Yesterday, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow chose a preventive measure against the Chairman of the Board of Directors and co-owner of the Russian Funds investment group, Sergei Vasiliev. He is suspected of committing six crimes under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale).

Vasilyev was chosen as a preventive measure in the form of house arrest for a period of 2 months, until August 23, 2024, with the establishment of certain prohibitions and restrictions for the period of house arrest.

Sergei Vasiliev was detained in the Tver region. The director of Russian Funds, Konstantin Beirit, was also detained. According to them, the detention is related to the case of the ex-president of the Sistema holding company, Evgeniy Novitsky.

The Rucriminal.info source believes that the ultimate goal of the beneficiaries of the security forces’ operation against Vasiliev is the Seligdar company, which is engaged in tin and gold mining. And for Yevtushenkov, whose closest circle over the long period of his activity was detained, it is better to go to Lazurka or London.

Vasilyev and Berit are accused of stealing 8.8 billion rubles from non-state pension funds (NPF). According to the interlocutor of Rucriminal.info, the scheme is simple to the point of disgrace: the Central Bank carried out the corporatization of non-state pension funds in the early tens. It was at this moment that NPFs became especially interesting for purchase. The most interesting thing about the NPF was the funds inside: pension savings and pension reserves. In order to “use” them calmly, you need assets that meet the requirements for purchase. Sergei Vasiliev, as the most important schematist on the Russian market, happily entered into such topics, releasing “dummy” papers. He acted, naturally, in someone else's interests. Who could need tens of billions of rubles and who is connected with Novitsky? Only Yevtushenkov and his holding company AFK Sistema. Sechin didn’t finish off for Bashneft, they will finish off their own people for the theft from the NPF.

The Moscow Banking Ring worked exactly according to the same schemes - PSB, MKB, BIN Bank, Otkritie. That is why three of them had to be essentially sanitized through the Central Bank in 2017.

According to another source of Rucrimnal.info, it is noteworthy that Mr. Vasiliev, who graduated from the famous MIPT at the end of the 80s, met Evgeny Novitsky in the early 90s, who introduced him to the chairman of the Committee on Science and Technology of the Moscow City Executive Committee, Vladimir Yevtushenkov. After this, Vasiliev’s career took off noticeably; he found himself in key positions related to CPSU money in Tveruniversalbank. Then, with the help of such structures, party money was actively withdrawn. The main adviser and owner of the Tverunevirsalbank was the former Soviet prime minister, the crying Bolshevik, as he was called after one of his speeches at the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, Nikolai Ryzhkov.

Timofey Grishin

To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info