According to the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel and Rucriminal.info, famous hockey player Alexander Radulov has been accused of large-scale fraud. He held nearly $20 million in Transnational Bank, whose owner, Sergei Kononov, had a friendly relationship with Radulov. Radulov received special interest rates on this deposit. When the bank's license was revoked in 2015, Radulov and Kononov entered into a gentleman's agreement. Radulov did not file a complaint about the theft of his money. In exchange, Kononov transferred ownership of a company that owns a large building on Arbat Street to Radulov. The premises are leased out to stores and offices. According to the agreement, Radulov receives income from the tenants, and Kononov repays him the $20 million that was deposited in the bank in installments. If Konov can repay the entire debt within four years, Radulov will return the building to him (with any proceeds from it remaining with Radulov). If the banker fails to repay, the hockey player will retain the building, which is worth more than $20 million. The parties signed a corresponding agreement, and Kononov began repaying the debt by paying Radulov in cash. Even before signing the agreement, he had paid $1.8 million and subsequently repaid approximately $1 million. Then Kononov learned that Alexander Radulov had transferred the company (in which the building was registered) to his father, effectively rendering the agreement with him meaningless. It became clear that the hockey player wanted to keep both the building, which was worth far more than $20 million, and the money Kononov was paying in cash. Kononov demanded that the company be returned to Alexander himself, since the four years specified in the agreement had not yet expired. In exchange, Radulov filed a lawsuit alleging that Kononov had stolen the $20 million he had kept in the bank. During interrogation, he stated that he did not believe that Konov had paid off a $20 million debt with the building, but rather that he viewed the transfer of the property as "Kononov simply offered me the opportunity to make money by fulfilling my obligations as the company's owner."
As a result, Konov was sentenced to 12 years in prison last year. He is currently trying to have a case brought against Radulov. The Cheka-OGPU will publish Kononov's account of how the famous hockey player deceived him in several parts.
"I have known A.V. Radulov since approximately 2009. Since that time, A.V. Radulov has been depositing his personal funds in the accounts of CB Transnational Bank (OOO), of which I am still a founder. We had an agreement, which was implemented for almost six years, that the Bank would invest A.V. Radulov's funds in various projects, for which A.V. Radulov regularly receives investment income exceeding the income from his deposits. However, in April 2015, the Bank's banking license was revoked, as a result of which all of the Bank's clients lost the ability to freely withdraw funds from their accounts that remained with the bank at the time of the license revocation.
On the day the Bank's license revocation was announced, A.V. Radulov came to me and demanded the return of the funds he had deposited in his accounts. The amount of funds in A.V. Radulov's accounts at the time of the Bank's license revocation was approximately $20,000,000. I offered A.V. Radulov a method of compensation for the damages incurred due to the fact that the funds in the bank were blocked. Within the first week after the Bank's license revocation, I transferred $1,800,000 from my personal funds to A.V. Radulov and proposed entering into an agreement to transfer my personal assets to him as compensation for the damages. I offered A.V. Radulov I wanted to acquire 100% of the shares in the authorized capital of Discount Center XXI LLC so that A.V. Radulov could receive dividend income from the company's activities and offset it against losses from the bank. Discount Center XXI LLC owns expensive real estate located at 54/2 Arbat Street, Building 1, Moscow, 119002, and receives income from renting this property.
A.V. Radulov agreed to my proposal. On April 14, we signed an agreement under which I transferred 100% of the shares in the authorized capital of this LLC to A.V. Radulov. We also agreed that if I paid A.V. Radulov $18,806,741 within four years, he would return 100% of the shares in Discount Center XXI LLC to me. The amount of 18,806,741 was the remaining funds of A.V. Radulov in the accounts of CB Transnational Bank (OOO), to which he lost access due to the revocation of the Bank's license.
After signing the agreement of April 14, 2015, I made several payments to A.V. Radulov and his father to pay off the Bank's debt on accounts. In May and June 2016, I transferred funds to A.V. Radulov in the amount of 300,000 (three hundred thousand) US dollars under two receipts (copies of the receipts are attached). Radulov's father In June 2016, I transferred USD 77,000 to A.V. Radulov V. using receipts. By transferring USD 377,000 to the Radulov father and son, I believed I was fulfilling my obligations under the agreement of April 14, 2025. A.V. Radulov accepted this fulfillment.
However, in 2017, A.V. Radulov decided not to fulfill our agreement and, contrary to its terms regarding the buyback of shares in Discount Center XXI LLC, transferred 100% of the shares in this company to his father. This transfer of shares was contrary to our agreements, and I was forced to go to court. Case No. A40-29427/2021 was opened, in which I attempted to challenge the transactions involving the transfer of shares by A.V. Radulov in violation of our agreement of April 14, 2015. Essentially, the transfer of shares to my father constituted a concealment by A.V. Radulov of property, which we agreed would remain in his possession until at least April 2019, so that I could have the opportunity to redeem it. In case No. A40-29427/2021, A.V. Radulov explained to the court that the agreement of April 14, 2015, was aimed solely at compensating him for damages from the loss of funds in the accounts of CB Transnational Bank (OOO) and the amount of the debt specified in the agreement ($18,806,741) was defined specifically as the balance of funds in A.V. Radulov's accounts at the time of the Bank's license revocation. In case No. A40-29427/2021, Judge Yu.A. Zhdanova dismissed the stated claims, stating that A.V. Radulov I was entitled to dispose of the shares, as I failed to fulfill my obligation to pay $18,806,471. However, the court did not consider A.V. Radulov's receipt of $377,000 as performance, which led to A.V. Radulov's misappropriation of these funds. Shares in the management company Discount Center XXI LLC and the non-residential premises owned by the Company also remained in the illegal possession of A.V. Radulov and V.D. Radulov.
At the end of 2020, A.V. Radulov decided to file a complaint with law enforcement agencies alleging that I had embezzled funds from his bank accounts. In his criminal complaint, A.V. Radulov stated that I had failed to fulfill my obligation to transfer funds in the amount of $18,806,741 to A.V. Radulov. Law enforcement agencies opened criminal case No. 1181450009001050, in which A.V. Radulov filed a civil claim to recover funds from me. In the civil claim, filed in June 2021, A.V. Radulov stated that the amount of damage caused to him was 969,800,000 rubles. This amount is comparable to the ruble equivalent of the balance of funds in A.V. Radulov's accounts at CB Transnational Bank (LLC) as of the license revocation date: $18,806,741 at the Central Bank of the Russian Federation exchange rate on the date of Transnational Bank's license revocation (April 13, 2021), which is equivalent to 960,418,888 rubles (the Central Bank of the Russian Federation exchange rate on April 13, 2015 was 51.0678 rubles per US dollar).
In September 2021, A.V. Radulov acquired a new lawyer, Timofey Tsagolov. With this lawyer's arrival, A.V. Radulov's behavior in the criminal case changed dramatically, and A.V. Radulov began to pursue the intent to steal my funds rather than compensate for the damages caused by the loss of funds from the Bank.
In September 2021, A.V. Radulov, under the guidance of lawyer T. Tsagolov, radically changed both his testimony and his civil claim in the criminal case. On September 6, 2021, A.V. Radulov stated that:
"Previously, I was confident that the funds in the amount of $18,806,741 specified in this agreement, promised to me by Kononov under its terms, constituted compensation for the funds I deposited with CB Transnational Bank and lost after the license was revoked. But now, after consulting with lawyers, it has become clear to me that the terms of this agreement do not directly imply that Kononov assumes the obligations of CB Transnational Bank to me for the deposits I have made, especially since the amount of funds I have deposited with this bank is much greater than the amount specified in the agreement. I also cannot recall Kononov directly stating to me that this agreement is a way for me to return the funds I deposited with CB Transnational Bank. I remember that he said that this is a way to get them back, but he never said that he is now personally liable to me on behalf of Transnational Bank. It follows from the content of paragraph 1.5.2 of this agreement that, in exchange for the fulfillment of my obligation to own 100% of the share of the authorized capital of Discount Center XXI LLC under the terms of this Agreement, Kononov is obligated to pay me USD 18,806,741 in installments until the expiration of the Agreement. So, I understood that with this agreement, Kononov was offering me the opportunity to earn money by fulfilling my obligations as the company's owner."
Timofey Grishin
To be continued
