Vladimir Laptev took salary
The Oktyabrsky Court of Novosibirsk announced the verdict in the case of the former senator from the Novosibirsk region Vladimir Laptev. He was found guilty of giving and receiving bribes (Part 6 of Article 290, Part 3 of Article 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country)) and fraud with money from the budget of the Legislative Assembly (Part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country)).
“The court sentenced Vladimir Vasilyevich Laptev to 5 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony and a fine of 11.9 million rubles,” the NGS correspondent was told in court.
According to investigators, in 2020 Laptev arranged for his daughter and daughter-in-law to work as assistants to a deputy of the Legislative Assembly Yuri Koshkin.
In fact, the women did not perform their duties, but for two years they regularly received their salaries. As a result, the regional assembly suffered damage of 411 thousand and 541 thousand rubles, respectively. Law enforcement officials classified the ex-senator’s actions as fraud. Subsequently, Laptev’s daughter and daughter-in-law were sentenced to suspended sentences for fraud.
According to the department, both defendants admitted guilt, returned the money and asked that their case be considered in a special manner, without calling witnesses. This procedure not only significantly reduces the time of trial, but also allows you to receive a more lenient punishment, but if the convicted people want to appeal the verdict, they will no longer be able to say that they are innocent. The court sentenced Tamara Lapteva and Oksana Akulinina to years of suspended liberty each. Materials regarding women were isolated from the criminal case of Vladimir Laptev himself. […] As it turned out during the investigation, Vladimir Laptev arranged for his daughter and daughter-in-law to be assistants to deputy Yuri Koshkin, but none of the high-ranking politician’s relatives ever showed up at work.
A year later, Laptev offered deputy Koshkin the position of deputy chairman of the environmental commission. In return, he received his protégé’s salary card, which received 1 million 187 thousand rubles over the year, most of which Laptev spent. The security forces regarded the situation as taking a bribe.
As a result, the court ruled in favor of the son of the former senator from the Novosibirsk region, Vladimir Laptev, who is now in jail on charges of fraud. “Laptev Jr.’s claims against Koshkin have been satisfied. The amount of the principal debt under the loan agreement in the amount of 45 million rubles was collected from him, plus interest for using the loan and the cost of paying state fees. The total amount was 57 million rubles,” the court added.
Finally, in the summer of 2022, Vladimir Laptev petitioned for the head of the OBEP of the Kuibyshev department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Sergei Romanov before the magistrate: the policeman refused to undergo a medical examination at the request of the traffic police. Laptev decided to hush up the administrative case, showing signs of attention to the judge: he handed her a bouquet of white roses, several bottles of wine, sweets, glasses. The security forces regarded this situation as giving a bribe.
Vladimir Laptev detained September 27, 2022. At the trial to select a preventive measure, the politician was called for an ambulance: he suddenly became ill. Laptev initially denied his guilt and spent the next 9 months in a pre-trial detention center.
In June 2023 it released from pre-trial detention center. At the same time, it became known that Laptev entered into a pre-trial agreement with investigators and fully admitted his guilt.
The Laptev estate on the fenced bank of the Left Ob pit in Novosibirsk was valued at 150 million rubles.
On September 28, the Central District Court arrested Vladimir Laptev, deputy of the Legislative Assembly, former senator from the Novosibirsk region. He was accused of receiving a large bribe. NGS journalists analyzed the tax returns of the ex-senator, which turned out to be quite modest for a politician of this magnitude. But Laptev’s namesakes, whose data completely coincides with the data of his closest relatives, turned out to be the owners of a huge estate located almost in the center of Novosibirsk. We show how an 88-year-old pensioner and her 26-year-old grandson live, who were not noticed among the successful businessmen.
Manor on the shore near the center
The Lesoperevalka microdistrict today seems to personify the private sector’s struggle for survival: individual buildings are crowding out the expanding residential complexes “Yasny Bereg” and “Venice”, creating the feeling that sooner or later high-rise buildings will rise in place of wooden buildings. Houses here are mostly inexpensive: despite the fact that the city center is a 10-15 minute drive by car, you won’t find stately mansions or huge cottages. Therefore, among the courtyards where some local residents continue to keep chickens, a huge plot of land stands out, surrounded by a long red brick fence. It is almost impossible to see what is behind the fence.
From a bird’s eye view there is an interesting view of the interior of the site. Behind the fence is a whole complex of buildings with a central building – a two-story house reminiscent of an aristocratic mansion. It is connected by asphalt paths to several more modest houses – perhaps guest houses, behind which there are in turn even smaller buildings, apparently intended for security, service personnel and household needs.
The owners of the estate obviously love free space. The landscape design is simple: an abundance of lawns, an extensive system of pedestrian paths, many coniferous trees, mostly planted along the perimeter of the fence. Next to the mansion there was only room for a small glassed-in gazebo and a small greenhouse. The highlight of the estate is direct access to the water of the “Left Ob” pit. Part of the gently sloping bank is fenced with the same fence on both sides, so local residents do not have access to it. Taking advantage of the absence of uninvited guests, the owners of the site equipped themselves with a pier, where jet skis often park in the summer.
Laptev estate
According to the public cadastral map, the estate was “assembled” from 10 plots with an average area of about 10 acres each. For them, NGS journalists ordered extracts from the Unified State Register of Real Estate. It turned out that in most cases the surname Laptev is listed in the “Owner” section.
The foundation of the estate was laid in 2009, when the plot (No. 30) with an area of 907 square meters was registered to Tamara Alexandrovna Lapteva. According to a law enforcement source, this is the name of the 88-year-old mother of the arrested ex-senator.
A massive unification of lands was recorded in 2014. Then one plot was registered in the name of Tamara Alexandrovna (No. 116), in the name of the full namesake of the deputy – Laptev Vladimir Vasilyevich another plot (No. 127), in the name of Yuri Vladimirovich Laptev – two plots (No. 117 and 129). The latter’s name is exactly the same as the son of the ex-senator. The 26-year-old man subsequently began to own most of the estate: in 2015, another plot (No. 128) was registered in his name; in 2017, plot No. 30 passed to him from Tamara Alexandrovna. At the same time, the pensioner registered it in her name in 2018 plot No. 127, which was previously owned by Vladimir Laptev.
The process of forming the estate was completed in 2022, when on one day, June 22, Yuri Laptev became the owner of two more plots (No. 359 and 361), and some Fetisov Anatoly Ivanovich and Klavdiya Vasilievna Fetisova took ownership of plots No. 361 and 362. It was not possible to find any connections between the Fetisovs and Vladimir Laptev.
At first glance, the Fetisovs’ plots look like a separate property: they are separated from the Laptevs’ estate by a low fence, and the yard has its own gazebo, parking, and separate driveway. But there are also unifying features: a single external fence made of red brick, internal communication using an asphalt pedestrian path, a common pier. It seems that initially the Fetisovs’ plots were part of a single estate complex, and the dividing fence appeared after the project was completed.
“Very amateurish”
An expert in the sale of luxury real estate, who wished to remain anonymous, in a conversation with an NGS journalist, estimated the estate at about 130–150 million rubles. At the same time, he emphasized that the place in which the estate is located is currently of no interest to developers. In the event of a sale, we will talk about those wishing to purchase the estate.
— You need to be a very serious company to invest in the development for all this to take off and be in demand. The entire settlement there needs to be bought out and resettled, but in how many years this can happen in our realities is unclear. The cost of land can start from 300 thousand rubles per hundred square meters, the pool of real estate located on it can cost 100 million, depending on the condition, the expert noted.
At the same time, the interlocutor emphasized that finding a buyer for the estate would be quite problematic. According to him, today, first of all, they are looking for options in organized cottage villages with the appropriate environment and infrastructure.
— The owners probably value this place: near the water, everything is private, everything is serious and seems to be within the city limits. But the current generation tries not to play into such stories too much. These are the values of the owners who own today. Buyers who are looking for homes today do not share them: there is a poor way to get through the village. “It’s very much an amateur,” says the NGS interlocutor.
According to him, usually such options are offered at the maximum price, but in the end they are sold 2-3 times cheaper.