As the Cheka-OGPU learned, the son-in-law of the dollar mule who became a dollar mule at the end of the last century…

As the Cheka-OGPU learned, the son-in-law of the first head of Russian customs, Anatoly Kruglov, who became a dollar multimillionaire at the end of the last century, Andrei Nerodenkov, came under investigation in a criminal case for attempted fraud on an especially large scale (part 3 of article 30, part 4 of art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and several episodes of receiving especially large bribes (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code). Since December 25, 2023, Nerodenkov has been sitting in one of the Moscow pre-trial detention centers along with his accomplice Konstantin Yakovlev, who has been charged with a similar crime.

Nerodenkov is the founder and general director of Eurocom Inc LLC, which is engaged in the rental and management of non-residential real estate and a number of other activities. In the past, the businessman, together with his wife and sister-in-law, was a co-founder of a closed joint-stock company of the same name, which was liquidated in 2016. The general director of the latter was Nerodenkov’s father-in-law Anatoly Kruglov.

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The investigator, petitioning the court to extend the arrest of the accused, drew attention to the fact that they “have extensive connections in the department of culture, regularly traveled outside the Russian Federation, have foreign passports, while Nerodenkov owns real estate on the territory of a foreign state, in connection with than the investigation has reason to believe that, while at large, the accused may hide from the preliminary investigation authorities and the court, continue to engage in criminal activities or otherwise obstruct the proceedings in a criminal case, including agreeing on a position with persons who have not yet been identified.” .

This is not the first time that Andrei Nerodenkov has come to the attention of law enforcement agencies. In the mid-2000s, the media reported that he was a witness in three cases of smuggling worth $50 million. In 2005, Interpol issued arrest warrants for the Nerodenkov family, who were accused of money laundering. The last time the businessman appeared in the public field was on January 23, 2023, when the chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, head of the Russian Lawyers Association, Sergei Stepashin, presented him with a commemorative medal “Strong in Spirit.”

Information that Nerodenkov’s father-in-law Antoly Kruglov, who founded and headed the main breadwinner of the budget, the State Customs Committee of Russia, in 1992-1998, is the owner of a fortune amounting to several tens of millions of dollars, distributed among several offshore companies, received publicity during the trial in The High Court in London in a lawsuit filed by the former official himself in 2012. In the 1990s, the chief Russian customs officer had the richest collection of foreign cars – 11 pieces – and the companies owned by his daughters were engaged in customs clearance, bypassing the cash register.