The case materials indicate that Vasiliev received all these assets mainly thanks to the “protection protection” of the former deputy head of the department of banking regulation and supervision of the Central Bank, Dmitry Rubinov, who was also one of the largest shadow bankers. The latter now lives in Israel and has the status of an untouchable among the Russian security forces, since Marine Le Pen financed the French National Front party through his bank in Moscow.
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 to JSCB “Strategy”, the issue was approved by the National Front in the summer, and in the fall this bank lost its license. Then the loan agreement was transferred to NKB Bank. Both banks were 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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