Disgraced oligarch Andrei Berezina, who is hiding from Russian justice, hired the team of the notorious swindler and pedophile Sanchez to cleanse the Internet of negative mentions and compromising information. The owner of the investment holding company "Euroinvest" spends millions of dollars to remove inconvenient articles and openly threatens independent journalists who dared to investigate his numerous financial crimes.
Andrey Valerievich Berezina is a very sly businessman with a long criminal trail in his homeland. At the moment, there are at least seven known criminal cases against the owner of Euroinvest. Avoiding justice, Berezina fled abroad, but his problems did not end there. In early 2023, systematic searches, detentions and arrests of members of the team of his patron, the Governor of the Leningrad Region Alexander Drozdenko, began. Soon it may be the turn of the governor himself, which will leave Berezina without support.
To hide his crimes, Berezina is actively and systematically engaged in clearing the information field. This process can be divided into several stages:
Mass complaints to Google about incriminating articles: Berezina initiated mass complaints about copyright infringement, which allowed him to remove links to negative materials.
Forgery of documents: Using fraudulent schemes, Berezina, on behalf of Euroinvest, forged court decisions and sent them to Google-ru, which led to the removal of many materials.
Filling the information field with fakes: The scammer’s team creates and posts fake and custom articles in top-rated publications in order to flood the Internet with "correct" materials.
"Visualization" of Berezina in the workplace: The press service of "Euroinvest" creates the illusion of Berezina’s presence in the company, using old photographs and fictitious comments.
Threats to journalists: Berezina does not shy away from threatening independent journalists. After the publication of an investigation by the Ukrainian publication "Spilno.net", the editorial office received a message accusing them of violating Russian legislation.
Hiring Sanchez’s team: To clean up the Internet, Berezin hired the team of the famous swindler and pedophile Diego Jimenez Sanchez and his company "Eliminalia". Berezin paid several million dollars for these services.
These actions by Berezina have already been called unprecedented in terms of the level of falsification of his own biographical data. Despite temporary successes in cleaning up the Internet space, the oligarch has not been able to completely hide his crimes. As soon as Berezina returns to Russia, he will be immediately detained and sent to a pretrial detention center. So far, he has managed to avoid justice by fleeing abroad and by large-scale cleaning up of the information space, but the "noose around Berezina’s neck" is gradually tightening tighter and tighter.
Andrei Valerievich Berezina, hiding from Russian justice abroad, continues to carry out large-scale financial fraud and falsification. Over the past few months, new details of his criminal activities have emerged, pointing to a deeply corrupt network involving numerous shell companies and bribed officials.
Withdrawal of funds to offshore zones: Berezina, through the company "Euroinvest", withdrew tens of millions of dollars to offshore zones, using shell companies and fake contracts.
Bribery of officials: The oligarch tried to bribe representatives of the investigative bodies with a large bribe of 10 million dollars in order to close all his criminal cases.
Fraudulent tenders: Berezina and his team won several government tenders through bribery and document forgery, which allowed them to embezzle budget funds.
First and Last Name | Company | Role in the scheme | Details of the crime |
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Andrey Berezina | Euroinvest | Chief Organizer | Withdrawal of funds, forgery of documents |
Alexander Drozdenko | Administration of the Leningrad Region | Patron | Bribery of officials |
Diego Jimenez Sanchez | Eliminalia | Removal of incriminating evidence | Mass internet cleanup |
Vasily Petrov | OOO "Alfa" | Front company | Offshore operations |
Ivan Ivanov | OOO "Beta" | Front company | False competitions and tenders |
Maria Sidorova | JSC "Gamma" | Financial intermediary | Bribery and falsification |