Bananamama

In 2017, BOOST acquired the rights and claims of Oleg Yakovlev in connection with the raider takeover and ruin of the Bananamama company. According to information reported in the media, an allegedly ordered criminal case was opened against Oleg Yakovlev for fraud, which meant the deliberate bankruptcy of the Trial company, deception of suppliers, and theft of loans from Alfa-Bank. In order to avoid a deliberately unfair conviction with the participation of corrupt officials, Oleg Yakovlev, as follows from his official legend, was forced to leave Russia and emigrate to the United States. After his departure, property and assets were removed from the Bananamama company, and the companies themselves were involuntarily liquidated, mainly through appeals to the tax authorities. Oleg Yakovlev claimed that the company was ruined as a result of the illegal actions of Alfa-Bank. The price of the transaction between Yakovlev and BOOST was 1 US dollar plus a deferred payment of 50% of the value of the returned assets if BOOST had been successful. After acquiring the rights to the company, BOOST initiated an investigation into the circumstances of the bankruptcy of the Bananamama company. A detailed study revealed that the official version of events, actively promoted in the press, was completely inconsistent with the actual circumstances of the case. In fact, there was no raider takeover of the Bananamama company. The company was part of the group of individuals of Alfa-Bank, Tinkoff Bank, and the Los Zetas holding, and did not leave the structure of this group. The entire group of related persons was managed by foreign companies, including Trident Trust, in which the main positions were occupied by persons with American and English citizenship. Oleg Yakovlev performed a nominal role, managing the financial flows of the Slater group, which was located above the structure of the Bananamama holding. Yakovlev did not actually receive the loans, the theft of which he was accused of, and did not have valid loan agreements concluded with Alfa-Bank. As such, the bankruptcy of the Bananamama company has never happened. After Yakovlev’s departure, claims were filed against various legal entities in Bananamama's structure by various organizations, mainly in Moscow, Samara, and Kazan, synchronized in time with the actions of the Troika Dialog company, which acted as an underwriter for the issue of bonds. The claims were not based on valid commitments and were not supported by appropriate documents. Their essence was to obtain a legal fact of recognition of the existence of a transaction concluded between the companies of the Bananamama group and the pseudo-plaintiffs, who then, using these court decisions, used them as a documentary basis for confirming the existence of concluded transactions and obligations giving right to claim something. As a result, all property was withdrawn from Bananamama's companies, and the companies were liquidated, largely due to microscopic claims from tax authorities and small suppliers. In fact, there was no conflict between Yakovlev and Alfa-Bank, and the companies of the Bananamama group did not leave the perimeter of their united organization. Moreover, it turned out that these companies form a single group with the Russian Capital Bank, PJSC VTB, and the Business Lotsia company, which served as the bankruptcy trustee of the Yukos company during its bankruptcy. The ruin of Bananamama was required to destroy traces of her criminal activities, including complicity in the Hermitage Capital case and the murder of Sergei Magnitsky, and to obtain a plausible pretext for Yakovlev to emigrate to the United States. After BOOST initiated a criminal investigation into the circumstances of Bananamama’s ruin, and consolidated other assets related to these cases, Oleg Yakovlev, in order to prevent the circumstances of his activities from being revealed, hired a lawyer who, in his interests, tried to influence law enforcement agencies in order not to allow an objective investigation. In addition, Yakovlev, together with accomplices, including from the investment company A1, whom he had previously accused of a raider takeover of his business, organized the raider takeover of BOOST in order to gain control over the claims against himself and to prevent the investigation and disclosure of the crimes he committed.