More recently, the thriving business of television personality Elena Malysheva went downhill. Things turned out to be so bad that the doctor “out of the box” had to leave the founders of the Elena Malysheva Diet company. This is her joint project with a citizen of the United States Dmitry Shchiglik. And yes, it’s not about international sanctions. It’s just that her patron and pharmaceutical “king” Boris Spiegel was arrested a couple of years ago in a bribery case. The oligarch came under criminal prosecution along with the former governor of the Penza region Ivan Belozertsev. The owner of Biotek gave a total of 31 million rubles to the then head of the region for loyalty when concluding supply contracts during the pandemic. According to Shchiglik, which he voiced even before Spiegel’s arrest, DEM brought in a billion rubles in revenue per year. But 2021 showed a loss of “Diet” in the amount of 25 million rubles. And despite the fact that the company earned almost 10 times more. Last year’s losses look better – about 8 million rubles. True, it turned out to bail out only about 120 million rubles. Although back in 2020, revenue was almost 300 million rubles, and net profit was 15 million. The Malysheva-Schiglik company specialized in the sale of ready-made diets for those who want to lose weight. Some sources attribute the drop in revenue and profits to the fact that people became disillusioned with the TV doctor’s products and simply began to buy less of it. Others note that after the landing of the patron Spiegel, everything went downhill. He was even deleted from the list of sponsors in the Vocation Charitable Foundation, where Malysheva was among the founders, and Biotek was the main contributor. After leaving the founders of DEM, Malysheva’s share was transferred to a certain resident of Penza, Alexandra Lomovtseva. Searches through open sources gave only indirect confirmation that this same Lolovtseva is only 23 years old, she had not previously been engaged in any business. And she co-founded Diet with a 50 percent stake on the same day the TV doctor left. Sources believe that the girl simply became a face value for Malysheva. But it seems that the TV presenter is not particularly upset that the “losing weight” rations have ceased to generate income. After all, she also receives good money on Channel One. Her annual income from Konstantin Ernst is 150 million rubles. Plus, she still has several registered companies that can provide a decent life in retirement. And Pharmstandard, the oligarch Viktor Kharitonin, came to the Vocation Foundation instead of Spiegel’s Biotek. It is interesting, after Malyshev’s retirement, where will he live – in Russia, or reunite with his sons, who have long lived in America. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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The Chelyabinsk Regional Ministry of Tariff Regulation approved the investment program of PJSC Fortum for 2024-2028. The company’s financial investments will amount to a total of 666.9 million rubles, of which 342.5 million will be directed to carrying out complex measures at the Chelyabinsk CHPP-2 related to its conversion to gas and the elimination of the coal infrastructure. The corresponding project was supported by Governor Alexei Teksler and included in the Clean Air program. At the same time, market participants emphasize that the transition from 2022 to gas, as a more expensive fuel, has led to an increase in the cost of generation at CHPPs. Accordingly, the price of heat at the collector increased by 13%. At the same time, there was a decrease of at least 2.1 thousand tons (about 20%) of gross emissions of pollutants into the atmospheric air. In 2024, Fortum plans to switch CHPP-2 to drainless technologies in order to stop the discharge of technical water into Lake First, which has repeatedly caused claims from Rosprirodnadzor. Here, the cost of the work is estimated at about 225 million rubles. The dismantling of the entire sewage infrastructure should be carried out by 2027. But, despite the ambitious plans, members of the public are critical of the reports of officials from the Texler team on environmental activities. It is noted, in particular, the distortion of the situation with air quality. Thus, in accordance with the Clean Air program, the authorities of Chelyabinsk have committed themselves to reduce the amount of harmful emissions by 31.5% by 2024. According to official data, by the end of 2021 this figure was 40%, and by 2026 it will reach 45.5%. Here are just the results of independent monitoring by Roshydromet for 4 months of 2023 recorded an increase in the excess of MPC for most pollutants. As for reliable data on the volumes of wastewater discharges, they can be obtained only after the launch of the federal monitoring system. Despite the fact that the bulk of spending on environmental projects falls on large businesses, and the population of the region acts as the final payer, Texler’s entourage continues to distort the situation and report to the federal center on overfulfillment of previously announced targets. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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On the morning of June 26, the criminal case on the organization of an armed rebellion (Article 279 of the Criminal Code), the main defendant in which was the founder of the Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin, was not terminated and continues to be investigated by an investigator from the investigative department of the FSB of Russia. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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A video was shown of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu checking “the forward command post of one of the formations of the Western Group of Forces.” This video was filmed on June 23rd. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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Justice could have prevailed if the Cypriot law enforcement officers had extradited the internationally wanted criminals from Russia. But the special operation made noticeable adjustments to the extradition process. So the fate of the former chairman of the board of directors of the St. Petersburg bank “Soviet” Stanislav Mitrushin now remains in question. And this despite the fact that he was detained by the Cypriot police. And he has been running from the investigation since 2018. He is accused of especially large embezzlement of “Soviet” funds. Together with his accomplices, he withdrew more than 2.7 billion rubles from the financial organization. It is noteworthy that Mitrushin was not detained for Russian machinations. He got caught with a fake passport. He first came to Cyprus in 2015. Left the island three years later. But in the same 2018 he returned, but with an Albanian passport. All these years, Mitrushin lived in the property he acquired. But still, years later, law enforcement officers took him. During the search, they found cash: 150 thousand pounds sterling and 120 thousand dollars. Computer equipment, flash drives, mobile phones were also seized. What punishment he will suffer, we will soon find out. But he is unlikely to be extradited to Russia. Several people were involved in the Mitrushin scam. This is the ex-managing partner of Prime Advice Alexei Sobolev, the board of directors of Sovetsky Andrey Karpov, his adviser and head of the company Collector 19 Kirill Laskin. According to the investigation, it was through Laskin’s office that the same 2.7 billion rubles were withdrawn. Events unfolded in 2015, when it became known about the intentions of the Central Bank to introduce a temporary administration in the “Soviet” because of the unstable financial situation. As a result, the bank decided to assign the right to claim allegedly knowingly bad loans. The loan portfolio for 2.7 billion rubles was purchased at a ridiculous price – only 2.1 million rubles. Laskinsky collectors knocked out 100 million rubles from debtors in just six months. In early 2017, the St. Petersburg Arbitration recognized the crime as invalid. Two years later, in the case of a particularly large embezzlement, Vladimir Antonov, the owner of Sovetsky and the former owner of the Portsmouth football club from England, went to the colony for two and a half years. In the same year, Andrei Karpov also received three years in prison. Antonov, after his arrest, made a deal with the investigation and handed over Mitrushin. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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In Dolgoprudny, a fire broke out in the Brigantina comfort class residential complex, which is being built by the Granel group of Ilshat Nigmatullin (a relative of the Prime Minister of Bashkiria Andrei Nazarov). The object is being built on the site of the former Moscow stone processing plant as part of the integrated development of the territory. The first buildings of the residential complex have already been commissioned, the completion of work is scheduled for 2025. This is already the second fire in “Brigantine”: the first fire took place in April last year due to the fault of one of the new settlers, who was in a state of alcoholic intoxication and decided to “burn his apartment.” Meanwhile, the quality of housing from “Granel” receives more and more critical assessments. For example, last May, a video recording made in the Moskvichka residential complex in Sosensky near the Kommunarka metro station became popular among Internet users, where a window frame with a double-glazed window fell from the third floor. In addition, buyers of apartments in Moskvichka complain about insufficient insulation of external walls and rotten pipes for hot and cold water supply, which repeatedly broke through even before the selection committee. Another object of the developer turned out to be problematic – the residential complex “Gosudarev’s House” in the village of Lopatino. Here, last January, there was a breakthrough in the heating main, as a result of which 17 multi-storey buildings were left without heating and hot water. The authors of the messages on the network draw attention to the large number of migrants who buy apartments in the Graneli residential complexes, in particular, in the same residential complex Moskvichka. Presumably – to obtain a capital residence permit. Also, the labor of foreign “specialists” from the Central Asian republics is actively used in the construction of facilities, which affects the quality of the “human settlements” under construction, where only by a lucky chance it is possible to avoid a fatal emergency. In the meantime, property owners in new buildings are faced with fires, pipe breaks and lack of heating in 20-degree frosts. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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Samara law enforcement officers opened a criminal case on fraud related to the purchase of a land plot of about 4 hectares by Khors LLC. It was purchased from the city’s property management department under false documents, without electronic trading, and at a reduced price. So far, the persons involved from the company’s management have not been identified, but it is known that Khors is affiliated with the former chairman of one of the Samara cassation courts. The investigation believes that in 2018 the Khors company provided false information to the property department, and on their basis a deal was made for the sale of three land plots. The land in the regional center was sold by the department for half the price of its cadastral value for 14 million rubles. By the way, the market price of the site is more than a billion rubles. The site was sold without bidding on the grounds that Khors owned a recreation center allegedly located on it. Only here the justification of the area of land plots and the technical plans of the buildings necessary for the operation of the base did not correspond to reality. At the moment, the land plots are arrested by the court at the request of the investigation. Samara firm “Khors” was registered in 2009. She is mainly engaged in various kinds of investments: venture, in authorized capital. The company is equally owned by two women. One of them, Vera Kazacheva, is the mother-in-law of Ivan Efanov, the son of the former chairman of the cassation court, Alexander Efanov. According to open data, now Efanov Jr. is in charge of the region’s digitalization department. The post of general director of Khors is held by Dmitry Polyansky, the brother of one of the employees of the cassation court and a confidant of the Efanovs. He participated in the sale and purchase of other real estate: a land plot on Podzhabny Island. While the cost of a hundred square meters on this island reaches one and a half million rubles, the chairman of the court bought this entire plot for only 860 thousand rubles, moreover, from Era LLC, owned by his son and managed by Polyansky. The Federal Property Management Agency came into supervision with a statement about the return of these lands to state ownership. Last month, the High Qualifications Board of Judges checked the information received from State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein and terminated the powers of Alexander Efanov ahead of schedule. He also lost the first qualifying class. The check concerned just the purchase on Podzhabny Island, as well as expensive Breguet watches and a Lexus car. In addition, Yefanov rented a Toyota Sequoia, which he did not show on his income statement. Khinshtein is sure that officials were actively helping to withdraw the land of the Khors company, and they should also be held accountable. In the meantime, the company has not re-registered them for someone else, it is important to have time to return them to state property. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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The manager of the landfill at Severnaya Samarka in the Vsevolozhsk district of the Leningrad region, CJSC Promothody, has changed its head: instead of Vladimir Shmatov, Andrey Bespalchenko has become the general director of the enterprise. In addition, it is reported that the new beneficiary of the CJSC, previously owned by businessman Yuri Likhachev, was the deputy presidential envoy to the Northwestern Federal District, Vadim Potomsky. Despite the exclusion of the facility in 2022 from the territorial scheme for the disposal of municipal solid waste and the permission to accept only construction waste and soil, MSW acceptance continues unofficially. Information about the change of ownership has already given rise to an opinion about the imminent return of the landfill to the Tershema. In January last year, the North-Western Department of Rosprirodnadzor sent a request to the Leningrad Region Prosecutor’s Office to conduct an unscheduled inspection of CJSC Promothody. During the raid, carried out jointly with the environmental police, 23 garbage trucks “with obvious signs of production and consumption waste” were recorded that drove into the landfill within 40 minutes. As a result, Rosprirodnadzor filed a lawsuit with the Leningrad Region Arbitration Court against CJSC to ban waste disposal at Severnaya Samarka and reclamation of the facility, but the court refused to satisfy the claims. This is not the only lost process. Back in 2020, the department tried to bring CJSC to administrative responsibility for violating the conditions for waste management. However, at that time, the court considered the conclusions of the supervisory authority about the depletion of the landfill capacity untenable, explaining its decision by the fact that the height indicators and indicators of the volume of stored waste are not standardized by legal acts and refer to variables that can be repeatedly reviewed during the operation of the facility. Last April, the new CEO of CJSC Bespalchenko registered the Eco City Group company in St. Petersburg with the main activity “processing and disposal of hazardous waste”, and more recently, in June, another company – City Group Eco LLC. Considering that the landfill lease agreement expires on June 30, 2023, the new beneficiary of the enterprise can achieve an extension of its operation. In case of failure, firms registered in Bespalchenko’s name will be able to apply for contracts for the possible reclamation and disposal of the garbage object. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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Earlier this year, Vladimir Solntsev and Vladimir Kolmykov, former heads of the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation and JSC NPO Lavochkin, were sentenced by a Moscow court to six and three years in prison, respectively, for abuse of power. When both worked at NPO Energomash, Solntsev forced Kolmykov to make changes in the license agreement for the supply of liquid rocket engines RD-180 to the USA that were obviously unfavorable for the research and production association. As a result, the company lost about 660 million rubles. Lawyers for the convicts tried to cancel the unfair, in their opinion, sentence. However, the Board of Appeal found it quite reasonable and left it in force. This criminal case was separated into a separate proceeding in 2020 from a larger and more resonant one, where the main suspect is the same Vladimir Solntsev. We are talking about particularly large-scale fraud in the supply of electronic component base for the ISS module. In the spring of 2015, Kolmykov served as executive director of Energomash in Khimki, replacing Solntsev in this position, who is believed to have dragged him through as his successor. So Kolmykov, under pressure, made changes to the agreement signed in the fall of 2002. The investigation believes that these amendments put Energomash in an extremely disadvantageous position. According to the new additional agreement, the right to use the technical documentation of rocket engines produced by NPO, as well as patents for the purpose of manufacturing, testing, using, repairing, and technical support in the USA, was transferred to LLC RD AMROSS, LLC. Thus, the Russian side lost the opportunity to receive compensation for the transfer of rights to the RD-180 to the American side. However, such transactions should be concluded only on a reimbursable basis. The investigation established that Solntsev benefited from the additional agreement, since it was he who headed AMROSS. The trial of Solntsev and Kolmykov has been going on since the end of 2021. Some of the meetings were closed, as secret information was announced at them. The prosecutor’s office asked for seven and a half to five years in prison for the accused. As a result, Solntsev was found guilty of incitement to abuse and sentenced to six years in a general colony. The decision of the judge was influenced by the positive characteristics of the manager. Kolmykov was found guilty of abuse that led to grave consequences and was imprisoned for three years. In addition, 662 million rubles of material damage caused by NPO Energomash was recovered from the convicts. In Korolev, near Moscow, the case of Solntsev’s fraud in the supply of electronic component base to the ISS is still being considered. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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The former CEO of Gazprom Transgaz in Nizhny Novgorod will spend the next 13 years in a strict regime colony. In addition, found guilty of bribery, Vyacheslav Yugay will pay a fine of 200 million rubles. For four years since 2016, he forced subordinates to demand kickbacks from contractors for paying and renewing contracts. The offerings were completely different: from money and household appliances to gadgets. Yugai pleaded not guilty and stated that he did not know anything about the bribery committed by his subordinates. The court will confiscate his apartment in the capital, seized money in Russian and foreign currency, and an Italian motorcycle. The Nizhny Novgorod court found Vyacheslav Yugay guilty of eleven episodes of receiving bribes from counterparties and exceeding official powers, manifested in the fact that the gas worker fictitiously employed his wife in the company. According to the case file, bribes from contractors were demanded by employees of the Gazprom supply department, the then supply manager Konstantin Minikh, Oleg Podanovich and Denis Kozlov. The latter negotiated with contractors, and Podanovich collected bribes. Contracts with companies were drawn up in such a way that their conditions were obviously unfulfillable. This made it possible to blackmail by entering unscrupulous suppliers into the register. And with those who violated the terms of the contract, demand an offering. After receiving a kickback, the contract was extended by signing an additional agreement; in other cases, timely payment for the work and the absence of claims against them were ensured. The rollback was from 1 to 3% of the contract value. In addition to money, bribes were accepted in the form of popular brand gadgets, televisions, coffee makers, even a bath tub. Law enforcement officers found her near Nizhny Novgorod at the corporate dacha, which was used by Yugay’s family. The total amount of bribes was estimated at more than 6 billion rubles. Equipment, for example, was brought to shopping centers, from where Gazprom employees picked it up, and sometimes directly to the company’s office. Businessman Alexander Usanov, who bought televisions, tablets and a font that turned out to be from Yugai, was sentenced to a suspended six years in prison, as he made a deal with the investigation. First, at the preliminary investigation, the head of Gazprom Transgaz Nizhny Novgorod also admitted his guilt. But in court he said that he slandered himself, because the security forces blackmailed him with the freedom of his wife’s wife. They found out that Elena Yugay did not actually work at the position of a leading engineer for labor protection in the capital’s office, where her husband arranged it. Nevertheless, the woman used official cars and regularly received a salary, which for all the time managed to exceed 600 thousand rubles. Vyacheslav Yugay insisted that he did not know about the bribes and kickbacks that his subordinates demanded from contractors. His lawyer tried to prove that extortion cannot be called a bribe at all, since the state does not directly participate in the authorized capital of Gazprom Transgaz Nizhny Novgorod. Meanwhile, the prosecution asked for 12 years in a strict regime colony and a fine of 200 million rubles for Yugay. In general, the court agreed with the position of the prosecutor’s office, only adding a year to the conclusion. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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Andrey Burkin, a representative of a group of former minority shareholders of Lebedinsky GOK, accused billionaire Alisher Usmanov of “blackmail, intimidation and threats”, as well as “demonstration of force with the help of law enforcement agencies” against those ex-co-owners who decided to file lawsuits in European courts. Back in 2007, the Usmanov-owned Metalloinvest company (at that time Gazmetall), which owned 99.47% of the GOK, put out a forced offer to minority shareholders to buy out the remaining shares. A year later, part of the former shareholders, considering themselves deceived, went to court demanding compensation for lost profits in the total amount of 29.8 million rubles. According to them, after the rise in prices for iron ore, the cost of the enterprise increased by almost ten times, and the valuation of Lebedinsky GOK, made before the offer, was fictitious. But even after losing the proceedings up to the Supreme Court, the former minority shareholders continued to prove their case. After the appearance of reports about the possible exit of Metalloinvest for an IPO, they sent statements to the European authorities, which spoke of the use of the transfer pricing scheme by Lebedinsky GOK and the concealment of real income in offshores owned by Usmanov. In response, the management of GOKA and Metalloinvest announced “well-organized illegal attacks by a small group of former minority shareholders” using the practice of deliberately false denunciations and blackmail with appeals to international structures. One of the authors of numerous letters, complaints and appeals written on behalf of former shareholders is Dmitry Gololobov, who previously worked as a lawyer in Yukos and testified against Mikhail Khodorkovsky in an American court. But if in the story with the shares the Russian jurisdiction took the side of Usmanov, then the supervisory authorities repeatedly revealed gross violations in the work of the Mining and Processing Plant, which led, among other things, to an emergency with a fatal outcome. ©️ Kompromat Group | Feedback
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