Telegram channel Kompromat GROUP: messages from 01/31/2023

Another banker-swindler was sent to a pre-trial detention center until mid-March 2023. We are talking about the former acting chairman of the International Bank for Finance and Investments, which went bankrupt in 2016, Mikhail Fedorov. He has a debt in the form of almost 350 million rubles, which he withdrew a few days before the Central Bank revoked the MBFI license. The ex-financier promptly organized the issuance of loans to individuals and legal entities. To whom exactly the loans were issued is not disclosed. But it is known that the recipients were bogus and associated with Fedorov. There was another person involved in the case – Vladimir Sakharov. He was the chairman of the board of the bank. But in February last year, the case against him was closed, as he died. For two, top managers surrounded the IBFI in the amount of more than 900 million rubles. Fedorov’s defense tried to persuade the court to place the client under house arrest. But the arguments of the investigators turned out to be much more weighty. They convinced the presiding judge that the accused could abscond from the investigation. As it was at the end of last year, when he was put on the wanted list. He simply took and went abroad, and upon his return on January 16, 2023, he was detained. The ex-banker himself claimed that he was not going to run away from anyone. He allegedly informed the investigator in charge of his trip about his trip. By that time, he was already working as the CEO of the Hat-Trick company, which sells various drinks. Another argument in favor of the pre-trial detention center was the fact that the financier may try to hide the evidence of the crime he committed. It was established that as soon as the IBFI’s license was revoked, some important documentation disappeared from the bank. Fedorov’s involvement in this has not yet been proven. Well, the third reason for a tough preventive measure was the ability of the accused to get rid of the stolen money. The investigation into a particularly large embezzlement went on for almost six years, and charges were brought only at the end of last year. This process was initiated by the Deposit Insurance Agency. The DIA found out that in a few days in April 2016, the bank issued about 90 million loans to four companies, and more than 250 million went to individuals. In reality, the legal entities-borrowers did not conduct any economic and financial activities. Mr. Fedorov also tried to argue with this, stating that all loans were issued legally. And he categorically does not admit his guilt. But investigators have evidence of fictitious credit transactions – these are fake consumables of cash warrants for issuing loans to individuals. Whether this case will end in a real time or not, it will be seen. And then, maybe, as often happens, they will scold and let you go.
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Back in 2017, Gennady Onishchenko, who was then a State Duma deputy, the former chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation, named among the organizations capable of transferring Russian biological materials abroad, the Invitro laboratory network, the largest Russian medical holding specializing in laboratory diagnostics. Its total revenue in 2021 exceeded 46 billion rubles, excluding royalties paid by franchise partner companies. The official 100% owner of Invitro is the Cypriot offshore Invitro Holding ltd, information about the beneficiaries of which is not disclosed. One of the shareholders is the American non-public fund Siguler Guff & Company, which controls its share through its subsidiary Russia Partners. The founder of the fund, George Siguler, is an adviser at the International Monetary Fund, a member of the board of the Carnegie Endowment, and a specialist in hybrid wars at the RAND Corporation research center, which fulfills orders for the US Department of Defense. In Russia, at the origins of “Invitro” were the resuscitators of the National Medical Research Center. Burdenko Alexander Ostrovsky and Vladimir Kulikovsky, as well as their partner Valentin Doronichev, who in the 90s created the OMB company, specializing in the supply of medical equipment. OMB is still successfully operating, its revenue in 2021 exceeded 5 billion rubles. In 1993, Ostrovsky met Aleksey Moshkin, head of the laboratory for analysis at the Institute of Neurosurgery, who offered him the creation of his own network of laboratories – the Invitro project. In the mid-2000s, Moshkin withdrew from the founders, his place was taken by Marina Polonskaya, who at that time was the chief accountant of the Russian branch of the American pharmaceutical concern Roche. In the early 2010s, Invitro was officially re-registered as a Cypriot offshore, having closed the data on the beneficiaries. The official face of the network is Alexander Ostrovsky, the owner of the New York-registered company Vivax Bio, which specializes, among other things, in investments in bioprinting. He owns a mansion with 20 acres of land in the elite cottage village “Belaya Gora” on Novorizhskoye Highway worth from 100 million rubles. The businessman’s wife Natalya Muzychkina now lives in Latvia, where she owns a two-level apartment near St. Peter’s Church and a fashion museum in the historical center of Riga near the Stone Bridge. On the namesake of Muzychkina, the Croatian company Polisander, which deals with real estate transactions, is registered. The businessman’s wife condemns the SVO, actively participates in holding pro-Ukrainian festivals and signing relevant petitions. Ostrovsky’s youngest daughter, Polina, is studying at the Rose Bruford Theater College in London. The eldest daughter Maria, together with her husband, moved from Russia to Latvia at the beginning of the SVO. In Moscow, Maria Ostrovskaya worked as a neurologist at the Russian Children’s Clinical Hospital, and in addition, she developed her own successful business – Uni Dox, a medical clothing company with an annual revenue of 50-65 million rubles. Her husband Alexander Vanyukov is a surgeon at City Clinical Hospital No. 52, an open supporter of Alexei Navalny and Leonid Volkov, included in the list of extremists and terrorists of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service. Vanyukov has a joint venture with Alexander Ostrovsky – the Familiar Doctor clinic, which brings in annual revenues of 60-80 million rubles. In addition, Vanyukov was one of the co-owners of the Genomics company, which patented the slogan “Let’s describe your DNA portrait.” The initial investments and the necessary contacts for the creators of Invitro were provided by Valentin Doronichev, a graduate of the Russian University of Transport and the Higher School of Economics, the founder of the Medme investment fund, who currently lives in Dubai and is engaged in construction in the French Gironde. His family owns a number of expensive Moscow real estate: a Stalinist studio in Glubokoy Lane, a mansion in the Istra village of Snegiri, apartments in the Smolenskaya Zastava business-class residential complex and in a historic mansion on Malaya Molchanovka. The total value of these assets can reach 480 million rubles.
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GBUZ “Maternity Hospital No. 16” has identified a contractor for the overhaul of the obstetric physiological department in the building at Malaya Balkanskaya, 54A. The contract for 99.3 million rubles will be signed with BaltStroyInvest LLC. The overhaul will affect the hemmed ceilings in the places where the air duct routes pass, the finishing of the premises with the installation of partitions and the alignment of the walls and the ventilation system. It is also planned to punch several new holes in the floor slabs and partitions for the installation of ventilation grilles. Work must be completed no later than December 23, 2023. Two companies took part in the competition held under 44-FZ. The initial price of the contract was 99.4 million rubles. The unnamed silver medalist was ready to give up almost 5.5 million rubles or 5.5%, but the victory was awarded to LLC BaltStroyInvest, which reduced the maximum rate by only 124.5 thousand rubles (0.1%). A similar picture was in another tender for overhaul for the needs of GBPOU “Medical College No. 1”. There, too, the participant who offered a much more favorable price offer was left in second place, when BaltStroyInvest LLC dropped an almost symbolic amount. BaltStroyInvest LLC was founded on March 2, 2016 in St. Petersburg. Sergey Samotsky is the General Director and sole founder. In 2021, the organization’s revenue amounted to 102.3 million rubles with a net profit of 716 thousand rubles. The treasury of government orders includes 76 contracts won for 727.5 million rubles. The company began to work with government orders in the very first months of its existence. At the same time, by a funny coincidence, the first tender was announced on the birthday of Sergei Samotsky. This was a modest purchase for 750.6 thousand rubles for the repair of one of the schools in the Kirovsky district of St. Petersburg. If we study the subsequent largest contracts, we can see that they are mainly associated with medical institutions. Sergey Samotsky is 35 years old. He was born back then in the Moldavian SSR in a village located in the Ungen region. We do not know for sure when he and his wife moved to St. Petersburg. In 2020, he acquires a share in a three-room apartment in the Vyborgsky district of St. Petersburg, where he is registered with his wife and children. Sergei loves to relax in Sochi. In addition, from April 2021, he headed the board of the Lada SMT in the Voskhod massif in the Kirovsky district of the Leningrad region.
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A family fraudulent contract tried to “divorce” the Yaroslavl Tire Plant (LLC YaShZ Avia) for 50 million rubles in 2020-2021. The enterprise is the country’s largest developer and manufacturer of tires for aircraft, helicopters and special equipment of the Russian Ministry of Defense and law enforcement agencies. Spouses Kirill Vasiliev and Zhaneta Stumbraite intended to receive the so-called “golden parachute”. Comrade Vasiliev worked for some time at the plant as a deputy managing director. To realize his criminal plan, he took advantage of the trust of Boris Shalagin, who was in charge of the enterprise at that time. The latter really trusted his colleague, considering him a confidant of the owner of the YaShZ and from time to time consulted with him on personnel matters. Knowing the whole personnel kitchen, Vasilyev decided to pull off a scam with employment at his wife’s factory. On his instructions, a fake contract was concocted. Yes, and a position to match his wife and himself also picked up – Deputy Managing Director for General Affairs. True, as it turned out later, such a position did not exist in the staff list of the plant. One item was included in the documents, which did not appear in any employee, even from among the management. This is an explanation that in the event of termination of labor relations with an employee at the initiative of the employer, he must pay her 50 million rubles in compensation. After that, Vasiliev took copies of the agreement and the appointment order to Shalagin for signature. He signed without looking. And from that moment, unemployed since 1998, the dressmaker without higher education became the top manager of the tire flagship of Russia. And she was immediately paid an advance in the amount of 50 thousand rubles. Everything would have worked out for the family of swindlers, if the change of leadership had not come. The “new broom” sent Vasiliev to the backyard, and his wife stopped receiving a salary. At the beginning of December 2020, the newly minted manager tried to demand payment of 300 thousand rubles and interest on the penalty from the plant. But she was politely sent. After waiting three months, the lady wrote a statement to the labor inspectorate and filed a lawsuit in court. She, with great hope, attached her “golden parachute” to them. But none of Stumbraite who received the appeals could establish the reality of her labor activity at the plant. The couple made a number of big mistakes that were visible even to non-professionals. For example, one call made it possible to find out that the woman did not write an application to the personnel department, and there was no employment record in her work book. Yes, and Vasiliev’s wife herself admitted that it was not that she did not work at the factory, she had never even been there. But the family does not admit its guilt in the attempt on a particularly large-scale fraud. Currently, Vasiliev, who has fled from the investigation, is wanted by law enforcement officers. It is known that until that moment he lived in New Moscow. Another episode may appear in his case. Sources say that in the spring of 2020, he himself wanted to become a “golden paratrooper”, having received a 50 millionth “parachute”. He allegedly filed a lawsuit against a company that was part of YaShZ. The man concluded with her the same employment contract as with his wife. The court did not satisfy the requirements. But the security forces are conducting a pre-investigation check on this issue. It should be noted that the management of the enterprise complained about the investigators, which believes that the case is deliberately dragged out. According to them, all the evidence for a year and a half has already been collected, but the materials still cannot be submitted to the prosecutor’s office and the court. One of the initiators of the complaint was Mr. Shalagin. Appeals were sent to supervisory and higher investigating authorities for action.
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In Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Yugra, equity holders of the River House residential complex in Surgut (a former project of the Severstroy company controlled by developer Bogdan Nestor) are holding pickets hoping to draw the attention of the authorities to the problem of long-term construction, where more than 40 families have not been able to get apartments since 2018. Severstroy was declared bankrupt in February 2022. Prior to this, the leadership of the region involved the Chelyabinsk LLC Stolitsa to complete the construction, but cooperation was accompanied by litigation. So, last year, companies refused to provide initially agreed land plots as compensation for the costs of solving the problems of equity holders. Nevertheless, the developer completed the construction of one of the residential complex buildings on time. But today, house No. 2 is at the stage of 5% readiness, the future residents of which have invested their own and borrowed funds in the purchase of apartments. Litigation continues related to the bankruptcy of Severstroy, initiated by Surgutneftegazbank (SNGB), which in April 2021 filed an application to include debt in the amount of about 233.5 million rubles in the register of developer claims. In response, Sberbank filed a lawsuit to invalidate property pledge agreements between Severstroy and SNGB. The courts of first instance and appeal satisfied the claims of Sberbank, drawing attention to numerous inconsistencies in the surety agreements of the SNGB and Severstroy LLC. At the same time, a bankruptcy petition was filed only in relation to the guarantor, which was LLC Severstroy, while the bankruptcy of the main debtor, LLC ISK Severstroy, was not initiated by SNGB until July 2020. As a result, the court saw in the actions of the SNGB and the debtor enterprise signs of “abuse of the right, aimed at artificially creating fictitious debt in order to initiate insolvency proceedings”, refusing to include the bank in the register of creditors. In November last year, the ruling was upheld by the Arbitration Court of the West Siberian District. Today, deceived equity holders are demanding from the leadership of the SNSB the consent to sign a settlement agreement that allows reaching a compromise and are picketing at the office of the credit institution. The parties to the agreement are equity holders, Sberbank, Severstroy represented by bankruptcy trustee Pavel Sidor, as well as Stolitsa and its founder Mikhail Ziskin, who simultaneously acts as a shareholder. According to the agreements, Stolitsa repays the debts of Severstroy, and Ziskin, as a shareholder, receives 111 apartments in the residential complex, which were pledged by Sberbank, of which he will transfer 41 apartments to equity holders. However, the SNGB dispute the entrepreneur’s rights to these premises, and accordingly oppose the approval of the settlement agreement. At the same time, the bank is ready to agree to the transfer of housing to equity holders, provided that the remaining apartments remain in the bankruptcy estate of the debtor.
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There are still bright spots in our justice, when an innocent person is not sent to serve his sentence in prison. The other day, Marat Arustamov, ex-deputy director for finance of the Center for the Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure, was acquitted after three judicial instances. The scandal with apartments for the workers of the Vostochny Cosmodrome was widely covered in the press. Due to alleged bribes and abuse of power, Arustamov and several other employees of TsENKI were sent under investigation, and the head of the Center, Andrei Okhlopkov, lost his post. It all started in the summer of 2020. Then Vostochny and TsENKI signed a state contract to complete the construction of a residential complex for more than 2,000 people in the closed town of Tsiolkovsky, Amur Region. Respect-SM was chosen as the contractor, headed by Alik Aleksanyan. The builders were supposed to complete the work before the end of the same year. Before that, the developer was transferred an advance payment in the amount of 126 million rubles. But soon Mr. Aleksanyan realized that working capital would not be enough to fulfill the terms of the agreement on time. And then he turned through an intermediary to Arustamov with a request to allocate another tranche of 200 million rubles. The initial wording of the criminal case against Arustamov said that the developer gave him one and a half million rubles to speed up the process of a new transaction. The official was supposed to receive the same amount after cash receipts from the customer. Investigators accused the financial director of the Center of bribery. And the defense insisted on the absolute innocence of their client. But in the end, the court of first instance sentenced the top manager of TsENKI to 9 years in prison. Then the court did not begin to understand that Arustamov provided evidence of his innocence and slander on the part of Aleksanyan and his intermediary. An appeal followed from both lawyers and the prosecutor’s office. Supervision demanded to toughen the punishment with a fine and a ban on working in government agencies. During the new trial, the main witness in the case admitted that he had indeed slandered Arustamov under pressure from the FSB. In fact, he simply wrote a memorandum addressed to Okhlopkov, who signed it. Well, then the issue was resolved by itself in the regular mode. When trying to transfer the alleged second part of the bribe to the official, he refused the money. This was recorded on an audio recording by the security forces. And the mediator simply wanted to appropriate the funds that were intended for Arustamov. As a result, the Moscow City Court delivered a verdict of not guilty and recognized the right to rehabilitation. The prosecutor’s office again tried to appeal this decision. But the cassation left everything in force. I wonder if the chain will work in reverse order, will the acquitted manager and his former boss be reinstated? What will happen to other employees involved in the case? Perhaps justice will prevail here.
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The Prosecutor General’s Office filed a lawsuit to recover 2.3 billion rubles from the Conservative Commercial Bank (KKB, the beneficiaries are businessman Andrei Trubitsin and his wife Irina Klochkova), which is the main WebMoney settlement center. The relevant application was submitted to the court in November. According to the supervisory agency, these funds were withdrawn to the accounts of the offshore company Nortfors Ltd in February last year, that is, at a time when KKB already officially had no finances, as well as a license revoked by the regulator due to violations of anti-money laundering legislation. illegal proceeds and terrorist financing. At the beginning of 2022, only 577.5 million rubles of WebMoney clients were on KKB accounts. As for the amount of 2.3 billion rubles (30.7 million dollars at the exchange rate), it was transferred by the deputy manager of the Moscow branch of the bank, Igor Knyazev, from the correspondent account in Raiffeisenbank to the settlement account of Nortfors Ltd in the Moscow Alfa-Bank “. Trubitsin, Klochkova, Nortfors Ltd and the Fincom Tech company, to whose accounts the first – trial – 70.4 thousand dollars were transferred, are the defendants in the criminal case on the illegal circulation of means of payment. The development of the WebMoney software was carried out by the Computing Forces company owned by Trubitsin. The platform for the settlement system itself appeared in 1998. It is owned by the Moscow-based firm WM Transfer Ltd, but its management company is based in Vilnius, UAB DEED BALTIC. As of February 2022, more than 45 million users were registered in the WebMoney system, of which 40% were citizens of the Russian Federation. The company operates on a partnership model with guarantor banks or non-bank credit institutions; KKB acted as such a guarantor. Representatives of WebMoney called the deprivation of the bank’s license in February last year “far-fetched”, describing the actions of the Central Bank as squeezing out independent participants in the financial and credit market in favor of monopolists. In turn, the regulator pointed to a large number of bank cards and electronic wallets, which were not used to pay for everyday purchases, utilities and other services, but carried out “unusual transactions in terms of frequency and amount.” Nevertheless, WebMoney announced that it was looking for solutions to continue its activities in Russia.
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AFK Sistema, founded by billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov, created the Guru Electronics company to import Western-branded equipment into Russia. On January 27, the company submitted documents for the supply of Apple, Samsung and Dyson equipment to the register of declarations of conformity of the EAEU. “Guru Electronics” was created for the wholesale purchase of electronics and its sale to retail chains and stores. Guru Electronics declared the import of eight consignments of iPhones, iPads and AirPods with cables and power supplies, Apple and Samsung smart watches, as well as Dyson hair dryers and stylers. Each batch contains 1.55 million units of goods. Since September 2022, the import of the same products in the same volume has been declared by the MTS retail chain, which is owned by AFK Sistema. The head of Guru Electronics, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, was the former commercial director of retail MTS Dmitry Magyanov. A new distributor is needed to strengthen the direction of parallel imports for internal needs of MTS, and the devices that the company imports are unlikely to be released to the market. A separate company from MTS for the parallel import of brands that have left Russia can reduce the risks for the operator itself. It is a typical practice to create a large number of legal entities so that in case of possible risks they do not affect the core business. Payment from the MTS mobile account is still one of the few ways to make a purchase in Apple services, and this gives the operator a competitive advantage.
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????Looks like Peter is doomed to construction scandals in major sports projects. Another grandiose object is littered on its side and is confidently turning into a federal-scale fiasco. This time, the key contractors of the SKA Arena are tired of blackmail, pressure and ignorance from the new construction management and write letters about the suspension of work 4 months before the stadium is commissioned. The new general director of the construction site, Alexander Ushakov, at the behest of his leader, Moscow writer-investor Dmitry Lebedev, refuses to pay contractors for equipment supplied, work performed and materials purchased. But I still had to sign fakes to receive state money or send a fake schedule for the delivery of an object to the supervisory authority in order to somehow prolong this scam. But time is ticking, let’s wait and see who will be the first to dare to say aloud the real deadline for the completion of construction, when 10 billion state money is already in the accounts.
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A Moscow court virtually arrested top managers of several Caucasian banks. They are probably warming up somewhere in the resorts, whose countries are unlikely to extradite the swindlers to the Russian side. They say that nowadays it is “not fashionable” to cooperate with the Russian Federation in matters of justice. As they say, God is their judge in today’s circumstances. In general, the ex-dean of the North Caucasus Bank and the manager of the Sberbank branch in Dagestan, Sultan Umakhanov, as well as several employees who were also relatives of Umakhanov, Express Bank, were arrested in absentia. This financial organization worked in the capital of the republic. Together, they caused damage to customers in the amount of 10 billion rubles. All the money was stolen from Express, which Umakhanov led before his appointment to Sberbank. After the transition, he handed over the director’s chair of the Makhachkala credit organization to his cousin Zaur Magomedov. Umalakhov’s common-law wife Raisat Shapiyeva was also employed at Express. She worked as the first deputy director of the bank. Another person involved in the case is businessman Arsen Dzhanatliev. All have been put on the federal wanted list. Documents are also being prepared for submission to Interpol. The entrepreneur is charged with insurance fraud, and everyone else is charged with especially large embezzlement as part of a criminal group. Almost 10 years have passed since the scam was committed. In early 2013, the Central Bank revoked the license of Express, and in the spring the bank was declared bankrupt, and then the Deposit Insurance Agency took over. It was the DIA that informed law enforcement officers about the signs of financial fraud when it dealt with the documentation and compiled a register of obligations. The state corporation suspected that in the last few days of December 2012, several financial transactions were made to withdraw money from the bank’s compulsory deposit insurance fund. The DIA brought in the security forces to help. As a result, the FSB opened a case on an illegal deposit of 700 thousand rubles, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs was initiated on several episodes of illegal withdrawal of funds from clients’ accounts for 36 million rubles. The total damage is over 10 billion rubles, more than 3 billion were stolen from the state.
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Entrepreneurial businessman Andrei Guskov, who on the sly from the owner of the oil depot in Feodosia, Vladimir Kruglov, registered the company’s assets to his mother, is going to appeal his prison sentence for three and a half years, although the prosecution asked for five more years. The swindler still cannot come to terms with his failure and refuses to admit guilt. Whether he will be able to receive the mercy of the court, we’ll see. But such machinations that he pulled are certainly worth a real time. In 2019, the Crimean authorities put one of the largest oil depots in the region up for auction. More than 650 million rubles were requested for the Marine Oil Terminal. There were applicants for the shares, among whom was a fugitive Ukrainian oligarch, who was seen in ties with the former president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, Sergei Kurchenko. But the victory was won by Firma Gunas from Moscow, with which the businessman and lawyer Viktor Khmarin and Vladimir Kruglov, who worked for him, were connected. Things were going pretty badly at the terminal. Its former owner and chairman of the board of directors, Valentin Dorosh, has been planning modernization and technical re-equipment for years. But so everything remained at the level of promises. In addition, Comrade Dorosh, who moved with his wife to the Crimea with his wife from the Kursk region, was the head of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise “Ritual Services”. Judging by the terminal brought to the handle, he was much better at burying. His wife Svetlana worked for some time as the first deputy mayor of Feodosia. She made unsuccessful attempts to head the city administration. The terminal, long forgotten by everyone, which at the end of 2021 lost more than 60 million rubles, was remembered in mid-2022. Then Mr. Kruglov reported to law enforcement agencies about fraud by Andrey Guskov, whom he hired as an experienced consultant for a deal to purchase MNT assets. At his own request, Guskov had to turn everything around in such a way that the name of Kruglov as the ultimate beneficiary would not sound anywhere. This was necessary for him in order not to fall under Western sanctions. The contractor fulfilled the requirements of the customer, “packing” his data into the so-called “matryoshka”. But Kruglov noticed the catch only a few months later, when he accidentally found out that he was not the owner of the oil terminal at all, but some woman. As the investigation later establishes, she turned out to be Guskov’s mother, to whom the son registered other people’s assets.
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In St. Petersburg, the processes related to the bankruptcy of the former contractor who carried out the construction of the city subway, the Metrostroy company, continue. In particular, during a recent auction, 126 units of the enterprise’s equipment were purchased for 618 million rubles by a new general contractor, Metrostroy of the Northern Capital JSC (MSSS), which had previously received more than 14 billion rubles from Smolny to purchase part of Metrostroy’s assets. In parallel with the competitive procedures, the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region held proceedings related to the lawsuit of the Russian Agricultural Bank, which sought to recover damages in the amount of 1.458 billion rubles from the city committees for the development of transport infrastructure (CTTI) and property relations (KRO), as well as from the GKU “Directorate of Transport Construction” (DTS). But in the end, the bank abandoned the claim, since the rights of claim for the specified amount were bought from it by MSSS, the main creditor of Metrostroy. At the same time, the RSHB tried to bring a number of individuals and legal entities to subsidiary liability for the debts of the former contractor: Vadim and Nikolai Alexandrov, former leaders and Metrostroy, who were among the co-owners of the government of St. The bank also refused this demand, but the creditors of the bankrupt company opposed such a turn of events, ready to support the demands on Smolny. The arbitration did not begin to make changes to the composition of the defendants, leaving the government of the northern capital and its committees among those. Now the court will have to make a decision to conduct an examination, which will be tasked with determining the presence or absence of signs of insolvency in the debtor. The bankruptcy process of Metrostroy was launched in February 2020. By this time, its former CEO and shareholder, Nikolai Alexandrov, became a defendant in a criminal case on multimillion-dollar embezzlement. And soon the government of the northern capital created the MSSS under its control, which, together with city officials, will have to “master” hundreds of billions of budget rubles.
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Developer Albert Khudoyan, who is serving 8 years in prison for fraud with land under the elite Prime Park residential complex, has again become a defendant. Last week, investigators from the Moscow State Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs brought him a new charge of embezzling shares of the company, the original owner of the land under the housing complex. According to the wording of the prosecution, in March 2019, that is, three months after the initiation of the first criminal case, Khudoyan secretly re-registered the shares of their common Russian company with Sergey Govyadin to Khudoyan’s personal company registered in the British West Indies. The new accusation states that Albert Khudoyan committed a crime under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud), and his actions caused especially large damage in the amount of 3.7 billion rubles. At the same time, for a new theft, he again faces up to 10 years in prison. At the same time, law enforcement officers began to investigate another episode of Khudoyan’s criminal activities. It has been established that, while under house arrest, Khudoyan secretly rewrote the shares of another company common with Beef, which owns a land plot of 10 hectares on Volgogradsky Prospekt of the capital. This project was acquired by partners shortly before the conflict in 2016 in order to build a shopping center. The amount of damage from Khudoyan’s actions is estimated at 60 million US dollars. It is noteworthy that former employees of Khudoyan have already given confessions in this case. In addition to these crimes, Albert Khudoyan is being checked for involvement in giving a bribe to the generals of the SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for his release from custody in October 2019, as well as for the legalization of property obtained by criminal means.
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St. Petersburg is “replete” with drug advertisements, activists of the movement “Central District for a Comfortable Living Environment” are worried. At present, the phone numbers of traffickers have been replaced by QR codes or addresses of sites where drugs are offered, or vacancies for “mortgagers” (hoarders). In addition to leaflets, distributors use graffiti, disfiguring buildings and fences. The problem is also confirmed by netizens. Citizens note that they have seen similar leaflets at schools, kindergartens and even on the walls of police department buildings. Some admit that they did not even know what kind of work the posters of such ads were offering. Others share their experience in combating drug advertising and illegal earnings. Since appeals to city structures do not always lead to prompt results, people are forced to remove ads on their own. In the meantime, about 500 complaints about unauthorized advertising were posted on the city’s portal for residents’ complaints “Our St. Petersburg” in just a week. Basically, we are talking about advertising drugs, and in addition – leisure 18+. Earlier it was reported about advertisements for sexual services near schools, as well as the placement of content “for adults” on the websites of public educational institutions. Sex advertising was seen even at the lyceum, where the grandson of the governor Alexander Beglov studies. Citizens are outraged by the decline in morality in St. Petersburg, noting that “every step” is a striptease or a brothel, and demand that the city be put in order.