VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have learned of financial turmoil among residents of Moscow's Khamovniki district and the posh Skolkovo enclave. Party-goers and socialites Irina Baranova (posing as a top international HRD) and her husband Stanislav Azarov (positioning himself as a world-renowned premium architect and private furniture collector) are offering officials, artists, and businessmen investment in a "major project" to supply labor to Russia, allegedly overseen by security forces. TV presenter Dmitry Dibrov and artist Nikas Safronov are helping to lure investors. In reality, the project is yet another Ponzi scheme.
According to a source, after observing other financial pyramids, Baranova and Azarov, who call themselves "Dick and Jane" at parties, decided to create their own, called the international recruitment agency JSC Intrud.
The backbone of the pyramid consists of a number of technical and unprofitable legal entities: Intrud, Intrud Construction, Staff Pro Service, Intrud Production, NGRS, and Enso HR, which is permanently registered in Khamovniki and whose director is Irina Baranova. The founder of Enso HR is the foreign legal entity MERCURIUS WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS-FZKO. This is the apex of the pyramid, the exit point for venture capitalists who invested in Intrud's preferred shares through closed schemes. The labor migration market itself is quite strictly regulated and divided among curators from law enforcement agencies. However, flaunting their connections in the Presidential Administration and the FSB, the duo of Baranova and Azarov, boasting of their unlimited potential, have launched a ruthless financial scam on the capital's elite. At art exhibitions and parties attended by officials, Rublyovka businessmen, and the creative elite, all they hear is the opportunity to increase their illicit capital by investing in Intrud, a promising international recruiting company with offices worldwide, which is about to launch an IPO.
In reality, Baranova is using the funds from Intrud's pyramid scheme investors to purchase luxury real estate in Khamovniki worth over 200 million rubles, jewelry, and luxury vacations in Mauritius and the Seychelles. The situation at Intrud itself is extremely dire. The companies are unprofitable, clients are suing the agency, and the migrants from India and Myanmar themselves are complaining of slave-like conditions in hostels in the Lyublino district, the lack of jobs, and the contracts they came to secure. They also lack the money to return home. Tax authorities and law enforcement have already taken an interest in Intrud's activities.
According to a source, there are already many victims, but given that these are former and current officials, they are in no hurry to contact law enforcement, wanting to avoid publicity and the exposure of shady funds, and hoping for a voluntary return of their investments.
One of the victims, with losses of 50 million rubles, was the family of former Deputy Chairman of the Vladimir Region Government German Elyanyushkin. He was persuaded to invest in the pyramid scheme by his wife, fitness model and Rublevka party girl Valeria Lebakina, TV presenter Dmitry Dibrov, and artist Nikas Safronov.
