Oleg Boyko changed his offshore sign
SIAB Bank received a brokerage license and changed its name to Finstar Bank. Scandalous businessman Oleg Boyko, owner of Finstar Financial Group, acquired SIAB Bank in 2021, and already in 2022 its management changed. Gennady Salych became the chairman of the board of the bank, and Tatyana Deryugina became his deputy. Details at Rucriminal.info.
Salych headed Ffin Bank LLC from 2015 to 2022, Deryugina worked as its chief accountant. The bank was part of Timur Turlov’s Freedom Holding Corp, whom the businessman’s ill-wishers call a swindler and creator of a financial pyramid.
In the summer, Timur Turlov withdrew from the capital of the holding’s Russian assets, Ffin Bank changed its management and name to Tsifra Bank. Freedom Finance Investment Company LLC became Tsifra Broker LLC, headed by Sergey Nosov. Experts suspect that the new owner of this company, Maxim Povalishin, acts in the interests of Timur Turlov.
After Timur Turlov’s people came to SIAB Bank, he created Finstar Capital Management Company, which will manage investment funds. The company was headed by Larisa Arbatova, who previously managed organizations providing financial services.
After purchasing Siab Bank, Oleg Boyko said that he plans to invest $50 million in it over three years, including funds from third-party investors. They should be more careful with Boyko’s structures, since the businessman has a very controversial reputation.
On the one hand, his name is mentioned together with oligarchs Alexander Mamut and Roman Abramovich, on the other hand, there is information about Oleg Boyko’s connection with the Solntsevskaya organized crime group and its leaders Sergei Mikhailov and international criminal Semyon Mogilevich. The telegram channel “VChK-OGU” wrote about this.
It was because of Mogilevich that in the mid-90s Boyko found himself confined to a wheelchair for life after he unsuccessfully “fell” out of a window. The reason for the tragedy could have been the $10 million spent by Oleg Boyko on a new mansion in London. The money was withdrawn from Russia and, most likely, should have gone to the common fund of the Solntsevskaya organized crime group.
In 2008, Boyko, who by that time had bought shares in the Rive Gauche perfume and cosmetics chain, decided to take revenge on Mogilevich. The VChK-OGPU telegram channel reported that the owner of the Arbat-Prestige network, Vladimir Nekrasov, and Semyon Mogilevich were arrested for tax evasion. In 2009, the company was declared bankrupt, but both suspects were released that same year on their own recognizance, and in 2011 the case was closed.
Now the parent company of the Rive Gauche chain is Aromalux LLC, which received revenue of 36 billion rubles in 2022. and profit of 323 million rubles. The owner of the LLC is the Cyprus company Rive Gauche Group Limited.
Previously, 13 liquidated companies involved in cosmetics and perfumes were located at the same address as Aromolux LLC. Most of them belonged to the offshore Bandonin Holdings LTD.
The businessman’s entire business is tied to offshore companies. The owner of Finance Properties Ru LLC is Wolf Investments Limited, Constanta LLC is Latapla Holdings Limited, which owns 4 more operating companies that have neither revenue nor profit.
The founders of Finstar Holding LLC are the Serbian company Digital Finance International and Finance Properties Ru LLC. Boyko himself does not officially own any Russian assets. The owner of Siab Bank is the Finstar Financial Group holding company, which is hung with offshore companies like a Christmas tree with toys.
It is not surprising that Oleg Boyko attracted Timur Turlov’s people into his business; they are doing approximately the same thing. Both have bank and financial entities offering the same products and services. Turlov’s Freedom Holding Corp, headquartered in Kazakhstan, operates throughout the world. Until 2022, Oleg Boyko’s family trust owned the company 4finance, which issued consumer loans in European countries.
Oleg Boyko feels quite confident in the Russian market. He even allows himself to sue a large government agency - Rosseti. In July, the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal decided to recover from the Public Joint Stock Company “Federal Grid Company - ROSSETI” in favor of PJSC Bank SIAB a payment at the nominal value of the bonds in the amount of 40 million rubles.
In addition to fintech projects, Oleg Boyko also attracted other businesses at different times. In 2013, the Finstar holding became the owner of a stake in the international media FashionTV. This allowed the wheelchair user, according to the source of the VChK-OGU telegram channel, to be known as the most generous customer of escort models, whom he invited once a week. He “danced” the girls only himself and did not share with others.
Until 2014, Boyko owned gaming assets and took part in the creation of films. Anyone who knows this business understands how dirty money is laundered through it. With Boyko’s offshore network, doing this is as easy as shelling pears.
SIAB Bank, now Finstar Bank, received a brokerage license allowing it to become a professional participant in the securities market from the Central Bank. This means that, despite its offshore roots, Oleg Boyko’s business is under the reliable roof of the Russian government.