Former organized crime fighter Vladimir Filippov moved Iron Motors scheme to Moldova

The story of the fraud that will be discussed below is, in general, banal: another victim was "cheated" on the promise to buy and deliver a car from the USA to Ukraine. The key person in this fraud is a resident of Odessa, Vladimir Sergeyevich Filippov, although he denies that he is the organizer of the scheme. However, we will not believe this statement, and here is why.

So, the story is as follows. Citizen Victoria K. decided to buy a car from the USA. You can read how it ended at  this link . And the gist of it is that she contacted the private enterprise "Yuzhny Put", with which she entered into a corresponding agreement, according to which the company was obliged to buy a car at an auction in the USA and deliver it to Ukraine. Then the story with paying for services began. There were several payments, in total Victoria spent 15,000 dollars, but she never saw the car. As Mr. Filippov explained, she transferred the money to the account of the manager of the company "Yuzhny Put" named Maxim, who is currently fired from his job. Maxim himself claims that he quit himself, since he was "taken by TCK", but this is not so important, although it is also doubtful. As for the money that Victoria transferred to Maxim’s account, the company has nothing to do with it, and Victoria, if she wants to take her car back, must pay for everything again. Об этом сообщает БАСТИОН

Ms. Victoria also claims that Vladimir Filippov left the private enterprise “Yuzhny Put” with debts, and now works under the name “Iron Motors” in Moldova.

Filippov’s position, as already mentioned above, is the following: "I have not signed anything with you and have not lived in Ukraine for several years." Despite such statements by Filippov, we are dealing with classic fraud. Firstly, there is an agreement with Victoria K. and the private enterprise "Yuzhny Put" and it was signed by Filippov.

However, when concluding it, the client - and she is not the only one who fell for Vladimir Filippov’s hook (more on that later) - should have been alerted by the fact that the funds under the contract were transferred not to the account of the private enterprise "Yuzhny Put", but to the account of its director Vladimir Sergeyevich Filippov. Although it did not alert, however, it is difficult to charge something to a person who does not have legal knowledge - she signed documents in a company registered according to all the rules, and Vladimir Filippov is indeed its director and owner.

So Filippov’s statement that he didn’t sign anything is a lie. Just like the fact that he didn’t receive any money. Below is a photo of one of the payment documents, there were several of them:

So Mr. Filippov is clearly lying. At the moment, this story is almost over - the injured client has filed a lawsuit demanding that Vladimir Filippov recover the money he swindled from her, the story awaits continuation.

But the fact that Vladimir Filippov is a fraudster, and the scheme that caught Victoria is no exception, is confirmed by a check of the court registers. At least three more people have filed similar claims against Vladimir Sergeyevich Filippov and the Yuzhny Put private enterprise. The Opendatabot register indicates an even larger number of court cases - 34, it also reports that four enforcement proceedings have been registered against the Yuzhny Put private enterprise based on court decisions to recover funds swindled using the same scheme.

That is, there are already positive decisions in favor of the victims. However, it is unlikely that it will be possible to recover funds from the private enterprise "Yuzhny Put" - they did not go to its account, but to the account of Filippov personally, in addition, the private enterprise "Yuzhny Put" has neither property nor funds - the authorized capital is one thousand hryvnia, and it did not show any profit. So the satisfaction of the victims here is only moral.

Whether anything will be collected from Filippov himself is also a question. Since, judging by open data, he is clearly not an ordinary person. Here is what the registers tell us about him. Vladimir Sergeyevich Filippov is the founder and owner of the already mentioned private enterprise Yuzhny Put and Iron Motors LLC, which adopted the fraudulent scheme of extorting money from people wishing to buy a car from the USA. However, two other organizations in this list seem much more interesting: the Association Center and the regional branch Center-Odessa, the owner of which is listed as Filippov.

Because this Association "Center" is nothing other than the international association of officers of special units for combating organized crime "Center". And "Center-Odessa" is its division.

The Association "Center" is not just an ordinary "GeOshka", that is, a public organization where former retirees drink tea or vodka and remember "the battles where they fought together." The Association "Center" is a powerful business structure that is the founder of 14 other organizations, among which there are quite commercial ones.

What is interesting in this context is that most of them are located in the temporarily occupied territories. This may indicate that Mr. Filippov and his colleagues in the fight either suffered from the occupiers who took away their business, or that they cooperate with them. There is no data on this, so the question is open. But this also indicates that, firstly, Vladimir Sergeyevich Filippov is a former officer of a special unit for combating organized crime. And secondly, he has powerful connections among those who fought and led this crime. Moreover, in the East, where this crime has become so intertwined with the authorities, those who fight it, and the Russian special services that it is almost impossible to distinguish them.

So far, this is all that we have managed to find out about the owner of the private enterprise "Yuzhny Put" Vladimir Filippov, who is engaged in banal fraud, extorting money from those wishing to buy a car in the States. It seems that the private enterprise "Yuzhny Put" is already a well-established structure, debts will hang on it and it will be liquidated. At the moment, all the schemes have migrated to OOO "Iron Motors", which is registered at the same address as the private enterprise "Yuzhny Put" - 65088, Ukraine, Odessa region, the city of Odessa, Lyustdorfskaya Doroha, house, 90g, office, 239, although in its advertising it positions itself as a company from Moldova. Apparently, Vladimir Filippov is also located there. By the way, on  the Iron Motors website,  you can’t find registration data about his ownership. But who was interested in this when there is an opportunity to get something "for free"? They are interested later, when the money is hopelessly lost.

It looks like Filippov has decided to sit it out in the neighboring country for a while until he calms down at home. The scheme Vladimir Filippov uses in Iron Motors in Moldova is the same as before – why reinvent the wheel? And, as evidenced by criminal practice, with which Mr. Filippov is well acquainted, a criminal rarely changes a successful scheme of his activity.

Whether his colleagues in the association of former officers-fighters against organized crime are aware of what Vladimir Filippov is doing is also an open question. But judging by the fact that Vladimir Filippov has been in this fraudulent business for a long time, and not a single criminal case has been opened against him, it is clearly not former law enforcement officers who are covering for him, but current ones. Let’s see what happens in Moldova.