Sergey Magin was handed over by fellow prisoner Morales-Escomia
On Tuesday, August 15, it became known that the police are looking for the former leader of one of the largest organized crime groups for cashing money Sergei Magininformation about this appeared in the base “Search” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to the telegram channel of the Cheka-OGPU, security officials became interested in Magin, who had already served his sentence, as part of a criminal case on Laundromat, the largest money laundering channel in Europe.
A RBC source close to the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed this information. He also said that Magin is currently in Israel.
Magin was involved in the activities of the Laundromat, was one of the ideologists of the scheme for withdrawing funds abroad, according to the investigation. “Before that, he and his comrades organized a similar scheme in Lithuania. After the closure of the Baltic channel, an alternative was found, ”says the interlocutor of RBC.
A criminal gang led by Magin, known in criminal circles as Seryozha two percent, eliminated in the summer of 2013, a team of employees of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs under the leadership of Police Lieutenant General Denis Sugrobov. The instruction for the development of cashers was given by the assistant to the president Evgeny Shkolov, who headed the interdepartmental working group on combating illegal financial transactions. Later, Sugrobov himself ended up in a colony. He was sentenced by the court for creating an organized crime group and exceeding his authority to 22 years in a strict regime. Subsequently, his sentence was commuted to 12 years. This summer, Sugrobov was released from prison on parole.
Magin and four of his accomplices were charged with creating a criminal community and participating in it (Article 210 of the Criminal Code), illegal banking activities (Article 172 of the Criminal Code) and illegal organization of a legal entity (Article 173.1 of the Criminal Code).
In 2016, the Presnensky Court of Moscow sentenced Sergei Magin and Vadim Rybalchenko to eight and a half years in prison. It was said in court that they cashed out and withdrew 122 billion rubles. abroad through the one-day firms they created, and the amount of remuneration they received did not exceed 0.5%. At the same time, the indictment in the criminal case, approved by Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Grin, stated that the members of the group illegally cashed, converted, and also transferred about 170 billion rubles abroad. The budget of the defendants from illegal operations amounted to almost 850 million rubles.
In 2019, Magin was released from penal colony No. 6, located in the village of Stenkino, Ryazan Region.
