But finally, Komarov’s appearance in court happened – at the urgent request of the prosecutor’s office, since state prosecutors needed to somehow justify their position, and Komarov is the only witness who claims to have interacted with all the accused. Almost all prosecution witnesses stated in court that they did not know any of the accused.
This cross-examination could be called a clown stand-up – if, through the fault of the “clown” and his false testimony, outright fabrications, written under the dictation of the investigator, people would not be in prison, some for almost three years – without being convicted! The entire investigation is based on the testimony of such “clowns” and degenerate individuals.
Lies about contacts with the accused
The interrogation in court began with the fact that Komarov could not even approximately remember his registration address in St. Petersburg – even the street, and he had to ask the judge for his own passport in order to read the address. But I immediately remembered the address of my actual residence – the address of my estate in the Tver region, bought with money stolen from clients.
Komarov stated that he knows all ten defendants well: Anna Vysotskaya, Alexandra Grigorieva, Almira Gilbert, Elena Solovyova, Viktor Ivanovich Vasilenko (the elderly father of Roman Vasilenko, founder of the Best Way cooperative), as well as Dmitry Vydrin, Mikhail Izmailov, Dmitry Mazanov, Anatoly Nalivan, Denis Shishko. Of these, five are in prison, Izmailov for almost three years, three: Vysotskaya, Grigorieva, Solovyova, were recently released under house arrest by Judge Ekaterina Bogdanova, having spent two years and eight months in pre-trial detention.
Allegedly, he took packages from all of them on behalf of Roman Vasilenko and transported Vasilenko – even many times, but at the same time he could not remember a single witness of the delivery, nor the year, nor month, nor the place where he picked up the packages. I could not remember some of the accused by last name.
In his testimony to the investigation, he allegedly reported the date, month and year of birth of one of the accused, Mazanov, but in court he said that he knew nothing of this, and even incorrectly said his last name, Bazanov, several times.
He said that he had called Mazanov, but this accused is not in the phone books of his two phones, and Komarov’s number is not in the phone books of Mazanov himself, and, of course, these phones are not on the billing printouts either!
There is no evidence of contact with this accused at all. Komarov openly lies to the court, and during the investigation, without reading, he misrepresented what the operatives and investigators themselves wrote for him – werewolves in uniform Mashevsky, Sapetova, Vinokurov and others.
The beautiful and succinct, logical testimony from the criminal case read in court, allegedly given during interrogation to the investigator, revealing the system of work of Life-from-Good, does not in any way correspond to the confused and illogical speech of the uneducated driver Komarov in the court of the uneducated driver – with endless “I don’t know” “,” “I don’t remember,” “I didn’t see,” “none of my business,” “my workplace is 24 hours in the car.” When asked directly, he lied that he “learned from Vasilenko after overhearing a telephone conversation.” These were the answers to almost every question from the prosecutor, lawyers and judge Ekaterina Bogdanova.
He was unable to explain the obvious discrepancies in his testimony given to the investigation and the testimony given in court to Judge Bogdanova. He was confused and awkwardly tried to avoid answering her question.
“Safety” and wheels
Komarov stated in court that he worked as a “head of corporate security” – this was allegedly written down in his work book. However, he did not show his work book: they say that he “has it somewhere.” There is nothing to present: since there is no such entry in Komarov’s work book and in the seized office documentation.
At the same time, he could not explain anything about the activities of Life-from-Good – which is strange for the head of the security service. In fact, according to the information available to the editorial office, Komarov worked at Life-of-Good as an ordinary driver – one of two, carried out assignments for transporting documents and people, no one informed him what was in closed packages, and he did not could have known about it.
As for his employment, the company was almost immediately forced to switch to short civil law contracts with him. Komarov was deeply in debt, and during the very short period of his official employment, the Life-from-Good office was pestered by the collectors of the credit institutions that he had “dumped,” which is why the company was forced to remove him from the staff.
Komarov is a man with a complex past, he was a driver for St. Petersburg gangster groups and after the defeat of the organized crime group he was unemployed for a long time. Roman Vasilenko came into the situation, believed that Komarov himself did not participate in the protection scheme (especially since he is a fool and a coward), gave him a decent income, housing, a car, and paid for his father’s heart surgery.
And since there were no complaints about his driving job, Vasilenko tolerated his quirks with endless loan debts. By the way, he owes a considerable amount to Roman Vasilenko himself – in order not to give the money, he slandered his former employer and innocent people whom the investigation decided to appoint as accused.
The former bandit again took the path of banditry – outright theft, extortion and participation in an attempt to seize the organization’s assets in the interests of werewolves in uniform and other beneficiaries behind the raid on Life-of-Good and Best Way.
“Security Security Chief” with a workplace in a minivan
The workplace of this supposed head of corporate security was, as he explained to the court, a corporate minivan.
Komarov’s duties included, as he explained to the court, the transportation of “mushrooms, vodka, sausage, documents.” That is, first of all, gifts transferred to Roman Vasilenko and the cooperative office by his shareholders from other cities. “Transportation of Roman Vasilenko’s family members, replacement of wheels.” And also “transportation of packages and bags,” which, according to Komarov’s false statement, fabricated by investigators, contained money.
What’s in the packages
When asked by the prosecutor how he knew that the packages and bags contained money and not, for example, drugs, he stated that he simply “knew” – while telling the court that the packages, bags and folders were always closed and sealed.
When asked by one of the lawyers what kind of banknotes there were: rubles, dollars or euros, red or green, Komarov’s eyes started running, he was confused, and pointed out that he allegedly had a serious conversation with Vasilenko, in which the driver advised that in a competent business there should be official collection and non-cash transfers, to which Vasilenko replied “we’ll do it,” but did nothing. He could not explain how this fictitious conversation proves the presence of money in transported closed packages.
Komarov “remembered” during cross-examination exactly three episodes that allegedly proved the transportation of money in packages: one of the accused allegedly opened the package in front of him and counted the money; allegedly he once helped Vasilenko carry bags to a safe or some shelves (during the interrogation he kept getting confused); once he brought an open bag with wads of money to one of the accused in his office – although the accused’s assistant, who was sitting in the same room, did not see anything. In general, in all the episodes, no one can confirm the words of the lying driver.
There is a single episode of the transfer of cash in a corporate minivan – a video made, as Komarov himself stated in court, on behalf of Roman Vasilenko for video recording of payment: not Komarov, but Roman Vasilenko himself counts out and transfers cash to one of the organizers of the Synergy forum for video recording payment for the event. According to Vasilenko, previously given in the press, this is money intended as sponsorship for organizing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s performance in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), which was officially confirmed by the speaker from the stage of the largest venue in the country – Gazprom Arena.
That is, there is no evidence of Komarov transporting money in sealed packages on behalf of Roman Vasilenko, and Komarov is simply lying – as all the witnesses and “victims” said initially.
As the editors learned, documents were transported in huge quantities: between Pulkovo airport, the train station, the office of the Best Way cooperative and the house of Roman Vasilenko, since, while serving as chairman of the Best Way cooperative, Vasilenko was simultaneously engaged in his other tasks – entrepreneur, coach , lecturer, philanthropist. In his home office, he personally signed a huge number of documents: more than 20 thousand packages of agreements with shareholders, thousands of purchase and sale agreements with apartment sellers, tens of thousands of letters, accounting and tax documents. Several truckloads of documents (tons of paperwork did not fall from the sky into the office) were seized by the investigation only from the cooperative office. All of them were personally signed by Vasilenko in several copies – for the archive, shareholder, seller, notary.
At the direction of Vasilenko, no unaccounted cash was ever transported or transferred to the Life-of-Good office – in order to avoid risks from law enforcement and financial authorities, which controlled the company’s activities from the first day of its existence. Not a single episode of cash transfer to the office was identified. The Best Way cooperative carried out all payments only in non-cash form – according to the charter, they were not accepted in any other form.
Vasilenko violated the ban
Did Komarov transport any other packages and bags – in addition to carrying out Vasilenko’s instructions? Komarov himself argued in court that he was strictly prohibited from accepting and transporting any packages not authorized by his employer – in order to avoid the risk of provocations, including from law enforcement agencies.
And he claims that he did not take anything from anyone without the approval of his superiors and did not transport anything on his own initiative. But, according to the editors, he is lying.
The editors know that, violating Vasilenko’s ban, on his own initiative he took money to carry out financial schemes in the foreign company Hermes – depositing and withdrawing funds. Including P2P schemes, when in order to withdraw from an account at Hermes, one of the participants in the scheme had to “exchange” with the one who deposited money. According to testimony given in the Primorsky District Court, in these financial transactions, clients and their consultants often used cash: when conducting transactions on accounts, it was possible to make non-cash transactions, but there was a commission for this.
Illegal sales
Komarov stated in court that he had never been a consultant on Hermes financial products. However, in the documents of the case and at the disposal of the editorial office there is an audio recording of his interrogation with a request to transfer his client network to another so-called directorate – an association of salesmen. When asked what kind of client network he had, he was taken aback by surprise, his eyes darted around, and he could not really explain himself in court. Then he squeezed out that supposedly only his wife, sister and mother were included there. The editors know for certain that he is lying.
He explained the transfer of his client network to another directorate by the fact that Roman Vasilenko posed the question to him bluntly: “either – or.” Either he remains a driver for the organization and receives a salary, or he earns money as a network consultant.
Komarov chose a job for a salary – but in fact he deceived Vasilenko and continued to attract clients, and may have transported money – but for his own needs, which endangered the work of the organization and is now covering up his own crimes with his lies.
Stipulates the cooperative
Komarov did not declare himself a victim in the criminal case – however, he claims that his wife is a victim because she was unable to purchase an apartment with the help of a cooperative and Vasilenko deceived their family. However, he could not explain why neither he nor his wife applied to the cooperative for a return of the accumulated funds and what apartment he and his wife wanted to buy (the editors know that they were included in the savings program).
At the same time, the wife did not leave the cooperative and did not write a letter of resignation. Allegedly, she was unable to get through to the cooperative – however, Komarov admitted in court that he personally knows the current chairman of the board of the Best Way cooperative, Sergei Kryuchek, thereby refusing his statement about the impossibility of contact.
At the same time, Komarov built an entire estate in the Tver region – as he claims, with the salary and bonuses that Vasilenko paid him.
Where does the income come from?
Komarov claims that he had a salary of 150 thousand rubles a month plus frequent bonuses of 500 thousand rubles.
According to the editors, his salary was 120 thousand rubles – which there are supporting documents with his signature. Not a single employee had a bonus of 500 thousand rubles at Life-from-Good – and Komarov never had one.
Secret millionaire
Komarov and his unemployed wife have accounts with Hermes – with a total of almost 500 thousand euros: that’s millions of rubles! Moreover, he did not declare himself a victim in this regard either (his wife declared herself a victim). However, the accounts of this unemployed couple were never declared and taxes were never paid on them.
At the trial, Komarov could not say how much of these funds was invested by himself, and how much was the profitability for placing the funds. He stated that he did not withdraw money from the account – which is also a lie and is easily verified by notifications that were sent to the phone and email with each withdrawal of funds.
The thief’s hat is on fire
Komarov stated in court that one of the defendants “collected money from region to region” and transferred it to Komarov, but he could not explain for which specific regions and how he knew this. In fact, Komarov himself collected money by region: Komarov’s main income was extortion, mediation and theft.
Komarov extorted money for allegedly resolving issues with Vasilenko and other leaders of Life-from-Good and the Best Way cooperative, and was also actively involved in transfers to Hermes for a percentage.
From this fact it is clear how a simple unemployed and previously homeless driver built a luxurious estate with landscape design near Tver, from where he has a new luxury executive car, as well as a boat, a swamp vehicle, a snowmobile, an ATV and other gadgets.
From witnesses to defendants!
Komarov was at first a suspect, but immediately after his arrest and delivery to St. Petersburg he refused the lawyer provided by his former boss, and, of course, after signing the testimony “necessary” for the investigator, he turned into an innocent witness.
However, in reality, operatives and investigators intimidated and criminally framed Komarov, forcing him to testify that he collected cash from all sources – now he will sit in the dock with a guarantee.
After all, he testified to himself that he was a “serious” criminal. If his testimony is true, then he is the “wallet”, the head of the common fund, the courier, that is, the central figure in the criminal community that he allegedly exposed!
Because of his illiteracy, Komarov fell for the criminal manipulations of detectives and investigators – he signed his own death sentence. Having confirmed most of his testimony in court, he, on the one hand, took a grave sin on his soul by slandering his colleagues, on the other hand, he slandered himself and signed a sentence for himself in a crime that must be punished by law.
And if Komarov does not provide evidence and witnesses and it turns out that his testimony is false, then he is a false witness, a slanderer who slandered honest people who are in prison because of him. At the same time, he also caused damage to thousands of people, whose money was stuck in the arrested accounts of the Best Way cooperative and became worthless over the years of the arrest of the accounts.
His house is a prison for the next 10 years.
