How to "wash" 800 kg of gold
Transactions with investment coins — the new "Laundromat"
Source: www.rucriminal.info
This winter, the Central Bank of Russia announced that it had identified scheme for cashing out non-cash funds using gold coins. It begins with the transfer of funds to a fictitious a company that buys investment coins and ends up handing them over to the bank for cash.
But, apparently, such a mechanism has been operating in the country for quite some time. for a long time, at least since 2016. In any case, now considered in In the Arbitration Court of the capital, the case of the firm "Forus" and the bank "Razvitie- Capital" tells us about it. Details — at Rucriminal.info.
This story began back in March 2018 with the bankruptcy of few well-known firm "Forus". She was left with multi-million dollar debts. A examining financial documents, the bankruptcy trustee discovered that for six months before the company is declared insolvent, from its bank account "Development-Capital" was written off a tidy sum of 104,738,046 rubles.
The owner of Forus (he is the only employee) Mr. Karpov purchased bills of this same bank for this amount. But later money from the sale of these securities to the accounts of Forus did not arrive.
And these bills were cashed by four offices that never had no commercial transactions with Forus as a result of which could get the papers legally.
On the part of the bankruptcy trustee, the court was provided an invoice that directly or indirectly confirms the affiliation of these offices of the bank "Development-Capital".
Curious moment: during the trial against the owner "Forus" Mr. Karpov was suddenly attacked by amnesia. He said he forgot how he disposed of bills for 104 million! And in court, information was announced that three offices, who cashed bills in the bank "Development of the capital", were engaged in operations with investment coins "George the Victorious". Talking about at least the acquisition at different times of 93,980 coins (this is 731.1 kg of gold). Although they have there were no costs typical for organizations involved in the wholesale gold trading (for security, collection, alarm installation, rent safe deposit box).
At the same time, in the materials of the arbitration case, the bank submitted agreements dated name of the cash-in offices, according to which they allegedly received bills in exchange for gold coins from some four firms (where did the bank get such documents — mystery). In such cases, lawyers often talk abou the formation the formal workflow required to lengthen chain of operations and remove traces from the interested party. By law, legal entities and individual entrepreneurs carrying out transactions with precious metals, subject to special registration. But, as it turned out, those same four companies are not registered with the Federal Assay Chamber of Russia. A here are the offices affiliated with the bank that presented the bills for payment, on such accounting are, but, contrary to the law, do not have personal accounts on Rosfinmonitoring website.
The economic activity of mass buying of coins is not economically justified, since it cannot bring any profit. After all, the initial purchase of "Georgiev Pobedonostsev" is possible exclusively in banks that sell such coins at a rate, which is higher than the resale price of such a coin to the bank, by analogy with foreign exchange: the bank always sells a coin for more than buys. Thus, the activities of the above cash-out offices cannot be call it economically viable. It can be assumed that she aimed at hiding the ultimate beneficiary of the coins. And so how coins are exchanged for bills of the Razvitie-Stolitsa bank, at the competitive the manager of the bankrupt Forus, an opinion arose about the benefit of the bank from such atypical and opaque movements of capital.
This whole story is very similar to what was announced in the Central bank last winter.
For reference: Line managers and beneficiaries Bank "Development-Capital", are Rustem Teregulov, who owns 48.008% of the shares and Tatyana Kharitonova, who owns 32.6606666667% of the shares (data as of 2020). It is known that
Teregulov and Kharitonova have joint children ...
To be continued
Yaroslav Mukhtarov
Source: www.rucriminal.info