Ivan Lapshin worked in the FSB from 1995 to 2001, and for the next 11 years he worked as the head of the operational department No. 3 of the anti-corruption service of the North-West Customs Administration. In 2016, he was detained as part of a criminal investigation into evasion of customs duties levied on an organization or individual (Article 194 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The main person involved in the case was the former deputy head of the Rosreestr department for St. Petersburg, Boris Avakyan.
The king of smuggling, a friend of certain representatives of the special services, former vice-mayor of the city of Artik and ex-adviser on special assignments to the chairman of the National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh Boris Avakyan, after his recent arrest in a St. Petersburg restaurant, assured operatives that he had long been removed from the wanted list in the case of a large smuggling channel . And he arrived in the northern capital for secret negotiations on the fate of Karabakh. As the Cheka-OGPU found out, Avayakn was deeply mistaken.
He is still on the wanted list and there is a valid decision of the Basmanny Court to place him in custody for 2 months from the moment of extradition to Russia or detention on the territory of the Russian Federation. The decision was made in absentia, since Avakyan had gone on the run by that time. He was also put on the international wanted list. The case in which Avakyan was detained is being processed by the Main Investigative Directorate of the Russian Investigative Committee. That is why Avakyan was sent from St. Petersburg to Moscow, where he was supposed to go to a pre-trial detention center.
Avakyan is a man with a very interesting biography. At one time he was the “king of smuggling” with many very high-ranking connections. He was helped by (now former) Deputy Prosecutor Generals Alexander Gutsan, Sahak Karapetyan, Deputy Head of the Investigative Committee Vasily Piskarev, high-ranking FSB officers, including from the FSB Internal Affairs Directorate. Avakyan was an active participant in the security forces’ wars and financed the participants in these battles. And he simply outplayed himself. As a result, he became a defendant in a smuggling case, fled to Armenia and filed a complaint with the local prosecutor’s office against the ex-chief of the 7th Department of Directorate “K” of the FSB, Vadim Uvarov, and his alleged accomplices from the Federal Customs Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Avayakn claims that security officers extorted $6 million from him. Avakyan’s testimony includes the names of the former head of Directorate K of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Viktor Voronin, and the former head of the banking department of Directorate K, Kirill Cherkalin.
https://t.me/vchkogpu/23974?single
VChK-OGPU
“ВЧК ОГПУ”
