The ex-president of Fondservicebank Alexander Volovnik resigned from the board of directors of PJSC Volgomost. Anna Chapman's boss became a victim of "space" bosses Alexander Davidovich Volovnik where is he now
Vladimir Sedov
The police portrayed the hostages to prevent the murder of the president of "Fondservicebank" Alexander Volovnik. The suspect, 30-year-old Ilya Kalashnikov, wanted to kidnap the financier, torture him into giving him about 800 million rubles, and then kill him. If successful, he promised to make the performers rich.
As it became known to MK, in early August, the police received information that a certain Ilya Kalashnikov, who is engaged in private legal practice, is looking for people to kidnap and kill the president of Fondservisbank, Alexander Volovnik.
As a result of the operational combination, two police officers were introduced into the environment of this person under the guise of criminals who were ready to fulfill his plan, - Andrey Galiakberov, official representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, told MK. - According to the customer, the president had significant funds in rubles and foreign currency totaling about 800 million rubles. For help in the kidnapping and subsequent murder, the "mercenaries" were promised half of this amount.
However, according to the investigation, the kidnapper's plans were initially more modest. Being not too sure of the success of the whole operation, he was going to "shake off" about 200 million rubles from the president of the bank and pay 25 million of them to the performers. However, in order not to arouse suspicion, the operatives put forward an insistent demand to the organizer of the kidnapping that they want at least 50 percent of the total amount.
The question arose before the police how to carry out the operation, because they knew that, having previously practiced law, Ilya Kalashnikov collaborated with Fondservisbank and met with the head of the financial institution he intended to kidnap.
But the issue was resolved when the suspect said that he wanted the victim to be brought to his father's garage in Shchukin on the evening of August 20 and left there in the basement.
The detectives went to the trick. Among their own, they chose two people who, in terms of physique, resembled Alexander Volovnik and his bodyguard. The false criminals put bags over their heads and fastened them to a chair. However, the customer of the crime was almost half an hour late to the meeting place, and at some point the operatives decided that Kalashnikov had suspected something.
When the lawyer entered the garage, it became clear that he was very drunk: it turned out that his friend Pavel drove him to the garage.
Seeing the victims fastened, the customer winked at his accomplices and took a utility pruner from the shelf. He went up to the fastened and began to swear at them, after which he put down the secateurs and suddenly took out a pistol.
Realizing that there was a real threat to our employees, realizing that, being in a state of extreme intoxication, Kalashnikov does not give a good account of his actions, it was decided to detain him, - a police source told MK. - The bursting SOBR fighters, together with the operatives, twisted the suspect. After the arrest, he behaved rather impudently and answered the questions of the policemen with phrases like “what are you, this is so interesting” or “why should I tell you something”.
Apparently, understanding what he had done, and having no practice in torturing people, Ilya Kalashnikov was very worried, which is why he got drunk. This is how he explained his presence in the garage: they say he wanted to take cucumbers for a snack. Interestingly, Kalashnikov is a quite respectable citizen, he previously worked as a legal assistant at a cold storage facility. He is married and has a little daughter. So the motive for the crime is still unclear: either Ilya, like kidnappers of businessman Kaspersky's son, dreamed of getting rich at the expense of the oligarch, or he was driven by personal motives.
Currently, investigative actions are being carried out aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the incident, including the motive for committing the crime, - MK was told in the press service of the Main Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for Moscow. - At the moment, the issue of bringing charges against the man and choosing a preventive measure in the form of detention is being decided.
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Alexander Volovnik was born in 1961 in Tbilisi. Graduated from Tbilisi State University and the Moscow Institute of International Business at the All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade. In 1995, he headed the management company STK Soyuz. Volovnik, according to some reports, maintained a close relationship with the now deceased Badri Patarkatsishvili. It was Patarkatsishvili who brought Volovnik into contact with such well-known oligarchs as Nevzlin, Gusinsky, Berezovsky, Irakli Okruashvili(former head of the defense department of Georgia), Kakha Bendukidze, Givi Targamadze (Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Security of Georgia), Irakli Managadze (National Bank of Georgia). In August 1994, he became president of Fondservicebank, which, in particular, actively supports Roscosmos. Thus, in 2012, the bank allocated 144 billion rubles to finance the industry. In the fall of 2010, Fondservicebank attracted media attention when it hired Anna Chapman, an adviser to the president for investment and innovation, who was detained in the United States in the summer of that year along with nine others. alleged spies working for Russia.
How the order for Volovnik and his bodyguard was executed
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The original of this material© "Kommersant", 08/22/2013, Detective MUR was given for a captured banker
Yuri Senatorov, Vladislav Trifonov
[...] Kalashnikov tried to find the perpetrators for the kidnapping of the banker and the elimination of the bodyguard who constantly accompanied him in his party, but his acquaintances were able to bring him together only with MUR operatives who worked undercover in a criminal environment. Kalashnikov offered them for 400 million rubles. participate in the action. Moreover, having received information from the banker about the money, they had to liquidate him as an unnecessary witness.
The operatives agreed, and a few days later the management of the MUR through the security service of the Fundservicebank contacted Alexander Volovnik and informed him of the impending crime. In less than a week, the "crime" was planned and carried out. For this, the current bodyguard, Mr. Volovnik, was brought to Petrovka, 38, made up as a dead man in a service Mercedes, drawing two bullet holes in his head and chest and pouring paint similar to blood. Having photographed the bodyguard in close-up, the performers provided the customer with several convincing shots. On the same day in the evening, the operatives-executors informed the customer that the banker was delivered to the agreed address by Toyota Camry and he was waiting for him in the basement of the garage.
Kalashnikov failed to obtain information about the hidden millions. After a few minutes of communication with the disguised operative, the customer of the crime was detained and taken to the investigative department of the TFR for the Central District of Moscow. Yesterday, after interrogation, a criminal case was initiated against Kalashnikov under Part 3 of Art. 33 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of a crime), part 1 of Art. 30, part 2, art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempted murder of two or more persons), part 1 of Art. 30, part 3 of Art. 33, paragraph "h" part 2 of Art. 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (kidnapping) and Art. 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (extortion).
According to the official representative of Fundservisbank, Grigory Belkin, the information about the impending crime against the president of the bank came as a complete surprise to them. According to him, the person who prepared the crime was never an employee or client of the bank. "As far as I know, the police advised Mr. Volovnik not to change his daily routine and habits so as not to frighten off the customer," he added. [...]
Life News version
The original of this material© LifeNews.Ru, 08/21/2013, A case was opened for the attempted murder of a banker in Moscow, Video: via LifeNews.Ru
[...] According to Life News, Kalashnikov offered about 400 million rubles for the death of a banker, whose adviser, after being deported to her homeland, became a scout Anna Chapman. The cold-blooded customer told the possible perpetrator of the murder that Volovnik had given him a loan of 800 million, and promised half of this amount as a reward.
According to Life News sources, in parallel, Kalashnikov tried to "negotiate" with Volovnik himself. He told him that a reward had already been assigned for his head, and promised that for a certain fee he would contribute to the cancellation of the "order". [...]
MUR employees received operational information that the criminal is looking for a killer to kidnap and then kill the president of one of the capital's banks, commented Life News in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow. - Under the guise of killers, two operatives were introduced, who agreed to kidnap and deliver the victim to the customer's garage for a fee. For the staging of the kidnapping, two people were found, outwardly similar to the head of the said bank and his bodyguard.
According to the terms of the contract with the "killers", the banker and his bodyguard had to be taken alive. Later, by torture, Kalashnikov planned to get money from them.
Law enforcement officers carefully prepared for the meeting of the "customer". Kalashnikov's first meeting with his "victims" was to take place in his father's garage in Shchukin.
So that the criminal would not suspect anything, the steps leading to the garage where the prisoners were to be kept were poured with a liquid that looked like blood.
Kalashnikov came to the garage very drunk and immediately began to ask the "victim" where a large sum of money was hidden. Then the cover group went to work.
As soon as the customer began to threaten the operative disguised as a banker with murder and there was a real threat to the life of the "captives", SOBR officers burst into the garage. Within a few moments, the offender was on the floor in handcuffs. [...]
For a whole ten years, the FSB was the backbone bank for Roskosmos, the state corporation kept $800 million in its accounts, entrusting it with servicing almost all the largest industry enterprises, salary projects and its foreign exchange earnings earned from commercial launches.
The scandal around the bank broke out after in 2015 the new management of Roskosmos demanded the return of the placed funds, but in response they received an offer to wait three years, since the money was supposedly invested in various projects.
Then the Federal Security Service passed an audit of the Central Bank, which revealed facts of a significant overestimation of the value of assets, the bank was reorganized first by the DIA, and then by Novikombank. Roskosmos agreed to freeze some of its funds placed in the disgraced institution.
The investigation, having accumulated about 200 volumes, estimated the machinations in the FSB at 7.5 billion rubles, which, in general, is rather modest.
Among the 12 defendants are the former owner and head of the bank Alexander Volovnik and First Vice President Petr Ladonshchikov. They are accused of organizing a criminal community and participating in it (Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), as well as of especially large-scale fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code).
According to investigators, the criminal group was formed by the owner and first president of the bank back in 2013, and a number of controlled companies and one-day firms were actively involved in the commission of crimes.
Only through 31 one-day companies from May 1, 2013 to February 24, 2015, 6.7 billion rubles were withdrawn through 216 loan agreements, which then did not return to the bank. Another 800 million rubles were withdrawn through Capital Trust Company Soyuz LLC, whose co-founder and CEO, Edward Chesnov, put on the wanted list.
The company was founded in 1995, it is engaged in leasing real estate, its authorized capital is 438 million rubles, of which almost the entire amount was given by someone Irina Alexandrovna Volovnik. And Alexander Davidovich Volovnik, the full namesake of the ex-president of Fondservisbank, appears as the general director in a number of databases.
By the way, in the Saratov region, the less pretentious Soyuz, which received loans from the FSB for 1.7 billion rubles. JSC TPK "Soyuz" was registered in 2008 in Moscow, the authorized capital of the company exceeds 15 million rubles, of which a small share was given by someone Alexander Shatsky.
According to open data, the company was engaged in the production steel pipes, hollow profiles and fittings, as well as road and building construction, horticulture, wood sawing and forging.
The change of the company's legal address from Moscow to the city of Atkarsk, Saratov Region, took place on November 23, 2015, and already on November 30, the Arbitration Court of the Saratov Region accepted for consideration a claim from Fundservicebank, from which the bankruptcy procedure started.
On the this moment the volume of creditors' claims against the company exceeded 2 billion rubles, and only the accounts receivable of the capital LLC "Streamline" in the amount of 6 million rubles could be considered liquid property, and even then conditionally.
Who wants to steal a millionaire
To kidnap a billionaire, get a ransom and become a billionaire yourself - such simple thoughts visited, probably, every second criminal. Indeed, there are at least a dime a dozen oligarchs in Russia, and when you see the forbidden fruit (foreign wealth), it seems - just reach out your hand, and it is yours. But the vast majority of such insidious plans fail. Let us recall the examples of high-profile abductions of LUKOIL Vice President Kukura or the son of computer genius Ivan Kaspersky. As a result, the criminals ended up where they were supposed to be - on the bunk. The loudest recent example was the kidnapping of the head of the Fundservicebank Alexander Volovnik. "MK" got a unique opportunity to find out how the special services work in such cases, how negotiations are conducted and why the bandits fail to complete their plans.
On one of the warm days of August 2013, a middle-aged man entered the premises of the Fundservicebank. After looking around, he went to the guard and demanded that the director of security be called to him. Everything in his tone and look said that he possessed some extremely important information.
- The director of your bank, Alexander Volovnik, is going to be kidnapped and possibly killed, - the stranger said to the head of security who came out to him.
- How do you know?
“Because I and my people were hired for this purpose.
Song about a merchant and Kalashnikov
The customer of the crime was 30-year-old native of Moscow Ilya Kalashnikov. According to relatives, a kind-hearted man with a legal education, worked as an economist. True, everyone noted: Kalashnikov did not like being an ordinary clerk, he always loved excitement. Probably, this explains the fact that he fed his family (Kalashnikov was married, his daughter was growing up) not only with a salary, but also with proceeds from very specific operations. For example, Ilya had his share of the fact that through various banks he helped regional entrepreneurs with dubious business to launder money.
Once he received a serious order: he was to transfer 100 million rubles from Ukraine to the accounts of one-day firms in Moscow. Why Ilya Kalashnikov chose Fonservisbank for this purpose, history is silent, but it is possible that someone misled the economist, saying that the director of the bank, Alexander Volovnik, regularly carried out such operations in the past.
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Volovnik Alexander Davidovich was born in 1961 in Tbilisi. In the 90s he met Badri Patarkatsishvili, who introduced Volovnik into the circle of influential figures: Gusinsky, Berezovsky, Givi Targamadze and others. In 1994 he created Fundservisbank, in 1995 he headed the management company STK Soyuz and got along with Oleg Kiselev, financial director of RUSNANO. In 1998, Volovnik, as the head of Fondservisbank, repeatedly came to the attention of law enforcement agencies on suspicion of large-scale criminal activity. In the spring of 2008, Fonservisbank was searched by police officers of the Moscow Region. But the criminal case was eventually closed.
But when the money came from Ukraine, the service economic security the bank saw a clear trick and returned all the funds back to Nezalezhnaya.
The next day, an outraged Kalashnikov rushed to an appointment with the general director of the bank, saying that he owed him for the disruption of the money transfer. Explanations of Volovnik and his employees that the bank does not deal with such matters did not convince Ilya, he believed that the head of the bank was simply "breaking a comedy." Kalashnikov did not calm down, called, wrote letters, and once ambushed the head of a financial institution near the doors of the bank. True, the quarrel was quickly stopped by the driver of the head of the financial institution, who worked part-time as a bodyguard.
Offended, Ilya Kalashnikov decided that he would make Alexander Volovnik pay both for the tarnished reputation (the transfer was never completed) and for the spent nerves. For help, he turned to his friend - an old thief in law from Rostov, who had long retired.
"I'll get my revenge on him, and we'll make good money." Let's kill the guard, and kidnap Volovnik himself, he will give us as much as we need.
"Do you have any idea who you've swung at?" He did serious business in the 90s, do you think you can just keep your bank in Moscow? His friends are people you've only seen on TV! Think about it, if he travels without security, then he is not afraid of anything at all. And who are you? Who is behind you? You are alone! - an elderly thief tried to stop the novice kidnapper.
However, the exhortations were useless, Ilya insisted on his own, declared that his plan with the abduction was flawless, only an executor was needed. The old thief got rid of Kalashnikov by handing him a business card of "a person necessary for the cause."
The “right person” lived in Sochi, he was not used to refusing good money, and although he had more than one prison term behind his back, he considered that they did not scatter offers of 160 million rubles. True, having learned who exactly he was to kidnap, the bandit was a little depressed.
- The Volovnik always moves around the city only with his driver, there is no security, there is no support service, you only need to kill the driver and steal the banker. And I’ll make him give everything he owes me,” Ilya Kalashnikov told the bandit, “we will get 800 million, 20 percent are yours.
How do you know you'll get exactly that much?
“He is weak, he will see the pincers, and he will provide any amount we ask.
- Too vague prospects, no guarantees. Come on, you pay now 20 percent of the 800 million I do. Or later, when we have the money, we divide 50 by 50.
- We will receive 800 million and not a ruble less! I have good guarantees.
— And what are they?
- Deputy Volovnik really wants the boss to disappear, so that he himself takes the reins of government into his own hands.
The sochinets thought hard. The plan of Ilya Kalashnikov had many white spots, and therefore risks. Firstly, the prospect of receiving funds was too vague, but the deadline was quite specific. Secondly, Kalashnikov clearly did not fully decide what to do when Volovnik was kidnapped. At first he said that he would torture him and shake off the entire amount, then he said about some third party that would guarantee the payment of funds. The criminal past suggested to the Sochi citizen that after completing the work, all this could end for him with a bullet in the back of the head from the notorious third party.
Meanwhile, the bandit had almost no time to think. Ilya Kalashnikov demanded an urgent answer. The bandit understood: if he refuses the offer, it is unlikely that he, initiated into such a crime, will be left alive. Perhaps that is why the above-described meeting with the head of the security service of Fondservisbank took place.
For the sake of the well-being of his family, Ilya Kalashnikov was ready to commit any crime.
Murder plan "under supervision"
After the Sochi authority came to the security service, he was invited to Petrovka. He explained his decision to hand over Kalashnikov to the police with moral considerations. However, the security service believed that the Sochi citizen was guided by much more prosaic reasons. He tritely needed money, Kalashnikov did not have it, but Volovnik and his guards had it for sure, the gangster was counting on gratitude. Therefore, he chose a deliberately win-win option with the ability to save life and freedom.
The next day, the Sochi citizen went to a meeting with Ilya, accompanied by a MUR operative, whom he introduced as his driver, who knows Moscow well.
New person surrounded by a Sochi resident, Kalashnikov did not arouse suspicion. It didn’t matter to him at all what forces he plans to use to carry out his plans. On the same day, they went to the garage cooperative, where Ilya's father had a garage.
— There is a good basement, the place is quiet. Bring Volovnik, put him on a chair, I will come and talk with him, - Kalashnikov told the bandit, smiling unkindly.
“I need time to prepare, I need to keep an eye on the goal and think everything through.
- Nothing to think about, he travels alone! Every day at five in the evening he leaves the office, gets into his huge Mercedes and drives home. Don't pull the rubber! Kalashnikov got angry.
However, the Sochi resident still convinced the attacker to give him a few days.
We needed this time to document all the words of the suspect regarding his plans. In addition, in the process of observing Kalashnikov, we learned that he also communicates with certain persons from the underworld. Periodically, he secretly met with them, and, as we understood, this was connected with our case, ”Dmitry Buzan, head of the second department of the MUR, told MK. - We immediately had several versions regarding his plans. The first option: he expected that we would bring Volovnik to him, he would shake off money from him, and then shoot us with his people, the second option - he was just insured. And finally, the third option - Kalashnikov and Volovnik's deputy, whom he mentioned, simply wanted to kill the head of Fundservicebank with the hands of bandits, who were then planned to be liquidated. The deputy would become the chairman of the bank and pay Kalashnikov money for a successful operation.
However, the third version was dropped after several days of observation of Alexander Volovnik's deputy. He did not have any contacts with people from the underworld and did not intersect with Ilya Kalashnikov in any way. He led a very quiet life. It became clear: speaking about the deputy, Kalashnikov was bluffing.
Convinced that all the threads of this crime lead only to Kalashnikov, the Murovites decided to start the operation. Ilya got a call and was told to be ready and waiting for a call.
Life is a theater and the people in it are actors
In order to catch Kalashnikov red-handed, the operatives decided to take him on live bait. The police went to meet with Alexander Volovnik.
He was not surprised when he found out what Kalashnikov was up to. There was a feeling that he was expecting something similar from Ilya, - operative Ruslan Utkin recalls, - we told him our plan, which was to ensure that everything was played the way the customer wanted.
But the head of a large financial institution denied the policemen their request. He did not want to see Kalashnikov, perhaps fearing for his life, or perhaps he was afraid that during the conversation, which would be recorded, the kidnapper would ask him some uncomfortable question, which would then have unpleasant consequences.
However, the operatives were not upset. Someone came up with a good idea - to replace the real Volovnik and his driver with similar-looking criminal investigation officers. The police conducted a real theatrical casting to find the right people. But no matter how similar the policemen were, it was clear that Kalashnikov, who saw the banker in the face, would immediately recognize the substitution. However, the operatives quickly found a solution to this problem - since anything can happen during the abduction, it was decided to present the false Volovnik as badly beaten and rumpled.
But here another difficulty arose - Volovnik and Kalashnikov were well versed in the affairs of the bank. It is unlikely that the operative would have been able to correctly answer Kalashnikov's financial demands or questions without arousing suspicion.
Then the police again turned to the head of the bank for help with a request to provide the right person in their place. After thinking, Volovnik offered to play the role of himself to his assistant. He not only was similar in physique to the CEO, but also looked a little like him in appearance and, most importantly, was savvy in financial matters.
- Hi, Ilya, I have everything ready, we are doing it today! You do not mind? the bandit asked Kalashnikov in the early August morning.
- It's high time, I already began to worry, I thought you decided to jump off. It's good that I was wrong. I'm leaving right now with the keys to the garage. Say the address!
In one of the cafes in the city center, Ilya, in addition to the Sochi resident and his “driver”, was expected by another criminal investigation officer, with a stern appearance, who was introduced to him as Sasha the militant.
- Meet Sasha, my trusted person, he will do everything beautifully. But look, the fact that Volovnik will remain intact after the capture, I can not guarantee.
“It’s okay, he won’t need health anyway.
- Well, then I would like to get 10 thousand rubles for the trunk. Sanya will buy an unlit Makar. And we will wait for him here. When everything is ready, he will return, and together we will go to your garage.
Ilya gave the money to the militant without objection. In the meantime, the second part of the performance took place outside the bank building. Immediately after receiving a message from the police that the operation had begun, the "actor" disguised as the chairman, together with the driver, went to the car. She was followed closely by the police. It was necessary to be the first to notice Ilya's accomplices, if they were here and watched how the capture of the director was going.
In the meantime, the real Volovnik, wrapped in the simplest raincoat, went out through the back door of his bank and for the first time in many years got into a bus filled with people.
A conspicuous black Mercedes drove along the usual route for a businessman. At some point, a car blocked his way, shots were fired - it was Sasha who started the performance. From the outside, everything looked like a scene from action movies: shooting, screaming, blood on the pavement. Jumping into Volovnik's car, Sasha rushed to the garage, where the police hung up cameras and sound recording equipment, and make-up artists from Mosfilm were waiting for them there. They had to do everything to make Ilya believe in the reality of what had happened. First of all, they put the driver Volovnik in the back seat of the Mercedes and drew a bullet wound in his heart. When everything was ready, Sasha took a photo of the allegedly killed driver and rushed to the cafe where the customer was waiting for him, leaving the "actor" who portrayed Volovnik to the make-up artists. Here it was necessary to sweat: to fit a wig, draw bruises and - most importantly - to make sure that Ilya did not have any questions about the voice of the “victim”. To do this, they simulated a broken jaw by stuffing the actor's mouth with cotton.
The "killed" driver of Volovnik, bleeding fake blood.
The make-up of the assistant to the head of the bank was entrusted to Mosfilm specialists.
Meanwhile, in the cafe, the customer was actively pumped up with alcohol.
“I might even kill him right away, destroy this bastard!” We still get money! Ilya kept repeating more and more insistently. For several hours they had been waiting for the militant's return. The Sochi resident, who had been recording such speeches on a dictaphone for more than an hour, tried to maintain his composure, periodically glancing at the phone in anticipation of the treasured text message. But instead of a text message, Sasha the militant himself appeared. After taking a drink of cold beer from the customer's glass, he silently handed Ilya a phone with a photo of the murdered driver Volovnik.
- It is done! I did my part, I hope you will not let me down too? The fighter chuckled.
- Not a question at all! Oh well done! And for the driver of this special thanks! That damned Chekist almost broke my arm! Ilya got excited. - Come on, take me to this moneybag, it's time to shake his carcass.
- Everything is in place! - commanded Colonel Dmitry Buzan, who led the operation. The car with the Kalashnikov was already nearby. The commandos hid behind the garages, waiting for Ilya's team or cover group.
Kalashnikov hurried to the basement. Sasha, who was following him, clutched a prepared pistol in his hands. Kalashnikov talked so much about the assassination of the director that it could not be ruled out that he himself would want to shoot him. To do this, a blank cartridge was inserted into the pistol in advance.
Going down to the dark basement and turning on the light, Kalashnikov smiled ominously and nodded, as he thought, to Volovnik, whose face looked like one big bruise. The “actor”, whose mouth was stuffed with cotton, mumbled something uncertainly to better simulate a broken jaw.
- How are you feeling? I guess the evening didn't go well? The kidnapper chuckled. The actor mumbled something indistinctly again. Coming closer, Kalashnikov grew gloomy. There was silence for a few seconds.
- What kind of divorce, who did you bring me ?! I ordered to bring Volovnik, but it's not him, he looks like him, but he's not, and actually, he doesn't really look like him! Where is he?! Where is Volovnik?!
The Sochi resident was silent, looking into the drunken eyes of a man who wanted to become a millionaire in no time. The next moment, special forces rushed at Kalashnikov.
Delivered to the police, he quickly lost his temper. He was no longer the tough thief and bandit he felt he was. He shouted that the Sochi citizen had forced him to kidnap Volovnik, that he was just a pawn in someone else's game. He swore by mom, dad, children, begging to let him go and promising to hand over everyone. What was his surprise when he learned that the story of his scam was known to MUR operatives from the very beginning. Today, Ilya is awaiting trial in a pre-trial detention center in Moscow.
The story of Ilya Kalashnikov, a man who decided in a moment to cash in on someone else's life, is not the last of its kind. If earlier the kidnapping of the powerful was only the lot of special services and militants from hot spots, today people who are not burdened with great criminal experience are trying themselves in the role of kidnappers of living souls. But neither one nor the other is immune from mistakes - therefore, such stories, as a rule, have one end - close bunk beds for many years.
In the case of the ex-president of Fondservicebank, experts find parallels with the executive director of Roscosmos Evdokimov
The recent April arrest of the ex-president of Fondservisbank, Alexander Volovnik, was connected with an investigation into the large-scale embezzlement of Roskosmos funds from accounts in this bank. It is clear that Volovnik, although perhaps a swindler and an adventurer, is not a fool: the banker would not get dirty with the billions of the space department if he had not received the appropriate guarantees. And since there were such guarantees, it means that there were high-ranking people who gave them to Volovnik. Therefore, the president of Fondservicebank went to the cell as a bearer of knowledge about the names of these people and their role in the illegal development of money from Roscosmos. One such prisoner with the same dangerous knowledge has already served his time. We are talking about the executive director of Roskosmos, Vladimir Evdokimov, who, as the investigation suspects, could have been assassinated in the capital's pre-trial detention center No. 5. Recall: the former top manager was found with stab wounds in the toilet of his cell. According to media reports, Evdokimov's death came at a time when he was thinking about starting to cooperate with the investigation. The consequence of Evdokimov's excessive talkativeness and his frank confessions could be criminal cases against a number of important people, including those from the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC).
Yevdokimov's body was found on the night of March 18 in the toilet of cell No. 600 with several stab wounds. The examination showed that the wound in Evdokimov's chest area is very shallow (less than 2 cm). There are also several scratches on the neck next to the main wound on the carotid artery (it turned out to be fatal). The investigation opened a case under article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder), but does not hide the fact that this is a formality. When the hype subsides, what happened can be recognized as a suicide: allegedly Evdokimov committed suicide. But how much such a decision will correspond to the truth? To understand the situation, let's talk about the alignment of forces around Evdokimov and who would have had a hard time if he spoke.
The executive director for quality control and reliability of Roskosmos, Vladimir Evdokimov, was arrested in December 2016. He is accused of participating in fraud with the supply of equipment to Russian Aircraft Corporation (RSK) MiG when he was deputy director of the department of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) in 2007-2009. As a result of replacing expensive components with cheap ones, the defendants in the case, according to the TFR, stole at least 200 million rubles.
In addition to Mr. Evdokimov, the former director of ZAO Scientific and Technical Center Alexander Zolin, the former general director of OAO MiG-Rost (a subsidiary of RAC MiG, liquidated in 2012) Alexei Ozerov and the ex-general director of OAO " Helicopter service company"Akim Noskov and his deputy Alexei Andreev. Lord Ozerov, Andreev and Mr. Noskov's brother, Deputy General Director of Tupolev PJSC Yegor Noskov, are defendants in another high-profile case - about the theft in the early 2000s of real estate owned at that time by RAC MiG.
All these people are closely connected with one person - the first vice-president of the UAC Alexander Tulyakov. And Evdokimov in general has always been considered the most trusted person of Tulyakov. Everyone knew that no matter what Evdokimov did, Tulyakov was behind it.
Tulyakov, in turn, also has a reliable rear. This is his close friend and curator - Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov. It was Manturov who Tulyakov owed his “leaps” up the career ladder and a high-ranking position in the KLA. At one time, one of the special services joked that Tulyakov was right hand Manturov, and Evdokimov is a “glove” on this hand that counts money. Well, it is not difficult to guess about the role of the banker Volovnik ourselves.
And now the “glove” ended up in a pre-trial detention center. Moreover, back in December, the operatives did not hide the fact that Yevdokimov's arrest was carried out "with an eye" on Tulyakov, and maybe someone higher. Who knows where the "paths" of the investigation will lead. After his arrest, Evdokimov denied his guilt, did not testify against anyone, and very much hoped that his patrons would soon pull him out. However, in February, after three months spent in a pre-trial detention center, a "turn" occurred in Evdokimov's behavior. He realized that no one would pull him out, and in the event of further silence, it would be he who would be recognized as the organizer of the scam for a gigantic amount. And accordingly will receive the maximum term. According to sources, Yevdokimov began to think about how to start cooperating with the investigation, discussed this possibility with operatives. Over Tulyakov and those to whom the "paths" of the investigation may lead, a very specific threat looms.
And then the following happens. The top manager of Roskosmos was kept in cell No. 500, designed for four people. This is a kind of VIP-camera, equipped with a video surveillance system. And it contained the same VIPs as Evdokimov. Then he is unexpectedly transferred to cell No. 600 for 12 people, among whom are not only people involved in economic crimes, but also, for example, a man arrested for drug smuggling. There is no video surveillance system in the cell. And literally through a short time after Evdokimov's "transplant", his corpse is found with stab wounds. None of the cellmates saw anything. Evdokimov will never speak again. And now, banker Volovnik, who is involved in the same Roscosmos case and also has similar knowledge, has been laid on a vacant bunk in a pre-trial detention center.
Zakhar Durnov
The Tverskoy Court of Moscow issued a decision to arrest the former owner and president of Fonservisbank, Alexander Volovnik, and the first vice-president of this credit institution, Petr Ladonshchikov. They are charged with embezzlement of 1.38 billion rubles. from the funds of Roskosmos placed in Fundservisbank.
This high-profile investigation was launched after the management of the state corporation appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mr. Volovnik does not admit guilt, and his former subordinate, on the contrary, is actively cooperating with the investigation.
The Tverskoy Court of the capital was the first to consider yesterday the petition of the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the arrest of the former owner of Fondservisbank, Alexander Volovnik, while the meeting almost started with a scandal. As it turned out, the banker's lawyer did not come to court, meanwhile, literally in an hour and a half, the defendant was supposed to expire the maximum period of detention specified in the Code of Criminal Procedure - two days. The chairman of the Tverskoy Court, Olga Solopova, who personally considered the petition, apparently assuming that Mr. Volovnik’s lawyer could deliberately resort to a simple tactic in order to then demand the release of the client, suggested that the representative of the investigation “not disrupt the meeting” and provide the detainee with a lawyer by appointment. A few minutes later the problem was solved, and when the deadline for detention had already expired, a lawyer arrived, working with the banker by agreement.
As follows from the materials read out in court, a criminal case on the theft of Roskosmos funds placed in Fundservisbank was initiated in August 2015 by the 11th department of the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow. Mrs. Solopova read to the participants of the meeting a letter about the revealed thefts, which the general director of the state corporation, Igor Komarov, sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The letter contains a presidential resolution addressed to Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika and the head of the FSB Bortnikov,” the judge said. As follows from the appeal, $ 778 million and € 18 million of Roscosmos were accumulated on the accounts of Fonservicebank, which the corporation intended to spend "in the future on the development of the space industry." However, these funds are gone.
The police preliminary investigation, which was first conducted against unidentified persons under Part 4 of Art. 159.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud in the field of lending), it was slow. However, at the beginning of this year, after the intervention of the Prosecutor General's Office, the investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs took over the case, and the investigation intensified sharply. The qualification of the crime was changed to part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (embezzlement committed on an especially large scale, using his official position), and the first defendant appeared in the case - Alexander Volovnik. He was detained during the searches carried out as part of the case, as the investigator noted in court, the operatives seized $ 800,000 in the safe deposit box of Sovcombank, issued to the banker's daughter.
As follows from the criminal case, with the active participation of Mr. Volovnik, at least 1.38 billion rubles were stolen from the bank, which were withdrawn, including abroad, through six one-day companies. In the materials of the investigation there are testimonies of the heads of various divisions of the Fundservisbank, who revealed in detail to the investigation the scheme of theft, the investigator emphasized, speaking in court. Insisting on the arrest of the banker, the representative of the investigation noted that, judging by the diaries of the accused seized during the search, as well as the testimony of witnesses, the ex-owner of Fonservisbank tried to influence the course of the investigation and influence key witnesses in the case. It is curious that during the detention of the speech of the investigator during the searches, according to the investigator, the banker for some reason tried to get through on his mobile phone to the Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar and the head of the Federation of Jewish Communities Alexander Boroda, but to no avail.
The representative of the Prosecutor General's Office supported the investigation's petition, emphasizing that due to theft, Roskosmos was "deprived of the opportunity to dispose of its foreign exchange earnings, which were accumulated on the accounts of this bank." According to the prosecutor, the bank's assets "do not cover a tenth or even a hundredth of what was lost," and the actions of its former leader led to the collapse of Fondservisbank itself.
For his part, Oleksandr Volovnik insisted on his complete innocence, and his defense offered to elect the banker a measure of restraint in the form of house arrest. Lawyer Rustam Musaev emphasized that a seriously ill father was in the care of the financier, during the entire investigation, Mr. Volovnik did not leave Moscow and did not make any attempts to put pressure on former subordinates, “who actively cooperated with the investigation and testified during the preliminary investigation.”
In addition, Mr. Musaev drew the attention of the court that there was no evidence in the materials of Mr. Volovnik's intention to hide abroad. Judge Solopova looked through the folder in front of her and turned to the investigator for clarification, reminding him of the relevant norms of the Code of Criminal Procedure and the decisions of the plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. "That's what the operational data says," said a spokesman for the investigation. “I saw them too,” the prosecutor supported him. However, these explanations did not satisfy the presiding judge. “But I didn’t see it, but it’s up to me to decide on the arrest. Therefore, I ask you to provide the relevant documents,” summed up Mrs. Solopova, announcing a break.
During this time, all the necessary documents were provided to the court, and judge Solopova, in the end, granted the petition, arresting the former owner of Fonservisbank for two months. Yesterday, the former first vice-president of the bank Petr Ladonshchikov was also arrested. He, unlike the former boss, fully admitted his guilt and is actively cooperating with the investigation.
So far, there are two defendants in the case, however, according to sources, soon "two of those who are still witnesses may change their status to suspects." Most likely, the amount of damage caused in the case will also increase.
Musa Muradov, Vladislav Trifonov, Ruspres.
