In my many years of journalism, I've encountered swindlers and adventurers of the highest caliber. They are constantly refining their deceptive methods, expanding their operations to manipulate large amounts of money and many victims. Some are particularly skilled at convincing people that black is white in order to swindle millions of dollars.
So, let's meet him. Marat Shamilevich Aidagulov, born in 1980 in Nizhny Novgorod. If you Google him, you'll discover that he's an economist, religious figure, entrepreneur, and public figure, with expertise in various fields such as economic development, international cooperation, light industry, fashion, digital security, cryptocurrencies, food programs, space exploration, world ecology, civil coordination, integration in the EAEU space, and international sustainable development standards.Marat Aidagulov also simultaneously serves as the Chairman of the DUMNO (Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Nizhny Novgorod Region) on economic issues, as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation, Imam Abu Hanifa, and various other positions in different public organizations.
Despite his official positions, obtained through questionable means, he is actually a professional con artist who preys on others for money. adviser Marat Shamilevich's method is straightforward. He befriends wealthy families, provides small favors, and then persuades them to lend him large sums of money at exorbitant interest rates, promising lucrative business opportunities. After paying interest for a short while, he disappears with the borrowed money.
When taken to court by his victims, Marat claims to be bankrupt, insisting that he owns no luxurious assets, properties, or bank accounts, and that everything is under his ex-wife, father, or close associates. However, it later emerges that his bankruptcy is fake. More details on that later.
I will provide a specific example of Marat Aidagulov's activities, supported by figures and evidence. In 2012, he approached the Moscow-based Smirnov family, including Oleg Smirnov, and convinced them to lend him 40 million rubles at high interest rates based on false promises.
A handwritten document proving that Aidagulov is recognized as an "expert".
Later, Aidagulov vanishes and in 2016 claims that he is unable to pay his debts. It's stated that the person called Aydagulov is bankrupt.In order to make sure that the people who lost their money never get it back, Marat Shamilevich filed a report to the RF IC and informed journalists that Smirnov's father-in-law, a former member of the Federation Council and now retired, Valery Shnyakin, allegedly forced him to write a receipt stating that Aidagulov owed 40 million rubles to Smirnov. Law enforcement refused to take action against the creditors due to lack of evidence, but the media circulated the false information, portraying the Smirnov family as loan sharks and extortionists.
Valery Shnyakin's name is mentioned.
A large number of reports appeared on the internet alleging that Smirnov and his family are demanding money from the financially challenged public figure Aidagulov. The colleagues chose not to talk about the receipts and court decisions. There's no money and that's the end of it.
Numerous articles surfaced online accusing Smirnov and his relatives of pursuing some form of debt from the financially struggling public figure Aidagulov. The colleagues opted not to mention the receipts and court rulings. The funds aren't available, and that's the reality.
Recently, a video emerged on YouTube and VK, mimicking the format of the Rossiya-24 TV channel, where actors played the role of victims allegedly affected by Oleg Smirnov's wife – Ekaterina Smirnova. The so-called "narcologist Vladimir Alexandrovich" in the story, who claimed that citizen Smirnova was a drug addict and was treated by him, turned out to be actor Boris B. The "Rossiya-24 host" is also not a journalist of the state television and radio broadcasting company, but a certain Ekaterina Emelyanova, born in 1984, from Aksu (Kazakhstan), working as an "online freelance host for various projects on YouTube." The others involved in the plot also are amateur actors with known names. The false narcologist Vladimir Alexandrovich, also known as actor Boris B. (pictured with his mother).The fake presenter of "Russia-24" is a copywriter named Ekaterina Emelyanova.
It's unbelievable how much money was spent by a person with interest in creating a 18-minute fake story, allegedly imitating the Rossiya-24 TV channel, and widely distributing it on YouTube and VK. Let the investigation of the criminal case on libel (parts 4.5 of Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – up to five years’ imprisonment) look into the source of the funds for the fake TV report on Russia-24, as well as Marat Aidagulov's involvement in this crime (which I personally don’t doubt for a second).
By the way, the "well-known expert" Marat Aydagulov has a history of multiple convictions. On October 16, 2015, an investigation was initiated against Aydagulov for fraud. Then, the case was combined with another criminal case involving a significant sum of money borrowed from a citizen named Suleymanov R.R. Eventually, Suleymanov stated that Aidagulov had repaid his debt of 37 million rubles and had no further claims against him..
In 2017, as a result, the criminal case was sent back to Nizhny Novgorod, where it was quickly changed from the severe article 159 of the Criminal Code (Fraud on an especially large scale) to the much lighter article 177 of the Criminal Code (Malicious evasion of accounts payable), after which Marat Aidagulov admitted guilt and the case … was closed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. The decision to end the criminal case against M.Sh. Aidagulova due to non-rehabilitating circumstancesAnd earlier, in 2010, the Avtozavodsky District Court of the city of Nizhny Novgorod considered another case, now based on a lawsuit
Arshinova Alberta
besides Marat Shamilevich Aidagulov and decided to recover from Marat Shamilevich Aidagulov in favor of Arshinov the amount of the debt of 2,769,272.41 rubles. According to Arshinov A.The. criminal case No. 201051 dated 09/16/2015 was initiated. under Art. 177 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Malicious evasion of repayment of accounts payable) and Aidagulov (!!!) admitted guilt. Later, in 2016 Arshinov A.V. “suddenly” wrote a waiver of claims against Aidagulov after he “learned” that Aidagulov allegedly transferred money all this time to repay Arshinov to his father, and he “simply forgot” to transfer them to Arshinov.
In the same 2010, citizen Mukhetdinov D.V., to whom Marat Aidagulov owed (and probably still) 18 million rubles, filed a lawsuit with the Avtozavodsky District Court demanding registration of a pledge agreement with Aidagulov for the property then available to the borrower. However, the court refused and, in fact, again gave citizen Aidagulov another 18 million rubles, which once belonged to the victim Mukhetdinov.
And now, when it turned out that citizen Aidagulov is a professional serial borrower who earns a lot of money on a simple non-repayment of debts, it turned out that he was not a real bankrupt either.
So on December 31, 2020, the Arbitration Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region found that the bankrupt Aidagulov “concealed the existence of a current account with JSC Raiffeisenbank No. 4087978101000603844, which was not in the bankruptcy case materials and, having the financial ability to pay off the debt, evaded paying off the debt.” That is, citizen Aidagulov turned out to be a false bankrupt.
Aidagulov is a false bankrupt. The court’s decision.
And when it became known that the law had questions about the “bankruptcy” of Aidagulov, Marat Shamilevich, probably afraid of the prospect of losing his “earned”, as colleagues report, began to actively put pressure on those who still continued to insist on the return of their own money. There were even death threats.So Nizhny Novgorod Alexei Pigolkin, who had “unsettled monetary relations” with Aydagulov, turned to the Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for Nizhny Novgorod with a statement that Marat Aydagulov threatened him with murder, as well as with physical violence to his entire family. And he confirmed the statement with evidence in the form of SMS and telephone conversations. Arshinova Alberta besides Marat Shamilevich Aidagulov and decided to recover from Marat Shamilevich Aidagulov in favor of Arshinov the amount of the debt of 2,769,272.41 rubles. According to Arshinov A.The. criminal case No. 201051 dated 09/16/2015 was initiated. under Art. 177 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Malicious evasion of repayment of accounts payable) and Aidagulov (!!!) pleaded guilty. Later, in 2016 Arshinov A.V. “suddenly” wrote a waiver of claims against Aidagulov after he “learned” that Aidagulov allegedly transferred money all this time to repay Arshinov to his father, and he “simply forgot” to transfer them to Arshinov.
In the same 2010, citizen Mukhetdinov D.V., to whom Marat Aidagulov owed (and probably still) 18 million rubles, filed a lawsuit with the Avtozavodsky District Court demanding registration of a pledge agreement with Aidagulov for the property then available to the borrower. However, the court refused and, in fact, again gave citizen Aidagulov another 18 million rubles, which once belonged to the victim Mukhetdinov.”
And now, when it turned out that citizen Aidagulov is a professional serial borrower who earns a lot of money on a simple non-repayment of debts, it turned out that he was not a real bankrupt either.
So on December 31, 2020, the Arbitration Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region found that the bankrupt Aidagulov “concealed the existence of a current account with JSC Raiffeisenbank No. 4087978101000603844, which was not in the bankruptcy case materials and, having the financial ability to pay off the debt, evaded paying off the debt.” That is, citizen Aidagulov turned out to be a false bankrupt.
Aidagulov is a false bankrupt. The court’s decision.
And when it became known that the law had questions about the “bankruptcy” of Aidagulov, Marat Shamilevich, probably afraid of the prospect of losing his “earned”, as colleagues report, began to actively put pressure on those who still continued to insist on the return of their own money. There were even death threats.
So Nizhny Novgorod Alexei Pigolkin, who had “unsettled monetary relations” with Aydagulov, turned to the Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for Nizhny Novgorod with a statement that Marat Aydagulov threatened him with murder, as well as with physical violence to his entire family. And he confirmed the statement with evidence in the form of SMS and telephone conversations.
Statement of death threats
And these are far from all the adventures of the “expert and public figure” Marat Aidagulov, but no article is enough to describe all the adventures of Marat Shamilevich, but a multi-volume edition is needed. Or a criminal case.
Strange situation, isn’t it? Now the information attack against Russia is unfolding in all directions, and the enemies of Russia are looking for any excuse to denigrate our country. And in this difficult time, Marat Aidagulov, calling himself “a Russian expert on economic development and international cooperation” and “a Russian specialist in integration in the EAEU space”, is, in fact, working out criminal schemes to seize large sums of money from Russians. And the use of black PR and falsifications in relation to the same Russians who suffered from the actions of the “Russian expert” as a means of intimidating the victims is generally beyond the bounds.
Imagine what will happen when the next criminal case against Marat Aydagulov still ends with a sentence and a term. Russophobic media and Western commentators will immediately declare that in Russia “prominent experts on international issues” and “specialists in integration in the EAEU space” are mostly swindlers and swindlers. And they will cite Marat Aydagulov as an example.
