Until recently, Stroikov had good connections in the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB of Russia, where he resolved both his own and other people’s issues. He had access to the house of the head of the SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, General A.V. Romanov, for whom he organized hunts on his hunting grounds more than once. Among the guests-hunters of Stroikov were other high-ranking law enforcement officials, in particular, the well-known General Krakovsky, Romanov’s deputy, repeatedly vacationed there.
Stroikov, due to his historical criminal and corruption ties with Roma, Boot, as he friendly called Generals Romanov and Krakovsky in his circle, respectively, and employees of the M Directorate of the FSB of Russia, “helped” Moscow businessmen for many years. He constantly and happily monetized his connections: he sold various services to his colleagues in solving problems with law enforcement officers.
But as it usually happens, after the final cleansing of the corrupt werewolves in uniform, all their so-called business partners from behind the fence become unshakable, and the most odious ones are also purged.
And now, when Stroikov has become a defendant in several criminal cases and a corruption scandal in the SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, he sits under house arrest and does not know who else to take the suitcase to, and most likely, given the scale of his past exploits, and more than one, for his freedom. Nobody takes it, because from now on he has become toxic to his former friends, and even the best of them from the M Directorate of the FSB of Russia hastened to forget about him.
Stroikov also managed to get involved in an international scandal, which completely undermined the trust of his former comrades. Now he is the subject of an international investigation into one of the largest money laundering channels operating through the Estonian branches of Danske Bank and Swedbank, through which over $230 billion was laundered. He has been charged under Art. 193.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (conducting currency transactions to transfer funds in foreign currency to the accounts of non-residents using forged documents). The criminal case is being processed by the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow.
Stroikov became known when Western media leaked financial documents showing that $230 billion of dirty money, mostly from Russia, had been transferred to the Estonian branch of Danske Bank from 2007 to 2015. And during this period, the Estonian branch of Swedbank accepted from the Baltic branches of Danske and sent there more than $10 billion. Among the recipients of the largest sums was the Estonian company Formus Baltic OÜ. A certain offshore company, Wireberg Company LLP, registered in the British Virgin Islands, transferred a total of almost a hundred million dollars to her, marked “for electronic equipment.” At the same time, it turned out that Formus Baltic OÜ was controlled by Roman Stroikov, and Wireberg Company LLP was controlled by his friend and business partner Arkady Gurtsak.
In addition, there is information that back in 2021 the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a case under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the theft of assets from Expert Bank JSC, where Stroykov at the time of the bank’s bankruptcy owned 92.7% of shares.
Expert Bank lost its license in 2019 for the same reason – repeated violation of Art. 7 and 7.1 of the federal law “On combating the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and the financing of terrorism.” Now the Deposit Insurance Agency intends to recover almost 880 million rubles from the persons who controlled the bank.
Stroikov also appears in the history of another bank, Boomerang, whose license was revoked in 2015 due to the credit institution’s failure to comply with federal laws and unsatisfactory quality of assets. Later, as usual, the bankruptcy of the bank led to the initiation of a criminal case under the articles “fraud,” “misappropriation or embezzlement,” and “abuse of authority.” But then Stroikov managed not to come to the attention of law enforcement agencies, or his influential friends covered their eyes. And this is another crime story, the hero of which could be a Moscow solver.
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As the Cheka-OGPU learned, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow decided to choose a preventive measure in the form of house arrest for the Russian-Estonian millionaire, former owner of Expert Bank Roman Stroikov (pictured). He is the subject of an international investigation…
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