What is Valentina Solovyova doing this year? "Vlastelina" escaped punishment. For what? So that with her revelations she cannot compromise the high-ranking law enforcement officials associated with her

Ironically, Solovyova began honing her skills on police officers. And not just any kind, but on fighters against economic crime. As they say at the Podolsk Internal Affairs Directorate, it was in the early 90s, during the OBKhSS time. Solovyova managed to become a police agent, and they decided to use her in an operation to expose illegal gold traders. They assigned her the role of buyer, gave her money and sent her to work. And she disappeared.

Her biography is unremarkable. My mother worked in logging on Sakhalin. There I met a soldier conscript service Ivan Samoilov. In 1951, their daughter Valentina was born. The father served and went to his place in Kuibyshev (now Samara), but received a scolding from his parents for abandoning a woman and child on Sakhalin. So the whole family ended up in Kuibyshev. In this city Valentina spent most life.

Forensic experts characterize Solovyova as “a psychopathic personality with high self-esteem, a desire for leadership, egocentrism, pseudology, and the need for self-affirmation.” Doctors do not know whether this is congenital or the result of an injury: at the age of three, Valya fell headfirst into the underground.

Valentina graduated from eight classes and one year of the Kuibyshev Pedagogical College. Then she fell in love, and that was the end of her universities. True, she told the investigators that she graduated from the music and pedagogical school, the Samara Pedagogical Institute. Krupskaya, camera courses at the Higher Courses of the Prosecutor's Office of the RSFSR, Higher Courses of Gypsy Folklore at the Romen Theater and something else. Neither a pedagogical institute in Samara nor gypsy courses have ever existed. However, Valentina also said about her father that he was a general.

But that was later. And before that, Valentina Samoilova got married, became Shkapina, gave birth to a son and a daughter, and in the late 80s she and her family moved to Ivanteevka, near Moscow, to her husband’s homeland. He opened the Dozator company, repaired and adjusted equipment at agricultural enterprises, and Valentina was a supplier. In 1991, she registered her own trade and purchasing “Dispenser” in Lyubertsy. She divorced, married a Muscovite, Leonid Solovyov, and took his last name. And soon I agreed on joint activities with the director of the Podolsk Electromechanical Plant.

The Vlastilina private enterprise, registered in Podolsk, was initially engaged in the sale of consumer goods produced by the plant (defense enterprises then could not sell their products themselves). And soon the whole country brought money to the company’s office. It is unknown who advised Solovyov to build a “pyramid”. She herself told investigators that she had completed American business courses and that there was no deception, but her know-how, approved by specialists. But these are stories of the same kind as those about the father general.

The first clients were factory workers. Solovyova collected money from them, added bank loans and bought household appliances, clothing and food, and then gave it to the workers against the amounts handed over (which amounted to half or even a third of the market value of the goods). She also provided for the employees of the Podolsk Internal Affairs Directorate. The clients were pleased, especially the plant director: in memory of the profitable partnership, Solovyova gave him a Volvo worth $40 thousand.

At the beginning of 1994, Vlastilina began selling Muscovites, Volgas and Zhigulis using the same scheme. Clients were thrilled when they were taken to pick up their cars on buses rented by the company. No one complained, even if they received an incomplete car that fell apart within the first kilometer: a lot of money was still saved. So Solovyova, as stated in the indictment, “created among the population misrepresentation about your enterprise as highly profitable and profitable."

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Money flowed in from all over the country. And when the company began accepting deposits at 200% per month, there was no end to clients at all. People mortgaged apartments and dachas, got into incredible debts and took Solovyova’s money. They were carried by everyone - from ordinary citizens to members of mafia clans. In the prosecutor's office, structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, FSB, in tax services and in organs supreme authority money was also collected centrally.

Everything was going great, and Solovyova was at the peak of her fame. That's all she needed. Money as such did not seem to interest her. She could casually say to a client who came for a payment: “Here, take it from the box!” And I didn't check. There were no financial records - only receipts to investors for the amounts deposited, no more documentation. A billion more or less - what difference does it make if huge sums were still spent on charity events. There were concerts in Podolsk almost every day. All the artists visited there, meetings were always accompanied by banquets. Solovyova sponsored orphanages, hospitals, and something else. In general, the atmosphere of an eternal holiday.

And safety. The fact is that all the time “Vlastilina” was active, crime in the city (not counting domestic crime) came to naught. It was more profitable to invest than to take away. For the same reason, the company did not have gangster “roofs” at that time. “They weren’t needed,” explain the policemen and “authorities.” “Everyone was already making good money on it, and if anyone had tried to “run over”, they would have been torn up immediately. Although additional benefits, for example, in terms of payment terms, she could to provide to someone."

However cash flow nevertheless began to dry up, and then “Vlastilina” threw out a new cry: a Mercedes-320 for 20 million rubles and apartments in Moscow for $5,000, $10,000 and $15,000 (one-, two- and three-room apartments, respectively). People were taken to Butovo, shown new buildings and told that all this belonged to “Vlastilin”. It was a pure bluff. There were no apartments at all, with Mercedes - it’s unclear. For example, Nadezhda Babkina received a car. Solovyova actually said that it was her gift to a friend, but the singer was outraged by such a statement - the investigation established that she paid for the car.

In September 1994, the all-Russian freebie ended: Vlastilina paid only selected clients, and based on statements from the rest, the Podolsk prosecutor's office opened a criminal case. The Moscow Rubopovites and the leaders of the Podolsk group were the first to find their bearings. Both of them sent their people to the Vlastilina office to help out the remaining money. The teams arrived at the office at the same time, but did not clash. The Podolsk residents gave in to the police: there was still little money. They themselves, according to some sources, lost more than $300 thousand in Vlastilin, but they are not going to settle scores with Solovyova.

But a wave of murders related to the non-return of money donated to Vlastilin swept across the country. And in the regions, criminal cases were opened against the leaders of local “pyramids” who handed over the money of their investors to Vlastilina.

Hiding from the investigation, Solovyova gave interviews, promising to pay everyone off and complaining about the police, who did not allow her to do this. With the help of deputy Konstantin Borovoy, she even managed to collect another 12 billion rubles and pay off 550 clients. But in July 1995, Solovyova was detained by FSB officers. And they sent him to the Kapotnya pre-trial detention center on charges of defrauding 16.6 thousand investors in the amount of 536.6 billion rubles and $2.67 million. However, Solovyova herself claims that she owes more than 1 trillion. rubles 28 thousand investors.

An equally interesting part of the epic began in prison - Solovyova began to list her patrons and important clients. At the same time, I compiled a list with the names of 23 clients from among the employees law enforcement who in one way or another took part in the investigation of her criminal case. For example, I got there. O. Prosecutor General Oleg Gaidanov, who allegedly personally handed over $700 thousand to her. There was a big fuss, Solovyova was personally interrogated by the deputy. Prosecutor General Mikhail Katyshev. Other interrogations included police and prosecutor generals and colonels. Meanwhile, the media repeated Solovyova’s revelations in every possible way, and politicians publicly used them in internecine squabbles. Then, however, for three years they sued each other and with newspapers for insulting honor and dignity.

In a word, the story acquired a political overtones, and they began to intensively protect the defendant. She couldn’t even walk a hundred meters down the street from the pre-trial detention center building, where there was a cell, to the building where she was interrogated. She was transported in a paddy wagon under the protection of riot police. And the car had to be positioned so that Solovyova, upon leaving the van, would immediately find herself in the room: what if there were snipers in the houses surrounding the prison?

Investigators soon found out that Solovyova, referring to authority figures, was bluffing. “Just give her free rein,” the detectives recall, “she’ll tell you something like this! It was her lawyers who advised her to stall for time. After all, according to the law, the defendant must be released after a year and a half.”

However, the investigation managed to interrogate all the victims. During this time, interest in Solovyova faded, but from time to time the media reported: either she was eating caviar with spoons in her cell, or she was wearing fur coats for interrogations. But the fur coat and dresses appeared with the permission of the investigator already in court (before that there was a tracksuit). And the guards say that Solovyov saw nothing but prison rations: no packages were brought to her.

There was no one. The husband served six months, taking upon himself the pistol found during a search of his beloved wife. And when he came out and found out that in her business plan there was a line “get divorced and go to the USA,” out of grief he started drinking and hanged himself. The son, daughter and granddaughter are still hiding somewhere, without having, according to investigators, a penny. According to them, Solovyova, who was sent to the camp, does not have a penny.

In the early 90s, Valentina Ivanovna Solovyova founded the Vlastilina company. The woman deceived tens of thousands of people. The damage from the fraudster’s actions amounted to more than 500 billion; in 1994, her criminal business collapsed.

Valentina Solovyova came to the studio of the “Actually” program with Dmitry Shepelev. The fraudster decided to repent to the people she deceived, and also to explain how the “Vlastilin” financial pyramid worked.

Solovyova’s company was engaged in the sale of cars, apartments and mansions at low prices, as well as accepting deposits under high interest rates. At the program, the woman admitted that she wanted to help people. She set herself the goal of enriching the population. According to Valentina Ivanovna, she does not consider her business criminal, although she does not deny that she was patronized by thieves in law and officials working in the White House.

“I literally helped everyone, without exception. Why should I refuse if money comes from their side? Everyone wanted to get rich quickly,” the woman shared with experts and guests in the studio.

According to the victims, Solovyova adored the actors and often offered them free cars in exchange for advertising. As Yana Poplavskaya admitted, she also fell for Valentina Ivanovna’s bait.

“I bought a red “Seven” on preferential terms. They told me through word of mouth that “Vlastilina” loves actors very much,” the artist recalled.

The program expert asked Solovyova a number of questions, to which she gave false answers. The detector showed: the woman repeatedly deceived people, she really was on friendly terms with many crime bosses. Valentina Ivanovna was often invited to “gatherings.”

“I had 650 billion. These were funds from the Vlastilina company,” Solovyova said.

The scammer noted that she only feels guilty for not being able to help people and not saving their invested money. "Not ashamed. It’s my fault that I still failed to protect money and people. I repent, these are not just words, not only in front of you. My repentance was also in the churches,” Solovyova said. The fraudster promised to come to the affected people who came to the program in the Moscow region and try to make amends.

At the end of the program, the woman said that while she was in prison, her husband died. According to the fraudster, this is punishment for her crimes.

“He was left alone when I was imprisoned. He was addicted to vodka and tried to meet me. I told him: “Lenya, divorce me,” Solovyova told the guests and experts of the talk show. The man did not wait for Lyudmila Ivanovna and hanged himself.

Founder of the Vlastelina company, which worked on the principle of a pyramid. It offered investors cars, apartments and mansions at low prices. By the end of her short career, she switched mainly to deposits - she simply collected money, promising huge interest rates. She ranked herself among the saints.

After the arrest of the owner of “Vlastelina,” Alla Pugacheva’s passport was found in her safe.

There, detectives found either a receipt or a certificate stating that “ living legend» stages were handed over to the Vlastelina company very a large amount money. Why she put them there is not stated. And so it is clear to everyone. For some time, “Vlastelina”, or rather its owner - Mrs. Solovyova - played in Moscow, the Moscow region and throughout the country the role of that very beautiful “bedside table”, in which if you once put it, then for a very long time you can take money without an account.

True, this did not last long - from December 1993 to October 1994. After this, Solovyova suddenly turned from a benefactor, first into a fugitive, and then into custody as a super-swindler.

The police, they say, returned Alla Borisovna’s passport quickly, but not the money.

Valentina Ivanovna Solovyova, although she now considers herself a saint, was always a simple woman. She kept billions of rubles and many thousands of dollars in rough gunny bags, then in cardboard packaging boxes for cigarettes and televisions. And she lived, already a billionaire, in a modest, small two-room apartment apartment For hairstyles, she preferred the most common six-month perm. Despite her considerable size, she loved pies, Lurex sweaters, and soulful songs performed by famous artists She especially respected Nadezhda Babkina, to whom, they say, she once became emotional and gave as much as a Mercedes 600.

Babkina, as stated in one of the numerous volumes of the investigation into the criminal case “Lords”, was the last one who visited Solovyova in her house before she, already declared a fraudster, “went on the run.” Either the singer wanted to give away the gifted “Mercedes” return, or whether you will get your money invested in “Vlastelina” back is unknown.

Valentina Solovyova started her business life very, very modest. At first, she was a modest cashier named Shanina in a small hairdressing salon in the tiny town of Ivanteevka near Moscow.

Valentina Ivanovna came up with a romantic tale that she was allegedly born in a nomadic camp and was the fruit of the love of a tragic misalliance - a fatal gypsy beauty and a noble officer, who later became a general and emigrated to Switzerland. The mother, expelled from the camp in disgrace, seemed to have abandoned the newborn to the mercy of fate, and the girl would probably have frozen to death if she had not suddenly been picked up by a compassionate Russian woman who raised the unfortunate orphan as her own. my own daughter.

Later, when the “Lords” case of missing billions began to unravel, investigators found the woman who raised Valentina in a remote village Kaluga region And it turned out that she was not adopted at all, but the real one birth mother the mistress of “Vlastelina”, who did not give her mother a penny from her billions, and she, with great difficulty, earned herself food by selling dill at the market.

Wiping away tears, Solovyova’s mother told the investigators the most ordinary, in its own dramatic and not at all romantic story She lived in the Gomel region and in difficult times post-war years, in order not to die of hunger, she was recruited to logging in Siberia. Then, in search of better life she got all the way to Sakhalin, there was nowhere to go further in Russia - the sea. And not in a camp near a romantic fire with songs and dances, but in a dirty communal barracks, and not from a noble officer, but from a random soldier, she became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter. It was in the spring of 1951.

The soldier, as usual, served his duty, left and disappeared. But in the end he turned out to be better than thousands of other random fathers. Three years later he remembered, came to his senses and took his unmarried Sakhalin wife and child to his home in Kuibyshev.

Reasoning to the best of her ability with the investigators about the reasons for her daughter’s fantastic business career, Valentina’s mother was able to recall only one significant circumstance that, in her opinion, could have influenced mental capacity daughters. At the age of seven or eight, Valentina carelessly fell into the cellar, hit her head on something hard and lost consciousness. Having pulled out her daughter, the mother called an ambulance, which arrived when the girl had already woken up. The doctors said something like the usual: “it will heal before the wedding” and left. The mother did not contact the doctors again. Then, when she noticed that at night her daughter suddenly jumped up, grabbed her head and cried for a long time, she took her to the healer grandmothers for a conspiracy. It seemed to help.

“Everyone should fall into the cellar like that,” one of the investigators joked gloomily. Having become a billionaire, Valentina Solovyova loved to tell her guests that almost the entire Moscow elite gathered in Podolsk, how many and what kind educational institutions She never finished in her life. Starting from the studio at the Romany Gypsy Theater and ending with courses at the Prosecutor's Office of the RSFSR and the School of American Business.

In fact, she dropped out of school before finishing the ninth grade. I met a young man named Shanin and went with him to Ivanteevka, near Moscow. There she worked as a cashier in a small hairdressing salon. She gave birth to two children and was, they say, happy. But then, at the age of forty, she found herself another husband and became Solovyova. In 1991, she opened a family firm, private entrepreneur “Dozator”, in Lyubertsy, which was engaged in trade and intermediary operations. But not even a year had passed since she and her husband moved to Podolsk and concluded there with the management of the local electromechanical plant, once one of the largest enterprises in the country's defense complex, an agreement on mediation for the sale of conversion goods produced by it - refrigerators and washing machines A few more months passed, and, having taken several senior plant employees into the company, Solovyova created the “Vlastelina” individual private enterprise, which was located in the building of the former plant trade union committee. It was there that her financial pyramid began to be built, which quickly became gigantic.

And it happened like this. Valentina Ivanovna suggested that the plant workers give her three million nine hundred thousand rubles each so that in a week they could receive a Moskvich, which then (it was 1994) cost eight. And she really kept these promises. The first lucky ones drove away in cars purchased for less than half the price. And together with them, the fame of the Podolsk sorceress flew throughout the city, throughout the region, then to Moscow and throughout Russia. And money flowed to her from more and more new investors, for whom the terms for receiving cars were already different - a month, then three, then six months.

In addition to cars, and again at a ridiculous price, Solovyova began offering apartments and entire mansions to her investors. From the workers of the Podolsk electromechanical plant alone, Solovyova collected more than twenty million dollars under promises to build them cheap housing.

By the end of her short career, she switched mainly to deposits - she simply collected money, promising a huge percentage. But subject to a minimum deposit of at least 50 million rubles. There was no longer time or energy to tinker with small things. Then this limit increased to 100 million. Individual private depositors were unable to do this, and people chipped in and sent a representative to Podolsk with money, who then, having received the deposit back with a profit, had to divide everything between the participants of the pool.

The fraudster's calculation was accurate. Less than two years later, using the “Lords” lists (if they were kept), it would almost be possible to compile an address directory of administrative and law enforcement agencies. Money flowed like a river not only from the cities of Russia, but also from Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

People who observed the crowd of depositors at the doors of the Vlastelina office in Podolsk could only guess what gigantic sums were going into Solovyova’s hands. By the end of the working day, large boxes of cash were piled up along the walls of Solovyova’s office in rows of three floors.

Later, from the investigation materials, it became known that Solovyova collected up to 70 billion rubles per day.

Having learned that Solovyova’s husband works as a driver and loader in her company, many were surprised - isn’t the position too low for the husband of a general director? They simply did not know that he was loading and transporting bags and boxes with bundles of money.

Solovyova carried out mass indoctrination of the capital’s intelligentsia. And above all - famous artists. The best creative forces of the capital - E. Shifrin and E. Petrosyan, V. Lanovoy and I Kobzon, A. Pugacheva and F. Kirkorov - flocked to her house and to the Podolsk Oktyabrsky concert hall from Moscow. Not to mention the mentioned favorite of Solovyova N. Babkina.

They say that there was an agreement that Michael Jackson himself would come to her during his tour in Moscow. But he didn't come. She didn’t have time - she was imprisoned.

At one time, near the village of Ostafyevo near Podolsk there was an estate of the Vyazemsky princes. Gogol and Griboyedov, Zhukovsky and Karamzin were there. A. S. Pushkin walked along the alleys of the old park. Nowadays, the historical museum housed in the building of a former manor house has fallen into complete disrepair. And suddenly, by the grace of Solovyova, who settled nearby, the museum received new furniture, equipment, a car, and money for bonuses to employees.

A golden shower suddenly fell on the Podolsk school for children with physical and physical disabilities. mental development. A group of Podolsk schoolchildren traveled to Germany with money from “Lords”. And on Teacher's Day, all schools in Podolsk received tape recorders, televisions, radios as gifts, and teachers received cash bonuses. Solovyova helped the Church of the Holy Trinity with repairs and bought new bells.

But by the fall of 1994, the well-functioning mechanism of Solovyova’s pyramid began to malfunction. The first to feel this were the investors, for whom the time had come to receive cars, apartments and monetary gain. Payments began to be made intermittently. Many were told that due to temporary difficulties there was no money now, but they would definitely come later, and they offered to renew the contract with a deferment of double the payment again, but only in six months. Many agreed. However, no one offered them any other way out.

At the end of August 1994, representatives of the Moscow Department for Combating Organized Crime came to Vlastelina’s office and demanded the return of the money they had invested. But the “Vlastelina” guards did not let them through to Solovyova. Strong Muscovites got into a fight with the guards, in which several depositors who happened to turn up also got hurt.

A few days later, the regional prosecutor's office opened a criminal case in this regard. But then he was released on the brakes.

After this story, payments to depositors were suspended altogether. But not everyone. Solovyova settled accounts with high-ranking law enforcement officers who invested funds following the example of their subordinates. She continued to explain to the others that the company was experiencing “temporary difficulties.”

While only a few knew about the imminent collapse of the Sovereigns, inexperienced people still continued to hand over their money to it. And others, already disappointed, created a queue to take their deposits back, preferably with interest.

In those days, Solovyova worked like this: in the morning she accepted deposits, in the afternoon, having counted the money received, she kept some for herself, and distributed some to particularly persistent investors. People calmed down and began to believe her again. But not all anymore. The policemen and bandits understood that if Solovyova suddenly disappeared, then they would never receive their money given to her. Therefore, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs established external surveillance of Solovyova. The bandits, meanwhile, tried to negotiate the return of deposits with the “roof” of the Lords. But unsuccessfully. By that time, the prosecutor’s office had not yet received any official statements from investors about Solovyova’s fraud.

At the beginning of October 1994, who had been eyeing Solovyova for a long time tax office I tried to repeat the previous attempts to look into her accounting. And then her connections came into play again. The inspectors were besieged. In the end, only tax police officers managed to overcome the barriers of the private security of the “Vlastelin” individual entrepreneur, as well as Solovyova’s friendly and business connections in the circles of those in power.

Having barely looked at the affairs of “Vlastelina” from the inside, they gasped - a typical fraudulent financial pyramid. And what a one!

It turned out that the company, which officially declared that it pays large interest on deposits from income from successful investments of the collected money in various kinds of profitable industrial and commercial enterprises, in reality did not conduct and does not conduct absolutely any investment and commercial activities. Moreover - it’s hard to believe - but, managing billions, Solovyova practically had neither serious accounting nor an accurate register of all her investors. She didn't need that. She knew that the pyramid would soon collapse.

“Vlastelina” was simply a giant pump for pumping money out of gullible people. Moreover, it is a disposable pump, initially designed so that as soon as it becomes clogged, it will simply be thrown away.

The system was extremely simple. They received money from new investors, kept part of the collected amount for themselves, and the rest went to pay those who donated earlier. The next day they collected it again, pocketed some of it, and gave the rest away. And so on.

On October 7, 1994, the Podolsk prosecutor's office opened a criminal case accusing the Vlastelina company of fraud. The company's papers did not contain a single document indicating that, despite the huge debt to investors, it had at least some real sources to cover it, other than new collections of money.

In fear of exposure, Solovyova rushed to look for someone who would give her a saving loan. She was, they say, even in the White House. But no one gave her anything. And at the same time, alarmed by the rapidly spreading rumors about the insolvency of the company, investors poured in. They demanded not promises, not new receipts confirming Solovyova’s readiness to pay in the future, even if once again double the interest on the deposit, but real payment within the period established by the contract.

Then, by the way, it turned out that the people who handed over their money to Solovyova, when signing the agreement, for the most part did not pay attention to the very strange clause contained in it: “All arising controversial issues in the execution of this agreement are decided by the parties through negotiations without recourse to arbitration bodies and courts” - Valentina Ivanovna Solovyova was a very prudent woman.

But those “organs” turned to her themselves. To put it mildly, Solovyova avoided the first serious meeting with them. And quite peculiar. On the night of October 19-20, 1994, together with her husband and children, she disappeared and went on the run. Ten days later, a special investigative and operational group was created to investigate the “Vlastelina” case. Valentina Solovyova was put on the wanted list, which lasted seven months.

And why haven’t they talked or written about her during this time! And that she was allegedly killed and her corpse was dissolved in acid, and oh plastic surgery, made in Germany. They also said that together with his family, under the reliable protection of Solovyov, he lives quietly either in Paris or in a secret villa of the Ministry of Internal Affairs near Moscow. They said that the Ministry of Internal Affairs even attracted psychics to search for her, on whose instructions the police dug up lawns, courtyards and basements of old houses in search of her corpse.

The story of her seven months underground, like everything that has always surrounded Solovyova, is a mishmash of truths and half-truths, rumors, fantasies, subtle and gross deliberate lies, tempting promises and hopes, blackmail and threats with criminality, seasoned with spectacular actions of ostentatious charity.

Continuing to insist on her absolute honesty, Solovyova explained the reason for her escape by saying that “her people” in the police informed her in time that the group that would soon arrest her included a person who had the task of killing her “in an attempt to escape."

For what? So that with her revelations she would not be able to compromise the high-ranking law enforcement officials associated with her.

Could this happen? Purely theoretically - yes. Almost unlikely. Moreover, there is another, opposite version of the possible course of action of the police and other law enforcement agencies in this matter. Fans of rumors widely discussed the version that Solovyova did not run away anywhere at all, but simply hid for a while from too persistent investors, and the police not only were not looking for her, but, on the contrary, were protecting her.

For what? And in order to give her the opportunity to collect and give to the law enforcement officers the money they invested in “The Lord”. Because if Solovyova is imprisoned or, God forbid, killed, they won’t see any money.

This option is also theoretically possible. And on it, as on the first one, Solovyova herself played and continues to play. And the connections didn't help.

Realizing that a scandal was about to break out, she naturally turned to her friends from law enforcement agencies who were financially tied up in advance and very prudently: “Save us, otherwise you will burn yourself. And you will lose the money invested, and the stars on your shoulder straps, and your positions!”

And some people probably really tried to help her. After all, it is clearly no coincidence that several operations to track her down and capture her, in particular in an apartment in a super-prestigious building on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, failed. We arrived and it was empty. It looked very much like she had been warned.

When the fire of revelations flared up and it became clear that even those people in law enforcement agencies who, perhaps, would want to help Solovyova could no longer do anything, she turned on the first of the options we have already mentioned. She stated that she fell victim to a conspiracy by law enforcement agencies that destroyed her thriving business, and they alone are to blame for the fact that “Vlastelina” cannot fulfill its duties to investors.

Then Solovyova wrote a letter to the chairman of the security committee State Duma Ilyukhin, in which she presented detailed list, how many millions and which of the generals and colonels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and state advisers of justice brought her in the hope of hitting a big jackpot. Then, with her own hand, she depicted all of them in a drawing, which is now attached to her criminal case.

In one of her letters to her investors, she wrote:

"...The reason for the difficulties is that some high-ranking law enforcement officials wanted to settle accounts with me. They are putting very strong pressure on me in order to prevent me from fulfilling my obligations to you. At the suggestion of the investigators, I was labeled a “swindler,” which deeply offends me and violates my rights. I have never deceived anyone and did not intend to do this for anything.

If I am given the opportunity to continue working, I guarantee that I will pay each of you within a week!

I will give out cars myself, one thousand each day. All apartments purchased for you will be provided to you within two months from the date of resumption of work of the company and without any additional payments.

I am supported only by faith in the Lord God, your trust and the knowledge that I can settle accounts with all of you, regardless of position and rank.

May the Lord God bless you and me...

And detectives near Moscow, after an unsuccessful search for the fugitive Solovyova, eventually turned to their colleagues from the FSB for help. And the former security officers did not disappoint. On Tverskaya near the Belorussky railway station on July 7, 1995, she was finally taken.

And for another year and a half, investigators sorted out the intricacies of the skillful psychological traps of the Vlastelina company and the outright lies of its owner.

At one stage of the investigation, she asked to change her preventive measure (that is, to be released from arrest) on bail of a trillion rubles. She said that she had this money at her disposal.

“Okay,” they answered her, “tell your people at large who have this trillion, let them transfer it to the current account of the Association of Affected Depositors. As soon as the money is transferred, you can go home.” And that was the end of it. She did not return to the issue of Solovyov’s release.

Exhausted investigators admitted to journalists that interrogating Solovyova was painful and pointless. She was either silent or lying, trying to attract as many people as possible to her defense. large quantity the most different people. Starting from the former chairman of the Federation Council and to ordinary investigators, who, according to Solovyova, allegedly beat her and drank vodka during interrogation.

In reality, the investigators carried out a gigantic amount of work, checking about twenty-two thousand individual and collective statements of Vlastelina depositors from seventy-two regions of Russia who handed over to it different time 604,764,686,000 rubles. They also checked information about her connections with more than seventy different enterprises and one hundred and seventy banks and their branches throughout the country. The answers they received only strengthened their initial opinion that the creation of the Vlastelina company was a classic financial pyramid, a fraudulent operation to siphon money from overly gullible citizens.

She did not conduct any serious commercial work, even with automobile factories, whose cars Solovyova actually gave out cheaply to her first investors as a seed. Few existing documents, and most importantly, witnesses told how those lucky ones, called to Podolsk to receive "Muscovites", were put on a bus and taken to a private shopping mall AZLK. There, Solovyova’s man, who had arrived with them, opened the suitcase with cash he had with him and paid for the cars on a general basis. Having received from him the keys to the new “Muscovites” and wishes for a safe journey, the joyful investors, naturally, did not ask themselves or others any questions about how “Vlastelina” makes ends meet.

Solovyova herself, in addition to tales about her own commercial activities, told investigators that her company collapsed only because it trusted someone very prosperous commercial bank. He allegedly took 370 billion rubles in cash from her for a very promising investment in oil production and promised to repay the debt in six months with a large profit at the rate of 100% per month. That is, she would receive three trillion rubles. This would be enough to pay off all of Vlastelina’s debts. And she has accumulated one trillion rubles. Solovyova herself said that, along with the promised profit, she should and was ready to give people cars, apartments and money worth as much as four trillion. She assured that she would certainly have done this if the insidious bank had not deceived her.

We checked this too. Lie. And Shumeiko, whose name Solovyova wove into this mythical deal, turned out to have nothing to do with it. So in the end she was forced to give him a formal apology. And most importantly, there was no deal. That bank did not take any cash from Vlastelina. And in four other banks where Vlastelina actually had accounts opened, investigators found a total of only 181,719,100 rubles. An examination of these accounts showed that they were opened, apparently, mainly to create the appearance of the vigorous commercial activities of the “Vlastelina”. And if Solovyova’s husband took bags and boxes of cash to banks in his car, it was mainly so that they would be professionally counted there and exchanged for more convenient “Vlastelina” ones. large bills in official bank packaging. Where these bills were then sent is still unknown to this day.

In addition to the one hundred and eighty million rubles that were found in accounts in four banks, investigators were able to find and describe Vlastelina's property - including two under construction cottage villages- on total amount 30 billion rubles.

Solovyeva herself, in her tiny apartment in the village of Ostafyevo, owned by a local state farm, had nothing but 18 million rubles worth of property, plus a small two-room apartment on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow, registered in the name of her husband. Another two-room apartment belongs to her daughter in the village of Lesnye Polyany. L.V. Solovyov also owns a used Moskvich-2141, the same one that was used to mainly transport bags and boxes of money.

There are also apartments in Moscow in that police inventory:

A nine-room apartment on Sretensky Boulevard worth $400,000;

Three three-room apartments near the Belorussky railway station for $120,000 each;

Four two-room apartments in Mitino and Northern Butovo for $59,000 each.

It is not yet clear who this housing was intended for.

So, for 30 billion in property seized according to the inventory, “Vlastelina” has debts, according to investigators, worth a trillion rubles, and according to Solovyova herself, as much as four. That is, at best, Solovyova found only three percent of what she should give to people. At worst, less than one.

Where is all the other money? We will most likely never know. Just as many other curious and very sensitive questions raised in connection with this case may well remain unanswered.

Why, for example, of the many very high-ranking persons publicly named by Solovyova as Ilyukhin involved in the “Lords” case, only one Shumeiko filed a lawsuit against him for libel, while the rest kept quiet? Why did K Borovoy, who at first so ardently set out to protect the investors of “Vlastelina” and its owner, whom he simply called Valya then, suddenly lost all interest in this matter? And in a recent conversation, they say, he even pretended to forget her last name.

Why, in violation of generally accepted established by law norms and rules for the detention and interrogation of persons under investigation, the imprisoned owner of “Vlastelina” was summoned by the Minister of Internal Affairs Kulikov for a personal conversation?

Solovyova herself told fellow prisoners stories about how the minister allegedly kissed her hands. She's lying, of course. The minister would not have kissed her hands. But what could he still talk to her about? Really curious. And why don’t the members of the investigative and operational group specially created for Solovyova’s case, who are supposed to know everything about her for a long time, know about this?

Will the court be able to answer at least some of these questions, many of which, under the hail of almost daily scandalous sensations, people gradually forget or have already forgotten?

In the meantime, while awaiting trial in the pre-trial detention center in Kapotnya, Solovyova says that she is going to write a novel about her life. And without admitting or repenting of anything, still promising to return everything in full to everyone, she freely writes promises like the ones she sent to her investors while she was on the run:

"...I need your help now! And I pray to God like a true Orthodox daughter Russian, I must report not to the court and investigation, but to each of you. And if something happens to me and the children, it will be the work of the hands and souls of our common enemies, those whose hands have long been in the blood of the people.

Your Valentina the Great Martyr."

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The legend about the origin of Valentina Ivanovna Solovyova, compiled by herself:

She was born in a nomadic camp after the romantic and fatal passion of a beautiful gypsy and a noble officer, who later became a general and emigrated to the USA. The camp did not approve of their love and threw out their beauty and her newborn daughter in disgrace. The gypsy turned out to be a heartless mother, she abandoned the baby to the mercy of fate and went to distant lands to seek her happiness. The little girl was picked up by a compassionate Russian woman who raised the orphan as her own daughter. When Valya grew up, she felt a calling within herself to big things. Thanks to her gypsy blood, she showed artistic talent - she graduated from the studio at the Romen Theater. And from her dad she inherited an inquisitive and sharp mind. Valya completed courses at the RSFSR Prosecutor's Office and the American Business School.

In fact, Valya Solovyova was born in a dirty barracks on Sakhalin in 1951. She was born as a result of a chance connection between a mother, exhausted by hard work, and a young soldier.

The girl was not particularly interested in studying. Before she even finished 9th grade, she gave up on school and left for Ivanteyevka. There she worked for a long time as a cashier in a hairdressing salon, but at the age of 40, an amazing transformation occurred with Valentina. She changed her last name to Solovyova and from a cashier turned into the director of the Dozator private enterprise in Lyubertsy. A year later, she and her husband moved to Podolsk and entered into an agreement with the management of the local electromechanical plant for mediation in the sale of the company’s conversion products - refrigerators and washing machines. Having taken several plant managers into the company, Solovyova registered the individual private enterprise “Vlastelina”, whose office was located in the building of the former trade union committee of the enterprise.

From the same plant Valentina began the construction of her financial pyramid: in 1994 she offered the company’s employees to hand over 3,900 thousand rubles to Vlastelina in order to receive a Moskvich car worth 8 million in a week. Soon the first lucky ones began driving around in brand new Moskvich cars for half the price, thereby making excellent advertising for Solovyova. The news about the sorceress from Podolsk quickly reached Moscow, and then spread throughout Russia. And although the period for receiving a car was lengthening, now it was not a week but a month, then three, and then six months, this did not stop investors. There were queues at Vlastilin to hand over money.

Solovyova expanded her activities. Soon she was offering not only cars at half price, but also apartments and even cottages. The influx of funds into Vlastilina became so great that Solovyova began to filter it, freeing herself from fussing with small investors, problems with apartments and cars. Towards the end of the construction of her pyramid, she switched to the usual collection of money under the promise of high deposits, but set the minimum deposit first in the amount of 50 million, and then 100 million rubles.

Money flowed into Solovyova’s hands like a river not only from all over vast Russia, but also from Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Up to 70 billion rubles were received per day. In the evening, large boxes of money, arranged in three rows, were piled up in Valentina’s office.

The image of the successful activities of “Vlastilina” was influenced by Solovyova’s social activities. In the best traditions of pre-revolutionary philanthropists, she supported culture, education and the church. In Podolsk, she organized performances by N. Babkina, A. Pugacheva, F. Kirkorov, E. Petrosyan, I. Kobzon and many other famous artists. She provided great assistance to the historical museum and Podolsk schools. And Solovyov bought bells for the Church of the Holy Trinity. The people were thrilled by such kindness of “Aunt Valya” and brought her more money.

The first signs that the pyramid was beginning to swing appeared in the fall of 1994. Those who came to receive cars, apartments and money with interest were offered to extend the period for another six months with a deferment of double the payment.

Further developments of events demonstrated the weakness of the state machine and the idiocy in society characteristic of that time. The first to attack Vlastilina were employees of the Moscow Department for Combating Organized Crime. And even if the guys just wanted to get their personal money, the forceful rebuff of the company’s security guards constituted resistance to government officials. In the newspapers, the UBOP members were accused of starting the fight and generously poured mud on them, while Solovyova continued to calmly collect money from gullible investors. Only payments on deposits stopped altogether.

After some time, they took on “Vlastilina” in a comprehensive manner. The Ministry of Internal Affairs placed Solovyova under external surveillance, and the tax inspectorate and the police looked into her accounting documents. It turned out that “Vlastilin” does not conduct any investment and financial activities and that this is a financial pyramid in its purest form. The prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against Solovyova and she, her husband and children, immediately went illegal.

They searched for her for seven months and finally found her near the Belorussky railway station. Valentina fought desperately for her freedom. She even offered investigators a trillion rubles in bail in exchange for release from custody. They agreed. And they offered to transfer a trillion to the account of the Association of Affected Depositors, after which they promised to change the preventive measure. However, Solovyova, as usual, lied; she had no trace of a trillion.

In general, they say that the investigators were pretty tired of working with Valya. She constantly lied, implicated various famous and high-ranking people in her machinations and wrote complaints about the “investigators”, allegedly they beat her and drank vodka during interrogations. But still, the investigators did their job well. We checked about 22 thousand applications of individual and collective investors from 72 regions of Russia, who donated 604,764,686,000 rubles to Vlastelina. The investigation convincingly proved that Solovyova only knew how to take and spend money; she did not know how to put it into circulation and did not want to. We managed to find funds and property of “Vlastelina” worth 30 billion rubles (bank accounts, apartments, 2 cottage villages under construction).

In 1999, the court sentenced Solovyova to 7 years in prison. She served her sentence in colony No. 5, where she corrected herself by working as a seamstress-machine operator. Valentina sewed camouflage uniforms, and in her free time she led a library club. Behind good behavior She was released 2 years ahead of schedule.

Once free, Valentina Solovyova preferred her former occupation as a pyramid builder to the profession of seamstress and motor operator mastered in the zone. And again she started selling cars at half price with a delay of a month. At first she worked under the guise of Interline CJSC. When the number of defrauded people reached 4 thousand, law enforcement agencies closed this office.

However, Solovyova did not calm down, she began to build a new pyramid under the guise of the all-Russian public “Merchant Fund”, of which she appointed herself president. In the end, law enforcement agencies got tired of this construction work and again brought her to criminal charges.

On October 1, 2005, Valentina Solovyova was arrested again. But during the investigation, she placed all the blame on the missing director of Interline, Lyudmila Ivanovskaya. However, the court did not really believe Solovyova and in the summer of 2006 sent her for 4 years to places not so remote, but nevertheless sad.

At the time of her heyday, Valya Solovyova loved to give money to the orphaned and wretched with a lordly gesture. But I didn’t send a penny to my dear mother. Moreover, she was ashamed of her simplicity and poverty and invented a new mother for herself - a romantic gypsy scoundrel.

The Main Investigation Department of the Moscow Region Main Internal Affairs Directorate has resumed an investigation into Russia's most famous financial "pyramid builder" - Valentina Solovyova. But only in order for the case to be closed, the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution expired. The complaints against the businesswoman were the same - collecting money from citizens under unfulfilled promises to provide cars cheaper than the market price. This is exactly how tens of thousands of Russians were deceived, who had previously contacted Solovyova’s main brainchild, the Vlastelina Private Private Enterprise.

Charges in the final version under Part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud) were brought against Valentina Solovyova in the spring of 2011. According to investigators, the businesswoman created a financial pyramid under the guise of Interline LLC. This structure took money from citizens, promising cheap cars.

In 2011, Solovyova was supposed to begin familiarizing herself with the case materials. However, the businesswoman was able to read only one volume. After that, her lawyers began sending hospital clients’ records to investigators. During one of her imprisonments for her scams, Solovyova fell ill with tuberculosis. The defenders referred to the fact that she needed constant treatment in a hospital and she could not study the case materials. As a result, the investigation was suspended due to the illness of the accused.

As a source in law enforcement agencies told Rosbalt, last week the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution expired for the last episode of fraud charged against Solovyov. Now this case no longer has any legal prospects. In this regard, the investigation was resumed, but this is a common formality: investigators must ask whether the businesswoman agrees to dismiss the case due to non-exonerating circumstances. If they received an affirmative answer, then the case would be closed. “There is no doubt that now Solovyova will find time to come to us and give the go-ahead,” noted a source in law enforcement agencies.

Back in 1991, Valentina Solovyova created an individual private enterprise (IPE) “Vlastilina” in Podolsk, which offered citizens to pay 50% of the cost of a new car, but receive it with a delay of several months. ICHP positioned itself as a “firm for people”, where people could turn through friends or on the recommendation of other clients.

The news about "Vlastilin" quickly spread among the residents of Russia, thousands of clients flocked to the company, including famous actors, singers, show business representatives. Later it turned out that the private entrepreneur’s business was built on the principle of a financial “pyramid”. At first, Solovyova added bank loans to depositors’ funds and used them to buy cars, then the money received from clients began to be enough for purchases. And when the flows of the latter began to dry up, the “pyramid” began to collapse. In 1994, only the “right” customers were able to get the cars, and then they stopped issuing them altogether.

As a result, 16 thousand investors were recognized as victims of the actions of fraudsters, the damage was estimated at 536 billion “old” rubles and $2.6 million. In 1996, Valentina Solovyova was arrested, the court sentenced her to seven years in prison, but already in 2000 she was released on parole. According to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, almost immediately the businesswoman began building a new financial “pyramid.”

In 2002, she acquired a controlling stake in Interline CJSC. General Director new structure Solovyova became a good friend of Lyudmila Ivanovskaya (according to some sources, the woman met in a colony, where Ivanovskaya was also serving time). According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, . Customers were offered cars for 50% of the cost, but with a delay in receipt of a month. Such cheapness of cars was explained by Solovyova and Ivanovskaya by the fact that they work directly with car factories. Clients flocked to Interline JSC, the number of which quickly approached 5 thousand. And again, only the first buyers received the cars; the rest were constantly “fed” with promises.

As a result, more than a hundred victims contacted the Podolsk police department in 2003, and the police opened a criminal case under the article “fraud.” Later, it was accepted for production by the Main Investigation Department (GID) under the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region.

Alexander Shvarev