The role of Ukraine in scams on the removal of housing in Moscow is revealed

The role of Ukraine in scams on the removal of housing in Moscow is revealed

For two years, victims of credit fraud cannot return the apartments they have been sued. The scheme is built on a gap in the law, and the traces of its creators lead to Ukraine. They also have accomplices in Moscow.

Moscow. Metro “Serpukhovskaya”. 1st Lyusinovsky lane, building 3b. Here – a stone’s throw from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs – is the Sherwood Profitable House business center, where the legal address of the criminal microcredit organization “Live Money” is located, on whose account dozens of people who have been deceived and lost their apartments are located.

The guard at the entrance shows a pile of angry appeals that continue to come to the legal address of the railway and wearily gives out memorized phrases that the creditors have long since moved out. Journalists are not uncommon here. Two years ago, a correspondent from one of the TV channels was even beaten at this checkpoint.

At that time, Live Money was accused of collaborating with Ukrainian call centers, which allegedly referred victims to them. Victims were skillfully “guided” by phone from ip-telephony, dragged into Sherwood, where they issued a loan secured by real estate. In the end, the victims of the activities of the scammers decided to give the crooks a fight, reached the federal TV channels and the receptionist head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, but then the process suddenly stalled, and the general director of the railway, 29-year-old Maxim Slizhevsky, was able to justify himself and avoid responsibility.

“The fact that the citizens who turned to us were deceived by someone, we did not know and could not know. The broadcasts that went on the air said that the fraudsters sent all the victims to obtain a loan and sell real estate to our company, on which it was concluded that we were involved in fraud, ”Slizhevsky said in an appeal to deputy Alexander Khinshtein, who then promised to actively fight against microfinance institutions.

Maxim Slizhevsky

Slizhevsky’s office continues to work even now, but at a different address, secretly. According to some reports, one railway office issues loans on Pyatnitskaya Street. Also, in a conversation with Life, Alexander Khinshtein mentioned that he was still working on this topic, but not yet actively.

How “Live Money” deceives the people

Ukrainian call centers are not the only way to bring victims to scammers who recruit provincials on a large scale through ads, motivating them with a percentage of each client.

Often, people with a criminal past, drug addicts and gamers who are ready even to betray loved ones, for a relatively small sum of money, throw them to the swindlers to be torn to pieces.

For example, let’s cite the story of one of the victims, Tatyana Tsindrenkova, whose family borrowed 1.9 million rubles through the railway to pay off a mortgage debt. After some time, her debt increased to 20 million, and her apartment was sold for half the price under the hammer. Tsindrenkova was brought into bondage by a family friend who called the victim, who had lost her own son, “a second mother.”

The essence of the criminal scheme is the substitution of concepts. There is a law prohibiting microfinance organizations (MFOs) from issuing loans to citizens secured by housing, but the scammers managed to find a gap in the law. Although ZhD has all the characteristics of an MFI, legally it is a microcredit company (MCC), which allegedly improves credit history and brings it into contact with real creditors. Moreover, Slizhevsky’s company has acquired a whole network of “consulting credit centers”, which, advising on the hotline, recommend contacting the railway.

To circumvent the law, scammers call themselves “loan brokers”. Their main job is to impose a loan against real estate encumbrance on a victim who has fallen into a difficult life situation, give out the amount in cash and draw up an agreement at extortionate interest. Moreover, the contract is concluded for third-party people who, in combination, are professional lawyers.

From the issued amount “Live money” take 10% “for mediation”. Then, when the time comes to repay the debt, the private creditor in whose name the contract with the victim is concluded begins to hide, waiting for the amount of debt and penalties to skyrocket. Then he sues the debtor and sues the mortgaged property, or asks the court to put it up for auction. Life’s source reports that there is only one way out of this trap – to deposit the amount of the debt on a notary’s deposit with interest, fixing the fact of the creditor’s flight. This is how tricky the Tsindrenkova treaty looks like.

The woman concluded it with a private person, a certain Olga Rogova from Yuzhnouralsk, who tricked her into signing the necessary documents, according to which Tsindrenkova was subsequently to pay 20 million rubles.

Rogova is one of the provincial women in the wings of Slizhevsky. There were several dozen such people at the railway. Despite the fact that the office called these people third-party lenders, Life found out that in everyday life the general director and the same Olga Rogova met and even communicated well in an informal setting.

In the middle is Olga Rogova, to her right is the CEO of “Live Money” Maxim Slizhevsky

Slizhevsky himself is an insignificant character, and the scale of the criminal scheme to take away the only housing, where, according to some sources, at least about a hundred victims appear, indicates that the CEO is only an executor, and not the creator or beneficiary of the scheme.

Under the guise of a police union

On federal TV channels, you can often see an expert in the field of forensics and law, Alexei Lobarev, who is the chairman of the trade union of law enforcement agencies, a public expert of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate and, more recently, a member of the Public Monitoring Commission of Moscow. This person has countless regalia, and one of Lobarev’s superpowers is to resolve issues of federal TV channels with law enforcement agencies.

A person with an infallible reputation may be involved in the criminal stories around “Live Money”. The connection is the most direct – while Lobarev Sr. defends law and order on federal channels, his son Oleg selects apartments who have taken loans through the mediation of the railway. According to legal document registries, Oleg Lobarev appears in several credit fraud cases. For example, he is a witness. The case is civil, but it follows from it that there were at least materials of a criminal investigation.

Oleg Lobarev

In addition to Oleg Lobarev, his wife, Nadezhda Lobareva, who is the chairman of a certain “Association of Legal Support” with an address in the same business center “Profitable House Sherwood”, is also actively involved. Also in the documents on the civil case of “Live Money” is a certain Lobarev Andrey Igorevich. Possibly also a relative.

Nadezhda Lobareva

It was Alexei Lobarev who, after the start of the scandals with Live Money, tried to use his connections on television to defend the dubious honor of this murky organization. This was told to Life by a well-known participant in programs on federal channels, the “queen of scandal” Elina Mazur, who defended Lobarev and his business on one of the programs, but, having learned all the details, changed her mind and immediately fell out of favor with the expert.

On the wave of love for television

It is possible that Lobarev was able to use serious connections among law enforcement officers in order to stop the scandal two years ago. Such, for example, as possessed by a criminal banker, 67-year-old Yuri Glotser. Back in 2019, they discussed his statement to the Investigative Committee of the Moscow Investigative Committee, in which the businessman said that he had given lawyers a lot of money to bribe the courts. Much has changed since that scandal – Russia is now conducting a special military operation, so information about the criminal activities of Ukrainian call centers in conjunction with Russian creditors needs additional research.

Yuri Glotser, who received political asylum in Ukraine, began his career as a businessman with a farce and even sat for currency fraud, which he always denied. Life got a photograph of Yuri Glotser from a certificate that is issued upon leaving the places of detention.

Yuri Glotser

Interestingly, it was Glotser who stood at the origins of microcredit in Russia, legally doing this after 2010, when the Federal Law of July 2, 2010 No. 151-FZ “On microfinance activities and microfinance organizations” was issued. Since December 2011, the Mini-Loan Express company, owned by Glotser, has been operating, which entered into an agency agreement with the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Post and issued loans to low-income pensioners secured by pensions. The borrowing rate was about 50% per week, or, according to Forbes, billions of percent per annum.

Lobarev could well get along with Glotzer on the wave of love for television – some TV channels held accounts in his bank “BFG-credit”, and Glotzer’s series, which were produced by his production center, also played there. After the bank failed in 2016, the channels lost billions, which Glotzer promised to return.

In February 2020, Glotser, who fled abroad, was put on the international wanted list. Despite this, the businessman went on the air twice, where he spoke of his desire to return to Russia on the so-called “London list”. According to Life’s source, who is directly familiar with the inner workings of the TV channels, it was Alexei Lobarev who organized the broadcasts of Glotseru.

The TASS news agency reported that in March 2021, Glotser was excluded from the Interpol wanted list and had already received political asylum in Ukraine, where he is engaged in legal business, building shopping centers in Odessa. Around the same time, the activity of Ukrainian call centers became more active.

Yuri Glotser

Do traces lead to Ukraine?

Life found out that the connection between Ukrainian call centers and scammers from “Live Money” can indeed be traced in the activities of ip-telephony. For such fraud, it is not necessary to create a call center, it is enough to have the necessary connections and money to pay for the order. Throughout this story, strange telephone numbers are constantly flashing, allegedly from the Penza region, starting with 922 or 996. From one such number, for example, they called the victim Tatyana Tsindrenkova, posing as a victim. If you call back to such a number, you get to the switchboard, requiring a voice answer.

Life also has information that may indicate that both Lobareva and Yuri Glotser used the same phone number when registering their cars, the prefix of which also indicates the Penza region – 922. But in fact this number does not exist. A similar number – 79968008000 – was also used by a professional poker player, 39-year-old Dmitry Shterenlicht, who is also involved in taking over the apartments of the victims of the “Live Money” activities. For example, Oleg Lobarev is connected with Shterenlicht through this case.

Dmitry Shterenlicht

Shterenlicht also has a rather criminal biography, and this person may well be the link between “Live Money” and the Dnipro call centers. He was on trial for forgery – art. 327 part 3 of the Criminal Code and escaped from house arrest. He was put on the wanted list on November 23, 2007. Then the criminal case was hushed up.

According to Life, Shterenlicht is registered in a Stalinist building in Moscow on Korchagin Street, but his 911 Porsche can be seen more often at Soho apartments. Shterenlicht also often visits Monaco, where the entire Glozer family lives today. In the phone book they call him that – “Dima Monaco, Dmitry Panamera Monaco, Dmitry Yahta.” Also, someone recorded Shterenlicht as “Druzya Surkis”. On Facebook, he is liked by a certain Svetlana Surkis, the daughter of the president of the Dynamo football club (Kyiv), Igor Surkis, who lives in the Dnieper. In 2016, the legality of writing off the deposits of the Surkis family during the nationalization of Privatbank was one of the most discussed legal disputes in Ukraine.

In the Telegram groups, where Shterenlicht is a member, one can also notice the following: since November 2020, he has been a member of the UKRAINE PEREMOGA Chat, as well as in groups for buying Ukrainian credit cards and crowd investments in Ukraine.

Shterenlicht squanders the millions taken from the victims of “Live Money” in the casinos of Monaco, and Slizhevsky’s people continue to pile up new ones in need of quick money. People fall into bondage, often ending their lives on the street or in a noose. This situation has been going on for a long time, and law enforcement officers know about the cunning scheme for taking away the only housing, but the gap in the law, where the money of these unfortunates flows directly into the pockets of scammers, still gapes. And the victims of the cruel scheme experience despair and total disappointment in the judicial system.