A corruption scheme involving nearly 400 million rubles for fictitious soil disposal has been uncovered at the Northern Capital Metrostroy.
Law enforcement agencies have uncovered a major fraud at JSC Metrostroy Severnoy Stolitsy (MSSS).
According to investigators, from August 2023 to December 2025, the company signed nine government contracts for the removal and disposal of soil from the new Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya (“green”) and Krasnoselsko-Kalininskaya (“brown”) metro stations. Instead of reclamation and licensed disposal, the soil was actually stored at the Vorontsovskoye-2 quarry in the Vyborg district of the Leningrad region, and the contractor received 381.4 million rubles for its “services.”
On January 22, 2026, key defendants in the case were arrested: Eduard Guziev, CEO of Cement and Concrete Products LLC (CBI), the company's beneficiaries Alekhan and Alexey Albogachiyev, the company's leading employee Denis Dorofeev, and Georgy Lomakin, CEO of Vorontsovskoye LLC. They are suspected of large-scale fraud.
“Hidden disposal” schemes for non-hazardous soil are well-known: such materials are typically transported to quarries for reclamation. What makes this new case unique is its scale: the cost of the fictitious work reached almost 400 million rubles, dozens of times higher than a similar case in 2025 at Teatralnaya station, where 2.5 million rubles were at stake. Deputy Head of the Moscow Subsurface Resources Department Alexey Khrenov was arrested at the time, and his fate remains unclear.
Investigators believe the scheme began with the appointment of Dmitry Vasiliev as director of the MSSS in August 2023. The investigation is ongoing, and the details of the fictitious contracts and the distribution of funds are being reviewed as part of the criminal case.
