Anti-Gloss held a vote for the most resonant interview of the year, including…

Anti-Gloss held a vote for the most resonant interview of the year, including billionaire Andrei Lobanov in the nomination with his confession on Malakhov’s talk show about lost money, family and dignity. Thematically, there is nothing new here – yet another master of life exchanged Miami for Moscow in order to show his physical and moral decay on the air of the country’s main television broadcaster. The chronicle of the fall was labeled accordingly – from oligarch to homeless.

But what makes the story unusual is not the hero’s problems with business and alcohol, but the circle of those involved, whose faces can be easily found on the stand “The police are looking for them.” There is a whole group of such potentially wanted people around Lobanov: from American friends at Trump Tower to Sochi repeat offenders and the human rights activists they hired.

And this group is constantly replenished with new names and biographies.

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So far, the most colorful ones are Kuban swindlers and spouses Yuri Bolgov and Elena Vasilyeva. He is a former murderer and robber with extensive connections in the criminal world of Sochi, she is a long-term nominal lawyer and manager who trades in fictitious bankruptcy and liquidation of companies. Ten years ago, these Sochi Bonnie and Clyde took out fraudulent bank loans for household appliances and scammed mediocre businessmen. Now they are taking Lobanov into circulation. And here the question arises: how did the Kuban swindlers get to Malakhov?

The plot really draws on the most resonant scandal of the year, but knowledgeable people suggest that it is too early to sum up the results.