Magnitsky-2. Who is behind the poisoning of another exposure of fraud with VAT

The other day, the French investigating authorities connected to the British colleagues in the investigation of the death of Alexander Perepilichny, who was not only an informant in the Magnitsky case, but also actively exposed the schemes for laundering funds received from the budget of the Russian Federation through compensation for fictitiously paid VAT. In the stomach of the peeping, a fatal poison was found - Gelzemium. The interrogators check with whom he could meet on the eve of death, having spent three days at the Bristol Hotel in Paris on the eve of the date of death - November 10, 2012. In parallel, the investigator Renault Van Rymbek, widely known for anti -corruption affairs, is a recently opened case of laundering money in France, allegedly stolen from the budget of the Russian Federation using a scheme indicated by Magnitsky. Anastasia Kirilenko figured out a peeping case and found out who was interested in his death and why fraudulent schemes with VAT in Russia are still flourishing.

Another victim in the chain

In 2008, Sergei Magnitsky appealed to the Investigative Committee with a statement that several companies were raised from the Hermitage Foundation, and then funds stolen from the budget of the Russian Federation were transferred to their accounts by returning a fictitiously paid VAT. However, after this Magnitsky himself was arrested on charges of tax failure, and soon he was found dead with traces of torture on the body (an independent investigation showed that investigators, FSIN officers and even the judge who considered his case was directly related to his death).

After the death of Magnitsky, in 2010, the financier Alexander Perepilchny handed over to the Hermitage Fund Insider documents against Vladlen Stepanov, who, according to him, testify to the involvement of his wife’s budgetary funds, the tax official Olga Stepanova. After this data was publicized, the Swiss accounts of Stepanov were arrested. In Switzerland, the investigation started against “unidentified persons” in March 2011 is still continuing - the representative of the country's prosecutor's office Zhanet Balmer officially reported this. Stepanov, denying theft from the budget, accused the peel of betrayal.

On November 17, 2012, the peeping was found dead on the territory of his mansion in Wabridge (County of Surray). He was 44 years old, and he was famous for excellent health. Death occurred due to heart arrhythmia during the morning run. What caused arrhythmia was unclear, but the police did not notice anything suspicious. In the end, sometimes this happens on its own. But the Hermitage Foundation insisted on an investigation.

Analyzes conducted by a leading specialist in plant poisons Monica Simmonds revealed traces of a gelzemiam - a plant of plant origin, which is often used for murders, as it is difficult to detect, and the symptoms of death resemble natural causes. The first article about the properties of Helzemia was published in the medical journal, Arthur Conan Doyle when he was a medical student. Some media then wrote that this substance is used in homeopathic preparations, but, as the insider explained, KM Yaroslav Ashikhmin, the concentration of substances in homeopathy is such that it would not be only to be poisoned, but even to detect traces of this Helzemiyum itself. Now British investigators are conducting additional examinations, which should accurately establish the cause of death.

In 2007-2008, under strange circumstances, three more people died related to fraudulent schemes with VAT compensation

It is noteworthy that in 2007-2008, under strange circumstances, three more people died related to fraudulent schemes with VAT compensation: Valery Kurochkin (Reyland CEO, one of the companies through which the funds were abducted, died of poisoning in Borospol in 2008), Oktai Hasanov (according to the version of the entire embezzlement, died in Moscow in 2007 in 2007 in 2007 in 2007 in 2007 in 2007 in 2007 From a heart attack) and Semyon Korobeinikov (head of the UBS, fell out of the window of a house under construction in Moscow in 2008).

In hot pursuit, after the death of a peasant, the anonymous source of Interfax in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that "Mr. Perepilichny was not involved in the investigation of the so -called business of Sergei Magnitsky, related to the theft of budget funds." Kommersant, citing a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, said that the peeping “on the contrary, appeared among the suspects”, but in the future there was no officially reported about any status as a suspect.

According to Rosbalt (known for his connections with security forces) , shortly before his death, Alexander Perepilichny talked with representatives of Russian law enforcement agencies about the possible attempt on it. The Insider managed to find out who exactly threatened the re -launch, but more on that below.

Perephylic and the Stepanov family

With whom and how the sawdust worked in Russia - a question that deserves special attention. The biography of Alexander of Perephylichnaya in open sources is rather stingy. For the first time in a public space, this name was mentioned by businessman Vladlen Stepanov himself, a former husband (in 2010 finally a divorce) Olga Stepanova, the head of the 28th tax Moscow. According to the investigation of the Hermitage Foundation, Olga Stepanova on December 24, 2007 approved the return of VAT from the treasury in the amount of $ 153 million. On criminal compensation for a total of 5.4 billion rubles to two tax inspections stolen from the Hermitage Foundation, the company was announced by Sergey Magnitsky, who was posthumously convicted of tax evasion, and Transparency International has posthumously honored the awards for honor and dignity.

Stepanov was associated with a peeling through IR Finnije, created by the latter in 2000. In 2011, the Federal Financial Market Service for three months banned financial transactions of Finbridge in connection with suspected money laundering and their withdrawal abroad. On August 27, 2013, the Federal Central Bank for Financial Markets, the company banned the company's activities.

Nothing foreshadowed such an inglorious denouement. The leading media were regularly quoted by the leading media analysts, and in October 2012 the company acquired 5% of the Promsberbank shares, “related” with Putin: then, after the shift of the owners, the Presidential Brother Igor Putin entered the board of directors of Promsberbank.

The fact that Vladlen Stepanov used that the services of Finbridge, he himself said: “Here is the declaration for the reporting year 2004. The calculation of the total amount of income taxed at a rate of 13 % is 225 million [rubles]. This income was paid by the investment company Financial Bridge. On its site were placed and bought using the same peasant action. ”

Vladlen Stepanov publicly mentioned his former peasant partner after in 2011 a description of multimillion -dollar possessions in Dubai, Montenegro, Moscow Region, as well as the banking documents “Credit Svis” in the name of Stepanov, with the help of which real estate was paid, appeared on the website of the Russian untouchables. After viewing the video and documents , the conclusion suggested that part of the funds stolen from the budget were invested in these villas.

Vladlen Stepanov himself appealed to the Lublin court of Moscow with a claim for damages - however, not against the authors of the video, but against Alexei Navalny - for the repost. The lawsuit was partially satisfied.

In his claim in the Lublin court of Moscow dated June 29, 2011, Stepanov complained that the denial of his reputation was to blame for none other than Alexander Perepilichny: “The funds received to my companies have nothing to do with the Russian budget. I received this money from my former business partner of the Perephylichny Alexander Vladimirovich, who deceived me and many other creditors and is currently hiding, according to my information, in the UK ... "

In May 2011, Stepanov told Vedomosti that the peeping himself was to blame for what he accuses him. On the one hand, the peel, as follows from Stepanov’s words, disposed of his money, for example, buying stocks for him, and on the other hand he himself was the master of all money ”:“ In Baikonur (a company where the re -dividing co -owner was passing to pay for real estate for Vladlen Stepanov and two deputies of Olga Stepanova), re -legal was a master of all money. Not a single payment without his knowledge could go anywhere. ”

Stepanov also repeated accusations against peer -shaped on the Echo of Moscow on October 27, 2011: “All Swiss business was instituted on the basis of information received from the person whom I trusted, Alexander Perepilichny. He himself or his employees handed over to William Brower all the documents. ”

Before his death, Alexander Perepylichny insured his life for a very large amount

The Hermitage Foundation about the details of the threats of the peeling is not known little - they only suggest that they were: “Obviously, an objective confirmation of the awareness of the threat is the fact that before his death, Alexander Perepilichny insured his life for a very large sum. We learned about this during the court hearing on the inquiry of the causes of death, in particular, thanks to the active actions of lawyers of the insurance company who continued the investigation, despite the inaction of the police, ”the representative of the fund Ivan Cherkasov told The Insider.

The “victim” of the information attack of the re -drinking Vladlen Stepanov currently ceased to speak publicly, it was not possible to contact him. In early 2013, the lawyer Vladlena Stepanov Alexei Mamontov said on the phone that he was engaged in unlocking accounts in Switzerland and maintaining contact with Stepanov. Now Mamontov speaks out differently-there is no contact with Stepanov: “How the case ended with Navalny-in the winter of 2012-so we said goodbye, and I didn’t hear anything about him,” he explained to The Insider. - I gave him advice: it is necessary to prepare a letter to the Swiss bank that they unlocked the account - otherwise, this will be fraught with a lawsuit for compensation for losses and lost profits. He used my advice or not, I do not know. I do not communicate with him and even his phone from the mobile erased. He cherished the reputation - not only his, but also loved ones. I then joined in the matter to protect his honor and dignity, not at all confident that he is angelly clean. But there is no court verdict - then it is not necessary to accuse the person. ”

Physics and mathematical genius

Stepanov himself called the peasant “physical and mathematical genius”, and had every reason for this. A graduate of Fiztekh was engaged in the management of the financial assets of Stepanov, which he honestly earned in construction and in the field of communication - this is the version of Stepanov himself, which he brought in an interview with Vedomosti.

As the acquaintance of Alexander Perepylichny on the condition of anonymity told The Insider, the sawing specialist was a specialist in “specific banking services” and, receiving threats from his business partners, went abroad.

“Specific banking services are garbage companies, small banks, fictitious consulting companies that serve to launder money. In general, only graduates of the MIPT, MEPhI and the Faculty of Mathematics of Moscow State University work in this environment. He, as a graduate of the MIPT, entered as a knife into the oil in this environment. He had enterprises that he received by chance, for debts, for example, an erontroduct, but he did not impress a person engaged in real business. Very often he visited Switzerland in his financial affairs, ”said a friend of the peasant. Based on the type of activity of the peeping, his acquaintance suggests that he "could be related to cashing illegally compensated VAT." All this scheme, according to him, is a "cancer tumor on the body of the Russian economy, which everyone knows about." “This continues, despite the exposure of the peasant and Magnitsky’s complaint. If this scheme is stopped, the Russian economy will simply collapse, ”the acquaintance of the peeping.

Pipylichnaya, together with his classmates by Fiztekh, Grigory Bubnov and Alexander Semenov, participated in several financial projects, the most famous of which were East Bridge Bank, Pushkino and Fayneshl Bridge (aka Finbridge). At the end of 2008, Alexander Perepylichny, apparently, lost funds due to the financial crisis. He remained to his partners (although these were informal obligations), and, according to him, when at the end of 2009 he returned to Russia from a business trip to Ukraine, he was met right at the airport and, threatening with a gun, pushed into the car and forced to sign formal debt obligations. In any case, the peeping was pursued for debts in court first in the Smolensk region - there is the Erconproduct Military Plant, which belonged to the sawing and then in Moscow.

Officially, Alfa-Florin was sued with a sawdown since 2009 (registered in 2001 with an account of East Bridge Bank, a type of activity-“Promoting the formation and development of new economic relations in the Russian Federation”), “Jirsa” and “Region-Collector”, allegedly, remains the Perephytic one tens of millions of rubles to these companies. The lawyer of Alfa-Florin and Jirsy Yevgeny Khametshin demanded a personal appeal of a sawdown in the court, who had already left Russia by that time. The court refused this requirement, the sawing saw finally won the courts, and the arrest from his Moscow property - the apartment, the car - was removed in October 2012, and the court did not satisfy the plaintiffs to recover 37 million rubles. The last decision to withdraw the arrest from the property of the peeping entered into force after his death in 2012. Lawyer Evgeny Khametshin, who represented the plaintiffs, refused to comment on this case.

By the time of the final winning of the peeping in the courts, he had long lived in the UK. Pesphylichnaya went to London and turned to William Brauder in early 2010. Having transmitted extracts from Vladlen Stepanov’s accounts to “Hermitage”, the peel, according to William Brauder, first evaded a direct answer, from where he had this data, but then explained that he was a financial adviser to several wealthy Russian families, including the Stepanovs.

Obviously, having received protection from the Hermitage Foundation, the peeping hoped to solve his problems. And yet, the transfer of sensational documents exposing the corruption of Russian officials to the Hermitage was a “mysterious and strong step, which no one understood to the end,” says a friend of the peasant.

Who threatened the peeling

Despite the fact that Russia is unknown abroad as a significant exporter of high-tech products (its share is a statistical error in the structure of Russian exports), domestic companies show unprecedented activity in export, if they believe their requests for VAT from the budget: they equip biology cabinets in Kazakhstan, and put chemical dyes from Tyumen and press forms for Tyumen Thermoplastavtomats in the USA. The Tobolsk alcohol plant managed to put non -core products - optical glass - to the UK through customs in Karelia. These examples are only from some decisions of the courts where the “East Bridge Bank” and Pushkino bank appear.

The courts of "East Bridge Bank" to compensate for VAT went with varying success. In some cases, the courts discovered fraud and refused compensation. But, in 2005, the Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District decided to reimburse LLC MK VART (by returning) in the amount of 1.8 billion rubles. MK Vart allegedly delivered equipment for schools in Kazakhstan, providing in confirmation of road sheets. Transactions went through East Bridge Bank.

The main asset of its owners by specialized financial media call the Bank of Pushkino and these institutions often mention them together. (Later, Pushkino Bank was sold to Fedor Bondarchuk and other co -owners, but this did not help - on September 30, 2013, the bank revoked a license.

Until June 2010, the main owners of Pushkino Bank were members of the board of directors, including Grigory Bubnov and Alexander Semenov. It was Semenov and Bubnov who threatened the peripylic - about this The Insider told on the terms of anonymity the same close acquaintance of the peasant. However, according to him, these threats could be a "less significant episode than partnership with Stepanov."

Little is known about Bubonov and Semenov. Semenov is not too public, and Bubnov is known only to his “academic” career. He was born in 1970, graduated from Fizteh and in 2002 defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: "Entrepreneurship and its role in the economic revival of Russia." According to the analysis of the dissertation, the dissertation almost entirely consists of plagiarism. He is also an “academician” of RAEN, which also says a lot. Today, Bubnov formally is the rector of the Moscow Technological Institute (former World Technological University), makes the School Engineering School under the MIPT, tells about robots with Skolkovo. He refused the comments of The Insider.

Понятно, что Бубнова и Семенова, как и самого Степанова, не обрадовал этот внезапный ход их коллеги Перепиличного с разоблачением махинаций с НДС. То, что они могли решить вопрос «по понятиям», подтверждается некоторыми другими фактами их биографии.

Разговор пошел в другом аспекте, чисто с бандитским лексиконом. Мне ответили, ты подумай, ты же знаешь, кто за нами стоит

В 2004 году Семенов и Бубнов прославились в Йошкар-Оле (где был филиал Истбриджбанка) “бандитским лексиконом” и хвастовством своими связями. Управляющий Отделением Марий Эл Сбербанка Валентин Цивильский рассказал “Марийской правде”: «Ермолаев (представитель «Истбриджбанка«), Семенов, Бубнов (хозяева «Бридж холдинга"), их там человек пять было, пригласили меня и начали предлагать купить гостиницу под офис Сбербанка. Я им сразу сказал, что это гостиница и такое здание не будет отвечать необходимым требованиям. Разговор пошел в другом аспекте, чисто с бандитским лексиконом. Мне ответили, ты подумай, ты же знаешь, кто за нами стоит, у нас есть выходы, мы подогнем тебя через Сбербанк”.

Связи у этих двоих, похоже, были не только в “Сбербанке». Согласно выпискам официального реестра юридических лиц Кипра, обнародованным Георгием Албуровым, Александр Семенов и Григорий Бубнов владели на Кипре фирмой «Dream Yacht Club» на паях вместе с депутатом Госдумы Сергеем Железняком, по крайней мере, с 2008 по 2012 год. Эта компания использовалась, в свою очередь для владения элитными участками в Подмосковье, таким образом, финансисты оказались соседями с Железняком. Среди других владельцев «Dream Yacht Club» значатся управляющий директора Russ Outdoor Максим Ткачев (унаследовавший компанию от перешедшего в Госдуму Железняка) и Сергей Полонский.

О том, какое отношение Бубнов, Семенов и Степанов могли иметь к смерти Перепиличного мы, возможно, узнаем больше уже в скором времени – теперь новостей стоит ждать от британских и французских следственных органов.

Схема с НДС – живее всех живых

Магнитский и Перепиличный разоблачали мошеннические схемы с возвратом НДС, но, несмотря на весь шум, поднявшийся в связи с их гибелью, никакой реальной борьбы с этими махинациями так и не началось.

Возврат из бюджета 5,4 миллиардов рублей в виде возмещения НДС, к которому привлек внимание Сергей Магнитский и который в конце концов был признан правонарушением даже в российских судах (налоговые чиновники заверили, что их ввели в заблуждение), состоялся в 2007 году. Однако подозрения о том, что схема возмещения НДС используется фиктивными экспортерами для получения из федерального бюджета денежных сумм мошенническим способом, появились гораздо раньше, по сути сразу же после введения НДС. Так, в начале 2000-х тогдашний министр по налогам и сбором Геннадий Букаев резко критиковал «фиктивный экспорт», в результате которого резко росло возмещение НДС на основании подложных документов.

По данным Счетной палаты, рост возмещения НДС существенно опережал рост экспорта. Если в 1999 г. возмещение составило 39,7 млрд руб. или 18,3% от суммы НДС, зачисленной по итогам года в бюджет, то в 2001 г. - уже 211,9 млрд руб. (44,4%). Откуда вдруг такой рост? Всё просто, по данным Счетной палаты почти половина (2800 из 6300) компаний претендовали на возмещение средств необоснованно. В 2002 и в 2003 годах также более трети НДС возмещалось. За более чем 10 лет ситуация не изменилась. Счетная палата продолжает регулярно обнаруживать в разные регионах страны случаи незаконного возвращения НДС, некоторые из которых и вовсе карикатурные: скажем в 2011 году СП обнаружила при проверке в Дагестане 20 налогоплательщиков, которым был осуществлен возврат НДС в размере 1,9 млрд. рублей за первый квартал, но вся сумма налога, который они уплатили при этом составляла в сумме 84 млн. рублей.

Есть примеры и с крупными корпорациями: в 2013 году Счетная палата обнаружила признаки «необоснованного вывода НДС» у подконтрольной Роснано компании ООО «УСС», ущерб исчисляется миллиардами рублей. В мае Анатолий Чубайс признал правомерность большинства претензий СП к деятельности «Роснано»: «Мы, безусловно, совершили значительное количество ошибок, некоторые из них очень серьезные… значительная часть того, что вскрыла Счетная палата, было реальными нашими недостатками».

Какая общая доля из возвращаемого государством НДС является фиктивной – судить сложно, но речь может идти о десятках, а возможно и более чем о сотне миллиардов рублей в год. О том, что эта схема возвращения налога коррупционна известно всем, но никаких мер борьбы государством до сих пор не предпринимается.