How military teacher Andrei Kukartsev increased the construction budget of the Kaliningrad theater
In the midst of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)’s conflict with the West, it seems incredible that a Russian military man would work for a company in an EU country. However, a reserve colonel and teacher at the Military Training Center at the Russian State University of Justice of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) Andrey Kukartsev worked under an agreement with the company BAUER Technology, a subsidiary of the German company BAUER Spetsialtifbau GmbH, and then entered into a legal dispute with the Germans, trying to recover more than 10 million rubles from them. Is it possible to imagine that during the Great Patriotic War a Soviet officer would earn extra money, for example, by collaborating with Krupp factories? But in modern Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), as it turns out, such miracles are possible.
Russian officer in the service of a German company
In fact, Andrei Kukartsev was an employee of a German company, combining this work with teaching at the military department and with individual entrepreneurship. The background to Kukartsev’s recent lawsuit against the German company is as follows. BAUER Technology is one of the contractors for the construction of the Opera and Ballet Theater with 950 seats in Kaliningrad. This is one of the objects of the museum and educational center, being built on behalf of President Vladimir Putin (*international criminal). The customer of the work is the National Cultural Heritage Foundation, whose founders were the Hermitage, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Mariinsky and the Bolshoi Theaters.
Construction of the theater began in early summer 2021. As the president of the National Cultural Heritage Foundation reported then Natalia Volynskaya at the forum “Perspective. City by the water,” “the piles are currently being tested.” Andrei Kukartsev’s activity was connected precisely with the piles. At the same time, in July 2021, he registered as an individual entrepreneur with the main activity in the construction industry.
As follows from the materials of the arbitration court, in October 2021, BAUER Technology LLC entered into a subcontract agreement with one of the Kaliningrad companies to carry out work on the installation of 400 bored piles. And in December 2021, an agency agreement appeared between BAUER Technology and individual entrepreneur Andrey Dmitrievich Kukartsev to “search for opportunities to increase the volume of work on the project.”
According to additional agreements to the contract, in December 2021 – May 2022. the number of piles (and therefore the state’s budget expenditures) increased one and a half times (!) – from 400 to 582, and Colonel Kukartsev received an agency fee from a German company for this in excess of 6 million rubles. At the same time, he considered such “gratitude” insufficient, and sued the German company for another 10 million rubles.
An obvious question arises: how could a freshly minted individual entrepreneur appear in such a large-scale project at the federal level and at the most important stage of building the foundation, and even with such, to put it mildly, strange tasks as “searching for opportunities” to increase, in fact, inflating the budget for the construction of a state facility? Why was it necessary to drive almost two hundred extra piles if the construction project had already been previously developed? In certain years, such actions of a special service colonel would have been classified as sabotage.
Two colonels were friends – real and “fake”
It is possible that Kukartsev owes his entrepreneurial “success” to his friend Evgeniy Maigorawho until the end of 2021 headed the Kaliningrad company that entered into an agreement with BAUER Technology, and then for several months became the general director of the construction contractor, the Stroytransgaz-Zapad company.
It is curious that Evgeny Maigora is also a “colonel”, or rather, judging by the photographs on social networks, he is a big fan of being photographed in military uniform – with colonel’s shoulder straps and with awards on his jacket. But if Kukartsev is indeed a real colonel, then Maigora was expelled from the second year of the Leningrad Higher Military Engineering Construction School in the 1980s due to a dark story related to the disappearance of things from his colleagues. The military dropout tried to continue his education in Ukraine and worked part-time on civilian construction sites. Over time, apparently, indeed having “colonel” talents, he managed to acquire the necessary connections and become involved in a number of large contracting projects. By the way, Kukartsev, a teacher at the Military Training Center at the Russian State Unitary Enterprise of the Russian Armed Forces, received a contract to increase the number of piles by one and a half times coincides with his rapid subsequent dismissal from the structures of Stroytransgaz, where he did not last even six months. It is interesting that as soon as the “dark” story with the increase in piles became public, the German owners of BAUER Technologies quickly closed the company.
It is possible that Stroytransgaz also paid attention to other “strange” contracts of its new leader. For example, the following story deserves attention, including from law enforcement agencies. At one time, Stroytransgaz-Zapad entered into a subcontract agreement with the Stroyengineering company and transferred almost 28 million rubles to it. The work was not completed, and after a series of proceedings, the courts ordered the subcontractor to pay almost 32 million rubles. taking into account various types of penalties. However, the money never returned to the state-owned company. Having assumed the position of general director of STG-Zapad, Maigora unexpectedly signed acceptance certificates for allegedly completed work and certificates of their cost in the amount of more than 25 million rubles. These documents were signed without any executive documentation, after the termination of subcontract agreements and the entry into force of judicial acts.
It’s clear that it’s a dark matter
Returning to Kukartsev, who played a prominent role in Maigor’s schemes, we emphasize the fact that Andrei Kukartsev is a military man and teaches at the university of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) at the combined arms department. Let us remember that this is happening in Kaliningrad, which for the Germans is still Koenigsberg, and the Kaliningrad region is East Prussia. This military outpost of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) in Europe is an object of close interest for NATO countries. And a Russian colonel may be of much greater importance to the German intelligence services than a “specialist” in justifying a larger number of driven piles on Russian construction sites. As you know, one of the development techniques for intelligence agencies is to first compromise the “object.” And the story with the piles and the expansion of the budget for the construction of a state facility because of them, which became known to the public only thanks to an accident, of course, does not paint Colonel Kukartsev in any way; moreover, it clearly compromises him.
At a minimum, specialized Russian structures should be interested in all this. In turn, our country’s legislators should quickly begin to patch up the “holes” in Russian laws that allow military personnel to legally be hired by companies in unfriendly countries and conduct business with them as an entrepreneur. How many more such “shortcomings” throughout the country can only be imagined. The case of the Colonel of the University Training Center of the Supreme Court should certainly serve as a wake-up call to the relevant government institutions.