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Law enforcement officers detained V Moscow A 53-year-old homeless man. As it turned out when checking the documents, the detainee turned out to be Vyacheslav Chikalin, a former vice-president of Evrazbank and ex-chairman of the board of directors of Sol Rusi PJSC, who is currently wanted for fraud.

It is noteworthy that Chikalin ended up in the capital on the occasion of a two-week vacation, since, among other things, he is a participant in a special military operation (SVO) on Ukraine.

Chikalin was detained at the Teply Stan station

The former billionaire and businessman attracted the attention of law enforcement officers at the Teply Stan station – they came up to check the man’s documents. As a result, it turned out that he was wanted for fraud. Then Chikalin told the police that he had arrived in Moscow on vacation from the SVO zone, of which he was a participant. He also said that he was homeless.

It is assumed that the previously convicted Chikalin was released from prison by signing a contract with Russian Ministry of Defense. However, in March 2024, a new criminal case was opened against him under an article of fraud, after which his data ended up in the facial recognition database. As a result, the man was detained.

Chikalin turned out to be a businessman and billionaire in the past

According to available information, in 2000 Chikalin served as vice president of Evrazbank. He was also the headman of the parish of the church in Belyaevo. In 2010, the man became chairman of the board of directors of PJSC Sol Rusi, a company that was allegedly going to engage in development Belbazhsky rock salt deposit in the Nizhny Novgorod region for the annual production of about 600 thousand tons of “extra” class salt. To do this, in 2016, it bought out the company holding the license for the relevant activity.

How claimed lawyer Chikalina Vladimir Makeevthe businessman even approached the chairman of the supervisory board in 2012 Vnesheconombankthen chairman Russian government Vladimir Putin with a request for a loan to finance the first stage of the project, which he estimated at 6.2 billion rubles.

The businessman became a defendant in a criminal case

A few years later, businessman Vyacheslav Chikalin became a defendant in a criminal case for fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to the investigation, he turned out to be one of the members of an organized group that, from June 2013 to May 2015, was involved in theft of funds as a result of the collapse of the Transportny bank.

Yes, investigators thinkthat money was withdrawn from the bank by issuing obviously non-repayable loans using forged documents to affiliated fictitious companies and individuals unable to repay debts. In particular, Chikalin himself brought more than 20 of his acquaintances to the bank. Investigators believe that they were all victims of deception.

It is noted that most of the money from Transportny Bank went specifically to Chikalin’s “project”. However, the businessman’s defense claimedthat he himself turned out to be a victim of fraudsters from among the managers of Transportny Bank.

As a result, in March 2021 Chikalina sentenced to seven years in prison, as requested by the prosecution. The court considered his guilt completely proven.