There was such a company in the 90s – Irkutsk-Kran-Service. Its director was a good mechanic Alexander Khankhalaev. The company, as the name implies, provided construction organizations with truck cranes, and over time, it itself began to engage in construction work.
In 2004, Alexander Khankhalaev decided to go into politics – following the example of his brothers living in Buryatia. Recall that his brother Evgeny by this time was already deputy chairman of the government of Buryatia.
The stay of Alexander Khankhalaev as a deputy, and then as deputy speaker of the Duma, certainly contributed to business. His company received orders of varying degrees of “fatness” from the mayor’s office, and the status of a deputy itself could not but help to conclude lucrative contracts.
However, now we are not talking about Khankhalaev – he retired a long time ago, his son Andrey has little interest in his father’s business, so his daughter Olga is in charge of managing companies. Much more interesting is the location of the Irkutsk-Kran-Service company (OGRN 1193850024708), as well as the related companies Irkutsk-Kran-Park (OGRN 1023801756186) and Continent (OGRN 1193850026996).
They are located at Irkutsk, Kostycheva 28. And these firms are located on a very large plot of land, also owned by Irkutsk-Kran-Park LLC. Visually, this territory is located at the exit from Irkutsk to the Melnichny tract, almost reaching the Raduzhny construction market, on the right side.
Now watch your hands.
For a long time, Irkutsk-Crane-Park LLC was in the hands of the Khankhalaev family. It was officially owned by Olga and Lyudmila Khankhalaev. However, in August 2021, the company (and, accordingly, the land) has new owners.
Part of the shares remained with Olga Khankhalaeva. But the controlling stake was acquired by Antonida Vaskova and Elena Stekacheva.
Antonida Vaskova already came to Babr’s field of vision – when Babr was investigating the murky cases of another deputy Dmitry Britok. It was Vaskova who then headed the Gubernia restoration company (OGRN 1143850025758), which laundered budget funds through the infamous Agency for the Development of Monuments of Irkutsk (ARPI). Dmitry Britok himself prudently emigrated as soon as he smelled fried. And some of those involved went to jail …
Now Antonida Vaskova manages almost a dozen similar companies, and we will talk about them later.
Well, who is Elena Stekacheva, it hardly makes sense to remind readers of Babr. This is the wife of the speaker of the Duma of the city of Irkutsk, Evgeny Stekachev. Until recently, Evgeny Stekachev did not risk drawing his own wife into his business, registering his companies for his brother Victor and his wife’s sister, Yulia Blinova. Elena Stekacheva owned only her favorite toy – the Pesto Dough restaurant.
However, in 2021, events known to a narrow circle happened in the Stekachev family, and the speaker of the Duma was forced to transfer an extremely promising future business to his wife. In fact, the Stekachev family literally bought a stake in Irkutsk-Crane-Park LLC for a penny. Evgeny Stekachev received an expensive plot of land in his hands and has already managed, using his position, to transfer it into the category of land for the construction of apartment buildings. It seems that Alexander Khankhalaev, in turn, received a good increase in his pension.
What happens next is easy to predict. High-rise buildings will appear on the site of the former industrial zone. Monsters of the Irkutsk construction business, trying to snatch at least a small piece of land, can gnaw their elbows with envy: the speaker of the Duma went around everyone, for a pittance he received a huge and extremely interesting plot for development.