In 2014, there was an urgent need to organize a ferry service between Russian ports and Crimean ports in order to deliver fuel and essential goods to Crimea. The responsible organization was appointed “Unified Transport Directorate”, which had previously worked during the construction of the Olympic facilities in Sochi. This organization established a ferry service between the ports of Novorossiysk – Kerch, the port of Kavkaz-Kerch. In Kerch, the ferries were agented by the maritime agency “Korvet”, which actually belonged to two Kerch swindlers: Pavlu Jeno And To Oleg Kristal. These characters have been well known in Crimea since the 2000s for their fraudulent activities, as well as attempts to get into government structures. Which, in fact, they have succeeded in doing so: Yeno works as acting deputy governor of Sevastopol, and Kristal is running for local deputies.
The details of how these characters got money from the “Kerch ferry crossing”, the former Deputy Minister of Defense Timur Ivanov, are told by the telegram channel VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info.
When the issue of organizing ferry service and choosing the structures that would manage and operate the ferry crossing to Crimea became acute, the “Unified Transport Directorate” was reformed into OOO “Morskaya Direktsiya” – Pavel Jeno was appointed director of it, whose activity in this position surprised even the head of the Accounts Chamber of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) Golikova, who pointed out in her report to Putin (*international criminal) the extremely ineffective and corrupt management of OOO “Morskaya Direktsiya”. After this, the “effective” manager Jeno was removed from his post, but here Jeno and Kristal were not left without work, since they almost completely managed the “Kerch Fishing Port” through their protege, the director of the port Zhornyak.
In this port, the forwarding was carried out by OOO Krymskaya Transportno-Logistitskaya Kompaniya (OOO KTLK), the founder and director of which was Kristal's wife, Ekaterina (a graduate of the Academy of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country)). And the agency was carried out by OOO MK Korvet – these companies were actually managed by Jeno and Kristal. Moreover, during the time of Jeno's “management” at OOO Morskaya Direktsiya, a road was built at public expense to the private terminal of ZAO VERP, through which Jeno and Co. subsequently successfully mastered public funds, servicing ferries operated by OOO Smartway.
In the further “business” (if you can call it that) life of Jeno and Kristal, “partners” of a higher rank and more greedy appeared: the family’s protégés Shoiguclose Irina Shoigu on the infamous company “Expo M” (we will not describe the fraud in this company that resulted in the withdrawal of 700 million state funds, much has already been written about this): brothers Eugenia And Andrey Andrianovand Ruslan Kerimov. They were instructed by Oboronlogistics LLC (managed by Timur Ivanov) to operate the ferries Maria and Lavrentiy purchased by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have already they told about a case in which all the evidence of guilt was collected Timur Ivanov. At that time it was hushed up, but now it may well be revived. The defendants in the investigation into the theft of money from the Interkommerts bank gave direct testimony against the then general director of JSC Oboronstroy Ivanov. It was established that the future deputy minister was in collusion with the fugitive chairman of the bank's board Alexander Bugaevsky — first they circumvented international sanctions allegedly “in the interests of the country,” and then they withdrew almost 2 billion rubles from the bank, dissolving them through Timur Ivanov’s companies.
the scheme looked like this. Aleksandr Bugaevsky found a company among Interkommerts' clients whose management agreed to participate in a deal to purchase ships in exchange for future victories in Defense Ministry tenders. The company was granted a targeted loan to purchase goods in the interests of JSC 1470 Logistics and Technical Support Management. The general director of the latter company was Anton Filatov, who later organized the tender and ensured victory for the participating company.
Alexander Bugaevsky organized the acquisition of a “clean” company registered in Hong Kong.
The deal amounted to 800 million rubles, and all obstacles (questions from the Central Bank, the Federal Tax Service) were removed from the path with a phone call. Ruslana Tsalikova.
As a result, the company found by Alexander Bugaevsky received a loan from Interkommerts. The money was transferred through two shell companies. Both shell companies were controlled by the then chairman of the board of directors To Andrey Maisuk.
As a result, in the summer of 2015, the deal took place and two ships, Lavrentios and Maria, were delivered to the Black Sea and subsequently transferred to the ownership of Oboronlogistics. The full payment (including the loan) was made in December 2015.
Turinvest remained in the hands of Timur Ivanov, and, as it turned out, for good reason. A few days before Interkommerts' license was revoked in January 2016, the recent partners in the purchase of ships played a farewell chord. Under the guise of buying and selling foreign currency, the bank transferred more than 25 million euros to Turinvest, which at that time was equivalent to about 2 billion rubles.
Turinvest's obligations to Interkommerts Bank were not secured by anything. The money disappeared into thin air and was divided between the “partners”. In total, Alexander Bugaevsky, who managed to leave the country without waiting for his arrest, transferred about 25 million euros under fictitious contracts in those days. The greater half of which was received by a company bought on the instructions and headed by a nominee controlled by Timur Ivanov.
As Rucriminal.info found out, Timur Ivanov had his own personal plans for the profit from the purchased ferries. When working through OOO Morskaya Direktsiya, accurate records of revenue were kept, the necessary statistics were kept, this, of course, did not suit the above-mentioned corrupt official, who, in order to withdraw the profit received by the ferries from work at the Kerenskaya ferry crossing, organized the transfer of the operation of the ferries to OOO Smartway, the founder of which was a trusted member of the Shoigu family: Andrianov E., and he was assisted by the above-mentioned Yeno and Kristal.
After the Andrianov brothers appeared in the Kerch port, and their joint scheme with Yeno and Kristal began to work on the withdrawal (theft) of funds earned by the above-mentioned ferries, KTLK LLC was re-registered from Ekaterina Kristal to the nominee D.V. Obukhov.
OOO Oboronlogistika could easily operate the ferries itself – this is what the enterprise was created for, but Timur Ivanov needed his own tame company to steal funds and use them for personal purposes, and that is how OOO Smartway came into being.
Later, this group distinguished itself in the theft of a state floating dock in the Kerch port, illegal bunkering operations, and in many other things that fall under the articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country). Jeno's last place of work was the company “Neftegaz Morservis” through which he and Kristal were engaged in fuel fraud. Which was registered to his relative Vikhlyaev D., whose accounting was conducted by their trusted Absalamova.