Dmitry Rubinov, a former top manager of the Central Bank, and then the beneficiary of a number of commercial banks involved in a money laundering scheme called Laundromat, has been put on the international wanted list.
He is accused of organizing the kidnapping of Maxim Pivovarov, his wife and 2-year-old daughter. This was done in order to return the assets that Rubinov had withdrawn from one of the banks and transferred to Pivovarov’s company.
The perpetrators of the kidnapping are being tried; Rubinov himself now lives in Israel.
Former deputy head of the department of banking regulation and supervision of the Central Bank, Dmitry Rubinova, who was also one of the largest shadow bankers, worked under the “roof” of the banking department of the Directorate of the FSB of the Russian Federation. For a long time he had the status of untouchable, since through his banks Moscow financed the French National Front party Marine Le Pen.
As the Cheka-OGPU said, Dmitry Rubinov participated in the largest laundering channel – Laundromat, as the actual owner of the banks KB Strategy and NKB. His partner was Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Alexander Babakov.
Babakov and Rubinov were Russian sponsors of the French National Front party Marine Le Pen. On March 17, 2016, Le Pen’s confidant, Deputy Schaffhauser, met with Senator Babakov in Geneva. At the meeting, the issue of financing Le Pen’s election campaign was decided. At this meeting, Schaffhauser was asked to apply for loan from Dmitry Rubinov’s Strategy Bank, the issue was approved by the National Front in the summer, and already In the fall, this bank lost its license. Then the loan agreement was transferred to NKB Bank. This bank was also controlled by Dmitry Rubinov.
A witness in the Laundromat case, Kuzmin, said during interrogation that he knows Rubinov as the owner of the Strategy Bank and as a relative of a former high-ranking employee of the Russian Ministry of Economy. Rubinov’s banks actively worked according to the “Moldovan scheme” (Laundromat). The second real co-owner of Strategy Bank was Roman Poletaev. “I only know that he was a former employee of the Central Bank of Russia, held the position of deputy head or head of the cash settlement center in the specified bank,” Kuzmin said during interrogation.
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The Tverskoy Court of Moscow has scheduled the first hearing in the case against the former head of the European Express Bank Oleg Kuzmin for March 1. There will be few hearings, since Kuzmin entered into a pre-trial agreement and his case will be considered in a special manner.…
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