It seems that Mikhail Sirotkin, head of Gazprom’s Corporate Cost Management Department, deleted photos of his mistresses (if you can call them call girls that) and printouts of text messages with them from the Internet.
An unprecedented case! At the same time as collecting ladies, Mikhail Sirotkin, as it turns out, created together with his official wife Elena and partners almost a monopoly in the sphere of state contracts of “Gazprom” for tens of billions of rubles annually. In total the top-manager has removed 7 publications, but in the search engine Google can still find their cache – so called the saved copies of the pages”, – noted the media.
“Mikhail Sirotkin was born in 1972 in Cheboksary, in the family of a well-known physicist, Professor Vladimir Sirotkin. After school he went to Cheboksary State University, graduating in 1995, then moved with his parents to St. Petersburg,” writes “Nasha Versiya” in an article with the colorful title “Gas Sex Giant.
Let’s keep quoting our colleagues:
“Having mastered tax optimization skills, in 1998 Mikhail Sirotkin got a job at the Peter Information and Legal Bureau (officially terminated in January 2018 – note Kompromat-Ural), which was owned by one of the biggest shadowy businessmen in St. Petersburg at the time, Ilya Traber (INN 781005210451 – note Kompromat-Ural), better known as Antikvar. By the time Sirotkin came to Peter, this bureau was already a co-owner of St. Petersburg Fuel Company (PTC), which supplied gasoline to all municipal transport in St. Petersburg. A stake in this company was first held by Gennady Petrov, one of the leaders of the Malyshev group, and then by Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin), the “night governor” of St. Petersburg himself.
In the late 1990s, shortly after the assassination of Vice-Governor Mikhail Manevich, who oversaw the activities of the St. Petersburg Sea Port, Ilya Traber became interested in this lucrative asset. The main shareholder of the Seaport, apparently, was an offshore company Nasdor, acting through the management company OBIP (ZAO Association of Banks Investing in the Port), which was owned by Antikvar. And Mikhail Sirotkin was transferred from Peter to the position of head of the legal department of OBIP. In 2001 he became deputy head of the Seaport Property Department, but not for long.
In the same year of 2001 Sirotkin moved to Moscow, to the position of deputy head of the legal department of Gazprom. He joined the team of Alexey Miller, who was also a manager at the Seaport in the late ’90s. They were not friends, but they knew each other very well from work.
In 2003 Mikhail Sirotkin was appointed head of Rosshelf, St. Petersburg (controlled by Gazprom). At the same time the management of the gas monopoly ordered Mezhregiongaz to transfer all the property on its balance sheet to RSh-Center, a subsidiary of Rosshelf. At Mezhregiongaz the transfer of assets was supervised by the manager Elena, who in September 2003 became Mikhail Sirotkin’s official wife. During this complex operation, some of the assets were mysteriously “lost,” by the way, if we believe the note from the Ruspres website blocked for Russian IP addresses (still available in the Google cache).
After successfully mastering the assets of Mezhregiongaz, the pair found themselves in those places in the structure of the gas monopoly from which all tenders and state purchases are controlled. In 2010-2011, Sirotkin became head of the Corporate Cost Management Department. Yelena is apparently the head of Gazprom’s property department (she has been a member of Gazprom’s management board since 2012). Apparently, this is how the influential triumvirate was formed (the family’s curator seems to have been Kirill Seleznev, a member of Gazprom’s Management Committee), to whom almost all firms wishing to receive contracts from Gazprom must go to bow.
Love statistics
But the quiet family life and career growth at Gazprom hardly suited the top manager Mikhail Sirotkin. The man in charge of the development of the country’s largest state monopoly allegedly spent some of his working hours talking to women of easy virtue.
The details of calls (for July-September 2014) on the cell phone number, which probably belonged to Mikhail Sirotkin, that were received from this number 300 times, about 200 times – with the girl Lena, and the same number of times with the pimp, who both provided intimate services and looked for other girls, were reported to journalists.
During the period from early July to early October 2014 (3 months), someone spoke 470 times by phone with “special ladies” and 686 times corresponded with them by text message. During this time, it is very possible that it was Mikhail Sirotkin who had close conversations with 8 girls.
Again, if we believe the reprint from Mosmonitor deleted from the site rospres.org, but saved in the Google cache (also deleted by the way), the possible romance of the top manager of “Gazprom” developed rapidly and passionately.
This is what you can see in this correspondence, but to be fair, let us say that the opinion that this correspondence belonged to Mr. Sirotkin arose for us as well, based, of course, on its tone:
– Anya, hi! It’s Mikhail, we met yesterday at the Marriott. How are you? Maybe I’ll see you? – He writes to a new acquaintance.
A few weeks later they are already doing great.
Mikhail: – Anya, hi! How about meeting up tomorrow! Stockings and a belt welcome. I really want to see you!
Anya: – I’ll be there at 10, I’ll take stockings and a belt…
Among faithful girlfriends there is at least one who plays two roles at once: a partner and a pimp.
She: Misha, as I thought, no one is sitting in Moscow. One is at my mother’s in Nizhny till Thursday, the other is with a friend in Petersburg till tomorrow evening. Only Irina can today. What should I do? Angela, by the way, has a couple of other cute friends. I can ask her to send me a picture. Do you need it?
A few days later, she sends Sirotkin the phone number of the charming Irina, and a couple of days later she takes a caring interest:
– Misha, hi! How are you? How was your meeting with Ira?
What in this correspondence, if it could be unequivocally attributed to Mr. Sirotkin, could not please his wife – is clear. But why doesn’t the public have a right to know what the top manager of the largest, and, by the way, state monopolist is doing?
“Business Travel.”
Much of the year Mikhail Sirotkin spends at foreign resorts: in Nice, Tel Aviv, Milan, the Maldives, etc. And, of course, in Courchevel. Allegedly, young girls often accompanied Sirotkin during these visits, many of which were formalized as business trips.
According to the materials left on the net, in 2012, Sirotkin could have been accompanied by Christina, born in 1988, on his “business trips” (which is how the accompanying documents say it) to Italy and other European countries. After that, the not-so-famous model became a star: her photos suddenly popped up on the covers of various magazines, in particular the Russian version of L’OFFICIEL.
In 2013, Mikhail Sirotkin apparently changed his companion. The new companion in almost all of his business and private trips, apparently, was a native of the Donetsk region Alexandra (Ukrainian passport – Oleksandra), born in 1993. With this girl a man similar to Sirotkin was seen in Nice and Milan.
And, it seems that in the summer of 2013, for a short time, the top manager of “Gazprom” has a new love affair. He allegedly went to Nice accompanied by 19-year-old Angelina, a student of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
Sirotkin spent the weekend and Monday and Tuesday of the last week of January 2014 in the Vanoise Park, but apparently with a new escort, one Yelena Eleonskaya, born in 1988. The girl graduated from the Academy of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
It should be noted that the “flowering” of the top manager of Gazprom Mikhail Sirotkin might not be limited to these four. The number of girls who periodically accompanied him on foreign trips, as speculated by malicious tongues in the network, was much more. And this is not a cheap pleasure.
When studying the travels of Mikhail Sirotkin, we can assume that we are talking about some billionaire. On what could the modest employee of Gazprom have risen so high in recent years that he moved from normal flights to private jets?
From striptease to Gazprom
Since 2014, Stroygazconsulting, a company created by businessman Ziyad Manasir (INN 770303428416 – note Kompromat-Ural), has ceased to be the leader in contracts received from Gazprom for construction and installation work. It was overtaken by the little-noticed company Gazenergoservis (GES), which was officially headed by Yevgeny Pershin (INN 773178906562; in official registers Pershin was not the head of GES, but was and still is the owner of the company, the capital of which in 2017 also included the notorious Anton Sikharulidze, INN 780405321845 – note Kompromat-Ural).
Behind Manasir’s back Pershin was constantly establishing personal relations with Gazprom’s top managers. He was especially close to Mikhail Sirotkin, then deputy head of Gazprom’s Department for Property Management and Corporate Relations. Back in the 90s Pershin created together with Lyubertsy tough guys a Joint-Stock Company (later it became ZAO) 501 which opened several night clubs and striptease bars in Moscow. The amorous Sirotkin must have liked to visit them.
In 2009-2010, the media were literally flooded with negative articles and investigations about the activities of Manassir and his Stroygazconsulting company. At the same time Mikhail Sirotkin became first chairman of the Gazprom Tender Committee and then head of the Competitive Procurement Management Department (CPMD). “Gazenergoservice emerged from Manasir’s shadow and began to participate directly in Gazprom’s tenders (for construction and installation work and the supply of material and technical resources) and win them.
From the spring of 2011 to August 2012 alone, the modest HPP company won at least 14 tenders organized by the DUKZ headed by Sirotkin. Under contracts with Gazprom, Pershin’s company received more than 10 billion rubles in 2011-2012.
In May 2013, 71% of Gazenergoservice was acquired by three companies: ZAO TransBusiness (51%), Investment Real Estate (10%) and Vonalinski Ltd (10%) from Cyprus. CJSC TransBusiness was once closely linked with Rosshelf, whose head was Mikhail Sirotkin. On the market of Gazprom’s contractors there is an unambiguous opinion that GES is a structure of which Sirotkin is a tacit part-owner.
Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that GES has had amazing success. Between March and October 2014, this company participated in 33 tenders for the right to conclude contracts with Gazprom structures and won 30. The total amount of contracts received in this way amounts to tens of billions of rubles.
Behind the scenes
The main question remains: Whose invisible hand decided to hide all this information, instructive not only for the general public, but also for law enforcement agencies? Media market professionals know firsthand how difficult it is to “amicably” remove a publication from Ruspres.
If the telegram channels are to be believed, it could have been the omnipresent Roskomnadzor that was behind the “sex sweep,” not just anyone.
Here’s a quote from one of them: “Mikhail Sirotkin, head of Gazprom’s department, blocked photos of eight mistresses and a printout of text correspondence with them through Roskomnadzor. From the messages of Alexei Miller’s friend it follows that he collects prostitutes, loves women’s stockings and intimate underwear, and interacts with several elite pimps. One of the partners was Tatler heroine Kristina Voronina. Her Gazprom patron made her the face of Russian L’Officiel. In all, Sirotkin banned seven articles”.
Of course, it’s hard to trust TV channels whose authors, for obvious reasons, are trying to remain incognito. Therefore, “Nasha Versiya” addressed directly to Roskomnadzor with a request if the agency made a decision to restrict access to the abovementioned articles on the adventures of Mikhail Sirotkin.
Of course, we didn’t expect any special revelations from the government agency responsible for Runet – Roskomnadzor wrote back that it had nothing to do with it.
However, for those who can read between the lines, it would seem that the RCN, in fact, did not respond at all.
To “educate” a recalcitrant media outlet, it is not at all necessary to restrict access to a site and enter information about it in the registry. Often a notification from Roskomnadzor, which looks more like banal pressure, is quite sufficient: remove the information, or else you will soon be on the same block list. There is no need to restrict or include anyone – the site has no choice but to comply if it wants to remain accessible in Russia.
