A criminal case against the shadow owner of the Lipetsk and Tambov regions, ex-…

The criminal case against the shadow owner of the Lipetsk and Tambov regions, ex-employee of the FSB of the Russian Federation Evgeny Sviridov was taken into consideration by the Central Office of the ICR (previously investigated by the Main Investigative Directorate of the ICR in Moscow). Therefore, the issue of extending the arrest period (expired on August 6) was dealt with by the Basmanny Court of Moscow, which left Sviridov in custody until October 6, 2022.

During the hearings, it turned out that Sviridov admitted guilt and confessed in the presence of a lawyer. True, he himself and his defenders regard the incident as a “crime in the sphere of business activity.” What surprised the servant of Themis was how “committing theft of funds under the pretext of assisting in not bringing a person to criminal liability” has to do with business activity.

As a result, Sviridov’s arrest was extended. Previously, it was extended to his accomplices – the former president of the Lynx Holding Company of the SOBR of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Bashir Kushtov, and the general director of the Afrocom international fund, vice-president of the Rospolitika foundation, Igor Yurasov.

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Yurasov and Kushtov were arrested on May 18, 2022 as part of a fraud case against one of the largest shadow bankers, ex-accountant of the Tambov group Ilya Kligman, who is on the international wanted list. Ilya Kligman’s confidant Sergei Gerasimenko filed a statement that in the fall of 2019 a group of fixers for $1 million (the amount in the case file indicates the amount of 70 million rubles) offered him to remove Ilya Kligman from the criminal case (which was being processed by the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow ) about theft and creation of a criminal security company. We are talking about an investigation into the theft of 7 billion rubles. from Agrosoyuz Bank, whose shadow owner is Kligman.

In December 2019, a tranche of $500 thousand was transferred to the fixers. However, in April 2021, Kligman was charged in absentia and put on the wanted list.

As a result, Gerasimenko and Kligman filed a statement with the FSB of the Russian Federation.

According to the Cheka-OGPU, soon after his arrest, Yurasov began to actively cooperate with law enforcement officers and testified that Evgeny Sviridov was involved in the scam, whom, as stated in the case, was previously unknown to the investigation. Moreover, at the confrontation, Yurasov confirmed Sviridov’s guilt, after which it was decided to ask the court to arrest the latter.