Pyotr Karimov had large dollar deposits in Master Bank. This bank’s license was revoked in 2014 and depositors can receive part of their deposits through the DIA. Since 2014, Karimov has been trying unsuccessfully to return his dollar deposits. One day he met a businessman, the head of the Inferno company, Konstantin Korolkov, who confidentially said that he was the son of a minister and had the opportunity to speed up the process of receiving Karimov’s deposits from the DIA, but estimated the payment for his services at 6 million rubles. The money went to Alexandra. And then Karimov found out that the Inferno company did not exist, as did Konstantin Korolkov. Korolkov turned out to be Pavel Igorevich Bershadsky, who created a financial pyramid in Yoshkar-Ola and deceived investors. In addition, he was involved in a series of other scams. In particular, Bershadsky committed a series of frauds together with the ex-chief of the logistics department of the Northwestern Administrative District of Moscow, Maxim Verkhoglyad.
Verkhogliad is a participant in a whole series of scandalous stories. This includes the sale of protective equipment intended during COVID conditions for employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. And running a business worth hundreds of millions of rubles. And they scammed millions of rubles from various participants in the medical goods market. And even the theft of a batch of products from a warehouse. Verkhoglyad was dismissed from his position and brought to justice after publications on the VChK-OGPU telegram channel.
According to witness testimony, Verkhoglyad made hundreds of millions of rubles from the sale of respirators intended for police officers, as well as from the resale of various protective equipment. He also cheated two businessmen – he personally took money for the supply of masks and gloves, but did not deliver them. And Verkhoglyad simply took away 15 million rubles worth of products from one businessman.
The colonel had very powerful patrons. Father-in-law is a retired general, his wife is a colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A close friend is now the former head of the Northwestern Administrative District Internal Affairs Directorate Anton Romeiko-Gurko. Bershadsky was an accomplice in most of the scams.
When the war began, Bershadsky was already carrying out fireworks associated with the Northern Military District, and was listed as the chief of medicine of the Sevastopol regiment.
As a result, Bershadsky entered into a pre-trial agreement, testified against Verkhoglyad and received four years in prison.
As for the story with Karimov, the latter filed a complaint with the police, but they did not see the crime, they did not check it, and they did not issue the KUSP.
Now he is trying to recover the money through civil court.
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