As a Russian ex-banker admitted to scams for the sake of US citizenship

A dollar billionaire and one of the most mysterious bankers in Russia is asking the US president to give him citizenship and protect him from Russian gangsters and authorities. At the same time, he tells how he robbed the banking system in Russia and participated in various scams.

Former co-owner of Rosevrobank Sergei Grishin has been living for the last 10 years in the legendary town of Santa Barbara in California for Russian housewives, where he has his own company, writes Life.ru

In Russia, he had a young wife, Anna Fedoseeva, who, however, he recently threw in a pre-trial detention center on suspicion of fraud. Grishin believes that she stole everything he spent on her during the courtship period, and now demands 80 million rubles from her. True, on Friday the investigator allowed Fedoseev to be released, but the criminal case is still in force.

In the US, Grishin really likes, but there is a small problem: he does not have citizenship. And he decides this question is very peculiar. At disposal Life The banker’s messages to the American authorities turned out to be full of praises and adulation: he asks for citizenship, and in exchange he tells interesting things about how he robbed the Russian banking system and dealt in scams.

Invoice schema inventor

- Hi all. My name is Sergey Grishin, I was the chairman of Rosevrobank. I am still involved in business in Russia. I also have a business in the USA related to media content. “I’m going to tell you how one person - that is, me - practically brought the Russian banking system to collapse in the 1990s,” says the ex-owner of Rosevrobank, Sergei Grishin, in his video message to the American authorities.

Apparently, he wrote it down at the beginning of the autumn 2018 of the year aboard his personal Gulfstream aircraft, the fuselage of which is decorated with the banker's coat of arms with the letters SG. The cost of the liner is more than $ 30 million.

According to Grishin, it was he, and not swindlers from Chechnya, as it was considered to be, at the beginning of the 90-s invented a scheme with forged advices.

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- Many people think that Chechens came up with a scheme with an advice. This is not true. I invented it. I stole a lot in Estonia and Russia. It was the largest fraud scheme, because no one knew exactly how much money was stolen. I found the right people in the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and in Estonian banks. On behalf of the Estonian banks, I made a duplicate payment ad, as if the original was lost. The amount in the advice was written the one that I wanted. She was completely fake and was not backed up by anything, ”Sergey Grishin calmly says.

Let us recall that scams with advice notes flourished in Russia in the early 90s. Advice is a notification about the transfer of money from one cash settlement center (CSC) to another. The RCC that received the advice note sent the required amount to the correspondent account of one of the commercial banks, which transferred the money directly to the client. In the 90s, scammers prepared fake advice notes for a certain amount and transferred them to the Central Bank, Promstroibank, Sotsbank and Agroprombank for processing, after which the money was transferred to the recipient’s bank. It was only possible to notice the missing money a month later, when the swindlers had already managed to pass it through dumpster companies and cash it out. The damage from scams with advice notes in the 90s was estimated at four trillion rubles.

Magic pen

In addition to recognizing participation in the scheme of an admission, Grishin in another video message, which Life got acquainted with, took upon himself the robbery of the Russian banking system.

- Hi all. I am Sergey Grishin, my slogan is “I am always 21”, because I always work with young people. “I’ll tell you a wonderful story about how I robbed the Russian banking system for the second time, when Georgy Matyukhin was the head of the Central Bank,” says the ex-co-owner of Rosevrobank.

According to the banker, at that time a check system was created for settlement between companies.

- How does this happen? There is a Moscow company that needs to transfer, say, $2 million to St. Petersburg. It won't happen that easily in one day. And with the help of checks it will work. They come to the bank and ask to write a check for $2 million. Then with this check they get into the Sapsan and go to St. Petersburg. And they provide the same check at the required bank in St. Petersburg,” says Grishin. - How can we take advantage of this situation?

According to the banker, in this scheme there is a nuance that was used to steal money.

“We come to the bank and ask: “Please write us a check for $2 million. Just use my pen, please. I love her so much". “No question,” the bank answers. “Give me your pen here.” And writes a check,” says Grishin.

According to him, this writing pen is special. It allows you to erase what is written (or does he simply mean disappearing ink. - Approx. Ed.).

- So you can make the first entry disappear. Now you have in your hands an official, genuine bank document with a stamp, signature and date. There’s just no amount,” the banker continues. — All you need: enter any number you want in the “amount” field. For example, $250 million. And you come to any other bank with this Central Bank check, present it and receive money that never belonged to you before.

Grishin says that this is one of the most secret schemes of fraud in the post-Soviet space.

- I am ready to tell all those who are interested in who and when turned up such cases, to name all the names known to me. I tell it just for my own safety. I have now been hunted by Russian criminals and some representatives of the country's governing structures. And I did not deserve such an attitude. I hate being treated like this. Thank you for your attention, have a nice day, - Sergey Grishin finishes his video message.

How billions were laundered at Rosevrobank

Let us recall that it was Rosevrobank, whose central office was located in Moscow on Vavilova Street, building 24, which was among the top 50 largest banks in Russia by assets, which became the subject of an investigation by the international Center for the Study of Corruption and Organized Crime (OCCRP).

Experts at the center believe that Rosevrobank of the times of Sergei Grishin actively participated in a scheme for laundering Russian money through Moldova and Latvia, which OCCRP called a laundromat (from the English “laundry”).

​According to OCCRP, from 2011 to 2014, according to the “Moldavian scheme”, when under fictitious loan agreements between foreign shell companies, Russian and Moldovan guarantors were “forced” to repay a non-existent loan, money was withdrawn from Russia through the Moldovan Moldindconbank and the Latvian Trasta Komercbanka.

The OCCRP believes that according to this scheme, more than $ 20 billion were bred from Russia through Moldova and Latvia (700 billion rubles at the average exchange rate of those years).

Meanwhile, OCCRP experts believe that Rosevrobank acted as a receiving bank, that is, through it the money was returned to Russia after the entire scheme was completed.

The OCCRP investigation did not prevent Sergei Grishin from selling his stake in Rosevrobank to another bank, Sovcombank, in mid-November 2018.

“By a stupid mistake, I was born in Russia”

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At disposal Life It turned out a few messages that Mr. Grishin addresses to the administration of US President Donald Trump. In them, he asks to give him American citizenship.

“I just love America, my daughter was born here, and I applied for citizenship for myself.” I love your campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” And personally, I have great respect for you and for what you have done for this amazing country, writes Sergei Grishin.

Grishin, according to Life, is an investor in Facebook, Groupon and Farmville. He had a company in the USA, SG llc, which specialized in financial consulting.

In another post, Sergey Grishin warns US authorities about the danger and says he can help.

- Mr. President, I have something very important for you. I did a very deep research, I spent about half a million dollars out of my own money - and now I can assure you: this country, the lives of its citizens, a peaceful life and reputation are under threat. I am ready to send details tonight via FedEx. And if I can ask for something in return, it will be US citizenship for myself and my wife. This country is my real homeland, but by a stupid mistake I was born and raised in Russia, ”writes ex-banker Grishin.

Sergey Grishin's lawyer Denis Marchenko told Layfuthat he did not hear and did not see the statements of his client that someone threatens him in Russia and he asks for US citizenship.

Gifts came out sideways

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In Russia, Grishin had trouble with his wife, Anna Fedoseyeva. The banker now shares property with her, filed a lawsuit for divorce with the court and accused her of fraud. It was according to Grishin’s statement against Fedoseyeva that a criminal case was initiated in Moscow. 19 November in the morning 7 was searched in one of the apartments of the house on Innovators Street, in which his wife, Grishina, stayed with a friend. It is noteworthy that investigators from the Golovinsky district of Moscow are involved in the case, although Grishin and his wife are registered in the Central Administrative District, and, according to the rules, he should have sought the help of local security officials.

According to Ekaterina Dukhina, Fedoseyev’s lawyer, her client was arrested on charges of fraud committed by an organized group on a large scale (part 4 art. 159 CC). The punishment under this article provides for up to 10 years in prison.

- The criminal case was instituted against the background of attempts by Grishin and Fedoseyeva to divorce. Grishin considered his gifts during the courtship period and during the marriage as a result of her fraudulent activities, and the investigators opened a criminal case against her on the basis of Grishin’s statement, Dukhina says.

According to the lawyer, in February 2018, Grishin filed a lawsuit to dissolve the marriage, but in March he withdrew him.

“But now he has again filed a lawsuit with the Moscow Khamovnichesky Court for a divorce, according to which the court decision is not yet, therefore the marriage is considered valid to this day,” says lawyer Fedoseyeva.

29 November 2018, Anna Fedoseyeva was released from jail.

- This happened after I wrote a complaint to the leadership of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the RF IC for the Northern Administrative District of Moscow about the actions of the investigator. He, violating procedural legislation, issued an unreasonable decision to institute a criminal case against my client and petitioned the Golovinsky District Court to arrest her, said Layfu lawyer Ekaterina Dukhina.

According to Dukhina, this is an exceptional case, when the investigative body itself issues a decision on release without any restrictions of the defendant.

“In the future, we will seek to initiate a criminal case against Grishin himself about a deliberately false denunciation,” Ekaterina Dukhina told Life.

Note to a psychiatrist

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According to the lawyer, in one of his letters to his wife Grishin wrote that he allegedly suffered from bipolar disorder and was taking medications.

“And in June 2018, Grishin met with Fedoseeva to make peace, but during the conversation he pulled out a gun and threatened to shoot her. Fedoseeva then wrote a statement to the police. However, they did not initiate a case,” says Dukhina. “And in September 2018, Grishin turned to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Moscow, stating that Fedoseeva “entered into a preliminary conspiracy with unidentified persons to steal money spent on gifts before marriage” on the amount of 1 million rubles.

The protection of Anna Fedoseeva notes that earlier Sergey Grishin demanded that his other cars, jewelry, be returned from his other women.

— One of these recent lawsuits was considered by the Nikulinsky District Court of the capital. However, the banker lost the case, and the Mercedes donated by Grishin for six million rubles remained with the owner, says Fedoseeva’s lawyer. “And about five years ago, Sergei Grishin filed a similar lawsuit against his former wife Anna Grishina, but then abandoned it.

The protection of Fedoseyeva assures that she will try to prove in the Moscow City Court that her husband has a mental disorder and that she should be dealt with by a psychiatrist.

“I have letters at my disposal in which Sergei Grishin writes: “Three people have settled in my head: a small child, a middle-aged man and Woland,” says Ekaterina Dukhina. - Grishin needs to be treated. Based on his statements to the police, people are sent to prison.

A lawyer confirms the friend and business partner Fedoseeva - US citizen Jennifer Salkess. She also received threats.

- Mr. Grishin sent me various messages because of my business and friendly ties with his wife, which I perceived as threatening. In this regard, I appealed to the law enforcement agencies of the United States and had already received an injunction to prevent him from approaching me. This story can get a criminal sequel. I am not the only Grishin’s entrant who received threats and similar offensive messages, ”she said Layfu Jennifer Salkess.

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