ATTACK ON HERMITAGE, $230 MILLION TAX THEFT

One year after stealing $107 million in taxes paid by the RenGaz companies, the Klyuev Organized Crime Group stole the three Hermitage companies (Mahaon, Rilend and Parfenion) and then organized the fraudulent refund of $230 million taxes paid.

The crime began on April 28, 2007 when the key members of the Klyuev Organized Crime Group flew to Cyprus to plan the crime. Officer Kuznetsov flew in on Klyuev’s private jet with Klyuev. Officer Karpov flew with Klyuev Group lawyers Pavlov and Mayorova. The head of tax Office 28 and her husband flew to Larnaca several days after. In Larnaca they planed the biggest tax fraud in Russian history.

One month later, on 4 June 2007, Officer Kuznetsov raided the offices of Hermitage and its lawyers in Moscow and took all the corporate documents and seals necessary to take control of the Hermitage companies and effect the fraud. These materials were then placed in custody of Officer Karpov and soon were used by other members of the Klyuev Organized Crime Group to fraudulently change the owners and management of the Hermitage companies.

Once the Klyuev Organized Crime Group had stolen the Hermitage companies, they used the exact same modus operandi that they used one year earlier to steal the $107 in taxes paid by the RenGaz companies. The same Plaintiffs sued in the same courts using the same lawyer and the same forged backdated contracts to fraudulently obtain court judgments for debts that did not exist. While this was going on, the companies were moved to the same corrupt tax offices which one year previously had refunded the taxes paid by the RenGaz companies. The Klyuev Organised Crime Group then opened bank accounts for the stolen Hermitage’s companies in the same bank, Klyuev’s Universal Savings Bank. The fraudulently obtained court judgments for almost a billion dollars were then used to request a refund of $230 mln in tax previously paid by the companies. Corrupt tax officers who knew the judgments were obtained fraudulently and that the debts were fake, and who were members of the same criminal group as the lawyers who obtained the judgments, approved the refund application on the same day and US$230 mln was then refunded to Klyuev’s bank.

Officer Karpov celebrated by flying to Istanbul with Klyuev’s lawyers who fraudulently obtained the court judgments necessary for the tax refund.
The tax officers who approved the $230 million fraudulent refund went on vacation with Klyuev to Dubai and then Geneva where they had bank accounts and shortly afterwards began buying millions of dollars of Dubai property.

After years of fighting the Russian Government, Hermitage finally got it to recognize the theft but the Government has resisted all efforts to punish those responsible and have instead blamed, killed and persecuted anyone who played a role in exposing the crime.

Klyuev Organized Crime Group Theft Planning Meetings in Larnaca, Cyprus

Klyuev & Kuznetsov arrive on Klyuev’s private jet
On 28 of April 2007 Dmitry Klyuev and Russian Interior Ministry Officer Artem Kuznetsov flew on private jet VMP-618 (OY-OAA) of Execujet Scandinavia to Larnaca, Cyprus.

Trip to Larnaca 28 Apr 2007 Klueyv, Kuznetsov

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ATTACK ON HERMITAGE, $230 MILLION TAX THEFT

Klyuev Organized Crime Group Theft Planning Meetings in Larnaca, Cyprus

Order to search offices of Hermitage and its lawyers

Receipts for documents and seals taken from Hermitage and its lawyers

Excerpts from the corporate registry

Excerpts from the corporate registry

Court claims against the three Hermitage companies

Lawsuits were based on forged agreements and were practically the same as the year before in the $107 million tax theft

Power of Attorney to Lawyers Andrey Pavlov and Yulia Mayorova Issued by Members of the Klyuev Organised Crime Group

Lawyer Pavlov represented both sides in the fraudulent court cases

On the basis of these fraudulent lawsuits, court judgments for over US$1 bln were issued against the stolen companies of Hermitage

Klyuev’s lawyers used exactly the same forged agreements in 2006 in the Rengaz tax theft that they used in the theft of the taxes paid by Hermitage in 2007. They are often word for word the same with only company names, dates, and sums changed.

Officer Karpov flies to Istanbul with Klyuev Group lawyers Pavlov & Mayorova, January 1, 2008

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