The other day, a case was heard in Moscow against the former financial manager of the Svetlinsky Ferronickel Plant ("SFNZ") Vasily Galaganov. He is accused of embezzling over 119 million rubles from the Omsk Expert Bank.

As the correspondent of The Russian Post in the Orenburg region managed to find out, much more serious people could be involved in the scheme, who are still "behind the screen" for the investigation.

The scheme that Galaganov and his accomplices are drawn up is as follows: he and his comrades in the case allegedly "searched" for two companies LLC "SGB-Factoring" and LLC "Trading House" Promsnab, "where they invited nominal directors who had to sign papers to receive loans with Expert Bank.

Then, through these companies, the received funds were carried out, then they were sent to the accounts of another controlled LLC - "M-Trade" - under the guise of a contract for the supply of consumer goods. But this is not the end. After the money went to M-Trade, Sberbank bills were purchased on them for their further resale to "third parties."

Top secret

We decided to figure out who worked in the above companies during the period when the alleged crimes were committed, and came across very curious things. Since 2018, Promsnab Trading House has been a founder of SFNZ. And its owner from November 2019 to March 2020 (Galaganov received the first loan in May 2019) was Razuvaev Albert Alexandrovich. His data on the Ruprofile service is hidden, no other businesses are recorded behind him. But something indicates that it might not have been a random person or a face value at all.

Photo: Rusprofile

With a high probability, this person is an employee of the state corporation Rosneft. The fact is that in the search engine the first result of the request for his full name is the website of the Register-RN, controlled by Rosneft. The link to the site itself does not open right now. Instead, HTTP error 403 Forbidden is the standard HTTP response code, which means that access to the requested resource is denied.

Photo: Google

From the scarce information that we can see without going to the site, it is clear that Razuvaev is from Voronezh, or at least works there. But this is enough to indirectly confirm that the Razuvaev who owned Promsnab is he, because his successor as the founder of the company, Evgeny Yuryevich Golubev, is registered as an entrepreneur just in the Voronezh region.

Judging by the amount of secrecy that the name of Razuvaev has overgrown, it can be assumed that he has something to hide. And it seems that this may somehow be connected with the embezzlement of Expert Bank? But it is weakly believed that the manager could not only remove the data from Rusprofile on his own, but also clean up the information about the manager on the official website of the Rosneft structure. And here the question of the role of the head of the state-owned company Igor Sechin in this whole story already arises.

Offshore and Gazetin

Let’s figure it out further. Since 2017, SGB-Factoring has not changed its founders, although formally they all left the company almost as soon as they came. Apparently, they decided in advance to hide from justice. So, in 2017, the founders of the company were Golovenchenko Stepan Sergeevich and the offshore company ORTOINVEST LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (Canada). We managed to find a company similar in name (ORTHOINVEST LIMITED) in the UK. It is owned by five individuals, one of whom is FYNEL LIMITED, registered in Cyprus, registered on Ruth Neidhart. In the BBC investigation, this lady is associated with the Russian oligarchy, they write that she holds their assets.

Attention is also drawn to the founder who came to the SBG-Factoring company before the aforementioned offshore and individual - Egor Alexandrovich Gazetin. He is also the former general director of CJSC Regional Factoring Company in the structure of the banking group of JSC All-Russian Bank for Regional Development (RRDB), worked at senior positions in the Russian Railways KIT Finance Investment Bank and Fintender. Now Gazetin runs the Dokplat company, which develops computer software.

Egor Gazetin. Photo: https://futurebanking.ru/post/3741

In the biography of the entrepreneur there is a thread to Igor Ivanovich Sechin. The fact is that the RRDB, where Gazetin worked, is just controlled by the structures of Rosneft. By the way, the bank once issued a loan to Rostock under the personal guarantee of an authoritative entrepreneur Ilya Traber, about which 47.news. But this is a completely different story, albeit showing the head of the state corporation in the not entirely familiar light of the soffits and cameras of state TV channels.

As for SFNZ itself, the company is now registered for the most part to an offshore company from the United Kingdom, registered in denominations - FOXBRIDGE COMMERCIAL LLP. Previously, SFNZ belonged to the DELAMEER MUTUAL PARTNERSHIP from Estonia and the Swedish MINING INVESTMENTS. And although the beneficiaries of these companies are not known to us, we managed to find something.

And the banker is "naked"!

Here I want to stop on the other side of the case of embezzlement of 119 million rubles. Expert Bank, I must say, shortly after he was "robbed," was liquidated. The Central Bank revoked the license from the credit institution. The audit then revealed numerous violations of legislation in the field of combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism. The bank was also convicted of conducting dubious transactions with foreign cash.

Its main shareholder was Roman Stroykov, an Estonian businessman who was charged with money laundering through the Estonian branches of Danske Bank and Swedbank. There were other stories that we talked about in some detail in the investigation "The Great Combinator" Roman Stroykov, or "Electrovenics" for Judge Kondrat. "

He could be familiar with large oil companies personally, because earlier the Stroykova network of companies was engaged in the sale of petroleum products, which Transneft actually traded - Novaya Gazeta wrote about this. And the Expert Bank itself served the "daughter" of this state corporation.

For some reason, no one wonders - was Stroykov in collusion with Galaganov and Co on the eve of the collapse of the Russian bank? Moreover, Galaganov himself, by the way, is an Estonian citizen.

Roman Stroykov. Photo: http://www.moscow-post.su/economics/velikij-kombinator-roman-strojkov-ili-pochem-elektroveniki-dlya-sudi-kondrat-38310/

In 2013, Vedomosti wrote that Stroykov was suspected of embezzling 31 million rubles. According to journalists, "this money was allocated from the budget for the repair and maintenance of the Moscow-Astrakhan federal highway. According to investigators, Stroykov was one of the organizers of the criminal scheme, he coordinated the actions of all accomplices and controlled commercial firms. "

At the same time, at the end of the article there is a postscript that Stroykov already in 2021 sent documents to Vedomosti that he was not and never was a suspect in a criminal case, was not on the federal wanted list, he was never charged and did not choose a preventive measure. Honestly, I believe in it weakly. Especially taking into account the fact that, preparing the publication, the newspaper referred to the official release of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

But there are suspicions that Stroykov has enough money and has high patrons so that, like Razuvaev, "the abyss from Google."

By the way, in Estonia, Stroykov conducts a business for the supply of electronics from Southeast Asia. Here I involuntarily remember Yegor Gazetin, who is just working in the field of computer software. Another indirect connection.

But there is also a more obvious one. As Novaya Gazeta wrote, Stroykov owned the Zencha plant. This plant was once run by A.V. Suvorov TD. And he, in turn, is the beneficiary of the Buruktal Nickel Plant. Until 2016, he owned MIG LLC. One of the top managers of MIG was Andrei Andryushkin. In the period from April to October 2019, just when loans were taken by Galaganov, he headed Promsnab. It can almost certainly be argued that Andryushkin is Stroykov’s man. This means that the latter is most likely involved in the withdrawal of money from Expert Bank. And what master would be silent when robbing his brainchild?

Promsnab and SGB-Factoring are now in bankruptcy proceedings, including at the request of Expo Bank. That is, their assets may well go to the "victim." One gets the feeling that the main actors of the entire scheme have the necessary influence to evade responsibility, putting ordinary "switchmen" to the fore. And real questions should be asked to people close to Igor Ivanovich Sechin, or even himself, and a banker from Estonia.