The investigation requested the transfer of Oleg Karchev, co-owner of Merlion, to house arrest. Unsuccessfully
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Assets
For 2017, among the assets of Oleg Karchev:
- share in Merlion
- 9.99% in Baikalinvestbank The bank's shares are distributed among 10 main shareholders. Karchev is the chairman of the bank's board of directors.
- company for the production of cement and gold mining, and in an interview in 2012 also spoke about his company "Global Truck Service", which is engaged in the repair of trucks.
Biography
2007: Purchase of a share in Merlion
In 2007, the founder of Merlion Alexey Sonk sold a controlling stake in the company to his partners and completely left the distribution business. The names of the buyers were not announced then or later. Merlion has repeatedly stated that it does not disclose the composition of its shareholders.
In 2012, Oleg Karchev introduced some understanding. In an interview with the Kazan portal Business Online, he stated that he is one of the three shareholders of Merlion [1] :
 | Historically, we had a business of distributing computer parts, we traded in hardware. In 2004, friends and colleagues from other computer companies proposed a merger, which we did within the Merlion company ... We are three shareholders, each has a blocking stake, the exact distribution is classified information |  |
Karchev did not name the names of the other two co-owners of the distributor at the time.
2008: Purchase of bank "Growth"
Karchev himself is interesting for his ambitions in the banking business. In 2008, the entrepreneur bought a license from the Rost bank and began to build a federal bank, acquiring regional credit organizations.
2014: Loss of a group of banks
But the strategy did not work, and in 2014 the bank, or rather the banking group "Rost" formed by that time (including Rost Bank, SKA-Bank, Tveruniversalbank, " Kedr ", Uralprivatbank , Akkobank and BaikalInvestBank) fell under reorganization, as a result which was partially transferred to B&N Bank [2] , which received 35.9 billion rubles for its rehabilitation. Only BaikalInvestBank did not fall under the reorganization.
B&N Bank merged almost all the banks of the group with Rost Bank and turned the latter into a bank of bad debts: “We decided to concentrate the entire problem area in one place — on Rost Bank (and connect other banks of the Rost group directly to B&N Bank),” he said in September the main owner of B&N Bank Mikail Shishkhanov . He called Rost Bank a sad acquisition: the "hole" in it was estimated at 35 billion rubles.
B&N Bank, in turn, also went bankrupt in 2017, having failed to cope with the reorganization of Rost Bank and other assets. As a result, in September 2017, the Central Bank undertook to save Bin and Rost.
2017
Purchase of a stake in the Moscow-Paris Bank
In July 2017, Karchev became a co-owner of another credit institution — Moscow-Paris Bank (MPB), where he also held the post of chairman of the board of directors. In this case, the businessman does not own a stake in the MPB directly, but through the Bureaucrat company. She is a 100% owner of BCH.
Karchev, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, owns 33% of "Bureaucrat", Alexey Abramov and Vladislav Mangutov have similar shares. It is these people, most likely, who are the two co-owners of Merlion — partners of Oleg Karchev, about whom he spoke in an interview in 2012.
Bureaucrat was a well-known brand back in the 1990s, selling office equipment and stationery. In 2013, Merlion announced its acquisition.
Having become the owner of Moscow-Paris Bank, Bureaucrat, owned by the distributor Merlion, was required by the Central Bank to disclose the ultimate owners and did this through deoffshorization. Thus, TAdviser found out who was behind the Cypriot Merlion Group Limited.
Reduction of a stake in Baikalinvestbank from 30% to 9.99%
Abramov and Mangutov, together with Oleg Karchev, own shares in Baikalinvestbank , it follows from the register of its shareholders. Karchev owns 9.99% of the shares. Karchev is a person under whose significant influence the bank is, according to his documents. But back in the summer of 2017, the businessman owned 30% of the bank's shares. And before that, the same share belonged to his wife Elena Vlasova, follows from the bank's IFRS reporting.
Karchev himself told Vedomosti at the end of November 2017 that the Rost Bank group was owned by his ex-wife, whom he divorced. When this happened, he did not elaborate. “As part of the divorce, a share of BaikalInvestBank's shares passed to me,” Karchev points out. "I sold some of them to investors and kept 9.99% for myself." But in the reporting of Rost Bank it is said that by the end of 2013 and before the introduction of the provisional administration in the fall of 2014, Karchev himself had ultimate control over the group, and Vlasova on his behalf was the holder of shares.
2020: Detention in the framework of a criminal case
In October 2020, sources informed TAdviser about searches in Merlion. And on October 24, in the Khoroshevsky Court of Moscow , a petition was registered to elect Oleg Karchev a preventive measure in the form of detention. He was detained in the framework of criminal cases under Articles 167, Ch. 2 and 105, Ch. 2, p. f) g), follows from the card index of the Moscow courts. With the indication of similar articles in the card index, petitions for the election of the same preventive measure to Vladislav Mangutov and Alexei Abramov were also registered. More details here .
In January 2021, TAdviser became aware that the former general director of Merlion, Vyacheslav Symonenko , is a victim in the case in which the co-owners of Merlion were arrested in 2020. His name appeared in the decision of the appellate instance, published on the official portal of the courts of general jurisdiction of Moscow , following an open meeting in the Moscow City Court in December. More details here .
On January 28, 2021, a group of lawyers of Merlion top managers announced to TAdviser its position on a criminal case in which the former general director of Merlion Vyacheslav Symonenko is a victim. According to the lawyers, their clients completely deny the charges brought against them. More details here .
2021: The investigation petitioned for the transfer of Oleg Karchev to house arrest. Unsuccessfully
On January 28, 2021, a petition from the investigation was registered in the Presnensky District Court of Moscow to transfer Oleg Karchev from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest.
Karchev is held in isolation until February 6, 2021 as a defendant in a criminal case on the assassination of ex-CEO of Merlion Vyacheslav Symonenko. Karchev is one of three co-owners of Merlion. Two others — Aleksey Abramov and Vladislav Mangutov are also in jail.
As a result of the meeting in the Presnensky court, TAdviser was informed that the petition was denied.
| The Presnensky District Court of Moscow refused to satisfy the petition of VS Menshov, Deputy Head of the First Directorate for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Moscow. about changing the measure of restraint to house arrest in relation to Karchev O.G., — declared TAdviser in the Presnensky court. | |
Vyacheslav Symonenko told the Kommersant newspaper that he was outraged by the intention of the investigation to release Oleg Karchev from custody.
On January 29, 2021, the Khoroshevsky Court of Moscow must also consider a petition to change the measure of restraint for Karchev. According to the database of the Moscow courts, it was received on January 25, but it is not specified there who filed it.
A family
- Wife Elena Vlasova (in 2017, Oleg Karchev announced their divorce).
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