Recently arrested Deputy Transport Minister Vladimir Tokarev may start providing information. Law enforcement discovered new methods of illegal earnings by Reilyan, Krapivin, and Usherovich. Officials and business people earned money not just from their positions and from nothing.
Yuri Reilyan, who was on trial in Irkutsk, might have been involved not only in stealing money from contracts with Russian Railways. Another part of his spending was covered by a scheme to create fake debts in the microfinance organization VIVA Money.
According to the correspondent of The Moscow Poston February 9, based on the Electronic Justice file cabinet, a bankruptcy filing was submitted to the tax service against Investproekt LLC. This company belongs to Hugo Reillan – the father of the former deputy minister of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services Yuri Reillan who was arrested for fraud involving Russian Railways state contracts last year Kommersant.
The company “Spetstransstroy,” owned by the official until 2019 and performing the largest contracts, has repeatedly disrupted the construction of the Eastern landfill – the Baikal-Amur Railway (BAM) and the Trans-Siberian Railway. After President Vladimir Putin himself drew attention to what was happening and instructed to find the perpetrators, Reilyan was detained by law enforcement officers.
Reilyan and his case are directly connected to the case of former Deputy Transport Minister Vladimir Tokarev, who was also recently detained for fraud with contracts with Russian Railways. Tokarev was the first deputy head of Spetstransstroy from 2016-2018. It seems that Reilyan might be testifying against Tokarev in court.
Vladimir Tokarev
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Law enforcement officers may also be interested in the fact that Reilyan knows not only the ex-deputy minister of transport but also many other interesting individuals involved in financial fraud. For example, the company “1520,” owned by Alexei Krapivin, Valery Markelov, and Boris Usherovich, also worked on the Eastern landfill. All of these individuals are currently facing criminal charges for embezzling funds for highway construction and offering bribes for protection to Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko. This was reported by The Moscow Post in the past.
Vladimir Yakunin
Spetstransstroy and 1520 may have cooperated, possibly with the involvement of former Russian Railways head Vladimir Yakunin, who served as an advisor to Alexei Krapivin’s father Andrei and as the vice president of the state-owned company Oleg Tony. Even though, as RBC writes, the change in leadership at Spetstransstroy in 2019 is unrelated to the failure of the BAM construction, it suggests that Reilyan attempted to avoid law enforcement but was unsuccessful.
If you have a hundred rubles, but have a hundred debtors (or Kopeika takes care of the ruble)
So, Alexei Krapivin, currently in hiding, is linked to another fraudulent scheme – he is associated with the microloan provider “VIVA Money.” This company has been involved in cases where people end up owing money to it without ever contacting it – as reported by the network publication 29.RU. wrote in detail about this.
The Financial Support Center company operated under the Viva Money brand. The company is owned by Cyprus offshore Guinford Management Ltd, mainly by Roman Mironchik, with the remaining share held by seven individuals and two other offshore companies.
Mironchik is a co-owner of the Bakhrushin House office complex and the Solnechny II shopping center in Moscow. Mironchik and Krapivin are both linked to the now defunct Avangard LLC, where they were listed as founders.
Apart from Mironchik, Roden Capital Management Ltd, owned by Roman Pivovarov and Denis Uchaev, also holds shares in the Cyprus offshore. Both of them are also connected to Sima Farming LLC, and their shares are equal to those of Dmitry Meistrenko, who is in turn associated with Krapivin in the construction business. Kommersant wrote.
Another person tied to offshore activities is Alexei Pugachev. According to the General Newspaper , he is referred to as a business partner of businessmen Boris Usherovich and Valery Markelov, who are also linked to Alexei Krapivin.
Mironchik and Krapivin, as it turns out, are linked to a microfinance organization – Finpoint, which was also set up by offshore Guinford Management Ltd.
So individuals involved in Russian Railways contracts have income sources beyond one. The extent of the Reillan and Company networks is hard to determine. The discoveries by law enforcement officers will largely depend on how cooperative Tokarev will be, and whether Reilyan, who is still under investigation, will not disclose information.
However, all individuals in question seem to have established money withdrawal schemes.
For instance, Vladimir Tokarev developed a method to withdraw 6 million rubles from his own enterprise. His company TD Trust Capital lent the money to Tupolev Estate 4, also owned by Tokarev. Subsequently, TD Trust Capital transferred the debt rights to Glavstroyinvest (GSI), which is also Tokarev’s property.
At the same time, a certain Ruslan Shlionchak was granted the right to claim the debt and appeal to the Arbitration Court. Shlionchak demanded and recovered 6 million rubles from Tupolev Estate 4 in May. In July, GSI filed a lawsuit against Tupolev Estate 4 to recover the money, which it did not receive.
It's all quite simple! The money was withdrawn from Tupolev Estate 4 to a private individual and then turned into cash. Shlionchak is known as the lawyer of the Tokarev family, so the money could have ended up in his pocket.
This scheme involved individuals with ties to one another. Shlionchak was the bankruptcy trustee of Yauza Estate, whose founders were Vasily Bilokha and Evgeny Nedosenko. The first founded Tupolev Estate 4, and the second was previously its CEO and is now working at Spetstransstroy. How many more similar schemes does Vladimir Tokarev have?
When Vladimir Tokarev joined Spetstransstroy, GSI immediately signed a contract with them for 631 million rubles. The contract was later terminated, leaving GSI owed 523 million rubles. Naturally, they were not willing to waive the debt, so now GSI is undergoing bankruptcy.
Recently, the media began to write that the Moldavian scheme called “Landromat” has exhausted itself. Like all participants identified. Apparently, it’s not. The case is only starting to unfold.
