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[07.11.11] A car dealership disappeared from the Royal Park parking lot, leaving owners of elite foreign cars with nothing
In Novosibirsk, they managed to crank up the car scam of the century. Within a few days, an elite used-car dealership managed to sell about 20 BMW, Mercedes, Rolls-Royce, Lexus and Audi. Having secured tens of millions of rubles on transactions, the attacker fled, leaving more than 30 people without cars and money. The police call this case unprecedented, and the number of allegations of fraud is a record. An NGS correspondent understood how the fraudster acted and whether he was really already detained abroad.
The Novosibirsk entrepreneur, the owner of the Avtokoncept 54 RUS car dealership (Avtokoncept 54 LLC), got into a criminal case of fraud with three dozen injured and millions of damages. Car dealership is suspected of multiple sales of luxury cars, the owners of which trusted the company to complete transactions with their cars. Realizing that the cars were sold, and nobody was going to return the money for them, Novosibirsk went to the police. A criminal case was opened there.
The director of Avtoconcept 54 RUS was engaged in the sale of expensive cars under a commission agreement at the Royal Park underground parking lot. From October 22 to 25, 2011, he took possession of the proceeds from the sale of automobiles and disappeared, Olga Tabatchikova, senior operative of the operational investigative part of economic security and anti-corruption, said on November 1.
Avtoconcept54 LLC registered in the Royal Park parking lot in 2008. In addition to brand new cars here, on an area of just over 100 square meters. m, used and sold elite foreign cars.
Their owners signed a civil law contract with the company, according to which Autoconcept54 took the car for sale for 4% of its cost. Considering that the average car price here was about 2 million rubles, for each sale the company officially received about 80 thousand rubles. How many cars were sold per month at a car dealership is still unknown, but a couple of dozen elite foreign cars left in less than a week. The police department in the Novosibirsk region says that some cars were sold once, some twice and even thrice. The police add that a price reduction policy helped sell a large batch of luxury cars.
The most expensive car in the cabin, according to the company's website, the Rolls-Royce Phantom with mileage, was sold for 8.5 million rubles. There were also Aston Martin 325 for $ 139 thousand and Chrysler for 2.3 million rubles.
The Central Internal Affairs Directorate did not disclose the details of the crime, referring to the fact that a criminal case had already been initiated on the fact of the incident under part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud) and investigative measures are being taken. It is for this reason that it is not known which cars and how many times the car dealership has sold from the parking lot. The press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate clarifies that the scale of fraud is unprecedented, but some cars have already been seized, including from new owners. The total amount of damage at the time of the initiation of the case was 63.5 million rubles.
The manager of the Royal Park shopping center, Vladimir Kuznetsov, said that all relations with Autoconcept54 had already been severed, and that the criminal situation that had occurred was a complete surprise to him personally.
Sergey Denisov professionally sells expensive cars with the help of ads on the website of the NHS. According to him, that a man appeared who sold BMW and Audi very cheaply, dealers heard in the 20th of October. “I’m not in business, but I heard that prices were a third lower than normal,” says Sergey. “Then the sales got tight, I sold BMW myself.” He added that car owners have already rushed in search of their cars, they call those who sell the same cars they have and wonder why they are selling them.
The owner of one of the cars personally contacted the editorial office of NGS.NOVOSTI and, on condition of anonymity, said that the fraudulent scheme was working due to one nuance. According to him, at the conclusion of the contract, a prerequisite was the provision of the original TCP, which the fraudster had. The investigation remains to find out how many “double” sales were and how they became possible.
The information that the director of the car dealership was allegedly detained in Kazakhstan while trying to get into the UAE with an accomplice and all the money was not confirmed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, but was completely denied by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Novosibirsk Region. “He was not found, not put on the federal or international wanted list, but they are looking for him,” Olga Tabatchikova said.
Those affected by the actions of the fraudster say that not only the police are looking for him, but also those whom he "threw for money." The police did not comment on this information, as well as the question of whether the family of the director of the salon applied for state protection.
Kirill Makoveev
NGS NEWS