Long road to the stage

Former banking magnate Matvey Urin goes to the record for the number of debts and the deadline for a pre-trial detention center: in June, the 56th month of its maintenance in the “Butyrka” went. While the Presnensky District Court of Moscow is preparing to bear the fourth verdict against Urin, the Mediazon recalls the history of the collapse of the financial empire, which began almost five years ago with an unhappy meeting on Rublevskoye Shosse.

A motorcade of two cars is traveling along the Rublevsky highway - Volkswagen and Mercedes. On the rear passenger chair of the latter is a self-confident bald man in a leather jacket, outwardly he looks like a hero of domestic series about the “dashing 1990s”. At some point, BMW, moving without protection, is equal to the motorcade. The accompanying Mercedes "Volkswagen" is trying to stop the extraneous car with signals of the headlights. When BMW finally stops, several large men armed with bits and objects similar to pistols are approached by the driver.

Someone beats the driver, someone is his car. After the execution, the motorcade leaves. The battered man, deciding that from the blows by the bats, his car was unusable, on foot was going to look for the nearest police station - good, it was still light on the street, and he managed to remember the numbers of the offenders. The police offer the victim hospitalization, but he refuses, limiting himself to the emergency room. Surprised by his last name and a foreign passport, the duty officer, just in case, reports the visitor to the authorities.

After the end of the beaten driver, the police do not pass even half an hour, as a bald self -confident man and his satellites are delayed on the New Arbat - and not ordinary patrolmen, but by the FSO officers. A gray -haired man is approaching the Mercedes window. Three years later, he received the title of Colonel General. "Will you recognize me?" He asks a man in a leather jacket. He nods. “Then give a passport,” the gray -haired man orders and takes the document in his hand. “I have his passport,” he reports on the phone. The Mercedes passenger, together with the driver and six guards, is taken to the Lefortovo investigative, formally transferred to the Ministry of Justice, but actually subject to the FSB. In their cars, operatives find two Kalashnikov combat machines, one dummy of these weapons and four bags of nasva.

For almost five years that have passed since the day of this incident-November 14, 2010-a bald man managed to grow long black hair, which he collected in a pigtail pigtail, and get a habit of covering his face with a baseball cap, and then get rid of both. Now he, again overwhelmed almost to zero and even in a slightly more sports form than on the day of the conflict with the BMW driver, stands in a cage in the hall of the Presnensky district court of Moscow. On the T -shirt - the silhouettes of the mountains indicating their heights, on the neck - a pectoral cross. While the defendant is being brought into the hall, he manages to say hello to his wife, a mother, an expensive lawyer and few friends. Scars on the faces of some of them speak of the past, complete adventure. The defendant reacts to the presence of the only journalist in the hall with surprise and some distrust. Until the judge entered the hall, he manages to introduce himself through the bars and ask what are the reasons for interest in his fate.

- Witnesses are not at the hearing. Since the prosecutor insists on a forced drive, and the defense does not oppose, the meeting will have to be transferred. The only thing is that there are a number of witnesses who, as it turned out, live in Luxembourg, so the court will not be able to provide their drive, but the meeting is postponed again in any case, the judge explains to those present.

- I could bring them here, you will only ask! - Surrounding badly, interrupting his defendant.

Exactly a week later, the man again finds himself in the same cage in the same hall, on it the same T -shirt with the mountains. The meeting is tolerated again-this time due to the failure to appear of the prosecutor. It will not take place in a week - witnesses will not come again - not even in two. In total, on the website of the Presnensky court, you can find eight decisions on the transfer of meetings in this case, adopted by Judge Dmitry Dolgopolov over the past three months. The representative of the press service of the court in a conversation with the Mediazona admits that perhaps this list is not full.

-Are you in a hurry somewhere? - asks Dolgopolov of the defendant after the next transfer.

- I'm in no hurry? To the zone! I want to take a walk, well, there, drink beer. Only non -alcoholic - we are athletes! He answers.

Although the defendant says with a smile, most likely he does not joke. This man is a 40-year-old businessman Matvey Urin, a former owner of the Banking Empire, who collapsed a few months after the incident on Rublevo highway in November 2010. Since then-already the 56th month-he has been sitting in the Moscow pre-trial detention center "Butyrka" with rare breaks to court hearings.

Vladimir Kolokoltsev. Photo: Yuri Mashkov / TASS, Archive

Foreigner and minister

The Mercedes who stopped the gray -haired man was Vladimir Kolokoltsev, then not the Minister of the Interior, but the head of the Main Directorate of Moscow. A man beaten on Rublevskoye highway is a citizen of the Netherlands Yorrit Faissen. In the past, the 30-year-old Faissen was part of the Board of Stroytransgaz affiliated with Gazprom, and also worked as a chief specialist in suburban real estate in Gazprombank-Invest, the only foreigner in the company. Among the staff who had talked with the “Vedomosti” employees of Stroytransgaz, there was an opinion that “an absolutely European young man with pleasant manners”, who was immediately allocated a 60-meter office with the secretary and the official “Lexus”, a good acquaintance of the Putin family.

Indirectly confirmed to Vedomosti rumors about high patronage over Faassen and the former head of the company Alexander Ryazanov. Once a foreigner radically opposed the reduction of the salaries of employees and called on them to defend their rights. After that, the boss began to think about the dismissal of the rebel, but received a warning from the head of the Gazprom Security Service: “He is very influential.” Not only Russian media wrote about the blood kinship of Putin, but also foreign ones - for example, the Leidsch Dagblad newspaper claimed that the Dutchman and daughter of the Russian president Maria live together in the suburbs of Leiden Vorshoten.

Whether the allegations of the affected foreigner to Putin’s family are true or not, but shortly after the incident on the Rublevo highway, Urina’s life has changed dramatically. While the businessman himself was waiting for the end of the investigation in Butyrka, his banking empire collapsed like a house of cards-for two months of licenses, Slavyansky, Trudo-Bank, Uralfinprombank, Monetary House, Donbank and Edantis Capital, lost. In all cases, the financial regulator called the reason for the closure of the “signs of criminal activity” in the interbank operations, but at the same time two months before the Dutchman’s beaten, the check of the Central Bank did not reveal anything suspicious, in any case, in the work of “Slavic”. The Central Bank reported the closure of the last Bank of Urin-the Russian-German trading bank-the Department of Foreign and Public Relations in the last week of 2010.

Faissen himself was interviewed by the investigator about the beating on Rublevskoye Shosse - directly on the day of the incident, on November 14, 2010, and two months later, on January 18, 2011. The surveys show how the indignation of the foreigner gradually subsided. If immediately after the attack, he told how much he was frightened for his life and suggested that they wanted to kill him, then during his second conversation with the investigator he emphasized that he did not experience serious fears for himself, since none of the attackers expressed the appropriate threats addressed to him. Nevertheless, the case on the fact of the attack was opened on the same day.

According to investigators, on November 14, 2010, the banker motorcade violated the traffic rules and did not give way to the BMW of a foreigner, after which Urin instructed the guards to "organize his persecution, beating and causing damage to the machine." The alleged organizer himself set forth a different version: he did not give any order to the security, Faissen himself jumped from one strip of Rublevsky highway to another, which created an emergency, and Chop’s employees decided to teach him how to independently.

- He and I were driving quite calmly from Zhukovka (a village in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow Region - MZ) to the Moscow Ring Road for 15 minutes, not taking any measures for him, hoping that he would stop on the traffic police patrol. He did not stop. Our car calmly overtook him and drove on. And then the employees of the escort service (the guards who, together with Urin in the bench of the defendants-MZ), exceeding their powers, committed some acts in relation to this machine. What do I have to do with it? I am generally a guarded person, and the Chop, who guarded me, he had nothing to do with me, he guarded me under the contract. I don’t understand at all on what basis they detained me. I did not have the right to give orders, because there is a private security company, but there is a protected person. On the contrary, I have to listen to their instructions, and not give them mine, this time, and they work with me under a security agreement, I do not control their actions, these are two, ”he explained .

As follows from the cassation definitions of the Moscow City Court, Urin was originally charged with part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism using objects used as a weapon committed by a group of persons). Together with him, a similar accusation was brought by the personal driver of the banker Sergei Vperenko and six employees of Chop, who accompanied him at Volkswagen - Nikolai Kupriyanov, Andrei Frolov, Alexei Kuznetsov, Andrei Semidotchenko and Alexei Cherkasov.

This article remained for all the accused, but by the time the indictment was transferred to the court, others were added to them (this fate managed to avoid only the guilt of the chopovtsa Cherkasov). So, Urin the investigator added charges under Part 3 of Article 33 of the Criminal Code, part 2 of Article 116 and part 2 of Article 167 (organization of beatings and intentional damage to property). Its driver did not plead guilty to his driver and claimed that he did not get out of the car at all, was also charged with paragraph 2 of Article 116 of the Criminal Code (beatings), part 2 of Article 167 (intentional damage to property) and part 3 of Article 327 of the Criminal Code (using a knowingly fake document) - according to the investigation, he used forgery documents that gave the right to mine posts DPS.

The guards of Karpov, Kuprinyanov, Frolov and Semidotchenko, in addition to the article on the delay, were accused of abuse of authority by employees of private security services (part 1 of Article 203 of the Criminal Code), and Kuznetsov under articles on the robbery and abduction of an important personal document from a citizen. Investigators found out that six months before the incident on Rublevskoye Shosse, he participated in the beating of two men and the abduction of their mobile phones, a bank card, as well as an official certificate and a metal personal token of an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the name of one of the victims.

Double sentence

Even at the stage of investigation in the case of beating the Dutchman against Urin, the second criminal case was opened, this time in part 2 of Article 186 of the Criminal Code (manufacturing for the sale, storage and sale of obviously fake securities). As stated in the Prosecutor General’s Office, the results of this investigation were the results of the audit conducted shortly after the detention of the banker by employees of the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Indirectly, this fact is confirmed by the cassation definitions of the Moscow City Court, according to which, at the time of the detention of Urina, the election of preventive measures that was not related to detention against the banker was also impossible, including “operational information about the involvement of the suspect in other crimes”.

Photo: Pavel Markelov / Publishing House Rodionov / TASS

According to the resolution of the investigator, in March 2010, “unidentified persons” made 14 fake bills of “trado-bank” with a nominal value of more than 214 million rubles. Subsequently, the fakes found themselves, approved by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Urina as the final beneficiary of the banking group “Trado-Bank”, who used them as a pledge when paying as part of the execution of the contract for obtaining rights to demand debts from Investbank. A month after the initiation of this case-in February 2011-investigators of Moscow, Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg opened criminal cases on the facts of fraud on a particularly large scale in the “trado-bank”, “Slavic Bank”, “Monetary House” and “Uralfinprom”.

Meanwhile, the judicial investigation in the case of the incident on Rublevskoye Shosse came to an end. At one of the meetings, Faissen representatives provided a certificate from the emergency room, according to which the foreigner was caused by damage in the form of numerous bruises. Already in April, the Kuntsevsky court announced the deadlines: under the article on hooliganism, Urin was given two years in prison, under articles on organizing beatings and intentional damage to other people's property - one year. By partial addition, the banker was sentenced in the form of three years of colony of general regime. The largest period among the guards, four years, was given to Kuznetsov, who turned out to be involved in the robbery of the policeman, and the smallest, two years,-the driver-chopovtsa Cherkasov.

“The court substantiated his critical attitude to the testimony of Urin that he did not take part in the commission of crimes incriminated to him. These testimonies of Urina were checked [...] and reasonably rejected by the court. [...] All decisions related to the implementation of security were agreed and made personally by Urin, who was the organizer of the committing unlawful actions against the victim. [These actions] were covered by the unified intent of the convicts, committed from hooligan motives, according to the far -fetched occasion, which is fully confirmed by the evidence investigated by the court [...], ”the text of the sentence says.

After such a decision of the judge, the former banker could now count on parole in the summer of 2013. However, Urina was not destined to come true - three months after the announcement of the sentence of the Kuntsevsky District Court, the Judicial Collegium of the Moscow City Court for criminal cases satisfied the cassation appeal of the prosecutor and canceled it as excessively soft. The case was sent for a review.

“The court underestimated the increased public danger of their actions, which were distinguished by special impudence, using their official position and weapons, numerical and physical superiority of attackers, their special training, with the clearly expressed and demonstrative opposition of their personalities, generally accepted norms of morality and behavior. In the course of these actions, non -guilty people were caused by bodily harm and material damage, ”the definition said.

The victim of the foreigner did not come to a new trial. Urina’s lawyers asked for a ceasefire - they offered the court and lawyer Faissen an apology and the payment of damage in an amount significantly exceeding the real one, but their requests were ignored. As a result, on November 8, 2011, the Kuntsevsky District Court increased the period of imprisonment of the banker to 4.5 years of general regime. The deadlines for the guards and the driver remained the same.

Butyrka, court, "Butyrka"

Exactly three weeks after the announcement of the sentence, when the lawyers tried to appeal him again, the banker was charged with five episodes of the case under part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale). So and not sent to the stage (he was kept in the Butyrka), Urin again chose a preventive measure in the form of detention. The new accusation turned out to be much more complicated than the 15-volume case about the beating of the Dutchman, and flowed out of the previously excited case of fraud with bills.

According to the investigation, having control at the Moscow “Slavic” and “trado-bank”, the Yekaterinburg “Uralfinprombank”, the Chelyabinsk “Monetary House” and the Rostov “Don Bank”, Urin “ordered a sharp increase in deposit rates” with powerful advertising support in the media. As a result, the number of bank customers increased significantly. In addition to deposits, new customers were also invited to purchase securities of large oil companies with high liquidity. Extracts on allegedly enrolling the banking network of securities were accepted only through the Edventis Capital depository specially created for this depository, which the investigators called fictitious - the company was allegedly registered for a stand -up person and provided zero reports during inspections. Lipovs were also shares, the existence of which was convinced by customers of the Urina banking group. The money received from them, investigators claimed, were withdrawn through special accounts. Thus, Urin was charged with the theft of almost 16 billion rubles, but during the judicial investigation, this amount halved.

The debate in the second case of Urin was held by the end of March 2013 - the prosecutor asked him to find him guilty and sentenced to nine years in prison. The banker himself denied his involvement in the operating activities of these banks, and argued that there could be a certain shadow investor Ivan Lyubimtsev, in whose interests these financial institutions could be behind fraud. The defendant emphasized that he was judged for the third time for the fact that in the fall of 2010 he turned out to be "at the wrong time and on the wrong road." As a result, the court sentenced him to 7.5 years in prison in a general regime colony, counting 4.5 years in this period in the first case.

“He is only guilty of being born,” said the lawyer of the banker Vladislav Musyak after the announcement of the decision. The verdict was based on the testimony of the ex-head of the “trado-bank” Elena Kostenko, who passed the accused in the same case of fraud, but went on a deal with the investigation, pleaded guilty, called Urina the organizer of theft and in May 2012 received two years of colony-settlement.

Judging by the cassation decisions of the Moscow City Court, the deadline for the detention of Urin had to expire in March 2014 - after that, in any case, it should be transferred to the colony. However, five months earlier, the Tverskaya District Court again decided to conclude the banker contained in Butyrka - this time at the request of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow. The basis for the initiation of the third case was the results of the Multibank inspection agency for insurance for the insurance insurance, which investigators considered Urin controlled. By this time, the ex-banker for some reason refused all the lawyers who protected him under the contract, except for Alexei Semenov. Semenov himself promptly comment on the third business of the banker, referring to the need to get his client permission for an interview.

Matvey Urin in the building of the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow, 2012. Photo: Andrey Stenin / RIA Novosti

According to the auditors, the money for the purchase of “multibank” was formally allocated by the Slavyansky and Grado-Bank banks, for the fraud in which Urin was already convicted after the incident on the Rublevsky highway. In reality, this amount-about 1 billion rubles-turned out to be part of the loan at the Multibank itself, which received them from MDM Bank to pay the debt. Thus, the Moscow Ministry of Internal Affairs approved by the Multibanka Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Multibank’s buyers actually paid with the sellers of his own money, creating a gap and covering it later with fictitious securities in the capital of a credit institution.

Captive record holder

The third case of Urin was transferred to the Presnensky district court in February 2015. In addition to the already familiar articles on the banker about fraud on a particularly large scale, part 3 of article 174.1 appeared in the final version of the prosecution (washing money by an organized group). Judging by the frequency of transfers of the meetings and measurement of their schedule - no more than once a week - the case will not be considered soon.

In total, Urin is in Moscow insulators for more than 55 months. For Russia, this is not a record - for example, those accused in the case of attacking militants on Nalchik in 2005 were kept in jail for more than nine years. However, Urin can take first place in another rating - as a prisoner with the largest financial debt. After the bankruptcy of the banks controlled by him, the deposit insurance agency had to pay their customers a reimbursement of 10.5 billion rubles. Urin himself turned out to be the defendant in the civil lawsuit of the heads of financial organizations. According to the agency, the total courts decided to recover from it compensation for damage in the amount of 7.1 billion rubles.

Meanwhile, the banker, nicknamed the media, is probably hoping not only to go to the stage, but also to return to free life through conventional liberation. Last year, he appealed to the Tver court with a request to recognize 29 disciplinary sanctions imposed on him by the Butyrki administration from the summer of 2011 to the beginning of the year 2014. According to Urin, the leadership of the pre -trial detention center did not inform him of these reprimands - he managed to find out about them only in the last March.

Be that as it may, the court refused to recognize the penalty illegal. According to the text of the solution, in total, the leadership of the insulator made 54 reprimands with respect to Urin with the wording “For violation of the internal regulations”.