One of the first decisions of the head of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergei Lebedev, after his appointment to the post, was the seizure for investigation in the department for investigation of organized crime of the SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (where Anton Reshetov is currently lobbying) a criminal case from the Chuvash Republic initiated on the theft of funds from clients of the notorious crypto exchange “WEX”.
The reason for this decision is quite banal. Chuvash investigators, having completed all the necessary investigative actions and collected a serious evidence base, have already received court decisions to conduct searches of the Orthodox oligarch Konstantin Malofeev and his team, who have seized the cryptocurrency.
It is worth noting that Malofeev previously made great efforts to resolve the issue in this criminal case, but was unsuccessful.
Everything changed dramatically with the appointment of Lebedev as head of the SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Through his contact in the administration of the President of the Russian Federation, Malofeev was able to quickly agree with Lebedev on the withdrawal of the criminal case for investigation in the SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, where it was accepted for production by Lebedev’s former subordinate in Yekaterinburg, Roman Torichko.
Everything changed radically in 2021, when, to provide operational support to Malofeev, employees of the 3rd Department of the 2nd Internal Security Service of the FSB of Russia were involved and the vector was changed from simply terminating the criminal case to an attempt to seize the remaining part of the cryptocurrency, by bringing Bilyuchenko-Ivanov to criminal liability within the framework of of the same matter.
Then events occurred that the Cheka-OGPU had already written about.
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A source of the Cheka-OGPU said that the organization of the profanation called “attempt on Konstantin Malofeev” by the FSB of the Russian Federation could have been directly carried out by the 3rd Department of the 2nd Internal Security Service of the FSB, which had previously implemented the removal of Malofeev from criminal liability…
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