As it became known to Kommersant, five members of a criminal group received from 10 to 11 years in a strict regime colony, who, by order of the former top manager of the Central Bank Dmitry Rubinov, who was on the international wanted list, kidnapped three people, including a two-year-old child. The ex-financier went to the crime in order to take over the company, where 2.5 billion rubles were withdrawn from the Taatta bank he owned. The security forces managed to release the hostages, and the arbitration court managed to arrest the shares of the LLC.
The judge of the Khamovniki District Court of the capital, Diana Mishchenko, who considered the criminal case against Ansar Adamov, Bekbulat Huseynov, Yuri Merzlikin, Socrat Suleymanov and Alexander Tsabiya, recognized the guilt of the defendants as fully proven in all the episodes incriminated to them. Depending on their roles, the defendants were accused of kidnapping, extortion, fraud and unlawful imprisonment (Articles 126, 163, 159 and 127 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). However, the punishment imposed turned out to be a little softer than the one insisted on by the public prosecutor. Instead of the 12 years in a strict regime colony requested for the accomplices of the ex-banker Rubinov, they received from 10 to 11 years.
Two more defendants – Magomed Azarsanov and Iles Murtazaev, who, according to the investigation, were in direct contact with the customer of the crime, are on the wanted list.
The former deputy head of the department of banking regulation and supervision of the Central Bank, Rubinov, organized the criminal group in the summer of 2020. Back in 2019, after the Ministry of Internal Affairs began investigating fraud in banks, where he allegedly was the ultimate beneficiary, he left for Israel. One of these credit institutions turned out to be the Yakut bank Taatta.
After the collapse in July 2018, the bank owed more than 6 billion rubles to depositors. At the same time, almost half of this money from Taatta turned out to be stolen through the Moscow LLC Reaktiv, behind which stands the same Dmitry Rubinov.
During the investigation, it was found that the capital company allegedly bought out debts on loans from Taatta Bank for 2.5 billion rubles. When the general director of Reaktiv found out that the stolen debt actually “fell” on his LLC, fearing the consequences, he immediately sold his shares in the authorized capital of the company to a certain Maxim Pivovarov.
To convince him to return the asset, Dmitry Rubinov, as the investigation established, sent extortionists to him. Members of the criminal group, posing as police officers, abducted Mr. Pivovarov on September 4, 2020, near the Park Kultury metro station. He was described the sad consequences in case of refusal to transfer 100% of the shares of Reaktiv to the specified person.
Despite the fact that the entrepreneur immediately agreed to the conditions put forward, he was taken to the Volynskoye hotel in the capital. There, the next day, fraudulently, the attackers lured his wife and two-year-old daughter. The security forces learned about the kidnapping from a businessman they knew, who brought Mr. Pivovarov the missing documents for re-registration. His attackers also planned to capture him, but he escaped.
As a result, five direct perpetrators were detained by security forces. Magomed Azarsanov and Iles Murtazaev, who supervised their actions on behalf of Dmitry Rubinov, managed to leave for Turkey.
Dmitry Rubinov himself was charged with kidnapping and extortion by the TFR in absentia on October 20, 2021. Now his name appears in a number of criminal cases related to the collapse of a particular credit institution.
In particular, the former top manager of the Central Bank, in addition to Taatta Bank, was credited with owning Strategy Bank, PIR Bank, Tempbank, Inkarobank, UM Bank, NKB Bank, and the Central Insurance Company, from which billions were withdrawn shortly before the license was revoked. rubles.