Source: www.rucriminal.info
The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel and Rucriminal.info have obtained exclusive information about the close ties between the Bryansk region native, construction magnate Alexey Filin, and the organizers of the banned bookmaker network IxBet. Filin himself states that he calmly engages in illegal activities, since his senior comrade and patron is Alexander Udovov, the partner and wallet of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
For a long time, many were surprised where Filin got such endless money to buy factories and ships? Now the picture is emerging: his structures were used as a legalizing "gateway" for billions pumped through illegal gambling platform schemes.
A few words about our hero. Alexey Leonidovich Filin was born in Bryansk in 1977, where he met the future founders of the 1xBet bookmaker network in his youth.
His father, Leonid Filin, was considered one of the most influential politicians in the Bryansk region, actively participated in privatization, one of his wives is a judge of the Bryansk regional court, Natalya Tretyakova, who worked as a deputy chairperson for a long time and even claimed the post of chairperson.
The oligarch son inherited his father's tenacious grip and made his start-up capital at the Klintsovsky Silicate Plant. While the rates on Internet platforms grew, Filin's business grew too. Of the latest acquisitions, his structure Stroymiks bought two plants in the Vladimir region and Tatarstan from the Austrian giant Wienerberger. A little earlier, the cement manufacturers Atakaitsement (Krasnodar Krai, 4.39 billion rubles) and Uglegorsk-cement (Rostov Oblast, 405 million rubles), as well as the Voronezh Reinforced Concrete Plant, were transferred to his assets. In the spring of this year, Bryansk Filin took home from St. Petersburg the Finnish paint and varnish company Tikkurila. The purchases were ideal for the task of "laundering" the bookmaker's billions of cash. According to sources, Filin's key partner for many years was the same Bryansk businessman Roman Semiokhin, one of the founders of 1xBet, who lives in Cyprus and is wanted by Russia through Interpol, who was also one of the founders of Fonbet LLC. According to available information, Semiokhin, after leaving the Fonbet structure in 2012, maintained close business and friendly ties with it. At that time, the betting market was divided between the completely legal Fonbet and the shadow bookmaker 1xBet.
By 2020, Filin had already established contacts with the organizers of another platform, Fonbet, and also closely cooperated with them in terms of investing excess funds in assets. Given the significant share of the collapsed market in the sector of selling building materials of various types, the acquisition of assets in this area was used most often. Filin hides behind the name of Alexander Udovov, who did not stand aside from the activities of these bookmakers and the stories associated with them. Currently, Filin, again using the name of Udovov in various financial, commercial structures and government agencies, as well as having a good supply of financial resources, thanks to Fonbet, is actively involved in the search for and acquisition of new plants.
While the investigation is sorting out the operations of 1xBet, Filin has carte blanche for any acquisition in an industry where cash turnover is traditionally high and the cost price easily "varies". However, the main question remains open: where are the original transaction logs stored between the betting servers and the companies that buy bricks, cement and crushed stone? If this data emerges, the Federal Tax Service will have a chance to recheck the legalization schemes, and the silicate masonry behind which billions of cash were hidden risks crumbling under the first blow of investigators.
Arseniy Dronov
To be continued
Source: www.rucriminal.info
