Felix Medvedev turned dollars from Russia into gold
Russian living in the USA Felix Medvedev accused of money laundering and doing business without licenses, according to US Department of Justice report.
Medvedev, 41, who lives in the state of Georgia, registered eight companies there in order to transfer the specified amount in a series of 1.3 thousand transactions from several bank accounts. The companies did not have standard business expenses and employees. Part of the money, $65 million, went to buy foreign gold bars, the prosecutor said.
Having plunged a little into the laundering scheme, we can assume how it was arranged. Between the American company of Medvedev and the Russian company, a contract was concluded for the supply of complex technical equipment: water purification filters, power supplies, adapters, electrical converters, etc. It looks interesting that the names of Medvedev’s American companies are completely identical to the names of real Singaporean companies that do business with Russia. A third country, such as Lithuania, was indicated as the place of delivery of the goods. According to the documents, Medvedev’s company was supposed to supply Chinese equipment to a Russian company in Lithuania. In reality, no equipment, apparently, was delivered anywhere, and according to forged documents, the money of Russian companies was withdrawn to the accounts of Medvedev’s American companies.
In general, the story of this money laundering scheme looks like an excellent illustration of the fact that Rosfinmonitoring has ceased to function as a financial intelligence service, and is now preparing certificates for including objectionable authorities in the lists of foreign agents and teaching financial security in schools. At this time, Russian circuit engineers are withdrawing money to the United States through Russian garbage companies. The materials of Medvedev’s criminal case are still closed, but in the database of American courts, we managed to find the January case initiated by Medvedev against the American migration service. Apparently, we are talking about challenging the annulment of Medvedev’s American visa.
In August last year, Felix Medvedev established VINTON INC in Georgia, with Kiev businessman Vitaly Postol as its secretary. In addition, business partners of Felix Medvedev over the years were a businessman from Tallinn Konstantinos Parmax, Andrey and Tatyana Komlev from Obninsk, liquidators of dozens of companies in the Russian Federation Mikhail Gulyanin and Denis Moskovsky from Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Russian woman Inna Gurina, who runs a children’s music school in the same building where almost all of Felix Medvedev’s companies are registered.
In April, US authorities arrested Belarusian citizen Sergei Karpushkin from Miami on charges of participating in a scheme to bypass anti-Russian sanctions for $150 million. The Ministry of Justice reportedthat he, along with an accomplice, Florida resident John Unsalan, for three years participated “in a scheme to circumvent US sanctions imposed on the oligarch Sergei Kurchenko”: purchased steel-smelting materials for the specified amount for two “Kurchenko-related” companies.
Kurchenko is a citizen of Ukraine. After the Euromaidan, he moved to Belarus and then to Russia. According to the Security Service of Ukraine, he received Russian citizenship in violation of Ukrainian law. Under the President Viktor Yanukovych Kurchenko was one of the richest people in Ukraine and was considered one of the country’s largest hydrocarbon traders. Under Western sanctions it is from April 2022.
