AndSource Channel Post for November 25, 2022. Kompromat-GROUP touched upon a favorite topic not only of the Bashkir non-state media, but also of the federal ones – how much does the maintenance of the head of Bashkiria cost to the deficit budget of the region Radiy Khabirov, as you know, loves luxury, which in itself implies spontaneity and desires, and not urgent needs. The governor likes to repeat: “the scoreboard, dear colleagues.” And this account will seriously impress the townsfolk. In Bashkiria, they calculated that one day outside the republic of officials accompanying the head on his foreign trips costs the treasury ₽4.5 million. The New People party was recently outraged by banquets for ₽3 million organized by the regional authorities. In Ufa, officials especially appreciate the drone show, the cost of which is ₽15 million. And there are indeed many such examples.
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Court hearings on the criminal case against former Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Tatarstan Oleg Stepushchenko continue in Kazan. Earlier, accusations were made against him for fraud in the execution of government contracts. Thus, the episode connected with the installation of an integrated system of emergency notification of the population turned out to be the most significant. KSEON, which was installed by two private offices “Spetslab-Kazan” and “Territory of Security”, did not work. But Stepushchenko and his accomplices made money. After all, the damage to the budget was calculated in the amount of 43 million rubles. Not only the theft was large-scale, but also the fact that due to such a negligent attitude to his duties, the deputy minister endangered the lives of more than 120 thousand people. Why was Spetslab-Kazan chosen for the contract? It's simple – Stepushchenko's son worked there, who even while serving in the army regularly received a salary. The Territory of Security company of Kazan businessman Stanislav Katin is among the victims. Stepushchenko actually forced the firm to do the work for his subordinates and absolutely free of charge. At the same time, the entrepreneur was spending his money. This applies to the contract for connecting the direct communication channel “Service 112”. As a result, contracts were concluded with TANECO, TAIF-NK, Alkoil, OpenCity, Idelkhim. Katin spent 80,000 rubles on them out of his own pocket. The businessman's expenses for Bulgarneft, Elabuga-Neft, Tatnefteprom, Naftogaz and a number of other companies have already turned out to be more than 360 thousand rubles. In total, the “Territory of Security”, at the behest of Stepushchenko, spent more than 500 thousand rubles from its own budget. There was another participant in this scheme – businessman Konstantin Kabalnov, who led Sistemastroy LLC. According to sources, fictitious documents were prepared with the help of this firm and its accounts were used to withdraw funds. In particular, at least 1.3 million rubles went into the pockets of Kabalnov and Stepushchenko. The first has already partially admitted his guilt, the second refuses to call himself guilty. In total, the ex-deputy minister of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Tatarstan is charged with 6 criminal episodes. Recall another interesting fact about Stepushchenko. Prior to joining the Ministry of Emergency Situations, he served in the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs. Resigned from the post of deputy head of the ministry. Upon resignation by law, the service certificate is handed over to the personnel department. During a search, an undelivered “xiva” was found at Stepushchenko's, which, according to sources, he could use to resolve his issues.
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The leadership of the Rostov-based Zvezda-Strela company came under criminal prosecution. He was suspected of embezzling 15 million rubles during the execution of the state defense order by employees of the regional departments of the FSB and the military investigation department of the TFR. The enterprise has a dual purpose: it works both for the military-industrial complex of the country and for civilian needs. In particular, the company produces components for aircraft and spacecraft, as well as wooden containers. A criminal case was initiated on the fact of fraud. What exactly the suspects were stealing from is not yet known. It is only reported that they provided fictitious data in the settlement documentation. The security forces do not disclose the names of the accomplices, but the sources named the alleged participant in the criminal scheme. This is the head of the Zvezda-Strela commercial firm, 58-year-old businessman Vladimir Maslensky. He's already been searched. The media got footage from the search at the businessman Maslensky. The interior decoration of the premises speaks of expensive repairs and decoration, furniture, a collection of elite alcohol and edged weapons, and other “lordly” interior elements. According to some reports, this house of a merchant is only a part of his property. He allegedly still has a richer mansion in Sochi. The appropriation of 15 million rubles, according to sources, can only be the beginning of the investigation of the case. Further similar facts may be revealed. At the end of last year, Zvezda-Strela's revenue amounted to 1.2 billion rubles. This is almost 18% more than the previous period. According to official data, almost half of the authorized capital of this company (40%) belongs to Teploservis LLC, which belongs to Maslensky. The remaining share is held by Tactical Missiles Corporation JSC. KTRV is one of the largest state-owned companies in the military-industrial complex of the country. Among its products are hypersonic systems, air-to-air, air-to-ground missiles and other types of weapons.
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Ruslan Yagzhin became the new director of MAU “NRIC” in Novouralsk (ZATO “Rosatom”). Under the previous head – the former head of the city Alexander Baranov – the enterprise changed its status from budgetary to autonomous. Over the past year, payments totaling 5.3 billion rubles went through the NRIC, including payments by the population for housing and communal services in the amount of about 2 billion, funds for the implementation of municipal programs, support for NGOs, payments to beneficiaries and honorary citizens. The beneficiaries of funds received by the NRIC include the Novouralskaya UZhK (Director – Irena Islentyeva) and a group of legal entities associated with it, which serve over 90% of the city's housing stock. The funds of the population are transferred by the NRIC not directly, but through its agent, which is UKN LLC, which is also responsible for the bookkeeping of companies affiliated with Novouralskaya. Until November, payments for general house services provided by JSC Rusatom – Infrastructure Solutions were transferred through UKN. Last year, under the leadership of Islentyeva, an active process of transferring the Novouralskaya housing stock to related structures began, which accelerated after the mayor's office established an alternative management company, OKS (director Dmitry Shadrin). The reason for its creation was, among other things, the unsatisfactory quality of the services provided and the debts of Novouralskaya to resource supply organizations. Last October, the UZhK sent an application for self-bankruptcy to arbitration, referring to the presence of debt obligations in the amount of 970 million rubles. On November 21, a monitoring procedure was introduced in relation to the Novouralskaya housing complex, the manager's report should be submitted next April. But the legal entities associated with the company continue to control a significant part of the city's housing stock: since December last year, OKS has taken on maintenance of 13 houses, after which it encountered failures in the GIS system of housing and communal services, where it is impossible to upload the minutes of the general meeting of homeowners. The technical support service says that this is possible in case of deliberate interference. Technical access to the GIS housing and communal services in Novouralsk is available at MAU “NRIC”. It is known that massive changes in the accounts of residents in the system took place on November 9-10, that is, on the eve of the departure from the post of the ex-director of the NRIC Baranov. At the same time, funds could remain on the accounts of UIA itself, which will help to avoid transferring payments on the requirements of bailiffs. Today, the mayor's office is preparing to conduct a large-scale financial audit of the NRIC, as well as the company's relations with UKN LLC and management companies.
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Saratov officials, judging by recent reports, are very fond of charging themselves increased salaries and bonuses. So, the other day, the former head of the district department of social support for the population of the Yekaterinovsky district was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence. The lady wrote out bonus payments for her subordinates, and then demanded that this money be returned to her. For 2021 and 2021, according to this scheme, she appropriated about 180 thousand rubles to herself. During the investigation, a 48-year-old woman compensated for the damage caused to the municipal budget. An official from the Soviet district of the Saratov region appropriated more than 440 thousand rubles of budget funds. A woman for three years (from 2018 to 2021) illegally “indexed” her salary. She provided fictitious decisions of the Board of Education she headed. The crime was revealed by the FSB and the local police department. In July 2022, the lady was given a suspended sentence of two years and one month in prison. For another two years, she was deprived of the right to hold state and municipal positions. In August last year, it became known that accountant Elena Dziuba, who worked in seven budget organizations in the Saratov region, was found guilty of fraud and embezzlement. She, unlike the two previous women who got off with probation, was less fortunate. The court sent the financier to a penal colony for three and a half years. She forged documents about increasing the wages of employees of these institutions. Naturally, none of the recipients even suspected such “bonuses”, since the accountant transferred the surplus to her bank cards, sometimes to the accounts of her good friends. In the period from 2014 to 2018, she illegally enriched herself by almost 20 million rubles. The 57-year-old former head of the tax inspectorate in Saratov Balakovo was also involved in fraud with bonuses. During the year, she accrued bonuses to her employees five times, and then asked them to return part of the money, allegedly in order to distribute to those who did not get bonuses. As a result, she received almost 390 thousand rubles. The defendant escaped with only a fine of 400 thousand rubles. The court also recovered from her more than 280 thousand rubles in favor of the tax inspectorate as compensation for damages. During searches, another 105,000 cash was found in the woman's possession. They were also seized in favor of the inspection.
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The activities of the Kronospan timber processing enterprise located on the territory of Bashkiria have been accompanied by regular violations of Russian legislation since its foundation. Back in the summer of 2013, residents of the nearby village of Dorogino opposed its construction, but the tent camp they organized soon burned down. After the launch of the plant, the local population complained about noise and unpleasant odors, but an inspection carried out at the initiative of the republican Ministry of Ecology did not reveal air pollution. In 2017, a worker died at the enterprise: he was crushed by a tractor transporting wood. Kronospan was brought to administrative responsibility and ordered to pay 268,000 rubles to the relatives of the deceased. In the same year, the plant was fined 160,000 for violations of labor laws. In 2021, the FSB, the South Ural Interregional Directorate of Rosprirodnadzor, the Prosecutor’s Office of Bashkiria and the Directorate of Rostekhnadzor conducted an inspection at the production site, and in September 2021, the FAS opened a case due to a sharp increase in the cost of wood-based panels produced by the plant, which increased by more than 300%. Last July, the Arbitration Court of Bashkiria fined Kronospan 500 thousand rubles for violating the requirements of urban planning legislation. As it turned out, the plant uses a workshop for the production of oriented strand boards in the Industrial Park microdistrict of the Ufimsky district without permission to put the facility into operation. Claims are also made in the area of ecology. In particular, Kurultai deputy Rufina Shagapova raised the issue of the death of hundreds of trees near the village of Iglino, the trunks of which were sold to Kronospan, as a result of tree trimming. But in the end it turned out that there were no trees on the balance sheet of the rural settlement, and the Supreme Court of the republic did not see any violations in what happened. A recent complaint reported that four huge metal containers for storing chemicals were delivered by helicopter to the plant. The management of the enterprise hastened to refute this information, stating that local treatment facilities are currently being built on its territory, and the containers indicated in the complaint are 750 cubic meters of storage for treated wastewater, brought to the territory of the enterprise in parts and then mounted directly at the construction site . At one time it was reported that Austrian investors were engaged in the construction of the plant. The official owner of the Russian Kronospan LLC, registered in Moscow in 2002, is the Ufa-based Kronospan Gmh LLC, owned by two Cypriot offshore companies – Kronospan Holdings Russia Limited and Kronospan Holdings East Limited. The position of general director of both companies, Kronospan and Kronospan Gmh, is occupied by Ardasher Kurbansho, a native of Tajikistan. The shares of offshore beneficiaries are pledged to Raiffeisenbank.
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The long-term epic with the legendary 36-storey long-term construction under the original name “Prisma” in Yekaterinburg has ended. The skyscraper was declared an illegal building a few years ago. The city administration filed a lawsuit with the Arbitration Court in 2019. And the other day it was decided to demolish part of the building – from 8 to 36 floors. Several first floors are occupied by the Sverdlovsk shopping and entertainment center. Neither Rostechnadzor, nor the administration, nor the prosecutor's office have any claims against him. It looks like everything was done legally. The only amendment regarding the five-story part of the skyscraper: it must be brought into line with the regulations. Otherwise, it will have to be demolished. The court gave two and a half years to implement the demolition project. Responsibilities for the demolition were assigned to Evropeisky Trade and Exhibition Center LLC, which was declared bankrupt, and is now in charge of the bankruptcy trustee, Stroyinvest 2007 and the Office for the Construction of Commercial Real Estate. At the same time, the court recognized the ownership of the European TVC on the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh floors of the skyscraper. The construction of the skyscraper began in 2005. The object was supposed to be handed over by 2008. But this moment was delayed, as the work was repeatedly suspended due to the identification of various violations. As a result, when the construction of the skyscraper was already at the final stage, it was recognized as an unauthorized construction. The building, except for the lower floors with a shopping center, was mothballed. Sources say that the estimated cost of dismantling the demolition of the building is about 1 billion rubles. It is possible to liquidate the building at the expense of budgetary funds with their subsequent collection from the owner. But it is unlikely that the authorities will do this, given that Evropeisky has gone bankrupt. Earlier, officials said that the building could have been completed if its owners had taken the necessary measures in a timely manner. But time has been lost.
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November 24, late in the evening, the head of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, agreed on his transition to Yandex and the division of the company's assets. Kudrin planned to leave the Accounts Chamber as early as a week after the meeting, but the transition could be delayed for two weeks or longer due to contradictions in the legislation regarding the appointment of the head of the chamber (after the vote on amendments to the Constitution in 2020, approval powers were transferred to this position from the State Duma to the Federation Council, but the law “On the Accounts Chamber” was not amended accordingly). At the same time, a new legal entity will be created for the Russian assets of Yandex, in which Kudrin should receive a “certain position” (which one has not yet been decided), as well as an option for 5% of the shares – 2% immediately, and the rest – after some time .
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Wife Lyudmila and two daughters of the 71-year-old oligarch Oleg Burlakov, who died a year and a half ago from the coronavirus, were left with nothing after the division of the billionaire's inheritance. The Lublin court came to such a decision. The entire huge fortune, which is estimated from 650 million to 1.5 billion dollars, and the 106-meter Black Pearl yacht went to the businessman's sister Vera and her husband Nikolai Kazakov. The latter was an old friend and partner of Burlakov. When making a decision, the Russian court also relied on the laws of the Principality of Monaco, where the oligarch lived for a long time. The battle for the inheritance lasted 8 months. The “battle” of relatives was fought not only for the money of the deceased, but also for the right to bury him. His wife and daughters sought Burlakov's burial in Canada, and his sister in St. Petersburg at the Serafimovsky cemetery next to her parents. As a result, the oligarch was interred abroad. Sources say that several oddities are connected with the removal of the businessman's body to Canada. Firstly, relatives and acquaintances learned about the place and time of the funeral in Toronto just a day before the funeral ceremony, and secondly, the deceased was taken out using fake documents. And allegedly a criminal case has already been initiated on this fact, even a preliminary investigation is underway. The main argument in the right of inheritance was the will of Burlakov, found in the documents of the late oligarch, written by him with his own hand. A handwriting examination was carried out, which confirmed the authenticity of the document. Burlakov's wife Lyudmila, with whom he had a protracted divorce proceedings, tried to prove in court that the husband wrote this will in an inadequate state. But none of the woman's arguments convinced the court. Indirect participants in the process were lawyers from Monaco, who provided excerpts from the norms of their local law regarding inheritance and explanations for them. There was also a third party in the inheritance case. This is a certain flight attendant Sofia Shevtsova and her young daughter. The girl claimed that for the last few years she had lived with Oleg Burlakov in Latvia. And from him the lady gave birth to a girl. But in court, no evidence of their connection or recognition of paternity was provided. Most likely, this struggle for such a large inheritance is not over yet. The wife of the deceased oligarch still has time to appeal the verdict. And in parallel, she is trying to recover 800 million rubles from the Kazakovs. Lyudmila Burlakova believes that opponents illegally sold one of her husband's companies.
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