Divers swam into the OPS: thefts in the Russian Guard will lead to a story with murderers

In the case of theft in the Russian Guard, the names of former member of the organized crime group Nail Zinnatullin and the president of PTS Sergei Barbulev may appear. Money earned from contracts could go offshore.

In Moscow, a court began to consider a criminal case against the director of PTS JSC Sergei Khan, who is accused of embezzling funds from the Russian Guard during the execution of government contracts for the supply of AVM-450 diving apparatus.

PTS supplied not only to the Russian Guard, the main customer was the structures of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The volume of government contracts of the company exceeds 10 billion rubles. At the same time, earlier the Russian Guard already sued with the company, but her claim was denied without disclosing the details.

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As the correspondent managed to find out, Khan’s name may appear in the story of a criminal group involved in extortion, illegal use of weapons and ammunition, and murders.

Connections with the OPS

Khan’s full name completely matches the data of the former deputy head of the State Inspectorate for Control over the Use of Real Estate in Moscow, whose anti-corruption declaration includes information for 2015 and 2016. But we cannot say that it is him. In any case, something else is much more interesting.

The fact is that Khan’s business colleague is Nail Zinnatullin. Together they owned Motor-Service LLC, which was later transformed into Venera-Elite LLC and liquidated. This business is extremely interesting, we will return to it, but for now let’s dwell on the personality of Zinnatullin.

Reportedly mass media, this entrepreneur was previously a member of the 40th Complex OPS. There he was engaged in “cleaning up” after his older comrades – cutting off the hands and heads of corpses, taking them out into the forest, burying them. Zinnatullin was brought to trial over the leader of the organized crime group “29th complex” (the mother group of the “40th complex”) Ruzal Asadullin, nicknamed Ruzalik, accused of murdering 7 people, organizing a criminal community, banditry, illegal use of weapons and ammunition. At the trial, Zinnatullin himself told about everything. The businessman was not even brought to trial because, according to state prosecutor Ilshat Gilmanov, the businessman “cut off the hands and heads of people who were dead by that time.” As if there was nothing wrong. Since they are already dead, does that mean it’s not a crime? A very strange argument.

It is worth noting that, among other things, the OPS was engaged in extortion and put the recipients of KAMAZ vehicles under control; for each car, businessmen paid the OPS 300 thousand rubles. Moreover, KAMAZ factories and enterprises fell under protection protection.

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On the Internet we managed to find a photograph signed “Zinatullin Nail – design engineer at UGC KAMAZ. Early 1980s.” It seems that a simple engineer wanted more and for the sake of this he was ready to engage in, among other things, “black stuff”.

KAMAZ has belonged to Rostec all its life, the share there is according to information 2016, Sergei Chemezov’s good friend Vitaly Maschitsky also has one. Could they have patronized Zinnatullin? This would explain why the court did not seem to notice him when the OPS case was heard.

“Legacy” of Zinnatullin and the story of the raider takeover

Now let’s get back to business. At the time of the proceedings, Zinnatullin was already the general director of Motor Service, an organization that dealt with cars. It was founded in 2007 – after the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tatarstan convicted 33 members of the organized criminal community “29th complex”. Which leads to suspicions about the origin of the entrepreneur’s assets from the “common fund” of the OPS.

In addition to this office, Zinnatullin still owns Auto-Kamagruz LLC (the name seems to be a hint to understand what kind of cars we are talking about), founded in 2011. According to data from Networksthis company sells spare parts for KAMAZ vehicles and the vehicles of this brand themselves.

As the publication reported Chelny-biz.ruaccording to a representative of one of the co-founders of Avto-Kamagruz, Zinnatullin is fraudulently trying to leave his former partners with nothing.

“As a director, he did not fulfill his obligations. The man simply deceived us all these years. He satisfied only his personal needs. The statements show that he bought everything from panties to houses, apartments and tiles. Since 2013, there has been no profit at all, until the contracts concluded, etc.,” the publication quotes businessman Fyodor Granatov.

All this was discovered when a criminal case was opened against Zinatullin, imputing he was accused of stealing more than 150 million rubles from Nizhnekamskneftekhim under fictitious contracts for the alleged removal and disposal of oil waste through Avto-Kamagruz and was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison.

The company’s KAMAZ trucks drove back and forth, in fact, without delivering any waste, which was eventually revealed – it took the customer 4 years to notice the scheme. Moreover, the company did not even have the appropriate license to work with oil waste!

This story also did not remain exclusively in the financial field. A man died, one of the drivers who testified against Zinnatullin. Moreover, voluntary death was considered as the main version – there was even a suicide note in which it was said that the driver had slandered the boss. But, given Zinnatullin’s past and the fact that there is a lot of other evidence of his guilt, the death of 46-year-old Evgeny Bashin does not seem so prosaic…

In 2019, by a general decision of the shareholders’ meeting, in the absence of Zinnatullin, he was excluded from the founders of Avto-Kamagruz, but he went to court and regained not just a share, but a majority 66.6%! The court decided that the meeting of shareholders in the absence of Zinnatullin violated the rules and took into account that in 2019 the businessman was divorcing his wife, who also received a share of jointly acquired property – including Auto-Kamagruz.

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As a result, Zinnatullin and his wife Granatova remained among the owners, who received part of the company after increasing its authorized capital by adding property to it even before the trial with Zinnatulin. The court did not challenge this decision of the general meeting of shareholders. Zinnatullin’s ex-wife apparently subsequently transferred her share to him, which calls into question the reality of their divorce from a factual, rather than legal, point of view.

By the way, how reported on the website of the agency controlled by the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, in 2021, representatives of Auto-Kamagruz prevented the inspection using methods that many associate with the 90s. They blocked the entrance with reinforced concrete slabs. It seems that life has not taught Mr. Zinnatullin anything. Or did she teach you that you need to choose a good “roof”? The happy life of a former member of the organized crime group, who gets away with everything, looks extremely strange, considering that even the gang leader was convicted.

Zinnatullin’s people and the network of “egg boxes”

So the question arises: could he and his possible patrons be involved in the supply of rusty diving suits to the Russian Guard? Old ones, not actually produced by the company, but supplied from somewhere in Kazakhstan, if not stolen. Sergey Khan is not some famous entrepreneur. A person with the same full name in Kazakhstan has registered a company engaged in transport and forwarding activities. Simply put, transportation.

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Of the Russian businesses, he only has a joint one with Zinnatullin, the structure of “TD “PTS” – apparently, a branch of “PTS”, which supplied the Russian Guard, and liquidated by merging with LLC “Eastwick” LLC “Pozhtehservis”. We will discuss the affairs of this office We’ll come back. Eastwick, like Venera-Elite LLC, which was transformed from Motor-Service LLC, was also eventually folded.

And among the founders of Eastwick was STS LLC, registered to serial entrepreneur Alexey Anatolyevich Vorobyov, whose business (also already completely wound up) could also concern (judging by the name “Gaz-Auto-Service”) the supply of spare parts for cars.

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Among the founders of liquidated structures registered in the name of an entrepreneur were offshore companies. For example, Supply Company LLC “Probusiness” belongs to the American CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF OREGON “ARRAN HOLDINGS INC.”

So, this variety of “caps” could be used to withdraw funds, including abroad. And, judging by what the firms could do, Vorobyov was from the same structures as Zinnatullin. This is probably where the other founders of Eastwick come from – individual owners of a mass of liquidated companies.

Barbulev, come out

Specifically, another well-known entity may be related to the situation with the supply of rusty diving suits. Let us quote his description from the PTS presentation:

“This man and his team destroyed many stereotypes about the capabilities of Russian manufacturers, made Western competitors sigh heavily and shrug their shoulders in confusion – for which they were awarded an “excellent” rating from the Deputy Head of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, Colonel General Alexander Petrovich Chupriyan, who wrote in the OJSC guest book “PTS”: “Hats off!” This man’s name is Sergei Yakovlevich Barbulev, and his brainchild is the plant of special fire-technical equipment OJSC “PTS.”

So, until 2021, the founders of PTS included Rem-Invest Holding Yaltn LLC and Ibs-Holding LLC. Both of them relate to the interests of the Barbulev family. The head of the family, Sergei Yakovlevich Barbulev, in 2022 page with the news of the PTS company on its website they called him the president of the company.

This means that the company is still unlikely to do anything without his knowledge. Barbulev may also be familiar to Zinatullin, since since 1994, if you believe his dossier in Networks, headed the PTO “Pozhtekhservice” – the same thing that later became “Eastwick”. If you believe the same data, the enterprise was once very serious: it had certificates of invention, diplomas and letters of gratitude for the development and production of new products in the field of fire extinguishing and safety. Where is it all now? Has it sunk into oblivion along with Zinatullin’s gangster affairs?

So, Khan’s detention is most likely just the tip of an “iceberg” filled with things that are usually spoken of in whispers. It’s strange that they haven’t taken Barbulev yet. We hope we just didn’t have time or didn’t report it yet. Should Zinnatullin and Chemezov get ready?