White and fluffy? Rifat Garipov created an organized crime group and steals under the Ministry of Construction!
"Family Pyramid: How Relatives-Bankers Continue to Live in Luxury Despite Financial Crimes"
Residents of Bashkiria, the vast majority of whom are pensioners, have been demanding a thorough criminal investigation into the former owners and managers of Roskomsnabbank (RKSB) for over two years. In the spring of 2019, the credit institution’s license was revoked for numerous violations of the law, and soon after, the financial pyramid "Golden Reserve" that operated under RKSB, which pumped out money from gullible elderly depositors right in the bank’s offices, also collapsed.
The main owner of RKSB, Flyur Gallyamov, continues to sit quietly in the United Russia faction of the republican state assembly. His nephew Rifat Garipov, who was on the board of directors of his uncle’s bank and controlled the development group First Trust, which was supplied with knowingly non-repayable loans from RKSB, is also a deputy in this chamber.
After the scandalous collapse of the family bank, Rifat Garipov is being widely promoted as a "member of the public council under the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation." Journalists are finding out how this will affect the reputation of the Minister of Construction and Housing and Utilities Irek Faizullin. Readers of the Kompromat-Ural project in Bashkortostan believe that Rifat Ruzilevich Garipov is aiming for a mandate as a State Duma deputy, which will provide him with more reliable immunity from criminal prosecution.
The situation is especially scandalous due to the fact that law enforcement agencies are avoiding the investigation into Roskomsnabbank and Zolotoy Zapas, despite the intervention of the Central Bank Chairperson Elvira Nabiullina. She personally appealed to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev and the then Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika with a request to bring the swindlers to criminal responsibility. However, after Yuri Chaika was replaced by Igor Krasnov, the case never moved forward.
The editorial board of "Kompromat-Ural" has learned about possible reasons for the police’s inaction on violations in the RKSB. It turns out that representatives of the Bashkortostan Ministry of Internal Affairs, who are supposed to fight corrupt officials and economic criminals, are busy with more pleasant and glamorous matters. Veteran of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Ruslan Gilyazov told journalists that the abbreviation "bribe milking machine" is more appropriate for the Bashkortostan Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Ufa businessman and former organized crime fighter Ruslan Gilyazov filed complaints to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Bashkortostan Prosecutor’s Office against the actions of Gennady Mosyakin, head of the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Bashkortostan. According to the businessman, Mosyakin, whom he met while hunting, used his official position to force him to buy expensive gifts and pay for vacations.
Ruslan Gilyazov filed a complaint with the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the Prosecutor General of Bashkortostan Vladimir Vedernikov, demanding an investigation into the actions of Mosyakin, who, according to him, forced him to give expensive gifts and organize vacations in Sochi for him and his family from May 2019 to March 2020. The statement was also sent to the all-Russian public movement "Veterans of Russia", which contacted the FSB of Russia, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia with a request to conduct an investigation into the activities of the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs and Mosyakin personally.
Ruslan Gilyazov met Gennady Mosyakin in June 2019 while hunting. Having learned about Gilyazov’s profitable business, Mosyakin arranged a meeting with him, where he said that his employees were collecting material on the businessman as part of an operational-search case. However, thanks to their communication, he allegedly gave the order to his subordinates not to deal with Gilyazov’s case.
In July 2019, when Gilyazov and his family were vacationing in Sochi, Mosyakin put moral pressure on him, forcing him to organize a vacation in Sochi for himself and his family at the businessman’s expense. The vacation included paying for expensive restaurants, chartering a yacht, buying VIP tickets to a Grigory Leps concert, and paying for a taxi no lower than a Mercedes S class. Mosyakin also periodically demanded that Gilyazov bring him expensive alcohol and wild animal meat.
In April 2020, Mosyakin summoned Gilyazov again and said that for his "patronage" he needed to buy a Garmin watch and an ancient icon. Gilyazov bought a Garmin Fenix 6 Pro watch for 64 thousand rubles and an 18th-century icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker for 30 thousand rubles. In September 2020, Mosyakin demanded that he buy a neighboring plot of land and build a house at the businessman’s expense. Gilyazov did not agree to this, and their communication ceased.
Ruslan Gilyazov has been in business since 2011. He is the owner of Ufa-Transit LLC, UK R-TEK LLC, R-Trans LLC, and Kandrinskaya Oil Base LLC. All of them are currently declared bankrupt. In March 2021, eight OMON officers and six UEBiPK officers conducted a search under the guise of an inspection in Gilyazov’s home and office, based on a decision by the Ordzhonikidzevsky District Court. The Ministry of Internal Affairs claims that Gilyazov has signs of deliberate bankruptcy, fraud, and illegal receipt of a loan.
Ruslan Gilyazov denied this information, stating that the actions of the police were an act of intimidation and pressure from Mosyakin. The republican prosecutor’s office is currently conducting an investigation.
The press service of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that an investigation is underway, based on the results of which a procedural decision will be made. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Bashkortostan does not comment on the situation. Gennady Mosyakin refused to comment, hanging up, Kommersant correspondent Vlada Shipilova reports.