Anton Babutsidze – this name is not only behind a bunch of foreign offshore companies, but also…

Anton Babutsidze – this name is not only behind a bunch of foreign offshore companies, but also behind the bankruptcy of many Russian enterprises, such as the Tula Industrialist Bank, SPP Efremovskoye, Suvorov Poultry Farm, LMZ Svobodny Sokol, Chermettrade, etc. Despite the transfer of Russian money to offshore companies, the bigwigs are still at large and are not even really hiding: they are walking around. high offices, trying to come to an agreement. Meanwhile, the total amount of accounts payable of all bankrupt enterprises has already amounted to more than 20 billion rubles. The scheme created by Babutsidze has been working perfectly for decades, and in case of an investigation, he has Georgian citizenship and a residence permit in Switzerland.

How writes in his investigation “Interlocutor” bankrupt companies ended up in the possession of the same legal entities: Virginia and Cypriot offshore companies. Moreover, all eight companies are conveniently located in just two offices. Confidently juggling offshore companies, Anton Babutsidze redistributed artificially created debts between his companies, withdrawing the stolen money abroad. Its next victim was the Lipetsk pipe company Svobodny Sokol. Having seized the post of general director, Babutsidze attracted some LTK employees to work directly for his Swiss company. In just three months, the damage to the plant amounted to up to 150 million rubles, which ended up in offshore accounts.

In 2013, the fraudster was already told Man and law. Then the governor of the Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyev, turned to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a request to put Anton Babutsidze on the federal wanted list. But the tycoon managed to escape this accusation too. How many more companies must the group of swindlers led by Babutsidze bankrupt before law enforcement agencies finally pay attention to them?