The scheme by which Klyushenkov stole money was extremely primitive. The general director of Sport-Express LLC entered into fictitious contracts with fly-by-night companies for supplies that they simply physically could not fulfill. Simply due to the fact that they had neither transport, nor warehouses, nor registered goods, as the tax office quickly established. There is only one legal entity and dummy managers, who now turn pale during interrogations and deny their participation in the economic activities of the companies. What the would-be kidnapper hoped for, how he was going to hide what he had done, is absolutely unclear.
The very first on-site tax audit discovered that from 2016 to 2022, Klyushenkov stole (and, of course, hid from the tax authorities) a total of 666 million rubles in this simple way. The tax director general acknowledged the claims and even paid off most of the additional accrued debt. And, of course, he stopped leading the company.
All materials from the on-site tax audit were sent to the Department for Economic Crimes of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Southern District of Moscow, where they happily sunk into oblivion for 500 thousand dollars. 
Despite the rather serious crime, which carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, Klyushenkov not only remained free, but also retained his membership in the General Council of Business Russia, one of the leading business associations in the country. In addition, for some reason the tax and law enforcement authorities are in no hurry to throw him in prison, although all the evidence is available and the tax audit confirmed this, and the defendant himself does not refute the claims from the tax authorities and even fulfills them.
Moreover, according to our data, Klyushenkov did not limit himself to tax evasion and theft of funds on a particularly large scale. There is another statement to the police from the injured partners, whom the general director of VPLAB cheated out of several million dollars. He gave part of these funds to the tax authorities, and with the change he bought himself a luxurious Lamborgini worth 40 million rubles and rented an office in Moscow City.
Usually, robbers are smart enough not to start wasting money immediately after a successful “deal” – they understand that they will arouse suspicion. Here is a luxurious purchase and life “in Luhari style” for show, and even after formalized charges. And there are two options here – either someone is covering for Klyushenkov, that he is knee-deep in the sea, or he is just lucky for now. I would like to believe in the latter and in the purity of the hands of our bodies, but it strongly seems that corruption is the solution here.
So for now, the general director of VPLAB Klyushenkov is walking free and feeling quite good with the stolen money. And, probably, he is looking for new victims-partners with the full connivance of law enforcement officers. How long, you ask?
A well-known entrepreneur in sports circles, general director of VPLab and member of the general council of Business Russia, Yuri Klyushenkov, for several years, withdrew funds from the company he headed for the sale of dietary supplements and sports nutrition, avoiding…
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