Russian citizen Andrei Beker, who is linked to the Wagner unit and the training of Moldovans in Republika Srpska, set up an IT company in Banja Luka at the end of September this year, Istraga.ba learns.
The company is registered at Banja Luka’s address David Štrpac No 33A. This address is the Mima apartment, where a group of Russian citizens, identified by Moldovan intelligence as Russian spies, were staying to train Moldovan citizens to act in crisis situations.
According to the official registry data, on 27 September this year, the Russian Andrei Beker founded the company AE777 Ltd. Banja Luka. Beker is registered both as owner and director of the company. The contact details of this company include the number 065 258 685.
“I have just registered a company. I do not know where Mr Beker is now. Is he in Russia or Serbia?” replied the lady who answered the phone.
AE 777 is, as mentioned, registered at David Štrpac, number 33A. This is the address where the Mima apartments are located. We also telephoned them.
“I can’t give you any numbers. They are my guests and I am not obliged to answer to you,” said the woman, who apparently owns the Mima apartment.
She refused to confirm or deny that Russian citizen Andrei Beker had set up a business in her apartment.
The activity of the company set up is registered under code 62.01. This is “computer programming”. This means that a Russian citizen with links to espionage operations in Moldova and BiH has registered an “IT company” in Banjaluka. And this in an apartment where a group of Russian citizens stayed from May to October this year, training Moldovan citizens, according to the Moldovan intelligence service.
Recall that in mid-October, the Moldovan service reported that on the eve of the presidential elections and the referendum on the country’s further approximation to the EU, pro-Russian Moldovan citizens had undergone Wagner training in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The security services of Bosnia and Herzegovina have registered Russian citizens who have occasionally come to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Moldovans reported that Russian citizens Konstantin Goloskokov and Mikhail Potepkin, who is under international sanctions, were among the coordinators of these actions. Potepkin was directly linked to Yevgeny Priozhin, the founder of Wagner, who “mysteriously” died in a plane crash after rebelling against Putin. Potepkin was also linked to the Russian organisation “FERMA”, which was involved in financing and organising destabilising protest actions in the Republic of Moldova in 2023. He is currently responsible for the implementation of malign influence campaigns worldwide within the “AKSON” entity.
Istraga.ba reported at the end of October that Andrei Beker, born 5 March 1981 in Russia, Sergey Moskvin, born 17 July 1953 in Russia, Sergey Solovich, born 27 February 1988 in Russia, Vladimir Vildiaev, born 15 August 1977 in Russia, Aleksandr Volkhonskiy, born 02 June 1976 in BiH, Danila Russu, born 22 March 2002 in Russia, and Georgiy Bubnov, born 08 December 1971 in Russia, are coming to BiH. They were part of a group of Russian nationals who were giving “theoretical” training to a group of about 20 Moldovan nationals near Banja Luka.