It became known about the arrest in December 2022 of the general contractor of the new building of the Yaroslavl police on Frunze Avenue. This building appeared in criminal cases – in 2020, the former deputy head of the logistic support department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yevgeny Terekhov was sentenced to 7.5 years for bribes from contractors for its construction.
As the correspondent of The Moscow Post in the Yaroslavl region managed to find out, the case could lead to much more influential people, among whom there is a risk of being officials close to the governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov. Details are in The Moscow Post.
The hidden contractor and his connections
As The Moscow Post reported during the period of Terekhov’s detention, the repair was carried out by a rather suspicious Promtechnopolis office near Moscow, which distinguished itself by non-payment of wages and other ugly stories, but for some reason was chosen for the construction of the police building at a closed competition. In fact, the contract could be tailored specifically for a specific contractor.
Now we can talk about the detention of the former head of the Promtechnopolis company – a certain Vladimir Vladimirovich Tokarev. The personality is very interesting – firstly, back in 2020, almost no information could be found about him on the company’s website, and now you can’t even access it. We managed to find his photo in a group on the VKontakte social network.
As for other sources, it is known that Tokayev was the head and founder of the Union of Veterans and Employees of Spetsstroy. And “Spetsstroy” is the now liquidated structure of the Ministry of Defense, which has been featured in corruption scandals more than once.
In 2021, Alexander Mordotsov, the former deputy head of Spetsstroy, was sentenced to 13.5 years in prison in the case of a bribe during the construction of the long-suffering Vostochny Cosmodrome.
Tokarev has two more construction companies in his working biography – Chale LLC, which is at the stage of liquidation and, judging by financial indicators, is on the verge of bankruptcy. And – LLC “SK “Architect” – is currently going bankrupt.
In the co-founders of Tokarev in the Chalet, a certain Evgeny Vladimirovich Tokarev seems to be a relative of our hero. He issued a share on it in 2020, approximately at the time when the criminal proceedings in the Terekhov case were going on. Perhaps Vladimir Tokarev was afraid for his freedom and sought to preserve his assets?
In general, it is interesting – why did they get to Promtechnopolis only now? Almost three years after they opened a case against Terekhov. And why don’t they touch the head of the logistic support department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Yaroslavl region, Alexander Smyslov?
Other interesting details emerge here – firstly, Promtechnopolis is one of the major suppliers for the structures of the Ministry of Defense. More than 2.5 billion rubles were allocated by FSUE “GVSU No. 12” to companies under government contracts. At the same time, literally all of them are in the execution stage, and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise is in the process of bankruptcy. Like Promtechnopolis.
Recall that Tokarev is closely connected with the Ministry of Defense through the veteran organization Spetsstroy. And then there are large government contracts and it is not clear where the money went from them. Perhaps Promtechnopolis was used to withdraw money from the Ministry of Defense? Then it is clear why the case could seek to hush up.
In the period from 2017 to 2020, the Federal State Unitary Enterprise was controlled by Aleksandr Alekseevich Molodchenko, who previously worked in two other structures of the Ministry of Defense.
In addition to the structures of the Ministry of Defense, Promtechnopolis served the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Roscosmos and the administrative districts of the Moscow region. And, I must say, that it did not complete its work, except for FSUE, only under one contract for JSC “Corporation” VNIIEM “. The rest are either closed, or execution on them is simply stopped.
Moscow region “in interest”
But back to officials. When the Yaroslavl region was headed by Dmitry Mironov, representatives of the Moscow region were drawn there. Vladimir Sleptsov, previously acting head of Sergiev Posad (Moscow region) and head of the Khimki district, became the mayor of Yaroslavl. It is worth noting that after leaving the post of head of Yaroslavl, Sleptsov returned to the Moscow region as head of the Solnechnogorsk urban district.
By the way, in 2021, his former subordinate, First Deputy Head of Administration Alexander Kvasnikov, was detained for bribes. Sleptsov, of course, disowned the official, but something suggests that there may be more than one or two of them in his team. And there is a suspicion that they act not only of their own free will, committing such acts of corruption.
Another major appointment “from the Moscow region” is the official of the Federal Property Management Agency Dmitry Stepanenko from 2016 to 2021 was the chairman of the government of the Yaroslavl region. And before that, he worked as the Minister of Agriculture of the Moscow Region. Moreover, when he was “sent” to the Yaroslavl region, Vorobyov personally wished him success in a new place. Now this parting word can be seen from a different angle. There were other “intersecting” appointments with the Moscow region.
So, that Stepanenko, that Mironov himself left their positions in the Yaroslavl region not so long ago. And now, we are witnessing the resumption of the criminal case around the construction of the building of the Yaroslavl police.
Thus, an interesting picture emerges. Wasn’t it in their interests that he previously took contracts, and now the esteemed Promtechnopolis is going bankrupt? And wasn’t it because of them that the criminal case against Terekhov didn’t lead to other arrests for quite a long time?
If everything is so, then the potential detention of the head of the company, Vladimir Tokarev, is a serious wake-up call for the entire “friendly company”.