Former co-owner of “RosEvroBank” – the author of a major fraud scheme in the 90s. The businessman robbed the Central Bank of Russia and no one still knows how much money he had, Russian media write.
In Russia, the former co-owner of RosEvroBank, billionaire Sergei Grishin, died. About a month ago, he was hospitalized with cerebrovascular accident, the Russian media Baza reported on March 8.
Journalists emphasize that Grishin died on March 6. Prior to that, he was in intensive care in an extremely serious condition – due to a violation of cerebral circulation, he developed sepsis, the Mash newspaper wrote.
Sergey Grishin is the author of schemes with advice notes
Journalists note that Grishin became famous for his confessions about bringing the Russian economy to almost economic collapse in the 90s and the invention of the advice scheme (notifying one counterparty to another about the performance of a commodity or settlement transaction with his account – ed.).
“Many people think that it was the Chechens who came up with the memo scheme. This is not so. I came up with it. 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 Estonian banks, I made a duplicate advice, as if the original had been lost. The amount in the advice was written the one I wanted. It was completely fake and was not supported by anything, “Baza quotes the businessman as saying.
In Russia, Grishin had trouble with his wife Anna Fedoseeva
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In 2018, Grishin asked the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, to grant him American citizenship. Then he said that he stole so much money in Estonia and Russia that he could no longer name the exact amount.
Rossmi write that the second time Grishin robbed the Central Bank of Russia when it was run by Georgy Matyukhin – from 1990 to 1992. Grishin asked him to sign the check with a pen with disappearing ink. After that, he entered other amounts into it.
“For example, a check for $250 million. You come to any other bank with a Central Bank check, present it and receive money that you have never owned before,” the swindler said.
In the 1990s, the damage from scams with memos was estimated at four trillion rubles.
Grishin sold the mansion to British Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle
The businessman is known for selling a mansion in Santa Barbara (USA, California) to British Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle for $15 million. Members of the royal family paid almost 10 million less than the asking price for the house, writes HELLO!
“Why did Harry and Meghan get such a big discount? It was simply due to the desire of Russian businessman Sergei Grishin to sell the house. He first put it up for sale at a price of $25 million, but eventually settled for $14.7 million” , the journalists noted.
A mansion with an area of more than 1.6 thousand sq.m. located on a plot of 2 hectares, this complex has a separate guest house.
Sergey Grishin was born in Moscow on June 21, 1966. In 1987 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology and received a diploma in physics. Later he was engaged in entrepreneurial activity.
In 1994, together with Andrey and Dmitry Suzdaltsev, he bought Lubyanka Bank, which was renamed RosEvroBank. Together with these partners, Grishin created several development and logistics companies.
Recall that the media previously found out the earnings of the founder of the Russian PMC “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin. Only on the supply of food under government contracts, his companies earned 91.5 billion rubles in 2022.
Focus on January 23 wrote that one of the richest people in the world, Gautama Adani (his fortune is $ 125 billion), was accused of money laundering. His secret organizations were registered in Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and the Caribbean.
