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As it became known to Kommersant, in Moscow, the criminal case of former metropolitan police officers — investigator Antonina Shakina and operatives of the Bureau of Special Technical Measures (BSTM) Renat Bakhtiev and Leonid Golubev-came to court. They are accused of embezzling customer funds from the Garantex cryptocurrency exchange located in Moscow City based on fake decisions of the Basmanny Court of the capital. During the investigation, only Antonina Shakina partially admitted her guilt.
Antonina Shakina, senior investigator of the investigative department of the OMVD of Russia for the Basmanny district of the capital, as well as senior operatives of the 11th department of the BSTM of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, Renat Bakhtiev and Leonid Golubev, were detained in October 2023 and taken into custody. Together with them in the pre-trial detention center was a resident of Elista Lilia Eleshova. All four of them were charged by the Meshchansky Interdistrict Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation with fraud on a particularly large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), and police officers Antonina Shakina and Renat Bakhtiyev - also with attempted fraud (Part 3 of Article 30, Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) and four episodes of forgery of documents (Part 1 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
According to the TFR, the four participated in the implementation of the scheme, which was developed by a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Roman Morev.
The first victims of security forces in the fall of 2022 were clients of the Garantex cryptocurrency exchange-Mikhail Korniychuk, a resident of the Tver region, and Agakerim Gamzabekov, a resident of the Moscow region. As stated in the investigation materials, the attackers first decided to find out what amounts of digital money they have stored in crypto wallets. To do this, the operative Leonid Golubev, according to the investigation, at the end of November 2022, sent an official request to the exchange from his work computer, allegedly as part of an inspection, "which in reality was carried out on a different fact and basis."
And on December 7, a resident of Elista, Lilia Eleshova, came to the Basmanny police department and wrote a statement that money placed on the Garantex exchange (the legal name of Fintech Corporation LLC) was allegedly stolen from her. The woman also signed the protocol of interrogation written for her by investigator Antonina Shakina in advance as a victim. After that, Antonina Shakina, according to investigators, made a fake decision to initiate a criminal case, in which, together with the operative Renat Bakhtiyev, she made a fictitious decision of the judge of the Basmanny Court Yevgenia Nikolaeva.
According to the fake, on December 9, 2022, property was allegedly seized — the accounts of Messrs. Korniychuk and Gamzabekov on Garantex.
After police officer Renat Bakhtiyev sent a fake document to an employee of the exchange's security service, investigator Antonina Shakina issued a decision on December 19 to lift the arrest of this property and to transfer assets to Lilia Eleshova's account. On the same day, the investigator sent her decision to the exchange's email address.
A few days later, on December 26, the alleged victim Lilia Eleshova arrived at the Garantex office on Presnenskaya Embankment in Moscow City and cashed out the money that had migrated to her-870 thousand 478 rubles belonging to Mr. Korniichuk, as well as 75.637 thousand USDT (5.328 million rubles at the exchange rate of that time) and 126 rubles belonging to Mr. Korniichuk. To Gamzabekov. In the future, she transferred the money, a total of 6.2 million rubles, to the accomplices of the crime.
As the investigation found out, in a similar way, Renat Bakhtiev and Antonina Shakina planned to steal 24.8 million rubles from the deposit account of the exchange of a resident of St. Petersburg, Alexander Sazonov. This time, according to investigators, the role of the victim was assigned to a former employee of the 11th department of the BSTM of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, Denis Potapkin, who, according to the TFR, provided operative Renat Bakhtiev with his passport data for this purpose. This time, the accomplices again made a fake order to seize the property of Mr. Sazonov on behalf of another judge of the Basmanny Court — Valentina Levashova, dated January 18, 2023, as well as the decision of investigator Antonina Shakina to lift the arrest from the property of February 6.
At the same time, the accomplices had to redo the judge's decision twice, as in the first case they made a mistake in the address of Mr. Sazonov's deposit account. On February 20, 2023, 296,861 USDT (22.6 million rubles at the exchange rate of that time) and 2 million 180 thousand rubles belonging to the victim Alexander Sazonov were transferred to the account of Denis Potapkin. However, the accomplices did not have time to cash out the money, as the victim turned to law enforcement agencies, and the exchange froze the funds.
During the investigation of the four defendants, Antonina Shakina partially admitted her guilt, the pseudo-victim Lilia Eleshova fully agreed with the accusation, and former BSTM operatives Renat Bakhtiev and Leonid Golubev continue to insist on their innocence.
As for Roman Morev and Denis Potapkin, the criminal cases against them are separated into separate proceedings, both are put on the international wanted list — according to the investigation, they are hiding abroad.
Lawyer Ignat Likhunov, who represents the interests of the victim Alexander Sazonov, told Kommersant how the attackers found the victims. "They tracked large transactions in cryptocurrency on the accounts of citizens, after which the case was taken up by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, whose case is now being considered in court," the lawyer said. He noted that during the investigation, the lawyers of the victims were under serious pressure, but despite this, the case was still brought to court. "Thanks to the decent work of operatives of the FSB's M service, the Interior Ministry's own security service, and investigators of the Moscow Investigative Committee, a whole hornet's nest was opened for the theft of funds from the Garantex cryptocurrency exchange," Mr. Likhunov stressed.
The trial on the merits of the case will begin in the Presnensky district Court of Moscow next week.
• Source: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6903562
Antonina Shakina, senior investigator of the investigative department of the OMVD of Russia for the Basmanny district of the capital, as well as senior operatives of the 11th department of the BSTM of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, Renat Bakhtiev and Leonid Golubev, were detained in October 2023 and taken into custody. Together with them in the pre-trial detention center was a resident of Elista Lilia Eleshova. All four of them were charged by the Meshchansky Interdistrict Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation with fraud on a particularly large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), and police officers Antonina Shakina and Renat Bakhtiyev - also with attempted fraud (Part 3 of Article 30, Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) and four episodes of forgery of documents (Part 1 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
According to the TFR, the four participated in the implementation of the scheme, which was developed by a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Roman Morev.
The first victims of security forces in the fall of 2022 were clients of the Garantex cryptocurrency exchange-Mikhail Korniychuk, a resident of the Tver region, and Agakerim Gamzabekov, a resident of the Moscow region. As stated in the investigation materials, the attackers first decided to find out what amounts of digital money they have stored in crypto wallets. To do this, the operative Leonid Golubev, according to the investigation, at the end of November 2022, sent an official request to the exchange from his work computer, allegedly as part of an inspection, "which in reality was carried out on a different fact and basis."
And on December 7, a resident of Elista, Lilia Eleshova, came to the Basmanny police department and wrote a statement that money placed on the Garantex exchange (the legal name of Fintech Corporation LLC) was allegedly stolen from her. The woman also signed the protocol of interrogation written for her by investigator Antonina Shakina in advance as a victim. After that, Antonina Shakina, according to investigators, made a fake decision to initiate a criminal case, in which, together with the operative Renat Bakhtiyev, she made a fictitious decision of the judge of the Basmanny Court Yevgenia Nikolaeva.
According to the fake, on December 9, 2022, property was allegedly seized — the accounts of Messrs. Korniychuk and Gamzabekov on Garantex.
After police officer Renat Bakhtiyev sent a fake document to an employee of the exchange's security service, investigator Antonina Shakina issued a decision on December 19 to lift the arrest of this property and to transfer assets to Lilia Eleshova's account. On the same day, the investigator sent her decision to the exchange's email address.
A few days later, on December 26, the alleged victim Lilia Eleshova arrived at the Garantex office on Presnenskaya Embankment in Moscow City and cashed out the money that had migrated to her-870 thousand 478 rubles belonging to Mr. Korniichuk, as well as 75.637 thousand USDT (5.328 million rubles at the exchange rate of that time) and 126 rubles belonging to Mr. Korniichuk. To Gamzabekov. In the future, she transferred the money, a total of 6.2 million rubles, to the accomplices of the crime.
As the investigation found out, in a similar way, Renat Bakhtiev and Antonina Shakina planned to steal 24.8 million rubles from the deposit account of the exchange of a resident of St. Petersburg, Alexander Sazonov. This time, according to investigators, the role of the victim was assigned to a former employee of the 11th department of the BSTM of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, Denis Potapkin, who, according to the TFR, provided operative Renat Bakhtiev with his passport data for this purpose. This time, the accomplices again made a fake order to seize the property of Mr. Sazonov on behalf of another judge of the Basmanny Court — Valentina Levashova, dated January 18, 2023, as well as the decision of investigator Antonina Shakina to lift the arrest from the property of February 6.
At the same time, the accomplices had to redo the judge's decision twice, as in the first case they made a mistake in the address of Mr. Sazonov's deposit account. On February 20, 2023, 296,861 USDT (22.6 million rubles at the exchange rate of that time) and 2 million 180 thousand rubles belonging to the victim Alexander Sazonov were transferred to the account of Denis Potapkin. However, the accomplices did not have time to cash out the money, as the victim turned to law enforcement agencies, and the exchange froze the funds.
During the investigation of the four defendants, Antonina Shakina partially admitted her guilt, the pseudo-victim Lilia Eleshova fully agreed with the accusation, and former BSTM operatives Renat Bakhtiev and Leonid Golubev continue to insist on their innocence.
As for Roman Morev and Denis Potapkin, the criminal cases against them are separated into separate proceedings, both are put on the international wanted list — according to the investigation, they are hiding abroad.
Lawyer Ignat Likhunov, who represents the interests of the victim Alexander Sazonov, told Kommersant how the attackers found the victims. "They tracked large transactions in cryptocurrency on the accounts of citizens, after which the case was taken up by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, whose case is now being considered in court," the lawyer said. He noted that during the investigation, the lawyers of the victims were under serious pressure, but despite this, the case was still brought to court. "Thanks to the decent work of operatives of the FSB's M service, the Interior Ministry's own security service, and investigators of the Moscow Investigative Committee, a whole hornet's nest was opened for the theft of funds from the Garantex cryptocurrency exchange," Mr. Likhunov stressed.
The trial on the merits of the case will begin in the Presnensky district Court of Moscow next week.
• Source: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6903562
