We continue the story of how Russian buyers of elite jewelry under the auspices of the World Cartier boutique risk encountering fakes and goods having a criminal story.
Earlier, the Cheka-OGPU spoke about how the St. Petersburg businesswoman Svetlana Smirnova, who represented the Cartier jewelry house from 2010 to 2022, began a joint business with Muscovite Alina Popova, who previously worked at the Jewelry House Darwell LLC. Now this company appears in criminal cases of fraud for 350 million rubles, jewelry smuggling and forgery certificates of precious stones.
As we wrote, the founder of the Darvol brand Daria Spiridonova is now on house arrest, but her active accomplice Popova is free, and, together with the Svetlana Smirnova, who fell under her influence, is actively developing the SEAMOND jewelry brand. It was created in January 2025, the trademark was registered for the new Moscow legal entity of Klaireti LLC, and Popova became the director of the company.
On the Instagram page, Smirnova and the brand telegram channel created almost daily, both real Cartier products and jewelry provided by Popova, in which the authenticity of diamonds causes quite logical doubts.
If you ask why Darvol’s troubles bypassed Alina Popova, then you can look for an answer in the personality of her spouse – Yegor Popova, who is the current employee of the Second Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation (protection of the constitutional system and the fight against terrorism).
But it is unlikely that the influence of a 33-year-old spouse is able to protect two business women from all future troubles.
A couple of years ago, the Office “KEB FSB of the Russian Federation had already searched the office of the Ar-El-Ji company, which was the only counterparty of Aristocrat LLC (Deputy General Director Svetlana Smirnova) for the supply of Cartier jewelry. Then the operatives seized a dozen elite watches of Cartier, Roger Dubuis, Vacheron Constantin, which were no longer new, and illegally imported to Russia.
According to available information, signs of criminal articles – tax evasion and especially large fraud are also visible in the activities of the newly created “Claireti”. Indeed, the authenticity of licenses and certificates of jewelry of the brand will definitely be questions.
We will continue to observe the “successes” of two businesswoman.
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