Telegram channel Kompromat GROUP: messages from 01/19/2023

“Gambling King”, the creator of the first legal casino in Russia and the Tatar businessman Rashid Taymasov was outlawed. He was put on the international wanted list and arrested in absentia. Details of the criminal case against him have not been released. As is his location. It is only known that he is charged with a particularly large embezzlement. And how much and under what circumstances, whether it was connected with the gambling or construction business, is not clear. He is best known as the pioneer of the Oracle casino in the Azov City gambling zone in the Krasnodar Territory. These cases were handled by the now bankrupt company Royal Time Group, which was led by Taimasov. According to some sources, he invested 2.3 billion rubles in the development of the project, according to others – 3.4 billion. The casino has existed for a total of 8 years. In 2010, the grand opening took place, and in the spring of 2015, the federal authorities decided to transfer the playing area from Azov City to the Olympic facilities in Sochi. But by decision of the country’s leadership, Taimasov was allowed to work until January 1, 2019. He, along with his partner Igor Korolkov, were the main beneficiaries of the Oracle and everything connected with it. Previously, both businessmen were associated with the Tatar construction group of companies Suvar. Royal Time Group was declared bankrupt, and the amount of debts to creditors amounted to more than 1.5 billion rubles. Moreover, the insolvency procedure was initiated by the company itself. Personally, Taimasov was presented with demands for 420 million rubles. In 2020, the bankruptcy of the businessman himself also ended. As it turned out, the “gambling king” turned out to be practically naked. He didn’t have any assets. Is that only a garage in the capital of Tatarstan, for which the bankruptcy trustee received only 150 thousand rubles. And for the shares in Taimasov’s businesses, they generally received a ridiculous amount – about 9 thousand rubles. Where it all went is not known. There are some solid secrets around this businessman. In 2020, the casino and the hotel next to it, built by Taymasov, were put up for sale. Then it was reported that they were ready to sell the buildings for almost 1 ruble if there were no buyers at an initial price of about 300 million rubles. But even a one-ruble deal did not take place. Only two years later, with the initial cost of a lot of 10 objects in the amount of more than 430 million rubles, someone was willing to purchase it. It turned out to be Alexei Boikov, deputy of the regional legislative assembly from Krasnoyarsk from the Liberal Democratic Party. He won the auction by offering 102 million rubles. What the people’s choice is going to organize there is also not known.
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The management of Kamensk-Uralsky Metallurgical Plant (KUMZ, owned by JSC Aluminum Products Holding, owned by Vladimir and Alexander Skornyakov, as well as the Renova Group) signed two large pledge agreements. Within the framework of the first, the enterprise pledged the goods in circulation – about 3 thousand tons of aluminum and 1.7 thousand tons of recycled waste, the pledge value of which amounted to 590 million rubles. Under the terms of the second, the pledge was property, including about 90 objects (production lines, equipment, a boiler power substation, etc.) with a total value of 1.38 billion rubles. The contracts expire on October 26, 2029. The reason for their signing was the debt obligations of KUMZ. It is known, in particular, about the lawsuit in the Moscow arbitration court associated with Sberbank LLC SB Commodity Trading, which seeks to recover debt and a penalty in the amount of 66 million rubles. Earlier, the plant lost litigation with RUSAL related to the repayment of debts for aluminum, which led to a change in the leadership of KUMZ: the resigned general director Andrey Bersenev was replaced by the former deputy chairman of the board, operating director of Rosnano Mikhail Nenyukov. The team of top managers has also changed, including the chief engineer. In particular, Elena Golovataya, who previously managed the enterprise, who is considered the protégé of the Skornyakov family, returned to the management and took the post of director for economics and finance. The reason for her previous dismissal was the colossal losses of KUMZ, which at the end of 2020 exceeded 7 billion rubles with a revenue of 25 billion. Over the same period, the plant’s accounts payable increased from 18 to 20 billion rubles, and long-term – from 30 to 31 billion. But despite such deplorable results of activity, when Golovataya was dismissed, a “golden parachute” was paid in the amount of 10 million rubles. According to market participants, the return of Golovataya indicates a weakening of Renova’s position. The factory management refuses to disclose information about officials, citing international sanctions and a related government decree last year. Mikhail Nenyukov himself spoke in an interview about focusing on customers from the aviation industry, but so far KUMZ has been forced to collect debts in the amount of 60 million rubles from the United Aircraft Corporation and 76 million from NPK Irkut.
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In less than a week, the first hearing on criminal cases against top managers of the largest private airline in Russia, S7 Airlines, will begin. The materials with the indictment were submitted by the prosecutor’s office to the court at the end of December last year. Law enforcers identified Boris Kamyshev, the deputy general director of the carrier, flight director Mansur Badrakov and pilot-instructor Mikhail Gusev as persons involved in commercial bribery, bribery and fraud. There is also a “civilian” person among them – the mother of a candidate for pilots, whom the medical commission should have allowed to fly for money, Galina Karnaukhova. Initially, Badrakov and Gusev were listed in the case, which appeared in June 2021. At that time, they were detained by FSB officers at the time of receiving an illegal reward in the amount of 1.5 million rubles. Moreover, Gusev acted as an intermediary in this deal. This amount was intended for Badrakov because he helped in the appointment of a pilot (data not known) of one of the airline’s aircraft. Experts then were at a loss as to why it was necessary to pay such a large amount for a pilot’s seat, if there was no benefit for its recipient. Then there was an assumption that some other benefits could be promised to the bribe-giver. Badrakov also appeared in one more episode. From his friend, Galina Karnaukhova, he received 350 thousand rubles by transfer to a bank account. For this, the representative of S7 promised to negotiate with the medical commission so that her son would be recognized as fit for flight training. And this money, according to him, relied on the members of the commission. In the end, he just took the money for himself. The name of Boris Kamyshev, deputy general director of the air carrier, appeared later in the case file. It is possible that one of his two previously detained colleagues let it slip and pointed to the boss. As soon as an investigation began against him, he was removed from his post. This happened in July 2022. The man is awaiting a court decision under house arrest. Mr. Badrakov was removed from his post and removed from his duties as flight director in June last year. The measure of restraint for him was chosen the same as for Kamyshev. Mikhail Gusev was fired back in 2021. Then he wrote a statement of his own free will.
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EcoStroy-Resource, the Samara municipal waste management operator (ESR, the beneficiary is the deputy of the Samara Provincial Duma Alexander Mileev), filed four lawsuits against Samara Provincial Market LLC (SGR) with a total amount of claims of about 500 thousand rubles. Previously, the ESR sought from the market management to conclude an agreement for the removal of waste, as well as to pay off a debt in the amount of 12 million rubles for services allegedly provided in 2019-2021. At the same time, the work itself was not carried out, and the corresponding contract and acts of work performed were absent. The conflict is related to the volumes of MSW: the ESR is sure that, taking into account the mini-market and car parking adjacent to the main building of the SGR, one container on the territory of the facility is not enough. But after the SGR installed five containers (instead of the prescribed 4.5), having received a conclusion from Rospotrebnadzor on their compliance with the requirements of the current legislation, the regoperator began to evade signing the contract. In turn, the transportation company Rassvet stated that the additional volume of waste counted by the ESR may not actually be generated, but they are still required to pay for removal to the SGR. Similarly, EcoStroy-Resource tried to recover 2.4 million rubles from the backbone Samara Plant of Laminated Plastics (SZSP), at the same time imposing on it its draft agreement for the provision of services for the treatment of MSW with the missing objects prescribed in it, from where the garbage was simply impossible. In addition, when calculating the payment for “air”, the rego-operator applied the MSW generation standard for trade facilities, and not for industrial premises. In fact, it was about receiving unjust enrichment for the services not rendered for the removal of production waste, as well as double payment for the services for the removal of solid waste from the administrative and amenity building, in respect of which the plant concluded a separate contract. Today, NWSP is pursuing in court the recognition of the second contract imposed by the ESR as null and void. Market participants explain the activation of EcoStroy-Resource by the appearance in Samara of a regional operator from Tyumen – Tyumen Ecological Association LLC, which has already received a number of large contracts in Tolyatti and claims to expand its influence in the region. Alexander Mileev himself may soon become a defendant in a criminal case on the deliberate bankruptcy of IC Rodnik LLC: the materials of the check against the deputy, as well as the denominations of the ESR Alexander Pashkov and Vasilios Ziakas, were sent by the prosecutor’s office to the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Samara Region. In addition, at the end of December, a criminal case was initiated against as yet unidentified persons from among the leaders of the regional operator on the fact of overstating the single marginal tariff by providing deliberately false information to the regional department of price and tariff regulation.
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The price for a bribe of 1.3 million rubles, from which the ex-inspector of the central administration of Rostekhnadkhor Sergei Kulikov did not even have time to rejoice and did not spend on his needs, amounted to 6 years in a strict regime colony. And this despite the fact that the court softened the initial requirements of the prosecutor in the form of a 9-year-old hard worker. The second judicial leniency is not the imposition of a fine equal to five times the amount of the bribe. Kulikov was also banned from working in state bodies for a decade after his release from prison. A Rostekhnadzor employee was detained in early December 2021 right in his office. Shortly before that, he received the named amount in cash. And a day later he was sent under arrest, which was repeatedly extended. Mr. Kulikov demanded money from one of the leaders of the National Test Association “State Ammunition Test Sites of Russia”. The inspector headed the commission for the acceptance of the new GBIP test complex, which was supposed to start work by the end of 2021. During an unscheduled inspection, Rostekhnadzor found some inaccuracies. In particular, deviations from the regulations were identified during the construction of two buildings and a helipad. In order to turn a blind eye to this matter and sign the acceptance certificate without any problems, Kulikov suggested that the GBIP representative resolve the issue for money. At the same time, he offered two payment options: cash and bank transfer. In the second case, there was one condition – the amount had to increase by a quarter. The inspector called such an allowance compensation for the commission for cashing out. After the conversation, the tester immediately went not to the ATM, but to the FSB officers, who detained the bribe extorter. The prosecution and the court considered Kulikov’s guilt in this crime fully proven. But the convict himself categorically disagreed with this, and is already preparing an appeal. Even during the trial, the defense insisted on the acquittal of their client. Why was the sentence so harsh for the bribe-taker? After all, there are many examples when, for large sums of money, people (especially from among high-ranking or businessmen) were sent to colonies for shorter periods or even given a suspended sentence. Probably, this happened due to the fact that Comrade Kulikov was trying to cash in on the defense industry, which has recently been generally considered untouchable. And the GBIP includes 4 training grounds, where advanced models of various types of weapons and ammunition are tested. Here, developers evaluate the work of aviation and ground artillery, high-precision weapons, multiple launch rocket systems, and much more. So it’s definitely not worth getting into the pocket of the defense industry in these times.
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Received an unexpected development of the story with the betting company 1xBet, or rather with their Russian brand 1x Bet. As you know, the owner of this company, Roman Semiokhin, is on the international wanted list. The security forces found out that Semiokhin’s company financed the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and also carried out activities in violation of the requirements for gambling organizers. In accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, betting companies are required to place all interactive bets through NKO Mobile Card LLC. Working under a different scheme is illegal and punishable. Until today, Semiokhin’s Stavka Ru company, the abbreviated name “SR” under the well-known brand 1xStavka, has worked through this system. On January 16, an order was issued to disconnect the Semiokhin betting company from the ability to conduct interactive bets in the Russian Federation, so in the next couple of months, most likely, 1x Bet will cease to exist in Russia, lose an annual profit of about 8 billion rubles, and its customers will scatter to other betting companies . Judging by the text of this order, Semiokhin’s violations are really serious, if not criminally punishable.
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The operatives of UEBiPK became interested in the settlement agreements signed by the State Unitary Enterprise of the Republic of Kazakhstan “Krymenergo” with a number of enterprises in the period from January 1, 2017 to the present, to which the commercial director of the enterprise, Honored Power Engineer of Crimea Valery Sergeev could be directly related. Under the pretext of automating the accounting processes for electricity sold, he organized the implementation of Megasoft software products in Krymenergo: Megabilling, Megaboss, etc. The first contract for the purchase of the Megabilling software complex worth 150 thousand rubles was signed in 2015 , and a relatively small amount served as a kind of guarantee of victory in the competition. Since then, the cost of maintaining a PC has grown to 150 million rubles, of which about 120 million could “settle” in the pockets of Sergeyev himself and his team, which included Ashot Mamulov, responsible for connecting subscribers to Krymenergo, who created a number of companies to resolve issues with “urgent” connection; Ruslan Kulishov, head of the network construction support department of the department for the implementation of technological connection construction; Evgeny Nagorny, deputy head of the network construction support department of the same department; the volume of electricity supplied and the search for subscribers who want to minimize costs. For 50% of the write-off value, fraudsters made changes to Megabilling related to the amount of electricity consumed, distributing the shortage among bankrupt consumers and state-owned enterprises, or writing it off as losses. Thus, if the average losses for grid companies are estimated at 10%, in Krymenergo this figure was about 30-40%. As a result, the annual damage from the activities of the “Sergeev team” could reach about 5 billion rubles. The write-off of multimillion-dollar debts for a 50% rollback was also facilitated by Sergeyev’s leadership of the commissions on acts and on disputed charges. Here the scheme looked like this: an additional agreement was drawn up fixing the metering device used for accruals as a control one, and not a settlement one, as a result of which the received data could be deleted and debts eliminated. Then a document was drawn up by which the same meter, but with zeroed indicators, again received the status of a settlement. There are cases when two inspection reports were drawn up for the same meter from the same date and with the same registration numbers, but with opposite conclusions: the first act recorded a debt in the amount of 300 thousand rubles, the second allowed it to be written off. At the same time, the Megabilling program is a Ukrainian development, the service servers of which are located in Kyiv, which poses a direct threat to the energy security of the Russian Federation. “Megabilling” is used by such enterprises as PJSC “Kyivenergo”, “Volynenergo”, “Zakarpatyeenergo” and others. in Ukraine by a company with the same name.
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Still, some one-sidedness in the work of the law on foreign agents raises questions. People fled, they were given this status, they criticize the Russian authorities from behind the hill without any scruples of conscience. But at the same time, they maintain and continue to flourish businesses in the country, which they, in fact, betrayed. Moreover, they manage to launch new legal entities. Moreover, it is clearly oppositional. As Andrei Makarevich, “machine-time” and with the brand “IA”, did it the other day. Together with him, an office called “Philosophy of Nonviolence” was established by five more people with the same label. The head of the company, which is going to conduct propaganda activities using television and radio broadcasting, print and electronic media, has become the head of the ethics department of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Ruben Apresyan. He received his “IA” in early December last year. The scientist’s apartment became a haven for this enterprise. The company of these two “branded” was made up of no less controversial comrades. They are Nizhny Novgorod human rights activist Olimpiada Usanova, Krasnodar lawyer Mikhail Benyash, journalists Andrei Kolesnikov (the namesake of a Kommersant employee) and Dmitry Lyubimov from Mari El. It is not known for certain how much money the philosophical office will use to exist. But sources suggested that the foreign agency brotherhood would not have problems with money. First, Western vultures will certainly be interested in such an internally corrupting enterprise in Russia. Somewhere “unfriendly” partners are already rubbing their hands. Interestingly, but in our FSB they took this company into development ?! Mr. Apresyan has extensive experience of cooperation with foreign sponsors. He collaborated with the American Albert Einstein Institute, which is run by Gene Sharp. This is the same institution that develops the so-called “velvet” revolutions and works closely with US intelligence. So, with the tacit consent of everyone and everything in the country, it seems that an organization has opened that will deal with information sabotage. It seems that our law enforcement officers are waiting for these comrades to do something, which will then be difficult to fix. It’s easier to strangle the whole thing in the bud. But it’s not for us to decide, so to speak. Apresyan began to cooperate with American funds since the early 90s. All this time, he regularly received all sorts of grants for supposedly educational and scientific activities. The most long-term partnership of the Russian doctor of sciences was with the Soros Foundation, which is called only the main sponsor of the “color” revolutions. So Makarevich and Co. will be provided with the necessary control centers and training manuals, if anything. Makarevich himself can allocate money to finance a philosophical project. Several of his organizations work quietly in Russia and generate income. The most profitable of them is the Jam Jazz Club in the Chistye Prudy area. In 2022, he earned more than 40 million rubles. He has a production company “Most Relish” and “Synthesis Stars”. But lately the companies have been unprofitable. And the Mambo Production studio, which previously belonged to the “machine-time” studio, which in terms of activities is similar to the “Philosophy of Non-Violence”, is in the hands of his sister Natalia. She is the main beneficiary. Moreover, this company regularly goes into the red.
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Businessman and mutual enricher of Anatoly Chubais Boris Mints, together with his lawyers, are trying to use the geopolitical situation in their favor. He intends to get rid of debt obligations to creditors in the amount of $850 million. And he is going to turn this maneuver with the help of British justice. Not so much legal, but political arguments are already being used during litigation. Now the judges of the London Court are in a kind of prostration. On the one hand, they took an oath before the rule of law, on the other hand, sanctions imposed by the government of the country whose interests they defend. Therefore, now the era has come of dragging out the processes, so as not to get into trouble not before the leadership of Britain, nor before the legislation. Mintsev lawyers are practically demanding a ban on the seizure of the assets of their wealthy client in favor of the Russian banks Otkritie and Trust. The main reason for this is that they are RUSSIAN. And such financial institutions should not be given money. Moreover, Otkritie, moreover, is under Western sanctions. Then doubly impossible! Some time ago, the English “femidovites” froze the Mints family property for more than $570 million. But then they softened their decisions, forbidding only to sell it or give it away. So the oligarchic relatives continued to calmly continue to use their mansions and other real estate. Their overseas hotel business also continued. It is noteworthy that Mr. Mints rolled out a counterclaim against banks with a Russian residence permit. The amount of his claims exceeds domestic ones – $ 1 billion. It was with this figure that he described the damage allegedly inflicted on him. And no matter how ridiculous it may seem, he can also win in a London court. Recall that Russian justice accuses Boris Mints and his two offspring of a particularly large embezzlement. The amount announced officially is 34 billion rubles. Virtually they were arrested back in 2020. But somehow the Russian courts went to this for too long. For two whole years. It was as if he had been specially given a reprieve so that he could take all his wealth abroad and escape to London. Where did these squandered billions come from? The thing is that in the 2010s, Mints took out loans from the associated Otkritie. With this money, the family acquired Moscow business centers and property in New Zealand and France. A few years later, his company O1 Group Finance “printed” bonds for the total amount of the debt and transferred them to Otkritie. It is noteworthy that the Mintsy pulled off this operation a few hours before the transfer of the indicated bank to Trust took place. And in order to have time to do everything as quickly as possible, businessman Yevgeny Dankevich, one of the top managers of Otkritie, helped him with this. Soon Dankevich moved to Israel according to his family registration.
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Since the beginning of January, the management of the Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP) has sharply raised tariff rates for transshipment: depending on the type of cargo, the increase can exceed 80%. The reaction was not long in coming: Aleksey Sentyurin, Executive Director of the Russian Steel Association of Ferrous Metallurgy Enterprises, which unites producers of 98% of Russian pig iron and about 90% of steel and rolled steel, asked the Federal Antimonopoly Service to check the validity of the increase in rates, which, however, it is not possible without obtaining the consent of the prosecutor’s office. Almost at the same time, the Moscow Stock Exchange registered a 21.1% increase in the value of NPTP shares, and the trading volume exceeded 600 million rubles. Meanwhile, the latest financial indicators of the port of Novorossiysk, available in open sources, show a sharp decline in revenue and profit, and the value of the company’s assets in 2019-2022. collapsed from 183 billion to 147 billion rubles. The media wrote about the CEO of NCSP Sergey Kireev as a former athlete, connected with crime since the 90s, thanks to which he was able to find a job in the Eurasia-Bunker company, created by top managers of the Novorossiysk port to launder proceeds from bunkering ships through offshore. In 2007, Kireev joined the team of Nikolai Tokarev, who became the head of Transneft, and became close friends with the vice-president of the oil company Mikhail Arustamov, with his support leading the “subsidiary” structure of Transneft – the Transneft-Service enterprise, through which fuel was supplied offshore structures, and then to foreign consumers. It was possible to resolve issues with the security forces, although Kireev became a defendant in a criminal case of fraud and, being put on the federal wanted list, was hiding in Cyprus, while his accountant Irina Tatevosyan had to spend some time in a pre-trial detention center. In 2012, Arustamov left Transneft, who was united with Tokarev not only by work in an oil company, but also by a foreign family business – the Pramo Technologies company registered in the Czech Republic. Kireev himself strengthened his position, later heading the NCSP, while prudently sending his family to Cyprus, where he acquired real estate.
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Another sports complex in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug closed due to technical problems. In Urai, due to a breakdown of equipment, the Uray-Arena ice palace, which was opened in September 2020 by the governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Natalya Komarova and the head of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov, stopped working. The sports facility did not work even three years after opening. According to one version, these may be technological errors made during the construction of the ice palace by a local company. According to another, engineering networks could fail due to groundwater. According to some reports, an underground river may flow in the area of ​​the palace, which could directly affect the construction of the Uray Arena and lead to equipment malfunctions. Problems with ice in Uray-Arena arose systematically. This was noticed on social media by locals. During the construction of the ice arena, Sergey Makarov, director of the capital construction department of Urai, assured in an interview with the Yugra government television company about the high quality of construction work. This is not the first major sports facility in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug to be closed due to defects. In February 2022, the Adaptive Sports Center in Surgut was temporarily closed. The Ugra government bought the hypermarket building in 2017 for almost 300 million rubles from the SOK construction company of Eduard Kalashnikov. The deal was carried out despite the criticism of the deputies of the Duma of Yugra, who drew the attention of the authorities to the fact that the premises were built as a shopping center and an examination is required in order to understand how suitable it is for a social and sports facility. In February, the management of the center reported that defects in the supporting metal structures were found in the track and field arena on the ground floor. The visitors of the new sports complex in Khanty-Mansiysk, worth almost 2 billion rubles, which the authorities of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug were building under an investment agreement by the Moscow company ASPEK, also have complaints about the quality of construction. In the summer, numerous complaints from parents about the state of the sports complex forced Governor Komarova to visit the facility with a secret inspection. What conclusions were made by the head of the region, her press service did not report. It is possible that in the near future this facility will also have to be closed for repairs.