In 2018, one of the co-founders of the BTC-E exchange, which had already ceased to exist at that time, was established, as well as newly opened and being the legal successor of the latter – the WEX exchange. This person was Alexey Bilyuchenko (hereinafter Ivanov), living in Novosibirsk.
During his testimony, Ivanov said that the WEX exchange ceased to exist due to the fact that oligarch Konstantin Malofeev and persons affiliated with him stole exchange assets worth the equivalent of 450 million US dollars. Ivanov confirmed this testimony with documents, providing material evidence of involvement the above-mentioned persons to commit a crime, including work documentation, correspondence in instant messengers, audio recordings of conversations both directly with Malofeev and with his subordinates Anton Nemkin, Evgeny Zhulanov and Dmitry Sarychev.
The head of the Department “K” Georgy Satyukov immediately reported this information about the facts of Malofeev’s criminal activities to the head of the BSTM of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, General Litvinov. An instruction was given to develop Malofeev.
By the beginning of 2019, operational developments fully confirmed the involvement of Malofeev and his associates in the theft of assets of the WEX exchange.
The total volume of the operational file containing materials regarding Malofeev’s criminal investigation exceeded 12 volumes, in connection with which a decision was made to implement operational development. Part of the operational materials regarding the participants of the Malofeev OPS regarding the theft of funds from the WEX exchange was legalized in accordance with current legislation and provided to the SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
However, the leadership of the SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation stated that it was impossible to investigate these facts.
Department “K” was asked to transfer the received materials for investigation in the framework of one of the criminal cases initiated based on statements from injured depositors of the exchange. As a result, the legalized operational materials were added to the materials of the criminal case being investigated in the Chuvash Republic.
The result of the consideration of the received materials and the investigation of the criminal case was the receipt in September 2020 of the decisions of the judge of the Leninsky District Court of Cheboksary Egorova E.A. (No. 3/3-201/2020) to carry out searches at the places of residence of 6 persons: Konstantin Malofeev, Evgeniy Zhulanova, Anton Nemkin, Dmitry Sarychev, Dmitry Sutormin, Dmitry Khavchenko. Based on the results of the searches, arrests were planned.
Malofeev, having received information about planned searches and detentions, uses his administrative resources and fully utilizes his corrupt positions in order to evade criminal liability.
Already in October 2020, the criminal case was withdrawn from the investigation of the Chuvash Republic and taken over by the SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, which had previously refused on principle to carry out investigative actions in this case. Also, since October 2020, Satyukov, as a result of a sudden change in the vector of behavior of the leadership of the BSTM of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has been gradually removed from both the operational development of participants in the organized crime group and from supporting the criminal case.
The Deputy Head of the BSTM of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, General Kozlov, gives instructions to urgently remove the participants of the Malofeev OPS from the operational register on absolutely fictitious grounds, the work on the material of the operational case actually stops. At the direction of the same Kozlov, certain materials of operational development, especially regarding the results of wiretapping Malofeev’s telephone conversations and his established corruption connections, are removed from the case, transferred to the archive, and some original official documents are even destroyed.
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