Shepelev Alexander Alexandrovich is a Ukrainian politician, a member of the Batkivshchyna party. Known for a number of frauds associated with plundering banks. Today he is on the run. But even so, he is one of the most successful swindlers in Ukraine, who managed to steal more than 300 million hryvnia from the people.
Alexander Shepelev: biography
Alexander Alexandrovich Shepelev was born in Donetsk on July 4, 1970. All his childhood was spent in this city. Higher economic education. Before joining the party, he had no official job.
In April 2006, he made his way to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the political force "Batkivshchyna". In the next parliamentary elections, held in 2007, he receives an official victory in a multi-member state district from the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc.
In March 2011, he moved to the warring faction "Party of Regions". But a year later he leaves her. In the next election, he tries to pass in a single-mandate constituency, but in the end he does not gain even 1% of the vote.
In July 2013Alexander Shepelev is put on the international wanted list, under Art. 191 part 5 (theft of public funds on an especially large scale). Soon he was arrested by Interpol and deported to Ukraine. In July 2014, he successfully escaped to Russia, where he remains to this day.
First capital
Let's start with the fact that Alexander Shepelev initially had a good "platform" to start. His stepfather Vladimir Kuznetsov served as head of the Department for Combating Organized Crime. In the common people, he was called the "thunderstorm of the streets", since both yard gopniks and local entrepreneurs were afraid to contact him. Returning to the past, it should be noted that Rinat Akhmetov began to “increase” his capital precisely under the reliable cover of Vladimir Kuznetsov.
Of course, the money and influence of his stepfather helped Alexander Shepelev quickly get on his feet. Together with his bosom friend Pavel Borulko, in the early 90s, he organized a conversion syndicate. Simply put, they started laundering money for various financial institutions. They did it masterfully. That is why the number of those wishing to use their services only increased every day.
Thus, by the 2000s, the friends had made a decent fortune. However, they did not want to stop there.
On the trail of blood
It's pretty hard to keep track of all the scams these guys pulled in the 90s. First, they acted very cautiously. In-secondly, they were assisted by some law enforcement officers. Therefore, the friends fell under the official sight of the investigators only in the summer of 2003.
Pavel Borulko was to blame for this. In early 2003, a serious conflict arose between him and the chairman of AvtoKrazBank, Sergey Kirichenko. Former partners could not share $ 2 million among themselves. Soon, unknown people stabbed Kirichenko to death in the entrance of his own house. All circumstantial evidence pointed to Borulko's involvement in this murder, but they were not enough to pass a sentence.
In 2005, Pavel appears in another criminal case. This time, everything revolves around the mysterious death of the owner of Intercontinentbank, Igor Pluzhnikov. After the death of the entrepreneur, his offspring was on the verge of bankruptcy. Three other banks took custody of him, one of them, by the way, was managed by Alexander Shepelev.
As a result, Intercontinentbank was completely plundered. Deceived depositors tried to get their money back through the court, but this did not bring a positive result. Since the guarantor banks reliably covered their rear, covering their debts to the state with illiquid securities. Naturally, everyone knew who was behind all these scams, but the lack of evidence allowed them to escape justice with impunity.
Moving to the capital
In 2005, Shepelev decides to expand his sphere of influence and opens a branch of his Doncreditinvest bank in Kyiv. At the first stages of construction, the entrepreneur faced a number of problems. Solve them without interferencehe did not succeed in the capital's elite. Therefore, without a twinge of conscience, he bribes a certain Nikolai Suprun, the head of the economic division of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
Further everything goes according to the prepared template. In the center of Kyiv, he is given a comfortable room that previously belonged to the bank "Ukraine". Staff is hired, assets are created, and a few months later, the financial institution opens its doors to everyone. At the same time, would-be bankers are not at all concerned about the fact that they illegally seized part of the residential yard along with the playground.
Alexander Shepelev - MP
The incident with his own bank opened Shepelev's eyes. He realized that without the necessary connections and influence, it is simply impossible to survive in the capital. Therefore, the banker decides to take a radical step - to go into politics. The only problem was that the next elections were due in 2007.
However, there was a way out. For a small financial support, in the amount of 10 million dollars, the Batkivshchyna party gladly accepted a new member. And in 2006, the political world learns that Alexander Shepelev is Tymoshenko's ally. Then the deputy was presented as an honest person who, with all his heart and soul, is for the development of Ukraine.
In practice, Shepelev used parliamentary power only for selfish purposes. He was not expelled from the party just because he did dirty work for it. For example, he skillfully masked deputies' accounts, laundered money and solved technical issues. In addition, in 2007, he nevertheless entered the parliament in a multi-member district.
First failure
Due to a small conflict with the opposition, in 2006 Alexander Shepelev falls out of favor with influential people. Soon his biography begins to be checked by law enforcement agencies. This leads to the fact that unpleasant facts for the politician emerge.
In particular, the case involving fraud in the Doncreditinvest bank is gaining particular resonance. At first, Shepelev wanted to bribe the investigation, but an UBOP officer, Roman Erokhin, gets in his way. He fundamentally does not take money from a corrupt deputy, for which he pays with his own life.
As for Alexander Shepelev, he again comes out dry from the water. Despite the fact that all the perpetrators of the murder of the policeman were caught, the case never got off the ground.
Major policy mistake
In 2008, Alexander Shepelev launches a new scam. More precisely, everything is happening according to the old scenario, but with another financial institution called Rodovid Bank. As before, trouble happens to the owner of the bank, after which the institution is on the verge of collapse. In order to protect the investments of investors, the state appoints a new leadership, headed by none other than Alexander Shepelev.
But as before, no one was going to save the "sinking ship". After pumping all the assets out of him, the rescue team decided to leave quietly. However, there was a breakdown. The main witness in this case survived the failed assassination attempt and decided to testify. After that, a slow but irrevocable judgment began.over all the guilty.
Escape of the deputy
It was only in March 2013 that the tangled tangle of frauds on Rodovid-Bank was unraveled. Then it became clear to everyone that Alexander Shepelev was the brain behind the whole scam. The photo, now a criminal, is transferred to Interpol. After all, as it turned out, the politician was very smart and fled the country even before signing the warrant.
In June of the same year, the international police arrest Alexander Shepelev in Hungary. On the same day he was deported to his homeland. However, less than a month later, the former politician staged his own escape from the hospital. After that, he disappears into the vast expanses of Russia. Found it only in the spring of 2015.
Today, Alexander Shepelev is under the supervision of Russian law enforcement agencies. At home, he is charged with charges of contract killing, attempted murder, and embezzlement of public funds on an especially large scale.
