Source: www.rucriminal.info
Previously convicted under the "drug" article, blogger Andrei Alistarov positions himself as Robin Hood, fighting against those who "deceived people" - but in reality, he works in the interests of pyramid schemers, promotes online casinos and black crypto exchange/phishing crypto fraud through his channel "Iron Rate", launders drug proceeds through real estate transactions in Dubai.
That is, he works in the interests of the Russian criminal community, trying to profit from entrepreneurs who have faced illegal, often custom-made claims from Russian law enforcement agencies.
Drugs and money laundering
A native of Kaluga, Alistarov served four years in a camp - for selling drugs to children.
There he got in touch with criminal authorities and, after leaving prison, continued to participate in the criminal business of distributing drugs and laundering drug proceeds from them with the help of a real estate business that Alistarov created together with partners from the Russian criminal community in Russia and the Emirates.
Betting on a scam
Alistarov's channel "Iron Bet" - "exposing" the wrong (in the opinion of the criminal world) financial projects and promoting the "right" ones: pyramids and online casinos that sponsor Alistarov.
It began as a channel about the "right" bets in casinos and did not change the name - because the marketing task remained the same: to clear the field for the "good", in the "expert" opinion of Alistarov (that is, those who paid him), scammers.
Usually Alistarov begins with an attempt at extortion - he presents the victim with incriminating evidence and offers to pay. If the victim refuses, harassment and violence are used.
Incitement and attack in Dubai
On January 1, 2025, a brutal attack by two Kazakhstanis on an entrepreneur living in Dubai took place - they beat him, cut off his ear, and robbed him.
Before this, Alistarov shot 12 videos where he highlighted the address of this entrepreneur, published illegally obtained information about his relatives and his businesses in the UAE. Without any embarrassment, he used peeping, eavesdropping, illegal entry, interference with privacy - all that in the Emirates, where the inviolability of property and life of investors is strictly observed, is a serious criminal offense.
Before this, Alistarov publicly disseminated information about the place of residence of this entrepreneur's business partner - that is, illegal violation of confidentiality, financial and property security, privacy with the help of hidden sources of information and informants in the UAE entered his system. He terrorizes entrepreneurs against whom there are no convictions from the courts - either abroad or in Russia.
Alistarov said that he reported the entrepreneur to Interpol and the UAE law enforcement agencies - allegedly he is helping law enforcement agencies. But for some reason this did not lead to the arrest of the entrepreneur - maybe because the UAE police do not see any crime in his activities?
A number of the entrepreneur's partners have been convicted in Russia, he himself is wanted by Russian law enforcement agencies - but has not been convicted. Foreign law enforcement agencies have no claims against him.
Alistarov has been inciting hatred towards the entrepreneur for a long time - saying that it was this entrepreneur (and not his partners) who stole the investors' money. And he presented the case as if he was attacked and robbed by outraged investors.
During the attack, he himself arranged an unscheduled stream to provide himself with an alibi - supposedly he did not know that an attack was taking place during the stream.
Surveillance in Cyprus
Last fall, Alistarov, together with his combat girlfriend Maria Folomova, organized surveillance of another entrepreneur - using quadcopters, illegally collecting information about him and his relatives, including minor children. Alistarov claimed that the entrepreneur was hiding in Cyprus - although he had been living there since the coronavirus pandemic.
The relocation was due to the entrepreneur's wife's severe case of coronavirus, as well as international projects - investments in various sectors of the economy: construction, trade and others.
The entrepreneur moved to Cyprus a year before the criminal case was initiated by the investigative bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a year and a half before the arrests. He has a European Union passport and has not run away from anyone, has not hidden and is not hiding.
The entrepreneur was put on the wanted list in Russia in 2022 - but by the investigative bodies. The court did not make any claims against him, the criminal case is currently being considered by the court - and has already fallen apart in court. Interpol and the European Union refused to accept the claims of the Russian police, considering them politically motivated and legally unfounded. Alistarov claims that investments in business projects are carried out at the expense of the money of Russian clients of one of the Austrian investment companies - however, the entrepreneur has never been either the owner, beneficiary, or manager of this company, created back in the early 2000s -x - long before the start of his independent business career.
One of the entrepreneur's companies provided marketing support for the products of this investment company in Russia under an agreement with it. The investment company successfully worked with Russian clients for eight years - and now continues to work, having restored the payment system that was brought down in early 2022 by criminals associated with corrupt police officers in Russia. It is not a pyramid scheme.
Thus, Alistarov is organizing a persecution, an interference in the private life of an entrepreneur who has not tarnished himself in any way - on the orders of the Russian criminal world, who took a share in corrupt police officers, who are seeking to take away assets worth 20 billion rubles from a large social, people's project created by the entrepreneur in Russia - which continues to function successfully without his leadership (which ceased with the move to Cyprus).
Surveillance in the Netherlands
Alistarov published data on the location of another victim in the Netherlands - in the city of Groningen - found through illegal surveillance. Alistarov illegally connected to city television cameras, looked into the windows of a private apartment - and published the information on YouTube.
Privacy violation in Turkey
Alistarov discovered and published the location of the apartment in which several of his victims lived and worked in Istanbul.
Illegal search in the Leningrad region
Alistarov, who does not have a private detective license, illegally found the country house of a businesswoman and put her under surveillance - with illegal publication of information on his channels. In parallel, he provided data on the apartment she purchased in Dubai.
Blackmail in Kazakhstan
Alistarov blackmailed entrepreneurs from Kazakhstan - under the guise of "exposing national traitors" and "enemies of the motherland".
Western media have already paid attention to Alistarov's activities.
Tomasz Wiszniewski
Source: www.rucriminal.info
