Embezzle a few bucks from a Russian bank, transfer your loot to a numbered account in Belize and escape to freedom in Guatemala where the future’s so bright, you gotta wear shades.
Igor Vladimirovich Bitkov and his woman Irina Bitkova, arrived at the Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City at the beginning of 2009.
Their daughter Anastasia, was studying Public Relations in the UK, so she wasn’t to join them till 2 years later in 2011.
For some strange reason, Immigration didn’t bother logging Igor’s arrival in Guatemala and only documented Irina’s entry. Most likely owing to what is know in the IT world as faulty data entry.
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Shortly after arriving in Guatemala, Igor gave a man that he “thought was in his 70s but can’t remember much about” USD $50 thousand dollars. In turn, Igor received Cédulas de Vecindad (ID cards) that identified him and Irina as being genuine Guatemalans born in Taxisco, Santa Rosa and residents of a nearby town.
Subsequently, it was determined that the cédulas in question had certainly originated at the Taxisco Civil Registry, however it was impossible to determine who they had belonged to originally, as white corrector liquid had been used on the Registry entries and the new names assigned to Igor and Irina, written over the top.
Yes . . . we are talking about the same white corrector liquid invented by Mike Nesmith’s mom in her kitchen that made her a millionaire, while he was hamming it up and gaining fame as one of the Monkees, during the 60s, .
With their new cédulas, the Bitkovs obtained some nice shiny new Guatemalan passports, which they used for more than a year to travel on a number of occasions to Europe and Asia. Igor was now Gregorio Igor Benítez García and his wife Irina was now María Irina Rodríguez Germanis.
By 2011, Igor didn’t like his Indian sounding name anymore and decided to change it to something more in keeping with his Russian looks and status. So . . . Igor paid another USD $40 thousand dollars to Cutino International S.A. and became Leonid Zaharenco.
Getting himself a new DPI (new digital ID Card) wasn’t a problem for Igor. His tramitador (gopher) doing the transactions just produced a false naturalization document and an altered Cédula belonging to a woman called Wendy Mus Chiroy. No one at the RENAP (The National Name Registry), thought any of this was a bit unusual.
At the same time, Igor (now Leonid Zaharenco) decided he wanted a new Guatemalan passport with his updated and more classy sounding name, however there was a small hitch when it was discovered that his fingerprints submitted in 2009, were related to a different name and passport (the one he chose originally).
But everything has a solution in Guatemala and the enterprising boys operating the fraudulent passport ring, simply had one of their Immigration lawyers issue a written legal opinion saying that; “there was nothing legally limiting the free locomotion of citizen Leonid Zaharenco”. They then simply simply destroyed the annoying Gregorio Benitez passport and the problem was resolved.
In 2009, shortly after his arrival in Guatemala, Igor contracted the services of lawyer Héctor René López Sandoval y Sandoval to create a company called Mirgib Investments S.A., for the purpose of; “developing projects, studies and investments in forestry and fine timbers”.
In 2011, Mirgib Investments S.A., purchased a huge luxurious house in the condominium Casa y Campo in Fraijanes, on the highway to El Salvador, complete with 3 or 4 fancy late model cars, where Igor and his family set up home.
But María Irina Rodríguez Germanis now 41 years old, suddenly fell pregnant in 2011 and had a baby boy whom she named Vladimir Leonel Zaharenco Rodríguez. Prohibited from traveling during her pregnancy by her doctor, she and Igor got married in a ceremony orchestrated by Héctor René López Sandoval y Sandoval, the same lawyer who had set up their Guatemalan company.
Venemous tongues maintain that Vladimir may have been purchased in adoption as a Guatemalan “anchor baby”, as part of their plan to remain in Guatemala and put down roots, as there is no extradition treaty with Russia. We will never know the truth here, unless the judge orders a DNA test.
Meanwhile . . . Anastasia Bitkova, the couple’s very horny looking 24 year old daughter, arrived in Guatemala in 2011 and managed to enter the country without any trace at Immigration.
Using a non existent birth certificate obtained by her father, Anastasia instantly became a “naturalized Guatemalan” in another document cunjuring ceremony.
With her big blue eyes, slinky body, huge tits and a “petite” 1m 61cm height, she is better known as “Anastasia Aven” and is part of Aven Media, which produces Anastasia’s New World Reality Show that has been filmed at various locations in Guatemala since 2013.
On her Facebook page Anastasia Aven and websites like www.anastasiaven.com and www.modelmayhem.com, she waxes lyrical about her international recognition and superstar status, her Guatemalan boyfriend, her visits to the gym and shopping centres, photos in magazines, stints on the catwalk and her reality show.
However, as everything was impounded by the MP (The Public Prosecutor) when she and her parents were arrested, Anastasia’s stellar career has temporarily ground to halt.
The Bitkovs had owned a timber and paper mill called Nemanskiy Tselulozno-Bumazhniy Kombinat in eastern Russia that employed up to 300 staff. In 2006 they obtained a loan in Rubles (USD $6 Million Dollars) from the VTB Bank, sneaked the money into secret bank accounts, never made any repayments and skipped the country.
Charged with fraud and theft, by 2013 the VTB Bank had tracked Igor to Guatemala and hired Harvey Pacay of law firm Comte & Font to represent them in court for money laundering and fraud, however nothing happened until November 2014 when the FECI (Special Prosecutors Against Impunity), part of the CICIG (The International Commission agaist Impunity and Corruption in Guatemala) began to investigate the goings on in the RENAP and Immigration.
Through a stroke of bad luck for Igor, Juan Fidel Pacheco Coc, head of the Immigration Workers Union had been assassinated in 2010. However, on his personal computer, the investigators found a detailed list of many foreigner’s names, who had been issued with false documents and passports by the boys at the RENAP and Immigration, including Igor’s.
To date, at least 40 people linked to this network have been captured and includes lawyers, union members, staff and tramitadores (gophers who run errands and do the various paperwork transactions at the various offices).
At 6am on the 15th of January 2015, the MP (Prosecutors) knocked on the door of the Bitkov’s mansion in Guatemala City. As none of the servants had arrived for work as yet, they had to open the door themselves, to their own arrest and as their house was searched, the MP (Prosecutors) found more than Q1 million Quetzales worth of different currencies in the house..
Mum, Dad and the daughter were taken before judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez, the same one that has ex-president Otto Perez Molina and ex vice-president Roxana Baldetti on the skids, where Igor began to recount his long story of woe.
He and his family were fleeing for their lives from Vladimir Putin who was out to get them and they had found refuge in Guatemala, where they knew they would be treated fairly.
Speaking in perfect Spanish, he recounted that the mafia in Russia were after him since they kidnapped Anastasia in 2007, when they tried to pressure him into committing illicit acts with his Russian company, which he didn’t want to to do, although he refused to specify any details.
He claims to have paid a reward to have Anastasia released when she was 17 years old and sent her out of Russia for her safety. Even though he tried to negotiate with the mafia, it didn’t work so that’s why he escaped from Russia, and changed his name; “so the Russian mafia wouldn’t look for me”.
“I’m happy to face Guatemalan justice” said Igor, because in my country “the judges are just like secretaries and simply sign off on anything the government says”.
Igor’s cock and bull story was so long and painful that it took Judge Gálvez two days to listen to it all before sending him to the Military Brigade Marshal Zavala prison, to await his trial. The employee of the RENAP who created the false birth certificate was also put into preventative custody to avoid him disappearing and Lopez Sandoval y Sandoval, Igor’s lawyer, was given house arrest.
If found guilty, Igor could get up to 8 years jail and a Q500 thousand Quetzal fine for using false documents and faking his nationality, not to mention getting deported back to Russia.
As is customary with all high profile people arrested in Guatemala, Irina and Anastasia immediately fell ill. The INACIF (The National Institute of Forensic Sciences) diagnosed the two women as suffering from schizophrenia and bipolar-ism, so they were sent to a private sanatorium, while awaiting their trial.
Anastasia, who has 188 thousand followers on Facebook, regularly posts on her page about the inhumane conditions she and her mother are victims of, having to sleep on the floor surrounded by cockroaches, with no drinking water, food or medicines and that they are victims of Vladimir Putin’s mafia.
Every so often an article appears in the Guatemlan press written by idiots, who have swallowed Igor’s story hook line and sinker like this one in elPeriódico (03-10-2015) by Carlos A. Rodas Minondo, which is just a load of nonsense.
Another article published by the theDailyBeast (17-06-2015) and written by Michael Weiss, although it contains some useful but irrelevant information, clearly shows that he doesn’t have a clue about anything in Guatemala and is part of the faggoty world of columnists, recruited to portray Igor’s gang, as victims.
There are also a number of young tarts and fanboys that admire Anastasia fanatically and regurgitate all her “feel sorry for me” horse shit in the social media. An excellent example of this ican be found here, in what can best be described as Anastasia’s tripe.
Guatemalan justice is expected to be efficiently inefficient in this case. Igor will probably get to keep all the money he stole, except what his lawyers manage to fleece him for. What with Guatemalan’s love of children, the “anchor baby” will certainly complicate the judge’s decision should he decide to deport the parents and leave the child parentless.
Who knows, things may work out all around in the end for everyone and Igor may run for President in a few years. We couldn’t do any worse. Young citizen Vladimir Leonel Zaharenco Rodríguez, is probably already learning the Nazi folk song “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” and dreaming of the day he will be more popular than his sister. Someone should really check Anastasia’s DNA as well, just to verify that her parents are her parents.
