The time has come to name a number of former employees of the FSB of the Russian Federation who are close to the Kremlin oligarch Konstantin Malofeev and participated in the theft of $450 million from the WEX exchange (BTC-E). And when they wanted to come to Malofeev with a search (there was even a court decision), they helped him" get out of it " and turn the vector of operational work 180 degrees.
According to the source of the CHEKA-OGPU, in the period from 2019 to 2022, the Malofeyevs plan to hold a retribution action against the co-owner of WEX (BTC-E) Bilyuchenko (Ivanov), who previously gave incriminating testimony against Malofeyev and active participants of the OPS, namely, bringing him to criminal responsibility for fabricated materials and inducing him in this way to transfer a significant amount of cryptocurrency that is still in Ivanov's personal use.
At the beginning of 2020, one of the active participants of the OPS – Nemkin, currently a deputy of the State Duma, as well as a former FSB employee who is part of the closest circle and acts on the instructions of Malofeev, is forming a power unit of physical support under the guise of Alfa-SB LLC.
- Alfa-SB LLC is a structure created and actually managed by Nemkin. The founder of this organization until his death in 2019, was a close friend of Nemkin – Lyovochkin (who also co-founded Seraphim LLC together with Nemkin and Zhulanov).
Nemkin's personal car Mercedes G63 g / n E001EE 93 was registered for the same person, which after his death was re-registered to his mother Nemkina Olga Vladimirovna.
Dmitry Izotov
Currently, the founder and director of Alfa-SB LLC is Dmitry Izotov, a former employee of the Federal Security Service for the Republic of Mari El. Nemkin's affiliation with Alfa-SB LLC is also confirmed by one IP address registered in the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation when submitting tax reports, for the specified legal entity, as well as for the organizations of Seraphim LLC, Motor-Sharks JSC, Atom FOUNDATION, Digital Valley Platform FOUNDATION that actually belong to and managed by Nemkin. Some of the employees of Alfa-SB LLC were transferred from AT-CONSULTING holding.
-AT-CONSULTING Holding (LLC "Philosophy of IT", LLC "R. T. Solutions", LLC "Techconsur", LLC "Tektus IT", LLC "Orbit of Success", etc.) after the raider seizure of the structure of OPS Malofeev from S. A. Shilov, the holding passed under the control of an affiliated Zhulanov. These facts are widely covered in the media and are easily verified when examining the register of legal entities.
The main role in the formation of both the structure of the unit itself and the basis of personnel is played by Maxim Volkov, a former high-ranking employee of the FSB and FSO, who was previously recruited by Malofeev, and Nikolay Ibraev, a former employee of the "M" Department of the FSB.
Maxim Volkov
- Maxim S. Volkov, born on 31.03.1974, was a former employee of the Federal Security Service for the Republic of Mari El and a colleague of Dmitry Ibraev and Izotov, who later joined the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation and retired. After his retirement in 2020, he got a job at Alfa-SB LLC, where he worked together with Ibraev, Izotov, Yevgeny Ekimovsky, Alexey Mozgunov, and Yulia Nazarova, Ivanov's future lawyer.
Yulia Nazarova
After the theft of cryptocurrencies from WEX depositors by OPS participants, Malofeev becomes the founder and General Director of CA Solaris LLC with an authorized capital of 1 million rubles for the purpose of legalization in 2021. Acquires two helipads in Sochi and 4 helicopters.
- Nikolay V. Ibraev, born on 18.11.1984, was a former employee of the department " M " of the Federal Security Service for the Republic of Mari El, a colleague of Volkov, Izotov and Ekimovsky, as well as a classmate of computer expert Alexey Mozgunov.
Nikolay Ibraev
After being dismissed from the FSB, he was recruited and employed first in AT-CONSULTING holding, and then in Alfa-SB LLC, where he worked together with colleagues Volkov, Izotov, Ekimovsky, another Mozgunov and Nazarova (with whom he lived in the same village of Novotaryalovsky as a child). Later, he was authorized to create his own structure of Digital Security LLC, which serves as a technical intelligence unit of Alfa-SB LLC.
The main purpose of Alfa-SB LLC is to provide physical cover and organize coordination of work with current corrupt employees when committing episodes of criminal activity by OPS participants.
When selecting (recruiting) candidates, preference is given to former employees of operational divisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, the search is actively conducted for former employees of divisions of the FSB of Russia, employees of the "M" Department of the FSB have a special priority. When analyzing the candidate's personality, special attention is paid to the presence of stable existing ties with former colleagues who continue to serve in law enforcement units, in order to assess the possibility of establishing corrupt ties.
Recruitment of employees is carried out on a financial basis, the salary of an ordinary employee is about 200,000-250,000 rubles, and persons from among the management team are about 700 000 – 1 000 000 rubles. A system of regular bonuses and incentives is being introduced.
The formation is financed from other projects of the Malofeyev OPS, including assets seized as a result of criminal activity. A significant material and technical base is being formed, and there is full technical support, including secure means of communication and special technical means.
A distinctive feature of working with personnel is strict discipline, the presence of internal subordination, managers directly report only to Malofeev. There is constant support for service and combat training, regular shooting and sports activities are carried out, and some employees are forcibly involved in sports events on a permanent basis.
The structure of the formation is organized and brought in line with the model of the current law enforcement agencies of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the personal interests of Malofeev, there is a clear division in the areas of activity.
So, under the cover of Digital Security LLC, the functioning of technical intelligence and support for technical measures was organized, and a number of employees with special technical knowledge were transferred to this formation.
At the moment, the total number of members of this formation is more than 150 people from among former employees of law enforcement agencies who are in full operational readiness and ready for immediate response, the vast majority of whom have stable corruption ties with current employees of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor's Office and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
Maksim Volkov, who used his extensive corruption connections to coordinate with representatives of the current law enforcement agencies, was directly involved in organizing preparations for the implementation of the retribution operation against Ivanov.
And now new information about the "history of WEX" from Rucriminal.info.
In addition to Ivanov, the operational development included the former head of the BSTM department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs – Satyukov, who previously led the development of Malofeev's OPS, as well as Satyukov's acquaintance – Dmitry Sokolov, who is an entrepreneur and owns a number of luxury real estate objects. In the case of Satyukov, the motive for the prosecution was a sense of revenge for participating in the investigation of criminal activities, in the case of Sokolov, the motive was a desire to take possession of real estate.
The main motive, however, was Malofeev's desire to take possession of a certain archive, which is copies of the original results of listening to his telephone conversations and monitoring messenger traffic, which, in his opinion, could remain at Satyukov's disposal, and similarly exclude the possibility of its publication. According to Malofeev, this archive contained extremely important transcripts of communication through the channels of communication with his corrupt connections, and the consequences of its publication pose a stronger threat to him than bringing to criminal responsibility for embezzlement of funds of depositors of the WEX exchange.
According to the source Rucriminal.info After the events of October 2020, the deputy head of the BSTM of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, General Kozlov, directed his efforts to exclude, write off to the archive and even partially destroy the originals of these key documents from the materials of the operational case.
Malofeev's fears were confirmed by his full awareness that during the period of technical control of his communication channels, he showed excessive freedom of communication, hoping for some kind of delusion regarding the inviolability of his person.
Procedural support was provided by the Board of Internal Affairs, represented by investigator Babushkin, who is under the full control of the OPS participants, which is typical in the same criminal case in which Malofeev and active OPS participants previously acted as the main suspects, but were subsequently removed from criminal responsibility.
There were no ORD materials, results of technical control, search activities confirming the guilt of Satyukov and Sokolov. In this connection, in order to justify the searches, reference materials were fabricated, according to which they were co-founders of the BTC-E and WEX exchanges, were involved in the theft of cryptocurrency from users of the WEX exchange and are nominal owners of real estate in the interests of Ivanov. These materials, of course, did not find their confirmation after the passage of time.
During the period from 24 to 28 February 2022, employees of the Interior Ministry's Department of Internal Affairs conducted more than 30 searches in the cities of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk. Malofeyeva, an active participant in the OPS, and Khavchenko, a nominee director of WEX, were appointed as the formal applicant.
More than 200 personnel were involved in the work on the application of an active member of the OPS Khavchenko about causing him material damage, both from the operational staff of the Central Office and from the employees of territorial divisions involved.
The events were attended by employees of Alfa-SB LLC from among the former employees of the M Department and other divisions of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in particular Sergey Chudaev, Alexey Mozgunov and others, who were officially involved as experts and specialists. They took part in searches, tried to gain access to computer equipment outside the protocol, copied the contents of information carriers, and took part in the seizure of objects and documents.
Sergey Chudaev
- Sergey Vladimirovich Chudaev, born on 16.09.1984, was an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Mordovia until 2019. In 2021, he got a job as a specialist in Digital Security LLC, created by Ibraev. At the time of the investigative actions in February 2022, he arrived by train together with the current employees in St. Petersburg, where he took part in searches at Sokolov's house as a specialist, actually making the seizure and examination of material evidence in the interests of Malofeev.
- Alexey Mozgunov, born on 08.07.1984, was an entrepreneur in the field of IT and a cross-fit sports coach in Yoshkar-Ola until 2019. In 2019, I received an offer from a former classmate of Ibraev's for employment in Alfa-SB LLC to work as an expert, where I worked together with Volkov, Izotov, Ibraev, Ekimovsky and Nazarova. In 2020, he moved to work directly with Ibraev himself in Digital Security LLC.
Alexey Mozgunov
In 2022, he was involved as a specialist in conducting searches at Ivanov and Satyukov's homes, as well as in 2023 in transferring material evidence, including those seized with his direct participation in the GSU of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
A separate task of Mozgunov was to search for official documentation and compromising evidence against Malofeev during searches at Satyukov's house, Mozgunov directly influenced the list of equipment and other material evidence seized during searches.
Another part of the employees of Alfa-SB, in particular Ekimovsky and others, presented themselves as active FSB officers, took part in investigative actions along with real operatives and gave instructions to employees of the regional divisions involved. All this happened in the presence of real operational officers who took part in the searches.
- Evgeny V. Ekimovsky, born on 26.02.1985, was a former employee of the department " M " of the Federal Security Service for the Republic of Mari El, a colleague of Volkov, Izotov and Ibraev.
Evgeny Ekimovsky
After his dismissal, he was recruited and employed in AT-CONSULTING holding, and then in Alfa-SB LLC, where he worked together with Volkov, Izotov, Ibraev, Mozgunov, and Nazarova. After giving Ibraev the authority to create his own structure, Digital Security LLC went to work for him.
At the time of the investigation in February 2022, he arrived by train together with active employees and specialist Chudaev in St. Petersburg, where he took part in searches of Sokolov's apartment, posing as an active FSB employee, actually exercising control and supervision on the part of Malofeev.
According to eyewitnesses, in the presence of lawyers and witnesses, employees of Alfa-SB LLC repeatedly stated during searches that they were acting on the direct instructions of FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov and that they were now the "new six", referring to the example of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. Volkov and Ibraev supervised the actions of employees of Alfa-SB LLC and coordinated them with employees of the Interior Ministry's Board of Directors. The latter, for the most effective coordination, was personally in the city of St. Petersburg, where he arrived together with current employees.
As a result of a significant amount of operational and investigative activities, no items and documents of evidentiary value for the criminal case were found, however, as security for a civil claim filed by an active participant in the Khavchenko OPS in the criminal case, all the discovered funds and valuables were seized. On the same basis, property and bank accounts of more than 25 people were seized, namely relatives and acquaintances of Ivanov, as well as Satyukov and Sokolov.
The result of such large-scale measures was the detention and complete blocking of Ivanov in the conditions of the special block of the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, as well as ensuring the civil claim of Khavchenko, by seizing real estate, seizing cash and valuables during searches. There were no other significant results in the field of operational and official activities.
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Listed as the owners of the collapsed Wex crypto exchange, representatives of Singapore's World Exchange Services have obtained a decision from the Moscow Savelovsky District Court to recover 18 billion rubles in their favor.
The trial was held at lightning speed, at the first meeting, on Tuesday, April 23, the court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs.
According to the documents, the owner of the Singapore company is an Armenian citizen Igor Pravdin – the full namesake of the general director of Krasnodar Agrotur LLC, established 16 years ago by the Tureya company owned by businessman Konstantin Malofeev. Pravdin owned a stake in the holding company" Estate Tsargrad", completely controlled by the"Orthodox billionaire".
Prior to Pravdin, the owner of World Exchange Services was another person close to Malofeev, who fought in the Donbass under the call sign "Sailor" Dmitry Khavchenko. However, suddenly for himself, "Sailor" was deprived of ownership in the summer of 2023.
Alexey Ivanov, co – founder of Wex, once the largest Russian-language digital asset exchange, must pay 18 billion rubles.
Alexey, who until 2022 bore the surname Bilyuchenko and the nickname "red admin", tried to get the patronage of an "Orthodox oligarch" in 2017, saving the crypto exchange from American justice. However, as a result, he lost the freedom to dispose of a significant part of his own assets and funds of Wex clients. And the Singapore company, registered as a legal entity of the crypto exchange, became (or was from the very beginning) part of the structures controlled by Malofeev, who is close to influential Russian security officials.
The first to point out the proximity of Khavchenko and Pravdin to the structures of Konstantin Malofeev was the journalist Andrey Zakharov, who investigated the collapse of Wex, who published the book "Crypt"dedicated to this story.
The amount of 18 billion rubles is more than four times the amount that the Singapore company claimed as a claim-when in September another Moscow, Meshchansky district court, punished Ivanov with 3.5 years in a penal colony and 500,000 rubles in fine.
Ivanov-Bilyuchenko tried to appeal the September verdict, insisting that he had already paid all the damages. Expertise in 2023 estimated this damage at 3.17 billion rubles. The defendant explained that there was enough money in his arrested Alfa-Bank accounts to cover the amount.
But around February 2024, it became known: World Exchange Services changed the volume of requirements, inflating it to 16 billion rubles (the final increase to 18 billion is easily explained by the rise in price of bitcoin).
Alexey Ivanov himself initially claimed in his testimony that the wallets of the Wex exchange, the successor to the BTC-e that collapsed in 2017, contained 65,000 bitcoins and other cryptomonets in 2018. American law enforcement officers involved in the BTC-e case estimated the assets of this site at billions of dollars.
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