Let us recall that according to Fomin’s testimony, one of the main shadow bankers, Alexey Kulikov and Ivan Myazin, were convicted of embezzling funds from Promsberbank. Now they face new long sentences, since a case of money laundering through Deutsche Bank can also be initiated under Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of a criminal community).
According to the testimony of witnesses, including Fomin, Alexey Kulikov was personally acquainted with the head of the Moscow office of Deutsche bank, Jerg Bongartz (now DB director for Central and Eastern Europe), who brought him to the bank. He also advised how to bypass DB control – buy already existing financial companies with a history and allowed to work as clients of Deutsche bank. Such companies were IC Financial Bridge or Rye, Man & Gor Securities, whose activities began to be supervised by Andrei Gorbatov. By the way, Financial Bridge was purchased from Alexander Perepelichny, who later became an informant for Western intelligence services and died under strange circumstances. A special role was assigned to Gorbatov’s assistant Oleg Shevelev, whose duties included the selection of nominal managers of these companies. There is also evidence against the former vice president of Deutsche Bank for stock market operations, Sergei Suverov. Suverov was personally acquainted with Alexei Kulikov, they were on friendly terms. Financial Bridge and other companies involved in the laundry actively participated in transactions to form packages of securities of Russian issuers for the subsequent execution of sham transactions, the purpose of which was to withdraw funds outside the Russian Federation.
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