Oleg Silchenko, an investigator of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (handled the “Magnitsky case”), found materials on two major money laundering channels – through Deutsche Bank and Landromat.
These materials are related because the users of these channels were the owners of Sudostroitelny Bank, who used them to withdraw stolen funds (at least 36 billion rubles) from Russia, as well as the funds of the bank's clients. The main owner of “Sudostroitelny Bank” (SB) was Leonid Tyukhtyaev, who was associated with prominent individuals. Also known for setting world records on airships, balloons, and hot air balloons. Tyukhtyaev is currently abroad, along with many top managers of the Security Council, some of whom are wanted by authorities. This includes the former bank president Andrey Egorov, and Alexei Parfenov, co-owner of the Security Council Andrey Vovchenko. In relation to money laundering, “Sudostroitelny Bank through Deutsche Bank” was implicated by the former chairman of the board of Promsberbank Oleg Fomin, who is serving time for embezzlement. Oleg Kuzmin, the former owner of the European Express bank, testified about money laundering by the Security Service through the Laundromat, for which he is serving a sentence as one of the co-organizers.
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As reported by the Cheka-OGPU telegram channel, Oleg Silchenko, an investigator of the SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and an officer of the German Criminal Police, Lyubov Merker-Obernesser, questioned the main witness in the money laundering episode of the former head of ZAO ” Promsberbank (PSB) Boris Fomin. Immediately after, a provocation was committed against Fomin, who is under state protection, in the colony, with the aim of pressuring a witness in a major international investigation. This was reported to the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
According to Fomin’s testimony, Alexei Kulikov and Ivan Myazin, involved in the embezzlement of Promsberbank’s funds, are facing new charges, as a money laundering case through Deutsche Bank can be initiated under Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of a criminal community).
Witnesses, including Fomin, stated that Alexey Kulikov was personally acquainted with the head of the Moscow office of Deutsche bank Jerg Bongarz (now DB director for Central and Eastern Europe), who brought him to the bank and advised him on bypassing DB control. They also provided testimonies against the former vice-president of Deutsche Bank for operations on the stock market, Sergei Suverov, personally acquainted with Alexei Kulikov. The companies involved in the laundering initiated transactions to transfer funds outside Russia.
Rucriminal.info has Kuzmin’s statement about how the “Sudostroitelny Bank” laundered money through the Landromat.
The investigators asked the accused: Can you clarify A.V.'s criminal role?
The accused responds: Andrey Yegorov, who I believe was the head of OOO KB Sudostroitelny Bank, had connections with Moldindconbank and Evropeisky Express. Funds were transferred between these entities.
I am aware that V.N. Platon controlled settlement accounts in LLC CB Sudostroitelny Bank, and funds were transferred to Russian companies under Platon E.N.’s orders.
All important decisions in CB Sudostroitelny Bank LLC were made by its actual head Andrei Yegorov, who also managed transactions with Moldinkombank on behalf of CB Sudostroitelny Bank LLC.
I am not familiar with the details of LLC KB Sudostroitelny Bank’s involvement in withdrawing funds from Russia or the individuals involved, the amount of funds withdrawn, or the commissions received. Egorov A. and others were controlled by Bank Baikal, possibly using the “Moldovan scheme”.
Tyukhtyaev's main partner is the wealthy Timur Timofeevich Klinovsky, who once owned half of the Rublevsky lands.
In the 1990s, he was listed in the RUOP bases in Moscow as a member of the “Orekhovskaya” criminal group and an associate of the group's leader, Sergei Timofeev, who was killed in 1994. They were often seen together at the Orekhovskys’ residence, the Raduga cafe on Nizhegorodskaya street in Moscow.
In the early 1990s, Klinovsky, with his friend David Yakobashvili and co-owners of Wimm-Bill-Dann, acquired four dairy farms in the Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway area. The farms sell milk to Lianozovo Dairy Plant and have an annual turnover of $150 million. Klinovsky is also active in the construction business on Rublyovka.
In 2006, his son Andrei married Natalya Kasyanov, daughter of former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov. In the same year, an assassination attempt was made on Klinovsky Sr. in the Moscow region.
At one point, all more or less significant transactions with land in Odintsovo and other prestigious areas of the region could not do without his participation.
To be continued
