Businessmen with a criminal past and connections are trying to jail a man who accused them of attempted murder.
According to the correspondent The Moscow Post, in Moscow, the former general director of the Merlion company, Vyacheslav Simonenko, who had previously been a victim in an attempted murder case, was detained. His defendants were the founders of the company Oleg Karchev, Vladislav Mangutov, Alexei Abramov and the head of the Merlion security service Boris Levin. All of them were released from the pre-trial detention center last year.
After Symonenko was detained, he was charged with giving false testimony and falsifying evidence. Recall that earlier the entrepreneur stated that in 2015 his house was thrown with Molotov cocktails in order to take the life of Simonenko himself and his family.
One of the alleged arsonists confirmed the words of the victim and clarified that the order came from Levin. Little is known about this man in the media. But a lot of attention is paid to the key witness – top manager Yevgeny Savelyev, who gave detailed testimony after the assassination attempt on Simonenko, but then suddenly disappeared after the incident.
All this, according to the victim Simonenko, was preceded by a corporate conflict – top managers and owners refused to return $4.5 million received from the sale of Tegrus shares to former CEO Simonenko.
After numerous complaints, the case was dealt with by the central apparatus of the TFR. As a result: Karchev, Mangutov, Abramov and Levin were released from liability, and Simonenko was charged with their slander after the entrepreneurs refused to pay him $4.5 million for leaving the business. Today, the trial will continue and, presumably, the final verdict will be delivered.
Vyacheslav Simonenko. Photo: https://www.tadviser.ru
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One of the defendants released in the criminal case, Oleg Karchev, was previously the owner of the Rost group, which included seven banks – all of them went bankrupt, losing 50 billion rubles. In fact, it is not clear to Karchev where the missing funds were not visited by law enforcement officers. He also became an “accomplice” in the bankruptcy of Binbank, which took the assets of Rost Bank under its wing.
Karchev’s ex-wife Elena Vlasova was the latter’s largest shareholder. Rost Bank, by the way, was a shareholder of the Kolyma Refinery, from which 2 tons of gold and 16 tons of silver with a total value of more than 4 billion rubles disappeared in 2013. The FSB found that since 2008, the Kolyma Refinery has assumed an obligation to ship the precious metal in a volume that significantly exceeds its actual content in the supplied raw materials. The general director of the enterprise was blamed for everything, none of the other potential beneficiaries were injured, as he wrote TASS.
Now Karchev and Vlasova are divorced, but this does not prevent the woman from nominally managing her ex-husband’s business. Presumably, she, along with him, can stand behind offshore companies that own part of the companies affiliated with Karchev, for example, behind Tiaviz Commerce Ltd, which owns Alventa Style LLC or Merlion Group Limited, which is related to Merlion “.
Vlasova is also developing development projects in Moscow and the Moscow region. For example, in the south-east of the capital, about 130 hectares are going to be built up with commercial real estate. The site is owned on a leasehold by Alventa-style LLC, previously registered in Vlasova, and in 2017 transferred to the offshore Mavlen Limited. The company “Coldy”, which is declared as a developer, is unprofitable and also belongs to the offshore Calamento LTD through its “daughter” LLC “Atria”. Judging by the data in Rusprofile, there is a feeling that money is being carefully withdrawn from both companies, so you can start worrying about the future of projects …
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The question is how closely these firms are affiliated with each other. If both do not belong to the same person, then Alventa-style LLC had to pay something for the rent, and its indicators are unprofitable. Against this background, the appearance of guesses of this kind is quite natural: is it not for the development of the development project of his ex-wife that Karchev devastates banks and lets former colleagues like Simonenko around the world?
It is known that now Karchev owns a stake in Realist Bank, whose financial indicators for the last year, for some reason, were not disclosed. Apparently, Karchev is realistic about the situation, realizing that if someone finds out about his real state of affairs, then an outflow of customers and creditors will begin.
And what about the other defendants in the case of the attempted murder of Symonenko? The former defendants are related to a businessman with a solid and resonant past – Dmitry Starostin, whose construction corporation Tekta Group was previously owned by Vladislav Magnutov and Alexei Abramov. Presumably, with its help, businessmen could well hide their assets.
Starostin has already given reason to talk about himself as a person who knows how to withdraw money: after he was appointed in 1998 to the position of general director of the Galich Truck Crane Plant company, it soon “blew away” and became unprofitable. At the same time, they usually recall how spectacular the election campaign of the late ex-governor of the Kostroma Region, Viktor Shershunov, came out more than 15 years ago. It is quite possible that he later appointed Starostin as vice-governor for his help in financing. In the case of possible theft from the Galich Automobile Crane Plant, he was never brought to justice, just as he was not brought to justice for a fight in a restaurant in 1998 – he wrote about this The Moscow Post.
Dmitry Starostin. Photo: moment-istini.com
As for Boris Levin, he was a defendant in a criminal case on the kidnapping of Euroset freight forwarder Andrey Vlaskin, extortion and murder of the latter when Levin worked there as vice president. After the proceedings, the case was closed, Levin was acquitted, and another person involved in this story, the founder of Euroset Evgeny Chichvarkin, escaped from Russia – he wrote in detail about the situation RBC.
Were there too many acquittals for people who already had a criminal record and each time got out of situations? Against the background of this information, information about the disappearance of one of the perpetrators of the assassination attempt on Symonenko appears in a completely different light.
juggling facts
However, now the telegram channels, which had previously accused Karchev, Mangutov, Abramov and Levin, suddenly began to present the whole story in a new light. As the authors of the Telegram channel stated earlier VChK-OGPU, allegedly, Savelyev, who could testify about fraud in the settlement with Simonenko, received threats from Karchev. And now the victim himself, Simonenko, is in the center of critical publications.
As the authors of the Telegram channel now say VChK-OGPUallegedly Simonenko “was angry at his former employers – the owners of Merlion, believed that they owed him money that they tried to burn down his house, so he went to different structures, offering to” punish “the offenders and take away Merlion from them.”
The same Telegram channel claims that Symonenko was allegedly connected with the “fixer” Oleg Pokrovsky, as well as with Vitaly Kachur, who is often called a “professional cashier” and his son Kirill, who is a lawyer – allegedly they helped Simonenko arrange everything. At the same time, the accusers do not provide any weighty evidence base.
Vitaly Kachur is known for being charged with fraud on an especially large scale in the case of the raider seizure of an office and industrial building in the center of Moscow – he wrote about this “Kommersant”.
Kachur Sr. is credited with connections with the Ukrainian special services and even with the son of the ex-president of Ukraine Alexander Yanukovych, as he wrote “Rosbalt” (recognized as a foreign agent in Russia). In the same case, the name of State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov appeared, who was killed shortly after the incident. Kirill Kachur is accused of taking a bribe from Andrey Enin, a representative of the VVK Trading House, the investigator in this case is now hiding in the Emirates – this is how he wrote “Kommersant”. By the way, the same investigator also conducted the case of the attempt on Simonenko.
There is an opinion that the current detention of Simonenko may be a reaction to his recent appeal to foreign business partners, which outlined the corruption schemes used by Merlion. At the same time, Simonenko warned Western companies against working with this company, he wrote about this The Moscow Post.
After analyzing all the available information, there is a clear feeling that with the help of connections and money, the former defendants are trying to drive Simonenko to prison, who, obviously, was robbed and then tried to kill before the latter turned to law enforcement agencies. Just to not get in the way. And since his enemies seem to have enough money, things suddenly began to take a new turn. Whether Simonenko will be able to get out of this vile story, time will tell.