In the framework of the investigation of the case on “Discover” in St. Petersburg, members of the criminal group led by a led from Azerbaijan were detained in St. Petersburg. The scheme developed by them functioned more than a year and brought tens of millions of rubles to its creators, reports Fontanka.ru.
As it became known to the publication, on April 16, the last Wednesday was detained eight suspected criminal cases initiated in March of this year under the 172nd article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“illegal banking activities”).
As follows from its materials, from January 2019 to March 2020, they were engaged in cashing on the money of individuals and legal entities, using the organizations controlled by him, which received non-cash funds from “customers” for a total of 304 million rubles. The commission for the “service” was approximately 17%. Thus, for the specified period, they managed to earn about 77 million rubles.
Among the detainees – a 37-year-old native of the city of Baku, who, according to the preliminary version, performed by the organizer of the criminal group, as well as his first assistant – a 27-year-old native of the city of Vsevolozhsk. The latter allegedly carried out direct interaction with accomplices.
The remaining six accomplices had their own roles. So, one of them was engaged in the selection of customers among merchants in the markets, passed and took the cash and documents from them. Four more than four were responsible for the turnover of fictitious accounting documentation, as well as issuing bank cards to cash out. Opening accounts and maintenance of cash maintenance of companies – “One-day” was part of the ladies.
Earlier “Fontanka” wrote about 20 searches, which were held last Wednesday in St. Petersburg as part of the investigation of the case of “Discover”. As our publication reported, some of his feasures are related to business activities on urban vegetable beds.