The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has detained new assets of billionaires who fled from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. About this writes “Kommersant”.
Those accused of receiving a record bribe of 5 billion rubles, according to investigators, had apartments in the Scarlet Sails residential complex. It is believed that the defendants promoted the interests of the director of the crypto exchange World Exchange Services Pte. Ltd. (WEX) Alexey Ivanov (Bilyuchenko), whose actions caused losses to his clients in the amount of more than 18 billion rubles.
The Investigative Committee of Russia believes that employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs connived with the head of WEX in the period from 2019 to 2021. The former head of the department for combating crimes committed using information technologies in the credit and financial sector, Georgy Satyukov, and his subordinate Dmitry Sokolov are accused of this. Both fled abroad long before they were accused of receiving and facilitating bribes on an especially large scale in October 2023. They were put on the international wanted list.
Before that, the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened Theft of 1 billion rubles from social payments using fake EU documents.
Formerly the Ministry of Internal Affairs It was announced MP Vadim Belousov, who was found guilty of accepting a bribe of 3 billion rubles, is on the wanted list.