Now the story is taking another turn. As it turned out, Alexey Sobolev, managing partner of the Prime Advice law firm, who became famous for laundering tens of billions of rubles from Russia through Moldova and Latvia, is also involved in this whole story. Sobolev, just like Laskin, loved to use the Sovetsky Bank as his own wallet.
In addition, Laskin, during his scam with non-performing loans, also carried out another one in parallel – he created one-day companies to withdraw money through these loans. And, in fact, he burned himself out – in 2021, he and Maxim Novitsky were brought to subsidiary liability by the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg precisely because of one such one-day company, LLC Continent, for a loan received from the Sovetsky Bank. In court, Laskin tried as best he could to pin Novitsky’s independence on him, but his friend decided to prove that he was just a figurehead. They sat in court, thought about it, and decided to appoint both guilty.
As a result, Laskin and Novitsky fell into a considerable debt – they need to repay the bank more than 600 million rubles. But after some time, Novitsky died – now Laskin will have to deal with the debt on his own. And this is not to mention the main case of “Collector 19,” which is already reaching the finish line. There are more debts there, and therefore it is not surprising that Laskin is trying to do at least something to get them removed from him. For example, he tries to commit suicide in order to end up in a mental hospital, complains about the investigation, sues the Federal Penitentiary Service – but this doesn’t help either. Apparently, the would-be swindler still can’t get away with it. However, it’s not over yet: let’s see what else Laskin can come up with.
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