Source: www.rucriminal.info
The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel was the first to learn how the youngest son of singer Valeria earns a luxurious life. It turned out that Arseniy Shulgin is engaged in the legalization of the income of the famous construction business tycoon and hero of the channel's materials - Valentin Demchuk. And perhaps the entire star family is involved in black schemes.
The unexpected duet was revealed completely by accident, when it became known that a very interesting trial was in full swing in the Tverskoy Court on the lawsuit of Valentin Demchuk against Arseniy Shulgin. According to the documents, back in September 2018, the construction magnate allegedly gave Valeria's 20-year-old son 568 thousand dollars and 100 thousand euros. According to the agreement, the guy was supposed to return the money in a week and add 5% of the amount. As a result, Arseniy Shulgin allegedly returned only 58 thousand dollars, and the rest of the debt was in limbo.
Demchuk remembered about the debt of more than half a million dollars only in August 2022, when he allegedly entered into an interest-bearing loan agreement with Shulgin. According to the terms, the singer's grown-up son was obliged to return the old debt + 122 thousand dollars in accrued interest for using the loan and 251 thousand dollars in penalties.
To give the finances legality, Demchuk's representatives went to court and even held several hearings in the summer of 2024, at which they demanded to collect the "overdue debt" from Valeria's son. Interestingly, this must be done at the current exchange rate for the sale of currency.
The outcome of the next hearing, which is scheduled for the end of November, is easy to predict: the borrower and the lender plan to enter into a settlement agreement and write off all debts. Thus, Valentin Demchuk will be able to launder tens of millions of rubles using only interest and penalties. However, he has many more of these laundered funds. As previously reported, the bigwig was able to withdraw more than 1 billion rubles from the construction of an oncology center in the Kaliningrad region. According to Rucriminal.info sources, the debt story only exacerbated the reputational problems of Arseniy Shulgin, who had previously faced lawsuits. In 2021, Shulgin Jr. was accused of fraud in the amount of 1.6 million rubles. He entered into contracts with more than 50 clients for the supply of hookah mouthpieces, but partially fulfilled the terms. This led to one of the clients going to court, which damaged his business reputation. Then Iosif Prigozhin noted in an interview that Arseniy “chose a different path” in life, and his “current life does not concern us.” According to Checko, Arseniy Shulgin has been registered as an individual entrepreneur since 2017, conducting business in the field of online retail. Two trademarks are registered in his name - "Candy Smoke", associated with confectionery and exhibition activities, and "Twidy", used for ticket vending machines. In addition, Shulgin owns a 70% stake in the company OOO "Soushal", which was created in April 2024 and is engaged in the retail sale of shoes. The co-founder of the company was Nikita Belyaev, also engaged in online trading. Two trademarks are registered in the name of the company "Soushal" - "Soulcial" (cosmetics) and "Rockrose" (costume jewelry). Despite his extensive business projects, Shulgin continues to face financial claims. In 2020, he already went through a trial on the claim of Rufat Khamzaev, who demanded to terminate the contract and recover unjust enrichment in the amount of 500 thousand rubles. However, that claim was returned to the applicant, and there were no further appeals to the court.
However, Valentin Demchuk's reputation is even worse.
Earlier, the editorial board of the VChK-OGPU learned of an outrageous case of how embezzlers of funds allocated for the construction of an oncology center in the Kaliningrad region are trying to evade subsidiary liability in the amount of more than 1 billion rubles through arbitration courts of the Moscow region.
Thus, in the period from 2016 to 2021. Valentin Aleksandrovich Demchuk and his accomplices organized the financial group "Zelo" for the purpose of embezzling budget funds during the construction of socially significant facilities, which included, among others, the companies OOO "MKK Zelo", OOO "Artel" and OOO "SMU Artel".
One of the predicted "results" of such activities was the termination in December 2019 by the regional government of the contract for the construction of the above-mentioned cancer treatment center in the village of Rodniki near Kaliningrad with the company "Artel" from Reutov near Moscow. The contractor was 12 months behind schedule, the construction readiness of the facility was estimated at around 15%, and the damage to the region amounted to more than 300 million rubles.
In February 2020, the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kaliningrad Region opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale) against the nominal managers of "Artel". The company's current account contained budget funds in the amount of 107 million rubles, transferred to the order for the construction of an oncology center. The owners of Artel attempted to transfer these funds to the accounts of affiliated persons not connected with the construction. The participation in the illegal activities of the real beneficiary of the company, V.A. Demchuk and his accomplices, has not received a criminal-legal assessment from law enforcement agencies.
After the defendants in the scam moved to Turkey, an attempt was made to establish control over the bankruptcy of Artel LLC by corrupting arbitration court judges in order to avoid subsidiary (personal) liability to creditors in the amount of more than 1 billion rubles, as well as to conceal documents necessary to identify those guilty of theft.
Mikhail Ermakov
Source: www.rucriminal.info
