Thus, investigators are getting closer to the real owner of Rusmikrofinance – Viktor Vekselberg’s “right hand” Joseph Bakaleynik, who is the ideologist of microfinance organizations in Russia. In addition to the financial pyramid “Rusmikrofinance”, Bakaleynik was directly related to the activities of the pyramid LLC Microfinance Organization “Home Money”. Its chairman of the board of directors and junior partner of Bakaleinik, Evgeny Bernshtam, was arrested in 2019.
According to the source, the main activity of Joseph Bakaleinik is “Vekselberg’s right hand always and everywhere.” He worked at TNK, at Renova, and represented Vekselberg’s interests at Skolkovo. At the same time, Bakaleinik’s family, like himself, has been living in Switzerland for a long time. Bakaleynik’s visits to Russia are more like business trips.
During the investigation of the Rusmikrofinance financial pyramid case, it was established that the RMF-AST company, part of the Rusmikrofinance group of companies, withdrew part of the funds of investors of the Rusmikrofinance group of companies to the account of the ERL Management (Cyprus) company in Deutsche Bank (Suisse) SA, Private Wealth. The director of ERL Management (Cyprus) is Joseph Bakaleynik.
In total, about 1 billion rubles were stolen in this way. The withdrawal of funds was carried out under fictitious agreements, which were drawn up in December 2018 in order to avoid demands for the return of funds from other investors.
If part of the funds was simply withdrawn to an account in Switzerland, then the other part was assigned to the microfinance organization Gulden, which was established by ERL Management and Apisem Limited.
The withdrawn funds were invested in a new business, which was founded by Joseph Bakaleinik, Leongard Kiefer, Alexey Lichtenfeld and Evgeniy Abolonin and Roman Bukhtoyarov who joined them.
Nowadays this is a well-known cashback service called Skrepka, created on the Cashoff platform, “developed” in Skolkovo.
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