The Moscow Arbitration Court refused to recognize the decision of the London arbitration on the suit of the bank of Vladimir Yevtushenkov East-West United Bank (EWUB) to the film companies of Vladimir Gusinsky. According to Rucriminal.info sources, the solution is to save Gusinsky himself, who in the West now has an extremely poor reputation. On the one hand, Moscow’s hunt for Gusinsky, which began with the removal of NTV, is seen as his international lawsuits. On the other hand, EWUB (and therefore Yevtushenko) were at the epicenter of the money laundering scandal of Viktor Yanukovych.

As Rucriminal.info was the first to say, in the fall of 2018, East-West United Bank S.A. Vladimir Yevtushenkov filed a lawsuit in the London International Arbitration Court (case No. 183891) against PROGRESS STUDIO LLC and the KINO PRODUCTION CENTER LLC for more than 1 billion rubles. And on December 11, 2018, a decision was made in London in favor of the structure of Yevtushenkov. After that, discussions began in the West that Yevtushenko does not act independently, but as a representative of the Russian authorities, using East-West United Bank S.A. for their purposes.

February 8, 2019 East-West United Bank S.A. He appealed to the Moscow Arbitration Court to recognize and enforce the decision of the London International Arbitration Court and to recover the amount of debt from Gusinsky’s structures. As a result, the Moscow Arbitration Court refused the representatives of Yevtushenkov. Thus, at least somehow trying to save the reputation of Yevtushenkov going to the bottom in the West.

But these are far from all the stories because of which Yevtushenkov and his structures have problems in Europe. Earlier, the Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kiev, in the framework of pre-trial investigation No. 42016000000001125, granted a petition permitting temporary access to the original documents of East-West United bank SA (EWUB), which is owned by AFK Sistema businessman Vladimir Yevtushenkov. This document, together with a request for legal assistance, was sent to the Luxembourg law enforcement authorities, where EWUB is registered. In Ukraine, it is suspected that billions of euros belonging to persons from the environment of the former president of the country, Viktor Yanukovych, were withdrawn through EWUB. The fact that East-West United was a "vacuum cleaner" for transferring money from Ukraine to the West, in Kiev they started talking in 2015. Then it was found that bankers close to the family of Viktor Yanukovych used this bank to withdraw assets. For this, correspondent accounts were opened at East-West United, into which gigantic amounts were transferred. When a Ukrainian bank started having problems, money was debited to offshore companies affiliated with management. According to the information of the Deposit Guarantee Fund of Ukraine at the end of 2015, it was recorded that 227 million dollars were withdrawn from Ukraine through East-West United Bank. However, since then, stories have surfaced with Privatbank and a whole group of Ukrainian banks that have withdrawn more than 4 billion euros. Therefore, the bill of money pumped through East-West United Bank has already gone into billions.

Until the end of 2018, all these stories with the Yevtushenkov bank were an internal affair of Ukraine. However, now legal orders have been sent to a number of European countries, law enforcement agencies of Austria and several other states have already joined in the study of this story. That East-West United Bank and personally Vladimir Yevtushenkov are not in danger of anything good. Especially in a situation where the withdrawal of funds from Yanukovych’s team, the field of his flight from the country can be regarded as a political motive.

Sources of Rucriminal.info believe that both the lawsuit against Gusinsky’s structures and operations with Yanukovych’s money can be regarded in the West as not independent and political steps by Yevtushenkov, which threatens him with serious troubles. Moreover, there is every reason to suspect that Yevtushenkova has something to squeeze. In September 2014, Yevtushenkov was sent under house arrest for fraud with Bashneft. We have at our disposal the materials of this case, in which Yevtushenkova himself gives the SKR an assessment as a dangerous criminal.

“In the petition sent to the court with the consent of the deputy head of the General Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the RF IC, the investigator points out that V.P. accused of committing a serious crime, which is committed intentionally and consistently over a long period of time. Given the gravity of the crime, for which the criminal law provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of more than three years, as well as the fact that Yevtushenkov V.P., in the opinion of the investigation, organized the commission of this crime, the use of it is different, milder , preventive measures, will not provide the objectives of criminal proceedings, since Yevtushenkov V.P., having significant material and financial resources, can use them to conceal from the bodies of preliminary investigation and court, and akzhe to put pressure on witnesses.

In addition, remaining at large, Yevtushenkov V.P. can destroy evidence in a criminal case and distort their content. Given his position, Yevtushenkov V.P. may threaten witnesses, as well as personally or through persons controlled by him, to exert pressure on them. The crime incriminated to V.P. 2 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, ”says the materials at the disposal of Rucriminal.info.

In 2016, the criminal prosecution of Yevtushenkov was suddenly terminated. And then operations with Yanukovych’s money and a run over to Gusinsky followed.

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To be continued

Zakhar Belotserkovsky