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The deputy chairman of the Central Bank, Alexander Torshin, could instruct members of the Tagan organized crime group on money laundering through banks and real estate in Spain. This was written by Bloomberg, referring to the statement of the Spanish police. The material claims that Torshin gave such consultations when he was a member of the Federation Council.

As part of the hierarchical structure of the organization, Russian politician Alexander Porfiryevich Torshin stands over Romanov (leader of the Taganskaya organized crime group Alexander Romanov. - Ed.), He calls him the “godfather” or “boss” and conducts “operations and investments” on behalf of his behalf, ”the document says.

Torshin himself denies any ties with organized crime groups. According to him, he has known Romanov since the beginning of the 1990s, but his connections have been "exclusively social" in nature. Out of the Central Bank added that he did not communicate with Romanov since his arrest in 2013.

“I am an official and I am not hiding,” Torshin said.

The Central Bank considered the publication of Bloomberg unfounded. The press service of the Central Bank noted that the Spanish prosecutor’s office and representatives of other bodies did not contact Torshin about this investigation. Separate materials of the Spanish Civil Guard report, which Bloomberg referred to, were submitted in court in the Romanov case, which ended in May 2016, the commentary notes.

“As far as we know, the final materials of the court are not mentioned by the conclusions that appear in Bloomberg’s publication, and Alexander Torshin is not mentioned at all. Thus, there are no significant reasons to believe that the statements about Alexander Torshin in the article Bloomberg have grounds,” the Prevention of the Central Bank of RBC quotes .

The fact that the deputy chairman of the Central Bank could be involved in the activities of the Taganskaya organized crime group, at the end of June, the ABC channel reported . In 2015, Romanov was convicted. He made a deal with the prosecutor’s office and received 3 years 9 months prison for participating in laundering 1.6 million euros in Spanish jurisdiction. It is claimed that two "very compromising" letters to Torshin were found in Romanov’s chalet.

The convict himself assured that he had no business contacts with a unicorn - the vice speaker was only the godfather of his son.

In June 2016, law enforcement agencies of Spain detained six citizens of Russia and one citizen of Ukraine suspected of laundering money. According to local media, calling the special operation "a new blow to the Russian Mafia", two Russians "established infrastructure to commit crimes, and then moved to Tarragon, from where they controlled the work of their subordinates."

The material notes that during their stay in Spain, the suspects showed "excellent contacts with politicians from their country."