As the Cheka-OGPU learned, law enforcement officers raided the S&K law office…

As the Cheka-OGPU learned, the raid by law enforcement officers on the law office “S&K Vertical” and the searches carried out in its Moscow office are connected with the fact that for a long time “Vertical” has been performing collection functions for the liquidation commission of the Latvian ABLV BANK in Russia.

In this activity, “Vertical” was assisted by the Basmanny District Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow, in the person of its chief Sergei Andreev, whose wife Yulia Andreeva is a lawyer for “Vertical”. The juicy details of this collaboration have been revealed.

Over the course of several months this year, large Russian banks received requests from the Basmanny District Department of Internal Affairs to provide information on the bank accounts of a number of clients whom Vertical indicated as debtors to ABLV BANK. The requests referred to a criminal case initiated by the investigative department of the Basmanny District Department of Internal Affairs. But in reality there was no business. More precisely, it was initiated on March 9, 2023 by Olga Efremova, deputy head of the investigative department, on the personal instructions of Andreev, but was almost immediately canceled by the prosecutor’s office as illegally initiated.

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The prosecutor’s office, first of all, was embarrassed that the initiation of the case occurred without any pre-investigation check, just a couple of hours after Vertical’s lawyer Natalya Kolerova brought to the police department a statement signed by the Latvian manager Novitsans Kaspars.

Despite the cancellation of the case, Andreev, fulfilling the whims of his wife, personally organized a mass mailing of requests regarding a non-existent criminal case, and requests were sent until the end of July.

All this time, representatives of “Vertical” flaunted their connections in law enforcement agencies, showed a resolution to initiate a criminal case and intimidated former clients of ABLV BANK with serious problems and imprisonment if they refused to pay them.

According to available data, this case also involves the Prime Advice Consulting Group, whose lawyers have long been working for Latvian clients in conjunction with S&K Vertical.