Source: www.rucriminal.info

The payment platform Mobi.Money, owned by the state bank VTB, came to the attention of many information resources last week. Rucriminal.info wrote about the fraudulent activities of this structure related to the work of illegal casinos Joycasino, Mostbet and JoinUS back in December last year.

The legal entities of the platform are JSC Mobi.Money and its subsidiary LLC NPO Mobi.Money. Until 2021, according to open sources, the founders of JSC Mobi.Money were LLC Processing Technologies, CJSC VTB Asset Management, Alexander Krupnov and Andrey Skorodumov. Currently, the beneficiaries of the platform are not indicated.

Alexander Krupnov was Deputy Minister of Communications in the 90s, and from 2015 to 2020, he headed PJSC VimpelCom. Krupnov was replaced in this post by Alexander Torbakhov, who had already been the company's CEO in 2009-2010. After that, he worked at Sberbank until 2018, and in 2023 he became the main owner of PJSC VimpelCom assets, representing the interests of the Russian government. Internet provider Beeline, owned by PJSC VimpelCom, is a partner of the Mobi.Money platform along with MTS, Megafon and smaller operators.

 

In February last year, Mobi.Money acquired a partner Kefirium, the first NFT marketplace in Russia that allows transactions with digital assets using ruble bank cards without using cryptocurrency. The legal entity of Kefirium is Talimane LLC, registered in St. Petersburg back in 2016. The company develops computer software. Its founders are Oleg Zolotarev and Mistroy LLC. Previously, Zolotarev was the head of Processing Technologies LLC and its successor, Processing Technologies CJSC.

The co-owner of both of these companies, related to Mobi.Money JSC, was Five Key Estate LLC, owned by FIVE KEY INVEST AND ASSETS HOLDING LIMITED from Liechtenstein and Ivan Kuznetsov. He headed Mobi.Money JSC from 2013 to 2021. That year, Kuznetsov received an order from the Central Bank due to personal bankruptcy and was forced to leave his post.

Currently, Ivan Kuznetsov is the head and founder, together with Oleg Zakharzhevsky, of Alkor Holding LLC, which develops computer software. Information about the address and CEO of the LLC has been found to be false, which confirms Kuznetsov's participation in some shady schemes.

As Rucriminal.info found out, the offshore company FIVE KI INVEST AND ASSETS HOLDING LIMITED owned Amkodor LLC, which was liquidated in 2020, together with INTERNATIONAL COMPANY LARDEN LIMITED084 from Belize. Mobi. Money JSC was registered in 2009 and has since been associated with offshore companies, despite Vladimir Putin's demand for deoffshorization of the Russian economy.

The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel wrote that Mobi.Dengi operates unnoticed, taking 30-175 rubles from hundreds of thousands of people. Many simply do not notice this, and in the end, an impressive amount is obtained, part of which goes offshore.

According to various sources, 100 million rubles pass through the NPO Mobi.Dengi daily. The general director of this company, Marina Krasenkova, previously worked at the Central Bank and is closely associated with employees of the state bank VTB - her older sister Victoria Vanurina, who holds the post of a member of the bank's board, and her husband Vladimir Vanurin, a former employee of VTB Capital.

Marina Krasenkova took the position of head of NPO Mobi.Dengi LLC in 2021. Before that, the post was held for 4 months by Alexey Kirichek, who replaced Alexey Tserek. The latter was the founder of ZAO Platezh.ru, which was liquidated in 2021, from 2014 to 2022. Previously, Tserek worked at Okean Bank, which lost its license in 2016 due to a high-risk credit policy - it placed funds in low-quality assets. In 2013, Alexey Kirichek was the head of the retail business support department at TransCreditBank, which became part of VTB 24 that same year.

Vladimir Vanurin is associated with the American company BGC Partners and BGC Partners CIS LLC. The former provides financial services, has headquarters in New York and London, as well as offices around the world. The second company, which carries out brokerage transactions with securities and commodities, belongs to the Cypriot offshore JADESTONE CONSULTANTS LIMITED, whose director and secretary is INTER JURA CY LIMITED. Its managers are individuals associated with several dozen Cypriot offshore companies.

In the fall of 2023, Mobi.Money JSC, by decision of an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, reduced its authorized capital from 529.4 million rubles to 399.9 million rubles. This could have been done for the purpose of additional payment to shareholders in the absence of sufficient profit. In 2023, Mobi.Money JSC received a profit of 39 million rubles for the first time, before that the company had been operating in the red since 2014, bringing losses of 500 million rubles to its shareholders, which only confirms the version of the possible withdrawal of money to offshore companies.

To prove this, JSC Mobi.Dengi and LLC NPO Mobi.Dengi must be targeted by security forces.

 

Denis Zhirnov

Source: www.rucriminal.info