Viktor Baturin - brother-in-law of Yuri Luzhkov, ex-husband of Yana Rudkovskaya - was sentenced to seven years in prison and a fine of 700 thousand rubles. The businessman was convicted under the article "Fraud" - forgery of securities. This is his second term. He received the former conditionally - for the sale of the same apartment twice. During the last court session Baturin was unshaven, gloomy, and seemed to have lost all store of optimism. He has been sitting for several months. Friends and business partners forgot about its existence. In the pre-trial detention center, until the last, she regularly visited him only last wife Ilona. But spiteful critics are wondering: how long will it last? The beautiful Ilona Baturin married in December 2008. The 22-year-old brunette worked as a model and walked the catwalk. And Viktor Nikolaevich was a frequent guest of such events. Sometimes he asked the girls he liked for a phone number. Some made appointments. True, infrequently - was busy. But then suddenly took the initiative. Fell in love at first sight? Is not a fact. The wife was necessary for a businessman at that time. Firstly, to wipe the nose of ex-wife Yana Rudkovskaya, who, as he assured, deceived and threw money away, and even had an affair with Evgeni Plushenko under her nose. Secondly, clouds were gathering over Baturin's business: he had accumulated debts, went bankrupt. And property can be saved by rewriting it to the spouse. Maybe Ilona would not have married. But her mother Lyudmila Obraztsova took the initiative.
- Ilona herself is like a doll - beautiful, but as if lifeless, - one of Baturin's former assistants, who closely communicated with him, told us new family, Dmitry K. The boss's relationship with Ilona unfolded before his eyes. Her mother was in charge of her life and career. I remember very well how, at the beginning of the relationship, one of Viktor Nikolayevich’s assistants (it happened that I was too) called Ilona’s mother Lyudmila Leonidovna and made an appointment with her daughter on behalf of the boss. On the first dates, the beloved oligarch came with her mother. Baturin had smart conversations with his future mother-in-law. And the beauty nodded and smiled. Lyudmila Leonidovna is clearly not one of the rich. I heard she worked at some museum. And museum employees receive pennies. Later, already in the status of a relative of Baturin, she changed. She became a sort of socialite and business lady.
Before Ilona, the oligarch was married three times. And more than once he openly said that he went to the registry office only when his woman became pregnant. And he got married for the fourth time only when his girlfriend was in her seventh month. Ilona gave birth to a businessman's daughter Tamara - named after Baturin's mother. Although the assistants offered to give the girl the name Lena. Maybe then sister Elena Baturina would again take her brother under her protection? Indeed, since a black cat ran between them, relatives communicate only in court. But the proud Victor refused to name his daughter after his sister. After the wedding, Baturin fussed: he designed a huge building in the center of Sochi for his mother-in-law. And some money was transferred to her own account. And the house in the village of Usovo near Moscow on Rublyovka was rewritten by a marriage contract for a young wife. Why did the poor man entrust his property to the first women he met? Really there were no closer people? During those years that he was rich and successful, Victor lost his real friends. Showed superiority too often - and they left. But cunning and cunning literally stuck to him - they profited a lot at his expense. And when a businessman got into trouble, they seemed to dissolve. But now the question is this. Will his wife and mother-in-law give him a kick to a well-known place when Viktor Nikolayevich leaves places not so remote? After all, they are now wealthy ladies. And he is poor as a church mouse. Baturin's lawyer Igor Shabanov says that Ilona is visiting the oligarch in jail. Comes alone. Without mom. Ilona does not work, sits with her daughter, lives on the money from the rent of the former Baturin building in Sochi. In the city of Olimpiada, rental prices are exorbitant. And the ladies have enough money. Will a young beautiful wife faithfully wait for her beloved husband from prison? Seven years is a long time.
Today, the 59-year-old brother-in-law of the former mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, Viktor Baturin, who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for fraud with bills of the Inteko company, left the colony in Kalmykia on parole. Since October 31, 2013, a well-known businessman has been serving a sentence in IK-1 on charges of fraud with bills of the Inteko company. The court mitigated his sentence and replaced the unserved term with a fine of 300,000 rubles.
Viktor Baturin is the older brother of Elena Baturina, a Russian entrepreneur, one of the richest women in the world and the wife of former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
Baturin has repeatedly been a defendant in criminal cases. So, in the summer of 2011, the Presnensky Court of Moscow found the businessman guilty of real estate fraud. According to the investigation, in June 2008, Viktor Baturin sold his friend Igor Vashurkin a 211 sq. m on Tverskaya-Yamskaya street in Moscow. The businessman received after the conclusion of the transaction 23.8 million rubles. However, a month later, Baturin sold the same premises to Dmitry Zhuravlev, director of the PTK Gazstroykomplekt, receiving $ 1.5 million on receipt. The court sentenced Baturin to 3 years of probation and a fine of 300 thousand rubles.
On July 26, 2013, the Gagarinsky Court of Moscow sentenced Baturin to 7 years in a penal colony, finding him guilty of a multi-million dollar fraud with bills of the Inteko company. He was also awarded a fine of 700 thousand rubles. The businessman was detained at the end of November 2011 while trying to cash out a counterfeit, according to the investigation, Inteko promissory note for 10.8 million rubles. Later, another episode appeared in the case in the amount of more than 5.6 billion rubles.
Baturin himself became a victim of swindlers. As early as September 30, 2010, the police department of the Central Administrative District of Moscow, at the request of the businessman himself, initiated a criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 159 ("Fraud on an especially large scale").
As follows from the case file, in 2006, Baturin's company Ivan Kalita Management Company entered into an agreement with Investfinance Group, which undertook to help Baturin with the registration of ownership of an apartment in the house at Novaya Basmannaya, 18, building 3. By agreement the registration was to be completed by May 2007, and the company was to receive 300 thousand rubles for its work.
Until February 2008, Baturin transferred about $ 1.5 million to swindlers. As a result, they provided him with a copy of the contract for the sale of an apartment on Novaya Basmannaya. However, the document turned out to be a fake: as the investigation found out, the Moscow Property Department has no data that the building belongs to Viktor Baturin. The case was closed in 2013 with the wording: "It is impossible to identify the person to be held liable."
Viktor Baturin is well known in the circles of antiques collectors as a collector and owner of the largest thematic collection in Europe and the world dedicated to his idol - Emperor Napoleon. The collection includes Napoleon's sword and cocked hat, his uniforms, weapons, awards and military ammunition, personal belongings and furniture, the "Tilsit album" with engravings by Vernet, the saber of Marshal Soult, as well as rare books. The cost of the library alone is estimated at about $2 million.
Baturin has been married for 7 years to the famous Russian producer Yana Rudkovskaya. They have common children Andrei and Nikolai. Their divorce was accompanied by scandals related to the division of property, the place of residence of children, as well as the rights to the repertoire of the popular singer Dima Bilan.
In early March 2013, Rudkovskaya decided to sell one of the former family assets - a house in Pravdinsk in the Kaliningrad region. This mansion came to Rudkovskaya and Baturin in the middle of the 2000s. The house is valuable primarily for its history. In 1807, Emperor of France Napoleon stopped here before the Battle of Friedland, in which French troops were able to defeat the army of Alexander I. Thanks to this victory, Napoleon achieved the conclusion of the Tilsit Peace, becoming at that time the most influential ruler in Europe.
The bailiffs, who since 2008 have been looking for Baturin's property to pay off his numerous obligations, have not been able to find his collection. They suspect that the businessman managed to hide the meeting abroad before his arrest. Requests were sent to countries where he may allegedly have property. These are Switzerland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece.
Among Baturin's creditors are VTB, Loko-bank, Rosselkhozbank, Grant LLC, Park-Service LLC, Veles Agroprodukt LLC, to which he owed about $53 million. Now the database of the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) includes 64 judicial acts and writ of execution against Baturin in different regions of Russia, from several thousand rubles to hundreds of millions. The total debts of the businessman are estimated at almost 7 billion rubles.
In 2010, bailiffs managed to seize part of Baturin's property. Two apartments in the center of Moscow, two land plots and a house in an elite village near Moscow, land plots in Kaluga and Belgorod regions, as well as two cars Mercedes, Porsche, Land Rover and securities. However, the total cost of this property did not cover even half of the debt.
Two months ago, he was released early from the Kalmyk colony, not only serving his term, but actively working to increase the livestock of large cattle in the backyard of the institution.
During the time that the businessman spent in custody, his business partners put calves in the colony for at least a million rubles.
So, on November 16, 2015, Correctional Colony No. 1 in Kalmykia signed a contract for 399 thousand rubles. with Mramor-Kalmykia LLC for the supply of calves for fattening and further slaughter. According to the procurement documentation, average weight one calf was supposed to be 215 kg. In total, the jailers planned to purchase 20 animals at a price of 93 rubles. for 1 kg.
According to the Kartoteka.ru database, Mramor-Kalmykia LLC is owned by Dorji Badmaev, who in 1999 was Viktor Baturin's deputy when he headed the government of Kalmykia. At the same time, Mramor-Kalmykia LLC was previously owned by Badma Badmaev, who, together with Viktor Baturin, owned Chograisky Quarry LLC.
Earlier in 2013, after being transported to the Baturin zone, another company of Dorji Badmaev, SPK Agro-Niva, delivered calves worth 700 thousand rubles to IK-1. According to sources in the Federal Penitentiary Service, while serving his sentence, Baturin actually managed the subsidiary farm of the institution. Portal "Region-Kalmykia" on this occasion even wrote that
the convicted businessman “decided to improve the Kalmyk breed of cattle” by crossing local cows with French ones and breeding a new breed, “Baturinskaya”.
Viktor Baturin at the Moscow City Court, 2013. Photo: Mikhail Pochuev/TASS
It should be noted that the delivery of 20 calves to zone 20 in November 2015 actually coincided with the filing by the administration of the colony of a petition to the court to replace the unserved part of the term of imprisonment for Viktor Baturin with a milder form of punishment. However, on December 14, 2015, the Elista City Court of the Republic of Kalmykia refused to satisfy the submission of FKU IK No. 1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Republic of Kalmykia.
However, a month later, on January 21, 2016, the Supreme Court of Kalmykia reviewed this decision, and, according to the materials of the court, the cows played an important role in the release of the businessman.
Thus, in the appeal ruling of the republican court, with reference to the lawyer Baturin, it is said that,
“having economic knowledge and experience in doing business, the businessman took part in the production of cinder blocks and paving slabs, and thanks to his sponsorship, the number of livestock and poultry has been increased on the territory of the household yard, production is being improved, greenhouses have been built.”
In addition, according to court records, Baturin actively collaborated with the Research Institute of Agriculture, and also led the reconstruction and repair of an Orthodox church located on the territory of a correctional institution. Letters of thanks from the Research Institute of Agriculture and from the parish of the Elista Cathedral were presented to the court.
The reference from the penitentiary was also very benevolent. Baturin has two commendations “for a conscientious attitude to work and exemplary behavior”, the document stated that the convict “took an active part in the improvement of the territory of the colony; attends educational events regularly; calm, balanced by nature, tries to avoid conflict situations,
when communicating with representatives of the administration and convicts, he tries to be polite;
they have not lost socially useful connections.” As a result, the court decided to replace the unserved part of the punishment (2 years 10 months 7 days) for the brother-in-law of the ex-mayor of Moscow with a fine of 300 thousand rubles.
The Federal Penitentiary Service of Kalmykia could not promptly comment on how much “sponsorship to increase the number of livestock and poultry” contributed to the filing of a petition to replace the unserved part of the sentence with a milder one. Representatives of Baturin and himself were also unable to promptly comment on the businessman's livestock activities in the colony.
Meanwhile, Baturin himself, in an interview with journalists immediately after his release, said that it was very difficult to be in prison. “It is difficult to sit in the zone, and I would not wish this on anyone. If there is a goal, you can even survive such a nuisance as a prison. It’s hard to live without a goal, and it’s even harder to sit still,” he said.
According to Gazeta.Ru sources close to the businessman, now Baturin is most often in Kalmykia. "Viktor Nikolaevich decided to take up agriculture and now he spends most of his time in Kalmykia, and not in Moscow, ”the source said. Also, according to the interlocutor of Gazeta.Ru,
now Baturin is looking for a publisher to publish his partly autobiographical book "Shantrap",
which he began to write while still in jail.
The brother-in-law of ex-mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, Viktor Baturin, was sentenced in 2013 by the Gagarin Court of Moscow to seven years in prison for fraud. In September 2011, at the offices of CJSC Inteko, he presented for payment deliberately false bills for a total amount of more than 5.6 billion rubles. and was arrested by the police.
Viktor Baturin is the older brother of a Russian businesswoman, one of the richest women in the world and the wife of former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Baturin has been married for seven years to the famous Russian producer Yana Rudkovskaya. They have common children - Andrei and Nikolai. The divorce of Baturin and Rudkovskaya was accompanied by scandals related to the division of property, the place of residence of children, as well as the rights to the repertoire of a popular singer.
Viktor Baturin was born on October 2, 1956 in Moscow. In 1983 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Management named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze with a degree in Organization and Production Management. This knowledge was useful to Victor when he became a project manager in the aerospace industry. Some divisions of the Sukhoi aircraft plant were also in his charge. Since 1989, Victor decided to move away from the civil service and develop his own business.
In March 1991, Baturin became director of the company, formerly a cooperative, Inteko. He and his sister Elena, who in the same year married the future mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, co-founded Inteko. The company's specialization was the production of polymer products, which a number of media outlets associated with Luzhkov's field of activity: shortly before that, he was one of the leaders of the Research Institute of Plastics and the head of the science and technology department of the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry.
In June 1994, Baturin headed CJSC Inteko-Plast. Subsequently, the media wrote that Inteko had repeatedly received lucrative municipal orders. It was noted that a few years later, Inteko's business for the manufacture of plastic products was supplemented by its own raw material production, organized on the basis of the Moscow Oil Refinery, MNPZ, which was under the control of the Moscow government.
By the end of the 1990s, the Baturins' company entered the construction business and acted as one of the general contractors for the construction of the City of Chess - City Chess in Kalmykia. The idea of arranging a special territory for holding international chess tournaments belonged to the President of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.
After some time, Inteko became one of the defendants in the case of misuse of budget funds during the construction of City Chess. In October 1998, Baturin took the post of chairman of the government of the Republic of Kalmykia, and in January 1999 he became state adviser to Ilyumzhinov, but he held this post only until February 1999.
From 1999 to 2005, Baturin was the first vice president of Inteko. In the media, he was also mentioned as the head of the Bistroplast company. In the early 2000s, the media wrote about Inteko as a large investment and construction corporation. But if in 1999 it was reported that Baturin owns half of the company's shares, then according to the spring of 2002, he had a 25 percent stake, and in 2003 it became known that he owns only 1 percent of Inteko shares.
In 2003 Baturin became CEO subsidiary of Inteko - Inteko-Agro. In 2006, Viktor and Elena Baturin separated the business. In 2007, on February 15, Viktor and Elena Baturin entered into an amicable agreement, abandoning mutual claims. The details of the agreements reached were not made public, but, according to Baturin, he was to receive "tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars" as compensation. As a result, Victor manages half of the shares of the agricultural division of the company and part of the assets in Sochi.
In 2011, even more difficult times came for the entrepreneur - he was found guilty by the court of the city of Moscow. The entrepreneur was charged with fraudulent transactions with real estate in the central region of Moscow. The result was a three-year suspended sentence.
Just a few months later, an even larger accusation of promissory note fraud followed. The verdict this time was not conditional, but quite real. The term of stay in the colony was appointed for 7 years. And on January 22, 2016, the Supreme Court of Kalmykia was released from the colony ahead of schedule, 2 years 10 months and 7 days before the end of the term. The court replaced the remaining unserved term with a fine.
Viktor Baturin - brother-in-law of Yuri Luzhkov, ex-husband of Yana Rudkovskaya - was sentenced to seven years in prison and a fine of 700 thousand rubles. The businessman was convicted under the article "Fraud" - forgery of securities. This is his second term. He received the former conditionally - for the sale of the same apartment twice. During the last court session, Baturin was unshaven, gloomy, and seems to have lost all store of optimism. He has been sitting for several months. Friends and business partners forgot about its existence. In the pre-trial detention center, only the last wife of Ilona regularly visited him until the last. But spiteful critics are wondering: how long will it last? The beautiful Ilona Baturin married in December 2008. The 22-year-old brunette worked as a model and walked the catwalk. And Viktor Nikolaevich was a frequent guest of such events. Sometimes he asked the girls he liked for a phone number. Some made appointments. True, infrequently - was busy. But then suddenly took the initiative. Fell in love at first sight? Is not a fact. The wife was necessary for a businessman at that time. Firstly, to wipe the nose of ex-wife Yana Rudkovskaya, who, as he assured, deceived and threw money away, and even had an affair with Evgeni Plushenko under her nose. Secondly, clouds were gathering over Baturin's business: he had accumulated debts, went bankrupt. And property can be saved by rewriting it to the spouse. Maybe Ilona would not have married. But her mother Lyudmila Obraztsova took the initiative.
- Ilona herself is like a doll - beautiful, but as if lifeless, - Dmitry K., one of Baturin's former assistants, who closely communicated with his new family, told us. The boss's relationship with Ilona unfolded before his eyes. Her mother was in charge of her life and career. I remember very well how, at the beginning of the relationship, one of Viktor Nikolaevich’s assistants (it happened that I was too) called Ilona’s mother Lyudmila Leonidovna and made an appointment with her daughter on behalf of the boss. On the first dates, the beloved oligarch came with her mother. Baturin had smart conversations with his future mother-in-law. And the beauty nodded and smiled. Lyudmila Leonidovna is clearly not one of the rich. I heard she worked at some museum. And museum employees receive pennies. Later, already in the status of a relative of Baturin, she changed. She became a sort of socialite and business lady.
Before Ilona, the oligarch was married three times. And more than once he openly said that he went to the registry office only when his woman became pregnant. And he got married for the fourth time only when his girlfriend was in her seventh month. Ilona gave birth to a businessman's daughter Tamara - named after Baturin's mother. Although the assistants offered to give the girl the name Lena. Maybe then sister Elena Baturina would again take her brother under her protection? Indeed, since a black cat ran between them, relatives communicate only in court. But the proud Victor refused to name his daughter after his sister. After the wedding, Baturin fussed: he designed a huge building in the center of Sochi for his mother-in-law. And some money was transferred to her own account. And the house in the village of Usovo near Moscow on Rublyovka was rewritten by a marriage contract for a young wife. Why did the poor man entrust his property to the first women he met? Really there were no closer people? During those years that he was rich and successful, Victor lost his real friends. Showed superiority too often - and they left. But cunning and cunning literally stuck to him - they profited a lot at his expense. And when a businessman got into trouble, they seemed to dissolve. But now the question is this. Will his wife and mother-in-law give him a kick to a well-known place when Viktor Nikolayevich leaves places not so remote? After all, they are now wealthy ladies. And he is poor as a church mouse. Baturin's lawyer Igor Shabanov says that Ilona is visiting the oligarch in jail. Comes alone. Without mom. Ilona does not work, sits with her daughter, lives on the money from the rent of the former Baturin building in Sochi. In the city of Olimpiada, rental prices are exorbitant. And the ladies have enough money. Will a young beautiful wife faithfully wait for her beloved husband from prison? Seven years is a long time.
