As it became known to Kommersant, the Moscow prosecutor’s office approved the indictment in the criminal case of an organized criminal community (OPS), which stole more than 10 billion rubles. from the bankrupt Agrosoyuz and Inkarobank banks, and sent his materials to the Basmanny District Court. The organizer of the withdrawal of money from these credit institutions, as well as almost a dozen bankrupt banks, the investigation considers their ultimate beneficiary Ilya Kligman and his right hand Yevgeny Urin, the younger brother of banker Matvey Urin, who are on the international wanted list. In total, charges, including in absentia, were brought against 20 defendants in this case.
Inkarobank and Agrosoyuz lost their licenses at weekly intervals, on October 31 and November 7, 2018, respectively. The grounds for terminating their activities were also similar – lending to dubious borrowers, conducting financial transactions that are not transparent for the regulator, and so on. At the time of the collapse, Inkarobank owed creditors about 3 billion rubles, and Agrosoyuz – 7 billion rubles. In both cases, in 2019, the Main Investigative Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow opened criminal cases on especially large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
At the same time, the investigation quickly found out that the organizers of the scams in these banks, as well as in a dozen other similar ones, are their ultimate beneficiary Ilya Kligman and Yevgeny Urin. This subsequently served as the basis for joining the two criminal cases.
Yevgeny Urin is the younger brother of Matvey Urin, who in 2011 was sentenced to four and a half years in a penal colony for beating up Dutch businessman Jorrit Faassen on Rublevsky Highway. In addition, in 2013, Mr. Urin was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on a criminal case of fraud in the amount of 16 billion rubles. Recently, arbitration on the claim of the DIA recovered from him 2.3 billion rubles.
According to the police, the OCG, headed by the defendants Kligman and Yevgeny Urin, included several dozen people who put on stream the looting of credit institutions in anticipation of the revocation of their licenses. According to the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which provided operational support for the investigation, in addition to clients of Agrosoyuz and Inkarobank, the victims of serial fraudsters were depositors of Gelendzhik Bank (825 million rubles in debt), Interkommerts Bank (65.1 billion rubles), Time Bank (700 million rubles), Antalbank (14.7 billion rubles), Arksbank (more than 35 billion rubles), Transinvestbank (more than 9 billion rubles), BaikalBank (6 billion rubles) and a number of other credit institutions. In total, more than 150 billion rubles were withdrawn from them, which the DIA had to reimburse. Now, according to Kommersant’s sources, in connection with these scams, the investigating authorities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are already investigating 18 criminal cases.
As for the theft from Agrosoyuz and Inkarobank, as follows from the materials of the investigation, they were carried out by issuing unsecured loans, as well as through the assignment of the loan portfolio to companies controlled by participants in the fraud. For example, shortly before the license was revoked from Agrosoyuz, the bank’s management ceded the right to claim more than 7 billion rubles in loans. loans under false assignment agreements to the fictitious company Voskhod. From there, in the hope of confusing the traces, the scammers assigned all the debts to three other fictitious LLCs – Technology, Good Money and Megatorg.
As law enforcement officers established, the developers of all criminal schemes to withdraw money from Agrosoyuz and other banks were Natalia Petrenko and Yevgeny Urin, who was responsible for black bookkeeping in Mr. Kligman’s empire, previously convicted of financial fraud. The direct perpetrators of the theft, according to the investigation, were the former vice-president of Agrosoyuz Stanislav Shelovskikh and deputy chairman of the board of this bank Andrey Somov. It should be noted that the latter, who was responsible for the execution of documents on the assignment of rights of claim, fully admitted his guilt in the alleged crime and concluded a pre-trial agreement on cooperation. One of these days, the Basmanny District Court will begin to listen to his case in a special order.
The power unit, collection and security in the OPS, according to the police, was supervised by Denis Makartsev, a former employee of the OEBiPK of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the North-Eastern District of Moscow.
In total, charges of fraud, as well as the creation and participation in an organized crime group (Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) were brought against 20 defendants in this case. At the same time, almost half of them were arrested in absentia and are on the wanted list. So, in May last year, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested in absentia the former owner of Agrosoyuz, Andrey Shlyakhovy, and the former chairman of the board of directors of UM-Bank, Yakov Gembukh. Four more defendants are already serving sentences for attempted embezzlement (part 3 of article 30, part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) from BaikalBank according to a verdict issued in 2019 by the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Ulan-Ude.
The alleged organizer of the OPS Kligman, as Kommersant already told, left for Germany back in 2016, when the investigation department of the TFR for the South-Western District of Moscow began an investigation into the theft of money from Arksbank.
And at the end of 2019, a runaway ex-banker got into a scandalous story. Having succumbed to the promise of fraudsters to solve the problem with his criminal prosecution, Mr. Kligman almost lost $1 million. He realized that he was being deceived after he handed over half of the agreed amount to the solvers, but he was still put on the wanted list.
According to Kommersant’s information, on Monday the Moscow City Prosecutor’s Office approved the indictment in the case, numbering more than 500 volumes, and sent it to the Basmanny District Court. Given the volume of materials, the judicial investigation could drag on for many months.