Criminal case of Maurice Anisimov
The year of 2022 has been commemorated with many negative happenings around the world. Armed conflicts, sanctions, political battles, natural disasters – this is not a full list of what was illuminated the headlines of all kinds of media. Such particular periods bring out different types of swindlers on international criminal stage. One of them will be discussed below.
Maurice Anisimov was born in in 1990, in Vienna. He got education at the prestigious Franklin University, Switzerland. In 2017, he established Nymar Consulting & Trading SA Agency, and from 2020 the Agency was headed by his father, Roman Anisimov (born 1960). He has citizenship and residence in many countries, which he actively uses in his criminal activities. But first things in order…
Background
The main sign of 2022 was the word “sanctions”. International business encountered many barriers and all kinds of complications. And the market responded the challenges by appearance of experts with “wide profiles” who helped with transactions in various segments. But, unfortunately, not all of them were conscionable. Thus, one of the large Holding Companies engaged Maurice Anisimov, Israel citizen as Сonfidant and Manager of a newly created Trading Company in the Emirates.
Cheating
Several months Mr. Anisimov successfully fulfilled assigned responsibilities: participated in transactions, made payments, visited banks, in one word – managed the company. He seemed very effective and conscientious manager who was worthy of respect and trust. This continued until the first large amount was sent to the company’s account – $35.4 million. This amount was intended as purchase payment and further resale of raw materials. But the money was stuck in the account. According to Maurice (he was the only one who had access to the account), it was impossible to transfer such a big amount from company’s account contemporaneously – the bank could block it. He said it’s necessary to share out the amount between different banking structures and further to make payments to the seller of raw materials. Owners of the funds trusted the opinion of “professional manager,” agreed on proposed scheme and the funds (as it turned out later) were transferred to accounts controlled by Anisimov. Afterwards begins fraudulent prank performance – “freezing” the funds with falsified documents, fake people confirming this information, and so on.
This continued until the owners of the funds worked out their own payment plan when the banks would not have any questions. From that moment on, Maurice stopped communicating, turned off his phones and blocked his profiles on social networks.
Internal investigation
During an internal investigation, the internal security service found out that the funds allegedly transferred to the accounts of intermediary companies actually ended up in the personal accounts of Maurice Anisimov. It was defined that Mr. Anisimov started to make expensive purchases – real properties, cars, watches, etc. In addition, Mr. Anisimov participated in poker tournaments, where he easily loses stolen funds.
Maurice Anisimov
Criminal case
On December 30, 2024, a criminal action against Maurice Anisimov was opened in the UAE for cheating and theft of entrusted funds. Out of $35.4 million sent by the victims, only $10 million were left in accounts. Funds were arrested. The remaining funds were withdrawn and spent through various European banks.
The editors of the publication plan to contact the European Raiffeisen bank, UBS, Credit Suisse bank, as well as Ajman and Finance House Bank and ask how effective their KYC is, if huge amounts of money was possible to be stolen by such level of swindlers .
We will continue to monitor the process of the criminal case against Mr. Anisimov.
