Andrey Pavlov and Yulia Mayorova

Andrey Pavlov and Yulia Mayorova

Position:Lawyers

Crime: Pavlov and Mayorova are a husband and wife lawyer team who specialize in obtaining court judgments through fraud for the Klyuev Organized Crime Group.

These fraudulently obtained court judgments are then used by the Klyuev Organized Crime Group to steal property or taxes.

According to court testimony, Pavlov was a lawyer for Dmitry Klyuev and Universal Savings Bank and he prepared documents for submission to courts in various matters including the attempted theft of $1.6 billion in Mikhailovsky GOK shares that Klyuev was convicted for.

Pavlov played a key role in collusive court proceedings used for both the 2006 theft of the $107 million in taxes paid by RenGaz Russian subsidiaries and in the 2007 theft of the $230 million in taxes paid by the Hermitage Fund.

Mayorova played a key role in collusive court proceedings used in the 2007 theft of the $230 million in taxes paid by the Hermitage Fund.
In both tax thefts, the Klyuev Organized Crime Group took control of companies that had paid a lot of taxes and used shell companies that had only a few hundred dollars of capital and had never done any businesses.

Forged back dated contracts were then put in place between companies that had paid a lot of taxes and the shell companies, both under the control of the Klyuev Organised Crime Group.

The shell companies then sued the companies that paid a lot of taxes for hundreds of millions of dollars asking for judgments equal to the amount of profit that these companies had declared and paid taxes on.

In both tax thefts, the companies that paid a lot of taxes were “defended” in court by lawyers appointed by the Klyuev Organized Crime Group.

The “defending” lawyers agreed with the claims of shell companies and asked the courts to issue judgments for hundreds of millions of dollars against the companies they were “defending”.

In the 2006 theft of taxes paid by RenGaz subsidiaries, Pavlov was the lawyer representing shell Plaintiffs. He asked for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and the Klyuev Organised Crime Group lawyers on the other side agreed without arguing and the court awarded the damages that were then used to obtain a $107 million tax refund.

In the 2007 theft of the taxes paid by the Hermitage Fund, Pavlov both attacked and defended the stolen Hermitage companies at the same time!
Under one lawsuit, lawyer Pavlov attacked one of the three stolen Hermitage companies under the control of the criminal Viktor Markelov, acting on behalf of a shell company claiming damages.

At the same time and under two identical lawsuits, Pavlov and his wife, Mayorova, were appointed by the criminal Viktor Markelov to “defend” another of the three stolen Hermitage companies.

Instead of defending the companies in court, Pavlov and Mayorova accepted the false claims of the shell Plaintiffs for hundreds of millions of dollars without arguing, thereby obtaining court judgments against the stolen Hermitage companies.

In both 2006 tax theft and 2007 tax theft, the court judgments obtained by lawyer Pavlov were used by the Klyuev Organized Crime Group to apply for tax refunds which were paid into accounts in Universal Savings Bank, beneficially owned by Pavlov’s partner, Dmitry Klyuev.
Pavlov and Mayorova have never been indicted in Russia. The explanation for this can be found in their travel records.

Pavlov and Mayorova traveled with Officer Pavel Karpov 5 times and took 9 flights together. Officer Karpov was the investigator responsible for prosecuting Klyuev in the Mikhailovsky GOK case where the documents to commit the fraud were prepared by Pavlov. Pavlov was not indicted and Kluyev received no jail time after his vacation with Officer Karpov.

Travel Records for Lawyers Pavlov, Mayorova and Officer Karpov trip to Spain

Trip to Spain 01-01-2009 Karpov Pavlov Mayorova

Officer Karpov was the investigator responsible for holding all the Hermitage documents taken by police and which the Klyuev Organized Crime Group used to change the owners and directors of the companies and put Pavlov and Mayorova in as lawyers “defending” the stolen companies. Officer Karpov was the investigator who opened a false case used to arrest Sergei Magnitsky after Sergei Magnitsky testified that Karpov was involved in the $230 million tax theft.

The Russian Government refuses to prosecute Pavlov and Mayorova and has since also promoted Officer Karpov and named him one of Russia’s best investigators.

Travel Records for Lawyers Pavlov, Mayorova and Officer Karpov trip to London

Trip to London January 2007 Karpov, Pavlov, Mayorova

Senior Officials Providing Protection for Lawyers Pavlov and Mayorova

The exoneration of lawyers Pavlov and Mayorova for their role in the $230 million tax theft has been sanctioned at the highest levels of the Russian government: by Oleg Logunov, Deputy Chief of the Interior Ministry’s Investigative Department, and Viktor Grin, Deputy General Prosecutor of Russia.