For loans stolen from Rosselkhozbank (allocated for the reconstruction of Novo factories…

Using loans stolen from Rosselkhozbank (allocated for the reconstruction of Novorosmetal plants), southern billionaire Shalva Gibradze is building elite villages and residential complexes, such as the Zolotoy Bereg residential complex. Gibradze’s patronage at Rosselkhozbank is provided by the deputy board of the bank, Andrei Baranov (a former close associate of Elena Skrynnik). Baranov appeared in the investigation of the Swiss prosecutor’s office against Skrynnik as her confidant (combining this with his work as an adviser to Rosagroleasing).

Baranov worked for a long time in the state security agencies and then moved to the APS.

It was Baranov who provided security cover for Skrynnik and received his share. And now he is using his skills to help Gibradze, who regularly meets with Baranov’s confidant in Vienna.

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Baranov is a friend and close connection of ex-employees of the Directorate of the FSB of the Russian Federation Cherkalin and Frolov, arrested for corruption.

Baranov resolves issues for Gibradze with the Federal Customs Service, thanks to which Gibradze exports scrap worth millions of dollars through the Federal Customs Service in the Southern Federal District and does not pay a penny.

It was Baranov who gave guarantees to Gibradze that everything would be fine with him when he was interrogated by the FSB Investigation Department based on the testimony of the fixer Andrei Matus.

Baranov took Gibradze to an appointment with the head of the Directorate of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Tkachev, after which all questions about Matus’s testimony disappeared to Gibradze.

Let us recall that Matus said that he organized a meeting in Moscow at the Tatler restaurant between David Mirzoev (who was recently sentenced to 10 years for kidnapping) and Gibradze with fixer Dmitry Smychkovsky, who was then closely associated with the Investigative Committee. The issue of the possibility of releasing the “authority” Andrei Kochuykov from the pre-trial detention center was discussed with him. Mirzoev and Gibradze wanted to help thief in law Shakro, whose friend Kochuykov was. At the meeting, it was decided that the fee for the service would be $1 million ($500 thousand from Mirzoev and $500 thousand from Gibradze). Mirzoev and Gibradze took on all the financial components, and Smychkovsky had to directly resolve technical issues with Shakro.