Boris Fomin, the former chairman of the board of Promsberbank, is ready to tell the investigation about what large bribes and to whom exactly were transferred to the Central Bank of Russia from shadow bankers. Boris Fomin himself has already been convicted on charges of embezzling funds from Promsberbank and received a sentence of six years in prison. Fomin’s defense appealed this decision, and new hearings will soon take place, to which the former co-owner of Promsberbank, Alexey Kulikov, is scheduled to attend, who is being transported to Moscow for this purpose. Now Kulikov is serving 9 years for embezzlement in the same bank.

Boris Fomin, in order to soften his fate, decided to tell investigators about bribes to the Central Bank, which he knows about. For example, about where money was transferred abroad through credit organizations “Russian Land Bank”, “Russian Credit”, “Summit Bank” and others. And about what role Ivan Myazin, Oleg Belousov and Alexey Kulikov played in this. Boris Fomin referred to them as informal co-owners of Promsberbank, who acquired “the foreign bank CDB, located on the territory of the Republic of Cyprus,” using funds stolen from the Russian banking sector.

In addition, Fomin promises to provide new data on “the facts of the transfer of bribes by Myazin and Kulikov to officials of the Central Bank for assistance in concealing traces of the withdrawal of Promsberbank assets.

Let us recall that Alexey Kulikov was convicted, Ivan Myazin, who was one of the largest shadow bankers, is in custody. Oleg Belousov, according to a Rosbalt source familiar with the situation, now lives in two countries - Russia and Cyprus.

According to Fomin, he met Myazin in 2005-2006, when he was the chairman of the board of the Siberian Bank for Economic Development. A year later, Myazin bought out this bank, and then invited Fomin to work in the investment company IC Financial Bridge controlled by him. The IC was led by Oleg Belousov, one of Myazin’s team members. “Myazin had extensive connections in law enforcement agencies, as well as in the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and the Federal Financial Markets Service in force at that time,” Fomin said during interrogation. Also, another large shadow banker, Alexey Kulikov, acted together with this entire group, whose main focus was “VAT refund”.

In 2013, Ivan Myazin bought Promsberbank from businessman Grigory Altshuler and invited Fomin to the position of chairman of the board. Soon, group members began implementing schemes to withdraw money from the bank. “Myazin, together with Belousov, provided cover for their activities through the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, that is, they agreed not to apply disciplinary measures against Promsberbank that entailed the revocation of the license,” Fomin put forward the version.

Initially, funds were withdrawn through fictitious purchases of shares and securities. Thus, 60% of the bank's assets were withdrawn. Then, according to Fomin’s testimony, Kulikov said that a new scheme for the withdrawal of assets had been agreed upon with individual representatives of the Central Bank - by providing loans to controlled companies. Moreover, as Fomin assures, Myazin coordinated each such loan with his people from the Central Bank, so when the Bank of Russia checked Promsberbank for these companies, despite their obvious dubiousness, the regulator did not have any questions.

In total, according to investigators, 3.2 billion rubles were withdrawn from Promsberbank and sent abroad. This is exactly the amount of illegal cash withdrawals that investigators call. As it becomes clear, Ivan Myazin organized an entire criminal community, which in addition to him included the former chairman of the board of Promsberbank Boris Fomin and one of its main shareholders Alexei Kulikov.

In fact, the amounts quoted are much larger. The source claims that up to one billion dollars were withdrawn from the bank annually. At least law enforcement agencies have such information.

In February 2016, Alexey Kulikov was arrested by decision of the Tverskoy court. He is accused of stealing billions of rubles from the controlled Promsberbank and conducting dubious transactions with Deutsche Bank.

In the West, Deutsche Bank is suspected of dubious transactions with Russian business structures worth billions of dollars. Simply put, Deutsche Bank participated in schemes built by Kulikov and his partners to launder “dirty” money from Russia.

The security forces “burned” Kulikov as soon as the transactions in Promsberbank came to light. But Ivan Myazin has been serving as a witness for a long time. But these walks are over. The security forces managed to prove that Ivan Myazin is the main organizer of the fraud.

As they say, in this area Ivan Myazin simply has no equal in the country. They whispered that he held at least a dozen banks in his hands. In particular, such credit organizations as the European Settlement Bank, Bank of Investments and Lending, CB Creditimpex Bank, CB Union Bank, CB Alliance Bank, AKB Falcon, Siberian Bank for Economic Development, IC Financial Bridge are named.

In general, the list is quite rich. One can only imagine how much money Ivan Myazin could have withdrawn in an unknown direction. Investigators will probably find out after all.

Ivan Myazin began his business career in the early nineties as a simple broker on the stock exchange in Moscow. He got off to a good start, presumably. Soon Myazin already organized his own business. Is it just yourself?

In one of the interviews, he did not hide at all that he was friends with. As they say, you can’t forbid being friends with anyone. Only there is one old Russian saying: “Tell me who your friend is and I will tell you who you are.”

At the end of the last century, Vyacheslav Ivankov was known as one of the most respected crime bosses in the country, nicknamed “Yaponchik”. And Myazin was friends with him, and, as he himself said, they even celebrated the New Year together!

But it was a sin at that time not to make friends with such people! And Myazin did not sin and drove actively. Although he knew very well that Ivankov was the leader of an organized criminal community. But when big money is at stake, there is no time for clean relationships. The more you get into your pocket, the better. True, Vyacheslav Ivankov was shot dead by unknown assailants right in the center of Moscow nine years ago.

But Ivan Myazin survived. And he not only survived, but lived quite well. Conducting banking transactions of a very dubious nature. By withdrawing billions of rubles and even dollars from the banks that were under his control.

It was possible to avoid an investigation into the criminal activities of the former co-owners of the bank, Alexei Kulikov, Oleg Belousov and Andrei Gorbatov, only at the cost of its closure and voluntary revocation of the license.

At the beginning of December, the Central Bank of Russia revoked the licenses of three credit institutions at once: the Moscow LLC CB Economics-Bank, JSC CB Zlatkombank, as well as the Krasnodar JSC CB BANK. The latter is a subsidiary of the Cyprus Development Bank (CDB). The Rosbalt agency called the Cypriot office “purchased with funds stolen from the Russian banking sector” by the largest Russian shadow banker Ivan Myazin.

According to Kommersant, the decision to withdraw was made in connection with the appeal of the sole shareholder of the credit institution, the Cyprus Development Bank, for its voluntary liquidation. Today, the only office of CB Bank is located in Krasnodar. In December 2017, its Moscow representative office ceased to exist, and in July 2018, the bank closed its branch in Sochi.

“In October, the shareholder of our bank decided to end its activities in Krasnodar and in the Russian Federation, we submitted a petition to the Central Bank that we were going to conduct voluntary liquidation. The closure of the Moscow representative office and Sochi branch proceeded in the same vein,” said bank president Alexey Yudin, adding that the owner had been making a decision for some time - to sell the business or liquidate it, ultimately choosing the second option. According to Mr. Yudin, the organization’s property is enough to pay off creditors, of whom the bank has practically none left at the moment.

A situation where a bank asks to cancel a license is quite rare, since the license itself has a market value if a buyer can be found for it, says Artem Deev, leading analyst at Amarkets. “Most likely, in the context of tightening control on the part of the regulator and decreasing interest of foreign capital in the Russian banking system, there were simply no people willing to buy the bank. Taking into account the fact that we are talking about a foreign structure that does not have a focus on the Russian market, the shareholders apparently decided that it was inappropriate to continue operating even in standby mode,” noted Mr. Deev. He also emphasized that the trend of foreign players leaving the Russian banking market has been visible for quite some time.

Finam Group analyst Alexey Korenev notes that most often in Russia the regulator revokes the license of banks, and the beneficiaries try to illegally withdraw assets and hide. “In this regard, the decision of the Cyprus Development Bank to voluntarily surrender the license to CDB Bank can be regarded as civilized and economically balanced,” says the expert.

A number of Telegram channels suggest that the bank gave up the license voluntarily, trying to avoid an investigation into the involvement of its co-owners in money laundering operations. On the website of CB Bank, its beneficiaries until this time are listed as Oleg Belousov, Alexey Kulikov and Andrey Gorbatov, the sale of whose shares was reported in April. According to the Ruspres agency, former co-owner of Promsberbank Alexey Kulikov is now serving a nine-year sentence for stealing 3.3 billion rubles from Promsberbank. It is believed that Kulikov helped former investigator Denis Nikandrov ruin the theft case. As for Oleg Belousov and Andrei Gorbatov, they are involved in the case of mirror transactions with Deutsche Bank, in which the cousin of the Russian President Igor Putin may also be involved.

The court arrested the largest "black" banker. Is this the end for him?

As the correspondent of ““ reports, the court decided to take banker Ivan Myazin into custody. He, according to security officials, is the country’s largest specialist in cashing out so-called “shadow” money.

As they say, Myazin is considered an illegal co-owner of at least a dozen credit institutions, through which he withdrew money of unknown origin.

In particular, Myazin is suspected of being the shadow owner of Promsberbank. And through him he withdrew tens of billions of rubles to who knows where. At least, the Kommersant newspaper wrote about this.

As the publication clarifies, the money was withdrawn through shell companies.

Withdrew for 3.2 billion?

This is exactly the amount of illegal cash withdrawals that investigators call. As it becomes clear, Ivan Myazin organized an entire criminal community, which in addition to him included the former chairman of the board of Promsberbank Boris Fomin and one of its main shareholders Alexei Kulikov.

In fact, the amounts quoted are much larger. Thus, the Internet portal CompromatWiki claims that up to one billion dollars were withdrawn from the bank annually. At least law enforcement agencies have such information.

In February 2016, Kulikov was arrested by decision of the Tver Court. He is accused of stealing billions of rubles from the controlled Promsberbank and conducting dubious transactions with Deutsche Bank.

In the West, Deutsche Bank is suspected of dubious transactions with Russian business structures worth billions of dollars. Simply put, Deutsche Bank participated in schemes built by Kulikov and his partners to launder “dirty” money from Russia.

Promsberbank

The security forces “burned” Kulikov as soon as the transactions in Promsberbank came to light. But Ivan Myazin has been serving as a witness for a long time. But these walks are over. The security forces managed to prove that Myazin was the main organizer of the fraud.

Did the pro “cash out”?

As they say, in this area Ivan Myazin simply has no equal in the country. They whispered that he held at least a dozen banks in his hands. In particular, such credit organizations as the European Settlement Bank, the Bank for Investments and Lending, CB Creditimpex Bank, CB Union Bank, CB Alliance Bank, AKB Falcon, the Siberian Bank for Economic Development, and IC Financial Bridge are named, reports the Rumors portal.

In general, the list is quite rich. One can only imagine how much money Ivan Myazin could have withdrawn in an unknown direction. Investigators will probably find out after all.

Were you friends with “Jap”?

He started his business career in the early nineties as a simple broker on the stock exchange in Moscow. He got off to a good start, presumably. Soon Myazin already organized his own business. Is it just yourself?

In one of the interviews, he did not hide at all that he was friendly with businessman Vyacheslav Ivankov. As they say, you can’t forbid being friends with anyone. Only there is one old Russian saying: “Tell me who your friend is and I will tell you who you are.”

Ivan Myazin

At the end of the last century, Vyacheslav Ivankov was known as one of the most respected crime bosses in the country, nicknamed “Yaponchik”. And Myazin was friends with him, and, as he himself said, they even celebrated the New Year together!

But it was a sin at that time not to make friends with such people! And Myazin did not sin and drove actively. Although he knew very well that Ivankov was the leader of an organized criminal community.

Vyacheslav Ivankov

But when big money is at stake, there is no time for clean relationships. The more you get into your pocket, the better. So Myazin was friends with such characters. True, for some reason these characters did not live very long in this world. Thus, Vyacheslav Ivankov was shot dead by unknown assailants right in the center of Moscow

According to Rosbalt, the criminal case of the theft of funds from Promsberbank, in which “shadow banker No. 1” Ivan Myazin was arrested, is developing into one of the largest investigations into the “underside” of the banking business. The former chairman of the board of Promsber, Boris Fomin, in particular, testified against the former top manager of Deutsche Bank, US citizen Tim Wiswell.

It also turned out that the leadership of the Central Bank of Elvira Nabiullina received bribes for participation in the theft of 3.2 billion rubles by Promsberbank shareholder Ivan Myazin. According to the Ruspres agency, money was withdrawn through fictitious purchases of securities and loans to controlled companies with the help of top managers of Promsberbank and Deutsche Bank Oleg Belousov, Boris Fomin and Tim Wiswell. The scheme also involved the “Russian Land Bank” of the president’s cousin Igor Putin and the “Russian Credit” of Anatoly Motylev, who fled to London.

As a source in law enforcement agencies said, Boris Fomin gave detailed testimony at the beginning of 2018, but it took the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB several months to verify the information he presented. Most of them were confirmed, after which the security forces moved on to arrests. One of the largest shadow bankers, Ivan Myazin, was taken into custody. Moreover, the agency’s interlocutors believe that this is far from the last high-profile arrest as part of the investigation. Boris Fomin spoke about many people involved in the underground business of cashing out, “laundering” and transferring gigantic sums outside the Russian Federation. Fomin had been on Myazin’s team since 2006, and personally knew with whom the “shadow banker” was collaborating.

In particular, Fomin reported on the role of the now former head of trading of the Russian division of Deutsche Bank, Tim Wiswell, in the illegal transit of money from Russia. According to the banker’s testimony, this US citizen, for a monthly remuneration of $100 thousand, carried out transactions through Deutsche Bank with packages of securities and currency, which were part of schemes to withdraw funds outside the Russian Federation. Several times Fomin personally transferred money to Wiswell.

According to the ex-board of directors, one of the co-owners of Promsberbank, Oleg Belousov, and the main shadow owner, Ivan Myazin, created companies where cashed funds were collected for their subsequent transfer in the form of bribes to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. For this money, representatives of the Bank of Russia did not notice illegal transactions involving the transfer of gigantic sums outside the country.

According to Fomin, the banks “Russian Land Bank”, “Russian Credit” and Deutsche Bank at one time participated in the massive withdrawal of funds from the Russian Federation. At the same time, Ivan Myazin organized “cover for the activities of investment companies to withdraw funds abroad through his connections in the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, organized cash flows, search and involvement of third-party banks and investment companies in this activity.”

According to Fomin, he met Myazin in 2005-2006, when he was the chairman of the board of the Siberian Bank for Economic Development. A year later, Myazin bought out this bank, and then invited Fomin to work at the investment company IC Financial Bridge, which he controlled. The IC was led by Oleg Belousov, one of Myazin’s team members. “Myazin had extensive connections in law enforcement agencies, as well as in the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and the Federal Financial Markets Service in force at that time,” Fomin said during interrogation. Also, another large shadow banker, Alexey Kulikov, acted together with this entire group, whose main focus was “VAT refund.”

In 2013, Myazin bought Promsberbank from businessman Grigory Altshuler and invited Fomin to the position of chairman of the board. Soon, members of the group began to implement schemes to withdraw money from the bank. “Myazin, together with Belousov, provided cover for their activities through the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, that is, they agreed not to apply disciplinary measures against Promsberbank that entailed the revocation of the license,” Fomin put forward the version.

Initially, funds were withdrawn through fictitious purchases of shares and securities. Thus, 60% of the bank's assets were withdrawn. Then, according to Fomin’s testimony, Kulikov said that a new scheme for the withdrawal of assets had been agreed upon with individual representatives of the Central Bank - by providing loans to controlled companies. Moreover, as Fomin assures, Myazin coordinated each such loan with his people from the Central Bank, so when the Bank of Russia checked Promsberbank for these companies, despite their obvious dubiousness, the regulator did not have any questions.

In total, according to investigators, 3.2 billion rubles were withdrawn from Promsberbank and sent abroad.

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Rustem Magdeev - “shadow banker” or “raider”?

How a former assistant frames his boss, the head of Tatarstan

In the last few weeks, the Russian and foreign press has literally “exploded” with reports of the illegal activities of either an assistant or an adviser, the head of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustem Elbrusovich Magdeev.

The reason for this “excitement” was the unexpected arrest of the general director and chief designer of the JSC NPO Experimental Design Bureau named after M.P. Simonov" Gomzin Alexander Vladislavovich. Let us recall that it was Rustem Magdeev that Director Gomzin pointed out in January 2018 in his appeals to the Federal Security Service and the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, as one of the organizers of the attempted raider takeover of this enterprise, as well as Mr. Magdeev’s connection with foreign intelligence services.

"Vek" wrote in detail about this investigation of its "Rustem Magdeev is landing", which caused a great resonance. The second part of our investigation about Magdeev revealed the mechanisms through which Rustem Magdeev and his partners withdraw money from the Russian Federation.

Apparently, the media reaction was not at all part of Magdeev’s “plans”. The recent speeches of the President of the Russian Federation, which speak of the need to improve the defense potential of our country, give particular piquancy and unconditional relevance to this situation. But the episode with the Gomzin case may not be the loudest in Magdeev’s biography.

As it turned out, we did not tell the whole story of the adventures of Rustem Magdeev - an informant for Western intelligence services, a raider, a supplier of counterfeit jewelry and Minnikhanov’s “wallet”. New data about Magdeev and his connections, which appeared in connection with the arrest of Russia’s main cashier Ivan Myazin, will fully lead to the third part of our investigation, a purely financial one.

On May 15, 2018, it became known about the detention of “shadow banker No. 1” Myazin Ivan Gavrilovich, and his role in establishing the work of the “laundry” on the basis of the site of the Russian subsidiary of Deutsche Bank.

To an uninitiated person it is unlikely that it will be clear what connects Rustem Magdeev and the organized group of “shadow bankers” headed by the “king of Russian cash-out” Myazin, however, as it turned out, surprisingly, there is a lot.

According to media reports, one of the defendants in this investigation against Mazin was another “shadow banker” - Alexey Kulikov, who on October 11, 2017 was sentenced to nine years in prison. As IA MosMonitor found out, Kulikov was a long-time partner of Rustem Magdeev.

True, last year, when casher Alexey Kulikov was “closed,” Magdeev’s name was not mentioned - he managed to hide his participation in the “business,” and Kulikov did not turn him in, knowing about Rustem’s criminal habits. In Tatarstan, everyone knows that he prefers to solve problems with the help of hired killers - through his connections with the well-known “serial killer” in the republic, Radik Yusupov, leader of the Sevastopol gang.

However, numerous publications about the Kulikov case have repeatedly spoken about the patronage that high-ranking employees of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation provided to the leaders of this criminal group for many years. The Myazin case, which is now being trumpeted by all Russian media, has the same “information background.”

It turned out that it was Rustem Magdeev who was the contact person for Alexey Kulikov, ensuring this communication with the Central Bank and unquestioning compliance by officials of the supervisory authority with the requirements of his customers.

In addition, it was Rustem Magdeev who turned out to be one of the main beneficiaries of the “laundry”; it was he who recommended his numerous clients and business partners to use its services. Contacts with the Central Bank were important, but not Magdeev’s only contribution to the criminal cashing business. Magdeev, who has a Cyprus passport, withdrew funds abroad and legalized them.

In parallel with the provision of “consulting services”, Magdeev ensured the reliable work of the foreign “beneficiary” - most of the money laundered through mirror transactions went to Hellenic Bank on the island of Cyprus, from where funds were further sent to their recipients, which made it almost impossible to track the entire chain .

In 2013-2014 alone, more than 2 billion US dollars passed through this “laundry” organized by Magdeev and his sons in Cyprus.

In carrying out his criminal plans, Rustam Magdeev was actively assisted by a Cypriot banker, Tryfonas “Nakis” Anastasiou, who for a long time held the position of director of the Limassol International Business Center, who, soon after the end of this “orgy”, resigned from Hellenic Bank in early 2015 and took a position as director to the Cyprus company Equix Group Limited, owned, among other things, by Magdeev and his son. "Vek" described the activities of this company in detail.

The culmination of the “partnership” of Magdeev and Kulikov was the events that occurred in the second ten days of June 2014 in the city of Bodrum, in the Republic of Turkey, where from the 12th to the 15th Rustem Magdeev solemnly celebrated his fiftieth birthday.

One of the guests of this celebration, which took place at the Vogue Hotel, owned by Magdeev’s longtime friend and partner, Turkish-Russian businessman Avci Turan, was Alexey Kulikov, who visited it with his companion.

During a break between sandwiches with black caviar, “smuggled” in advance by Magdeev across two borders, and, what is especially interesting, purchased by him again through Kulikov’s channels, and the roar of fireworks, Alexey Kulikov offered Magdeev assistance in obtaining the reorganization of the commercial bank BTA- Kazan" one of the banks controlled by Kulikov and his partner Myazin.

It was this tempting offer that brought Rustem Magdeev’s “banking business” to a “new stage.” Having celebrated his birthday and returning to Moscow on a private plane belonging to one of his oligarch friends, Magdeev quickly “got into the subject” and made a historic decision - he needed to work in areas that promised profit not with the “shadow” sector of the Russian economy, but with his own long-time partners and fellow countrymen.

Soon, the reorganization of BTA-Kazan was entrusted to the Tatar Tatfondbank (TFB), with the main owner of which, Musin Robert Rinatovich, Magdeev had a strong and long-term history of relationship.

Simultaneously with “resolving issues” in the Central Bank and the Deposit Insurance Agency of the Russian Federation, Rustem Magdeev managed to lobby his long-time partner and accomplice - Shagiakhmetov Midhat Rafkatovich - for the position of head of the National Bank of the Republic of Tatarstan, after which Magdeev himself became himself in a narrow circle call him “Master of Sports of the USSR in Banking.” However, last year the Central Bank asked Shagiakhmetov to “exit”, in particular, for a left loan of 3.1 billion rubles. But the republican authorities did not abandon Midhat to the “arbitrariness of the security forces” - he became the head of the Central Election Commission of Tatarstan.

One of the sources, who participated in Magdeev’s “laundering business,” and therefore wished to remain anonymous, claims that “in banking, Mr. Magdeev is a complete “zero,” that is, zero, but the level of his connections in Moscow allowed him to become a real “a lifesaver” for its counterparties and “counterparts”.

Magdeev began to take his first steps in this field by providing paid services to the management of commercial banks - AkBars and Tatfondbank (TFB), which, by the way, are located precisely on the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Magdeev’s list of “services” grew by leaps and bounds - this included lobbying interests in the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, organizing loans to the “necessary” people, and withdrawing funds abroad.

Initially, Robert Musin perceived Magdeev only in the role of “give and bring” - Rustem Magdeev was only allowed to organize “leisure” for Musin and his friends during the latter’s visit to the capital, but, subsequently, Musin truly appreciated Magdeev’s organizational skills, which led to growth the latter's fees amounted to tens of millions of US dollars over the past years.

Magdeev’s faithful assistants in this commerce were his “protégé” - Midkhad Shagiakhmetov, and his “roof” - Khalikov Ildar Shafkatovich, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan and, at the same time, Chairman of the Board of Directors of “TFB”. The connection between Khalikov and Magdeev has long been no secret - the media spoke about it in detail.

It was as a result of the scandalous collapse of “TFB” that both Khalikov and Shagiakhmetov left their positions.

By the way, it was in vain that the defrauded TSE depositors “stormed” the office of Ildar Khalikov: it would have been much more practical to ask their questions to Rustem Magdeev, because for many years he was responsible for the reliable rear in Switzerland, where the very money of the defrauded investors flowed.

One of the fundamental rules of Magdeev’s business is the motto “do not stop there.” It was this rule that allowed Rustem Magdeev to build a fantastic business and friendly relationship with the well-known Russian banker Andrei Vadimovich Vdovin, better known as the “Ripper of Russian banks.”

For many years, Magdeev helped Vdovin and his partners in commercial banks - Expobank, M2M Private Bank and Asian-Pacific Bank (ATB).

Vdovin is wanted, his former bank ATB came under reorganization, but one of the beneficiaries of Vdovin’s schemes, Rustem Magdeev, continues to withdraw money from Russia. Perhaps the case of Ivan Myazin will reveal new facts about the activities of the criminal syndicate of Rustem Magdeev. What other banks were in the “circle of interests” of Rustem Magdeev, Ildar Khalikov, Radik Yusupov, and, most importantly, Rustam Minnikhanov? We'll find out for sure soon. Questions arise: “Who is Mr Magdeev - a “raider” or a “shadow banker”?” and “Isn’t it time for the law enforcement team to give him a penalty shootout?”

And the most important question: What connects Magdeev with the regional “elite” and why does the leadership of the Republic of Tatarstan allow an outright criminal to discredit his good name? Or is it all a share?|