Let’s tell you how Friedman almost sat down. Here is a video of the interrogation, after which he could safely be sent to the detention center.
Somehow Fridman and his friend Mikhail Kasyanov had their eye on the FSO objects – “Sosnovka-1” (the former state dacha of the Politburo member of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Suslov) and “Sosnovka-3” (the former state dacha of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Chernenko). The plan was simple. The then Prime Minister Kasyanov organizes the privatization of objects, they go to Friedman’s structures at the right price, and he gives one state dacha to Kasyanov.
In January 2003, the Prime Minister signed a decree on the transfer of Sosnovki from the FSO to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of State Property to be assigned to the FSUE VPK-Invest. This meant that state dachas could be privatized in the future.
Representatives of Alfa Bank hastily assessed state dachas through a “related” structure. Of course, for meager amounts. After which, in December 2003 – January 2004, the objects were put up for auction. Only structures affiliated with Alfa Bank took part in the auction. For this auction, a winning company registered to Friedman was needed. He gave the corresponding instructions to the head of the legal service of Alfa-Bank, Vsevolod Kusov. And he didn’t come up with anything better than to take Veltex, controlled by Alfa and used in money laundering schemes with Sodbiznesbank, and transfer it to Fridman.
As a result, Sosnovka-3 went to Veltex LLC for 10.1 million rubles, the sole founder of which was Mikhail Fridman. And Sosnovka-1 for 11.1 million – Amelia LLC (also controlled by Alfa). The investigation established that the budget did not receive 186.4 million rubles from the Sosnovka-3 transaction, and 190.6 million for Sosnovka-1. The market value of dachas in general is about 250 million – not rubles, but dollars. After all, we are talking about entire complexes. Sosnovka-1 includes 26 real estate objects located on 11.5 hectares of land.
“Sosnovka-3” is 23 objects located on 5.6 hectares. Both dachas have individual access to the Moscow River.
During the investigation into the case of theft and money laundering through Sodbiznesbank, it turned out that the schemes used the company Veltex, the sole founder of which was Fridman.
Friedman was interrogated, and searches were carried out in Alpha. Fridman tried to solve the problem through the then deputy head of the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Andrei Khorev. Some of the materials on Veltex and Alfa Bank were in the DEB. Two DEB employees they were assigned to urgently disappeared – one officially went on sick leave, the other on vacation. But they could not find them at all. On this basis, the documents were not received by the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation from the DEB.
Here the Minister of Internal Affairs, Rashid Nurgaliev, had to personally intervene in the situation. And immediately the audit materials for Alfa Bank were found. It turned out that they were with the deputy head of the Department of the Interior Ministry of the Russian Federation, Andrei Khorev. But by that time, the go-ahead had already come from above to stop the work on Friedman.
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