A source from the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel said that FSB officers arrested for extorting bribes of 15 billion rubles from co-owners of the Merlion company may be involved in an equally high-profile case - about extorting 1.5 billion rubles. The FSB fixers Eduard Budantsev and Yaroslav Bogdanov also acted as intermediaries in the "negotiations". The latter is now under the close attention of the special services and was forced to leave the Russian Federation,

In 2021, a top manager and lawyer (Zelimkhan Munaev and Evgeny Rossiev) of a large financial pyramid operating under the guise of the investment company QBF were arrested in Moscow. The alleged fraudsters transferred the money they received to offshore companies, providing clients with fake reports that their investments were invested in serious financial portfolios. According to preliminary estimates by the investigation, we may be talking about theft of about 5-7 billion rubles. It soon became clear that it was the FSB Directorate M, as well as Budantsev and Bogdanov, who were organizing the initiation and lobbying of this case in the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. And soon the real owners of QBF received a proposal from Eduard Budantsev and Yaroslav Bogdanov that the investigation and the FSB would stop at the arrested persons and that this would cost 0.5 billion rubles. But that's not all. They say that 0.5 billion will go to law enforcement. And another 1.5 billion rubles will have to be given personally to Bogdanov, who even had a cession agreement concocted for the corresponding amount. Because the real owners of QBF dragged their feet with the decision, a year after the first arrests, the company's CEO Stanislav Matyukhin and his deputy Vladimir Pakhomov were detained. After that, the price for solving the problem increased from 0.5 billion rubles to 1 billion (this is for the security forces). Plus 1.5 billion for Bogdanov. The prices, as it turned out, are very humane, considering the 15 billion that they extorted from Merlion. According to the VChK-OGPU, the security forces have audio recordings of negotiations with Budantsev and correspondence with him, as well as many documents related to Yaroslav Bogdanov.

As Rucriminal.info already reported, the assignment agreement for the demand from QBF for 1.5 billion rubles was concluded between Yaroslav Bogdanov and the former vice-mayor of Yekaterinburg Ilya Borzenkov, who is the wallet of the former senator of the Federation Council Arkady Chernetsky. It turned out that Borzenkov, wanting to squeeze 1.5 billion rubles out of QBF, hired Bogdanov and Eduard Budantsev from the "Dictatorship of Law" to resolve his issues through the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. To do this, Borzenkov even transferred the rights to claim 1.5 billion for only 10 million rubles (famous Ural generosity). Priyl was supposed to be divided. For this, Bogdanov and Budantsev brought in friends from the FSB, the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation quickly concocted a case and sent the entire top management of QBF to a pretrial detention center.

But now this story, like many similar ones, may come back to bite Bogdanov, at least. Last week, law enforcement officers conducted searches in Bogdanov's offices and home, where many interesting materials were found. Bogdanov himself, as usual, went on the run to Dubai, fortunately his "partners" warned him in time, but Dubai, not London or New York, returns fugitive criminals to Russia in a disciplined manner, and as practice shows, you can't run all your life. There are many examples! And apparently, the current charges brought against Bogdanov are only the beginning of an incredibly large and complex criminal case, which will drag along many interesting names of the powerful of this world (for now). According to the editorial staff of the channel, charges are ahead for corruption (Articles 290, 291), extortion (Article 163) and the creation of a criminal community (Article 210). So he may end up in 20-25 years.

To be continued.

Denis Zhirnov

Source: www.rucriminal.info