Lately, the “clouds” over Stroikov’s head have been thickening every day. In 2021, the DIA, after a two-year struggle, managed to ensure that the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a case of theft of assets (Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) of Expert Bank controlled by Stroikov (the license was revoked in 2019).
In 2022, the Arbitration Court of the Omsk Region received a statement from the bankruptcy trustee of Expert Bank JSC, who asked the court to hold 14 people vicariously liable for the bank’s debts, including Roman Stroikov and his daughter Veronika Stroikova. As a result of the process, Roman Stroikov was brought to subsidiary liability in the amount of 879.8 million rubles, Veronika Stroikova – in the amount of 872.7 million rubles.
According to the Cheka-OGPU, Stroikov controlled the Boomerang bank and a number of other banks at various times.
The issue of bringing Stroikov to subsidiary liability in the amount of 2.9 billion rubles for the debts of IK RE-PORTO LLC is now being resolved. This was one of the main Russian structures in the Stroykov laundering channel; dirty money was accumulated in its accounts under fictitious contracts.
By the way, ASGM judge Elena Kondrat claims that her troubles began after the refusal to make the necessary decision on the “IC RE-PORTO case.” She is now accused of bribing another judge.
And now Stroikov has been charged under Article 193.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (committing currency transactions to transfer funds in foreign currency to the accounts of non-residents using forged documents). The Ministry of Internal Affairs uses this article for the organizers of laundering channels, in particular for the creators of Laundromat.
Stroikov’s name “surfaced” when Western media, including journalists from Swedish television SVT, received financial documents indicating that $230 billion of dirty money, mainly from Russia, was transferred to the Estonian branch of Danske Bank from 2007 to 2015. And during this period, the Estonian branch of Swedbank received more than $10 billion from the Baltic branches of Danske and sent there more than $10 billion. Among the recipients of the largest sums was the Estonian company Formus Baltic OÜ. A certain offshore company, Wireberg Company LLP, registered in the British Virgin Islands, transferred a total of almost a hundred million dollars to her, marked “for electronic equipment.”
It turned out that Formus Baltic OÜ was controlled by Roman Stroikov, and Wireberg Company LLP was controlled by his friend and business partner Arkady Gurtsak.
It is suspected that the services of the laundering channel could have been used by the ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, cellist Sergei Roldugin, a person on the “Magnitsky list” Dmitry Klyuev, etc.
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