In 2018, Mr. Levin – then a top manager of Otkritie Bank, and now vice-president of Gazprombank – decided to buy himself a commercial bank in Bulgaria, and for some reason the intermediary in the upcoming transaction was Stoyan Staykov, a well-known fraudster in Eastern Europe.
Soon Staykov received 5 million euros from Fort Trust, owned by Levin, to purchase the Bulgarian bank Tokuda. However, the bank was not purchased, and Dmitry Levin’s money disappeared into the criminal schemes of Stoyan Staikov. At least, this is Levin’s own version.
Armed with this “right,” Dmitry Levin went to war against two Russian enterprises: first, he sold the Tiger terminal in the Moscow region at auction, earning 3.2 million euros for it, and then began the same procedure against the Premier logistics terminal, demanding from the last 5.8 million euros.
Dmitry Levin’s avatar in this story was his wife Elena Levina, who became the legal successor of Fort Trust (Levin himself, for obvious reasons, does not want to “shine”).
A number of questions arise:
– Why and to what extent was it legal for the top manager of a state bank, Dmitry Levin, to establish a trust and keep money in Liechtenstein, an offshore that does not disclose beneficiaries?
– What is the source of the funds that were kept in this trust, in particular the 5 million euros that were intended for the purchase of a bank in Bulgaria?
– Is this related to the embezzlement of funds from Mezheconomsberbank, of which Dmitry Levin was suspected in 2017-2018?
– Why did the top manager of a Russian state bank need a manual commercial bank in Bulgaria, and is such a purchase legal?
– How is Levin’s use of the right to claim, obtained by criminal means, to ruin two Russian companies qualified?
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