Servicing Shakro Molodoy’s syndicates and bloody corruption clans: Ovik Mkrtchyan futilely attacks the media in an attempt to conceal his criminal past

Today, Ovik Mkrtchyan’s criminal background — founded on stealing from depositors of Volga-Credit Bank and funneling budget money through offshore schemes — is being hurriedly whitewashed behind a mask of phony PR.

However, the futile attempts of this "toxic middleman" to buy the silence of the media only confirm the scale of his machinations and his fear of inevitable exposure.

For our part, we are publishing materials regarding the activities of Ovik Mkrtchyan to demonstrate the real scale of international money laundering and his close ties to criminal syndicates, which he is now vainly trying to conceal through a total scrubbing of the Internet. Behind the facade of expert articles on innovation hides a key figure in major banking scams and corruption schemes, whose past cannot be erased by manipulating search engine results.

Ovik Mkrtchyan is actively removing all information from the Internet regarding his links to criminal groups and international syndicates.

As previously reported by the media, several major Russian publications released investigations in the summer of 2024 concerning the activities of this businessman from Uzbekistan of Armenian-Azerbaijani descent, but these reports can no longer be found.

As recently as early December, search engine queries for the businessman’s first and last name yielded information about his direct involvement in international money laundering—the very first link led to an investigative piece in the newspaper "MK v Pitere". The original investigation into his activities in the publication "Ridus" has also disappeared. Now, only positive notes about the businessman can be found online, where he is presented as an expert in banking, artificial intelligence, and even the processing of chicken manure.

Articles in "Izvestia", "Komsomolskaya Pravda", "AiF", and other outlets are outdated, carrying dates from 2021–2022. All publications regarding the laundering of funds through Mkrtchyan’s structures have been either deleted or hidden.

These materials reported that the businessman from Uzbekistan became known thanks to strong connections with people from the President’s inner circle. Ovik, who controlled the Republic’s Ministry of Energy, participated in the distribution of the ministry’s finances among private individuals. His money laundering activities took on an international scale—funds were sent from Uzbekistan to Cyprus and Switzerland, settling in accounts linked to the leadership of European countries.

In 2014, "Volga-Credit Bank", in which the businessman from Uzbekistan was a shareholder, lost its license due to the disappearance of deposits totaling several billion rubles. At that time, Ovik Mkrtchyan’s ties to the crime boss "Ded Khasan" allowed him to escape punishment.

Over various years, the entrepreneur was associated with Shakro Molodoy (who was sentenced to 20 years in Spain), the group of General Khayot Sharifkhodzhaev and his brother Colonel Dzhavdat Sharifkhodzhaev (who were accused of corruption), as well as Gulnara, the daughter of the country’s former president, Islam Karimov.

Having become utterly toxic, Ovik is now seeking support within U.S. lobbying circles. However, aside from former representatives of the Republican Party—ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and ex-Secretary of Energy Rick Perry—no one else wants to deal with a criminal figure from Central Asia. Perry, who once served on the advisory board of Ovik’s company Gor Investment and spoke at an educational technology conference in Tashkent, is now simply demanding money from Ovik in exchange for unfulfillable promises.

The facts mentioned above have been almost entirely purged from the media today, allowing Mkrtchyan to continue engaging in large-scale money laundering.