The source of the Cheka-OGPU told only very little about the behind-the-scenes relationship between this couple:
“In 2009, when the Velesstroy company was founded, its first vice-president, Krešimir Filipović, appeared. The company’s capitalization was so small that it cost him very little money to enter it at fifty percent and become first vice president. Before that, Filipovic worked for a couple of years as a foreman at Amerco, whose president was Miha Perenčević, who is also a citizen of Croatia, like Filipović, and a friend of Transneft President Nikolai Tokarev. Subsequently, he renamed it “Velesstroy”. The turning point in the fate of the company occurred after Krešimir Filipović met Mrs. Rakova. They met at a party in the summer of 2009, and her pregnancy quickly followed. Soon Filipovich moved to Ostozhenka to live with Rakova, who was soon appointed vice-mayor. Having experienced all the delights of living together with the vice-mayor of Moscow, having learned to open any door with the name of his common-law wife, he got down to business. First, the export of cash from Russia was established along the green corridor, through the hall of official delegations, which was ordered on behalf of the Moscow mayor’s office.
Then came major construction contracts.
She helped in this, or rather was the architect of money laundering schemes at the Velesstroy company, its chief economist Pavlyuk. She was so close to Filipovich that he even signed up for her his first ever home in the elite residential complex “Four Winds” (B. Gruzinskaya 69), not far from the Belorusskaya metro station.
The money was laundered in different banks, fortunately there was a huge amount of it until the Central Bank began to take away licenses, but greater preference was given to the Moskovsky bank, which was located on Arbat. From there the money moved to the apartment of Krešimir Filipović Tomislav’s brother, who plays the role of personal wallet of Krešimir, the black cashier.
According to a source from the Cheka-OGPU, Anastasia Rakova also quickly realized what needed to be done. In 2015, she put forward an ultimatum to Filipovich and received a three-hundred-meter apartment in the then new, elite residential complex “Italian Quarter” on Fadeeva Street 4A, near the Mayakovskaya metro station.
Apparently, worried about the well-being of the family, Mrs. Rakova provided her husband, who was already official by that time, with a construction project in Moscow, a problematic house with defrauded shareholders, bypassing the existing rules on holding an auction. The husband took the lead and built a beautiful residential complex “Shome” on Kastanaevskaya street. 68. The answer, a kickback or whatever you might call it, was appropriate, an apartment measuring 500 square meters, in the newest luxury railway. k. “HOUSE XXII” on the street. Pogodinskaya 4 in Khamovniki. And this is not counting luxury real estate on the island of Mali Losinj in the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia. As is usually the case, Anastasia Vladimirovna herself has a relatively small apartment of about a hundred meters opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in First Obydensky Lane, everything else is registered in the name of children and close relatives. Well, and all sorts of pleasant little things – diamond jewelry, fur coats and clothes from famous brands, vacations twice a year at the most prestigious resorts and in expensive hotels, flights there on superjet with the whole family and servants.
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