Old-timers remember the story of the son of the former head of the Presidential Administration Alexander Stalyevich Voloshin, Ilya, twenty years ago, who, with his accomplice Makh, cashed out money stolen from the credit cards of citizens around the world. Then the story was hushed up, and Ilya was sent to study in England.
Twenty years have passed, and the old story began to sparkle with new colors. It turns out that the climate of Foggy Albion did not have a beneficial effect on young Voloshin and, returning to Russia, he returned to his old ways. Now with new accomplices from Tatarstan. Meet Stanislav Mikhailovich Kulagin.
In 2011, Kulagin headed Gorod Bank, and in November 2015, the Central Bank revoked the Bank’s license due to numerous violations. By that time, almost all assets in the amount of 10.5 billion rubles had been withdrawn from the bank, and the leadership of the credit institution was involved in conducting dubious transit transactions in large volumes. The Investigative Committee recently completed a five-year investigation into this criminal case and Stanislav Kulagin will be sentenced in the near future. Kulagin has long been skilled in fraud, because almost all 10.5 billion rubles of withdrawn assets are funds from gullible creditors.
And the city bank case is a rare case when creditors managed to get a fraudster imprisoned. While the investigation was ongoing, Kulagin tried in every possible way to influence him. At some point, he even managed to leave the pre-trial detention center under house arrest by bribing the judge. This came as a complete surprise to investigators and creditors, but they quickly put him in place.
Perhaps it was for the best for him. Or perhaps not. You can’t run far from the pre-trial detention center, but whoever needs it will get there. After all, other creditors for whom he provided money cleaning services are also looking for Kulagin. There were few such clients, but all were quite large. And they came to Kulagin through the connections of Ilya Voloshin, who had his share in this matter.
The business was simple, Kulagin, Voloshin and another partner cashed out money from serious people at a divine interest rate. And then, as was common among touring performers at the beginning of the 2000s, they took a fairly large amount of money into the work, and with it they went into the mud, turning off their phones.
So far, Kulagin and Voloshin have not returned the loot, which means questions will remain for them. Kulagin will continue to try to give bribes in order to avoid a real prison sentence, which, of course, irritates law enforcement agencies. We will make these facts public and believe in the integrity of Russian justice.
Questions also remain about their third accomplice. We are not revealing his name yet, we believe that he will do the right thing and give the stolen property to the owners. But it all depends on him – does he need such fame?
“ВЧК ОГПУ”