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The "hole" in the "Genbank", which belonged to Evgeny Dvoskin, turned out to be many times higher than previously thought.

According to Rucriminal.com, it is at least 80 billion rubles. That is how much money Dvoskin withdrew from the credit institution under the auspices of "aid to the Crimea". As a result, more and more "clouds are gathering" over his head.

As several well-informed sources in the banking sector told Rucriminal.com, when in August 2017 the Central Bank reorganized the Genbank, changed the administration of the financial institution and introduced a new investor - Sobinbank ("daughter" of Rossiya Bank) - everyone, of course, suspected that there is a "hole" in Dvoskin's "brainchild". According to initial estimates, it amounted to 15 billion rubles, for which both the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and the Rossiya Bank were ready to “close their eyes”. So to speak, payment for the Crimea. Recall that Dvoskin is one of the few bankers who “risked” to start working in the Crimea (and why should he be afraid of sanctions, if he is already wanted by Interpol) and opened branches of his “Genbank” on the peninsula. For such courage, one can forgive the 15 billion rubles withdrawn from the bank.

However, recently representatives of the Rossiya Bank completed the audit of the Genbank and "grabbed their heads." It turned out that the financial "hole" in the brainchild of Dvoskin is many times larger. It is 80 billion rubles. This is already too much even for "paying for the Crimea." As a result, now the Central Bank and "Russia" are discussing a further plan of action in relation to Dvoskin. In theory, of course, there is nothing special to think about. There must be a criminal case and landing. But Dvoskin has been at large for many years thanks to his powerful connections.

Previously, Dvoskin’s reliable “rear” was the deputy head of the DEB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Andrey Khvorev, and the deputy head of the Federal Drug Control Service, Nikolai Aulov. The first left with a huge scandal: criminal cases, accusations of corruption. Do you think it "drowned"? Not at all. According to Rucriminal.com, at first Khorev joined the business empire of the brothers Boris and Arkady Rotenberg. Then he was in charge of the security of their alcohol business, then he carried out special assignments at Mosoblbank, which sanitized the SMP Bank of the Rotenbergs. Since 2014, Khorev has been a member of the board of directors of Eurasian JSC, a structure on whose owners "there is nowhere to put stamps." Aulov left no less “enchantingly” - Spain handed over to Interpol materials on his search for connections with the Tambov organized crime group and money laundering. But he also did not disappear and found himself a sweet spot.

When Khorev and Aulov "left the race", Dvoskin had other patrons. So, a close friend of Dvoskin, lawyer Vershinin Alexander Vladimirovich, is a member of the board of directors of the Genbank. He is also known as a good friend of Oleg Feoktistov, former head of the RF FSB Directorate of Internal Security. At the same time, Vershinin defended the former head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Alexei Ulyukaev, whom Feoktistov imprisoned. Among the clients of the lawyer is the ex-head of the CSS of the RF IC Mikhail Maksimenko. All these VIP friends and clients do not prevent Vershinin from defending the top of the mafia, for example, thief in law Yuri Pichugin (Pichuga)

Actually, thanks to these connections, Dvoskin not only has not sat down yet, but has the opportunity to engage in the banking business. After all, a person with such a biography should not be allowed to go to the banks for a “cannon shot”.

Rucriminal.com publishes extracts and one certificate from the special services, which mentions Dvoskin.

“Evgeny Dvoskin (Slusker) is wanted by US court order No. 03-0063 dated 05.02.2000 and was subject to detention and arrest in December 2007 in criminal case No. 169277 and charges under part 2 of article 172, part 4 174, part 4.174.1, part 3 of article 186 and part 3 of article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

In 2007, during a search of Dvoskin's, a combat pistol was found and confiscated. Photo from the expert opinion of the ECC "Ministry of Justice" on weapons found in Dvoskin E.V.

Examination No. 7546 of October 9, 2007 by the ECC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation established that the Mauser K-96 pistol with the digital designation "48775" is combat, firearms .

Cartridges of 7.62 mm, found in Dvoskin E.V., are suitable for firing from the Mauser (7.63 mm), which was confirmed by experts in the course of shooting them from this weapon (Mauser K-96).

Despite this, he was not prosecuted.

05.12.2007 Dvoskin E.V. who is under the tutelage of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Central Federal District (Aulov N.N.), will be involved in another criminal situation.

On an operational car of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Central Federal District (disguised as an ambulance), Dvoskin with unidentified persons will arrive at the CB "Intelfinance", where he will smash the head of the chairman of the bank, after which the latter will fall into "Sklifosovsky", more than 12 billion rubles will be laundered through the bank. Part of

07.12.2007 all passports of a citizen of Ukraine Dvoskin E.V. will be canceled by the FMS of Russia, but the patrons will not allow him to be arrested, although in addition to criminal case No. Since 2000, he has been on the wanted list of the FBI (USA), a warrant was issued by the US court, his last name was Slusker before illegal legalization on the territory of the Russian Federation.

05/29/2008 citizen Dvoskin E.V. the nickname "Zhenya the Fat", despite the fact that all his passports have been canceled, bypassing the guards put up for him, will fly from Vnukovo-2 to Nice (France).

On 06/09/2008, information about the flight of this person will be transferred by the official bodies of the Russian Federation to the law enforcement agencies of Spain and the FBI (USA). He will be detained in Monaco and placed under arrest.

Dvoskin will not be extradited to the FBI (USA), so his lawyers will present deliberately false data to the court of Monaco.

Continues to celebrate the victory over the Russian law enforcement agencies, the budget and just common sense. Under the pretext of helping the Crimea, in which he opened branches of his Genbank, Dvoskin siphoned 15 billion rubles out of it in front of everyone. And not for some social projects, but simply "put it in your pocket." What should follow? That's right: revocation of the license from Genbank, initiation of a case, sending to a pre-trial detention center.

So what did Dvoskin's good acquaintances, deputy chairmen of the Central Bank, Vasily Pozdyshev and Dmitry Tulin do? They "turned a blind eye" to all the tricks of the banker and organized the reorganization of the "Genbank". Yes, Dvoskin lost it. But, according to our data, he gladly threw off this burden of responsibility with a "hole" of 15 billion rubles. And he won't get anything for it. Already in the fall or early 2018, we should expect the transfer of a new bank under the control of Dvoskin.

So clover he has been living for a very long time, stuffing his pockets. Why? Yes, because Evgeny Dvoskin always knew how to share with the right people. And not only from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Many generals of various departments also visited his allowance. For example, the former deputy head of the DEB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrey Khorev and the deputy head of the Federal Drug Control Service Nikolai Aulov. The first left with a huge scandal: criminal cases, accusations of corruption. Do you think it "drowned"? Not at all.

According to the source, at first Khorev joined the business empire of the brothers. Then he was in charge of the security of their alcohol business, then he carried out special assignments at Mosoblbank, which sanitized the SMP Bank of the Rotenbergs. Since 2014, Khorev has been a member of the board of directors of Eurasian JSC, a structure on whose owners "there is nowhere to put stamps." Aulov left no less “enchantingly” - Spain handed over to Interpol materials on his search for connections with and money laundering. But he also did not disappear and found himself a sweet spot.

Dvoskin, Khorev, Aulov are unsinkable people. And what is strange is that the special services have long known everything about them. This is clear from a long-standing reference from one of the departments, which was at the disposal of the editors.

Reference

Since 2000, due to market factors, the economy of the Russian Federation has received a new impetus for the global restructuring of its internal economic and political potential.

Thus, as a result of a steady rise in prices for oil and other types of raw materials, the inflow of foreign exchange earnings increased tenfold. By 2007, Russia's budget had grown to 6.96 trillion rubles. As of December 2007, the money supply reached 11.5 trillion rubles and continues to grow (in 2000 - 2 trillion rubles, in December 2006 - 8.5).

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Economic Development, macroeconomic indicators are approaching the world ones every year.

Law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies have been reporting for seven years about the uncompromising fight against economic crime (tax evasion, money laundering, financing of terrorism, drugs, etc.)

A huge number of employees of the FSB of Russia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia, the Federal Tax Service of Russia, the Federal Customs Service of Russia, Rosfinmonitoring, the Central Bank of Russia are concentrated in this area of struggle.

For a more effective fight against various types of economic crimes, the State creates more and more new units in these structures. Mostly with sonorous names and global functions. Almost only the lazy one does not write and does not speak in his reports about the so-called "one-day" firms and the great efforts of law enforcement agencies aimed at identifying and subsequently proving individual crimes of an economic nature.

However, no one, for the past 7 years, has even mentioned who contributes to the main types of crime and what is happening in the Russian financial sector.

After the assassination of the first deputy of the Central Bank of Russia, frenzied articles appeared in the press about laundering, “cashing out” of large funds carried out through various credit organizations, as well as lists of banks whose licenses for money laundering and “cashing out” have already been revoked. At the same time, there are practically no real persons involved in these types of crimes identified by law enforcement agencies and special services for seven years. Basically, the so-called “signatories” (persons who, for a certain percentage, are ready to provide their credit organization for these operations or who are ready to take the position of bank chairman) are brought to criminal responsibility.

Thus, in the period from 2004 to the present, the licenses of more than 110 banks and NCOs have been revoked for these operations. According to the official statistics of the State Deposit Insurance Corporation, the amount of money laundered and cashed out through these banks and NPOs is more than 1 trillion rubles. However, this figure is greatly underestimated. So, only one OPS (organized criminal community) from April 2004 to February 2005 cashed 235 billion rubles, 391 million dollars. USA and 66 million euros. The OPS used the details of only two “target” banks, Rodnik and AKA-Bank. Through the NPO Komust Inkass, in six months of 2006, 75 billion rubles were put into shadow circulation. This list can be continued.

But the OPS data received the most “free life” from November 2006 to the present.

Thus, during this period of time, more than 50 credit institutions were “burned down”. The law enforcement agencies responsible for the country's economic security have not identified or prosecuted a single person.

However, in May 2007, the new leadership of the DEB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia took all measures to dismiss employees developing the OPS, engaged in illegal banking operations related to cashing out, laundering, withdrawing foreign currency abroad, financing terrorism and extremism in Russia.

Direct participation in preventing employees from entering the staff list of the DES of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation was taken by the deputy head of the DES of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, police colonel Khorev A.V.

Previously, this employee worked in the bodies of the Federal Tax Service of Russia and the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia. Since 2000, he has stable corrupt ties with the leaders of the largest organized crime groups involved in these illegal operations.

So, Khorev A.V. repeatedly passes through a number of developments carried out by the DBOPiT of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. According to available data, he provides full patronage to the Amerkhanov group (cashing out, laundering, financing terrorism, etc.). It is directly related to the group of Myazin I.G., Sitnikov, Dvoskina E.V. (cashing out, laundering, financing of terrorism).

The last group has "burnt down" more than 40 credit organizations during its existence and is currently continuing its march. These crimes against the national security of the state are built on close relationships with Khorev A.V., as well as the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Central Federal District, Aulov A.A. "M") skillfully close all the problems of these groups.

So in November 2006, after taking office as the head of the GU, Aulov N.N. organized criminal activity through KB Migros, which was acquired by the OPS Myazina I.G.

To achieve this goal, the employees of the Central Federal District, at the direction of N.N. thousand US dollars per day). Using the details of this credit institution, the OPS received a "profit" of about 30 million dollars. USA in 20 days.

For almost all "burned" banks, the profit of this OPS fluctuates around $ 20 million. United States (no one has been prosecuted).

According to the information collected, Aulov personally visited CB Migros when carrying out illegal banking operations.

Proximity of Aulov N.N. to these persons is due to his long-term acquaintance with the citizen E.V. Dvoskin. (representative Ivankova K.V. “nickname Yaponchik”). The acquaintance took place through Malyshev A.N.

According to the FBI, citizen Dvoskin E.V. On March 21, 1966, he emigrated with his mother to the USA from the USSR. He settled there under the name Slusker E.V.. In the period from 1989 to 2001, he was repeatedly brought to criminal responsibility by US law enforcement agencies (robbery, weapons, drugs, false documents, fraud). Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation established more than 10 names that the citizen used to carry out his illegal activities.

In 2001, citizen Slusker E.V. deported from the USA. With the help of his accomplices, he legalized himself in St. Petersburg. Full legalization of this citizen was carried out in June 2002 through the passport office of the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs, Rostov-on-Don (according to false documents, he receives the surname Dvoskin). Immediately, he becomes the founder of Pelican OJSC, where 60% of the shares (gaming business) were transferred to him. In 2002, with the help of N. N. Aulov, he legalized in Moscow and opened a representative office of Pelikan OJSC. Later he meets I.G. Myazin. (previously, this citizen appeared in a criminal case of embezzlement and also had contacts with the former head of the RUOP for St. Petersburg, Aulov) and joins the cash-out business (in fact, this group becomes one of the sponsors of N.N. Aulov’s promotion to leadership positions).

In 2007, the DBOPiT of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, with the assistance of the FBI and Rosfinmonitoring, receive irrefutable data on the involvement of this organized criminal group in the financing of terrorism and data on the identification of Dvoskin E.V.

Through the channels of Rosfinmonitoring, requests were sent to Spain, France, Monaco, Germany, the USA and other countries in order to establish the accounts and real estate of the above persons.

At present, Aulov N.N., exceeding his powers, hides citizen Slusker E.V. from the investigation and the FBI. It is possible that in order to conceal traces of their illegal activities, citizens Khorev A.V., Aulov N.N., as well as other persons will take extreme measures to eliminate unnecessary witnesses who have information about the financing of terrorism, the murder of the first deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia, etc.

Until September 13, 2006 (the murder of Kozlov) Myazin I.G., Dvoskin E.V. were part of the OPS, headed by Elbakidze E.D. (nickname "Juba"), Frenkel was also there, as an assistant. The last meeting between Myazin and Frenkel was recorded on January 10, 2007; on January 11, 2007, Frenkel was arrested. At present, an analysis of financial transactions in CB "Discount" shows that the money supply came from CB "Belkom", which was controlled by the group of Myazin I.G.

At the same time, in 2003, an FBI investigation showed that Slusker "Dwoskin" was involved in financial fraud in the United States and he faces 25 years in prison.

According to this development, it is also not a desirable witness for Aulov N.N., Khoreva A.V. and other officials may be Elbakidze D.E. ("nickname Juba"). Previously, he was a financial advisor to US Senator and billionaire Jim Carrey.

At present, it can be stated that in addition to the financial power based on criminal flows (financing of terrorism), these individuals and their entourage will attempt to seize top positions in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Russian FSB.

For these purposes, they use both information resources and official powers granted to them by the State.

Due to their greed, this group of senior officials, in addition to causing economic and political damage to Russia, is directly involved in the death of law enforcement officers in the North Caucasus. This is a complete cover in the financing of terrorism and extremism.

“There are opportunities in Crimea that don’t exist anywhere else in Russia,” Dvoskin recently said in an interview in his Simferopol office, adorned with Orthodox icons and a photograph of President Vladimir Putin holding a lit candle.

The Genbank, which was the backbone for Crimea and Sevastopol, which became a laundry for laundering the dough stolen from the budget of the country and Crimea, and after Sevastopol refused to transfer a block of shares in the bank to Dvoskin and his accomplices to colleagues in the Council of Ministers of Crimea, began to move sharply.

Who is Dvoskin, you ask, and how did he, being on the international wanted list, become such a figure? .

In 2003, when Dvoskin had already returned to Russia, he was accused in New York of stock exchange fraud committed in the late 1990s. In the indictment, he appears under the surname Slutsker; the American authorities did not know that he had changed his last name when he returned to Russia. Most of the defendants in the case were convicted and sentenced to prison terms. Dvoskin is still wanted in connection with this case.

Prosecutors suggest that he owned a stake in a brokerage house through which fraudulent transactions were carried out, but he himself claims that he only had an account there and was not involved in any illegal cases.

“Of course I'm not an angel,” he said. “I know how to launder money, and it’s impossible to do it with my bank account.”

After returning to Russia and converting to Orthodoxy, he, according to him, sold gambling equipment and gave financial advice to wealthy friends. “We sent people to trusted banks,” he said.

here he is.

E. Dovskin in the office in Simferopol.

At the same time, Genbank, due to pumping with free budget money, got into the TOP 150 banks of the country and its problems, this is a problem for all of Russia.
I do not understand why the government of Sevastopol does not demand, as a shareholder of Genbank, a total audit of the bank's management and the quality of its assets and collateral.
Now they are trying to quietly resolve the problem at the level of the Crimea, but with such a hole in the board it is difficult to do so.
Now commands have been given to the Crimean media to put information on the problems of the genbank from the stop list, and information on the financial problems of the bank under taboo. Nobody needs panic in the financial market of Crimea, which has shrunk to 2.5 banks since 2014.
"Investment projects" financed by the Genbank in Crimea have little relation to business in 80% of cases. This is actually lending to park development projects, and the South Coast with the next reinforced concrete investment projects.

So I call on the Governor of Sevastpol Ovsyannikov and the ONF of Sevastopol to ensure control measures by the owner of the Genbank represented by the Government of Sevastopol over the financial condition of the bank. The bank's shareholders are residents of the city.
So react.

Dvoskin Evgeny Vladimirovich

Detailed biographical information

Biography

Born in 1966 in Odessa. At birth, he received his mother's surname - Slusker.

In the 1970s, Zhenya's mother, together with the "third wave" of emigration, moved to the United States, where she changed her son's name to the American style - Eugene. The family lived in Brighton Beach, where the teenager Zhenya-Eugene met with Russian-speaking bandits.

Basically, this was a petty riffraff, which, however, was related to the groups of Marat Balagul (Big Man) and Boris Nayfeld (Biba).

Compromising evidence

Slusker was repeatedly detained by the New York police for petty disorderly conduct, taxi theft, and so on. But he didn't get real time. A law enforcement source for the Russian Mafia website (rumafia.com) claims that this leniency was due to Slusker's early on feeding the FBI information about the Russian mafia. As the police files on Eugene swelled up, he changed names one by one. The young man visited Altman, Kozin, Slushka, until he settled on the surname Shuster.

Eugene Shuster continued to be an ordinary member of Biba's group. Its main business, in addition to racketeering, was fuel scams. Under US law, if fuel is used to heat residential buildings, it is subject to a reduced tax rate. Russian mafiosi took advantage of this and began to indicate in the documents that the fuel is used to heat apartments. In fact, it came true through gas stations controlled by them. The local treasury lost huge sums.

In addition, the documents also underestimated the amount of fuel sold. In the 1980s, Shuster actively participated in these scams, being "on the hook" for bandits of various levels. In 1991, he was arrested for this kind of fraud in California and this time sentenced. But the term was short, and the fine was small. It seems that in exchange for the renewed leniency, Schuster soon had to do the police a favor.

In 1992, he became one of the participants in the operation to detain Monya Elson (Monya Kishenevsky), one of the leaders of the Russian mafia in the United States and Biba's main rival. Eugene ran into a Brighton store controlled by Money. Elson personally came to investigate, dragged Eugene out into the street, and promised to tear off his head. The parties scored the "shooter", and when Kishenevsky arrived at it, he was captured by the FBI. He was accused of kidnapping and threatening Eugene Schuster.

Jap's nephew

The enterprising young man continued to be actively involved in the illegal fuel business, gradually learning how to launder the proceeds. In 1994, Eugene went to jail again - now in Ohio. He was accused of non-payment of taxes from the sale of diesel fuel - and released on bail. The verdict in this case was supposed to be announced in 1995, but Eugene simply did not appear in court.

As a result, he was detained in New York and given 27 months in prison. And then Slusker-Schuster had a landmark meeting. He ended up in the same prison with thief in law Vyacheslav Ivankov, known by the nickname Yaponchik.

Ivankov was arrested in the US for extorting businessmen associated with Chara Bank. The Russian-speaking prisoners started talking and found out that Eugene's mother is a relative of Ivankov's wife. The thief in law liked the new member of the family. Jokingly, he began to call him his nephew. Yaponchik was also interested in Eugene's knowledge of financial crime and money laundering methods. Slusker-Shuster was released with a letter of recommendation from the powerful Yaponchik. Such a recommendation made it possible to join the team of "thief in law" Alexander Bor (aka Timokha), who was responsible for all of Ivankov's American business projects while he was in prison. In 1996-1997, Bor and representatives of the Gambino and Gravano mafia families decided to pull off a series of large-scale scams. They agreed with their people on the stock exchange that they would artificially inflate the stock prices of small firms owned by bandits. When the value of papers reached the upper marks, the mafia sold them, earning tens of millions of dollars. Buyers of shares and investors found themselves with a broken trough - in reality, these firms were worth nothing. A wave of stock market fraud has swept across the United States. Slusker-Schuster took a direct part in them. Soon the FBI became interested in these scams. In one of the cases initiated in 1999, mass detentions began, and Timokha Bor was forced to flee from the United States to Germany. There he was arrested on suspicion of the murder of "authority" Efim Laskin.

The shady accountant of thieves in law Jumber Elbakidze (Juba) arrived in the United States to replace him. Back in Soviet times, he represented the interests of Georgian "criminal generals" in Abkhazia, then participated in the Georgian-Abkhazian war on the side of Tbilisi. In the end, Juba returned to his former business - the financial service of thieves in law. Including the largest and most influential - Aslan Usoyan (aka Ded Khasan) and Vyacheslav Ivankov. However, Juba's American collaboration with Eugene did not last long. Apparently, the Slusker-Shuster is finally out of the control of the FBI.

In 2000, Eugene was detained in Brooklyn with a fake Canadian passport and expelled for violating immigration laws (Slusker-Schuster was never able to obtain American citizenship). But, having returned to his historical homeland in Odessa, the failed American managed to get a Russian passport, in which Evgeny Dvoskin (named after his grandmother) was listed. Later, the FMS of Russia declared this document invalid, and in 2002 the FBI put Dvoskin on the wanted list on charges of "conspiracy to commit fraudulent acts and legalization of proceeds from crime."

The financial policy of the Russian Federation was determined by "skhodnyak"

Having acquired the “crust” of a citizen of the Russian Federation, Evgeny Dvoskin moved to Moscow at the end of 2002. By that time, Elbakidze was already there, who immediately accepted an American acquaintance into his team. The thieves in law also treated him very favorably, starting with Ded Khasan (after all, it was about the nephew of Yaponchik himself ...). Eugene even got a nickname from them - Chegrash.

The appearance of Dvoskin in Russia coincided with the development of a grandiose criminal project - the unification of disparate channels for laundering, cashing and transferring money abroad into a single powerful stream. Finally, all issues were resolved at a large-scale meeting on March 20-21, 2003. A thieves' gangway took place at the Montiboli Hotel in the Spanish town of Alicante. It was timed to coincide with the birthday of the "criminal general" Zakhary Kalashov. The event was attended by thieves in law Aslan Usoyan, Vladimir Tyurin (Tyurik), Vitaly Izgilov (The Beast), Tariel Oniani (Taro), Merab Gogia (Merab), Jamal Khachidze (Jamal, representing the interests of the Solntsevskaya OPG), Vakhtang Kardava , Mamuka Mikeladze, Armen Arutyunov, as well as several criminal businessmen, including Konstantin Manukyan and Leon Lann. The task of the latter was a profitable investment of laundered mafia funds. And the implementation of technical work in Russia was entrusted to Elbakidze and his closest assistants - Dvoskin and Ivan Myazin. Myazin was born in 1964 in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. He was tried for robberies, then he joined the team of the dubious senator Andrei Ischuk, who was responsible for raider seizures of enterprises. At one time, Myazin was suspected of the murder of a major shareholder of the Samara tank metalwork plant (this object came to the attention of Ishchuk). Myazin was involved in the Elbakidze team as a specialist in the forceful replacement of owners. Banking structures were of particular interest in this regard.

Quite quickly, special services drew attention to the financial channel of the mafia. True, in a rather peculiar form. And so carefully taking care of individual thieves in law, in particular Yaponchik and Ded Khasan, the FSB of the Russian Federation actually began to oversee this channel, using its services to realize its commercial interests. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, these functions were directly assigned to the Department "M" of the FSB and its head Vladimir Kryuchkov.

It should be noted that the Russian special services have their own explanation for the strange love for Yevgeny Dvoskin. According to the source of the Russian Mafia website (rumafia.com) in the FSB, during the 1990s there was a series of major failures due to the banal inability to hide the sources and channels of financing - both individual agents and operations, and entire state regimes. After the Elbakidze and Dvoskin canal was at the disposal of the special services, there were no such punctures. “No one better than Dvoskin knows how to confuse the traces of money in the West, he seriously helps to ensure the security of Russia,” our source said. In addition to the special services, this channel was used by oligarchs and officials. For ordinary businessmen, Dvoskin and Co. offered services for quick illegal cashing out at 5-8% of the amount.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs assures that this system also has high-ranking curators in the Central Bank. These are Gennady Melikyan, Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Yan, Deputy Head of the Moscow State Technical University of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Alexander Korneshov, an acting FSB officer seconded to the post of Head of the 5th Department of the Moscow State Technical University of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. The editors of the Russian Mafia website (rumafia.com) have at their disposal footage of operational footage, which depicts Dvoskin with security guards, who arrived at the Moscow State Technical University office on Balchug Street to meet with Jan.

Also, various Russian criminal groups, primarily from St. Petersburg, began to use the thieves in law channel: Malyshevskaya, Tambovskaya, etc. In particular, the "authorities" from the Northern capital Alexander Malyshev (aka Gonzalez) and Gennady Petrov, who settled in this country, took part in the legalization of money in Spain.

The banking system under the control of Chegrash

Since 2003, more than 30 Russian banks have been under the tacit control of Elbakidze and Dvoskin. Through which hundreds of billions of rubles and tens of billions of dollars were “washed off” and left Russia. In 2003-2004, Juba and Chegrash bought up the banks "Rodnik", "AKA-Bank", "Centurion", "Vertical", "Vitas", NEP through the supply structures. They put businessmen Boris Sokalsky and Sergey Turbin to manage these assets. As a result, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 235 billion rubles, $391 million and 66 million euros were cashed out and withdrawn abroad through these structures over several years.

When these banks came to the attention of law enforcement agencies, Elbakidze and Dvoskin carried out a new project, taking control of the Discount bank. From June 30 to August 29, 2006, 41 billion rubles were transferred to "discount" accounts from two shell companies, which were transferred to three offshore companies and dissolved abroad. In the same 2006, Juba and Chegrash cashed out 75 billion rubles through RZhO KomusInkass and withdrew it from Russia.

At the same time, the criminal couple bought the Europrominvest bank from banker Alexei Frenkel, through which they also managed to launder several tens of billions. For his criminal business, Elbakidze tried to use another Frenkel structure - VIP Bank. But then Andrey Kozlov, Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, intervened in the situation. He ordered a check on Discount and VIP Bank - and in September 2006 he was shot dead in Moscow.

Frenkel was convicted for the murder of Kozlov. According to investigators, he ordered Kozlov because he believed that the deputy chairman of the Central Bank was destroying his business by not accepting the VIP bank into the deposit insurance system. At the same time, immediately after the assassination of Kozlov, Dzhumber Elbakidze hastily left Russia. Later, Juba was put on the wanted list on charges of forgery. And Yevgeny Dvoskin became the sole king of cashing and laundering. By this time, "uncle" Yevgeny Yaponchik and Alexander Bor had already returned to Russia.

Banks came under Dvoskin's control in a variety of ways. At first, they tried to bribe the leaders. If this did not help, force was used. Thus, in 2007, the head of Intelfinance, Mikhail Zavertyaev, was beaten by Chegrash and his bodyguard right in his office, after which he spent almost three months in the hospital. While the banker was being treated, 11.7 billion rubles were cashed out and laundered through Intelfinance. Dvoskin was helped in this by Elena Chernykh, who then worked at Intelfinance. In the same 2007, the head of the Falcon bank, Dvoskin and Myazin, were so intimidated that she agreed to turn her credit institution into a financial dump for only 30 thousand dollars. As a result, about 100 billion rubles of criminal money was pumped through Falcon in a short period of time.

The laundering mechanism created by Dvoskin is perfectly visible in the criminal case on the legalization of $ 5 billion, which was being processed by the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

In 2007, police officers became interested in three Dagestan banks - Antares, Rubin and Union-Bank - through which 80 billion rubles were "washed out". Investigators found that the money in Dagestan banks came from more than 250 one-day firms, whose accounts were opened in Moscow banks "Exportbank", "Printbank", "Creditimpex Bank", "Alfa-Bank". Materials relating to Dagestan banks remained in this republic. All other documents were transferred to the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which initiated a separate criminal case. In the fall of 2007, as part of this case, documents were seized at the head office of Alfa-Bank, which had correspondent accounts in Rubin and Antares, as well as mutual settlement accounts. As a result, the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs revealed the largest scheme for the legalization and cashing out of funds, through which several billion dollars went abroad alone.

According to the materials collected, the scheme operated as follows. From the accounts of hundreds of garbage firms, billions of dollars of funds flowed into one-day accumulating firms with accounts in Alfa-Bank, Uralsib Bank and Smolensky Bank. Further, the funds went to the accounts of other garbage dumps in Creditimpex (in 2006), Intelfinance (in 2007), as well as in Exportbank and Printbank. Part of the funds was cashed there, the other went to cash in regional banks, including Dagestan ones. By the way, in this way, an explanation was found why every day couriers carry trunks with tens of millions of rubles from Dagestan to Moscow (often becoming victims of raiders or even policemen). These are funds cashed in Dagestan and sent to clients in the capital.

Another part of the money (mainly through Creditimpex) went abroad under fictitious contracts. Alexander Malyshev, once the uncrowned king of "gangster Petersburg", was responsible for this direction.

According to police investigators, Yevgeny Dvoskin and Ivan Myazin took control of mediocre banks, which then participated in this scheme. It was they who were responsible for the activities of Dagestan banks, Kreditimpex, Intelfinance, Exportbank, Printbank. With the main financial structures of the scheme - "Alfa-Bank", "Uralsib" and "Smolensk" - the heads of the Department "M" of the FSB worked directly. In particular, the father of the curator of one direction, Nikolaev, headed the security service of Uralsib Bank.

Dvoskin became the cause of the war of special services

The Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs zealously took up the investigation of this case. Seizures of documents were again carried out in Alfa-Bank and other credit institutions. On September 13, 2007, investigators searched Dvoskin's cottage in the village of Trusovo, where they found a pistol. According to the police officers, the FSB immediately made it clear to them that "they are not interfering with their own business" and "not having the necessary information, they are interfering in the security system of Russia."

However, this did not stop investigators. And then the steps were taken. In October 2007, Evgeny Dvoskin wrote a statement to the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District, Nikolai Aulov. In this statement, DBOPiT employee Alexander Solovyov was accused of extorting a million dollars for not prosecuting Dvoskin for illegal possession of weapons. The development of Solovyov was taken up by the same Directorate "M" of the FSB.

It turned out that Alexander Sharkevich, an employee of the DBOPiT, operates under this name, who was repeatedly introduced into various groups in order to expose their leaders. At one time, Sharkevich even managed to infiltrate the environment of Chechen terrorists, and thanks to his actions, suicide bombers were detained in Moscow. For this operation, the Minister of the Interior awarded Sharkevich with a nominal weapon. Sharkevich was a close friend of Dmitri Tselyakov, an employee of the Department of Crime and Security, who was in charge of operational support in the case of money laundering.

On October 23, counterintelligence officers detained Sharkevich. However, he refused to cooperate and did not give the required evidence that the money was intended for Tselyakov. (Later, the jury will find Sharkevich not guilty of taking a bribe and will appoint a short term only for illegal possession of cartridges for a premium pistol). Nevertheless, this situation untied the hands of the FSB.

The criminal case against Sharkevich was investigated by the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor's Office. Man number 2 there was the head of the Department of Internal Security Vladimir Maksimenko - an employee of the Office "M", seconded to the UPC.

In early 2008, within the framework of the "Sharkevich case", the Investigative Committee withdraws the money laundering case from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Prosecutor's investigators explained this by checking the information about police investigators "planting" weapons in Dvoskin's cottage. The Investigative Committee began to actively interrogate members of the operational-investigative group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexander Nosenko, Dmitry Tselyakov and its head Gennady Shantin. Then the head of the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexei Anichin and the Prosecutor General's Office intervened in the situation. Deputy Prosecutor General Grin instructed the Investigative Committee to return the case to the police. The UPC initially ignored the order, but then returned the materials. True, without evidence - a pistol seized from Dvoskin. Dvoskin himself, as the victim in the Sharkevich case, was taken under protection by the M Department.

After the return of the materials, the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs intensified their work again. After analyzing the documents seized from Alfa-Bank and other credit institutions, they got on the trail of the Spanish participant in the laundering channel, Alexander Malyshev. Materials on him through the channels of the NCB "Interpol" were sent to the Spanish authorities, who themselves have already become interested in this character. In June 2008, the Spanish police carried out a large-scale operation during which Malyshev, Gennady Petrov and a number of other "authorities" from Moscow and St. Petersburg were arrested. And almost immediately after that, the operational-investigative group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was defeated.

Dvoskin's partners in the laundering business, the owners of a number of banks, German Gorbuntsov and Pyotr Chuvilin, turned to the FSB with a statement that Nosenko and Tselyakov were extorting a million euros from them. For this amount, the operatives allegedly promised not to “shake” their structures anymore. The UPC initiated a corresponding criminal case. And in November 2008, the FSB detained objectionable operas. They were not caught with a bribe, however, while receiving a large sum, the Latvian business partners of Chuvilin and Gorbuntsov, Kastuevas and Baidenko, were captured. They testified that the money was intended for employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

It should be noted that Tselyakov and Nosenko are not ordinary people. Dmitry Tselyakov before the Ministry of Internal Affairs served in the 9th Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, at one time he was the bodyguard of Mikhail Gorbachev. Alexander Nosenko's aunt is a retired general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, State Duma deputy Tatyana Moskalkova. Shortly after the arrest of the operatives, Gorbuntsov and Chuvilin wrote a statement to the FSB that Moskalkova was threatening them, and were also taken under guard.

As part of the “Tselyakov-Nosenko case”, the Investigative Committee again withdrew the money laundering case from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They also tried to bring Gennady Shantin to criminal responsibility. With great difficulty, the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs managed to defend it. But at the same time, the FSB set a condition: Shantin should no longer be involved in any investigations related to banks. As a result, he was transferred to the Control and Methodological Directorate of the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and in 2010 he retired.

The general investigation into the laundering and cashing of billions of dollars was divided into separate cases, which were scattered among different departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the UPC. There they were buried. The last case against Evgeny Dvoskin - about beating the head of Intelfinance and legalizing large sums through this bank - was closed in December 2010. Only a former employee of Intelfinance, Elena Chernykh, appeared before the court.

Puncture in Monaco

But, despite all his invulnerability, in August 2008, Evgeny Dvoskin was on the verge of failure. When he went on business to Monaco, the American FBI found out about this and asked the local authorities to detain Chegrash. The US intelligence agencies were primarily interested in Dvoskin as a storehouse of information about financial flows from Russia. And only then - as a wanted swindler.

Eugene faced a difficult question: whether to resume cooperation with the FBI or remain loyal to his current patrons. The authorities of Monaco unexpectedly came to the rescue. They did not want to quarrel either with the United States (which demanded the extradition of Dvoskin) or with Russia (which protested against this). Therefore, we considered the issue from a purely legal point of view. There is no concept of "participation in conspiracy to commit fraud" in Monaco law, so extradition to the United States was denied. Dvoskin was sent to Moscow. However, before that, the authorities of the principality allowed representatives of the American intelligence services to interrogate Dvoskin.

Now Dvoskin has somewhat retired, since all of his main patrons have dropped out of the game. In the UPC, the Department of Internal Security was liquidated, and Maksimenkov left this department. Kryuchkov was removed from the post of head of the FSB Department "M". Yaponchik was shot by a sniper (at his funeral Dvoskin sent a wreath with the inscription "Dear Uncle"). Grandfather Hassan was shot in the stomach by a killer, and he will never recover from his wound. According to operatives, Dvoskin continues to visit the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, communicates in banking circles, but the scope of his activities is not the same as before.

Dvoskin and Myazin recently bought an island each in the Dominican Republic. Myazin spends most of his time there. But Yevgeny is still afraid of flying to the Dominican Republic, the FBI arrest warrant has not been canceled. Therefore, for the time being, he prefers to live in a luxurious penthouse in the center of Moscow.

Some Russian bankers who came to Crimea after the peninsula became part of Russia are better known for their involvement in money laundering than for their banking business. Reporters from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) studied the owners of Crimean banks and found that some of them were involved in large-scale shady banking transactions, such as the withdrawal of $ 20 billion from Russia to Moldova, according to OCCRP told last year. The arrival of large Russian “cashers” in Crimea may also indicate that the peninsula risks turning into a “hub” for illegal banking and organized crime, as happened earlier with Transnistria and Ossetia.

financial disaster

After the residents of Crimea, under the “protection” of the Russian military, voted in favor of joining Russia in a referendum, a financial disaster occurred on the peninsula.

Ukrainian banks operating in Crimea hurried to close almost 1,000 of their branches, and the National Bank of Ukraine banned financial transactions on the peninsula. Trade with Ukraine almost came to a halt, and then international sanctions followed: Visa and Mastercard suspended their operations in Crimea, turning customer cards into useless plastic.

Soon the Russian authorities tried to create a new financial system in the Crimea and Sevastopol. Several laws were adopted to protect depositors of former Ukrainian banks, as well as to manage the assets of banks that left the peninsula. To implement these laws, a new organization was created - the Depositor Protection Fund (subordinate to the Russian Deposit Insurance Agency).

As soon as these laws were adopted, the architects of the new financial system flocked to Crimea. They were the first to receive at their disposal the assets of the departed Ukrainian banks, the first to benefit from their then monopoly position - financial flows went to their bank accounts both from the federal center and from Crimea itself.

And although in Russia few people heard about many of these banks at that time, they began to grow rapidly on the peninsula. The first in the Crimea were bankers with a criminal past and very good connections in the Russian special services.

From an American prison - to the Crimean shores

On April 4, 2014, Genbank became the first Russian bank to open the doors of its branches in Sevastopol. This happened a few weeks after the “accession” of the peninsula to Russia. By that time, Genbank was little known in Russia: it ranked 315th among Russian banks in terms of assets and had only two branches - in Omsk and Rostov-on-Don.

But since April, things have gone uphill for the bank. Judging by the official website of the Genbank, it manages more than 90 branches in the Crimea - this is the second largest banking network on the peninsula. Genbank received at its disposal the property of former Ukrainian credit institutions - Kredobank, Brokbiznesbank and Pivdenny Bank. The bank also issues credit cards, but with a limitation: they cannot be used for online payments. Genbank is connected to international payment systems through Moscow's Rosbank, a subsidiary of the French group Societe Generale.

Genbank controlled by controversial Russian banker Evgeny Dvoskin. He owns 4.8% of the bank's shares, and his wife heads the board of directors. Dvoskin has been mentioned in several criminal cases in Russia and the United States, mainly in connection with massive money laundering operations. But Dvoskin was not held accountable for any of the cases. On the contrary, those who investigated his banking activities were more often behind bars.

In 2006, a group of Russian Interior Ministry operatives launched one of the largest financial investigations in the history of the country. This investigation concerned a dozen small Russian banks through which tens of billions of dollars of illegal banking transactions were carried out. Several retired officers from the group told OCCRP that the illicit transactions they uncovered exceeded a trillion rubles in a few years.

Leading this group Dmitry Tselyakov, a KGB officer, and then a major in the Department for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DBOPiT). Tselyakov told OCCRP that he and colleagues were able to identify several organized crime groups that controlled dozens of small banks. These credit institutions, according to Tselyakov, did not conduct real banking activities, but were engaged in accepting money of dubious origin into their accounts, and then sending it in transit abroad or cashing it in Russia.

According to Tselyakov, the “Dvoskin group,” as the former police officer calls it, was also at the center of their investigation. “Dvoskin and his partners were involved in the activities of a number of Russian banks, from which the Central Bank later revoked licenses for money laundering. Within just a few years, these banks laundered billions of dollars,” says Tselyakov.

In the course of their investigation, Tselyakov's group, together with the American FBI, managed to find out detailed information about Dvoskin's past.

Evgeny Dvoskin was born in Odessa in 1966, and in 1977 he emigrated to the United States with his family. At that time, the Russian banker had the surname Slusker. In America, according to the FBI, Slusker was first arrested in 1989 by New York police officers "for robbery, possession of stolen property and possession of hard drugs seized from free circulation." In the next 10 years, Evgeny Slusker was arrested many more times - for theft, illegal possession of weapons, bribing a public servant and other crimes.

In his recent interview with Profile magazine, Evgeny Dvoskin said that he voluntarily left the United States for Russia due to the fact that his wife "was running out of a residence permit." However, the FBI had other information about this: in an official letter to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, American colleagues wrote that in 2000 Slusker was once again arrested for using a false passport, and in 2001 he was deported from the United States.

Before his forced departure from America, Dvoskin managed to get acquainted with some of the most influential representatives of the Russian criminal world. The FBI letter to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, for example, states: “The FBI investigation shows that Slusker/Dvoskin and Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov jointly served time in prison in the United States. There is reason to believe that Slusker/Dvoskin is Ivankov's close connection." Vyacheslav Ivankov, nicknamed Yaponchik, one of the legendary Russian thieves in law, died in 2009 in Moscow after an assassination attempt.

Returning to Russia, Dvoskin went into the banking business, although he was not formally listed as a shareholder or head of any of the banks. This is how he himself described the specifics of his work during one of the interrogations: “The essence of my professional activity is that I ensure the safety and stability of the financial flows of my clients coming to certain banks recommended by me as a financial consultant ... Thus, to my clients include various banks and enterprises, the list of which is quite large.

Judging by the documents from the criminal case, Dvoskin and his partners were related to many Russian banks whose licenses were revoked by the Central Bank for participating in money laundering. For example, in the case file, Dvoskin's name was associated with the banks Migros, Falcon and the Siberian Development Bank. In 2006-2007, these banks had their licenses revoked for money laundering. In these three credit institutions alone, the turnover of questionable transactions amounted to approximately $3 billion.

In an interview with Profile, Yevgeny Dvoskin claimed that he had never been involved with these banks, and that the information was fabricated by ex-law enforcement officers who extorted money from him.

Dmitry Tselyakov says that when he and his colleagues started working on Dvoskin, there was unprecedented pressure on their group. “We listened to the phones of Dvoskin and his partners and found out that they have very influential friends in the Russian special services. They tried to fire me many times. Once, officers of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to the office of the investigator who was in charge of the case of banks associated with Dvoskin and seized all important documents. They were interested in the materials about Dvoskin,” says Tselyakov.

In 2008, Dmitry Tselyakov was arrested for attempted fraud against another well-known banker. Germana Gorbuntsova. Tselyakov spent four and a half years in prison. On German Gorbuntsov in 2012 in London was assassination attempt, but the banker miraculously survived. And the case against the banks, according to Tselyakov, associated with Yevgeny Dvoskin, fell apart; Dvoskin himself received state protection, he was guarded by employees of the FSB Department of Internal Security. The letter on granting protection to Dvoskin was signed by the FSB general Nail Mukhitov, today heading the security service of Rosneft.

People from "Laundromat"

In 2014, OCCRP wrote about what may be the largest money laundering operation in Eastern Europe. Journalists called this operation "Laundromat". This scheme worked from 2011 to 2014, it allowed the criminals to withdraw about 20 billion dollars from Russia to Moldova and then to Latvia. Almost all money transfers were carried out on the basis of falsified decisions of Moldovan judges. Many Moldovan judges involved in the scheme are now being investigated in criminal cases of accepting bribes.

Judging by the documents from the Moldovan criminal case, the St. Petersburg bank Baltika was one of the most active users of Laundromat. Moldovan law enforcers wrote that Baltika's clients transferred 77 billion rubles (about $2 billion at the current exchange rate) to Moldova on dubious payments.

Oksana Chernyak, chairman of the board of Baltika, denied any wrongdoing by the bank and its clients in a letter to OCCRP. The main owner of Baltika, Oleg Vlasov, refused to discuss these issues with OCCRP.

The name of Oleg Vlasov was also mentioned in the investigation conducted by the group of officer Tselyakov. “According to the wiretap, Vlasov was well acquainted with the bankers who were involved in money laundering. We even interrogated him, but then the case fell apart, and I was arrested,” says Tselyakov.

Vlasov, together with his partners in the Baltika, is currently working in the Crimea. They own the Verkhnevolzhsky bank, which, before the “annexation” of Crimea, mainly worked in the Yaroslavl region.

Verkhnevolzhsky came to Crimea in 2014: today, according to the Central Bank, there are 26 bank offices on the peninsula. In December 2014, the Central Bank fined Verkhnevolzhsky for violating the anti-money laundering law. The regulator did not specify what these violations were.

Judging by the documents of Moldovan law enforcement officers, clients also participated in the scheme for withdrawing money from Russia to Moldova Tempbank. Today Tempbank has two branches in Crimea - in Simferopol and Sevastopol.

In 2014, Tempbank was included in the US sanctions list, but not because of Crimea, but because of Syria. A US Treasury press release said: "Moscow Tempbank and its top manager Mikhail Gagloev provided material support and services to the Syrian government, including the Central Bank of Syria and SYTROL, the state oil company."