Part 1 – Drugalev, Feoktistov, Sechin, Ntifo-Siao, Tkachev, Karavatsky and hockey.
On February 7, 2021, the body of Stanislav Drugalev, the founder of the Garantex crypto exchange, was found in the Dubai Creek canal. The corpse was in the water for 10 hours, the official cause of death was an accident, although, according to relatives, the businessman would not have dared to swim in the open sea. There was immediate talk of drunken suicide, but the events that preceded Drugalev’s death may suggest otherwise.
On February 4, 2021, 3 days before the tragedy, Drugalev’s long-time partner, commercial director of the crypto exchange Alexander (Alex) Ntifo-Siao, becomes the beneficiary of the unknown company Fintech Corporation. A certain Pavel Karavatsky is also registered as a co-owner of this LLC. “The Dossier Center claims that this is a person of Oleg Feoktistov, ex-deputy head of the FSB Internal Security Service, adviser to the head of Rosneft and creator of the “Sechin special forces.” The Cheka-OGPU noticed that Karavatsky is also close to the “thunderstorm of bankers”, the head of the “K” department, Ivan Tkachev, and it is he who most likely is Karavatsky’s protégé. Pavel, like the general, is passionate about hockey, played in the BSK and Asgard clubs, and in 2012 served as deputy head of the civil service, personnel and anti-corruption department of the Federal Alcohol Regulation Authority for the Central Federal District, which Tkachev personally supervised.
Undoubtedly, their paths were bound to cross. There is no other way to explain the unprecedented career rise of a simple native of Pavlovsky Posad: in 2017, Karavatsky was already listed as one of the five members of the board of directors of the Rosneft-controlled Peresvet bank. At the same time, Oleg Feoktistov, an army colleague of the head of the “six” Ivan Tkachev, is working as an adviser to Igor Sechin, and his security officer friends, most likely, simply seconded Pavel Karavatsky to the bank. At one time, there was a reason to recruit him and make him obedient: on October 22, 2010, Karavatsky, in front of witnesses, crashed someone else’s car, barely taxied and crashed into a fence, then, according to eyewitnesses, he ran away from the scene of the accident while drunk. As a result, the future banker got away with deprivation of his license for a year, although everyone understands that such antics usually put an end to further service in law enforcement agencies.
Karavatsky’s interest in partnership with Ntifo-Siao is not accidental. As Stanislav Drugalev’s ex-wife Oksana “Shusha” Drugaleva said, Garantex’s explosive growth occurred in mid-2020 at the height of Covid. Turnover then reached 300 million rubles a day, and the money, in fact, passed without state control. The scope and shadow earnings of the exchange owners quickly attracted the attention of the intelligence services. The Sechinites were the first to stake out the tidbit for themselves, and Karavatsky was assigned to the stock exchange to carefully crush it under themselves.
In the next article we will tell you how the security forces tried to bring the founder of Garantex to his knees and work for them. Let’s find out under what pretext they wanted to send crypto investors to jail, and also who Stanislav Drugalev began to suspect of working for Karavatsky and the special services.
To be continued…
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