corporation; Vladimir Korotkov retained 20% of Donvzryvprom LLC. The brothers reached a new level of patronage - one of the most influential people in Russia, the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov.”

Earlier, the telegram channel VChK-OGPU reported that the owners of the Donskoy Kamen group of companies, Rostov fraudster brothers Vladimir and Dmitry Korotkov, after they were caught in 2020 cashing out money through an individual entrepreneur by the Rostov Tax Inspectorate, moved their business to the Tula and Kaluga regions. Migration has been beneficial. The scale of theft of budget funds from road funds using fabricated invoices has increased many times over.

Cash withdrawals by the Korotkovs through individual entrepreneurs reached an unprecedented 3 billion rubles in 2023. based on the results of 9 months.

Also more than 12 billion rubles. went to cash out for fuel, equipment, and transport services.

The services of theft of budget-financed road funds are wildly popular among budget recipients. According to SPARK data, the revenue of the group of fraudulent companies - Korotkov cashers - has grown 17 times over 6 years.

The scheme is very simple and does not require the actual production of building materials. Companies that sell building materials, and there are two of them - Mashprom LLC and DK Carbonate Materials LLC, if necessary to launder budget funds, issue an invoice to the budget recipient for payment atu. At the same time, a file indicating the shipment data, including the carrier’s vehicle, is sent to the plant that allegedly produced and shipped these products, so that a consignment note can be generated for the allegedly completed shipment of construction materials.



The Korotkovs select their team in full accordance with their fraudulent orientation - from lower-ranking swindlers.

So in the Kaluga region, their fraudulent schemes in the courts are served by I.A. Stetsyuk, who was previously prosecuted for fraud.

S.E. Kondyurin, who was previously involved in a number of criminal cases, goes to the Ministry of Natural Resources and other government agencies in Kaluga on behalf of the Korotkovs. And Kondurina S.E.’s relative, Olga Kondurina, who was prosecuted in Moscow for selling prohibited devices, fabricates shipping documents for DK Kaluga LLC and at the same time attracts affiliated carriers to cooperate for money laundering not only on deliveries, but also on transport services, which leads to a doubling of the income of the Korotkov group of companies.

Greed, as usual, is what destroys scammers. In their theater of the absurd, they forget to pay wages to the actors, when the subsoil user reports to the tax office, they overestimate the volume of waste, they try to obtain subsoil user licenses for cattle burial grounds and lands adjacent to populated areas, they cut down forests that use the RAM regime and do not pay rent to the owners of the plots.



Denis Zhirnov

To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info

У крупнейших обнальщиков оказались питерские хозяева

«Донской камень» имени Анатолия Собчака




Rucriminal.info стали известны подробности деятельности, питерские и подмосковные связи крупнейших обнальщиков, владельцев группы компаний «Донской камень» Владимира и Дмитрия Коротковых.



Среди «дочерних» предприятий ООО «Донской камень» с 2023 г. числятся ООО «ЮФ «Невский Аукцион» и ООО «ТД «Эдельвейс», зарегистрированные в Санкт-Петербурге. Первое занимается добычей декоративного и строительного камня, известняка, гипса, мела и сланцев, второе - разработкой гравийных и песчаных карьеров. Ранее ООО «ЮФ «Невский аукцион» через своего бывшего учредителя Ларису Калашникову было связано с питерским ПАО «Аврора», контролируемое адвокатом Вадимом Жимировым. Еще в далеком 1994 г. он стал депутатом Заксобрания Санкт-Петербурга, в 2002 г. занял должность вице-президента, заместителя Председателя Президиума Балтийской Коллегии Адвокатов имени Анатолия Собчака. Жимирова был близок к известному питерскому авторитету Константину Яковлеву («Костя Могила»). Анастасия Вадимовна Жимирова была учредителем ООО «ЮФ «Невский аукцион» с 2017 по 2019 г.

Ее сменил Валерий Назаров, который сейчас руководит АО «Электромаш», занимающееся производством электрической распределительной и регулирующей аппаратуры. Партнером Назарова по бизнесу является Алексей Потапов, совладелец ООО «КПБ Интра Трэйд», следы от которого ведут в Чехию. Валерий Назаров ранее вместе с ПАО «Аврора» был соучредителем ООО «Аврора», а значит связан с Вадимом Жимировым.

В 2019 г. соучредителем ООО «ЮФ «Невский аукцион» стал Павел Андреев, который владеет ООО «Нерудстрой», занимающееся разработкой гравийных и песчаных карьеров, добычей глины и каолина, предприятие зарегистрировано в Санкт-Петербурге в 2017 г. Следы от Андреева ведут в Подольск, где он руководит и владеет компаниями, ведущими деятельность в области спорта. Андреева считают самым влиятельным футбольным агентом России, а также создателем в России разветвленной бизнес-империи по добыче полезных ископаемых, о которой почти ничего неизвестно. До 2023 г. Павел Андреев был соучредителем ООО «ТД «Эдельвейс», которое сейчас принадлежит ООО «Донской камень».



Валерий Назаров вышел из состава учредителей ООО «ЮФ «Невский Аукцион» с 2019 г., а Павел Андреев в 2023 г. За ним могут стоять лидер Подольской ОПГ Сергей Лалакин и депутат Госдумы Борис Иванюженков, известный в определенных кругах под кличкой «Ротан». В 2000-х Андреев работал в курируемом ими спортивном клубе ФК «Витязь».



В июле 2022 г. гендиректором ООО «Донской камень» стал Олег Герасименко, с декабря 2023 г. он владеет ООО «КК «Эдельсевйс», учредителями которого ранее были Павел Андреев и Кирилл Комбаров. Это позволяет предположить связь между Андреевым и братьями Коротковыми через Герасименко.

Мошенники Владимир и Дмитрий Коротковы ведут свой бизнес в Ростовской, Тульской, Калужской и Свердловской областях. Бюджетные средства обналичиваются через ООО «Машпром» и ООО «ДК Карбонатные материалы», о чем ранее писал телеграм-канал ВЧК-ОГПУ.


Первым предприятием владеет Андрей Елагин. С 2015 г. по 2022 г. он был учредителем СИС ПК «Ростовский Выезд», которое с 2012 г. возглавляет Владимир Коротков. С 2021 г Елагин – руководитель ООО «ХК «ЗКУ», учредители которого – Владимир Коротков и Алесандр Киреевнин, судя по отчеству, сын партнера Коротковых по ООО «Донской камень» Алексея Киреевнина, который единолично владеет ООО «ДК Карбонатные материалы», учрежденное в Тульской области в 2020 г.


В 2023 г. ранее принадлежащее ООО «Донской камень» ростовское предприятие «Донвзрывпром» получило нового стратегического партнера – «Спецвмтех», связанного с госкорпорацией «Ростех», у Владимира Короткова осталось 20% ООО «Донвзрывпром». Братья вышли на новый уровень покровительства - одного из самых влиятельных людей России главы «Ростех» Сергея Чемезова».

Ранее телеграм-канал ВЧК-ОГПУ рассказывал, что владельцы группы компаний Донской камень, ростовские братья-мошенники Владимир и Дмитрий Коротковы, после поймавшей их в 2020 г. на обналичивании денег через ИП проверки Ростовской налоговой инспекции перенесли свой бизнес в Тульскую и Калужскую области. Миграция пошла на пользу. Масштабы хищения бюджетных средств из дорожных фондов по сфабрикованным товарно-транспортным накладным выросли многократно.

Обналичивание Коротковыми через ИП достигло в 2023 г. беспрецедентных 3 млрд.руб. по итогам 9 месяцев.

Также более 12 млрд.руб. ушли на обналичивание за топливо, оборудование, транспортные услуги.

Услуги кражи финансируемых бюджетом дорожных фондов пользуются бешенной популярностью у бюджетополучателей. Согласно данных СПАРКа выручка группы компаний мошенников – обнальщиков Коротковых выросла за 6 лет в 17 раз.

Схема очень проста и не требует реального производства строительных материалов. Компании-продавцы строительных материалов, а их две – ООО «Машпром» и ООО «ДК Карбонатные материалы», при необходимости отмыть бюджетные средства выставляют бюджетополучателю счет на оплату. Одновременно на завод, который якобы произвел и отгрузил данную продукцию направляется файл с указанием данных отгрузки, включая транспортное средство перевозчика, для того чтобы была сформирована товарно-транспортная накладная по якобы состоявшейся отгрузке строительных материалов.


Команду Коротковы подбирают себе в полном соответствии со своей мошеннической ориентацией – из жуликов более низкого полета.

Так в Калужской области их мошеннические схемы в судах обслуживает ранее привлекавшийся за мошенничество Стецюк И.А.

В Минприроды и другие госорганы в Калуге по поручениям Коротковых ходит Кондюрин С.Е., ранее привлекавшийся по ряду уголовных дел. А родственница Кондюрина С.Е – Кондюрина Ольга, привлекавшаяся в Москве к уголовной ответственности за продажу запрещенных устройств, фабрикует товарно-транспортные документы на ООО «ДК Калуга» и одновременно привлекает к сотрудничеству аффилированных перевозчиков для отмывания денег не только на поставках, но и на транспортных услугах, что приводит к удвоению доходов группы компаний Коротковых.

Губит мошенников, как обычно, жадность. В их театре абсурда забывают платить актерам заработную плату, при отчете недропользователя в налоговую инспекцию завышают объем отходов, пытаются получить лицензии недропользователя на скотомогильники и земли , прилегающие к населенным пунктам, вырубают пользующиеся режимом ОЗУ леса и не платят арендных платежей собственникам участков.



Денис Жирнов

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Источник: www.rucriminal.info

“This is the head of the department for the SEB of the FSB of Russia”

Before his disappearance, the banker testified against the curator of the intelligence services of the Laundromat laundering channel.

The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel published a copy of the interrogation protocol of banker Vladimir Antonov in the Laundromat case. As we found out, in December 2023, Antonov mysteriously disappeared from the mansion on Rublyovka and no one has seen him since then. Some of the banker's loved ones say they believe he is no longer alive. In his testimony, Antonov names all the heads of the Central Bank and the DIA known to him who were related to Laundromat:

“Platon explained to me in sufficient detail that he actually controls the entire financial sector of the Republic of Moldova, the leadership of the Central Bank of this country, and also interacts with employees of the Bank of Russia at various levels, namely with Roman Nikolaevich Paleev (worked in the Moscow main territorial department of the Bank of Russia, subordinate Galustyan Karen Askeanovich and Plyakin Alexey Vyacheslavovich), an employee of the central office of the Bank of Russia, Rubinov Dmitry, Simanovsky Alexey Aleksandrovich (deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia, supervising the supervision of Russian banks), Sukhov Mikhail Igorevich (responsible for the licensing activities of Russian banks). All of the listed officials of the Bank of Russia were responsible for the supervision of credit institutions. Also, Plato V.N. said that he maintains close relations with the first deputy director of the DIA, Valery Aleksandrovich Miroshnikov, who oversaw all Russian banks whose licenses were revoked by the Central Bank. Vyacheslav boasted that he had agreed with influential leaders of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian FSB on a scheme to withdraw funds from the Russian Federation in transit through his Moldovan banks.”

It is worth noting that no one from the Laundromat “roof” in the Central Bank, FSB, or Ministry of Internal Affairs was brought to justice. Just as bankers who still closely cooperate with the FSB of the Russian Federation were not involved. Also, Laundromat’s clients—officials and state corporations—were not brought to justice.

Who from the FSB oversaw the Laundromat? Rucriminal.info continues to publish a transcript of Vladimir Antonov’s testimony on the Laundromat spruce. In this testimony, Antonov names one such leader from the FSB - this is now the former head of the Directorate of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Viktor Voronin. According to the SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the second most important person in Laundromat was banker Alexander Korkin. According to witnesses, he was also responsible for interaction with the “roof” of the Laundromat. Antonov directly says that Korkin’s closest connection in the FSB of the Russian Federation was Voronin.


“About Pakhomov, have you met personally or not?

I saw him personally, but as I understand it, this is Slavin, the manager here, he is a former employee of the FSSP. Pakhomov’s task was very simple - to form a pool of nominee directors of companies and ensure the uninterrupted operation of the structure. Therefore, in my opinion, he is not a partner, but rather an important but manager.

Did Plato himself tell you any percentages? Maybe when he suggested that you work according to this scheme?

He offered me a reduced rate of 2.5%, cheap. But in 2006 we tightened all the screws so much that I didn’t need it. I honestly told him that Slav, I don’t have the number of clients you’re counting on, and, to be honest, I’m not going to do this for two reasons. First, because you can get a fair amount of mileage out of this, second, at that time the creative process with the Republic of Lithuania had just begun, extradition to Lithuania, and Lithuania is an EU country. This is a semi-automatic procedure; we tried to retain Ukrainian assets there. And I didn't see any economics in it. This economy sooner or later led to only one place - to prison.

No questions.

To the questions of lawyer T.A. Slepukhina:

You have repeatedly indicated that you were a large organization, one of the largest and loudest banking groups, but I still did not understand which organization you were talking about?

I was the owner of Converse Group, which included 10 banks in 10 countries. The most famous is Snores, in Russia it was called Converse Bank, then Invest Bank. In Latvia – Latvian Savings Bank.

Converse Bank - was it a credit institution of the Russian Federation or was it a representative office of a foreign bank?

This is a Russian bank that had a subsidiary in the UK and Ukraine.

Does Converse Bank still exist or has it ceased to exist?

It was merged with Investbank in 2009. In 2010, Investbank was sold.

That is, since 2010 you have not been the owner of a credit institution registered in the Russian Federation?

They showed up, we had two more banks. Yenisei, which was later stolen from us, and Baikalinvestbank. Yenisei was eventually sold to Vlasov and followed the same story, and Baikalinvestbank exists today and is called Bank Realist.

In what year did the Yenisei leave your possession?

2012 beginning.

What about Baikalinvest?

Simultaneously in 2012 along with the Yenisei.

That is, since 2012 you have not had a credit institution in the Russian Federation?

Since 2012 the last credit institution, which I had on the territory of Ukraine. All other credit institutions do not belong to us, control over them is either lost or lost.

That is, in 2013 there were no longer credit institutions in the Russian Federation?

Yes.

Based on your testimony, your credit institution was not a participant in the “Moldovan scheme”?

Since 2006, such operations have been prohibited in the group as a whole.

Nevertheless, you tell in great detail...

I know this market very well.

Describe in more detail the technical side of performing operations to withdraw funds outside the territory of the Russian Federation?

You open in a Russian bank, which is in this chain a simple LLC, which you bought on the Internet from such gentlemen whom you represent, who will provide you with the entire service, starting with the registration of the LLC, the corresponding OKVED documents for it, the director, the founder, the keys to the client bank , everything in general. You open an account for such an LLC. If you do not want to buy such an LLC, then the bank will give you details for the specific purpose of the payment that you need. For example, you can send money only for a phone or paper, and the bank will give you such an LLC. Then you get access to the client bank, which is called GUVRA, the main department of virtual settlements.

Who provides access?

Bank. The bank opens an account, which is called whatever you want, not digital, and you receive such a code/nickname. If you are not a wholesale client, but an end client, put a non-cash ruble into this account, either yours or the one they gave you. Inside, you throw it as you want, or according to the correspondent accounts inside the harness. After that, when you need to send something somewhere, you tell the bank about it via the Internet, or via voice, how the bank works and how it is accepted. You buy the currency and give details of where to send it and for what purpose, this also matters.

And a legal entity buys currency. Face?

A legal entity buys currency from the bank. And the bank buys currency on the stock exchange. If this is a non-resident bank, and Moldincom is not a resident, then it buys through a Russian bank, which buys either on the stock exchange or on the interbank market.

That is, in your opinion, a legal entity buys currency, no matter with or without the help of a bank, and then transfers the purchased currency to the bank account of another legal entity located outside the Russian Federation?

This is possible. It can be done differently. You can make it a resident ruble, that is, you have a correspondent account opened within a Russian bank of a foreign bank, and a legal entity is opened in a foreign bank. Let's call it Romashka Limited. (a little idle chatter) Moldincom opens a correspondent account in RZB. A legal entity has been opened in Moldincom. A legal entity has been opened in the RZB. Accordingly, you can make transactions related to currency control and place the ruble inside the RZB on a legal entity opened in Moldincom. Bet and then Moldincom bought the currency from whomever he wanted, he can make a direct interbank transaction, or a transaction through a given Russian bank, it all depends on the exchange rate and what figure the bank will give you at the end, and send it wherever he wants.

And the payment order must be generated by a legal entity and it indicates that it wants from Vasilek LLC, which is openly allowed in the RZB, to be transferred to Romashka LLC, which is open in Moldincom in rubles, but now our Russian bank is all inside?

If you have your own legal entity, and you take the client-bank wires yourself, or bring them with your hands, then yes. But if you are a client of GUVRA, then no. Then you have a manager or an Internet communication channel.

I’m not talking about the specifics of execution, but in the sense that it should still come from a legal entity...

I understand very well what you are getting at, I will answer your question differently. Emulating the work of legal entities or individuals within the bank and giving them a legal appearance, this is the work of your ward. But this is just emulation. But if you start looking at the chain of these companies, even without being an expert, you will very quickly realize that this is just emulation. Moreover, of course, it is necessary to emulate the appearance of real activity, real banking activity, this is certainly true. There is no other way. If you are talking about the fact that all these payments that were carried out by all these wonderful banks, they simply did not know what they were doing, then this is like a children's song.

That's not what I asked. I asked about the fact that the path of funds was formed by the legal entity itself...

Either a client of a legal entity, or the bank did it for a client who was not a client of the bank. I mean, he was a client of a white bank, but he was a client of GUVRA.

But in any case, it was initially necessary to indicate a legal entity in Moldova as the recipient when creating a payment order?

It can be in Moldova, it can be abroad. Possible in Russia. There is a non-resident ruble - not repulsed, there is a resident ruble - not repulsed. There are different dollar, there are different euro.

To questions from the court (woman):

Can you explain to the uninitiated what is repulsed and not repulsed? Recaptured – which one is already legal?

Kicked means it has already passed exchange control and is ready for shipment.

Is it clean?

It's not clean. ABOUT If you have passed currency control, the bank, having carried out currency control, allows you to buy currency and send you this ruble to your destination in the form of any other currency.

And not repulsed?

And this is a ruble that did not pass exchange control, that is, the money arrived in the current account.

Was there no further movement?

Because an export/import contract or grounds for payment abroad have not been provided. You have to have a reason. But in our country, payments abroad are allowed up to 50 thousand dollars without any reason (study, treatment). And in this case, the bank must carry out control.

That is, money has been deposited into the account of a legal entity that is opened in a bank, without rubles being recaptured, they will be recaptured when there is a legal basis for this amount, which gives the legality of all transactions, and they have already passed control, checking contracts, become recaptured and they can already be listed wherever you please?

Yes.

To the questions of lawyer T.A. Slepukhina:

But we only need currency control for foreign economic transactions, right?

Yes.

Those. If we have a transfer from resident to resident, is exchange control necessary?

When transferring within the country, no.

There are no concepts of a broken and unbroken ruble here?

It's just a ruble.

From your answers, I didn’t quite understand, to which bank and in which country were the writs of execution provided? Were the writs of execution issued by Moldova or Russia?

No, well, ultimately, the Moldovan writ of execution cannot be paid in our country without validation by a Russian court. If you bring me a foreign writ of execution to the bank, I will not pay for it and will not execute it.

Which bank received the writ of execution from which country?

In my understanding, a Russian writ of execution is submitted to a Russian bank in order for the decision of a foreign court to be applied on the territory of the Russian Federation.

According to the described Moldovan scheme, an executive order issued by a court of general jurisdiction or an arbitration court of the Russian Federation was brought to our Russian bank?

Yes.

Judge (female):

Comrade lawyer, after all, these were decisions of the Moldovan courts, but which were accordingly recognized for execution, yes.

Antonov: there is a reverse side to this scheme, when Russian money, not recovered, located in a correspondent account in a Moldovan bank is written off by decision of a Moldovan court in a Moldovan bank and, accordingly, you bring to the Moldovan bank a writ of execution or a decision of a Moldovan court in Chisinau, you money in the RZB correspondent account, belonging to the company that is opened in the RZB and you simply write it off by court decision. That is, it can be this way, or it can be that way.

To questions from the court (woman):

Could it be both?

Yes.

How was it?

Well, faster if there was money in Moldova. Just look, if you keep a balance in a correspondent account in Moldova, then why don’t your risk assessment departments scream like victims that you have such balances in a territory in which all banks, to put it mildly, raise questions. This is not logical. Why don’t you keep your money in Raiffeisen, but in Moldova? And when you take the balance sheet and look at the turnover on correspondent accounts in normal banks in your Russian bank and in Moldova. No, well, you can, of course, say that the tariffs are lower there.

To the questions of lawyer T.A. Slepukhina:

If you have not participated in the “Moldovan scheme” since 2006, then how can you explain such close communication with Plato and other names that you voiced? And during what period of time this communication took place.

We have known Plato since the mid-2000s. I say again, he was our correspondent in the Baltic states and in Panama, and in England, Ukraine. We communicated constantly, we had friendly relations. His banks were not only black businesses, it was a big bank, they worked a lot through us. Moreover, they did not have correspondent accounts like ours, and in the Baltic states after 2005 it was very difficult with American accounts. We had 5 correspondent accounts in America. They paid simply cheap, regular payments.

During what period of time did you communicate in great detail according to the “Moldovan scheme”?

We communicated with Slava until my return here and after my return here. I have known him for more than 10 years and we keep in touch constantly. We definitely communicated until 2015.

No questions.

To the questions of lawyer R.S. Zakalyuzhny:

You said you were back? Do you mean the Russian Federation?

Yes.

How long were you away?

From 2009 from March to February 2015.

Have you not been to the Russian Federation?

No.

That is, you weren’t there in ’12, ’13, ’14?

No.

Please tell me, you mentioned that you saw Pakhomov, in what year?

In 2015, I think, in St. Petersburg. I don't remember exactly. Either St. Petersburg or Moscow.

Was this the first time you saw him?

When I arrived, unfortunately, I had a desire to return to the world in which I initially developed as an entrepreneur, and I have already said that this desire was wrong, I began to interact with the entire banking and banking community. Therefore, under what circumstances and where exactly I don’t remember, however, when Slava and I discussed in 2012, later in 2013, our potential ideal opportunity to participate in these types of transactions, since no one really thought that this was bad, he repeatedly explained to me who is responsible for what on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Why did he explain this?

So that I understand, if suddenly we want to do something, with whom to interact, and who these people are. You take other people's money and send it somewhere, that is, you should know.

So you didn’t have a bank in the Russian Federation?

In order to engage in this type of business, a bank is not required.

And what did Plato tell you about Pakhomov? As I understand it, at the time when he spoke, you did not know Pakhomov?

No. I’m not saying that I knew him, and I never said that I knew him and communicated with him. I’m only talking about what I found out through conversations with Vyacheslav that the power block is designed this way and that, and the operating block is designed this way and that.

In addition to the “Moldavian scheme,” did Platon have a legal business in the Russian Federation?

As far as I know, he had a good set of real estate in the Russian Federation, and his business was mainly concentrated in Moldova and Ukraine. In Ukraine he had quite a lot of non-banking assets.

And in the Russian Federation?

In the Russian Federation, I only know about real estate and financial transactions.

Was this property residential or non-residential?

As a rule, when people tell me that they have a Federation Tower business center, I don’t ask questions myself, it’s somehow not very polite, and it wasn’t very interesting to me.

That is, you have never seen Pakhomov in any of the banks?

Personally, I don’t.

And you also don’t know which directors of which companies he communicated with?

Personally, I don’t.

No questions.

To the questions of lawyer Golyshev:

According to your testimony, you met Sobolev in 2015, can you remember the month?

I can say for sure that it was the summer of 2015, because in August 2015 we started working on Sovetsky, and questions about its financial condition arose quite quickly, after which Stanislav Metrushin said that this part of the issues was beyond his competence.

How many times have you personally met Sobolev?

Repeatedly. I can’t answer for sure, definitely more than 3, maybe 4-5.

Were all your meetings with Sobolev in one way or another connected with the Sovetsky Bank and your interests?

One meeting was not related to Sovetsky Bank, when Sobolev invited us to talk with Energomash Bank in St. Petersburg. The remaining meetings were related only to the Soviet. Because there was no topic, Soviet was already in rehabilitation and there was nothing to talk about.

In your understanding, when did the “Moldovan scheme” stop working?

I think that when the banking system exploded in Moldova, 2015, probably. While Baltika Bank was operating, you need to understand when its license was revoked, this was clearly after 2015, probably 2016, the scheme worked.

Do you know any facts about Sobolev’s participation in the “Moldavian scheme” in the period 2013-2014?

Apart from the information I just told you, I don’t know anything else.

The lawyer repeated the question again. The question has been removed.

In your understanding, did Sobolev participate in the “Moldavian scheme” in the period from 2013 to 2014 inclusive?

Since the scheme worked longer, in my understanding, I participated.

Where did this information come from, who told it to you?

I have already answered the question of how I know Sobolev and the information about what participation Sobolev took in this scheme, I also know from the same Grigoriev, when I met him in 2012-2103 in London.

From whom specifically, besides Grigoriev, do you have information about Sobolev’s participation in the “Moldavian scheme”?

From Grigoriev and Mitrushin. From Plato.

When did you receive this information?

The first time I received this information was from Grigoriev in early-mid 2013, from Mitrushin I received information in the summer of 2015, from Plato I received information after I discovered Moldovan passports and a lot of interesting transactions with Sovetsky shares inside Sovetsky’s balance sheet, and I called myself Glory in 2015 in early September.

Personally, have you encountered any facts that indicate Sobolev’s involvement in the Moldavian scheme?

No.

Do you confirm the existence of a conflict between you and Sobolev related to Sovetsky Bank?

No.

No questions.

To the questions of lawyer Gravin:

Please tell me, have you met Korkin in person?

No business.

Have you seen Korkina in person before today?

Yes.

When and under what circumstances?

I saw, probably, in the year 2010 at events, when we still maintained a relationship with Gorbuntsov, we were still communicating. It was one of the events in some party places or restaurants in Moscow.

You say that since 2009...

I came. We worked here, our parents are here.

Under what circumstances?

Household.

Under what circumstances did you meet Korkin in 2010?

We communicated quite closely with Gorbuntsov, Mendeleev, and attended joint events, since there was only one party, nothing bad. Korkin came into our field of view, the field of view of the security service, because the security service made a rather negative opinion regarding the life ity of this person. We didn't communicate further. Moreover, Chuvilin told me about Korkin that I would need to talk with Korkin and settle my issues with Mr. Voronin. This is the head of the department for the SEB of the FSB of Russia. These are exactly the people who oversee the banking and financial sector of the Russian Federation and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

At parties, when you talked with Korkin, he told you...

Did I say that I communicated with him, I said that I saw him.

Seen each other, but didn’t communicate on business?

No.

Why did Korkin come to the attention of your security service?

The security service was required to keep track of everyone around me. Since there were different situations in life, any counterparty was checked completely and from all sides.”







To be continued

Timofey Grishin

Source: www.rucriminal.info

«Это руководитель управления К СЭБ ФСБ России»

Перед исчезновением банкир дал показания на куратора от спецслужб отмывочного канала «Ландромат»





Телеграм-канал ВЧК-ОГПУ опубликовал копию протокола допроса банкира Владимира Антонова по делу «Ландромата». Как мы выяснили, в декабре 2023 года Антонов загадочно исчез из особняка на Рублевке и с тех пор его никто не видел. Некоторые из близких банкира говорят, что считают, будто его уже нет в живых. В своих показаниях Антонов называет всех известных ему руководителей ЦБ и АСВ, которые имели отношение к «Ландромату»:

«Платон достаточно подробно объяснил мне, что фактически контролирует весь финансовый сектор Республики Молдова, руководство Центрального банка этой страны, а также взаимодействует с сотрудниками Банка России на различных уровнях, а именно с Палеевым Романом Николаевичем (работал в Московском главном территориальном управлении Банка России, подчиненным у Галустьяна Карена Аскеановича и Плякина Алексея Вячеславовича), сотрудником центрального аппарата Банка России Рубиновым Дмитрием, Симановским Алексеем Юрьевичем (заместителем председателя Банка России, курирующим надзор за банками России), Суховым Михаилом Игоревичем (отвечал за лицензионную деятельность российских банков). Все перечисленные должностные лица Банка России отвечали за надзор за кредитными организациями. Также, Платон В.Н. рассказал, что поддерживает близкие отношения с первым заместителем директора АСВ Мирошниковым Валерием Александровичем, который курировал все российские банки, у которых ЦБ отзывал лицензии. Вячеслав хвастался, что он согласовал с влиятельными руководителями МВД России и ФСБ России схему по выводу денежных средств из Российской Федерации транзитом через свои молдавские банки».



Стоит отметить, что никто из «крыши» «Ландромата» в ЦБ, ФСБ, МВД привлечен к ответственности не был. Как и не были привлечены банкиры, до сих пор тесно сотрудничающие с ФСБ РФ. Также не были привлечены к ответственности клиенты «Ландромата»- чиновники, госкорпорации.

Кто из ФСБ курировал Ландромат? Rucriminal.info продолжает публиковать расшифровку показаний Владимира Антонова по «елу Ландромата». В этих показаниях Антонов называет одного такого руководителя из ФСБ- это сейчас уже бывший руководитель Управления К ФСБ РФ Виктор Воронин. По версии СД МВД РФ, вторым человеком по значимости в «Ландромате» был банкир Александр Коркин. По показаниям свидетелей, среди прочно он отвечал и за взаимодействие с «крышей» «Ландромата». Антонов прямо говорит, что ближайшей связью Коркин в ФСБ РФ был Воронин.

«По поводу Пахомова, вы лично встречались или нет?

Я лично его видел, но я так понимаю, что это Славин менеджер здесь, он бывший сотрудник ФССП. У Пахомова задача была очень простая – это сформировать пул номинальных директоров компаний, обеспечить бесперебойную работу конструкции. Поэтому, по моему мнению, он не является партнером, а является, скорее, важным, но менеджером.

Вам Платон сам называл какие-то проценты? Может быть, когда предлагал Вам работать по данной схеме?

Он мне предлагал по льготному тарифу 2,5%, дешево. Но мы в 2006 году так все гайки закрутили, что мне это было не нужно. Я ему честно сказал, что Слав, у меня нет того количества клиентов, на которое ты рассчитываешь, и, если честно, то я не собираюсь заниматься этим по двум причинам. Первое, потому что на этом можно подлететь изрядно, второе, у меня тогда с Литовской республикой только начался творческий процесс, экстрадиция в Литву, а Литва это страна ЕС. Это полуавтоматическая процедура, мы там пытались удерживать украинские активы. И я не видел в этом никакой экономики. Эта экономика рано или поздно приводила только в одно место – в тюрьму.

Вопросов нет.

На вопросы адвоката Слепухиной Т.А.:

Вы неоднократно указали, что были крупной организацией, одной из самых больших и громких банковских групп, но я так и не поняла про какую организацию Вы говорили?

Я был собственником Конверс групп, в которую входило 10 банков в 10 странах. Самый известный Снорес, в России он назывался Конверс банк, потом Инвест банк. В Латвии – Латвийский сберегательный банк.

Конверс банк – это было кредитное учреждение РФ или было представительство иностранного банка?

Это Российский банк, у которого была дочка в Великобритании и Украине.

Конверс банк существует или прекратил свое существование?

Он был присоединен к Инвестбанку в 2009 году. В 2010 году Инвестбанк был продан.

То есть с 2010 года Вы не являлись владельцев кредитного учреждения, зарегистрированного на территории РФ?

Являлись, у нас было еще два банка. Енисей, который был позднее у нас похищен, и Байкалинвестбанк. Енисей был в итоге продан Власову и лег по ту же самую историю, а Байкалинвестбанк на сегодняшний день существует и называется Банк Реалист.

Енисей в каком году выбыл из вашего владения?

2012 начало.

А Байкалинвест?

Одновременно в 2012 вместе с Енисеем.

То есть с 2012 года у Вас нет кредитного учреждения на территории РФ?

С 2012 последнее кредитное учреждение, которое у меня было на территории Украины. Все остальные кредитные учреждения нам не принадлежат, контроль над ними либо утрачен, либо потерян.

То есть 2013 году в РФ уже не было кредитных организаций?

Да.

Исходя из Ваших показаний, участником «молдавской схемы» Ваше кредитное учреждение не являлось?

С 2006 года подобные операции были запрещены в группе в целом вообще.

Тем не менее Вы очень подробно рассказываете…

Я очень хорошо ориентируюсь в этом рынке.

Опишите более подробно именно техническую сторону по совершению операций по выводу денежных средств за пределы территории РФ?

Вы открываете в Российском банке, который стоит в этой цепочке простую ООО, которую купили в интернете у таких господ, которых Вы представляете, которые весь сервис начиная с регистрации ООО, соответствующих ОКВЭДов под нее, вам предоставят директора, учредителя, ключи от клиент-банка, вообще все. Вы открываете счет такой ООО. Если Вы не хотите купить такую ООО, то в банке Вам дадут реквизиты под конкретное назначение платежа, который Вам нужен. Вот, вы например можете отправить деньги только за телефон или бумагу, и Вам в банке дадут такую ООО. Дальше вы получаете доступ в клиент-банк, которые называется ГУВРА, главное управление виртуальных расчетов.

А доступ кто предоставляет?

Банк. Банк заводит счет, который называется как вы захотите, не цифровой, и вы получаете такой код/никнейм. Если вы не оптовый клиент, а конечный клиент, ставите рубль безналичный на этот счет, либо на ваш, либо, который вам дали. Внутри вы перебрасываете его как хотите, либо по кор.счетам внутри обвязки. После этого, когда вам нужно что-то куда-то отправить, то вы говорите об этом банку через интернет, либо через голос, как банк работает и как у него это принято. Откупаете валюту и даете реквизиты куда отправить и с каким назначением, это тоже имеет значение.

А покупает валюту юр. Лицо?

Валюту у банка покупает юр.лицо. А банк валюту покупает на бирже. Если это банк не резидент, а Молдинком не резидент, то он покупает через российский банк, который покупает либо на бирже, либо на межбанке.

То есть, по Вашему мнению, юридическое лицо покупает валюту неважно с помощью или без помощи банка, а потом уже купленную валюту перечисляет на расчетный счет другого юридического лица, находящегося уже за пределами РФ?

Можно так. Можно сделать по-другому. Можно сделать резидентным рублем, то есть у вас открыт кор.счет внутри российского банка иностранного банка, а в иностранном банке открыто юр.лицо. Назовем его Ромашка лимитед. (немного пустой болтовни) Молдинком открывает в РЗБ кор.счет. В Молдинкоме открыто юр.лицо. В РЗБ открыто юр.лицо. Соответственно, вы можете сделать операции, связанные с валютным контролем и поставить рубль внутри РЗБ на юр.лицо ,открытое в Молдинкоме. Ставите и дальше уже Молдинком купил валюту у кого захотел, он может сделать прямую интербанк сделку, может сделку через данный российский банк, все зависит от курса и какую фигуру вам поставит банк в конце, и отправил куда захотел.

А платежное поручение должно формировать юр.лицо и оно указывает, что оно хочет от ООО Василек, которое открыто допустим в РЗБ перевести в ООО Ромашка, которое открыто в Молдинкоме в рубля, а вот уже наш российский банк все внутри?

Если у Вас есть Ваше юр.лицо, и Вы берете сами провода клиент-банка, или руками приносите, то тогда да. А если Вы клиент ГУВРА, то нет. То у Вас есть менеджер или интернет канал общения.

Я не про частности исполнения, а в том плане, что все равно должно поступить именно от юридического лица…

Я очень хорошо понимаю к чему Вы клоните, я отвечу на Ваш вопрос по-другому. Эмуляция работы юридических или физических лиц внутри банка и придание им законного вида, это и есть работа Вашего подопечного. Но это всего лишь эмуляция Но если Вы начнете рассматривать цепочку этих компаний, даже не будучи специалистом, Вы очень быстро поймете, что это всего лишь эмуляция. Более того, конечно, надо эмулировать видимость реальной деятельности, реальной банковской деятельности, это безусловно так. По-другому никак не получится. Если Вы говорите о том, что эти все платежи, которые проводили все эти прекрасные банки, они просто не знали что они делали, то это как детская песня.

Я не это спрашивала. Я спрашивала о том, что путь денежных средств формировало сам юридическое лицо…

Либо клиент юридического лица, либо это делал банк для клиента, который не был клиентом банка. В смысле клиентом белого банка, а был клиентом ГУВРА.

Но в любом случае именно изначально при формировании платежного поручения необходимо было указать получателем юридическое лицо в Молдавии?

Можно в Молдавии, можно за границей. Можно в России. Есть не резидентный рубль – не отбитый, есть резидентный рубль – не отбитый. Есть разный доллар, есть разный евро.

На вопросы суда (женщина):

Можно пояснить не посвященным отбитый и не отбитый? Отбитый – это который уже легальный?

Отбитый означает уже прошедший валютный контроль и готовый к отправке.

Он чистый?

Он не чистый. Он прошел валютный контроль, банк проведя валютный контроль разрешает вам купить валюту и отправить вам в точку назначения этот рубль в виде иной любой валюты.

А не отбитый?

А это рубль, который не прошел валютный контроль, то есть деньги поступили на расчетный счет.

А дальнейшего движения не было?

Потому что не предоставлен контракт экспротно/импортный, или основания для платежа за границу. Надо же основания иметь. А у нас платежи за границу разрешены до 50 тысяч долларов без оснований (учеба, лечение). А в данном случае банк должен провести контроль.

То есть на тот счет юр.лица, который открыт в банке зашли деньги, неотбитыве рубли, они отбиты будут тогда, когда под эту сумму будет правовое основание, которое придает легальность всех сделок, и они уже, пройдя контроль, проверив контракты, становятся отбитыми и их уже можно будет перечислять куда заблагорассудится?

Да.

На вопросы адвоката Слепухиной Т.А.:

Но валютный контроль у нас необходим только для внешнеэкономических сделок, правильно?

Да.

Т.е. если у нас перевод от резидента к резиденту, то валютный контроль необходим?

При переводе внутри страны нет.

Здесь нет понятий отбитый и не отбитый рубль?

Это просто рубль.

Из Ваших ответов я не совсем поняла, а в какой банк и какой страны предоставлялись исполнительные листы? Исполнительные листы были выданы Молдавией или Россией?

Нет, ну в конечном счете молдавский исполнительный лист не может быть оплачен в нашей стране без валидации российским судом. Если Вы принесете мне в банк иностранный исполнительный лист, я его не оплачу и не исполню.

В какой банк исполнительный лист какой страны приносился?

В моем понимании российский исполнительный лист в российский банк для того, чтобы примененное решение иностранного суда на территории РФ.

По той описанной молдавской схеме в наш российский банк приносился исполнительный лиц, выданный судом общей юрисдикции или арбитражным судом РФ?

Да.

Судья (женщина):

Товарищ адвокат, все таки это были решения молдавских судов, но которые были соответствующе признаны для исполнения да.

Антонов: есть обратная сторона этой схемы, когда российские деньги не отбитые, находящиеся на кор.счете в молдавском банке списываются по решению молдавского суда в молдавском банке и, соответственно, вы приносите в молдавский банк исполнительный лист или решение молдавского суда в Кишеневе, у вас деньги на кор.счете РЗБ, принадлежащие компании, которая открыва в РЗБ и вы их просто списываете по решению суда. То есть можно так, а можно так.

На вопросы суда (женщина):

Могло быть и то и другое?

Да.

А как было?

Ну быстрее, если были деньги в Молдавии. Просто смотрите, если вы держите остаток на кор.счете в Молдавии, то почему ваши департаменты по оценке рисков не вопят как потерпевшие ,что у вас такие остатки на территории, в которой все банки, мягко говоря, вызывают вопросы. Это же не логично. Почему вы не держите свои деньги в Райфайзене, а держите в Молдавии. И когда вы берете оборотно-сальдовую ведомость и смотрите какие обороты по кор.счетам в нормальных банках у вашего российского банка и в Молдавии. Нет, ну можно, конечно, сказать, что там тарифы ниже.

На вопросы адвоката Слепухиной Т.А.:

Если Вы не участвовали в «молдавской схеме» с 2006 года, то как Вы поясните такое плотное общение с Платоном и с иными фамилиями, которые Вы озвучивали? И в какой период времени это общение было.

С Платоном мы знакомы с середины 2000-х. Я еще раз говорю, он был нашим корреспондентом в Прибалтике и в Панаме, и в Англии, Украине. Мы общались постоянно, у нас были приятельские отношения. В его банках был не только черный бизнес, это был большой банк, они много через нас работали. Более того, у них не было таких корреспондентских счетов, как у нас, а у нас в Прибалтике после 2005 года было очень сложно с американскими счетами. У нас было 5 кор.счетов в Америке. Платили просто дешево, обычные платежи.

В какой период времени Вы очень подробно общались по «молдавской схеме»?

Мы общались со Славой вплоть до моего возвращения сюда и после моего возвращения сюда. Я с ним знаком больше 10 лет и мы с ним поддерживаем взаимоотношения постоянно. До 2015 года точно общались.

Вопросов нет.

На вопросы адвоката Закалюжного Р.С.:

Вы сказали, что вернулись? Вы имеете ввиду РФ?

Да.

А сколько Вы отсутствовали?

С 2009 года с марта по февраль 2015.

Вас в РФ не было?

Нет.

То есть 12,13, 14 год Вы не были?

Нет.

Скажите, пожалуйста, Вы упомянули, что видели Пахомова, в каком году?

В 2015 году, по-моему, в Петербурге. Не помню точно. То ли Петербург, то ли Москва.

Это Вы его первый раз увидели?

Когда я приехал у меня, к сожалению, возникло желание вернуться в тот мир, в котором я изначально развивался как предприниматель, и я уже говорил, что это желание было ошибочным, я начал взаимодействовать со всей абсолютно банковской и околобанковской общественностью. Поэтому при каких обстоятельствах и где точно я не помню, однако, когда мы со Славой в 2012 году обсуждали, позднее в 2013 году, нашу потенциальную возможность участия в этих видах транзакций, так как правда никто не считал, что это плохо, то он неоднократно мне объяснял кто за что у него отвечает на территории РФ.

А для чего он это объяснял?

Для того, чтобы я понимал, если вдруг мы захотим что-то делать, с кем взаимодействовать, и кто эти люди. Вы же чужие деньги берете и куда-то их отправляете, то есть Вы же должны знать.

Так у Вас же не было банка в РФ?

Для того, чтобы заниматься этим видом бизнеса банк не обязателен.

И что Вам рассказал Платон о Пахомове? Я так понимаю, что на тот момент, когда он рассказывал, Вы Пахомова не знали?

Нет. Я и не говорю, что я его знал, и не разу не сказал то, что я его знал и с ним общался. Я говорю лишь о том, что выяснил путем разговоров с Вячеславом о том, что силовой блок устроен так и так, и операционный блок устроен так и так.

У Платона помимо «молдавской схемы» был легальный бизнес в РФ?

На сколько мне известно, у него был набор недвижимости неплохой в РФ, а в основном его бизнес был сконцентрирован в Молдавии и Украине. В Украине у него было достаточно много небанковских активов.

А В РФ?

В РФ мне известно только о недвижимости и финансовых операциях.

Эта недвижимость была жилая или не жилая?

Как правило, когда мне люди рассказывают, что у них есть бизнес-центр Башня Федерация, я сам вопросы не задаю, это как-то не очень вежливо, и мне это было не сильно интересно.

То есть Пахомова в каком-либо из банков Вы никогда не видели?

Лично я – нет.

И с какими директорами каких компаний он общался Вы тоже не знаете?

Лично я – нет.

Вопросов нет.

На вопросы адвоката Голышева:

Согласно Вашим показаниям, Вы познакомились с Соболевым в 2015 году, можете вспомнить месяц?

Я могу точно сказать, что это было лето 2015, потому что в августе 2015 мы начали заниматься Советским, и вопросы по его фин.состоянию возникли довольно быстро, после чего Станислав Метрушин сказал, что эта часть вопросов лежит вне его компетенции.

А сколько раз Вы лично встречались с Соболевым?

Несколько раз. Я не могу точно ответить, точно больше 3, может 4-5.

Все ли Ваши встречи с Соболевым были так или иначе связаны с банком Советским и Вашими интересами?

Одна встреча была связана не с банком Советским, когда Соболев предложил нам пообщаться с Энергомаш банком в СПб. Остальные встречи были связаны только с Советским. Потому, что не было темы, Советский уже был в санации и не о чем было говорить.

В Вашем понимании, когда «молдавская схема» закончила работать?

Думаю, что когда в Молдавии взорвалась банковская система, 2015 год, наверно. Пока работал банк Балтика, надо понять когда у него была отозвана лицензия, это явно было после 2015 года, наверно 2016 год, схема работала.

Известны ли Вам какие-либо факты об участии Соболева в «молдавской схеме» в период 2013-2014 года?

Кроме как информации, которую я Вам только что рассказал, мне не известно иное.

Адвокат еще раз повторил вопрос. Вопрос снят.

В Вашим понимании, участвовал ли Соболев в «молдавской схеме» в период с 2013 по 2014 год включительно?

Поскольку схема работала дольше, в моем понимании, участвовал.

Откуда данная информация, кто Вам ее сообщил?

Я уже отвечал на вопрос откуда я знаю Соболева и информацию о том, какое участие принимал Соболев в этой схеме, я также знаю от того же Григорьева, когда встречался с ним в 2012-2103 годах в городе Лондон.

От кого конкретно кроме Григорьева у Вас имеется информация об участии Соболева в «молдавской схеме»?

От Григорьева и от Митрушина. От Платона.

Когда Вы эту информацию получили?

Первый раз я эту информацию получил от Григорьева в начале-середине 2013, от Митрушина я получил информацию летом в 2015, от Платона я получил информацию после того, как я обнаружил молдавские паспорта и массу интересных сделок с акциями Советского внутри баланса Советского, и сам позвонил Славе в 2015 году в начале сентября.

Лично Вы ни с какими фактами, которые свидетельствуют о причастности Соболева к Молдавской схеме Вы не сталкивались?

Нет.

Подтверждаете ли Вы наличие между Вами и Соболевым конфликта, имеющего отношение к банку Советский?

Нет.

Вопросов нет.

На вопросы адвоката Гравина:

Скажите, пожалуйста, Вы с Коркиным лично встречались?

По делам нет.

Вы Коркина до сегодняшнего дня лично видели?

Да.

Когда и при каких обстоятельствах?

Я видел, наверно, в году 2010 на мероприятиях, когда мы еще поддерживали взаимоотношения с Горбунцовым еще у нас шло общение. Это было какое-то из мероприятий в каких-то тусовочных местах или ресторанах в Москве.

Вы же говорите что с 2009 года…

Я же приезжал. Мы же работали здесь, родители здесь.

При каких обстоятельствах?

Бытовых.

При каких обстоятельствах Вы познакомились в 2010 с Коркиным?

Мы достаточно плотно общались с Горбунцовым, Менделеевым, и посещали совместные мероприятия, поскольку тусовка была одна, ничего плохого. Коркин попадал в наше поле зрения, поле зрения службы безопасности потому, что служба безопасности вынесла достаточно негативное мнение относительно жизнедеятельности этого человека. Мы не общались дальше. Более того, о Коркине мне рассказывал Чувилин, что мне бы надо бы пообщаться с Коркиным и урегулировать свои вопросы с господином Ворониным. Это руководитель управления К СЭБ ФСБ России. Это ровно те люди, которые занимаются курированием банковского и финансового сектора РФ и ЦБ РФ.

На тусовках, когда Вы общались с Коркиным, он Вам рассказывал…

Я разве сказал, что я с ним общался, я сказал, что я видел.

Виделись, но по делам не общались?

Нет.

Почему Коркин попал в поле зрения Вашей службы безопасности?

Служба безопасности обязана была отслеживать всех кто окружал меня. Поскольку были разные ситуации в жизни, любой контрагент проверялся всецело и со всех сторон».









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Тимофей Гришин

Источник: www.rucriminal.info

"High-level landings expected"

Members of the most powerful empire of fixers are ready to set each other up




In 2014, Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz, one of the bloody Tsapkovskys, was sentenced to a long term. Among his many lawyers was the famous defense attorney Murad Musaev, this is exactly the lawyer, the brother of Muslim Musaev, who is trying to figure out the “Fedyakina case” on his “fingers”; it was he who sent Murad to the pre-trial detention center to Bitmama to find out where she was hiding the money. The role and interest of the Musaevs in the Bitmama case will “surprise” everyone.

A couple of years after the verdict, Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz’s wife, Natalya Strishnaya, divorces her husband, takes away all his property, everything he had, and even the inheritance left after the death of his mother, Tamara Tsepovyaz. Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz, left with nothing, decided to sue for his property by going to court. It was possible to share that, among the large amount of property, the most interesting asset was the family business LLC OPH “Slava Kubani” (agricultural land of about 15 thousand hectares).

According to the source of Rucriminal.info, it was at this moment, in this trial between the former spouses and not independently, but under the full control of the Pokrovsky organized crime group led by Andrei Korovayko, that Nikolai Gordik appeared, it was he who later became Nikolai Zakharov, in court for now as a third party. Gordik (Zakharov) requires a separate publication, because he is both a “victim”, and a “magician and sorcerer”, and a “fraudster”, and “director of non-existent companies”, etc.

The trial was conducted by the no less interesting oligarch judge of the Kushchevsky District Court, I.S. Korobkov. We will not go into the details of the trial, we will only say that, until a certain stage, one party is Murad Musaev with his trustee Natalya Strishnya (former Natalya Tsepovyaz), by this time he was representing her interests, and Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz is already with other lawyers in this The issue was opposed by OPS Andrey Korovayko. One instance is in favor of the first, the second in favor of the others, and so on in two circles. But, soon, Andrei Korovayko was first put on the federal, then international wanted list, almost all participants in the organized crime group were detained, some are in the Moscow pre-trial detention center, others are still in the Pyatigorsk pre-trial detention center. Among those arrested are lawyers, financial managers, and so far about 10 “victims.” Then, a new face appears in this story, namely lawyer-solver Oleg Popov with his law office “A-pro”. Korovayko himself invited him to this raider story, since he was exsanguinated, he himself fled to Europe, since he really wanted to complete this project, since a lot of effort and money had been spent. Oleg Popov positions himself as decided No. 1, boasts, or rather boasted until recently, of his acquaintances with Chaika, and Dmitry Patrushev, with generals and many others. Oleg also did not hide the fact that such persons as the oligarch-raider Sergei Govyadin, from the Lubyanka side - the head of department - M Valera Popov (relative), the head of the Department Ivan K Tkachev, participated in the creation and life on mutually beneficial terms. It was the work of Popov and Govyadin that initiated criminal cases against the generals of the SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Biryukov and Krakovsky. In confirmation of his words and capabilities, Oleg Popov “demonstrated” his “strength” and capabilities by changing the jurisdiction of the cassation hearing of the case of Zakharov (Gordik) from Krasnodar to Moscow within 24 hours, having received the necessary court decision, despite all the absurdity of the case, practically broke the will to against the resistance of Murad Musaev and Strishnya, there was no point in negotiating with Tsepovyaz, he was practically broken within the walls of the colony, fortunately Oleg Popov and his friends have opportunities.



At the moment, the situation is no less interesting, Oleg Popov, together with Musaev and the involved Agro-Industrial Corporation ACT Company M LLC, are bankrupting Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz, they no longer remember Zakharov (Gordik), they received all the necessary powers of attorney and authority from him. And what about Natalya Strishneya, she is also glad that in this story she remained simply alive and whole.

Everything seems to be going well for Oleg Popov and his friends from Lubyanka, Murad Musaev and AST Company M, but something did not go according to plan. Discord and misunderstanding between Oleg and Murad began, the story of the “fictitious bankruptcy” begins to attract more and more attention, and Oleg’s strength becomes less. Therefore, it is urgently necessary to give in to Tsepovyaz, who for some reason is trying to resist, which is very annoying and interferes with their developed schemes.

It turns out that in order to be fully confident in one’s impunity and permissiveness, it is not enough to just have money, connections, positions, one must also include intelligence and prudence. However, judging by what is happening, the thirst for profit has eclipsed everything that is possible. Today it is no longer a secret that, as part of the extortion of a large bribe from the management of the Merlion company, Alexander Ushakov is under investigation, Valery Popov and others are under suspicion, and higher-ranking security officers are also expected to be imprisoned zhb, which greatly alarmed Oleg Popov and while the remaining members of perhaps one of the largest and most serious raider organized criminal groups in Russia remain in the “shadow,” they are currently taking measures to leave the country unhindered and painlessly. To do this, they need to smoothly delegate unfinished “things”, which are more than enough, there are also many obligations to serious people that they can no longer fulfill, and there is no way to return the money. So, Sergei Aidaev (an interesting story about how he was scammed out of $3 million, we’ll tell you about it later) will not be alone in his situation of being abandoned by Popov.

Members of a huge, powerful empire of fixers and those involved in them are like spiders in a jar, ready to set each other up.

To be continued

Yuri Prokov

Source: www.rucriminal.info

«Ожидаются высокопоставленные посадки»

Члены самой могущественной империи решальщиков готовые подставить друг друга



В 2014 году, был осужден на длительный срок Вячеслав Цеповяз, один из кровавых «цапковских». В числе многих его адвокатов был и известный защитник Мурад Мусаев, это именно тот адвокат, брат Муслима Мусаева, который на «пальцах» пытается разобраться с «делом Федякиной», именно он послал Мурада в СИЗО к Битмаме, выяснить, где та прячет деньги. Роль и интерес Мусаевых в деле Битмамы еще всех «удивит».

Спустя пару лет после приговора, супруга Вячеслава Цеповяза, Наталья Стришняя, разводится с мужем, отбирает у него все имущество, все что было, и даже наследственное, оставшееся после смерти его матери, Тамары Цеповяз. Вячеслав Цеповяз, оставшись ни с чем, решил отсудить свое имущество, обратившись в суд. Делить было что, в числе большого количества имущества, самым интересным активом был семейный бизнес ООО ОПХ «Слава Кубани» (земли сельскохозяйственного назначения около 15 тыс.га).

По словам источника Rucriminal.info, именно в этот момент, в данном судебное разбирательство между бывшими супругами и не самостоятельно, а под полным контролем ОПС «Покровские» во главе с Андреем Коровайко, появился Николай Гордик, это он потом стал Николаем Захаровым, в суде пока в качестве третьего лица. Гордик (Захаров) требует отдельной публикации, ведь он и «потерпевший», и «маг и колдун», и «мошенник», и «директор несуществующих фирм» и т.д.

Судебный процесс вел не менее интереснейший судья-олигарх Кущевского районного суда Коробков И.С. Не будем вдаваться в подробности судебного разбирательства, скажем только то что, до определенного этапа, одна сторона - Мурад Мусаев со своей доверительницей Натальей Стришней (бывшая Наталья Цеповяз), к этому моменту он представляя ее интересы, и Вячеслав Цеповяз уже с другими юристами в данном вопросе противостояли против ОПС Андрея Коровайко. Одна инстанция в пользу первых, вторая в пользу других, и так по два круга. Но, вскоре, Андрей Коровайко был объявлен сначала в федеральный, затем международный розыск, практически все участники ОПС задержаны, часть находятся в СИЗО Москвы, другие пока в СИЗО Пятигорска. В числе арестованных адвокаты, финансовые управляющие, «потерпевшие» пока около 10 человек. Тогда, в этой истории и появляется новое лицо, а именно адвокат-решальщик Олег Попов со своим адвокатским бюро «А-про». В эту рейдерскую историю его пригласил сам Коровайко, так как он был обескровлен, сам скрылся в Европе, так как завершить этот проект очень хотелось, так как потрачено много сил и средств. Олег Попов позиционирует себя, как решало №1, хвастается, вернее хвастался до недавнего времени знакомствами и с Чайкой, и с Дмитрием Патрушевым, с генералами и много еще с кем. Не скрывал Олег также то,что, в создании и жизнедеятельности на взаимовыгодных условиях участвовали такие лица как олигарх-рейдер Сергей Говядин, со стороны «Лубянки» - начальник отдела- М Валера Попов (родственник), руководитель Управления К Иван Ткачев. Именно делом рук Попова и Говядинаявляется возбуждение уголовных дел на генералов СД МВД Бирюкова и Краковского. В подтверждении своих слов и возможностей Олег Попов «продемонстрировав» свою «силу» и возможности изменив подсудность рассмотрения кассационное рассмотрение дела Захарова(Гордика) из Краснодара в Москву в течении суток, получив нужное решение суда, несмотря на всю абсурдность дела, практически сломил волю к сопротивлению Мурада Мусаева и Стришней, с Цеповязом договариваться смысла не было, его практически сломили в стенах колонии, благо возможности у Олега Попова и его друзьях имеются.



На данный момент, ситуация не менее интересно складывается, Олег Попов уже совместно с Мусаевым и привлеченными ООО «Агропромышленная корпорация ACT Компани М» банкротят Вячеслава Цеповяза, про Захарова (Гордика) уже и не вспоминают, от него получили все необходимые доверенности и полномочия. А что на счет Натальи Стришней, то она рада и тому, что в этой истории осталась просто жива и цела.

Вроде все складывается хорошо для Олега Попова его друзьях из Лубянки, Мурада Мусаева и АСТ Компании М, но что-то пошло не по плану. Начался разлад и непонимание у Олега с Мурадом, история с «фиктивным банкротством» начинает привлекать все больше внимания, а сил у Олега становится меньше. Поэтому срочно необходимо дадовить Цеповяза, который почему-то пытается сопротивляться, что очень раздражает и мешает их разработанным схемам.

Оказывается, чтобы быть в полной уверенности в своей безнаказанности и вседозволенности, мало иметь только деньги, связи, должности надо бы в дополнение включать ум и рассудительность. Однако, судя по происходящему, жажда наживы затмила все, что только можно. Сегодня уже не секрет что, в рамках вымогательства у руководства компании Merlion крупной взятки под следствием находится Александр Ушаков, под подозрением Валерий Попов и другие, так же ожидаются более высокопоставленные посадки сотрудников спецслужб, что очень насторожило Олега Попова и пока остающихся в «тени» членов возможно одной из самых больших и серьезнейших рейдерских ОПС России, в настоящий момент ими предпринимаются меры чтоб, беспрепятственно и безболезненно покинуть страну. Для этого им необходимо плавно делегировать незавершенные «дела», которых более чем достаточно, также много обязательств перед серьезными людьми которые они уже не могут исполнить, и денег вернуть нет возможности. Так что, Сергей Айдаев (занимательная история, как его развели на 3 млн долл, расскажем о ней потом) в своем положении брошенного Поповым , будет не один.

Члены огромной могущественной империи решальщиков и причастные к ним, как пауки в банке, готовые подставить друг друга.

Продолжение следует

Юрий Проков

Источник: www.rucriminal.info

“The corruption money had to be parked somewhere”

The main witness in the Laundromat case, the largest laundering channel, has disappeared



The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel has learned the details of the mysterious disappearance of banker, ex-owner of the Portsmouth football club and regular witness in many high-profile cases, Vladimir Antonov. A story in the spirit of the coolest thrillers.

According to the interlocutor, Vladimir Antonov’s wife and son (this is his second family) live outside the Russian Federation, and he himself was alone in a large cottage on Rublyovka. At the beginning of December, Vladimir visited his parents and met with friends. And then, suddenly, it suddenly disappeared. When his complete silence lasted three days, a close relative went to his cottage. Everything indicated that Vladimir was inside, but no one opened the door. Then Vladimir’s father Alexander, also a former major banker who survived two assassination attempts, one of which was organized by Adam Delimkhanov, went to the place. He had the keys. There was no one inside the cottage, but everything indicated that Vladimir should be inside. His personal Mercedes was standing there; at the entrance there were keys, documents, a bag, and personal belongings.

The watchman of the cottage (the only one of the servants who lived on site permanently) said that on the day when Atonov supposedly disappeared, he arrived late in the evening in his Mercedes and soon the light came on in the office. Antonov could be seen there through the window; he had been working in his office for several hours. Then the watchman didn’t see the “chief”.



On the spot, there was a feeling that Vladimir was sitting in his office, minding his own business, and at one moment left the house (the watchman did not see this moment) and disappeared. No signs of a struggle or missing items. There is nothing suspicious on the cameras either. The banker's Mercedes was parked on the street, but for some reason it was not locked with a locking mechanism. The security at the checkpoint of the cottage village also did not note anything suspicious, and the camera in the village did not work in those days. Since then there has been no news of Vladimir. Vladimir’s father wrote a statement to the Odintsovo district police.

Vladimir Antonov was once a fairly successful banker (though always with a reputation as a participant in money laundering schemes), bought a bank in the Baltic states, the Portsmouth football club and the car company Spyker Cars N.V. in the UK. He even negotiated the purchase of the auto giant SAAB. However, then cases were opened against him in the European Union and he was forced to flee to the Russian Federation using a fake passport. In Russia, Antonov soon ended up in a pre-trial detention center on charges of embezzling funds from the Sovetsky Bank. However, I received a short sentence, and upon leaving I tried to buy different banks, but to no avail. However, Antonov did not refuse to participate in various financial transactions and in recent years has gone to great lengths.



A Rucriminal.info source from among Vladimir Antonov’s close relatives told us: “I mentally said goodbye to him. I don’t believe I’ll ever see him.” Our interlocutor connects what happened with Vladimir with the detailed testimony that he and his father Alexander gave in the case of the largest money laundering channel - Laundromat. There were many names that have not yet been brought to justice, and details of the laundering of gigantic sums by officials, as well as the “roof” of the channel from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and the FSB of the Russian Federation. Vladimir’s “disappearance” occurred at the moment when this testimony was put into action and work began against unknown participants (including those living outside the Russian Federation) / Rucriminal.info has at its disposal the testimony of Vladimir and Alexander Antonov, which we will publish in the coming days:

“Interrogation of witness Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

To questions from the court:

What's your job?

I work as an adviser to the Fund for the Protection of the Rights of Investors of Foreign Organizations.

Do you know any of the defendants?

Korkin, Sobolev and Pakhomov know each other, the others do not. ...

Please tell us where, when and under what circumstances did you meet Sobolev?

Probably, first we need to talk about how this whole story began. Actually, the topic that this court is considering is called the “Moldavian scheme” or “Laundromat”. I have known about it since the mid-2000s and, in fact, this story was launched at one time by Vyacheslav Platon. This is a famous Moldovan banker-entrepreneur; at that time he owned the Moldinko bank. Accordingly, the scheme developed rather sluggishly until the end of the 2008 crisis due to the fact that payments through Moldovan banks were quite risky; there were banks that executed such payments much more efficiently: Baltic, Cypriot, Swiss, Luxembourg, etc. After 2008, compliance procedures in these countries were significantly tightened, and many banks began to refuse to service such payments en masse. Therefore, a story arose related to servicing such a cash flow through Moldova, where compliance was weak compared to the EU countries...

Accordingly, I met Plato in the mid-2000s after we acquired the Baltic banks and Moldincom Bank was a correspondent of these banks t’s not bad.” He described in sufficient detail all the working mechanisms, how the document flow works, who is responsible for what, who runs which areas for servicing the Laundromat. At the same time, he himself traveled to Russia quite often back then, and even lived here. He (Plato) was mainly engaged in client work related to attracting new banks and new clients into the circulation of this entire structure. Returning to the state prosecutor’s question about how I met Alexey Sobolev. In 2015, we began negotiations on the acquisition of the Sovetsky bank in the city of St. Petersburg and signed with the chairman of the board and the beneficial owner, as he declared himself, a certain framework agreement on the possibility of acquiring this bank. We began the standard procedure of assessing his financial condition. The financial condition of the bank was, to put it mildly, less than ideal. Well, several questions arose about those transactions, payments and re-registration of shares on rather unique Moldovan passports inside this whole dude. Dudil is not only an assessment of the financial condition, but a general assessment of both the legal condition of the bank and relationships with counterparties, that is, the whole...



In October 2015, a temporary administration was introduced into the bank, and later it was sanitized, that is, it became state-owned. Further, despite this, we continued to communicate with Mitrushin until his departure outside the Russian Federation, where Mitrushin said quite a lot that there is a great Sobolev who solves any issues and he is not afraid of the consequences of the reorganization of the Sovetsky Bank, since There is an agreement that financial and non-financial, that everything will be resolved, all questions to Mitrushin and his partners will be removed. In addition, we discovered in the Soviet Bank, I was even surprised, there was such a platform or platform “Liberty Reserve”, it was called, quite a noisy story. This is the first international online store selling a variety of illegal products, that is, such platforms now operate everywhere, and Liberty was such a pioneer. There is probably no need to explain what is sold there, everything that cannot be sold in ordinary life. Accordingly, this story was also serviced there for some time, after which these accounts were closed. To my question “Are you yourself?” Mitrushin’s answer was “We didn’t know what it was, Sobolev brought them.” Therefore, from which I concluded that Sobolev is quite, even I would say not a partner in the Sovetsky Bank, but its real beneficiary, and, accordingly, the same Vyacheslav Platon confirmed to me that he is doing all this in the interests of continuing the operation of the scheme on illegal transfer of funds outside the Russian Federation. We met several times after Sovetsky ceased to be a private bank and became a state bank. These meetings were sporadic, but, again, when we met, we understood that everything was still functioning, everything was working, and even Sobolev arranged for us, since I was not alone in this whole structure, a meeting with another St. Petersburg bank, which was called " Energomash". I don’t know its future fate today, but, as I understand it, at that time this bank was also being considered for someone to buy it and for it to become part of this structure for transferring money abroad. As far as I know, Sobolev served in addition to the fact that the legal part of this structure, namely the registration of enterprises, offshore companies, balance sheets to the tax office, he also acquired real estate and business assets in the interests of Plahotniuc and Platon both in Europe and in territory of the Russian Federation, in Moscow, in St. Petersburg. Mainly for commercial purposes for further rental. If we are talking about the same Soviet one, then in its capital there was a set of real estate with a defect in form, which as a result of the DIA was not received. The defect in the form looked very simple, that is, for example, this is a building according to a certificate that belongs to a bank, but there is no consent from the owner’s wife. Therefore, if anything happened in court, this situation could always be returned to its rightful owners. The same set of real estate represented a significant figure. According to the capital estimate, it amounted to 6 billion rubles. As a matter of fact, under such circumstances we met Mr. Sobolev. I can also tell you about Mr. Korkin.

To the questions of the state prosecutor:

You outlined the whole scheme, please tell me, did Plato even educate you on the intricacies of how the withdrawal of funds took place?

Plato is a very professional guy and knows this business in detail, and he started in the late 90s, so when he met with banks, and especially with bankers or bank employees, they understood perfectly well what it was. This was covered up by a report from a very good international law firm, Tentens. This report was always shown where it was concluded that this operation was not illegal, it was completely normal. However, there is paper, and there are essential things, and any person who owns a bank in the territory of this pageAna, Ukraine, it doesn’t matter, she understands perfectly well what it is. That is, we understand perfectly well that this transaction is not standard and it does not represent a real business. That is, this is a completely different type of transaction. I can explain in a few words. It looks like this. There are real business relationships between exporters and importers, and there are unreal ones. Their unreality lies in the fact that in order to bring products here as cheaply as possible, you need to pay “crookedly” in order to avoid paying customs duties in full and VAT at customs. This is done very simply. Instead of introducing expensive furniture, a board or some stools are placed in the container according to the papers. It goes to customs like stools, customs duty is paid on the stools and VAT is not paid in full. This is the first thing that is done. Secondly, this is ordinary corruption money, which cannot be stored anywhere except in well-known apartments; it must be parked somewhere. ...Therefore, they need to be sent abroad through a long chain, given the appearance of the activity of some company, which will eventually park them at the end in Switzerland, Luxembourg or somewhere else, and they arrive there already washed and bleached. There used to be a lot of ways to do this, that is, these are mountains of contracts stating that companies conduct real business activities, of course, they do not conduct any of it and die very quickly. For example, you pay for Samsung electronics for some reason to some offshore shop, although you can pay at Samsung. This is done in order to import a phone at a price of less than $500 and pay less to the treasury. And the second part is very important, this is laundering, what is called sending and parking money abroad, that is, unfortunately, this is such a problem. This scheme handled this perfectly.

Did Plato tell you how this scheme was supposed to work?

Yes, sure. He couldn’t help but tell me how it works because I was interested, I asked him myself. It works quite primitively. On the territory of Russia, in Russian banks and on the territory of Moldova, in Moldovan banks, mutual correspondent accounts are opened, which in banking language are called ..., that is, our account is with you and your account with us. Next, Russian banks open a set of Russian enterprises, and foreign banks open a set of foreign enterprises. And you have two ways to send money there. The first is the generation of fake or non-existent contracts for export-import operations, and the second is the execution of decisions of foreign courts in Russia. Previously, it all worked easily and calmly. Since in Moldova Mr. Plahotniuc controlled not only the Central Bank, but also the judicial system, such decisions were issued quite easily and quickly. Further, given that Moldova is a former Soviet republic, our judicial authorities should have applied such decisions and issued the corresponding writs of execution, since the court there made such a decision, we have an agreement with Moldova on this topic. After which this writ of execution is presented to the bank and the money is sent. Accordingly, the Russian bank sells currency to a Moldovan bank, and the Moldovan bank, in turn, makes a foreign currency payment to its correspondent account to some real import bank and where the mailing comes from, or transfers it to its correspondent account to a semi-real bank, and there, accordingly, to another Moldovan bank and from that Moldovan bank to the real one and then the mailing goes. This is done so that it is not visible how the money went, how the initial sender is connected to the final recipient. You can make any type of currency, you can keep a non-resident ruble in a correspondent account in a Moldovan bank. A non-resident ruble is a ruble that has already passed exchange control and is ready to be sent. It is quite primitive, nothing new can be added there. It grew so much because, in fact, there was the only cheap, fast and convenient sending channel. At the time when it reached its peak after 2011-2012, regulation did not allow normal banks to carry out such operations, since they risked having their license revoked. Therefore, if you look at the list of credit institutions that were in the chain, these are mostly credit institutions that have no value. Everyone understood perfectly well that such a bank would survive for some time, even more or less long, but not for long, and developing such a bank as a bank was absurd. Therefore, everyone knew perfectly well what was happening and how it was happening. But the level of commission that was then already available for these operations on the market made it possible to consider the economy as highly profitable, highly profitable. In 2005, this operation cost 0.1% of turnover, in 2011-2012 it could cost 10-11% of turnover. This is the difference due to the tightening of the settlement. Therefore, if in 2005 this was done by any Russian bank at the click of a button, then in 2011-2012 and beyond this became a serious problem especially for exporters/importers, and people who needed to Yes, what to do with money that is lying in an incorrect way.

What do you know about what percentage Plato offered for his services?

Here you cannot take a constant, it would not be fair, since there was a floating rate, which depended on the volume, type of currency, where you want to receive the money, at what speed you want to receive it, how much you are willing to leave on the balance. For example, I know that according to Grigoriev’s turnover at the Russian Land Bank, 30% of the turnover should have been in accounts, which is critically important for the bank’s liquidity, because if there is a hole in the bank, for example, liquidity has suffered or there is no capital, or it is negative, then this is critically important. As I understand it, Plato only met with wholesalers who did not supply to the end client. As I understand it, there was only one final client - the railway, and for wholesale comrades there is always a corresponding wholesale discount, as is usually the case. Therefore, I believe that the figure they received at the entrance was 3-4% at that time, now it would cost twice as much. Well, some are 5, some are 2.5, it depends on the agreements.

Please tell me which bank was involved in the Moldovan scheme on the territory of Moldova?

The Moldovan scheme involved 80% of the system. I don’t remember all the names of Moldovan banks, there are quite a few of them, but I know for sure that the first was Moldincom, then Victoria, one of the largest, then Uni, Universal, I don’t remember all the names. To be honest, we did not have a subsidiary bank in Moldova, so I don’t know the system that well, but the fact is that 80% of the banks were controlled by Plahotniuc.

Do you know anything about Moldinkom Bank?

Slava’s sister, Elena, was always in charge of the treasury in Moldinkom. Under it, in fact, there were all departments related to servicing operational activities and the treasury. Initially, when we met in Lithuania in the mid-2000s, in Latvia, the entire business of Moldincom, namely the operational part, was run by Elena Platon. She came to the Baltics more than once because they constantly maintained correspondent relations with us, since we had a large correspondent network and for us, to be honest, Moldincom was a small counterparty, but nevertheless a whole bank. Therefore, they interacted with Snoas and LKB quite actively. The only covenant that we have always set is zero payments from the Russian Federation, since we had a large bank in Russia and we did not want consequences from the regulator in relation to us, but they paid from Ukraine and from Kazakhstan.

On the territory of Ukraine, Plato had some kind of business, legal companies that accompanied this scheme?

Slava had a large office in Ukraine and a very “cheerful” relationship with the Ukrainian establishment. I understand that everyone understands what Ukraine is, there is no need to explain, and the fact that Ukraine has different legislation on such operations, but it is similar to Russian and there is also such a problem, but it is easier to solve because the regulator, law enforcement There are no organs in our understanding, so it seems to be prohibited, but allowed. The price is cheap, not the same as in Russia, but the volume is large because it’s easy to pay from Ukraine. I met Plato many times in Kyiv, since at least once a month I had a business trip to Kyiv. We met in Kyiv in our office. Almost all Ukrainian banks worked through Moldincom. Of course, I understand that Ukraine is not comparable to Russia in terms of volume of operations, but it was a significant market for him. Plus, he knew a lot of people from the Ukrainian establishment (he lists the names of people from the government). Slava had a good relationship with the National Bank, he did not have his own bank because there was no point, but Moldincom worked there in a representative manner at full capacity.

Did Plato tell you exactly which banks were directly involved in the Moldovan scheme on the territory of the Russian Federation?

Grigoriev had Zapadny, RZB, Tempbank, quite large. Kuzmin is the European Express, Regioninvest. There were about 60 of them. That’s why they wanted to include the Soviet bank in this story, since the bank was relatively large, 30 billion assets on the balance sheet, the correspondent network was not bad, and the volume of payments could be launched large, that is, it would not be so noticeable , like at some Intercapital bank, where there is nothing but a 10 million dollar balance sheet, including capital and one office in Moscow in the basement. In Ukraine the situation was different. One way or another, all decent normal banks worked there, including Raiffeisen, through this story. It’s just that everything is different there, there is a different regulator, different supervision, everything happens differently there.

Do you personally know Kuzmin and Grigoriev?

I know Grigoriev, but not Kuzmin. I met Grigoriev under the following circumstances. When my father and I had trouble with Lithuania in 2011, we had our first mistaken desire to buy a Russian bank. Accordingly, we began to look for a bank and were offered RZP as the object of the transaction. Grigoriev flew to me in London, where we talked withhim for a couple of days. He told me quite frankly what was happening with the bank’s condition and operations. Since I have been involved in this business all my adult life, it was clear that the bank was not a tenant, which is what I told Alexander, that taking into account the operating system he was running, this was the end. He said that everything was covered up according to the documents, there were all the relevant conclusions, that everything was clearly covered up from the point of view of law enforcement. Actually, it was Korkin who spoke then again. Everything is covered from the point of view of Moldova, so all requests that will be sent will be fought. To which I said that the problem is not what is there on the papers, don’t consider me an idiot. That's why we didn't go into this story. Then he offered to enter into the capital of Zapadny, but Zapadny Bank was a fairly large Russian bank, not included in the hundred, but definitely included in the second. And here, maybe we were ready for this project, but a virus had already been launched into it and it was already in such a volume that indicated that it was not viable.

What do you mean by virus?

The virus is Laundromat payments. The regulator sees all this quite clearly, and Rosfinmonitoring sees all this, so maybe for some time this may be possible, in agreement with some uncle Cherkalin, it will work, but anyway it will end sooner or later. Therefore, if you have already been admitted there, then it is not possible to get out.

And who did the initiative to buy Grigoriev’s bank come from?

From Grigoriev himself, since he bought Zapadny and was ready to sell RZB. But I think that maybe he would have sold it to someone if he had run into people who were less knowledgeable than we are. And since he no longer had time to do this, since the Central Bank revoked the license precisely for this, and then the hole became visible, etc., then in general, Western was also coming to an end.

You don’t know Kuzmin personally, but at the same time, do you know that Kuzmin’s bank also worked?

Certainly. The fact is that Grigoriev, when he bought Zapadny, he tried to stop these operations, get into the banking business, and somehow his dialogue with Plahotniuc did not work out, he told me this himself. He even flew to communicate with him several times. And as far as I understand, the European Express has become a replacement for the main correspondent. Then the Baltic states appeared. And at some stage, European Express allowed these payments without considering that there was anything bad in it, or pretending that there was nothing wrong with it. In general, any professional person who has worked in a bank for at least 5 years understands well what it is, that is, it is not some kind of secret. You can make any documents that this is all good, but it’s still visible.

Who selected clients to withdraw funds from the Russian Federation?

It wasn't a matter of who picked them, they didn't need to be picked, there were so many of them that they were looking for an opportunity. And then they just needed to reach the right counterparty. The most basic part of the earnings goes to those who are at the front, who work with the clientele, who set the tariffs. As far as I know, Slava Platon personally did this, Korkin, and whoever didn’t do it because it was flowing, Vlasov. If we look at the list of banks, there are a lot of them. And here the question is that you must also agree with the bank with which you are working because the bank is not stupid and understands how everything is divided. Plus those banks that were in the chain, they also had their own clients who also went to the stream, and they had to coordinate this with the counterparties here, with Plato or with Corkin, since Corkin was actually a representative of Plahotniuc, and Platon was Plahotniuc’s partner . It is not known who is older or younger. At that time there was no channel, in fact, this was the only channel. It was multifaceted, there were many banks, but there was only one final gateway. Then we only had to say what we could.

Did Platon introduce you personally to Korkin? do you know each other?

We knew each other very poorly, at various events. Chuvilina interacted with him at some events and parties. Well, to be honest, the banking world is quite small and everyone knows each other. After all, we were a large organization, one of the largest banking groups, so, of course, we were constantly present at some events. But from a lot of my acquaintances and comrades I heard information that this is a serious person who represents the interests of the “Moldovan dad” and, accordingly, resolves any issues, since he has good connections in the states here. The names of people were called, as you know in the book, who are not named out loud.

Tell me, please, was Korkin introduced to you by his last name or first name?

I saw two documents. I saw a document addressed to Korkin, because our security service was cheerful, and Kuznetsov. Why this was done then is because when a person is engaged in this type of business, sometimes when you come somewhere, it is better to say that you were not there.

Returning to Sobolev and Pakhomov, regarding the role in the “Moldavian scheme”, can you tell us specifically about Sobolev in the “Moldavian scheme”?

Well, essentially, this is a person whoth was an equal partner of Plato and Plahotniuc, as a result, on the territory of the Russian Federation. That is, this is a person who had a certain resource in our law enforcement system, a person who had knowledge and a large legal company, Primedwise, who could acquire the necessary assets, select the right people, and put management on these assets. This was a serious partner, and not just a third-party organization that was hired for one or two transactions.”

Timofey Grishin

To be continued

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