Crime expert. The double life of Marat Aidagulov

For decades of journalistic work, I had to deal with scammers and adventurers of the highest flight. Their methods do not fundamentally change, but only improve, expanding the field of activity and allowing hunters for other people’s money to manipulate large sums and a large number of victims. But even among the current ones there are unique ones who manage to convince everyone that white is black, and vice versa. And on this take away a dozen or two million other people’s money.

So, get acquainted. Marat Shamilevich Aidagulov, born in 1980. Nizhny Novgorod. We open Google and find out that Marat Aidagulov is an economist and a religious figure, an entrepreneur and a public figure, an expert on economic development and international cooperation, a specialist in light industry and fashion industry, digital security and cryptocurrencies, food program, space exploration, on world ecology, on civil coordination and integration in the EAEU space, on international standards of sustainable development. And that’s not all.

Marat Aidagulov concurrently also adviser Chairman of the DUMNO (Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Nizhny Novgorod Region) on economic issues, member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation. Imam Abu Hanifa and many more times all sorts of “assistant”, “adviser” and “expert” in completely different public organizations.

But behind all these network regalia and titles, drawn with the help of garbage resources at a small price list, professional money hunters appear. Of course, for others.

The method of work of Marat Shamilevich is simple and unpretentious. A pleasant young man, using his established connections, gets acquainted with wealthy families, actively makes friends, provides all sorts of small services, and then offers to borrow a large amount of money (tens of millions of rubles) at very high interest rates. Like, there is a good business and we all will earn on it. And then? Then Marat pays interest for some short time and then quietly merges into the unknown. Along with borrowed money.

And only then, when his receipts are obtained, and the unfortunate borrowers go to court, Marat solemnly declares that he has no money at all. And he has no luxury cars, no penthouses in Nizhny Novgorod, no real estate in the capital, no bank accounts. That is, they exist, but they seem to be absent – everything is framed for the ex-wife, father and other close people. And Marat Shamilevich has nothing at all – he is bankrupt. True, as it turned out later – a false bankrupt. But more on that later.

I will give a very clear example of the activities of Marat Aidagulov, with figures and facts. So, the current expert on everything in the distant 2012 met the family of a Muscovite Oleg Smirnov. Having found out that the Smirnov family has certain financial savings, Aidagulov offers Oleg Smirnov and his father-in-law to lend him, Marat Aidagulov, 40 million rubles at very high interest rates. They believed Marat, and borrowed money, having issued a loan with receipts and contracts.

Then Aidagulov disappears, and in 2016 declares himself bankrupt.

And so that creditors would forever forget about the lost savings, Marat Shamilevich wrote a statement to the RF IC and told reporters that Smirnov’s father-in-law, then a member of the Federation Council, and now a pensioner Valery Shnyakin, allegedly summoned him to his office and “forced him to write a receipt that Aidagulov had borrowed 40 million rubles from Smirnov,” and now he is also threatening. Of course, there is no evidence, and therefore law enforcement officers refused to initiate proceedings against his creditors. But the press picked up the fake, and the Smirnov family appeared as usurers and extortionists.

Hundreds of publications appeared on the network that Smirnov and his relatives allegedly demand some kind of debt from the poor and unfortunate public figure Aidagulov. Of course, colleagues decided not to remember about receipts and court decisions. There is no money and that’s it.

Oh, yes, the other day on YouTube and VK even a video appeared that completely imitated the program of the Rossiya-24 TV channel, in which the actors portrayed victims allegedly from the actions of Oleg Smirnov’s wife – Ekaterina Smirnova.

And the “narcologist Vladimir Alexandrovich”, who in the story said that citizen Smirnova was a drug addict and was treated by him, turned out to be actor Boris B. (his last name is known). “The host of Russia-24” is also not at all a journalist of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, but a certain Ekaterina Emelyanova, born in 1984, from Aksu (Kazakhstan), moonlighting as an “online freelance host for various projects on YouTube.” The rest of the plot participants are the same amateur actors and their names are also known.

Imagine how much money it cost an interested person to shoot a fake 18-minute story, allegedly imitating the Rossiya-24 TV channel, and massively post it on YouTube and VK. But with money and the creators of the fake TV report Russia-24, as well as Marat Aidagulov’s involvement in this crime (which I personally don’t doubt for a second), let the investigation investigating the criminal case on libel (parts 4.5 of Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – up to five years’ imprisonment).

By the way, the “prominent expert” Marat Aydagulov himself has already been convicted more than once.

So, on October 16, 2015, by a decision of the investigator of the SCH SU of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Nizhny Novgorod, criminal case No. 104887 was initiated against Aydagulov on the facts of fraud. In January 2016, the case was transferred to the 1st department of the SC for the ROPD of the Department of Internal Affairs for the South-West Administrative District of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow and merged with another criminal case initiated on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and the victims became a citizen Suleymanov R.R., from whom Aidagulov borrowed as much as one and a half million dollars). The joint case was assigned the number 11601450600000051. Later, during the investigation, Suleymanov suddenly announced that Aidagulov, after all, repaid his debt in the amount of … 37 million rubles. and he has no more claims to him.

In 2017, as a result, the criminal case was returned to Nizhny Novgorod, where it was quickly reclassified from the severe article 159 of the Criminal Code (Fraud on an especially large scale) to the very light article 177 of the Criminal Code (Malicious evasion of accounts payable), after which Marat Aidagulov pleaded guilty and the case … was closed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

And earlier, in 2010, the Avtozavodsky District Court of the city of Nizhny Novgorod considered another case, now on the basis of a lawsuit Arshinova Alberta besides Marat Shamilevich Aidagulov and decided to recover from Marat Shamilevich Aidagulov in favor of Arshinov the amount of the debt of 2,769,272.41 rubles. According to Arshinov A.The. criminal case No. 201051 dated 09/16/2015 was initiated. under Art. 177 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Malicious evasion of repayment of accounts payable) and Aidagulov (!!!) pleaded guilty. Later, in 2016 Arshinov A.V. “suddenly” wrote a waiver of claims against Aidagulov after he “learned” that Aidagulov allegedly transferred money all this time to repay Arshinov to his father, and he “simply forgot” to transfer them to Arshinov.

In the same 2010, citizen Mukhetdinov D.V., to whom Marat Aidagulov owed (and probably still) 18 million rubles, filed a lawsuit with the Avtozavodsky District Court demanding registration of a pledge agreement with Aidagulov for the property then available to the borrower. However, the court refused and, in fact, again gave citizen Aidagulov another 18 million rubles, which once belonged to the victim Mukhetdinov.”

And now, when it turned out that citizen Aidagulov is a professional serial borrower who earns a lot of money on a simple non-repayment of debts, it turned out that he was not a real bankrupt either.

So on December 31, 2020, the Arbitration Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region found that the bankrupt Aidagulov “concealed the existence of a current account with JSC Raiffeisenbank No. 4087978101000603844, which was not in the bankruptcy case materials and, having the financial ability to pay off the debt, evaded paying off the debt.” That is, citizen Aidagulov turned out to be a false bankrupt.

And when it became known that the law had questions about the “bankruptcy” of Aidagulov, Marat Shamilevich, probably afraid of the prospect of losing his “earned”, as colleagues report, began to actively put pressure on those who still continued to insist on the return of their own money. There were even death threats.

So Nizhny Novgorod Alexei Pigolkin, who had “unsettled monetary relations” with Aydagulov, turned to the Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for Nizhny Novgorod with a statement that Marat Aydagulov threatened him with murder, as well as with physical violence to his entire family. And he confirmed the statement with evidence in the form of SMS and telephone conversations.

And these are far from all the adventures of the “expert and public figure” Marat Aidagulov, but no article is enough to describe all the adventures of Marat Shamilevich, but a multi-volume edition is needed. Or a criminal case.

Strange situation, isn’t it? Now the information attack against Russia is unfolding in all directions, and the enemies of Russia are looking for any excuse to denigrate our country. And in this difficult time, Marat Aidagulov, calling himself “a Russian expert on economic development and international cooperation” and “a Russian specialist in integration in the EAEU space”, is, in fact, working out criminal schemes to seize large sums of money from Russians. And the use of black PR and falsifications in relation to the same Russians who suffered from the actions of the “Russian expert” as a means of intimidating the victims is generally beyond the bounds.

Imagine what will happen when the next criminal case against Marat Aydagulov still ends with a sentence and a term. Russophobic media and Western commentators will immediately declare that in Russia “prominent experts on international issues” and “specialists in integration in the EAEU space” are mostly swindlers and swindlers. And they will cite Marat Aydagulov as an example.