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The Kazakh policeman and the Kuban ataman deceived everyone - from Rosrezerv to the Chechens
The investigation into the case of large-scale theft of Rosrezerv funds was recently completed by the Investigative Committee (IC) under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. His “heroes” are two businessmen who managed to receive $6 million from the state in exchange for forged documents about the shipment of a huge shipment of wheat to the granaries of their homeland. The former head of Rosrezerv and now Minister of Energy Igor Yusufov is also a witness in the case. The accused themselves are unknown to the general public, but almost all special services have known them for a long time and well: they are former policeman from Kazakhstan Sergei Natashkin (aka Shel) and Cossack ataman Anatoly Strukov. Both are simultaneously involved in a number of investigations conducted by different departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor General's Office and the FSB. Natashkin, in particular, appears in the case of laundering $230 million, and Strukov is a witness in the case of a famous Russian producer in Hollywood accused of embezzlement. So far, only the Investigative Committee (IC) under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has managed to finish “their” part of their epic.Sergey Shel once served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan, but then decided to become a businessman and quit. Things didn’t work out for him, and almost immediately he organized his first “combination.” According to the Investigative Committee, Shel offered his former boss a lucrative deal - to buy from him a large batch of special equipment necessary for the police for only $1 million. The businessman presented fake documents as if the equipment had already arrived in the country, received money from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan, and then successfully disappeared and was put on the international wanted list. In Russia, he appeared as Natashkin (he officially changed his last name) and for $100 bought Paritet Stroy L LLC, registered with a lost passport. After several years of operation, this company was involved in one of the largest money laundering cases.
According to the FSB Directorate of the Vladimir Region, hundreds of millions of rubles were received by Paritet Stroy L, which were then transferred under fictitious contracts to the accounts of shell companies in a number of capital banks. Then the money went to the Vladimir Alekskombank, “rolled through”, returned to Moscow banks, converted into foreign currency and sent under fake contracts to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and from there went to the offshores of the Republic of Nauru. According to the prosecutor's office of the Vladimir region, the case of laundering $230 million was suspended in the fall of 2001, then it was resumed, but recently it was suspended again “due to the failure to identify the persons to be brought as defendants.” The accounts of Paritet Stroy L were arrested several years ago, which, however, did not prevent Natashkin-Shel from working in company with Strukov.
Repeatedly convicted Anatoly Strukov once served 14 years, and in the early 90s he unexpectedly became the ataman of the Kuban Cossack troops and the general director of the shopping center of the Kuban Cossack Association “Russia”. Then he met an equally clever businessman Gennady Vostretsov, who earned three convictions in the 80s. According to the North Caucasus RUBOP, in 1992, Vostretsov created the Finintorg company and began looking for partners for transactions under the international program “Help to Russia.” Strukov was the first person Vostretsov came to with this project. He said that it was possible to get a cheap ship with products from the United States worth $15 million. What Strukov would do with the cargo and whether he would pay the United States was his business; Vostretsov, according to his assurances, only needed $3 million. for delivery. Strukov withdrew the required amount from the account of his company S-Trade and transferred it to a new partner, counting on the solidarity of the former prisoners. But I was wrong. Vostretsov, through his longtime acquaintance, the owner of the First Professional Bank Henry Zilgerman, immediately transferred the money to Holland and fled abroad. Strukov was so offended that he even wrote a statement to the police regarding the theft of $3 million from him, and the Krasnodar prosecutor's office opened a case. In 1999, investigators established that Zilgerman died under strange circumstances in Mexico, and in 2002, the North Caucasus Regional Directorate for Organized Crime and Organized Crime found Vostretsov. As investigators found out, he first took the surname Arzhanik, then, having married an American, changed his name to Henry Oknyansky and became a very respected person in Hollywood. Thus, together with producer John Daly (who participated in the creation of the films “Platoon” and “Terminator”), he worked on a number of high-budget projects. When Vostretsov-Oknyansky recently flew to Moscow with John Daly, he was immediately arrested.
By this time, Strukov himself had already met Natashkin-Shel, and together they ran a number of large scams, including with Rosrezerv money. As the Investigative Committee found out, the businessmen deceived literally everyone who crossed their path. When Strukov and Natashkin were just planning their projects in 1999, they decided to acquire an office in the center of Moscow. I didn’t want to pay, and the partners sent “messengers” to Elm Holding LLC (its founder is a person respected not only in Russia, but throughout the world) and offered to do a European-quality renovation of the office at a low price. The company happily agreed, left the premises for the swindlers for several months, and Strukov and Natashkin received an office in the very center of Moscow with telephones, faxes and other benefits.
Next, according to the Investigative Committee, Natashkin visited his old acquaintance from Kazakhstan, the head of the Middle Volga Terrestrial Administration (SVTU) of Rosrezerv, Abrig Baimyshev, and offered a lucrative deal. They say that Paritet Stroy L is ready to sell 64 thousand tons of grain for the granaries of the homeland at a price 20% lower than the market price - 2,300 rubles per ton. A preliminary agreement was concluded between SVTU and Natashkin’s company, with which Baimyshev went to the head of Rosrezerv, Mr. Yusufov. The last contract was approved and the corresponding order was issued.
After this, as the Investigative Committee established, Natashkin and his partner forged a letter on behalf of the head of government of the Krasnodar Territory, which stated that the price of grain had allegedly jumped to 3,400 rubles, and sent it to SVTU. Based on this paper, Mr. Baimyshev, according to the Investigative Committee, entered into a new agreement with Paritet Stroy L, according to which Rosrezerv purchased wheat not at 2300, but at 2900 rubles per ton, and put it in storage for some reason - then they should have been in the Krasnodar Territory (this territory does not belong to SVTU). Mr. Yusufov was not informed about this, but the order he had previously issued was attached to the new contract.
Then Natashkin and Strukov went to the head of the Ust-Labinsk bakery plant (Krasnodar region) Boris Rabinovich and offered cooperation: Mr. Rabinovich would issue documents that 64 thousand tons of grain had been received at the KHP special storage facility for Rosrezerv, and in return he would receive a round sum of dollars. At the same time, the swindlers convinced the head of the plant that no one has the right to check the reserves of Rosrezerv (this is a state secret), and then the grain can simply be written off as unusable. After long negotiations, the parties did so. Natashkin and Strukov took several thousand tons of wheat from a number of companies for sale (they never paid for it), loaded it into the plant, and Rabinovich presented papers that he had received 64 thousand tons. With them, Natashkin went to Mr. Baimyshev and asked to transfer money, not for Paritet Stroy L (its accounts had already been seized in the “laundering” case), but to Strukov’s company ABVA LLC. Soon they received $6 million. Along the way, the swindlers also managed to deceive a company founded by classmates of one of the famous field commanders of Chechnya. Offering the Chechens a fake contract for the supply of wheat, Natashkin and Strukov said: “You understand, we will not deceive you, otherwise you will kill us.” The Chechens bought this argument, but when the deception was revealed, they still went to the police.
The scammers transferred some of the money they received abroad, and some of it was literally wasted. According to the Investigative Committee, Strukov and Natashkin could easily spend 200-400 thousand dollars in a day or two. So, one day they rented one of the central concert halls in Moscow at three o’clock in the morning and “signed out” a Cossack choir. While singing and dancing, the companions drank vodka in the huge hall until the morning, throwing $100 bills at the artists they especially liked.
Employees of the Main Directorate for Economic Crimes and the Investigative Committee got on the trail of Strukov and Natashkin a year ago. First, Yusufov and Baimyshev were interrogated, then Rabinovich was charged, and Natashkin was put on the wanted list. In October, the Krasnodar court decided to arrest Strukov. He himself came to the trial, clearly confident that he was in no danger - Strukov drove up to the courthouse in a Mercedes 600, registered to one of the local judges. However, he was immediately handcuffed and escorted to Moscow.