Deaf auditors

Billions of dollars earning billions in Russia, varnishing master of "schematosis" bypass Russians too expensive

The word "audit" comes from Latin Audio and means "listening." In modern business, an audit is understood as an independent check of financial reporting of a particular organization. An audit is a private service, and auditors are not law enforcement officers. If you start from Roman origin, they can be likened to a doctor who listens to the patient with the help of a phonondoscope. The auditor’s task is to identify violations and abuse by management and report this to the owners, and to treat the disease with pills or to do a surgical operation is their question. However, it is according to the results of the audit that criminal cases are often instituted, because thanks to this procedure, the owners may notice that their employees confuse their wool with state (i.e. joint -stock or client).

A considerable number of audit offices are operating in Russia, but large business prefers to contact international sharks, the so -called big four -

• KPMG,

• EY (better known as Ernst & Young),

• PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)

• Deloitte (Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu).

All of them are founded in the 19th century, and hundreds of thousands of accounts around the world work in them. Although formally, the participants of the "four" compete with each other.

In fact, this competition is the struggle of Nanai boys: it is no secret to anyone in the market that they have long been divided by all the most “delicious” customers.

I note that earlier the “four” was a “five”, and it included Arthur Andersen from Chicago. The collapse of Arthur Andersen led to a scandal around bankruptcy in 2001 by the American energy company Enron - its founder Kenneth Lay was engaged in reporting and hidden huge losses through the offshore system. In 2002, the Texas court found the employees of Arthur Andersen guilty of covering the fraud of LAY and the destruction of thousands of documents to prevent the investigation. After that, Arthur Andersen herself refused a license to conduct an audit and sunk into oblivion.

And what does the "four" do in Russia? Take, for example, the Otkritie Bank, which de facto went bankrupt in 2017 and remained afloat thanks to the reorganization from the Bank of Russia.

The Central Bank spent more than a trillion of state rubles on it - it took exactly so much to lift the hole in the balance of the financial institution, which was “drunk” by its former beneficiaries. “Drive” is an allegory: they stole more than one billion dollars from the bank.

For many years, Deloitte and Ey, who did not know anything suspicious, was carried out by the Opening Bank.

No less loud history happened to the PWC client-Promsvyazbank, stolen by the Ananiev twin brothers. Among the arrested property of Alexei Ananyev is the Bombardier Challenger 650 aircraft, a collection of paintings (“Portrait of Clement Voroshilova in the office” of Isaac Brodsky, “The athlete that toss the tape” of Alexander Deineki, “Clement Voroshilov and Maxim Gorky in the dash of the Central House of the Red Army” Alexander Gerasimov and many others), as well as the building, as well as the building, as well as the building, as well as the building, as well as the building, as well as the building In which the Institute of Russian Realistic Art is located. Ananiev, who is now living in London, is probably bored with these attributes of the life of a bankster in Russia, but he is comforted by the remaining prey: the amount of assets stolen by him by the court, established by the court, is 282 billion rubles.

Last year, “New” wrote about another glorious representative of the galaxy of swindlers from the banking business-Andrei Vdovin, ex-president of the Golf of Russia Association and the ex-owner of the “Asia-Pacific Bank”, from which more than 9 billion rubles were stolen. The schemes through which the money was withdrawn from the ATB were so impudent that it was impossible not to notice them not only to an experienced financier working in an international company, but even a high school student who has well -owned mathematics.

However, auditors from KPMG year after year issued impeccable relations.

This amazing deafness of the auditors (I apologize for Oxymoron), it seems to me, can hardly have a different explanation, except for the agreements with the beneficiaries.

I recall the story of the now forgotten ex-deck Sergey Polonsky. It began in 2002, when the good and socially caring Moscow authorities allocated for free to allocate physical education and sports organization of disabled people “Russian Sports Union of the Deaf” land plot of 1.5 hectares in order to build the “Center for Social and Physical Rehabilitation of I A Hearing” near the Paveletsky station, almost in the city center. The project was targeted: the future building with an area of ​​55 thousand square meters. Meters were 100% belonging to the Union of Deaf and used to rehabilitate the disabled.

However, in 2003, the leadership of the Union concluded with the company of Polonsky Miras (its auditor was KPMG) an investment agreement under which only 30% of the premises remain after the construction of the disabled. And in 2006, an additional agreement was signed to this investment agreement, according to which the heads of the Competition company gave 96% of the area of ​​the future center to their unpretentious “partners”. Thus, the social object, which, according to all the documents, is still listed as “the Center for Social and Physical Rehabilitation of Redic Disabled” has turned into the Pollars Business Center. Soon he was “hobby” (as the Master Bezenchuk from “12 chairs” would say) and Miracs himself, having previously taken 450 million euros from the investors, which did not return to anyone. Ay, kpmg!

It is time to restore the order in this area: to consider the issue of liability of auditors in case of theft of funds. Under the threat of a ban on activities, they will be forced to pay. This is exactly what the US Ministry of Finance and the US Ministry of Justice and Deutsche Bank in 2017 did: they blamed the abuse of “bad” mortgage securities in the market, made claims for $ 12 billion and recovered $ 7 billion out of court.

The earnings of the Four in the Russian Federation over the past 25 years have exactly exceeded many billion dollars. From bursting banks, tens of billions of “bucks” disappeared.

Based on the logic of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Justice of the United States, it is necessary to present all the damage, achieving payment of at least 150-200 billion rubles. This money can be added to the Fund for the fight against global warming and repent by our Western partners, who help to kidnap and wash more than $ 1 trillion every year around the world. It is here that you can find a source of financing a solution to the problem that you can’t solve the overflow from empty to empty at the conference in Glasgow.

The right to the answer
Chief editor

"Novaya Gazeta"

Muratov D.A.

Dear Dmitry Andreevich!

On November 25, 2021, the article “Deaf Auditors” by A. Svan was published in your newspaper, in which the author tried to critically speak out about insufficient professionalism, and maybe even the engagement of employees of leading world audit companies, also known as “Big Four”, when working with a number of Russian financial organizations that fell under the reorganization of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

Giving examples of such activities of international audit companies, the author also mentioned Promsvyazbank (PSB), the auditor of which was PWC. In a dismissive tone, the author considered it possible to mention my name, roughly distorting the facts and expressing evaluative judgments that damage my honor and dignity.

I would not pay attention to this publication if it appeared in a different publication or on the pages of the yellow press - in recent years, I have already, unfortunately, got used to the mud Users, who had poured out on me in the form of custom -made articles and television programs, but, knowing your newspaper as a serious, non -angid edition, which values ​​its high reputation, and experiencing a deepest person and deep to you and a deeper newspaper Respect, it was especially painful for me to read a frank lie about myself on the pages of Novaya Gazeta. Therefore, I could not but react to this article.

As I understood from the arguments used by A. Svan, he took as a basis the civil lawsuit of the current management of Promsvyazbank to me and by 14 people and presented him as a court decision, which absolutely does not correspond to reality, since such a court decision does not exist and the process is still far to the end. It is obvious that this is a misunderstanding, but all the logic of the author is built on it, and conclusions are drawn roughly distorting reality. Moreover, the author did not work out not only to give the other party to express his opinion on the situation described, but even elementary to check the correctness of the facts on which he is based on his assessments.

For example, A. Svan refers to a collection of paintings, according to which I "miss, living in London, like a bankster in Russia on the attribute of life." The author obviously does not know that on the basis of my collection of paintings by Russian and Soviet realistic art, which I collected for more than 20 years and which is the largest private collection of this kind in the world, I opened in 2011 the largest private museum in the country - the Institute of Russian Realistic Art (Irry), where the collection was transferred. This museum was open to the public, and in 8 years it was visited by several million people. Irry actively participated in exhibition projects in conjunction with the GTG, the Pushkin Museum, the timing and many others. I created all this with my money, which had nothing to do with the bank, since the bank never distributed dividends, and this happened long before the sad events of December 2017, when the PSB was sent to reorganization by the decision of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the justice of which I would not want to discuss in this letter. A. Svan should have learned that I acquired many iconic works of the collections in galleries and at auctions in Europe and the USA and returned to my homeland, putting them in the constant exposition of the museum, which totaled 500 works. By the way, Irry exposition areas are 4500 square meters. m, and besides this, and restoration workshops, and lectures, and much more-were actively used in the conduct of numerous master classes for children, lectures, inclusive education. And I did all this for my own funds without turning to budget financing. Maybe the author should have mentioned these “attributes of the life of a bankster in Russia”, since he decided to write about the museum I created, which, unfortunately, is now closed in connection with the lawsuit of PSB, and the collection was illegally arrested.

As I already mentioned above, there is not a single court decision, which would be approved by my involvement in the withdrawal of funds from the PSB, but A. Svan unfoundedly states that I “abducted the bank’s customers in the amount of 282 billion rubles”. When preparing the material, he would have to find out that, being the chairman of the board of directors, that is, holding an incomplete position, I did not dispose of either the funds or assets of the bank and - moreover, could not make sole decisions. The bank was ruled by my younger brother, whom the author of the article produced in my “twin brother”. A. Svan did not even bother to see Wikipedia to make sure that my brother is 4.5 years younger than me. Unlike my brother, who ruled the bank and almost solely made the decision in it, I have been engaged in the IT business all my life, creating a technological officer-technologists from zero, and this work of mine has become a source of means for creating a museum and maintaining its activities for many years.

I believe that in this letter to discuss the far -fetched and the very amount of “282 billion”, which is the fruit of mathematical exercises of PSB lawyers, as well as the unfounded statement that it is nothing more than “means of bank customers”, makes no sense due to the above arguments. I can say the only thing that he has never been in my property in the article, so this is also worth leaving on the author’s conscience.

Dear Dmitry Andreevich, I hope that after reading my letter and looking at the documents attached to him confirming my case, you will make a decision on how to correct this annoying misunderstanding and return my honest name to me on the pages of your “Novaya Gazeta”, the constant reader of which I am along with many indifferent our compatriots.

With deep respect,

A.N. Ananyev