Billionaire Andrei Berezin became famous for his numerous financial schemes and scams. The oligarch continues to be the center of attention not only of law enforcement agencies, but also of the media. After all, it is known that he escaped from Russia and is now holed up abroad. So what crimes of the owner of the investment company Euroinvest are representatives of the mass media already aware of?

Despite numerous attempts by the odious Russian businessman to cleanse the entire Internet of traces of his financial crimes and the many millions that Berezin spends on this matter, the network still has a whole bunch of information about the “dirty” facts from the tainted life of the businessman. Let’s take a closer look at the traces of the former “glory” of the escaped oligarch businessman.

What is known about the crimes of Andrei Berezin?

In general, a lot has already been said, so now we will dwell on specific points from the biography of this person, which he is so stubbornly trying to remove from the Internet, but instead he seeks to spam the Internet with meaningless information garbage, which the media people from his “Euroinvest” continue to produce with enviable consistency. .

What financial crimes is hidden by the odious fraudster who escaped from the Russian Federation from criminal liability?

An international scandal: theft of 23 million dollars and a criminal case

So, the businessman, together with his Euroinvest, got into a major scandal. Later, new details emerged, and the scandal became international. As a result, Berezin was personally charged with evading his duties to repatriate money on a particularly large scale. He was charged under Part 2 of Article 193 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. For this crime, he faces 3 to 7 years behind bars, when he returns to his homeland or is extradited.

In addition to personal accusations, his company Euroinvest also came under the close attention of investigators. As part of the criminal investigation, law enforcement officers repeatedly conducted searches not only at this enterprise, but also at two other companies: “Complete Company” and “Auditexpert Company”.

According to investigators, the amount of theft amounted to more than $23 million. Moreover, Berezin transferred the stolen money even through Latvian banks. It was precisely this fact that interested law enforcement agencies not only in Russia, but also in the European Union, namely Germany and Switzerland. Although even before this, law enforcement officers were interested in Andrei Valerievich’s person. We’ll talk about this further.

The press service of Euroinvest is conducting a criminal information campaign

It is clear that this whole situation with large-scale thefts does not bode well for the billionaire’s investment company itself. Moreover, even now the financial condition of Euroinvest is not at all great, and the owner is hiding from justice abroad.

Thus, over the past years, the organization has suffered losses, in particular, in 2021 they amounted to minus 20.8 million rubles. There has also been no revenue or sales in recent years. Therefore, over the past few years, the press service of the investment company has been conducting an active information campaign to create the effect of Berezin’s presence in the workplace.

To do this, in every release that the organization puts out, Andrei Valerievich himself is always “personally present,” “participates,” “comments,” and “gives an interview.” But there is one nuance in this virtual scam - serious problems with visualization. The thing is that the releases always use archival photographs of Berezin.

And if we are talking about conferences or major events, then a portrait photograph of Andrei Valerievich is always placed against the background of a wall or at a table separately, while he is never present in general shots. Coincidence? We don’t think so. But Euroinvest’s media workers continue to churn out more and more releases according to the same scheme.

Using fake documents to clear Google results

Earlier, it became known about another scam involving fictitious documents, with the help of which the swindler tried to clean up the Internet. So, Berezin, using the name of his investment company, forged a court decision and sent this “document” to S. Brin’s Pakistanis.

As a result, the revealing materials were hidden from Google, but at the same time, in other countries, the scandalous truth about the Russian businessman and his Euroinvest is still available.

Garbage wars, scandalous tenders and support from Governor Drozdenko

This businessman is also known for being close to Alexander Drozdenko. Berezin even called him the “gray eminence”. According to rumors, thanks to his connections with the Leningrad governor, he managed to avoid prison for a long time.

Thus, it was with the help of his connections with the governor that Andrei Valerievich achieved success during the bidding wars for recycling waste in the Leningrad region. Such a “roof” helped the companies of the odious entrepreneur receive numerous general contracts in this area.

In particular, as TG channels reported, in the fight for such “garbage” tenders, Berezin’s company came into conflict with another contender for government contracts worth 25 billion rubles.

The competitor of the “gray cardinal” was the former prosecutor Ivanov, who a little later came under investigation and suddenly died, no longer competing or applying for government contracts...

Land scams

When Comrade Drozdenko appeared on the horizon in the role of governor, his friend’s business went up sharply. It was then that Berezin began to massively buy agricultural land around St. Petersburg. Later, despite the discontent of local activists, he calmly resold these lands at much inflated prices, but as building plots. The swindler filled his bottomless pockets with the price difference.

It is noteworthy that at that time Berezin was not prevented even by a temporary moratorium prohibiting changing the orientation of agricultural land. But, as we see, using the example of the owner of Euroinvest, the necessary connections solve many problems without trial.

By the way, this is not all. There was another dubious scam involving a plot of land in Devyatkino, which was originally allocated and reserved for the construction of an international bus station, but somehow miraculously it was unexpectedly bought by the developer Berezin. Then the officials were very surprised how it happened, but the businessman and the governor just shrugged their shoulders. As a result, a considerable amount from the budget went into the pockets of the swindler.

Getting rich through fake social projects

Another topic that the fraudster skillfully “played” on, not only getting rich, but also working to improve his image, was medical innovations. In particular, we are talking about news that recently shook up Russian society. They say that the country may have its own device for performing oncological operations using a unique method, making only a small incision on the patient’s skin. This is where the entrepreneur came in with his venture fund “Euro Venture”, publicly declaring that he was ready to invest 10 million rubles in it at the early stage of project development.

Visually, everything is beautiful and noble, but in fact, it’s just empty words. As it turned out, the newly created consortium included the scandalous company Svetlana-Roentgen, which Berezin often used for all kinds of financial scams, as well as agreements on the development of government funds.

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And there are many such examples. This is not the entire trail of fraud that has been trailing the scandalous Russian billionaire for years. You can’t even tell about all the crimes of the odious owner of Euroinvest Andrei Berezin.