VTB could become a private bank if sanctions were not imposed on it. This was stated in an interview with Euromoney by the head of a credit organization Andrei Kostin, answering a question about how he sees the banking sector in Russia in ten years. “As for VTB, then [in the absence of sanctions] we could already be a private bank or a joint-stock company with exclusively private shareholders,” said the head of VTB. Sources of Rucriminal.info say that the alleged buyer of the VTB state stake is already known. They will be the structures of Fixprice network owners Artem Khachatryan and Sergey Lomakin, whose real business is the development of VTB funds. On the market, Lomakin and Khachatryan are known as representatives ... of Andrei Kostin, primarily in transactions outside of Russia.

Earlier, Artem Khachatryan and Sergey Lomakin owned the Centrobuv network, which was pumped up with credit money, primarily from VTB, to tens of billions of rubles. Then this “soap bubble” burst, leaving debts of 23 billion rubles. It would seem that criminal cases should appear on the light of VTB. However, instead, VTB began to fully invest in Fixprice and Khachatryan and Lomakin networks. This is another “soap bubble” of this pair of businessmen. VTB bought offshore Khachatryan and Lomakin 10% Fixprice on the assumption that the whole dubious network costs ... .1 billion dollars. Since 2016, VTB, by order of Kostin, began to fill up Fixprice with huge loans instead of the bankrupt Central Bank, which has only debts and no assets. All Fixprice goods are deferred payment deliveries. A couple of warehouse network complexes laid re-pledged. And debts, debts, debts. A VTB on the go-ahead Kostin literally overwhelms Fixprice with money.

According to Rucriminal.info sources, money from Fixprice is being transferred to the parent company Retail brand collection and to the family funds of Artem Khachatryan and Sergey Lomakin. However, there is an opinion on the market that these all structures have a completely different real main owner. This is ... Andrei Kostin himself. It is for this reason that VTB is filling up the “soap bubbles” of Khachatryan and Lomakin with money.

And expenses can be divided into two categories. The first is the cost of actually Khachatryan and Lomakin. These include gorgeous parties with models of Europe. The second is expenses already in the interests of Kostin. This is the purchase of commercial real estate in large quantities in the same UAE and in Italy, Cyprus and other European countries. And in order to feel confident and calm outside the Russian Federation, the partners also engaged in the acquisition of foreign clubs. In particular, they own football clubs Paphos (Cyprus), Riga (Latvia). Sources of Rucriminal.info that they got information about Khachatryan and Lomakin showing interest in buying a stake in the English football club Arsenal. Following it is worth waiting for the acquisition of expensive real estate.

Absolutely all transactions made by Khachatryan and Lomakin are carried out with VTB funds, leaked under the guise of Centrobuv and Fixprice loans.

To be continued

Timofey Grishin