Until 1998, Volovnik played on the stock exchange until he made his first serious deal. Then one of the banks associated with Roscosmos collapsed. Volovnik began buying up bills from this bank on the cheap and presenting them for payment to Roscosmos, which, unexpectedly, agreed to buy back the securities for as much as 100 million rubles. Part of this money went to the then head of Roscosmos, Yuri Koptev, and with the rest, Volovnik acquired the FSB, which soon became the main bank for Roscosmos’ payments. A lot of money flowed to Volovnik, and he dreamed of a big “roof”.
A native of Tbilisi, Alexander Volovnik spent his whole life trying to seem like someone he never was. Volovnik was ready to pay exorbitant amounts of money for all sorts of beautiful “crusts”, license plates, etc. With all this paraphernalia, as well as the abbreviated name of his bank, Volovnik in every possible way demonstrated his closeness with the FSB of the Russian Federation. However, sources say that all this is nothing more than a legend invented by Volovnik. In reality, Alexander did not have any permanent “protection” of the FSB of the Russian Federation and he was constantly in search of it.
The source told how Volovnik transferred a successful company associated with the space industry to Alexander Andreev and Maxim Kretov – businessmen closely associated with Marina Sechina, and all in order to talk about his closeness with the clan of Rosneft head Igor Sechin (Marina is his ex-wife) . Volovnik’s business card holder turned out to contain Marina Sechina’s business card, which he often showed to his acquaintances. Business cards of “people of influence” were Volovnik’s passion; he often laid them all out on his desktop and literally admired them.
In 2013, fate brought Volovnik together with Valentin Gonastarev, the right hand of the head of the FSB Directorate Viktor Voronin.
Having acquired such a “roof,” Volovnik began to withdraw money en masse from Fondservisbank, whose main client for a long time was Roscosmos.
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