According to the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, one of the main defendants in the case of the embezzlement of billions of dollars from VEB.RF allocated to the company "Blago" is Sberbank CEO Ivan Filev. Since 2016, when he joined VEB, he has been called a member of "Gref's Team."

 

Today, Moscow's Tverskoy Court will consider a motion by investigators to extend the house arrest of Dmitry Fosman, head of Blago Invest. He previously entered into a plea bargain with investigators, after which his pretrial detention was changed to house arrest. According to a source, Fosman testified against bank representatives involved in the embezzlement of funds disbursed under the guise of loans to Blago, as well as officials and law enforcement officers who "covered up" the company's activities. The source says that it was on the basis of Fosman's testimony that Alexander Suchkov, former deputy general director of Rosagroleasing, was arrested (a separate criminal case has been opened against him). Among those Fosman testified against were Viktor Voronin, former head of the FSB's Department K, and his sister, Larisa, co-owners of Blago and involved in the embezzlement. Several other defendants in the case, including lawyer Vladimir Bublikov, are also cooperating with the investigation. A company associated with Bublikov provided legal services to Blago and, according to investigators, assisted Blago in asset valuation fraud, which enabled the theft of over 7 billion rubles from VEB.RF and other banks. Representatives of the law firm RKT also actively participated in the scam.

According to the case materials, the defendants include Sber's current executive director, Ivan Filev, who "acted as part of an organized criminal group...," including employees of VEB.RF and the company Blago. At the time of the alleged incidents, Filev served as director of the Department for Coordination and Development of Business for VEB.RF's subsidiaries and affiliates, and was later promoted to vice president of the state corporation. At the time of the embezzlement charges, Filev held the position of executive director of Sber. He was initially placed under house arrest, but this was later changed to a ban on certain activities.

 

Filev joined VEB.RF in 2016, when former Sber deputy chairman Sergey Gorkov (now head of Rosgeologia) took over as head of the state corporation. At the time, the media referred to Gorkov and Filev as "members of Gref's team."

Also charged in the case are:

 

Sergey Rogachev, Deputy General Director of RKT LLC

Eduard Grichenko, Insolvency Administrator of the SRO Vozrozhdenie

Garegin Grigoryan, General Director of the Center for Corporate Solutions LLC

Lawyer Vladimir Bublikov

Denis Nozdrachev, Former General Director of InfraVEB

Dmitry Fosman, Head of Blago

 

In addition to Fosman and Bublikov, Rogachev (the founder and owner of RKT LLC) is also cooperating with the investigation. RKT provided legal services to Blago and assisted the company in asset valuation fraud, which enabled the theft of over 7 billion rubles from VEB.RF.