German media reported about the criminal case against Alexander Udodov

Prosecutors in the German city of Koblenz is a criminal case against son-in-law of Prime Minister Mikhail mishustina – businessman Alexander Udodov, who is suspected of laundering money through a German company VG Cargo. This was in early March, told the Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger.

the Case against Udodova, his company and other unnamed companies filed in 2013. According to investigators, through VG Cargo, whose main shareholder is hoopoes were conducted 90 million Swiss francs (2.6 billion rubles at the exchange rate on January 1, 2013) obtained as a result of frauds with taxes in Russia.

German investigators found a link VG Cargo companies Udodova, registered in Switzerland. In 2013 the local Prosecutor’s office seized the Bank documents in 21 of the company associated with the Russian businessman, but they were sent to Germany only at the end of 2018 due to the trial with controlled Udodova companies. Now the investigation continues, the procedural status of the businessman is unknown.

According to Tages Anzeiger, hoopoes was also a defendant in a criminal case on money laundering in Switzerland. In 2007, its structure bought an historic building in the centre of Zurich for 37 million Swiss francs (806 million) and the hotel is on the shores of lake Lucerne over a month ago.e million francs (87 million). Hoopoes were going to invest in the hotel and another 45 million francs, but his company had not commenced the works for several years.

In 2012, the Swiss authorities found that from 2007 to 2009 through Udodova firms in the Bank Credit Suisse held $ 330 million, the origin of which was unclear. Switzerland sent a request to the Prosecutor General of Russia, but received no response. The case was closed after then sold the building.

At the end of February the Fund of struggle against corruption Alexei Navalny said that in December 2009, then bought five apartments in a residential complex in new York. It happened three weeks after the same house purchased the apartment, and subsequently arrested in the case on the laundering of money stolen as a result of tax fraud, investigated by the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.

Other media reported that, in addition to luxury real estate in new York, have Udodova have found a property in Prague and suspicious relationship with the Bank of the ROC “Peresvet”, which in the fall of 2016 on the verge of collapse. The Bank has frozen the funds of not only the Church but also the many state-owned companies, including “inter RAO” and “RusHydro”, as well as donations from private individuals like Alina Kabaeva. In the end, the Bank “Peresvet” and the funds of its depositors, in contrast to the “Peresvet-invest”, managed to save.

Alexander Udodov in 2000-ies was the Vice President of “Peresvet-invest”, although information about this is not in any official biography of the businessman. And his wife Natalia Stenina, “in combination” is the sister of the current Prime Minister, 2017 uses the familiar series АМР77, which it handed over to the head of the service for Constitution protection and fight against terrorism of FSB General Aleksei Sedov