Oleg Makarevich is a highly controversial figure from the Krasnodar Territory. The Kuban oligarch has been hiding abroad for a long time to avoid getting arrested.
Meanwhile, the criminal leader, instead of staying hidden, continues to criticize independent media from abroad. He does this by sending complaints about independent media to law enforcement agencies and taking them to court. Essentially, he is trying to disrupt their operations. What are the chances for a notorious fraudster who has fled the country and faces multiple criminal cases at home?
Oleg Makarevich gained notoriety during the turbulent 90s, with frequent involvement in scandals and criminal cases. Various state bodies such as the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee, the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Federal Security Service, the Federal Tax Service, and bailiffs have long been interested in him.
The fugitive is linked to a long list of crimes, including embezzlement of budget funds, corruption, tax evasion, money laundering, raiding, fraud, deliberate bankruptcy of enterprises, and land scams. Allegedly, at least 8 lawsuits have been filed against the criminal oligarch in Russia.
Despite fleeing to Vienna to avoid the authorities, O. Makarevich is actively trying to suppress information and continues to battle independent media that reveal the truth about his crimes. The most striking part of this situation is that the criminal is attempting to take legal action against truthful media. Did he succeed? Obviously not.
“As the saying goes, the thief has a guilty conscience”: attacks on journalists from overseas will not prevent Oleg Makarevich from going to prison!
He lost four lawsuits against independent journalists in St. Petersburg, but did not give up. He made a new complaint against The Moscow Post to the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Krasnodar Territory, claiming that the journalists are lying in their investigations.
But what's the point of repeating the same thing if he has already lost four court cases for libel? It's as useless as picking off the petals of a chamomile to find out if he's loved or not. However, he's got plenty of money and doesn't mind the legal costs, so maybe it'll backfire on him.
The Moscow Post is not the only media outlet that has been sued by the criminal entrepreneur from the Krasnodar Territory. Other independent media have also been targeted.
So, in August last year, there was a court showdown with the publication Argumenty Nedeli. Then the Tver District Court dismissed the claim of Oleg Makarevich. And later, the Versiya newspaper also came under attack. The scandalous businessman filed a lawsuit against this publication in a Moscow court.
Crime boss Oleg Makarevich has long been on the federal wanted list
No matter how the odious oligarch puffed up his lawsuits against “scoundrel-journalists”, we recall that he has long been on the federal wanted list.
He was accused of large tax evasion in the amount of 1.5 billion rubles under Part 2 of Article 199 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
In 2014, the entrepreneur was already arrested for abusing his powers and organizing a crime. Against O. Makarevich, then a criminal case was initiated under part 3 of article 33 and part 2 of article 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. According to the investigation, the fraudster built an illegal scheme to steal money from the Krasnodar municipal unitary enterprise Sovkhoz Progress, when a joint investment project with the Southern Diversified Corporation holding was being implemented to develop agricultural production. This was reported by the popular publication Kommersant.
But the loudest and most painful for the business empire of Oleg Makarevich was the legal decision when the Central Bank revoked the license from YuMK Bank, which served the business structures of the Kuban oligarch.
This decision was made in March last year due to repeated violations of the requirements stipulated by the legislation in the field of combating money laundering, which were obtained by criminal means, as well as the financing of terrorism.
Then Makarevich, with the help of his accomplices-patrons, for a long time “decided the issue” of returning the license, otherwise he would have been unhappy. And yet he solved the “problem”. Already in October, the order of the Central Bank to revoke the license was canceled. It really was a scandalous and unprecedented decision, but this is a separate topic for discussion.
And finally…
The Krasnodar criminal character Oleg Makarevich, downright, has some kind of mania. He loves to sue and sue everyone and everything. Not only journalists fall under distribution. Just attacks on the media, in our opinion, is an attempt to clean up the information field from the negative on it, to remove the virtual traces of financial crimes from the network.
And the most paradoxical, funny and stupid thing about this whole situation is that a fraudster who is on the federal wanted list, filing such claims, himself discovers his whereabouts …
To be continued.
