The Prosecutor General’s Office has been trying for a long time to return more than 30 sanatorium-and-spa institutions, which own almost 1,800 real estate objects, to the state’s ownership. Some of them are located in the Caucasian Mineralnye Vody. According to the supervision, in the 1990s, these buildings were transferred to the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia, on the condition that privatization is prohibited, and all objects must be used for their intended purpose. So it was for a while. But then, nevertheless, the sanatoriums were privatized (supposedly illegally) and sold. The Prosecutor General’s Office sought justice in regional courts. But everywhere there was a refusal. Then the supervision went to the capital in search of justice. And the Gagarinsky District Court satisfied the unprecedented claim. Now it became known that the Moscow City Court not only canceled the decision of a lower instance, but also decided to return the property to the owners. City judges saw violations or incorrect application of procedural law in the actions of the district colleague Elena Chernysh. Of course, after Chernysh decided that the sanatorium should be returned to state ownership, dozens of owners bombarded the courts with lawsuits. And almost exactly a year they sought to cancel the decision. And yet they succeeded. Now it is not known whether prosecutors will appeal against the decision of the Moscow City Court. While they are waiting for the full text of the resolution. A little background. In those troubled 90s, a total of almost 60 property complexes went to the Federation of Trade Unions, among which were the same 34 sanatoriums with their 1763 real estate objects. The head of the organization, Nikolay Shmakov, with accomplices in various official circles, carried out the privatization, and then the sale of assets. For this purpose, the executive committee of the FNPR created in 2004 an office of Resort Management (Holding) LLC. Shmakov himself presided. And Nikolai Murashko, who now sits in the Duma of the Stavropol Territory, was appointed director of the company. According to the prosecutor’s office, the trade unionists managed to sell more than 130 properties. For this they gained 3.3 billion rubles. On whose side the truth will turn out, we will probably find out. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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The prosecutor’s office of the Sverdlovsk region has achieved in the court of cassation a second review of the case on financial fraud at the Roskosmos plant in Nizhnyaya Salda. We are talking about the requirement for the Moscow NJSC “Department of Construction and Technological Engineering” (USTI) to return to the budget 77 million rubles received under the contract for the reconstruction and technical re-equipment of one of the production sites of low-thrust engines of JSC “NII Mashinostroeniya” (NIIMash). It is known that the materials for the supervisory authority were collected back in 2020 by the security service and the internal audit service of NIIMash after Anatoly Dolgikh left the post of director of the enterprise, with Elena Matveeva replacing him. The work itself, performed under a contract worth 190 million rubles, was accepted and paid for in 2017 without any complaints. Later, during the prosecutor’s check, it was revealed that some of the work had not actually been completed. As a result, the courts twice denied the representatives of the supervisory authority to satisfy the demand for the return of funds, referring to the fact that when accepting the work, the commission of NIIMash had no complaints about the quality of execution of the state contract, and the defendant was not involved in the audit. However, the appeal focused on a number of circumstances. For example, USTIs were not supposed to notify about the inspection, since it concerned the expenditure of budgetary funds by NIImash. As a result, the case was sent for a new trial by the court of first instance. However, the situation is complicated by the fact that NJSC USTI is currently undergoing bankruptcy proceedings, and its property pledged by Bank DOM.RF JSC is being sold. Thus, if the claim of the prosecutor’s office is satisfied, there will be nothing to pay the debts. And this is not the only example of damage caused to NIImash. In particular, last year it was reported that a criminal case had been opened on the fact of fraud, under which the theft of more than 100 million rubles from the enterprise by accepting outstanding work under a contract with Kosmosaviaspetsstroy LLC was investigated. In addition, in 2019, the company signed a contract worth 1.9 billion rubles for the reconstruction of production facilities with USP Compulink LLC (later renamed Infralink LLC). The deadline for fulfilling obligations by the contractor expired back in 2021, but the work has not yet been completed, and the amount of the unworked advance payment exceeds 428 million rubles. As a result, today NIIMash is trying to return the money and terminate the contract, and the defendant is seeking payment of almost 200 million rubles for the equipment supplied and the work performed, the acts for which the director Elena Matveeva refused to sign. Now it is up to the expert examination appointed in the course of litigation to establish the actually executed volumes. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Kirov Region and PJSC Segezha Group recently signed a cooperation agreement that caused both optimism and skepticism. Governor Alexander Sokolov is enthusiastic about the potential benefits of this partnership, including attracting significant investment, increasing tax revenues, creating jobs and spurring regional development. However, there are doubts about the realism of the governor’s optimistic forecasts. Although the announcement of the agreement attracted attention, it is important to note that the Segezha Group, formerly known as the Vyatka Plywood Mill, has been operating in the region for some time. Some regional politicians claim that the company receives preferences from local authorities that do not apply to other enterprises. During the discussion of the regional budget for 2022, deputy Albert Bikalyuk noted a decrease in tax deductions, while the timber industry accounts for about 15% of unpaid taxes totaling 1.9 billion rubles. However, the extent of Segezha’s involvement in this matter remains unclear. Segezha Group is linked to AFK Sistema, a well-known holding company owned by Russian oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov. As a major investor, the company enjoys preferential terms when purchasing hardwood. According to media reports, Segezha Group purchases timber at below market prices. Currently, the region has signed two contracts with Segezha for the production of about 300,000 cubic meters of hardwood. The potential expansion of the Vyatka plywood mill with a third production line could lead to another agreement with Segezha. It should be noted that the selected cutting areas consist mainly of valuable coniferous species, which make up about 80% of the harvested wood. This raises concerns that the exploitation of expensive softwoods may come at the expense of more readily available hardwoods. In addition, it is reported that Segezha Group can sell harvested softwood either to local wood processors or export it to other regions, thereby evading taxes that would otherwise go to the budget of the Kirov region. This situation calls into question the significant tax revenues that Governor Sokolov spoke about. There is reason to believe that wood from the Kirov region can be exported not only to other regions of Russia, but also to foreign countries. At the end of 2022, Segezha Group expressed its intention to issue long-term bonds denominated in Chinese yuan, signaling its interest in attracting Chinese investors. Given previous speculation surrounding Vladimir Yevtushenkov’s broader intentions for plywood and cardboard mills, some analysts suggest that the proposed third phase of the Vyatka plywood mill (owned by Segezha) and the cooperation agreement with the Kirov region are in line with undisclosed larger targets. This raises concerns about the potential consequences of uncontrolled deforestation and raises concerns that Governor Sokolov is representing private business interests disguised as regional development. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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The court of cassation refused to satisfy the claim of the Saratov department of the Federal Property Management Agency, which challenged the sublease agreement for land plots with a total area of almost 48 thousand hectares located in the Fedorovsky district. Land intended for agricultural activities in 2006-2011 were leased for a period of 49 years to the State Unitary Enterprise OPH “Yeruslanskoye” and the State Unitary Enterprise OPH “Chernyshevskoye”, and after their bankruptcy, the right to lease, according to the results of the auction, was bought out by Rostagro-Saratov LLC. In 2018, during the reorganization of Binbank, which belonged to Mikhail Shishkhanov, the Rostagro holding came under the control of Trust Bank. In 2020, at the request of the Trust, Rostagro-Saratov was declared insolvent, and the plots in the Fedorovsky district were in the bankruptcy estate of the enterprise. At the beginning of last year, TrustAgro-Niva 4 LLC became their buyer. The second bidder was Trastagro-Niva 2 LLC, and the founder of both structures was Trust Bank, concurrently the only creditor of Rostagro-Saratov. As a result, in April last year, the land was leased to Agrovita LLC, which is an investor in the Triumfalny shopping and entertainment center on the Saratovskaya embankment. Attempts by the Federal Property Management Agency to challenge the inclusion of sites in the bankruptcy estate, the results of the auction, as well as lease and sublease agreements, were unsuccessful. Now, after the end of litigation, Trust is preparing to sell the asset: the right to lease until 2060 will be sold along with land plots in the Penza region, a grain collection point, bases and a number of other objects. Their total cost is estimated at 1.4 billion rubles, which, according to experts, is 30-40% lower than the market price. The main contender for the purchase is Aeon Agro, which is part of Roman Trotsenko’s AEON holding. Last December, the businessman already bought out a number of assets for 18.7 billion rubles, including TrustAgro-Elevator LLC, Kurganovsky LLC and Rostagro Management Company LLC, together with shares of the Capital Investments rental mutual fund and the right to claim Trust ” to the management company “Rostagro” and “Kurganovsky” for 2.2 billion. But the process of selling land in the Fedorovsky district may be suspended in connection with litigation on the suit of “Trastagro-Niva 4” against the farmer Lyubov Kuchmina, from whom the company is seeking payment more than 27.5 million rubles for the illegal use of the site: at one time the land cultivated by it was leased to Agrovita LLC. Agrovita also applied for the recovery of 520 thousand rubles from Kuchmina: to date, both claims have been merged into one proceeding, and the Federal Property Management Agency is participating in the process as a third party. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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The Ministry of Construction, headed by Irek Fayzullin, as well as developers, figured out how to protect construction oligarchs from new settlers who are dissatisfied with the quality of the purchased housing. A law will soon be adopted to regulate the relationship between the developer and the future homeowner at the time of receiving the apartment. A united front of officials and merchants will go against buyers of apartments and push through the procedure for obtaining bypassing the courts at the legislative level. Sergei Pakhomov, head of the Committee for Construction and Housing and Communal Services, has already spoken about this. Last year, the Ministry of Construction accused the buyers themselves of delays and unfinished projects, who allegedly abused their consumer right, and called them “terrorists.” And law firms are parasites that profit from this “terrorism”. President of the National Association of Housing Developers Leonid Kazinets generally called numerous lawsuits to eliminate imperfections insane, and that this should be stopped on a legislative basis. The bill, apparently, the issue is resolved, and it will be adopted. And this means that the home buyer will not be able to immediately file a claim for non-removal of defects. First, you will need to send a complaint to the developer. The latter will be assigned the right to conduct an examination, and on the basis of its conclusion, decide whether work should be done or not. There is no doubt that developers will conduct (or pay for) expert examinations that are beneficial to them. And then, even if a lawsuit follows in the future, the conclusion in the process will become a weighty argument. According to sources, only in May, the developers of the capital region increased their revenue by 89%. At the same time, they believe that the 4 billion rubles that they pay for consumer claims is a big loss. In 2018, a Yekaterinburg resident decided to sue LSR: in his new apartment, the ceiling was leaking so that the walls and windows got wet, the plaster fell off, the floor swelled, and mold settled. The examination showed poor-quality installation of seams in window openings, a ventilation shaft, and improper execution of balcony railings. Experts concluded that further residence in the apartment is dangerous for health and life. As a result, the man received only 241 thousand rubles in compensation, of which only 99 for the elimination of shortcomings, the rest – compensation for costs and moral damage. In the capital, a dissatisfied buyer of an apartment from PIK Group was paid even less – 90 thousand rubles. At the same time, expert calculations showed the amount to be 16 times more. When the woman took over the apartment, more than 60 shortcomings were identified, and the layout area was changed. But instead of eliminating imperfections, she received an act of a deviant from receiving housing. The quality of construction is declining exponentially, and in the premium segments too. Even some parliamentarians notice it. Nikolai Alekseenko, a State Duma deputy, for example, cited judicial statistics: if last year it cost a little more than 400 thousand rubles to eliminate defects in 50 squares, then this year it is already 500 thousand. And the major market players have not come up with anything better than how to push home buyers out of their rights. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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Deputy of the Arkhangelsk Regional Legislative Assembly Sergey Moiseev successfully combines legislative activities with business. In particular, he holds the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors of Oktyabr JSC, a structure that manages the shopping center of the same name in Severodvinsk, where Moiseev himself worked as a general director until May 2016. His wife Lada Klimova repeatedly became a member of the ranking of the richest wives of Arkhangelsk deputies, and daughter Alina, as befits the child of a patriotic politician, first graduated from the prestigious private school for girls “Badminton School” in the UK, then the state University of Exeter and now works in an international parcel delivery company “DPDgroup”. The deputy’s son, Yaroslav, also graduated from the University of Exeter and works for his mother’s company, Alyar Group, which sells services for automating business processes in medical institutions. Today, the Moiseev family and his business partners, including his brother-in-law Boris Klimov and the mother of ex-State Duma deputy Dmitry Yurkov, own the Polyus, Boom, Yarmarka shopping centers and the Mega chain in Arkhangelsk, the Yunist shopping center -Stroy” in Syktyvkar, the family park “Leograd” in Severodvinsk and a number of other objects. In addition, the family leases dozens of retail premises, and one of the tenants is the Magnit Network (we are talking about stores on Partizanskaya, Admiral Kuznetsov, and Ilyich in Arkhangelsk). The source of income for Moiseev is also the sale of land plots for development, the buyer of which is the Akvilon development company, whose co-owner is the deputy of the regional parliament Alexander Frolov. In addition, part of the commercial structures belongs to Lada Klimova – these are the Pancake House, Olivier, Blinville cafes, as well as catering and cleaning companies. According to the latest published declaration, in 2021 Sergei Moiseev officially earned 35.9 million rubles, his wife – 42.4 million. The deputy owned: three plots on the banks of the Northern Dvina in the Primorsky district of the Arkhangelsk region; share in a 43.9-meter apartment on the street. Trunk in Arkhangelsk; share in the leased non-residential premises on the street. Voskresenskaya; dacha and bathhouse in the Primorsky district; two garages in Severodvinsk, as well as a fleet of vehicles including Land Rover Range Rover Sport and Toyota Land Cruiser 200, two Harley Davidson motorcycles and a Yamaha jet ski. It is noteworthy that in 2020 – 2021. the deputy “forgot” to indicate in the reporting the share of an undeclared plot with an area of more than 3.6 thousand square meters in Arkhangelsk at the address: st. Galushina, 20, and a capital construction facility located there, then sold to the Omega Stroy company, which is part of the structure of the same Akvilon. On Lada Klimova officially issued: 21.5 hectares of agricultural land on the banks of the Tsiglominka River near Arkhangelsk; part of the land plot with an area of 880 “squares” in the center of Arkhangelsk on the street. Chumbarova-Luchinsky, 28, bldg. 1, and an apartment in a house located here worth about 20 million rubles; an apartment in St. Petersburg with an area of 159 square meters in the residential complex “House on Kazanskaya” with an approximate cost of 55 million; three-room apartment in the elite apartment complex “Royal Park” on Petrovsky Island, worth about 40 million; a land plot and a 349-meter house in Pavlovsk near St. Petersburg, worth about 35 million. The business woman also owns an apartment in Bulgaria and home ownership in France. The offshore companies Ardia Limited and Bemania Limited, registered in the Seychelles in 2010, were also connected with Sergey Moiseev and his relatives. Their beneficiaries also included his brother-in-law Boris Klimov (today a deputy of the regional parliament, and at that time a deputy of the Arkhangelsk City Duma), Moiseev’s business partners Vladimir Bokhan and Dmitry Yurkov (at that time both were municipal deputies) and Yurkova’s mother Galina Nikolaevna . ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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In the third quarter of last year, the Chamber of Control and Accounts of St. Petersburg conducted a scheduled audit of the financial and economic activities of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sports, and, selectively, organizations subordinate to it. Once again, the number of violations of budgetary discipline has skyrocketed. This is an excess of the number of leadership positions, unreasonable bonuses, incentive payments. In total, the wage fund turned out to be overestimated by almost 5 million rubles. In the field of procurement, the audit showed that the prices for contracts at all stages were also determined and justified with violations, without checking the estimates of contractors. As a result, all works, goods and services were paid at an inflated cost. In this regard, the “Training Center” headed by Sergei Vetkin is in the lead. Most of the events are financed through it, and the real prices for services in recent years have been regularly overstated by more than three times. The most illustrative example is the Bronze Horseman sports event. It cost the budget 41 million rubles, and the estimate was obviously signed for a specific artist. The provision and maintenance of temporary structures, for example, really costs a little less than 200 thousand rubles. In fact, 3 million was spent on this from the budget. The organization of traffic cost 15 million, moreover, that should be done on their own. Broadcasting on Internet networks with a maximum cost of 150 thousand was paid for by four million rubles. Or take the Triathlon Cup of the Governor of St. Petersburg. This is not a mass sport, it has only 70 participants. Those who regularly visit it about once a month know that paraphernalia such as arches, flags and banners does not change every time. But funds for their production are written off systematically, moreover, the last two times for seven million rubles. In preparation for the 2020 European Football Championship Finals Fan Zone, many organizations have been able to earn more than decent amounts thanks to the Training Centre. In addition to overpricing, often many positions are duplicated, and different contractors are paid for the same work. The audit has only one conclusion: officials approach their duties formally and in bad faith. That is why the funds are spent inefficiently, and there are high risks of corruption. But for some reason, these multimillion-dollar excess expenses, bearing signs of causing damage to the budget, are of no interest to either law enforcement officers or Smolny. Each check ends only with a plan to eliminate the identified comments. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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The capital’s court confiscated a record bribe in the entire modern history of law enforcement, which was received by one of the capital’s investigators from hackers. A cryptocurrency equivalent to 24 million dollars or 1.6 billion rubles turned into state revenue. Marat Tambiev faces a long prison term, while the bribe-givers get off with suspended sentences. Previously, the former colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Zakharchenko, who received 1.4 billion in illegal rewards, was in the lead in terms of bribery. This amount was collected over ten years of corrupt activity of the security official. Now he is serving a 16-year term in prison. At the same time, 9 billion assets were confiscated from Zakharchenko and all his relatives, the legal origin of which could not be proven. Tambiev’s bribe was found after a search of his home. It was not cash, and not an expensive watch, the officer’s laptop was confiscated. For several months, specialists tried to open it, and when this happened, the “Pension” folder attracted their attention. It contained only one photo of a paper sheet with access codes to 1032 bitcoins. By court order, they were seized from an electronic crypto wallet to a hardware crypto wallet. The latter with access codes was placed in the storage room of the material evidence of the investigative committee. When the court decision on their confiscation comes into force, the bailiffs will have access to these bitcoins and decide where they will go next. The confiscation was justified by the criminal origin of the cryptocurrency, since Tambiev did not declare it or other large amounts in his last income declaration. The officer joined the investigative committee at the end of 2011. Slowly climbing the career ladder, he lived modestly, within his means. So, for all the time in the bodies, Tambiev earned only 12 million rubles. Neither he nor his family members have ever declared expensive property or money savings. As for the members of the hacker group Infraud Organization, brothers Bergman and Kirill Samokutyaevsky, who freed their assets from seizure with bitcoins, their criminal prosecution for bribery has been discontinued. They fully admitted their guilt and testified against Tambiev. They still had bitcoins worth 700 million rubles. The court also confiscated them. And for the fact that they traded in stolen bank cards on the darknet, and received more than a billion rubles from this activity, they were sentenced to suspended prison terms not exceeding 3.5 years. Marat Tambiev, meanwhile, pleads not guilty. He was fired from the authorities for a discrediting offense and violation of the oath. The investigation into his case is ongoing. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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