Pavel Sigal: biography, business, criminal case

This person can be called the prototype of Ostap Bender himself, and if writers Ilf and Petrov lived in our days, they would necessarily be interested in his personality. However, according to the degree of enrichment of the businessman-prohindey Pavel Sigal even outscored the "great combinator". The material damage caused to the state is not estimated at one million rubles. The biography of Pavel Segal, undoubtedly, deserves to be the basis of the plot for some novel with a criminal bias. What was so remarkable about her? Let's consider this issue in more detail.

"I'll go to chemists ..."

Pavel Sigal is a native of the Ukrainian city of Vinnitsa. He was born on June 5, 1954. The childhood of the future businessman was no different from the childhood of millions of Soviet boys. Pavel Segal went to an ordinary school, where the same pioneers studied, and then the Komsomols, as he did. But having received the certificate of maturity, the young man wanted to "taste" his independent life and left his father's house, having gone to receive higher education in Kazan.

He already knew in advance where he would go. The fact is that the young man showed an unusual interest in chemistry at school. And he decided to become a student of the chemical and technological institute, which he, in fact, managed to do. Then Pavel Sigal became a graduate student, got a job as a research fellow in his native university. But in the second half of the 80's in his biography, there were cardinal changes.

Change of priorities

When Mikhail Gorbachev announced the beginning of perestroika and glasnost, the future "great combinator" put an end to the idea of engaging in scientific activity. Sigal Pavel Abramovich decided to go into politics. He initiates the creation of the public structure "People's Front of Tatarstan". Since in the political life of the late 1980s the theme of safety in the sphere of nature was popular, Segal became the founder and at the same time the head of the state organization "Scientific and Technical Center - Ecology". The profile of his brainchild is the creation of ecological regulations and cleaning technologies.

Turning in the direction of business

After a while, the staff of the structure headed by Pavel Abramovich come up with an innovative product - sorbents, which are able to purify water from oil impurities.

Sigal begins to actively contact with representatives of large industrial business. A graduate of the chemical institute convinces the heads of corporations of Tatarstan, Chuvashia and Moscow to create a business alliance called "Innovative Instrument-Technological Association" (INATA). Pavel Abramovich suggested that the partners earn money by processing medicinal and vegetable raw materials. However, this direction of activity did not bring tangible profit.

clothing industry

Then Segal again decides to change business priorities and enters special courses, the graduates of which receive a new and perspective profession in the mid-90's "crisis management". Having received the cherished document, Pavel Abramovich proceeds to "resuscitate" the bankrupt sewing factory "Dion" in Kazan, which previously specialized in the production of clothes for the Soviet Army. In the end, he managed to lift the above-mentioned enterprise from the ruins, and in the spring of 1998 he is reorganizing legal entities, as a result of which the garment concern Alton appears.

Gradually, the new brainchild of a businessman covers not only domestic but also foreign markets. It was necessary to even partially modernize the equipment for the needs of Western customers. But after a few years the turnover of the sewing business began to decline, demand fell somewhat, so Segal once again began to feel new horizons for entrepreneurial activity. It remains to be surprised at how many posts were able to test the "great combinator" for years of its many years of work. But several of them should be mentioned separately.

The scam

In 2002, an entrepreneur from Vinnitsa created LLC "Center for Microfinance". As a result, he manages to "untwist" the business and make it prosperous. The business of Pavel Sigal begins to bring a million profit. The branches of the "Center for Microfinance" open in many Russian regions. Employees of the above structure gave out money to customers at 18.5% for a period of 90 days. And the amount could be up to 400 000 rubles with a small amount. It would seem that Pavel Segal earns money in a completely legal way, if not for one circumstance.

In 2013, law enforcement agencies reported that they were able to disclose a fraudulent scheme, as a result of which malefactors were able to illegally cashed out maternity capital for a large sum of 10.5 billion rubles. And as the suspect was the owner of the "Center for Microfinance" Sigal Pavel Abramovich. The investigators found out that more than 400 "companies" controlled by the businessman who provided credit services were involved in the crime.

And they worked in several Russian regions. For two years criminals have been making false documents on the issue of money to holders of mother certificates. So they proved the fact of debt, which was formed in most cases as a result of the acquisition of housing. Then the "fake" was sent to the territorial bodies of the Pension Fund. And the detectives recorded 80 episodes of criminal activity with the cashing of money on the maternity certificate.

Business was at risk

Naturally, the "great combinator" was imprisoned for his crimes. And not only him, but also his accomplices from microfinance organizations. The head of the "Center for Microfinance" was Pavel Abramovich's wife, who turned out to be a novice in business. In the most unenviable position were the depositors. They massively began to take money, bank structures demanded that the "Microfinance Center" ahead of schedule repay existing debts, some branches in the regions refused to cooperate with the head office, whose employees began to engage in outright embezzlement of property.

In such circumstances, the wife of Sigal reduced staff, but the amount of monetary obligations to creditors was prohibitive - 1.8 billion rubles. In addition, detectives seized the "working" documentation of the center and the server, and the Pension Fund stopped paying money on its parent capital. This state body could hypothetically "shell out" almost 200 million rubles, which would have got to the account of the microfinance organization. But Pavel Abramovich's business was on the verge of ruin.

Multidisciplinary Director

It should be noted that the Center for Microfinance is far from the only child of the "great combinator" from Vinnitsa. Even at the beginning of zero, he created on an equal footing the structure "The Support of Russia". It belonged to a number of public associations dealing with issues of small and medium business.

Soon, "Opora Russia" overgrown branches in a number of Russian regions, and Segal for a long time headed this organization, including on the periphery. Also, the businessman established several large business companies that are members of the concern "Sigal Group". In particular, they are talking about the financial company Sigal Invest, the insurance company Novy Vek, ZAO GKB Avtogradbank, NPF Pravo, the collection agency Resursy, the insurance agency SMB-insurance, etc. Still to the businessman Managed to become a co-owner of the banking institution "Anchor". So the scope of activity and the volume of financial assets of Pavel Abramovich are impressive. Moreover, the profit of its companies for a long time demonstrated steady growth.

The outcome of the case

It would seem that a man who stole 10 billion rubles from the state should at least feel remorse and confess to the crime he committed. But Sigal Pavel Abramovich (Avtogradbank) did not admit his guilt in committing fraud.

Some time after his arrest, he began to complain about the deterioration of his health. In addition, he complained about the investigators to the prosecutor's office, as if they extorted a bribe of 1 million euro from him. Then it turned out that the amount of damage caused by law enforcement agencies was somewhat exaggerated. At the same time, the press release mentioned the figure of 10.5 million rubles, and in the materials of the criminal case - as much as 30 million rubles. In the end, the investigators re-qualified the article for Pavel Abramovich, incriminating him only with unlawful receipt of interest on loans granted, and the amount of damage was reduced by detectives to 3 million rubles. Some experts in the field of advocacy are in agreement with the position of law enforcers. In their opinion, the fault of one person, when it comes to a whole group of intruders, is very difficult to prove. And the police, who brought a case against a businessman from Vinnitsa, it was not possible.

There is another point of view. Lawyers believe that the detectives did not have a special intention to put Pavel Abramovich in the dock. They, they say, wanted only to make it bankrupt, that they succeeded.

Today's state of affairs

And now the creditors of a businessman are trying to return their "blood" through arbitration proceedings. With regard to the Center for Microfinance, a competitive management procedure was introduced. But there is little hope that Pavel Segal (co-owner of the Ankor bank) will return the money, creditors do not feed, since the assets of the center are several times less than the amount of debt. The defendant eventually left the territory of the "Matrosskaya Tishina" and soon declared that he was going to restore his collapsed empire. But analysts doubt that it is possible to rehabilitate the solvency of a microfinance organization.