Banker serkin. The ex-banker and philanthropist of Khabarovsk directly from the colony led the largest financial pyramid. Former banker Maxim Serkin, serving time for fraud, organized a financial pyramid from the colony

As it became known to Kommersant, former banker Maxim Serkin, convicted of fraud and awaiting another verdict, organized a large financial pyramid in the colony, the activities of which he directed directly from custody. Credit and consumer cooperatives controlled by Professor Serkin, doctor of economic sciences, operated in 17 regions of Russia for four years, stealing more than 6 billion rubles from depositors during this time, AmurMedia news agency reports with reference to Kommersant.

The Anti-Corruption Directorate has not held such a large-scale event for a long time. In just two days, on October 30 and 31, together with the territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, GUEBiPK officers conducted searches at 180 addresses in Moscow, St. . In the course of investigative and operational measures, financial documentation, seals of more than 200 fictitious firms, and even a very rare special device for forging signatures were seized. In the capital and St. Petersburg, as well as in the Khabarovsk and Primorsky Territories, eight main defendants in the case were detained. At the request of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which opened a criminal case under Art. 210 and part 2 of Art. 172.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of a criminal community to raise funds), all of them were taken into custody by the court.

During the investigation, it was found that 22 consumer credit cooperatives (CCCs) operating throughout Russia, which had licenses from the Central Bank, since 2013, have been attracting money from investors for the construction of real estate objects - apartments and business centers. Clients were lured by the payment of increased dividends, reaching 16–20% per annum, while banks offered depositors no more than 10%. The cooperative, which acted on the principle of a financial pyramid, made payments exclusively at the expense of new investors.

According to law enforcement officers, the pyramid, whose motto was "Let's save and multiply", acted absolutely legally: all contracts with citizens were properly drawn up. At the same time, CCP clients were even taken to sites supposedly under construction, and presentations of projects were arranged in offices. The Ministry of Internal Affairs notes that among the depositors there were quite a few pensioners, each of whom gave the organizers of the scam from 30,000 to 400,000 rubles. And a few hundred people out of 25,000 who lost their money invested in the CPC from several tens to hundreds of millions of rubles. In total, over four years, cooperatives have collected more than 6 billion rubles.

The pyramid began to collapse in the summer of this year, when almost all 22 CPCs not only stopped paying interest, but generally refused to return the money they invested to depositors. As it turned out, the cooperatives paid dividends exclusively at the expense of new investors. As a result, deceived citizens began to besiege the CCP offices, demanding the return of their money, and soon allegations of fraud began to pour in to law enforcement agencies.

Employees of the GUEBiPK found that the money received from the shareholders was transferred under loan agreements to the accounts of more than 300 counterparties in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Khabarovsk Territory. None of them conducted any financial and economic activity.

The operatives established that the well-known businessman and philanthropist Maxim Serkin in the Far East organized the financial pyramid. At one time, he was the chairman of the board of directors of Vostokcreditbank (he was deprived of his license in November 2010, and declared bankrupt in February 2011) and a trustee of five orphanages at once in the Khabarovsk Territory. After the bankruptcy of the bank, he headed the Khabarovsk construction holding Grant.

Maxim Serkin, according to the police, managed the financial pyramid using instant messengers through his sister Ekaterina Druzhinina (also arrested) directly from the colony, where he ended up in the summer of 2015 by the verdict of the Central District Court of Khabarovsk. Maxim Serkin was found guilty of several episodes of fraud in 2009-2010 related to illegal VAT refunds. For embezzling tens of millions of rubles from the state, the defendant, who fully admitted his guilt, received three years in prison and a fine of 500,000 rubles. Note that the prosecutor's office appealed against this sentence, considering it too harsh. However, the appellate instance upheld the district court's decision.

After serving two-thirds of his term, Maxim Serkin filed a petition for parole and, literally the other day, hoped to be released. Now, apparently, he will have to forget about it. Now, a criminal case under Art. 196 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the deliberate bankruptcy of Vostokcreditbank. Several members of the board of directors, including Maxim Serkin, are accused of withdrawing more than 1.3 billion rubles of assets from the bank from February to November 2013. On charges, they can receive up to six years in prison, and for organizing a criminal community, the investigation of which has just begun, the defendant Serkin faces up to 20 years in prison.

The banker Serkin, “winding” the term for fraud, organized a large financial pyramid in the colony, the activities of which he managed directly from custody, using a messenger for communication.

Under the control of Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor Serkin, credit and consumer cooperatives operated in 17 constituent entities of Russia for four years, stealing more than 6 billion rubles from depositors during this time. The Anti-Corruption Directorate has not held such a large-scale event for a long time. In just two days, on October 30 and 31, together with the territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, GUEBiPK officers conducted searches at 180 addresses in Moscow, St. . In the course of investigative and operational measures, financial documentation, seals of more than 200 fictitious firms, and even a very rare special device for forging signatures were seized. In the capital and St. Petersburg, as well as in the Khabarovsk and Primorsky Territories, eight main defendants in the case were detained. At the request of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which opened a criminal case under Art. 210 and part 2 of Art. 172.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of a criminal community to raise funds), all of them were taken into custody by the court.

During the investigation, it was found that 22 consumer credit cooperatives (CCCs) operating throughout Russia, which had licenses from the Central Bank, since 2013, have been attracting money from investors for the construction of real estate objects - apartments and business centers. Clients were lured by the payment of increased dividends, reaching 16-20% per annum, while banks offered depositors no more than 10%. The cooperative, which acted on the principle of a financial pyramid, made payments exclusively at the expense of new investors.

According to law enforcement officials, the pyramid, whose motto was “Let's save and increase”, acted absolutely legally: all contracts with citizens were properly drawn up. At the same time, CCP clients were even taken to sites supposedly under construction, and presentations of projects were arranged in offices. The Ministry of Internal Affairs notes that among the depositors there were quite a few pensioners, each of whom gave the organizers of the scam from 30 thousand to 400 thousand rubles. And a few hundred people out of 25,000 who lost their money invested in the CCP from several tens to hundreds of millions of rubles. In total, over four years, cooperatives have collected more than 6 billion rubles.

As it became known to Kommersant, former banker Maxim Serkin, convicted of fraud and awaiting another verdict, organized a large financial pyramid in the colony, the activities of which he supervised directly from custody. Under the control of Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor Serkin, credit and consumer cooperatives operated in 17 constituent entities of Russia for four years, stealing more than 6 billion rubles from depositors during this time.

Imprisoned banker embezzled 6 billion without leaving the penitentiary.

6 billion rubles were stolen from depositors by credit and consumer cooperatives operating in 17 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The piquancy of the situation is given by the fact that the organizer of the financial pyramid, the former banker Maxim Serkin, led his empire without leaving prison. He is currently serving time for another crime, also related to fraud, and was preparing to receive parole the other day. The Central Bank, as always, did not notice anything suspicious.

During the investigation, it was found that 22 consumer credit cooperatives (CCCs) operating throughout Russia, which had licenses from the Central Bank, since 2013, have been attracting money from investors for the construction of real estate objects - apartments and business centers. Clients were lured by the payment of increased dividends, reaching 16-20% per annum, while banks offered depositors no more than 10%. The cooperative, which acted on the principle of a financial pyramid, made payments exclusively at the expense of new investors.

According to law enforcement officials, the pyramid, whose motto was “Let's save and increase”, acted absolutely legally: all contracts with citizens were properly drawn up. At the same time, CCP clients were even taken to sites supposedly under construction, and presentations of projects were arranged in offices. The Ministry of Internal Affairs notes that among the depositors there were quite a few pensioners, each of whom gave the organizers of the scam from 30 thousand to 400 thousand rubles. And a few hundred people out of 25,000 who lost their money invested in the CPC from several tens to hundreds of millions of rubles. In total, over four years, cooperatives have collected more than 6 billion rubles.

Maxim Serkin, according to the police, managed the financial pyramid using instant messengers through his sister Ekaterina Druzhinina (also arrested) directly from the colony, where he ended up in the summer of 2015 by the verdict of the Central District Court of Khabarovsk. Maxim Serkin was found guilty of several episodes of fraud in 2009-2010 related to illegal VAT refunds. For embezzling tens of millions of rubles from the state, the defendant, who fully admitted his guilt, received three years in prison and a fine of 500,000 rubles. Kommersant notes that the prosecutor's office appealed against this sentence, considering it too harsh. However, the appellate instance upheld the district court's decision.

Convicted for fraud and awaiting another sentence, the well-known former banker in the Far East Maxim Serkin, while in prison, organized a large financial pyramid, the activities of which he managed directly from custody, Khabarovsk Krai Today news agency reports with reference to Kommersant.

Under the control of Professor Serkin, Doctor of Economics, credit and consumer cooperatives (CPCs) operated in 17 regions of Russia, including the Khabarovsk Territory and Primorye, for four years, stealing more than 6 billion rubles from depositors during this time.

In the course of investigative and operational measures, financial documentation, seals of more than 200 fictitious firms, and even a very rare special device for forging signatures were seized.

In the capital and St. Petersburg, as well as in the Khabarovsk and Primorsky Territories, eight main defendants in the case were detained. At the request of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which opened a criminal case under Art. 210 and part 2 of Art. 172.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of a criminal community to raise funds), all of them were taken into custody by the court.

During the investigation, it was found that 22 consumer credit cooperatives (CCCs) operating throughout Russia, which had licenses from the Central Bank, since 2013, have been attracting money from investors for the construction of real estate objects - apartments and business centers. Clients were lured by the payment of increased dividends, reaching 16-20 percent per annum, while banks offered depositors no more than 10. Payments, on the other hand, the cooperative, which acted on the principle of a financial pyramid, carried out exclusively at the expense of new depositors.

According to law enforcement officials, the pyramid, whose motto was “Let's save and increase”, acted absolutely legally: all contracts with citizens were properly drawn up.

At the same time, CCP clients were even taken to the facilities supposedly under construction, and presentations of projects were arranged in the offices. The Ministry of Internal Affairs notes that among the depositors there were quite a few pensioners, each of whom gave the organizers of the scam from 30 to 400 thousand rubles. And a few hundred people out of 25,000 who lost their money invested in the CPC from several tens to hundreds of millions of rubles. In total, over four years, cooperatives have collected more than 6 billion rubles.

The pyramid began to collapse in the summer of this year, when almost all 22 CPCs not only stopped paying interest, but generally refused to return the money they invested to depositors. As it turned out, the cooperatives paid dividends exclusively by attracting new investors. As a result, deceived citizens began to besiege the CCP offices, demanding the return of their money, and soon allegations of fraud began to pour in to law enforcement agencies.

Maxim Serkin was found guilty of several episodes of fraud in 2009-2010 related to illegal VAT refunds. For embezzling tens of millions of rubles from the state, the defendant, who fully admitted his guilt, received three years in prison and a fine of 500,000 rubles. Note that the prosecutor's office appealed against this sentence, considering it too harsh. However, the appellate instance upheld the district court's decision.

After serving two-thirds of the term, the former banker filed a petition for parole and literally the other day hoped to be released.

However, at present, a case on the deliberate bankruptcy of Vostokcreditbank has begun to be heard against Maxim Serkin in the court of the city of Blagoveshchensk. The former chairman of the board of directors and several of his members are accused of withdrawing assets worth more than 1.3 billion rubles from the bank from February to November 2013. On this charge, they can receive up to six years in prison.

Now, for organizing a criminal community, the investigation of which has just begun, the defendant Serkin faces up to 20 years in prison.

Recall that the agency is already talking about the situation in one of the Khabarovsk CCPs.

UPD: Read about the development of the situation.