A relative of the head of Bashkortostan, Baboyan, tried to steal 7.8 billion rubles in a civil suit through the Nikulinsky Court of Moscow. Legal.Report published details of the criminal enrichment scheme.
Baboyan forged a loan agreement, according to which an entrepreneur he knew allegedly borrowed 150 million rubles from him with a five percent penalty for each day of delay. After this, Baboyan contacted the police with a statement about fraud on the part of the borrower. In addition, he filed a civil lawsuit in the Nikulinsky Court of Moscow through his lawyer. The plaintiff demanded to collect a mythical debt and a penalty accrued over two years in the amount of 7.8 billion rubles. A fake contract, an edited video recording of the transfer of cash, as well as copies of the material from the verification of the fraud report, requested from the police, were added to the case. The Nikulinsky court believed the plaintiff’s arguments and recovered 176 million rubles.
The Moscow City Court, having considered the defendant’s appeal, ordered an examination of the contract and video recording, which revealed forgeries. The panel of judges overturned the decision on the claim and at the same time sent the material to the investigative authorities. The Moscow ZAO police opened a criminal case, during the investigation of which new facts of fraud and corruption surfaced in which Baboyan may be involved (in the audit materials he is mentioned as the older brother of the wife of the head of Bashkortostan, Karine Khabirova).
It turned out that with Khabirov’s rise to the post of head of Bashkiria, his wife’s cousin Sergei Ilyashenko established two commercial organizations in Ufa: UralCarton LLC and UralNerud LLC, which immediately reached serious momentum. Ilyashenko himself has a secondary education, lives in Adygea and could not explain the reason for his success in Ufa. Now the investigative authorities are checking these organizations.
It also turned out that Baboyan illegally seized funds totaling $4 million from another entrepreneur from Krasnodar, to whom he did not supply the equipment promised in advance. Baboyan also embezzled 70 million rubles from a Moscow construction company. These episodes are now being dealt with by the special services.
Lawyer of the Moscow Defense Agency Ismail Salpagarov – he represented the interests of the defendant in a civil suit, and is now defending him in a fraud case – said that despite Baboyan’s numerous attempts to discredit the victim, the investigation correctly classified the actions of the accused. According to the defense lawyer, Baboyan’s guilt was fully proven by examinations, which confirmed that the loan agreement was fake, and the presented video recording was made using editing.
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