Lawyers of the ex-head of NGO “Cosmos” asked to initiate a case against the Bank of Moscow

The lawyers of the ex-head of the Cosmos NPO Andrei Chernyakov appealed to the police demanding to institute criminal proceedings against the managers of the Moscow Bank. About this writes "Kommersant".

The appeal was prepared after his own investigation conducted by the defense of Chernyakov. The authors of the application indicate that before the events of the end of 2010, the headed company was “financially stable”: it was part of the top 200 of private non-public organizations according to Forbes, and the volume of work amounted to 30 billion rubles annually.

In October of the same year, Cosmos took a loan of 9 billion rubles in the bank of the Moscow Bank for the completion of the Alabi-Baltic tunnel. However, three years later, the company was unable to pay for debts, partly, the lawyer claims, due to the fact that the Moscow authorities did not use the company at other facilities. As a result, Cosmos had to take a loan in the amount of 2.5 billion rubles. As the defense of Chernyakov notes, the bank agreed to give money only for the personal guarantee of the head of Cosmos.

In the spring of 2014, construction financing was suddenly interrupted, and all loans were presented with immediate repayment. Lawyers believe that bank managers who are in the “Crime Group” “were firmly intended to stop financing construction projects and thereby bankrupt“ Cosmos ”.”

According to the defense of Chernyakov, employees of the Bank of Moscow “brought out and continue to withdraw from the competitive masses” the company's assets. Including, a mansion of the former head of Cosmos was sold from the hammer: it was estimated at 76 million rubles, while its market value was about 400 million rubles.

Chernyakov, lawyers Chernyakov consider the demand to return more than 30 billion rubles to the Bank of Moscow. The VTB’s statement of the defense of the businessman was called the “attempt to distract law enforcement agencies” from criminal cases investigated in his regard.

The ex-head of the Cosmos NPO is accused of especially large-scale fraud. According to investigators, Andrei Chernyakov stole 25 million rubles during the construction of the Judo school, and also made fraud with the loans of the Moscow Bank, for which his company received more than 11 billion rubles for the construction of the Alabi-Baltic tunnel in Moscow. Presumably, part of this money was transferred to the accounts of Cosmos-Ural Spetsstroy LLC controlled by Chernyakov.

The businessman is on the international wanted list. The high court in London decided to seize the property of Andrei Chernyakov at the request of the Bank of Moscow in November 2016.