| Valentina Solovyova is wanted again The elder of the domestic financial pyramid scheme, Valentina Solovyova, faces a new prison sentence. As the Vremya Novostei newspaper learned, the Moscow Region Central Internal Affairs Directorate put the enterprising lady on the federal wanted list. Ms. Solovyova and her business partner Lyudmila Ivanovskaya are again accused of fraud. According to investigators, Interline CJSC, created by women, worked according to a scheme similar to the activities of the Vlastilin pyramid, for which Ms. Solovyova had already received seven years in prison. What is noteworthy is that law enforcement agencies are clearly in no hurry to detain her.
Back in 1991, Ms. Solovyova created the individual private enterprise “Vlastilina” in Podolsk. This structure offered customers to pay only 50% of the price of a new domestic car, and it was possible to receive it with a delay of several months. Soon, “Vlastilina”, without any advertising, became one of the most popular trading organizations in the country, and among Ms. Solovyova’s clients were high-ranking officials and crime bosses. The business was built on the principle of a pyramid. At first, Mrs. Solovyova added bank loans to the funds received from citizens and only thanks to this she issued cars. Then Ms. Solovyova began to run out of money from buyers. In 1994, the pyramid began to show its first glitches - only the “necessary” clients received cars - and soon it completely collapsed. As a result, 16 thousand investors were recognized as victims of Solovyova’s actions, suffering losses amounting to 536.7 billion “old” rubles and $2.6 million. A criminal case was opened against Solovyova, after which she went on the run. She was captured only in 1996, and the court gave her seven years in prison. But for exemplary behavior, Valentina Solovyova was released on parole in 2000 - with a new profession as a seamstress-machine operator.
She didn't sit idle for long. In the winter of 2002, Ms. Solovyova purchased for 100 thousand rubles. a controlling stake in Interline CJSC, and retired military doctor Evgeniy Ivanov was appointed its general director. A few months later he was replaced in this post by a certain Lyudmila Ivanovskaya. As noted in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Interline worked according to the same scheme as Vlastilina - customers were offered new cars for 50% of their price with a delay of receipt for a month. Buyers were told that Interline works directly with car factories and therefore does not have to pay extra money to intermediaries. Clients again came to Ms. Solovyova’s new brainchild; their number, according to the most conservative estimates, was about 4 thousand people. The Podolsk prosecutor's office decided not to wait for the collapse of another pyramid and in the spring of 2002 opened a criminal case for fraud. True, Ms. Solovyova appeared in it only as a witness, since she was not formally the head of the company. At the same time, the tax police began an investigation into Interline’s failure to pay taxes amounting to 1 million rubles.
However, Valentina Solovyova was not at all embarrassed by the close interest of the special services. First, she opened a division of Interline in Tula, and then moved her office, which began to operate under the guise of the Merchant Charitable Foundation, to the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road and Entuziastov Highway. People were allowed in there either by recommendation or by those who had already invested in Interline and Interline-Tula. It was explained to clients that Ms. Solovyova was still able to supply cheap cars, but the police were constantly hindering her. When the visitor was “ripe”, he was asked to pay another $1,500 in addition to the money already given, and in a month he could supposedly receive the long-awaited car. After the publication of the Vremya Novostey newspaper, Ms. Solovyova left this office, however, according to operatives, she almost immediately opened several new ones.
As for criminal cases, at first they were investigated successfully. More than a hundred applicants who suffered from Interline’s actions contacted the Podolsk Internal Affairs Directorate; Solovyova herself was interrogated more than once by both police officers and FSNP officers. But then the “tax” case was suspended due to the “impossibility of identifying persons subject to liability,” and after the liquidation of the Federal Tax Service these materials were completely lost. The investigation into the fraud has stalled due to the need to conduct a mass of examinations. Later, this case was taken over from the Podolsk Internal Affairs Directorate by the Investigative Department of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region, which, according to the Vremya Novostei newspaper, put Solovyova and Ivanovskaya on the wanted list. The case itself has so far been suspended under Art. 208 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, since “the accused fled from the investigation.” However, our interlocutor at the Ministry of Internal Affairs noted that the case itself is being investigated poorly, and the police near Moscow are doing little to search for Ms. Solovyova. “Has Solovyov been put on the wanted list? Yes, it can’t be,” one of the heads of the Podolsk Internal Affairs Directorate told us yesterday. - She still works somewhere, periodically appears in Podolsk. Tomorrow we will definitely make a request to the Moscow Region Central Internal Affairs Directorate.” Alexander SHVAREV |
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