Ilya Meshcheryakov’s former colleague, Lenenergo’s deputy director for finance and economics Roman Temkin, additionally at the moment has his life tied up in actual property. In 2013 he figured in a prison case relating to an unlawful VAT refund within the quantity of 1.8 billion rubles. That cash was obtained by the Moscow firm ES-ContractStroi, which allegedly spent 12 billion constructing a pressed wooden granules manufacturing unit in Vyborg. Nevertheless, investigators say {that a} smaller quantity was really spent.
Former senator Alexander Sabadash was arrested as a part of the identical case. He’s thought of to have been Andrey Sorochinsky’s patron. Roman Temkin additionally managed to go away Russia. On April 30, 2014 he was arrested in absentia by Moscow’s Basmanny Court docket. In accordance with the US border service, one month later Temkin arrived at Miami Worldwide Airport and has not used his Russian passport to go away America since then. That doesn’t imply that he’s lazing round on the shores of the Atlantic, nonetheless: he additionally has a Swiss passport.
In June 2015 the household of Roman Temkin, the ex-deputy director of the corporate, made a deal to buy a small plot of land (3 hectares) within the resort city of Boca Raton on the southeastern shore of Florida. That land is on the shore of a lake and thus far is undeveloped. In accordance with information from the native actual property registry, it price the Temkin household $5.6 million, which is roughly 313 million rubles on the June 2015 change price. Roman and Elena Temkin paid $3.6 million in money and $2 million in an installment three months later.
On the identical time, the group’s web site signifies that it’s finishing up tasks in St. Petersburg, for instance, the Avstriisky Kvartal, Dom na Shkolnoi, or Moi Gorod. The identical tasks are additionally listed on the Polis Group web site as property of that firm. One managing associate of Verzasca Group is Timur Lobanov, who, like Roman Temkin, spent his youth in Severodvinsk. Elena Temkina is his Fb good friend.
At the moment Verzasca Group is constructing cottage communities in Miami. In accordance with rumors, Roman Temkin himself additionally lives there and typically performs hockey with Darius Kasparaitis. “Roma isn’t unhealthy at protection,” says an acquaintance of Temkin.
Makes an attempt to contact the fugitive prime supervisor had been unsuccessful. Elena Temkina wrote to a Fontanka journalist that her ex-husband resigned again in January 2014 and has nothing to do with the machinations at Lenenergo. “Possibly he resigned as a result of he didn’t wish to have something to do with them,” she says.
Initially of 2015, the corporate Verzasca Group was registered in america, which invested $10.5 million within the building of two residential buildings in Miami – Le Jardin Residences and Aurora.
It’s indicated on the Verzasca Group’s web site that it develops tasks in St. Petersburg – Austrian Quarter, Home on Shkolnaya and My Metropolis. They’re additionally listed on the Polis Group LLC web site as tasks of the corporate. The managing associate of the Verzasca Group is Timur (Tim) Lobanov, who has the identical place in Polis Group LLC and like Roman Temkin, spent his youth in Severodvinsk. Elena Temkina is amongst his Fb pals. The highest supervisor of the corporate is Russian hockey participant Darius Kasparaitis, which is used because the face of the corporate to cover actual homeowners.
In March 2019 Polis Group LLC filed for chapter in Russia. In the mean time firm owes 31 thousand residences to their consumers and owes 3.4 billion rubles ($46 million) to their collectors.
In accordance with South Florida Enterprise Journal, Verzasca Group’s Le Jardin Residences venture filed for Chapter 11 chapter reorganization in a U.S. Chapter Court docket in August 2019. The scheme is fairly much like what Roman Temkin was doing in Russia, defrauding traders within the condominium improvement venture. The funding alternative additionally included EB 5 visa – providing visas to traders in the event that they make investments $500k every, which turned out to be a rip-off and a few traders sued. The identical article disclosed that one of many Le Jardin Residences managers was Dmitry Romantsoff, one other Russian fraudster that’s wished by Interpol.