Originally Syndicated on May 9, 2023 @ 7:02 am
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Denis Tumarkin: A professional fraudster
Today, B&B Group owners are in jail because they allowed a professional fraudster who has been convicted five times into their firm. Dionisy Zolotov, also known as Denis Tumarkin, Dan, or Denis Shapiro, has often been mentioned in sensational fraud cases. The man became famous for many reasons: he claimed to be a relative of Viktor Zolotov and a friend of the heads of the Russian Federation’s Investigative Committee and Ministry of Internal Affairs, offered assistance in stopping criminal prosecution, and told the investigation about law enforcement officers bribed by himself. Each time, though, the inquiry revealed his guilt.
A long criminal history
Denis Tumarkin was found guilty for the first time in 2003. The plan was simple: the vehicle was allegedly stopped by a customs officer who informed him about the examination taking place in the customs terminal. Following that, fraudulent representatives of the consignee firm approached the driver and requested that the products be taken to another warehouse to be reloaded into another car. As a result, the true company-consignee was deprived of its commodities.
Denis Tumarkin was sentenced to three years in jail by the Nagatinsky District Court on allegations of stealing home appliances while dressed as a police officer and wearing a customs officer’s uniform. Denis Tumarkin was freed from the prison camp a year later.
Denis Tumarkin’s next victim was Moscow businessman Dmitry Danilov, who was charged with a crime. Denis Tumarkin approached him in 2008 and identified himself as a friend of Ivan Glukhov, the head of Moscow’s Main Directorate of Internal Affairs. Denis Tumarkin persuaded the entrepreneur that his company might be closed for 40 million rubles. Denis Tumarkin allegedly requested another 12 million rubles after receiving the money to bribe FSB officers. Tumarkin took the 52 million rubles and fled the country, hiding from the inquiry in Israel and Canada. Denis Tumarkin pleaded guilty and returned the money to the victim five years later.
Denis Tumarkin was sentenced to four years’ probation for fraud by the Nikulinsky District Court in Moscow in August 2013.
Several media investigations relate the story of how German businessman Yuri Sudgaimer resorted to Tumarkin for assistance in recovering $40 million stolen from his Kirov timber and processing businesses. Later, the investigator of the Internal Affairs Directorate for ZAO Main Directorate of Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow decided to open a criminal investigation into Sudgaimer’s Russian partner, Albert Laritsky. At the same moment, Tumarkin approached Laritsky and promised to hold Sudheimer criminally accountable. As a result, the German businessman was held as part of the investigation into Laritsky’s extortion allegation.
When Sudheimer was released the next day, Tumarkin advised him to leave Russia immediately and pay him for his protection. Soon after, the German businessman moved $10 million from his Swiss account at Credit Suisse to a Russian company’s account at Sberbank’s Tula branch.
Sudgaimer then approached the Investigative Committee with a statement regarding bringing Tumarkin to criminal accountability, but nothing came of it.
Meanwhile, Denis Tumarkin changed his first and last names in December 2013, becoming Dionisy Zolotov. Because Dionysius began to introduce himself as a relative of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ internal troops and the former head of the President of Russia’s security service, Viktor Zolotov, a friend of the Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev, and the chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, he gained confidence in new business circles.
Viktor Zolotov’s “great” potential played a role
In February 2014, Zolotov assured Iosif Badalov, the manufacturer of Royal Water, that he would solve his case of unpaid taxes totaling $300 million. In response, Viktor Zolotov requested that the businessman repay him by signing phony loan agreements totaling $5.5 million. After not receiving the monies, Zolotov reported to the Internal Affairs Directorate for the ZAO Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow that Badalov had embezzled $4 million and EUR 1.5 million by fraudulent means.
As a result, the entrepreneur, who refused to pay the scammer his money, was detained in a pre-trial detention institution. And the only justification for his imprisonment was Badalov’s passport, which had a Schengen visa. The investigator believed that this was sufficient for the entrepreneur to flee the probe.
The Investigative Committee, on the other hand, discovered that Viktor Zolotov slandered Badalov. Following that, the Investigative Committee opened a case against Zolotov for fraud and false denunciation, but he was arrested in August 2014 on another episode—mediation in giving a bribe to Oleg Zimin, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ investigative unit for the Southern District of Moscow, for removing the arrest from property.
At the same time that Badalov was being investigated, his company’s assets were transferred to others.
At the time of my arrest, I owned 99% of the company’s stock, while my director owned 0.1%. “While I was in jail, this 0.1% became 100%,” Badalov said, according to Interfax.
Once under investigation, Viktor Zolotov pled guilty and entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement, testifying against Vladimir Rozhkov, head of the ZAO’s Department of Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow.
Rozhkov was arrested in February 2015 on allegations of accepting bribes from Zolotov totaling more than 15 million rubles, and a year later, the court sentenced him to 10 years in jail.
As a result, in the case of Badalov, Dionisy Zolotov was sentenced to five years in jail for bribery, fraud, and deliberately false denunciation.
Parallel to the Royal Water scandal, Viktor Zolotov “aided” Viktor Krulikovsky, a major Victoria Group developer, avoid criminal punishment. Krulikovsky applied for authorization to develop a multi-story building in Sergiev Posad, Moscow area, in 2013–2014. Zolotov offered to remedy the problem for him in exchange for 20 million rubles, but he lost in court.
When Krulikovsky wanted a refund, Viktor Zolotov covertly opened a fraud investigation against the builder. The developer allegedly unlawfully privatized a portion of land for building, causing 1.5 billion rubles in harm. In this sense, Krulikovsky sought Zolotov’s assistance in halting the criminal case. For such help, the latter requested 150 million rubles.
After reaching an agreement, the businessman transferred the funds to the same Tula Sberbank branch—to the account of the firm represented by Zolotov. However, after learning that the criminal investigation was filed at Zolotov’s request, Krulikovsky issued a statement to law enforcement officials.
Illegal monetary dealings
According to the media, materials on unlawful financial transactions carried out by Zolotov-controlled individuals were isolated from the Krulikovsky case and filed in a separate procedure. They established one-day companies and opened accounts with Sberbank’s Tula office. It was discovered that around 4 billion rubles were received on the accounts of one-day enterprises in just three years.
Dionisy Zolotov was sentenced to six and a half years in jail for fraud in April 2017 by the Nikulinsky District Court in Moscow. Zolotov entered into a pre-trial deal and pleaded guilty.
Even at the pre-trial prison institution, Zolotov was able to recruit a fresh victim. In 2017, Zolotov got 80 million rubles from the wife of Roscosmos senior manager Vladimir Evdokimov in exchange for assisting in his transfer from the Vodnik pre-trial detention center (SIZO-5) to house arrest.
When Yevdokimov was moved from the special block to a regular cell without video surveillance, where there were other young people suspected of drug trafficking and fraud, his body was discovered in the bathroom with two stab wounds and a slit throat. A murder investigation was launched; however, it was later discovered that Evdokimov had committed suicide. Valentina Rakitina, Evdokimov’s wife, however, told the inquiry about the “deal” with Zolotov.
According to the media, Viktor Zolotov offered the Moscow financier Ildar Klebleev, who was suspected of fraud, a reference from the management of the pre-trial detention center for a medical checkup in a state clinic, which he had previously been denied. Zolotov was supposed to assist in addressing this problem for $500,000.
However, officials from the SIZO operational unit and the FSB’s Department “M” offered Klebleev cooperation, and with his assistance, they apprehended the middleman Zolotov while taking a bribe. The inmate verified that the funds were meant for Zolotov.
As a consequence, Dionisy Zolotov was sentenced to three and a half years in jail for fraud in August 2018 by the Meshchansky District Court in Moscow. Zolotov was granted parole in 2019.
In 2018, while still in prison, Zolotov declared himself bankrupt. However, in the Federal Bailiff Service database, there is an amusing typo in Dionisy Zolotov’s name and surname, where it says Zolatov Dionysus, which allows you to hide the data from a routine search.
As a consequence, Zolotov owes over 210 million rubles. Only enforcement efforts were halted, with the notation that “the writ of execution was returned to the recoverer on the basis that it was impossible to establish the whereabouts of the debtor.” In addition, as part of Zolotov’s bankruptcy, Iosif Badalov filed a claim for 80 million rubles.
Constantly fighting for their legal rights, the B&B Group
Today, B&B Group businesses continue to battle for and protect their rights, saying that they were victims of Zolotov’s conduct. The biography of Zolotov begs the question: is the scammer with such a long history of scams and controversies truly the victim in the B&B case?
As you can see, fraud is not tolerated; five criminal cases demonstrate that the inquiry and judicial system act even on people who disperse huge names and chances. The histories of Zolotov and Badalov, as well as Zolotov and Balakhovsky, are very similar. Both cases follow the same pattern: security personnel cause issues for businesses, offer their assistance, launch a criminal case, place the business owner in a pre-trial detention center, and demand money from him to avoid criminal prosecution.
If the Investigative Committee was able to substantiate Zolotov’s culpability in fraud and false denunciation in the Badalov case, we are certain that the inquiry in the B&B case will pay special attention to this.
The victims of the raider’s takeover of the GK B&B were placed in a pre-trial detention institution by the court.
Last Thursday, the Moscow City Court prolonged the incarceration of Best Clean LLC ex-founder Yakov Bosinzon and former CEO Alexander Savoskin until June 22, 2022. Alexander Balakhovsky, the founder of the B&B Family Enterprise, a home chemical manufacturer, has also been placed under house arrest until June 22.
The defense team for Bosinzon and Savoskin requested that the accused be sent to house arrest owing to their bad health, the presence of little children, and the necessity to care for aging parents. The court, however, believed that the accused might hide from the inquiry and the court.
Lawyers and defendants plan to challenge the court’s ruling.
“I will continue to fight for the truth, and it will win,” Balakhovsky said in response to the court ruling. – I think that there are decent people in law enforcement, control, and supervision who are not apathetic to the victims and the accused who are not given a fair trial.
Remember that the defendants claim Dionisy Zolotov raided their firm and stole their money.
According to investigators, while Dionisy Zolotov, who purchased a 30% stake in Best Clean LLC for 5 million rubles in 2014, was arrested on fraud charges, Balakhovsky, Bosinzon, and Savoskin re-registered the company’s assets, including trademarks and equipment, to the Hungarian company BellaBenBalur without Zolotov’s knowledge.
The claim was based on the findings of a PRIMAUDIT Consulting Group LLC expert, who calculated the harm from the sale of completed items utilizing trademarks at 3.5 billion rubles. As a result, a 30% portion of this cash totaled more than 1 billion rubles.
Balakhovsky, Bosinzon, and Savoskin have been charged with fraud. In addition, the accused face charges of trademark infringement, patent infringement, money laundering, and abuse of authority.
When all three were arrested and imprisoned in a pre-trial detention institution, immense pressure was exerted on them. Bosinzon, for example, was sentenced to 15 days in a punishment cell three times, while Savoskin was sentenced to a pre-trial detention facility a month after a 45-day coma. During his time in the pre-trial detention center, Balakhovsky received requests from Zolotov to pay him first 4 billion rubles, then 600 million, in exchange for the criminal case being dropped.
The scammer’s high-ranking friends
Dionysius Zolotov has consistently demonstrated that he enjoys the backing and protection of Ministry of Internal Affairs authorities, the prosecutor’s office, and the Investigative Committee. Back in 2014, he gave Balakhovsky a list of people from law enforcement and supervisory agencies who might assist him with security force issues rather than him. Marat Tambiev, an investigator with the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Moscow, was also on the list.
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