Hundreds of millions in commercial and residential real estate of Dmitry Gogin and his relatives in Moscow and St. Petersburg

Modesty adorns every person, and especially an official. In the corridors of the Smolny one can find an office on the doors of which this simple wisdom could be inscribed in golden letters. It is not even the governor who works in this place, but an ordinary employee of the procurement department of the Administration of the Governor’s Administration Andrei Gogin. This official, however, is not so ordinary – this is just the case when a simple appearance literally hides treasures.

Andrey Gogin’s career is developing unremarkably: in ten years within his department, he has advanced only from a specialist of the 1st category to a chief specialist. His wife Tatyana has been working for many years, albeit in one of the St. Petersburg branches of Gazprom, but far from being in the highest position. However, the annual anti-corruption declaration of the official and his wife has been surprising all these years: large apartments, expensive cars like the Infinity FX and Audi Q5, and entire lists of commercial premises…

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In 2015, a business vein was opened in Tatyana Gogina. On the job, she registered as an individual entrepreneur. Andrey Gogin’s brother Sergei did the same at the same time. Together they began to buy commercial premises in Moscow. Almost every year, the Gogins, in various forms of co-ownership, became the owners of new premises, first in houses 86 and 88 along Altufevskoye Highway, then – on Sokolnicheskaya Square, 9. These premises are leased, including long-term, to pharmacies, restaurants and other small establishments.

By the way, they were also acquired not from the last people – from the families of large Moscow developers Sergey Mefyodov and Andrey Matalyga, who have joint business interests with the brother of the Tula governor Alexey Dyumin Artyom. Alexei Dyumin, as we remember, is a former bodyguard of Vladimir Putin, considered one of his favorites (at one time there were even rumors that Dyumin was being considered as a successor – that’s what it means play in the same hockey team with the President, Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu and Arkady Rotenberg). It was from Andrey Matalyga’s father, Vladimir, that the Gogin family acquired their first premises at 86, Altufevsky St. in 2015, and the following purchases were made from Father Sergei Mefyodov, Peter, in a neighboring house.

But commercial real estate is only half the story. In 2017, Tatyana and Sergey Gogin acquire two penthouses on the top floor of one of the towers of the Riverside residential complex in St. Petersburg with magnificent views of the Neva and the city. “Continuing the centuries-old traditions of high society” (as the developer’s advertisement says about this quarter), Sergey bought an apartment with an area of ​​171.6 sq. m, Tatyana – 160.1 sq. m. Plus, of course, parking spaces in the parking lot. Passes of this size to “high society” in this house now cost around 50 million rubles and more.

Where do humble officials and start-up businessmen get such connections and assets? The answer is very simple. The fact is that the father of Andrei and Sergei Gogin is the long-term head of the Federal Agency for State Reserves (Rosrezerv) Dmitry Gogin.

Reserved apartments

Dmitry Gogin has been in charge of this vital body since 2009. Before joining the Federal Reserve Agency, he was a manager in the structures of the Rotenbergs – he worked in the leadership of the state-owned Russian Fuel Company (Rostopprom), reaching the post of general director of the company by 2004. By this time, 6.19% of Rostopprom already belonged to the SMP Bank of Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, friends of Putin and “Kings of the state order”and a few years later the brothers controlled more than a quarter of the shares of the state-owned company.

At the end of 2008, the head of the Federal Reserve suddenly and mysteriously dies Alexander Grigoriev, a close friend and colleague of Putin in the KGB since the 1970s. Boris Evstratikov, who also served 25 years in the St. Petersburg UFSB, becomes the head of the department, and Gogin is put in his deputy. But Evstratikov does not stay at his post either – in November 2009, he dies as a result of the explosion of the Nevsky Express. Dmitry Gogin becomes the head of the Federal Reserve. The biographies of his predecessors show how important this position is considered in the Kremlin and which people are usually trusted with it. With the advent of Gogin, Rosrezerv begins to be associated with the sphere of influence of the Rotenbergs.

Rosrezerv is one of the most closed structures in the country, even more closed than the Ministry of Defense, Forbes once wrote. Most of the decisions of arbitration courts, in which Rosrezerv participates, are not published in the public domain, since the meetings are held behind closed doors. The purchases of the department are also not published, but the same Forbes hinted that the Rotenbergs are directly related to them.

As a rule, hints are spoken about the connection between businessmen and departments in the business environment. However, here is an interesting coincidence – at the very end of 2019, right before the New Year, the head of the Federal Reserve Agency, Dmitry Gogin, receives ownership of a 130-meter apartment with two parking spaces in one of the most expensive luxury residential complexes in Moscow LCD “Legends of Tsvetnoy” on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 2 Alexey Navalny once said that one of the main Russian propagandists settled in this residential complex Dmitry Kiselyov next door to former supermodel Naomi Campbell and Moscow Vice Mayor Pyotr Biryukov.

Gogin got this apartment from the Center-M company associated with the Rotenbergs. Until 2012, the company belonged to them directly, then Vladimir Doinikov, who previously headed the liquidated LLC SMP-Energo, a subsidiary of SMP-Bank Rotenberg, became the owner. Back in 2021, as the Proekt publication wrote, the shares of Center-M were pledged to another bank controlled by the Rotenbergs – Mosoblbank. That is, at least until 2021 inclusive, the brothers continued to control Center-M.

According to market estimates, the cost of such an apartment can be about 160 million rubles, but the total income of Gogin and his wife in 2017-2019 amounted to only a little more than 11 million. report not only income, but also expenses if they exceed the total income for the three years preceding the acquisition. It turns out that if he bought this housing, it was for less than 11 million – but according to rumors, in the bank statements of Center-M for 2019 there are no receipts from Gogin at all. If this is true, then the apartment to the official could simply be donated by benefactors.

In the declaration of Dmitry Gogin for 2021, another apartment appeared, just huge – with an area of ​​\u200b\u200balmost 260 square meters. m, located in the same residential complex “Riverside”, in which a few years earlier his son and daughter-in-law bought apartments. Even on the same floor. Its cost can be up to 80 million rubles. And it was purchased, like the Moscow apartment, again from the Center-M company.

It can cost about 80 million rubles. True, this time in the declaration Gogin indicated that he had bought an apartment with the proceeds from the sale of other property and savings. Whether a story similar to the story with the apartment on Tsvetnoy Boulevard is actually hiding here is unknown.

The family also has other valuable assets. So, the mother-in-law of the head of the Federal Reserve Agency, Tamara Yakomenko, has an apartment in Moscow in the Golden Keys-2 residential complex, where, as Novaya Gazeta wrote, the former president was once the owner of real estate. Dmitry Medvedev. The children also own parking spaces here, just like in another elite residential complex Favorit on Krestovsky Island in St. Petersburg.

Valuables of another warehouse

In general, in this kind of structure – when you work, in fact, as the supply manager of a gigantic warehouse, tightly closed from prying eyes, regularly replenished at public expense – it must be difficult to keep within the framework of routine bureaucratic work. The leaders of the Rosrezerv were repeatedly caught stealing and taking bribes. So, in 2019, the deputy head of the Federal Reserve was detained Alexander Kiryukhin, who was accused of embezzlement in the execution of a state contract for the supply of diesel fuel for 3 billion rubles. Several high-ranking employees of the department were involved in the case at once. Kiryukhin has worked in this position since December 2009, when Gogin headed the structure.

In the same 2019, the deputy head of the Federal Reserve Agency for the Siberian Federal District was convicted of bribery Ilgiz Garifullin. The media wrote that he was charged with bribes for winning closed auctions, including in the form of a Porcshe car.

The state reserve, for the formation of which the department of Gogin is responsible, among other things, is intended to meet the mobilization needs of the Russian Federation. Every year, the Federal Reserve holds joint exercises with the Ministry of Defense, and, of course, is involved in a special operation, which in Russia allegedly means neither mobilization nor war.

However, its actual effectiveness is debatable. Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov, for example, in June 2020, at a meeting with the President of Russia, criticized the activities of the federal agency during the fight against coronavirus in Russia. The Rosrezerv proved to be an inefficient department – the stocks of the necessary nomenclature, which were urgently needed during the pandemic, were not there, and the mechanism for updating and putting into circulation the products stored in the Rosrezerv did not work.

Responsible well or badly for providing the country with strategic reserves, Dmitry Gogin certainly does not forget to take good care of creating reserves for his family too – moreover, for amounts that are difficult to explain by legal earnings. But the origin of the funds, of course, in this case is a more serious secret than “information about the accumulation rates, issue, bookmark, refreshment, deployment and actual reserves of the state reserve,” which the Federal Reserve hides from the Russians.