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

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

Former employees of the K department of the FSB Alexander Karelin and Artur Vlasov, fighters of the Alpha special group Roman Obolensky, Vladimir Urusov and Khetag Margiev, special forces from Vimpel Dmitry Kapyshkin, as well as tax officer Dmitry Chikvin and unemployed Dmitry Kazantsev were found guilty under paragraphs "a" and "b" of part 4 of article 162 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The defendants in the case received from 8 to 10 years in prison.

In addition, the court sentenced Chikvin and Kazantsev to fines: Chikvin - in the amount of 300 thousand rubles, Kazantsev - in the amount of 400 thousand rubles. The court also deprived the defendants from among the former FSB servicemen of their ranks. Also, the court jointly recovered from the convicts 81, 529 million rubles. in a civil claim for compensation for damage declared by the victim, 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 a citizen Alexander Yumaranov, who "received 136 million rubles by receipt." This money, according to the investigation, was taken from him by special forces in the 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 FSB symbols and weapons."

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

In October 2021, for the kidnappers, 136 million rubles were requested from Metallurg Bank to raiders from the FSB 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 turn into a civil lawsuit the 15 million rubles seized from them.

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he came to Metallurg on the advice of his friend Dmitry Chuvilin, the former co-owner of Rublevsky Bank (the license was revoked in 2013), which appears in the "Moldavian scheme."

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

According to the man recognized as the victim, in May 2019 he began to look for where you can exchange a large sum 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, controlled by Yuri Karasev, a native of the GRU). During the month, with the help of Boris and their common friend, the victim several times came to the bank on Ivan Babushkin Street, where he changed rubles for dollars "through the bank's cash desk," the alleged owner of the money assured the investigators.

In June 2019, the man decided to change 136.5 million rubles according to the proven scheme. The intermediary suggested that he do this at the 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 for help to another friend of his, the owner of an armored car and took three strong immigrants from Georgia with weapons to help. The money had to be taken in an office on the territory of the Moskva shopping and entertainment complex in Lyublino, where they were in storage. In 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 the barrier to the fenced area around the bank. Acting on the instructions of intermediaries, the men brought bags of cash into the indicated door without a sign. Almost immediately after that, about ten people appeared, some in overalls without identification marks. Demonstrating the FSB decree on the conduct of operational-search measures, they took the cash and fled in a taxi.

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

Police officers in the South-Western Administrative District studied CCTV 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 the employees.

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

His grandson Alexander Karelin, an employee of the "K" department of the special services, is involved in this case. In total, as a result of the raid, Karelin received 2 million rubles, the remaining 700,000 rubles are now trying to compensate the relatives of the accused.

The main part of the stolen funds, according to the investigation, is with the wanted FSB gunner Boris Karamatov. Previously, he bore the name Boris Khamitov (nicknamed "Uzbek"). He is a defendant 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 case of robbery in the Metallurg bank. It turned out to be Konstantin Zharov, an employee of the Prosecutor's Office who had already served time. Previously, he was sentenced to 8 years of strict regime for participating in a raid under the guise of a search with riot police fighters.

He received 19 million rubles from 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 siloviki knew that Yumaranov changed the money of merchants from whom taxes were not paid, so they decided to restore justice and take it for themselves. Two dozen people are involved in the case.

The stolen money belonged to Assyrian businessmen from the Lublin market, who were engaged in the exchange of currencies in 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, "which are collected 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 Kaha." They met him at large in the spring of 2019. Kakha said that he knows a man named Boris Karamatov, who helped the Assyrians change money at 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 the sale of foreign currency in the bank. Then Zharov attracted to help in the theft of numerous employees of law enforcement agencies - special forces Vympel, Alpha and management K.

Of the 136 million, the security forces took only half. The main money of 60 million rubles was taken by Karamatov, who, unlike them, escaped.

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 strict regime 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 with the use of violence dangerous to life and health and the threat of its use). His case was considered as part of a pre-trial cooperation agreement.

At the meeting, the prosecutor said that Zharov assisted the investigation and indicated other participants in the attack. His case was separated into a separate proceeding, the ex-employee of the prosecutor's office fully admitted guilt.