Approximately 50 representatives of the prosecutor’s office, the financial supervisory authority Bafin and the criminal police organized a raid at the headquarters of these companies in Frankfurt am Main.
The prosecutor’s office noted that the companies are suspected of investment fraud, but did not name specific suspects.
As the telegram channel VChK-OGPU reported, as part of the investigative measures, investigator of the SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Oleg Silchenko, together with German Criminal Police officer Lyubov Merker-Obernesser, conducted a joint interrogation in IK-6 of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Tula Region of the main witness in the episode of money laundering of the former head of the JSC ” Promsberbank” (PSB) by Boris Fomin, who reported in detail all the facts known to him.
The investigation of the investigator of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Oleg Silchenko (who led the “Magnitsky case”) turned out to be materials from two of the largest money laundering channels at once – through Deutsche Bank and Laundromat.
Immediately after the activation of Russian and German law enforcement officers, the former top manager of the Moscow branch of Deutsche Bank, Tim Wiswell, fled to the United States. He is one of the key persons involved in the investigation into money laundering through this branch. Wiswell attracted the attention of the securities commission and chose to flee to one of the countries in Southeast Asia.
Earlier, the defendants in the case of the theft of funds from Promsberbank testified about the role of the now former head of trading of the Russian division of Deutsche Bank, Tim Wiswell, in the illegal transit of money from Russia. According to this testimony, this US citizen, for a monthly remuneration of $100 thousand, carried out transactions through Deutsche Bank with packages of securities and currency, which were part of schemes to withdraw funds outside the Russian Federation.
According to witness testimony, the shadow owner of Promsberbank, Alexey Kulikov, found a way to bypass DB control – he bought existing financial companies with a history and allowed to work as clients of Deutsche bank. Such companies were Financial Bridge Investment Company and Rye, Man & Gor Securities, whose activities were supervised by Andrei Gorbatov. By the way, Financial Bridge was purchased from Alexander Perepelichny, who later became an informant for Western intelligence services and died under strange circumstances. A special role was assigned to Gorbatov’s assistant Oleg Shevelev, whose duties included the selection of nominal managers of these companies. There is also evidence against the former vice president of Deutsche Bank for stock market operations, Sergei Suverov. Suverov was personally acquainted with Alexei Kulikov, they were on friendly terms.
Financial Bridge and other companies involved in the laundry actively participated in transactions to form packages of securities of Russian issuers for the subsequent execution of sham transactions, the purpose of which was to withdraw funds outside the Russian Federation.
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