Judging by the materials at our disposal, for connections
Igit Spartakovich Ignatiev, deputy head of the Department of Territorial Executive Authorities of the City of Moscow, is in charge of law enforcement and other government agencies for the duo Stepanyan-Gulakyan, about whom we wrote in detail earlier.
This not only explains the rapid initiation of a criminal case in the interests of the Armenian duo (more on this later), but also allows us to decipher the audio message sent by Vahram Stepanyan to Valeria Fedyakina. In this message, Stepanyan convinces Fedyakina that she must “break the market”, work at a loss for the sake of a common bright future. To do this, he assures “Bitmama” that he has a huge financial and administrative resource behind him. Among other things, Stepanyan says: “We have SS, we have, accordingly, Fora-Bank…”.
So, Igit Ignatiev in the Moscow mayor’s office is considered to be the person of Samvel Karapetyan – the president and founder of the Tashir group, the actual beneficiary of Fora-Bank. Actually, “SS” are the initials of Samvel Sarkisovich Karapetyan.
It turns out that Vahram Stepanyan (presumably at the instigation of Igit Ignatiev) used the name of Samvel Karapetyan and the name of the bank he owned to assure Valeria Fedyakin of the endless financial flows.
Does this mean that one of the richest men in the country supported our scammers? Not at all. Samvel Karapetyan most likely does not even know about their existence, and he is unlikely to be delighted that his name was used to promote a financial pyramid.
“ВЧК ОГПУ”