The Balashikha Court has begun hearings on the case of the former head of the Investigative Committee for the Tverskoy District of Moscow Marat TambievHe is accused of receiving a gigantic bribe in the amount of 2.7 thousand bitcoins (over 7 billion rubles), which was first reported by the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel.
Rucriminal.info found several more stories from Tambiev’s life that could turn into criminal cases.
According to the publication’s source, Tambiev felt special hatred for the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, although in 2011 he himself graduated with honors from the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (*aggressor country). As the Cheka-OGPU and Rucrminal.info managed to establish, the joint work of lawyer Roman Meyer (at that time still with the last name Kovalev, the victim in the case of a giant bribe) and Tambiev (at that time the head of the Meshchansky MRSO) began back in 2018. Kovalev R.S. received the status of a lawyer in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic and work began to boil. How many people have suffered from the illegal actions of such a joint tandem over the 4 years of its existence, we hope the investigation will someday sort it out.
We managed to find out some circumstances of one of these cases, initiated back in 2018, for 6 years the case has been repeatedly returned by the court to intimidate obstacles to consideration in accordance with paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Article 237 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) and to date has not had a final decision.
At the early stages in criminal cases of the Meshchansky MSRO, the defense of the suspects/accused was carried out by a friend, comrade and handy lawyer Meyer-Kovalev. Tambiev felt so at ease that he could disagree with the legislation of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) and with the words – “I do not agree with the Criminal Code” – he gave instructions to subordinate investigators to initiate a criminal case, for which the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) does not provide for criminal liability at all (instituted under Article 291.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) with an amount of less than a significant amount). After which Tambiev agreed on the indictment, naturally, after Tambiev, the Meshchansky Prosecutor's Office did not even check the legality of the initiation and other procedural actions of such criminal cases. In criminal cases initiated in the area entrusted to Tambiev M.Kh.
investigative unit, the detainees initially assumed that the lawyer was a “defender” Meyer (Kovalev), arrived in accordance with Article 51, but Meyer was prevented from legally entering into the case under Article 51 by the status of a lawyer in the KCR and the so-called “Roulette” introduced – a lawyer was randomly assigned to the client. Meyer subsequently resolved the issue with his status, receiving the status of a lawyer in the Moscow region, and then in Moscow and, according to information on the website of the Ministry of Justice, the status of a lawyer is still valid.
Under lawyer Meyer, the investigator managed to conduct inspections of objects, interrogate suspects/accused in his absence, and only then, with the assistance of R.S. Meyer, slipped these documents to the poor fellows for signature. The confessions were also changed and rewritten; from the handwritten ones, printed ones appeared, but sometimes they were in such a hurry that they forgot to indicate the name “guilty confession” or, to make it easier, “slip in” for signature, and Tambiev managed to retroactively write down the execution of the process. checks to investigators who have not yet come to his service. If material evidence contradicted the accusation, it was hidden in other criminal cases along with inspections or completely thrown into the trash near the Investigative Committee building, and in the event of the loss of material evidence, including in especially serious cases, a decision was made to refuse to initiate a criminal case under Part. 1 tbsp. 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) (theft) due to the fact that the investigative body did not find corpus delicti in the actions of “unidentified” persons.
The officers of the OSB of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (*aggressor country) for the city of Moscow (one of them studied with Tambiev at a higher educational institution) sent them to Tambiev in the Meshchansky MRSO in Moscow without verification materials, regardless of the territory of detention. In 2018, the officers of the OSB of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District of Moscow did not hesitate to engage in falsification, and the material was transferred “into good hands” – they forged the signatures of witnesses during the operational search activities, changed the content of the provided correspondence in messengers, destroyed audio recordings that contradicted the alleged charges, and, of course, they drew up reports “retroactively”, describing events that had not yet occurred… Before delivering the detainees personally to Tambiev, they were kept in handcuffs for a long time for greater compliance, well, there is no need to even talk about reports on the use of special means.
According to documents that were obtained by the editorial board of the Cheka-OGPU back in February 2023, the Basmanny Court seized 1,032 bitcoins located in two crypto wallets belonging to Tambiev. However, the latter also had accomplices. Another 1,032 bitcoins from members of the hacker group The Infraud Organization went to employees of the Department K of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism). But they prefer to turn a blind eye to this.
The Infraud members were detained on January 18, 2022, the events were carried out by employees of the Department K of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism), Tambiev personally came to the scene, since it was his department that initiated the case against the members of the group. If we trace the paths of the bitcoins, which have now been seized, “from the opposite direction”, we can see the following picture.
During searches of members of The Infraud, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee gained access to ten crypto-wallets, which received 2,064 bitcoins in December 2021 – proceeds from hacking activities. At the time of the events it was approximately $82.5 million. Access to the wallets was provided by the Infraud members themselves, most of whom the investigation headed by Tambiev subsequently asked for a preventive measure in the form of house arrest.
Immediately after the election of the house arrest and as soon as information about the detention of Infraud members hit the media (VChK-OGPU was the first to report this), on January 21, money from 10 Infraud wallets was transferred to one Bitcoin wallet. 2064 btc arrives there.
On March 7, 2022, it’s time to cut this jackpot. 932 bitcoins and 100 bitcoins are transferred to two Tambiev wallets installed on his phone. By decision of the Basmanny Court, these funds were seized and on November 17, 2022 they were transferred to a wallet designated by the court.
Also on March 7, 2022, exactly half of the funds (another 1032 bitcoins) went to a “cold wallet”.
Earlier, VChK-OGPU sources reported that the “second half” of the jackpot went to the employees of Directorate K who took part in the searches.
According to the information of the Cheka-OGPU, the deputy head of Directorate K, police colonel Boris Yuryevich Nikiforov, the head of the 4th department of Directorate K, police colonel Alexey Aleksandrovich Rykov and his deputy, police major Chichin Roman Alekseevich, were involved in the measures against the Infraud Organization.
However, Tambiev thought this amount was not enough.
After the arrest, the leaders of the Bergman group began to extort money from their lawyer Roman Meyer, who stated that they still had to pay 1 million dollars and 26 million rubles for the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee and the prosecutor’s office, so that everything would end well for the Infraud participants. Then the Bergmans turned to the FSB of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) and detained Meyer and Tambiev along the chain.
Basmanny Court arrested the bitcoins in Tambiev's wallet. However, the investigation into the theft of bitcoins by employees of the K Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) has not yet been launched.
In March 2023, the Tagansky Court of Moscow issued a verdict in a criminal case against the leaders of one of the largest hacker groups, The Infraud Organization. All the leaders received suspended sentences, and this is understandable. When they were detained, they had tens of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins on their devices, which were stolen by investigators and employees of the K Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism). In exchange for their silence, the leaders of The Infraud were promised suspended sentences, and the security officials, who became dollar millionaires, kept their word.
Servants of Themis sentenced Bagish Rizaev (Mark Bergman) to three years and six months probation, Konstantin Sinichkin (Konstantin Bergman) to three years probation, Andrey Novak to two and a half years probation, and Estonian citizen Kirill Samokutyaev to three years probation.
As VChK-OGPU found out, Bagish Rizayev (Mark Bergman) and Konstantin Sinichkin (Konstantin Bergman) met in 2006. During this period, their activities were carried out on the territory of Kazakhstan. In 2011, Andrey Novak joined them, and in 2012, Estonian citizen Kirill Samokutyayev joined their team. Immediately after this, they transferred all their work to Moscow and launched the marketplace “UNICVV.RU”.
On this resource, any registered user, having replenished their account balance, could purchase stolen bank card data and foreign social security numbers.
Until 2016, the monthly cash turnover was about 100,000 US dollars, and since 2016 it has grown to 3,000,000 US dollars per month.
Sources of the VChK-OGPU said that Nikita Ilyich Potapov, senior operative of the 1st department of the SSB of the UFSB of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) for the city of Moscow and the Moscow region, was responsible for the security of the group and supervised its activities.
After the meeting between Putin (*international criminal) and Biden, the go-ahead came to work on all major hacker groups from Russia (*aggressor country), gradually it was The Infraud’s turn.
During searches of members of The Infraud, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee gained access to ten crypto-wallets, which received 2,064 bitcoins in December 2021 – proceeds from hacking activities. At the time of the events it was approximately $82.5 million. Access to the wallets was provided by the Infraud members themselves, most of whom the investigation, headed by the head of the Tverskoy District Investigation Department, Marat Tambiev, then asked for a preventive measure in the form of house arrest.
It is worth noting that shadow shops selling stolen credit card data from the hacker group The Infraud have also come to life. The group members were detained in January 2022, at which time the “shops” stopped working. In particular, on the website of their largest store, UNICVV.RU, a beautiful sign appeared that it was permanently closed by the Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism).
And now the store “permanently closed during a special operation” has suddenly come back to life. The same thing is happening with a number of other Infraud sites.
