The former state banker (who headed the state-controlled bank Evrofinance Mosnarbank) and the custodian of the FSB of the Russian Federation Vladimir Stolyarenko, as it turned out, lives peacefully in the United States. Moreover, he lives like a billionaire. According to The New York Post, Stolyarenko recently became the buyer of a luxury apartment from the billionaire and owner of Domodedovo Airport Valery Kogan in the New York Plaza Hotel, decorated in the style of "extreme Versailles".

The 492 sq. m. apartment on the 10th floor of the building at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and South Central Park in Manhattan with views of Central Park, 24-karat gold leaf trim and Venetian plaster was sold for more than half the original price - for $21 million with an initial cost of $50 million.

Stolyarenko fled abroad not alone, but with his eternal partner Alexander Bondarenko. This couple had been operating in the Russian Federation for many years together with their closest friends and partners, high-ranking employees of the FSB of the Russian Federation. Details are available at the VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info.

Kirill Cherkalin headed the second department of the Directorate "K" of the FSB of the Russian Federation. He was introduced to Gladelkin and Tkach by his immediate supervisor Dmitry Frolov. In April 2021, taking into account Cherkalin's sincere confession, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for bribery and fraud on an especially large scale. However, other accomplices and two bankers (Stolyarenko and Bondarenko) managed to get away with it. And there is no talk of a sincere confession here.

According to the Investigative Committee, Stolyarenko and Bondarenko deceived businessman Sergei Gladelkin and his cousin Igor Tkach into ceding 49% of the shares of the company they controlled for a pittance. Bankers Bondarenko and The Stolyarenkos developed this plan back in late 2004, but only fully took on the scam after they had discussed all the details and secured support. That’s when, according to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, this organized crime group was born.

In the early 2000s, Sergey Glyadelkin and Igor Tkach began to actively engage in development. They used their own money and loans as a source of financing. Thanks to the latter, the businessmen met Stolyarenko and Bondarenko, who held senior positions at Eurofinance Mosnarbank.

To participate in the tender for the purchase of investment rights to the Levoberezhny 1, 2 project, Stolyarenko and Bondarenko proposed Yurpromconsulting LLC (YUPC), co-owned by Glyadelkin and Tkach.

Eurofinance signed a loan agreement, and YUPC received the money. The final profit from this investment project was divided in accordance with the existing shares in YUPC: 50% in favor of Glyadelkina and Tkach, 50% – bank structures (Stolyarenko and Bondarenko emphasized this each time).

Eurofinance became the pledgee of investment rights as a security measure for the credit obligation of YPK: if the latter does not repay the loan, the bank will become the owner of 100% of YPK’s share in the project and the owner of Yurpromconsulting itself.

The first signals about Stolyarenko and Bondarenko’s dishonesty in investment matters were already coming in then, but the bankers reassured the developers.

Glyadelkina and Tkach were dissuaded from registering all the rights in their own name and advised not to rush into entering the London Stock Exchange. The businessmen believed that the money received from the sales would go towards repaying the loan, as was stated in the documents. Thus, the purpose of the general credit agreement signed at the end of 2008 was stated to be further financing of the construction of new buildings, apartments and garages. The partners did not suspected that the loans remained outstanding for the next three years, and a new goal appeared in the general loan agreement.

The bankers continued to assure the developers that there were no problems with loan repayment, citing the absence of letters about debt or late payment. Glyadelkin and Tkach learned the opposite from the criminal case materials. In the fall of 2009, Stolyarenko and Bondarenko reported that the future of the projects was under threat: due to a new order from the Central Bank, Eurofinance needed to create “additional reserves in connection with poor-quality collateral.” But the transfer of only 1% of the developers’ shares in the authorized capital of the companies would help solve this problem and resume financing. According to the bankers, this operation did not change the balance of power - the profit was distributed between the partners as before. But the controlling stake in UPC was actually concentrated in the hands of Stolyarenko and Bondarenko. Now they could make corporate decisions within UPC unilaterally. What they and took advantage of it.

Immediately after the transfer of 1% of shares in favor of the "bank structures", an additional agreement was signed, which the developers were not informed about.

A new purpose was added to the general loan agreement, which allowed the funds from the next loan to be used to pay off the previous one. Up until October 20, 2009, interest was calculated on the loan, and the money from the sale of Stolyarenko and Bondarenko's apartments was used for personal purposes.

In 2011, the ex-bankers secured the support of an employee of the central office