Valentina Solovyova (Vlastilina) - biography, information, personal life. The owner of “Vlastilina” is again building financial pyramids. What is Valentina Solovyova doing this year?
Founder of the Vlastelina company, which worked on the principle of a pyramid. It offered investors cars, apartments and mansions at low prices. Towards the end of her short career, she switched to deposits - she simply collected money, promising huge interest rates. She also ranked herself among the saints.
For a long time, car enthusiasts will not be able to forget the legendary Podolsk company, whose cars, if you believe the rumors that spread in 1994, drove at best half of Moscow! From which they took brand new Volgas and Zhigulis to their homeland in other regions of Russia - dozens, hundreds of happy customers.
But in fact there was an automobile company from Podolsk, which for some time supplied the first investors with cars.
The example of “Vlastelina,” as the Podolsk office was called, was immediately followed by other businessmen who also decided to make big money. Fortunately, the client was in full swing, wanting to get a brand new car almost for free.
It must be said that the representatives of “Vlastelina” very competently thought through the entire scam from beginning to end. They immediately spared no expense on a powerful advertising campaign. Newspapers and television invited clients to the “Vlastelina” apartments every day. And literally the next day, the first people who wanted to buy a new car for half or even a third of its real cost were already crowding around the doors of the company. And when the first car enthusiasts, having paid 2,000 dollars for an Oka and 4,000 for a Zhiguli in one month, received their iron horses, Podolsk suddenly became the New Vasyuki of car sales. There were already kilometer-long queues on the streets. For those who missed the advertisements in newspapers, neighbors and acquaintances told about miracles.
Immediately believing in the fairy tale about the magic carpet, not only ordinary peasants and workers, who had been saving for Moskvich or Zaporozhets for years, rushed to Podolsk, but also businessmen, pop stars, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and even the Federal Grid Company. The company's daily turnover has reached an unprecedented figure - about 100 billion rubles!
I didn’t have to wait long for sobering up. Already at the end of 1994, the supply of cars to customers ended. This is understandable, because the criminal organization operated like a “pyramid”. And, of course, ordinary investors were left behind.
On October 7, 1994, a criminal case was opened against the head of the company, Valentina Solovyova, on two counts - concealment of tax income and fraud. On October 20, Solovyova and her family disappeared. And she was arrested only in June 1995. Speaking about her debts to investors, Solovyova admitted the amount of 4 trillion (!) rubles. In order to release the madam from behind bars, her lawyers proposed to the investigation that the accused be released on bail of 1 trillion rubles. Naturally, the collateral is the same money from investors. But investigators suggested that she transfer these funds to the account of the depositors' association. But what kind of fool would part with that kind of money, even if he faces quite a decent sentence? Moreover, the case acquired more and more new details. And it turned out that the owner of “Vlastelina” regularly paid sums amounting to up to 10 percent of the funds she received into the common fund of Moscow criminal groups. And further. The investigation found that the car business also involved public services. Among them, according to the defendant, are not only people from the presidential administration and the government of the Russian Federation, but also the FSK service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the prosecutor's office, and the court. There is no doubt that the “Lords” case will still excite the public long years, as well as the scams of similar companies.
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. “Vlastelina”, or rather its owner - Mrs. Solovyova - not only in Russia, but also in our country, played 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.
The police, they say, returned Alla Borisovna’s passport quickly, but not the money. Valentina Ivanovna Solovyova, although she now considers herself a saint, has always been a simple woman. She stored 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. As for hairstyles, I 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 a Mercedes 600.
“I am the richest woman in Russia, but I am pure before God and people,” Valentina Solovyova assured the court. She came to court as if she were theatrical performance- in expensive fur coats and diamonds. Some people in the audience laughed from her: “I respect myself so much that I call myself “You” and by my first name and patronymic - Valentina Ivanovna!”
Were the psychiatrists right when they diagnosed her with delusions of grandeur? Doesn’t she have the right to be considered the greatest fraudster of the century, a woman from whose activities 16.5 thousand citizens suffered, and the damage exceeded 530 million rubles and 2.5 million dollars?
At the trial, Valentina told fables: that she graduated from the music and pedagogical school, Samarsky pedagogical institute, American courses for financiers, legal courses of the Prosecutor's Office of the RSFSR, higher courses of the gypsy theater "Romen". Although it is reliably known that she completed eight classes and one course at a teacher training college, from where she was expelled for poor academic performance.
Having rewinded her sentence, today Valentina Solovyova is again “walking” in freedom, causing the close attention of those whom the “Vlastelina”, to put it bluntly, “shod.” Time will tell how the owner of the pyramid will return the loot. In the meantime, government agencies admit that when protecting their money, citizens will have to rely only on their economic knowledge, instinct of self-preservation and basic common sense.
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Valentina Ivanovna Solovyova
(born 1951)
The founder of the Vlastelina company, which worked on the principle of a pyramid, offered investors cars, apartments and mansions at low prices. By the end of her short activity, 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, the detectives found either a receipt or a certificate stating that the “living legend” of the stage had handed over a very large sum of money to the “Vlastelina” company. Why she handed it over there was not stated. And so it was clear to everyone For some time, “Vlastelina”, but more precisely, 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 counting
True, this did not last long - from December 1993 to October 1994. After this, Solovyova from a benefactor suddenly turned 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, sweaters with Lurex and soulful songs performed by famous artists. She especially respected Nadezhda Babkina, to whom, they say, she once got 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” back, or whether you will get your money invested in “Vlastelina” back, it is unknown
Valentina Solovyova started her business life very, very modestly At first she was a modest cashier named Shanina in a small hairdressing salon in the tiny town of Ivanteevka near Moscow
It was only later that the streams of new depositors that poured into her had to be regulated by special police squads, and she accepted money only from groups and in turn with a pre-registration
Valentina Ivanovna came up with a romantic tale that she was born as if 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. Her mother, expelled from the camp in disgrace, allegedly abandoned the newborn was left 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 they began to unravel the case of the missing billions of "Vlastelina", investigators found the woman who raised Valentina in a remote village in the Kaluga region. And it turned out that she was not adopted at all, but the real mother of the owner of "Vlastelina", who did not give away her billions not a penny to the parent, and with great difficulty she earned food for herself 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, one of the largest enterprises of the country's defense complex, an agreement on mediation for the sale of conversion goods produced by it - refrigerators and washing machines. Several more months passed , and, taking several management employees of the plant into the company, Solovyova created the individual private enterprise “Vlastelina”, 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 "Lords" pyramid earned money. Unlike MMM and other similar fraudulent companies that sought to expand the circle of investors and spent huge amounts of money on advertising, Solovyova placed her main bet on collective investors. Knowing how weak a person is and that “we are all human,” she sent her “agents of influence” into power structures - from the regional to the all-Russian scale. And especially to the law enforcement agencies, to whose help, when the pyramid collapses - and Solovyova foresaw this - she will be able to turn to in difficult times.
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 on Solovyova’s day she collected up to 70 billion rubles
Having learned that Solovyova’s husband worked as a driver and loader in her company, many wondered whether the position was too low for the husband of the general director.7 They simply did not know that he loaded and transported 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 concert hall "Oktyabrsky" 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 the 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 deadline for receiving cars, apartments and money “gain” had come. 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 "Lords", 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, the tax inspectorate, which had been keeping an eye on Solovyova for a long time, 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” private security company, 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 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, she disappeared with her husband and children 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 seven months of her underground, like everything that 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. Practically, it is unlikely. Especially, that there is another, opposite version of the possible line of conduct in this case by the police and other law enforcement agencies. 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 back to the law enforcement officers the money they invested in “Vlastelina”. 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 in advance and very prudently to her financially tied friends from law enforcement agencies: “Save, 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, can no longer do anything, she included the first of the options we have already mentioned. She stated that she had fallen victim to a conspiracy by law enforcement agencies that destroyed her thriving business, and they alone were to blame for the fact that “Vlastelina” could not 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 people wanted to settle accounts with me high-ranking employees law enforcement. There is a lot of pressure being put on me to prevent me from fulfilling my obligations to you. At the suggestion of the investigators, I was labeled a “scammer,” which deeply offends me and violates my rights. I have never deceived anyone and had no intention of doing so 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 a certain 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 vigorous commercial activity 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 and exchanged for large bills in official bank packaging that were more convenient for “Vlastelina.” 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 at all - worth 18 million rubles, 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. For 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 silent? 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 know about this, who are supposed to know everything about her for a long time?
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."
Valentina Solovyova (Vlastilina)
Valentina Ivanovna Solovyova (née Samoilova). Born in 1951 on Sakhalin. Russian scammer. Founder of the Vlastilina financial pyramid.
Valentina Samoilova, who became known as Valentina Solovyova or simply Vlastilina, was born in 1951 on Sakhalin.
In a number of their early biographies she sometimes called Belarusian Gomel her birthplace. But in fact, her grandmother Efimiya Sergeevna, a Belarusian gypsy, lived there (at least that’s how Valentina imagined her). According to her, it was her grandmother who wanted to call her Vlastilina. But in the end, the family agreed on the name Valentin.
Father - Ivan Samoilov, lived in Sakhalin conscript service. And her mother worked there in logging. A relationship arose between them, the fruit of which was Valentina.
After the service, the father went to his place in Kuibyshev (now Samara), but his parents, having learned about the child, forced Ivan to marry. He took Valentina and her mother to Kuibyshev, where she grew up.
At the age of three, according to her stories, Valentina received a severe head injury.
Graduated from eighth grade high school, after which she studied for a year at the Kuibyshev pedagogical school, which she left because she became interested in a guy. She herself often talked about supposedly studying at a pedagogical university. You could also hear from Valentina that she graduated from the Musical 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, etc. and so on. But during the investigation it was established that all this data was untrue.
At the end of the 1980s, she moved with her family (being then Shkapina - by her first husband) to Ivanteevka, near Moscow, to the homeland of her then husband. He opened the Dozator company, which repaired and adjusted equipment at agricultural enterprises. Valentina was a supplier at the company.
In 1991, she registered her individual private enterprise (IPE) “Dozator” in Lyubertsy. Then she left her first husband and remarried, becoming Solovyova. She said: “The bank gave a loan (one and a half billion rubles) for the construction of cottages. I concluded contracts, bought land (initially for 30 houses). The second site was already for 70 cottages. I always worked in parallel. Therefore, I also sold furniture, chandeliers, refrigerators, cars."
The company was registered in 1993 "Vlastilina", which was engaged in the sale of cars, apartments and mansions at low prices, as well as deposits at high interest rates. To the new employees hired by the company, Solovyova, who became its director, made an offer to give her three million nine hundred thousand rubles. For this money, in a week the employees were promised new car brand "Moskvich". Its real cost in those years was about eight million. Solovyova truly fulfilled this promise.
The fame of the happy owners of new cars, and then of Valentina Solovyova, spread throughout Russia. Such advertising quickly had its effect. The number of depositors increased exponentially. However, for them the time frame for receiving cars was already different - first a month, then three, and then six. Valentina Solovyova took the money, promising to return it along with huge interest. For those who did not withdraw their deposits after a pre-agreed time, Solovyova offered to purchase cars and apartments in Moscow and the Moscow region at a price almost half as expensive as through official car dealerships and real estate firms.
The Vlastilina operating scheme was quite typical: the company’s owners received money from new investors, kept part of the collected amount for themselves, and the rest went to pay those who had invested earlier.
Unlike many other financial pyramids, Vlastilin had a limited minimum deposit amount. It amounted to 50 million non-denominated rubles. Despite such a large minimum deposit amount, the number of depositors continued to increase. The influence of “Vlastilina” went beyond Russia and spread to a number of CIS countries, in particular to Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Another difference from similar financial pyramids was that Vlastilin relied primarily on collective investors.
Solovyova became the most rich woman Russia. Confident voice she promised people both a car and a full life. With the words “happiness has come to you,” the determined Valentina entered the offices of the plant directors. She was ready to take away all the furniture that had already been made and leave orders for new ones. Everything is for cash. Soon the business woman had sponsors ready to help her. The money also went into investments. Monthly volume (incoming and outgoing) - trillion.
In 1994 alone, Valentina Solovyova sold 16,000 cars at half price. People came, rented, received money or a car, and immediately rented again. Simple people they barely scraped enough money for one car, while some brought money for 50 or even 100 cars at once.
People brought all their savings to Vlastilina. Among them were many celebrities, incl. big officials and bandits. Among her clients were,.
Shortly before Solovyova's arrest, she took money from and - $1,750,000. Pugacheva was supposed to get the Forum cinema to create her song theater. A month later, Valentina Solovyova promised to give her 3,500,000. But she didn’t give it.
Among the victims was also, who sold her apartment in St. Petersburg to invest in Vlastilina, but as a result was left without money and housing.
Beginning in the fall of 1994, payments began to occur intermittently. It was explained to investors that due to temporary difficulties in this moment there is no money, but it will definitely be paid later. People had no choice but to wait. In early October 1994, Vlastilina came to the attention of tax office. As it turned out, the company, which had billions in turnover, had practically no accounting department or an accurate list of its investors. This could only be explained by the fact that Solovyova knew in advance that the company would soon cease to exist.
On October 7, 1994, the prosecutor's office of the city of Podolsk opened a criminal case accusing Valentina Solovyova of fraud on an especially large scale. Solovyova disappeared, but six months later, on July 7, 1995, she was arrested. She was sitting in a common cell (47 people), all visits and transfers were prohibited.
During the annual period of operation of the company, money was collected from more than twenty-six thousand investors for a total amount of 543 billion rubles. It still remains unknown where all the money disappeared. Solovyova’s own property, which was subsequently confiscated by a court verdict, was valued at 18 million rubles.
“I asked to be given six months to a year to return everything and pay off. I wanted to implement everything myself, sell all the cottages and apartments in Moscow. Only I knew to whom and how much I owed. But what’s left is what you’ll judge for,” - she said later.
In 1995, Valentina Solovyova’s lawyer was Pavel Astakhov (this was one of his first cases that was widely covered in the press). He had previously defended her husband.
March 30, 1996 began trial over "Vlastilina". In total, the investigation and trial lasted five years. In 1999, Valentina Ivanovna Solovyova was sentenced to seven years in prison with confiscation of property for fraud on an especially large scale. She never admitted her guilt.
Subsequently, lawyer Astakhov facilitated Solovyova’s parole. However, after this the lawyer refused to work with Solovyova.
On October 17, 2000, Solovyova was released on parole. The reason for the early release of Valentina Solovyova was, among various other reasons, a petition on behalf of the trade union of entrepreneurs of the Moscow region. Her deputy, Lyudmila Ivanovskaya, received 4 years in prison, and was also released in 2000.
Valentina Solovyova was arrested for the second time in 2005. She promised two Muscovites cars at half price, but she had to be released - law enforcement agencies did not have enough evidence of her guilt. In the same year, Solovyova organized the so-called “Russian Merchants Fund”. To buy a new car, it was necessary to deposit a certain amount of money, and then bring two more people who were ready to donate money to buy cars. But this time she suffered a setback - one of her clients turned out to be an detective from the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department. Without waiting for the money, he wrote a statement to his department. Solovyova was arrested. In the summer of 2005, she was sentenced to 4 years in prison in a general regime colony.
Valentina Solovyova herself does not consider herself a fraudster and assures that she set herself the goal of enriching the population. The fraudster, according to her, feels guilty only for the fact that she could not help people and did not save 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,” (December 4, 2017).
Personal life of Valentina Solovyova:
She was married twice.
She got married for the first time in the 1970s. The husband was a certain Shkapin. She bore his last name. The marriage produced a son and daughter.
She married a second time in 1991 to Muscovite Leonid Solovyov, and also took his last name, under which all of Russia recognized her.
Husband Leonid served six months, taking upon himself the pistol found during a search of his wife. During her imprisonment, he abused alcohol and eventually hanged himself in 1997.
“He was left alone when I was imprisoned. He was addicted to vodka, tried to meet with me. I told him: “Lenya, divorce me,” she recalled. At the same time, Solovyova is sure that her husband was killed.
She was informed about her husband's death only two years later. She also learned about her father’s death from a stroke (he allegedly received a stroke after seeing his daughter on TV behind bars). “For three days I just lay there, didn’t eat, didn’t drink, since then I just haven’t had any more tears...” said the scammer.
Solovyova’s son, daughter and granddaughter, according to rumors, are still hiding, fearing their mother’s creditors.
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
Today, Moscow police clarified the details of the detention of the former owner of the “Lord” financial pyramid, Valentina Solovyova. A few days ago she was taken into custody again.
After her previous sentence, Solovyova was released on parole; she again, as in the early 90s, began selling cars at half price. And so as not to be recognized, she appeared in front of customers in a wig.
NTV correspondent Vladimir Kobyakov tells the details.
“Vlastelina” no longer exists, but there is the “Russian Merchant Fund”. Many people have heard about its president, Valentina Solovyova, in 1999. She was often shown on television news. After 6 years, only a few people recognize Solovyov.
Tatyana Koroleva, an employee of the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the South-Eastern District of Moscow: “She changed wigs, changed hair color, changed her image in general, so it was very difficult to find her, to somehow recognize her.”
For former leader"Lords" and current president This is the fourth criminal case against the Merchant Fund. The first time she was arrested was in 1995. Then investigators talked about 17 thousand defrauded investors and a trillion lost rubles. Now she has been arrested again: they suspect that she was building a new pyramid in Moscow.
Valentina Solovyova preferred the old proven scheme: in order to get a brand new “ten”, or even more than one, the client must first hand over five thousand dollars, and then bring two friends, who are obliged to shell out another five thousand dollars.
This time, Solovyova was let down by the fact that her client turned out to be an operational employee of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department. He handed over the money, brought friends, but never received the car, and wrote a statement to the police.
The department for combating organized crime called this operation in the southeast of Moscow “Operational Experiment.” The experiment with Solovyova worked, but in the criminal case there is only one victim so far - policeman Yolkin.
Tatyana Koroleva, press officer of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the South-Eastern District of Moscow: “Citizen Yolkin and two young men came to the so-called deal, where Citizen Solovyova was present. They gave her another five thousand dollars. While handing over the money, citizen Solovyova was detained by the Organized Crime Control Department officers.”
Solovyova herself explains that policeman Yolkin’s money was spent on the development of the “Russian Merchant Fund”, and she will soon present all the documents.
Valentina Solovyova also wanted to reveal all the economic schemes during the investigation of the “Vlastelina” case. She argued that investors' money is in one commercial bank, and she will definitely take them.
Valentina Solovyova: “The money was not found, there is no money. This means that the pyramid took from some and gave to others. Is this so?
In 1999, the head of Vlastelina was sentenced to 7 years in prison, but after hearing the verdict, she promised not to forget about her clients, including Alla Pugacheva, who entrusted the company with 1 million 700 thousand dollars.
Valentina Solovyova: “Alla Borisovna, apparently, understood me very well, and is still confident that if I am free, I will settle accounts with her.”
Upon release, Solovyova returned to business. The new company Interline promised cars for the price of a moped. Her clients again came to the prosecutor's office, but Solovyova proved that she had nothing to do with it. All documents were issued to a friend, Lyudmila Ivanovskaya, who is still wanted.
Once again the creator of “Lords” was detained a year ago. She again promised two Muscovites cars at half price. But Solovyova was released even then; the police did not have enough evidence. Now Valentina Solovyova is working with lawyers in the pre-trial detention center.