As the Cheka-OGPU learned, capital investigators identified participants in a fairly popular fraudulent scheme involving ASGM, which was used by the owners of a capital trading company. Its founders include the son of the former head of the department of consumer market and services of the Moscow City Hall, Efim Rybalov. According to law enforcement officials, some time ago the son of the ex-official Igor Rybalov, as well as his business partner Alexander Ataev and the general director of the company Ekaterina Teslikova convinced the counterparty Logistic Trade LLC to sign a mutual settlement act. According to the document, the supplier company allegedly owed over 105 million rubles. Without waiting for the treasured act from the supplier, Teslikova prepared this act herself. Having received the treasured deed in a simple way, the pseudo-creditors immediately turned to the Moscow Arbitration Court, and the judge, being completely unaware, made a decision in favor of the applicants, without even checking the authenticity of the signatures. It is noteworthy that even before the start of the hearings, director Teslikova, in the ASGM corridor, did not hesitate to witness, boasted that their company had already won the case and was now guaranteed to bankrupt gullible suppliers. The businesswoman reinforced her confidence with references to Rybalov Jr.’s numerous connections in law enforcement and judicial authorities.
The seemingly reliable plan failed when the capital’s investigators conducted an audit and found out that the debt did not exist, but there were all the signs of abuse of trust and a scheme that had already been tested more than once by various swindlers using an arbitration court. The fraudsters’ calculation is based on the fact that courts, due to their high workload, often do not thoroughly delve into the dispute, formally studying the submitted documents. Taking advantage of this, fraudsters file claims en masse and, having received court decisions in their favor, begin to use them to recover property. The scheme, by the way, is so well known that even the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation explained that decisions in civil cases are not a prejudice for criminal cases.
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