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Several employees of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs carried out a scheme to steal money from Garantex clients using fake decisions of the Basmanny Court of Moscow. In the dock, as Kommersant found out (https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6903562), were investigator Antonina Shakina and operatives of the Bureau of Special Technical Measures (BSTM) Renat Bakhtiev and Leonid Golubev. Elista resident Liliya Eleshova is also involved in the case.
The scheme was developed by another employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Roman Morev. The police officers committed their first crimes in the fall of 2022, their victims were Mikhail Korniychuk from the Tver Region and Agakerim Gamzabekov from the Moscow Region. At the end of November, investigators sent Garantex a request for information about the status of the accounts of these two users, thus confirming the presence of cryptocurrency assets on them. A week later, Eleshova filed a report with the Basmanny Department of Internal Affairs about the theft of her money on the same exchange.
After that, investigator Shakina drew up a fake resolution to initiate a criminal case, on the basis of which she also prepared a court order to freeze the accounts of Korniychuk and Gamzabekov. Operative Bakhtiev sent it to Garantex employees, and on December 19, Shakina issued a ruling to lift the arrest and to transfer these assets to the "victim" Eleshova. After the fake decision was executed by the exchange, Eleshova came to the office and cashed about 870 thousand belonging to Korniychuk and about 5.3 million rubles belonging to Gamzabekov.
In a similar manner, the criminals carried out the seizure of assets of St. Petersburg resident Alexander Sazonov, from whose accounts Garantex transferred 24.8 million rubles to the accounts of a new "victim" (his role was played by another BSTM employee - Denis Potapkin). However, this time the police victim managed to contact law enforcement agencies, which is why the exchange froze and did not allow the attackers to cash out the money. In October 2023, investigator Shakina, operatives Bakhtiev and Golubev, as well as Eleshova were arrested. All of them were charged with fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), and the first two were also charged with attempted fraud (Part 3 of Article 30, Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and forgery of documents (Part 1 of Article 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Eleshova admitted her guilt in full, Shakina - partially, Bakhtiev and Golubev deny everything. Potapkin and the organizer of the scheme Morev managed to hide in foreign countries.
The scheme was developed by another employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Roman Morev. The police officers committed their first crimes in the fall of 2022, their victims were Mikhail Korniychuk from the Tver Region and Agakerim Gamzabekov from the Moscow Region. At the end of November, investigators sent Garantex a request for information about the status of the accounts of these two users, thus confirming the presence of cryptocurrency assets on them. A week later, Eleshova filed a report with the Basmanny Department of Internal Affairs about the theft of her money on the same exchange.
After that, investigator Shakina drew up a fake resolution to initiate a criminal case, on the basis of which she also prepared a court order to freeze the accounts of Korniychuk and Gamzabekov. Operative Bakhtiev sent it to Garantex employees, and on December 19, Shakina issued a ruling to lift the arrest and to transfer these assets to the "victim" Eleshova. After the fake decision was executed by the exchange, Eleshova came to the office and cashed about 870 thousand belonging to Korniychuk and about 5.3 million rubles belonging to Gamzabekov.
In a similar manner, the criminals carried out the seizure of assets of St. Petersburg resident Alexander Sazonov, from whose accounts Garantex transferred 24.8 million rubles to the accounts of a new "victim" (his role was played by another BSTM employee - Denis Potapkin). However, this time the police victim managed to contact law enforcement agencies, which is why the exchange froze and did not allow the attackers to cash out the money. In October 2023, investigator Shakina, operatives Bakhtiev and Golubev, as well as Eleshova were arrested. All of them were charged with fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), and the first two were also charged with attempted fraud (Part 3 of Article 30, Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and forgery of documents (Part 1 of Article 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Eleshova admitted her guilt in full, Shakina - partially, Bakhtiev and Golubev deny everything. Potapkin and the organizer of the scheme Morev managed to hide in foreign countries.
