Chuyang Igor Petrovich

Chuyang Igor Petrovich

Chuyan Igor Petrovich - Head of the Federal Service for the Regulation of the Alcohol Market. Former General Director of FSUE Rosspirtprom.

Biography

Born July 22, 1966 in Chernigov, Ukraine.

Education

1990 - graduated from the D.F. Ustinov Leningrad Military Mechanical Institute with a degree in Radio Electronic Systems and Complexes Ahead^[1].

Career

2000-2002 - worked at the AOZT Sparkling Wines champagne factory in St. Petersburg^[2].

2002 - worked in the FSUE Rosspirtprom system.

2004-2005 - Head of the Marketing Department of FSUE Rosspirtprom.

2005-2006 - First Deputy General Director of FSUE Rosspirtprom.

2005-2009 - Member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Moscow Plant Kristall^[2].

June 16-19, 2006 - Acting General Director of FSUE Rosspirtprom.

2006: CEO of Rosspirtprom

since June 19, 2006 - General Director of FSUE Rosspirtprom (since February 2008 - FSUE Rosspirtprom)^[1]

2009 - Member of ^[2] Board of Directors of FSUE Rosspirtprom].

2009: Head of Rosalkogolregulirovanie

January 2009 - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, by his order, appointed Igor Chuyan as head of the Federal Service for the Regulation of the Alcohol Market^[1].

Included in the list of holders of "privileged" license plates with the letters AMR (the main government series of numbers). Number - A480MR97^[3]

2018: Criminal case and arrest in absentia

The basis for the investigation against Chuyan in the framework of the criminal case was the statement filed in 2018 by a classmate of President Vladimir Putin, the famous lawyer Nikolai Yegorov, who owned 25% of the shares in OFK Bank. The criminal case under Part 3 of Art. 33 and Part 2 of Art. 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of abuse of authority, entailing grave consequences) was initiated on April 27, 2018, a few days after the revocation of the license from the bank. The ex-head of the RAR was charged in absentia on August 2, at the same time Mr. Chuyan was put on the federal wanted list, and on December 12 - on the international wanted list.

As follows from the materials of the investigation, in 2013-2016, without the consent of the board of directors of OFK-Bank, 115 unsecured loans worth almost 14.2 billion rubles were issued. Companies controlled by one of the largest distributors of alcoholic beverages at that time - Status Group LLC. At the same time, the recipients of loans themselves, according to investigators, were one-day firms, and their leaders were former and current employees of OFK-Bank and LLC. During the investigation, the employees of the TFR came to the conclusion that Igor Chuyan was the beneficiary of both OFK-Bank and the Status Group company, and the scheme of fraud itself was invented by the ex-head of the RAR.

2019: Seizure of property

As it became known to Kommersant in September 2019, the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) obtained the arrest of the property of the former head of the Federal Service for the Regulation of the Alcohol Market (RAR) Igor Chuyan. We are talking about six real estate objects with a total value of almost 260 million rubles, including a country house in the Moscow region and a 270-meter apartment in the center of the capital. According to the TFR, Mr. Chuyan, being the beneficiary of the United Financial Capital Bank (OFK) and Status Group LLC, organized a scheme for issuing non-refundable loans and unreasonable guarantees to this company, which caused multi-billion dollar damage to the credit institution and minority shareholder of the bank known lawyer Nikolai Yegorov. The arrest of the property of the ex-head of the RAR was made as an interim measure on the claims of the victims.

The list of property of Igor Chuyan, which, at the request of the TFR, arrested the Basmanny Court of Moscow, lists an apartment with an area of ​ ​ 270.9 square meters. m, located in a club house in Granatny Lane near Patriarch's Ponds (cadastral value of 126.2 million rubles), two parking spaces in the same house (6.4 million rubles), a mansion with an area of ​ ​ 2.3 thousand square meters. m in the elite cottage village of Usovo-3 in the Odintsovo district worth €1 million, a land plot of 6 thousand square meters. m, a security house located on it, etc. The total value of the seized real estate is almost 260 million rubles.

Interestingly, all the arrested property does not formally belong to the former head of Rosalkogolregulirovanie. So, the apartment at the Patriarch's Ponds is registered on the mother-in-law of the ex-official, and the mansion near Moscow - on his wife. But this did not bother the TFR: the department is sure that all the real estate was purchased with funds that were stolen in OFK-Bank, which collapsed in 2018, but was registered with relatives or proxies of Mr. Chuyan to hide its origin.

According to Kommersant's information, a misunderstanding occurred with one of the objects indicated in the investigation's request for arrest. We are talking about a two-room apartment located in New Moscow with an area of ​ ​ 44.9 square meters. m, owned by a minority shareholder of OFK-Bank Ekaterina Korf. Esttech, of which it is a co-owner, owned a 19.2% stake in the credit institution, and the investigation believes that Ms. Korf was a confidant of Igor Chuyan and that her apartment was also purchased with funds stolen from the bank. As Ms. Korf's lawyer Alexander Matryuk told Kommersant about the arrest of her housing, his client found out by chance when she came to reissue the ownership of the apartment for her children. However, the lawyer managed to prove that the real estate, the cost of which is 4 million rubles, was bought by Mrs. Korf on a mortgage loan, and she never saw or met with Mr. Chuyan. As a result, the investigation did not extend the arrest of the apartment, however, according to Alexander Matryuk, housing cannot still be reissued for children, since Ms. Korf fails to receive a written confirmation from the investigator about the removal of the arrest from the apartment.

According to Kommersant's information, the accused Chuyan was in Israel at that time^[4].

2021: Detention in Montenegro

In September 2021, Interpol officers detained Igor Chuyan in Montenegro, who was arrested in absentia in Russia. This was announced on October 1 by the Vijesti portal. The Russian was detained in the Montenegrin resort of Tivat. It is noted that the search for Chuyan was carried out for several weeks. "He was remanded in custody by the investigating judge of the Podgorica High Court," it said.

2022: Montenegro recognizes Chuyan's persecution as political and refuses to hand him over to Russia

In November 2022, the Montenegrin authorities refused to extradite Russia to the former co-owner of OFK-Bank, the ex-head of Rosalkogolregulirovanie Igor Chuyan, accused by the TFR of embezzling more than 30 billion rubles.

The criminal prosecution of the defendant was recognized as politically motivated, and he himself can now count on asylum in this country.

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