A criminal case was sent to the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow on the theft of 35 real estate objects in Moscow in the amount of 2 billion rubles through the Moscow Capital bank.
The accused in the case is the ex-assistant to the head of the Moscow department of the Federal Property Management Agency Sergey Alekseev, Kommersant reports. Earlier, the former head of Alekseev, the ex-head of the department, Anatoly Shesteryuk, also fell under suspicion, but he was transferred to the rank of witnesses. The investigation considered that Alekseev was misleading the head. Also among the accused were the ex-chairman of the board of Moscow Capital Bank Viktor Krestin, unemployed Sergei Shirokov and businessman Kirill Posashkov. All of them are charged with a particularly large fraud.
According to investigators, the heads of Federal State Unitary Enterprises, who owned valuable assets, were forced to sign fictitious guarantees for loans from Moscow Capital with the provision of real estate as collateral. Subsequently, the bank went bankrupt, and the rights of claim to state-owned enterprises were bought up by companies close to the alleged criminals, which made it possible to take possession of expensive real estate.
Thus, the attackers allegedly managed to capture 35 objects worth a total of 2 billion rubles, including 27 cultural heritage sites, including: the ensemble of the Rogozhskaya Yamskaya Sloboda of the 19th century (18 buildings on Shkolnaya Street), the chambers of the 17th–18th centuries (Kozhevnicheskaya Street), the Dolgorukovs’ house middle of the 18th century (Kolpachny Lane), Snegirev’s estate of the first quarter of the 19th century (Plyushchikha Street), the Leontyevs’ house built in 1830 (Garnetny Lane), Naryshkin’s estate of the 1770s (Solyanka Street). In total, the defendants in the case allegedly planned to steal 120 objects worth 10 billion rubles.
