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State Duma deputy Roman Vanchugov, who is considered the “tacit owner” of the Fininvest bank and the Gorod Group of Companies, was “lit up” in the murder scandal?
"Banker" from the State Duma
A scandal erupted in the construction industry, where State Duma deputy from A Just Russia Roman Vanchugov appears, to whom anti-corruption fighters attributed "tacit control" over the Fininvest bank (previously deprived of a license).
In addition, according to rumors, the same parliamentarian controls the construction holding GC "Gorod", the chairman of the board of directors of which is Maxim Vanchugov (deputy's brother).
The scandal in which the Vanchugov brothers “lit up” is connected with the murder of Konstantin Andreev (the husband of Alla Andreeva, an activist from the group of deceived equity holders of the Gorod Group of Companies).
The Main Investigation Department of the ICR for St. Petersburg has already opened a criminal case under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder). One of the versions of the murder is connected with the activities of Alla Andreeva to protect the rights of equity holders.
Public reaction
This crime took place on the evening of October 6, when Konstantin Andreev returned to his house on Tsvetochnaya Street (in the suburbs of St. Petersburg, Lomonosov). There he was attacked by strangers.
The victim suffered severe head injuries from which he died. On the car belonging to the family of the activist, the criminals left the inscription “You are next”. Obviously, this message was addressed to Alla Andreeva.
This crime was posted on official page“Coreholders of the developer of the Gorod Group of Companies” on the VKontakte social network.
After the Central Bank revoked the license of Fininvest, the provisional administration discovered the withdrawal of assets worth 19.5 billion rubles. Soon the bank was declared bankrupt, and the size of the debt established by the DIA was 12.4 billion rubles.
Bank "Fininvest"
Of course, after a "hole" in the amount of almost 20 billion rubles was discovered in the budget of Fininvest, experts suspected the Vanchugov brothers of the withdrawal of assets.
Previously, Roman Vanchugov could not be checked for involvement in the withdrawal of assets from Fininvest. But, if immunity is removed from him in connection with the murder of Andreev, then the investigators will be able to ask this parliamentarian about the withdrawal of assets from Fininvest.
The Eurosib case
It seems that in the banking sector, not only Fininvest was controlled by the Vanchugov brothers. The thing is that another St. Petersburg bank, Evrosib, is associated with the Vanchugovs.
By a strange coincidence, Eurosib Bank lost its license on July 7, 2014 - that is, on the same day as Fininvest.
Bank Eurosib
Eurosib Bank, as well as Fininvest, pursued a high-risk credit policy and did not create reserves adequate to the accepted risks for possible losses on loan debt. At the same time, the credit institution did not comply with the requirements of the instructions of the supervisory authority on the reliable reflection of its financial position in the accounting and reporting.
It seems that the Vanchugov brothers are involved in the likely withdrawal of funds not only from Fininvest. So isn't it time to check their activities to the investigating authorities?
In touch with the Central Bank?
In the scandal connected with the ex-owner of "Fininvest" and "Eurosib" other important officials may also be "lit up".
The former owner of the infamous Gorod Group of Companies, Maxim Vanchugov, has been in jail since the fall of 2015. Through a lawyer, he answered the questions of "DP" about the events that are actively developing around the company and its projects in recent times. And he told his version of what happened to the group's business.
Maxim, you were arrested in October 2015 on charges of embezzlement of equity holders.
My arrest was a political decision. I know that he was unexpected even for the investigation.
The term of arrest expires at the beginning of March. The fact is that in November 2016 a Supreme Court ruling was issued - it prohibits keeping entrepreneurs in a pre-trial detention center in order to avoid pressure on them in order to take away their business. There are grounds for changing my measure of restraint.
Do you communicate with brothers? What is their fate?
I talk to my family and lawyer. Because of this scandal, my brother Roman could not go from the party "" to the elections in. Obviously, one of the goals of the story around the Gorod Group of Companies was to strike at him as a promising politician. And also on the party on the eve of the elections. It must be admitted that it succeeded.
Officials said that you took out of business up to 7 billion rubles of equity holders of the Gorod group of companies. Now the amount has been reduced to 1.2 billion rubles. How did the debt come about? And what is it, in your opinion?
Unfortunately, no sanctions are provided for officials for what they publicly voice. And in our case, their negative and inaccurate reviews about the company led to a halt in sales and gave rise to criminal prosecution.
Now the investigation believes that the company cannot account for 1.2 billion rubles with the planned revenue from the project of 22 billion rubles.
At the same time, the evidence base is based on acts on the calculation of construction volumes for July 2015. They were signed between the State Unitary Enterprise "" (CSS) and "Prommonolit" without the participation of the Gorod Group of Companies and, as you might guess, without any design and executive documentation.
How so?
I also had questions about the qualifications of the investigation, because they faced such a case for the first time. It seems to me that a lot of mistakes have been made. For some reason, apartments worth 2.3 billion rubles were arrested. And then an arrest was made on the registration of all free apartments in the project. Why was it necessary to recognize the equity holders of the Planet and Vysota companies as victims, although they had a cash surplus? But it is not less than 1000 people! I think that they are being deceived, recognizing them as victims.
My lawyers have already written many complaints to the city prosecutor's office. We hope that her leader will take the liberty of looking into the situation. After all, the problem just does not resolve.
Recently there was a meeting on the problems of equity holders at the presidential envoy in the Northwestern Federal District. You know?
Yes. I was pleased with the speech of the vice-governor of St. Petersburg. He estimated the company's assets at 16 billion rubles. And it is certainly difficult to suspect him of friendship with me.
I asked the lawyers to collect all the materials on my case and send them to the embassy. After all, in the end it turned out that I allegedly stole the Palace Bridge: there are witnesses, victims, an assessment of the damage. But no one wants to admit the obvious - the bridge stands still.
In your letter to the governor of St. Petersburg, you recently reported on the violations committed by officials in the Gorod case. Has there been a backlash?
Not yet. True, many of those who signed acts on the verification of work performed at the three residential complexes of the "Gorod" have already been fired from Smolny, without having studied the executive documentation. In these acts, the volumes could be underestimated by at least 700 million rubles.
And about 600 million rubles more (the cost of the company's current work for 5 years), it seems, was not taken into account by the investigation.
And what happens?
Works not specified in the acts, the next contractor could easily pass off as his own. And get paid for them.
But I'm not going to blame anyone in advance. I hope we will eventually figure out how and why such acts arose in principle.
Do you think that the case against you could have been fabricated?
Certain officials and politicians could do a lot to keep the company in the state it is in now. Then everything was divided into politics and business. Protests began, and the first mention of the company in the media appeared in October 2013. They concerned Peterhof, where we had a project.
Deputies and their assistants spoke at such actions, for example, Yevgeny Baranovsky, then an assistant to a State Duma deputy, and now deputy chairman of the construction committee. Later, when the wave of dissatisfied equity holders began to waver (and, most likely, not without the help of activists such as Alla Andreeva), politicians began to make statements in person. The same Oksana Dmitrieva called the Gorod Group of Companies a construction scam. And people believed because some of the media supported it.
But PR and raiding are not the same thing...
I think that the business was to take away our assets against this background by interested parties. If the company did not have third-party assets, the houses would have been commissioned long ago. But the criminal case itself, apparently, arose at the suggestion of both officials and politicians.
The collection of signatures of equity holders in the administration of the President of the Russian Federation, rallies, a negative background in the media, and then the murder of Konstantin Andreev, the wife of activist Alla Andreeva, seem to have done their job. After that, it was possible to finally finish off the company.
The murder you mentioned has not yet been solved. Do you have anything to say to those who are trying to connect you with this crime?
This is a daring murder of a man who has never participated in actions against Gorod Group of Companies. I learned about its existence from the media after the tragedy. But for the company, the consequences of the murder were deplorable. 3 weeks later I was arrested. Investment contracts for the development of 100 hectares in Kamenka and 50 hectares in Peterhof, which belonged to the Gorod Group of Companies, were challenged by the administration in the courts. Not to mention the informational background around the company and the complete arrest of all assets!
The events of that time show that all this, including the tragedy, was not accidental. Someone had a clear plan and understanding of what scandal it would all end in.
But the most interesting thing is that a few days after the murder, the Gorod group received a persistent offer from one of the construction companies to transfer all assets to it for free.
I sincerely feel sorry for those who believe that by continuing to rally and make loud statements in the media, it is possible to influence the course of the investigation of this crime. Nobody escapes punishment. Of this I am sure. But I don't understand why there have been no detainees in this case for more than a year.
Tell us about the deal with . How did it go and what did you end up with?
I transferred the assets of Gorod Group of Companies to management - because a partner was needed who was able to lend to the company and restart construction. Artem Manevich was one of the investors. I transferred the assets of the company and did not receive any money.
After the deal, it turned out that Mr. Manevich had large debts. Did you know about it?
I don't think that anyone other than himself knew about these problems. He was invited to the project due to his connections and the opportunity to solve many administrative issues for the benefit of the company, but this, as I see it, did not happen. Legally, the debts of one of the shareholders should not interfere with the activities of the developer. But there is also an information background on which the company's operating activities depend, there are claims of creditors and seizures of property.
If the situation is stalemate, you will probably have to contact the bank "St. Petersburg" so that they look for a replacement for him. Or terminate the agreement and choose a new investor altogether.
Do you follow the fate of the construction projects of the Gorod Group of Companies?
Of course I'm watching. The assets transferred to the investor are more than enough to complete the construction. The main thing is to optimally and quickly dispose of these assets. But, apparently, now the construction is worth. And there may be some regularity in this - in an attempt of state regulation.
When the company tries to manage a large number of people with different visions and tasks, and all their decisions are closed to officials - nothing good will happen.
There is only one way out - to remove all the "add-ons" and let the investor calmly, like an ordinary private company, rent out houses. Shareholders should not suffer from experiments and public relations of the authorities.
As they say, 7 billion rubles are needed to complete the construction of all the houses of the Gorod Group of Companies. It is declared that the main source of financing should be the sale of plots in Kamenka for 8 billion rubles. But the auction has not taken place yet. What are the difficulties?
Land plots are liquid. But for most of them, documents are required to change the height of buildings from 18 to 75 meters, as is now prescribed in the Rules for Land Use and Development and the General Plan of St. Petersburg. It depends on how the administration works out these issues with the Saint-Petersburg bank, how quickly the company will be able to receive funds for completion.
Moreover, I insist that part of the plots should be given to investors for construction and installation work. And change the contractor at one or two sites. This will activate the extension.
The influx of money for construction could also be provided by the sale of vacant apartments in residential buildings. But they are banned...
Yes, the money from the sale of apartments would be enough to complete the construction of all the houses. But it is necessary to remove the arrest from all equity participation agreements that have not been registered since May 2015. It is also important to prevent developers from going bankrupt and to sign settlement agreements with the city.
Can you give an assessment of the model for the completion of the houses of the Gorod Group of Companies, which was invented in Smolny?
This model was invented not by Smolny, but by me back in the late summer of 2014. We ourselves asked the city to attract our third-party land asset, because we understood the responsibility that lay on us.
But, unfortunately, the company did not want to hear for a long time. Apparently, someone's interests ran counter to our plans.
We, as investors of the project, submitted an application for the purchase of the site, according to the agreement, in August 2014. And the redemption occurred only after 2 years.
During this time, instead of funding, we received a complete halt in sales, rallies, a criminal case, seizure of assets and a high-profile murder.
And in the end, we returned to the scheme proposed by us in 2014.
What can you say today to equity holders of Gorod Group of Companies?
Rallies will not help the cause. Rather the opposite. There will always be third forces that will take advantage of the situation. And that is wasted time.
But if you fight, the main thing is to understand with whom. And for this you need to listen only to yourself.
When the arrest is lifted, what will you do first?
I will spend more time with my family and children.
After the publication of an interview with Maxim Vanchugov, equity holders of Gorod Group of Companies gave their assessment of the situation with the company's long-term construction and everything about than the former owner of the "City" told "DP" from the pre-trial detention center.
Biography
Maxim" Vanchugov
> Born in October 1975 in Potsdam (GDR). In 1997 he graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Pharmacy (Finek). Candidate of Economic Sciences.
> In 2010, his brother Ruslan Vanchugov established GK " Gorod"-a major housing developer in St. Petersburg.
> In 2015 Maxim bought the company from Ruslan. And in October 2015, he was arrested on charges of embezzling funds from the company's equity holders. The amount of damage is currently estimated at 1.2 billion rubles. Married, three children.
Reference
GK" "City"
> Created in 2010. She built three residential complexes in St. Petersburg: "Leninsky Park" (for 2.6 thousand apartments), "Pribaltiysky" (more than 1 thousand apartments) and "Starfish" (more than 1 thousand apartments). Projects are not completed. More than 7 billion rubles are required for completion.
> Since the summer of 2016, the completion of the facilities of the Gorod Group of Companies has been controlled by the Era Holding Company, 70% of which is owned by businessman Artem Manevich.
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On Wednesday in St. Petersburg, employees of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs conducted searches in the reception room of State Duma deputy Roman Vanchugov from A Just Russia. Investigative actions were carried out as part of a criminal case on the theft of multimillion-dollar funds of equity holders who invested in the construction of several residential complexes being built by the Gorod Group of Companies. The commercial organization belongs to the deputy's brother Maxim. After the searches, the police detained two brothers of the right-wing Russian - Maxim and Ruslan Vanchugov.About ten investigators of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg arrived at the reception room of Roman Vanchugov, located in house No. 5 on the 18th line of Vasilyevsky Island, at noon on October 28. The detectives were interested in documents relating to the activities of the Gorod group of companies, which is controlled by the Vanchugov family. As Kommersant was told in the police headquarters, “the employees acted as part of an investigation into a case previously initiated on the fact of embezzlement of funds from equity holders of the Gorod Group of Companies.” The visit to the deputy's reception room was preceded by a search in the apartment of his brother Maxim, who is the head of the Civil Code. After the searches, Maxim Vanchugov and another of his brother Ruslan were taken to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, where they were detained for two days in accordance with Art. 91 Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation.
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["Kommersant - St. Petersburg", 06/30/2015, "They came to the" City "with a search": The police raided the office of the Gorod Group of Companies, located at house No. 15 on Morskaya Embankment, at ten o'clock in the morning. Almost at the same time, the second group of police officers visited house No. 5 on the 18th line of Vasilievsky Island, where the office of the developer company was previously located, and now the public reception room of the State Duma deputy from A Just Russia Roman Vanchugov is located (according to SPARK, the beneficiary of Gorod "is Ruslan Vanchugov, brother of Roman Vanchugov). No arrests were made. The investigators were interested in the financial documentation of the Gorod Group of Companies, which was related to the construction of three residential complexes (Leninsky Park, Pribaltiysky and Sea Star).
As explained to "Kommersant" in the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the police were of particular interest to the documents relating to the movement of funds of equity holders attracted by the company to finance the construction. Investigative actions were carried out as part of the investigation of a criminal case initiated by the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg in May this year on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale or resulting in the deprivation of a citizen's right to housing). According to investigators, we are talking about the theft of funds invested in the construction of apartments of almost 5 thousand equity holders. The reason for initiating a criminal case was the statements of participants in shared construction, who claimed that the Gorod Group of Companies froze the construction of houses and disrupted the deadlines for their commissioning. - Inset K.ru]
By the way, in early October, the name of the company "City" "lit up" in the murder case. The husband of Alla Andreeva, the main activist of the equity holders of the Gorod Group of Companies, who initiated the appeal of her comrades in misfortune to law enforcement agencies, was brutally murdered. On the same day, in the car belonging to the family of the activist, the criminals left the inscription “You are next”. The Main Investigation Department of the ICR for St. Petersburg opened a criminal case under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder). The investigation is considering all possible versions of the murder - from domestic to related to the activities of Alla Andreeva to protect the rights of shareholders. Then the Gorod Group of Companies promptly responded to the situation. “I believe that this is a provocation aimed against me personally and my closest relatives. Previously, we were accused of stealing, and now our name is also associated with murder. We hope that law enforcement agencies will be able to find the killers and customers as soon as possible,” said Maxim Vanchugov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Gorod Group of Companies.
Roman Vanchugov reacted similarly to the search and detention of his brothers, right-wing Russian Roman Vanchugov, explaining that he considers the visit of the security forces a way of political pressure on him as a people's choice. “Searchs and detentions are not related to finances or business of the Gorod Group of Companies,” the parliamentarian said. “This is a 100 percent policy, but I would not like to talk about goals now.”
The police immediately denied this statement, officially declaring that "investigative actions are not related to the parliamentary activities of this parliamentarian." The same opinion is shared by the victims in the case of fraud. “At first, unidentified persons appeared in the case. Perhaps now the investigation has established them, ”Alla Andreeva, an activist of equity holders of the Gorod Group of Companies, told Kommersant.
It should be noted that at the moment, two more criminal cases are under investigation by the police, which may be related to the Vanchugov brothers. In particular, Fininvest bank case, whose top managers were suspected of withdrawal of assets from a financial institution in the amount of about 1 billion rubles. The license from Fininvest Bank was revoked by the Central Bank in June 2014; in August, by decision of the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, the credit institution was declared bankrupt. According to the DIA, about 25 thousand people received the right to reimburse their deposits for a total of 10.7 billion rubles. Market participants associate the bank with the Gorod group of companies. According to the Kommersant Kartoteka database, the owners of Fininvest Bank LLC are Fininvest LLC and Capital LLC. Fininvest LLC is owned by Capital LLC and Fininvest Capital CJSC. Maxim Vanchugov acts as the general director and owner of the last CJSC. In turn, OOO GC Gorod is owned by CJSC Perspektiva and Ruslan Vanchugov. He is also the general director and owner of ZAO Perspektiva.
In addition, according to officially unconfirmed data, about 30% of the apartments were allegedly taken from the residential complexes built by the Gorod Group of Companies to shell companies, which subsequently took out loans from the Evrosib bank. According to unofficial information, this criminal case was initiated, among other things, at the request of the provisional administration of the Evrosib bank, which in September 2014 was declared bankrupt by the arbitration court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
[Fontanka.Ru, 10/28/2015, "The police approached the Vanchugovs": The deputy does not say what the third criminal case against the Vanchugovs is connected with. But the light is shed in the City Group of Companies. It was initiated on October 15 against an unidentified group of persons and is related to the activities of Eurosib Bank, whose license was revoked by the Central Bank in July, a company representative explained.
Officially, 97.71 shares of the bank at that time belonged to Anton Tsekhansky. He, together with Oksana Kovalenko, was a co-founder of Eurosib CJSC. In turn, Oksana Kovalenko, according to SPARK, in 2009 was a co-owner of Fininvest Bank. In addition, the address of Eurosib CJSC coincided with the address of the Gorod Group of Companies office. Eurosib Bank was also associated with Maxim Vanchugov, Alla Andreeva, an activist of equity holders of Gorod Group of Companies, knows.
The activation of investigative actions, according to Fontanka, is connected with the Moscow check. The day before yesterday, the commission of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs left St. Petersburg, which worked for about a week in the Main Investigative Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. The auditors checked only the progress of cases for defrauded equity holders, total number applicants for which - more than 4 thousand people.
Based on the results of the inspection, the commission indicated that it did not see the intensification of work, and demanded to be "offensive". As part of the cases, big job, but specific individuals were not held accountable, the commission also decided. - Inset K.ru]
Ex-State Duma deputy Roman Vanchugov read an article about himself published on the Forpost website and threatened the editors with a lawsuit. We do not mind. The journalists decided to send an open letter to the former parliamentarian.
Dear Roman Anatolyevich,
Yesterday you called us and promised to sue. When asked by the editor what you don’t like about the article, you annoyedly answered: “That’s it!”. And menacingly announced that the editors of the "Outpost" expect "serious problems."
Great, what do you want? we asked with interest.
I don't see anything great. If you do not remove the article, then you will be expected by the court. But don't worry, you are not the only one. And "Karpovka", and Life78, and "Radio Baltika", and other media, - you retorted.
The courts of other media are not entirely our business, but we could not remain indifferent to the difficult situation of our colleagues. Still, ex-deputies of the State Duma do not often sue journalists. Therefore, just in case, we contacted Dmitry Gvozdev, editor-in-chief of Karpovka, and asked him about the course of the trial with you.
Gvozdev was very surprised and admitted that he had already forgotten what he was talking about. “We really wanted to invite Roman for an interview (on the situation with equity holders of the Gorod Group of Companies - ed. note), but one day he got through to us himself. I don’t remember exactly, but it seems that there were threats and a trial, and some kind of vague allusions to more serious consequences and problems, ”he told the journalist after a long thought.
By the way, about problems. As recently as last year, you were elected as a self-nominee from the Kostroma Region. We, as citizens of Russia, wonder why from this region, and not, for example, from the Trans-Baikal Territory or the Nenets Autonomous Okrug? Probably, it would be logical to go to the polls in your native St. Petersburg and Leningrad region. Yes and election campaign it would be very bright. Imagine what kind of informational noise would accompany your nomination. Most likely, the happy equity holders of the Gorod Group of Companies would have supported you. After all, 13 new houses have been built for them.
But as we know, you were not allowed to participate in the elections because some of the signatures turned out to be invalid. As a result, many people who collected “clean” signatures were left without payment, as Maxim Shugaley, a political strategist who took part in that campaign, told us. According to him, "we are talking about dozens of people." The recording of the conversation, as usual, is at the disposal of the editors.
Approximately 15% of the collected signatures have not been paid. People still call me and ask where their money is, - said Shugaley.
One of the signature collectors, Natalya Bunkus, who was not paid extra for her work, told Outpost that she did not receive about 10,000 rubles. Although the signatures she collected were found to be valid. We understand, Roman, the times are difficult now, there is a catastrophic lack of money, crises, sanctions.
GC "City" without a roof over your head
The infamous developer GK "Gorod" has risen by 16 positions in the ranking of housing commissioning for six months of the year. Such a sharp rise is due to the fact that the company received permission to commission two buildings of the Leninsky Park residential complex. Are these houses completed, and what are the deceived equity holders of the Gorod Group of Companies doing?
And then there are the equity holders of the Gorod Group of Companies. For some reason, they have the audacity to demand that the company, which your brothers owned until 2015, complete the construction of their houses. As Alla Andreeva, the leader of the deceived shareholders, said, in 2016 the last of the three LCDs, the Starfish, was to be put into operation. But as expected, there were no funds for the completion of the facility.
When we said that we would not remove the text, you happily informed us that you were suing “us and others” under Article 128 of the Criminal Code Russian Federation. We pay special attention to the criminal article on libel.
- Okay, we understand you. Serve of course. If you win, we will delete the text, we will apologize, we will punish the journalist. Everything is within the law. If you lose, it's okay, - we answered shortly.
I will win and I will definitely sue your money, and you will send it where I say, - as it seemed to us, victorious reports were already sounding in your voice.
Indeed, this prospect is very tempting for you. After all, you can sue money from negligent journalists and immediately pay off those who collected signatures and scrape together funds to complete the construction of houses of equity holders of the Gorod Group of Companies. The path, however, is not a short one, since we are talking about a criminal article. It will begin in the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office, and where it will end, only time will tell.
But there are certain risks for you. You, as a person who is very well versed in the legal side of the issue, know that the party that lost the court pays the legal costs. For you, this may be unpleasant news, given the "Kostroma" history. There is not enough money anyway, and here you still may have to pay.
We have no doubt that you keep your word and will certainly file a lawsuit. Therefore, we wish you good luck and guarantee that if you win, we will do everything that was mentioned in the dialogue given above in the text of the letter.
With respect and proletarian greetings, the editors of "Forpost".
The owner of the Gorod Group of Companies, Maxim Vanchugov, was sent to a pre-trial detention center a day after his arrest. The investigation was in such a hurry to isolate him from society that they did not have time to bring charges. The younger brother, Ruslan, was met by the court. His defense was given time to collect documents for house arrest.
Alexander Koryakov/Kommersant
Maxim Vanchugov in the Vasileostrovskiy District Court was expected like a star. Firstly, it took a long time: instead of the announced 17.00, the consideration of the investigation's petition for arrest began closer to 19.00. Secondly, with increased security measures: the bailiffs and the police officers called for help first crowded the accumulated journalists to the wall opposite from hall No.
Judge Yuri Gershevsky, in a trained voice, read out a petition from the Main Investigative Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the region, from which not only journalists, but also Maxim Vanchugov himself (he even stopped yawning) and his lawyer were surprised to learn that overnight the amount of damage charged to him increased by three times. According to investigators, the owner of the Gorod Group of Companies, together with unidentified persons, through shell companies and the Fininvest bank (at one time Maxim Vanchugov owned 33% of the bank) cashed out 830 million rubles, which the equity holders invested in the construction of three LCDs - "Sea Star" , "Leninsky Park" and "Pribaltiysky".
Recall that it was this amount that appeared in the criminal case, which the investigation initiated at the insistence of equity holders in May 2015. In addition, by October, it turned out that Vanchugov unreasonably (according to the same investigation) transferred the right to 980 apartments in these residential complexes to himself and persons controlled by him. Their cost in the GSU was estimated at 2 billion 93 million.
After the investigation supported their petition, the judge asked: “Why not house arrest?” As it turned out, in addition to the standard ones: he can hide, since he has a foreign passport (“I have two of them!” Vanchugov shouted. On the upcoming visit of law enforcement officers (as follows from the certificate-memorandum attached to the case), he, along with his brother Ruslan, locked himself in the public reception room of his third brother, Roman, who is a State Duma deputy from the Just Russia party. And he sat there for about 22 hours, until the investigation received an urgent order from the judge to visit the deputy cell.
The defense of Maxim Anatolyevich started unsuccessfully. Lawyer Krylov for some reason asked to hear the above certificate, from which all listeners learned that Vanchugov not only went under the wing of his brother, but also asked his wife to destroy the contents of his iPad and other documents, and not let the police in.
“I want to call the operative who compiled it, and my wife. She is here,” the defender said.
"In the room?" - the judge was surprised (according to the norms of conducting the process, she should not have been among the audience).
“Yes,” Krylov waved his hand in the direction of the benches, but, realizing a procedural error, he began to mutter something that he did not see her from behind the podium and did not control the flow of listeners at all.
“Refuse,” Gershevsky summed up.
The suspect himself did not flash either. Twice he was asked - first by the judge, then by the prosecutor - to tell how the situation of equity holders improved from May (when the case was initiated) to September, that is, whether he began to complete the construction of the object. But Maxim Anatolyevich, as if wound up, talked about meetings in Smolny with Vice-Governor Albin and that all the money from equity holders went to the construction site, to confirm which there are acts of accepted work. To the question: “Where are the apartments?” - Vanchugov, apparently not yet aware of his status as a non-leader, waved his hands and with the words “listen to me!” repeating what has already been said.
Tired by 20:00, the judge suggested moving on to discussing the measure of restraint. And then he was surprised again. Against the arrest from the investigation, Vanchugov's lawyer offered bail - an apartment on Vasilyevsky Island, where his wife lives with three young children. The first investigator could not stand it: “And if Vanchugov runs away? And the state will claim bail? Maxim Anatolyevich, will your wife and children stay on the street?”
“They will go to the mother-in-law,” the suspect grinned.
“The break is five minutes,” the judge announced, inviting the lawyer to discuss another bail with the client.
After the expiration of time, Krylov offered 5 million, which a friend was allegedly ready to lend to his client.
However, Gershevsky placed the head of the Gorod Group of Companies in SIZO No. 4 for two months, taking into account the arguments of the investigation, but carefully recalling before that that while Vanchugov was a suspect (according to the law, after 10 days without presenting he must be released on charges. – Note. ed. ).
Despite the late time, at about 21:00, the judge decided to consider the petition for the arrest of Vanchugov's third brother, Ruslan, who was detained together with Maxim in the waiting room of his brother Roman.
The younger one, who behaved as quietly and correctly as possible in the cage of the hall, was more fortunate. His lawyer asked for house arrest in principle and an extension of the term of detention under Article 91 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to 72 hours in order to collect all the necessary documents for this.
“When will you be able to collect the documents?” Gershevsky asked.
"Tomorrow at 15 - 16," the lawyer answered.
"Two minutes. Do not disperse, ”and the judge went to the deliberation room, from where he returned with good news for the lawyer. Consideration of the measure of restraint for Ruslan Vanchugov has been postponed to 15:00 on October 30.
Tatiana Vostroilova,
"Fontanka.ru"
P.S. The third brother Vanchugov, a deputy, followed the process in the company of the Fontanka correspondent. Read his interview soon.
