Braised bankers
Openers of banks and cans of stew were under investigation, and the main serial banker Ilya Kligman enjoys life in the West? The investigation has completed the investigation of the criminal case of the criminal community that stole more than 10 billion rubles from the collapsed banks Agrosoyuz and Inkarobank. The well-known “serial banker” Ilya Kligman, who has been on the international wanted list for many years, as well as his close associate Yevgeny Urin, brother of the banker Matvey Urin, are considered to be the organizers of the theft.
In total, there are two dozen defendants in the case. But it is unlikely that law enforcement officers will get to key persons – the investigation considers Ilya Kligman and Yevgeny Urin to be such. Details about the activities of serial bankers – in the material of the correspondent of The Moscow Post.
Inkarobank and Agrosoyuz lost their licenses back in 2018. The reason was lending to dubious borrowers, conducting non-transparent operations, and so on. “Inkarobank” owed creditors about 3 billion rubles, “Agrosoyuz” – 7 billion rubles. Cases of particularly large-scale fraud were initiated.
Apparently, loans were issued to fictitious legal entities, and then they were assigned to the same “sharashkin offices” in order to confuse the tracks. As a result, the money could be withdrawn abroad.
In total, in addition to clients of Agrosoyuz and Inkarobank, the victims of fraudsters allegedly became 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 lending institutions.
In total, more than 150 billion rubles were withdrawn from them, which the DIA had to reimburse. The total number of cases has risen to 18.
Andrey Shlyakhovoy and Yakov Gembukh, ex-heads of the Moscow-based UM-bank LLC, also came under investigation, who were accused of embezzling funds from Spektr LLC and withdrawing money from UM-Bank. Both, according to Kommersant, went abroad on time.
At the same time, The Moscow Post previously suggested that Mr. Shlyakhova could withdraw money in the interests of, among other things, Ilya Kligman.
It is simply amazing how they managed to turn such schemes over and over again and not end up behind bars. Did they really have a “roof” in the Central Bank? Hypothetically, this could be the former deputy chairman of the Central Bank Vasily Pozdyshev, who at the end of 2019 was appointed to the Banking Sector Consolidation Fund (became responsible for the reorganization), and in the summer of 2020 (less than six months later) left the structure and the Central Bank as a whole.
As Versiya later wrote, the official actively participated in the reshaping of the Russian banking sector, and law enforcement officers could ask him questions. However, after 2020, Pozdyshev “disappeared from the radar.”
open canned food
All of this is reminiscent of a well-oiled scheme that has been in place for almost a decade. Moreover, money could be withdrawn not only with the use of one-day firms, but also through loans for quite solid industries.
From 2014 to 2017, Evgeny Urin was the general director of Klen-Nedvizhimost Investment and Construction Company LLC. The company was engaged in the purchase and sale of its own real estate, and is now in the process of bankruptcy, although it has a small revenue and profit.
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And the owner of this structure is the “Elinsky Food Plant” from Khimki near Moscow – the manufacturer of the famous stew. Now the plant is in bankruptcy proceedings – apparently, it was simply gutted. The accounts of the plant are blocked by the Federal Tax Service, the loss in 2021 is 428 million rubles, the value of assets is minus 191 million rubles.
Since 2021, the sole owner of the plant has been Andrey Sukhorukov, who can be either a nominal figure or a partner of Messrs. Kligman and Urin.
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Among other things, there are several other dubious organizations behind Sukhorukov. For example, the liquidated VKP LLC, which, in fact, did not conduct any financial activity and could be a “laying company”. We also note the Sogost Foundation, the founder of which Sukhorukov was from 2020 to 2021. He is still the President of the Foundation.
The fund is engaged in providing social services without providing accommodation for the elderly and disabled, and also looks like a very dubious organization – especially given Sukhorukov’s attitude to the production of canned food.
What happened to the Elinsky Food Plant? The plant had a subsidiary – “BaltRybTeh” (LLC “BRT”), which was engaged in the production of canned fish. According to Rosbankrot, in 2021, SME Bank filed for insolvency of BaltRybTech – it turned out that it owed the credit institution over 1 billion rubles in loans. And the third party in this case was the Elinsky Food Plant.
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Other beneficiaries of BRT are Pavel Yakukhin and Evgeny Malko. And the structure itself is in the stage of bankruptcy with huge disadvantages. At the end of 2021, its loss amounted to 628 million rubles, although a year earlier there was a profit of 14 million rubles. The value of assets is estimated at minus 180 million rubles. It seems that money and assets were simply withdrawn from the enterprise.
It turned out that both BRT and Elinsky Food Processing Plant acted as guarantors for loans from the aforementioned Inkarobank, which itself eventually collapsed and owed 3 billion rubles to creditors.
According to Kommersant, the theft from Inkarobank was carried out by issuing unsecured loans, as well as through the assignment of the loan portfolio to companies controlled by participants in the fraud. Among such companies is also Tekhnologiya LLC, which in 2019 filed a lawsuit to recover debts from BaltRybTech and Elinsky Food Processing Plant.
As a result, Tekhnologiya LLC won the court, only the structures no longer had money – apparently, they were withdrawn through third companies, among which there could be Good Money – according to the investigation, another fictitious office.
To summarize, real productions like the Elinsky Food Plant took out loans from banks, then assigned the right to claim them to third parties, and the money could be withdrawn. As a result, these enterprises – BRT and Elinsky Food Plant themselves ended up in bankruptcy proceedings – the requirements for the insolvency of the same BRT, as mentioned above, were also put forward by SME Bank, which itself could become a victim of this probable scam.
As a result, only Kligman’s and Urin’s assistant pawns could end up in the hands of the investigation, while they themselves could long ago rest on their hard-earned money in the West.
Serial bankers
Ilya Kligman is a well-known Russian financier who is called a “serial banker” by market players with a bitter smile. According to FLB, earlier he was called the “shadow accountant” of the crime boss of the Tambov organized crime group Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin) from St. Petersburg.
Back in 2016, under the threat of possible questions from law enforcement officers, Mr. Kligman left Russia. Now he lives, presumably, in Germany. Much less was known about his close associate Yevgeny Urin, who also allegedly went abroad.
But they know Urin’s older brother, Matvey Urin, well. Unlike Yevgeny, it really was a banker, who was repeatedly subjected to criminal claims. Matvey Urin was detained back in 2010 for beating up Dutch businessman Jorrit Faassen, a former board member of Gazprom’s subsidiary Stroytransgaz. Then Matvey Urin received three years in prison.
But the main thing was different: Urin Sr. controlled several banks (Slavyansky Bank, Trado-Bank, Mint, Uralfinprombank and Donbank), and later he was charged with making counterfeit securities, several episodes of fraud and money laundering.
It was about fraud with bills and bonds, and cashing out funds through shell companies. Doesn’t this look like the current criminal case of Kligman and Urin Jr.? In total, Urin Sr. spent 8.5 years in prison, RBC writes about this.
As for Yevgeny Urin, according to FLB, he was allegedly a member of Matvey Urin’s group for “gutting” banks. Back in 2009, Matvey Urin and the future shareholder of Slavyansky Bank Andrey Ishchenko received 100 million rubles in loans from Trado-Bank for two.
This happened on the same day that the bank became “urinsky”. A month later, Matvey Urin and Andrey Ishchenko deposited these funds into the bank’s cash desk to pay off the debt. By a strange coincidence, at the same time, 100 million rubles. Yevgeny Urin and a certain N.A. Ermolenko received a loan in the form of a loan.
Is Matvey Urin the only one who got what he deserved from Kligman’s team? Photo: rbc.en
A month later, this loan was repaid, after which 50 million rubles. ended up in the hands of Svetlana Belova, the future shareholder of Uralfinprombank, and 57.7 million rubles. the bank sent to purchase securities.
As a result, part of the credit resources was replaced by fictitious securities purchased through Forward Capital. Subsequently, through this financial intermediary, the “Ura” group withdrew more than one billion rubles from banks.