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2022: A court in Moscow found FSB special forces officers "Alpha" and "Vympel" guilty of robbery for 136 million rubles

In January 2022, the Moscow Garrison Military Court found six former FSB special forces fighters Alfa and Vympel guilty of robbing a businessman at Metallurg Bank.

In addition, the court sentenced Chikvin and Kazantsev fines: Chikvin - in the amount of 300 thousand rubles, Kazantsev - in the amount of 400 thousand rubles. The court also stripped the defendants from among the former FSB soldiers. The court also jointly recovered 81, 529 million rubles from the convicts. In a civil lawsuit for compensation for damage claimed by the victims, taking into account the funds that were seized from them at the stage of the investigation in the amount of more than 15 million rubles.

The victim is citizen Alexander Yumaranov, who "received 136 million rubles on receipt." This money, according to the investigation, was taken from him by special forces at Metallurg Bank on Ivan Babushkin Street in Moscow "under the guise of operational measures."

Formally, the accusation boils down to the fact that the security forces "staged a special operation using a uniform with the symbols of the FSB and weapons."

2021: State prosecution asks to condemn raiders from the FSB for 12 years in prison

In October 2021, for the kidnappers of 136 million rubles from Metallurg Bank, raiders from the FSB were requested up to 12 years in prison. In addition, the state prosecution asks to recover 97 million rubles from the defendants in favor of the injured Muscovite Alexander Yumaranov. And to turn 15 million rubles seized from them into a civil lawsuit.

According to the investigation, FSB officers attacked Yumaranov, who was going to exchange 136 million rubles for dollars. At Metallurg Bank. At that time, the Muscovite officially did not work anywhere, and, according to him, he borrowed money from friends. Yumaranov also said that he came to Metallurg on the advice of his acquaintance Dmitry Chuvilin, a former co-owner of Rublevsky Bank (the license was revoked in 2013), which appears in the "Moldavian scheme."

Businessman Boris Karamatov (wanted) was supposed to help Yumaranov with the exchange. The investigation believes that it was he who informed the gang about the upcoming exchange.

2019: Robbery of a client by FSB officers

The owner of the money stolen by FSB officers under the guise of operational measures in the building of Metallurg Bank on Ivan Babushkin Street was recognized as a 33-year-old unemployed resident of Moscow. He explained to the investigation that he took 136.5 million rubles. "in debt from friends."

According to a man recognized as a victim, in May 2019 he began to look for where you can exchange a large amount in rubles for dollars. One of the acquaintances said that a certain Boris Karamatov, allegedly associated with the leadership of the small Moscow bank Metallurg, can help with the exchange at a favorable rate (according to RBC, it is controlled by Yuri Karasev, a native of the GRU). Within a month, with the help of Boris and their mutual acquaintance, the victim came to the bank several times on Ivan Babushkin Street, where he changed rubles for dollars "through the bank's cash desk," the alleged owner of the money assured investigators.

In June 2019, the man decided to change 136.5 million rubles according to the tested scheme. The intermediary invited him to do this at a rate of 65 rubles. 5 kopecks per dollar. To perform operations, it was necessary to bring the entire amount on June 10 at 15:00 Moscow time to Metallurg Bank. Then the victim turned to his friend, the owner of an armored car, for help and took three strong immigrants from Georgia with weapons. The money had to be taken in an office on the territory of the shopping center "Moscow" in Lublino, where they were in storage. On the afternoon of June 10, the victim in a car with two bags of money (52 million rubles each) went to the bank's office. The intermediary invited customers to drive up to the rear entrance of the building.

A car carrying money with passengers drove under a barrier into the fenced area around the bank. Acting on the instructions of the intermediaries, the men brought the bags with cash into the specified door without a sign. Almost immediately after that, about ten people appeared, some were wearing special clothes without identification marks. Demonstrating the FSB decree on operational-search measures, they took cash and disappeared in a taxi.

The victim suspected that what happened was not quite like a real FSB operation, and turned to the police. The operatives of the criminal investigation department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the South-West Administrative District left for the place. The next day, June 11, according to the results of the audit, the investigator of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Southern Administrative District opened a criminal case under Art. 162 part 4 of paragraph "b" (robbery on an especially large scale).

Police ATC in the South-West Administrative District studied surveillance cameras, installed a Mercedes minibus, where the attacking FSB officers moved. Later, information about the case was brought to the head of the FSB Bortnikov and he gave permission to arrest employees.

At the end of July 2019, the FSB Academy general and teacher Valentin Karelin voluntarily issued the investigation 1.3 million rubles. stolen during a robbery attack by FSB officers at Metallurg Bank.

In this case, his grandson Aleksandr Karelin, an employee of the K department of the special services, is passing. In total, as a result of the raid, Karelin received 2 million rubles, the remaining 700,000 rubles are now trying to reimburse the relatives of the accused.

The bulk of the stolen funds, according to investigators, is at the wanted FSB gunner Boris Karamatov. Previously, he bore the name Boris Khamitov (nickname "Uzbek"). He is involved in the case of embezzlement of the assets of the shot founder of the Party trading network, Alexander Mineev.

Later, a new organizer appeared in the robbery case at Metallurg Bank. It turned out to be a sitting employee of the Prosecutor's Office Konstantin Zharov. Earlier, he was sentenced to 8 years of strict regime for participating in a raid under the guise of a search with riot police.

He received 19 million rubles out of 136 million, which were taken from citizen Alexander Yumaranov, by FSB and special forces officers Alpha and Vympel while trying to exchange currency at Metallurg Bank.

The security forces knew that Yumaranov changed the money of merchants from whom taxes were not paid, so they decided to restore justice and take them to themselves. In the case passes under two dozen people.

The stolen money belonged to Assyrian businessmen from the Lublino market, who were engaged in currency exchange on the Moscow market. All five men who brought cash to the bank on the day of the robbery, including the victim Alexander Yumaranov, turned out to be ethnic Assyrians, among whom were natives of Georgia and Russia. Their task was to organize the exchange of large sums, "the collection of which is carried out on the market by their senior partners."

Zharov said that the idea of ​ ​ robbery appeared during his stay in the Butyrka pre-trial detention center. Then Zharov met a "certain Kakha." They met with him at large in the spring of 2019. Kakha said that he knows a man named Boris Karamatov, who helped the Assyrians change money in Metallurg Bank.

Karamatov knew the leadership of Metallurg Bank - the board  - a native of the GRU Yuri Karasev and his son Yegor, who was responsible for selling foreign currency at the bank. Further, Zharov attracted to help steal numerous employees of law enforcement agencies - special forces Vympel, Alpha and management K.

Of the 136 million, the security forces took only half. Karamatov took the main money 60 million rubles, who, unlike them, fled.

In July 2020, the Gagarinsky court of Moscow sentenced the first person involved in the case. Former investigator of the prosecutor's office Konstantin Zharov received nine years in a maximum security colony, as well as a fine of 100 thousand rubles.

Zharov was found guilty under Part 4 of Art. 162 of the Criminal Code (robbery as part of an organized group of persons using violence dangerous to life and health and the threat of its use). His case was considered under a pre-trial cooperation agreement.

At the meeting, the prosecutor said that Zharov facilitated the investigation and pointed out other participants in the attack. His case was separated into a separate proceeding, the ex-employee of the prosecutor's office fully pleaded guilty.