Telegram channel Kompromat GROUP: messages from 01/21/2023

The modern view of the raider seizure of companies is demonstrated by the Viacard company, which is associated with businessman Musya Kurmaev and his lawyer son Rustam. Of course, no one comes in black-tinted minibuses with machine guns and masks to wring out business anymore. Everything passes peacefully and bloodlessly – with the help of bankruptcies. For the fifth year now, the hassle around LLC “Terminal Service” has been going on. The company was a fuel card operator, Viacard provided it with terminals and software for their operation. “Terminal Service” served gas stations of the companies “Tvernefteprodukt” (owned by “Surgutneftegaz”), “Tatneft-AZS-Zapad” and a number of others. Only in the Tver region, there were more than 50 gas stations in partners. In 2016, the Kurmaev office decided to submit claims for repayment of a debt in the amount of 800 thousand rubles. Apparently, the owner is tired of having only about 200 thousand income a year. And that’s before taxes. And then the claims only increased. After the money, Viacard wanted to return more than 400 of its terminals installed at gas stations. At the same time, he demanded all kinds of compensation and other payments. Wishlist has grown up to 135 million rubles. Terminal Service did not pull such an amount and went bankrupt in 2019. It seems that Kurmaev and Co. have achieved their goal, ruined the business. But it was not there. They went further and got to counterparties and brought them to subsidiary liability. They acted quite selectively – they attracted only solvent organizations. Of the 120 contractors, the “raiders” pulled up only 17, including Tvernefteprodukt and Tatneft-AZS-Zapad. All were presented with very strange demands – to invalidate their transactions with clients. In other words, gas stations left consumers without gasoline, and everything was fictitious. But such a fact would be revealed on two occasions. But for three years no one complained. For such “fictitious” actions, Viacard requested almost 100 million rubles in compensation. Then this amount doubled. And soon it completely soared to 1.6 billion rubles. But this would not be the limit of Kurmaev’s desires. The final destination was the figure of 28.4 billion rubles. The courts were at first on the side of the debtors, and then abruptly changed their shoes. One by one, the demands of the asker began to be satisfied: something completely, something partially. Sources report that the Kurmaevs have gone so far as to try to pit the Supreme and Constitutional Courts against each other in resolving this lawsuit. Really there is no justice for such lawless people?! Yes, recently a criminal case was opened against unidentified persons of Viakard on the fact of particularly large theft. Whether we will see in the materials the full name column of the data of those who arranged all this or not, time will tell.
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The Department of Road Facilities of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug has compiled a list of objects of construction in progress, where further work is recognized as inexpedient. It included the production base of Severavtodor in Yugorsk, the Khanty-Mansiysk – Nyagan highway in the section between Khanty-Mansiysk and the village of Talinsky, the bridge over the Ob River in the Oktyabrsky district and the Novoagansk – Pokachi highway. Thus, the Ugra authorities intend to write off more than 245 million rubles invested in long-term construction. The officials officially coordinated the write-off of funds with the technical council under Depdorhoz, which had actually been inactive for several years. Representatives of the public were not involved in the discussion of the issue, although the document bears the signature of Isa Yusupov, who previously worked with the current director of the department, Konstantin Grebeshk, in a commercial organization. The pretext for writing off funds for the construction of a bridge in the Oktyabrsky district, which started in 2014 as part of the Cooperation program, was the absence of an object in the KhMAO strategic planning documents until 2030, as well as the fact that since the preparation of engineering surveys and project documentation, over 5 years. According to experts, the project is quite subject to adjustment. The statute of limitations, as well as the limited socio-economic effect, became the official reason for the refusal to build the Novoagansk-Pokachi road, and there were simply no funds for the construction of the Severavtodor base. As for the section of the Khanty-Mansiysk-Talinsky highway, 700 thousand cubic meters of sand were washed for it at the budget expense, which eventually turned out to be unclaimed, as the contractor found a cheaper resource. Now the authorities are trying to write off more than 80 million rubles from the unrealized project. Meanwhile, public activists do not consider the list of Depdorhoz to be final, since the governor of Yugra, Natalya Komarova, has set the task for her subordinates to reduce the number of objects of construction in progress. To date, 763 projects with a total value of 27.2 billion rubles have been included in the corresponding regional register. The write-off of long-term construction itself resembles a corruption scheme in which, in addition to officials, design organizations are involved, with which agreements can be concluded in advance for designing objects that are unpromising in advance for a specific amount.
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At the end of last year, Denis Borodako, the developer and founder of the Dominanta company, discussed the purchase of a plot in 2nd Setunsky Proyezd of Moscow with an area of ​​1.7 hectares. An elite residential complex and a business center will be built on this land. But according to sources, this territory went to the developer for a reason. And for 250 million rubles. No, he did not buy it from some owner, did not pay it to the treasury, but gave it to those who helped resolve the issue of allocating a plot. And it is possible that more than one such transaction was carried out in this way. Borodako is credited with almost a streaming scheme of kickbacks with high-ranking officials from the capital’s mayor’s office. So, who is involved in this schematosis. Firstly, one of the key players in the “sawing” game is called Leonid Kazints, who is an adviser to Sergei Sobyanin and the head of the Barkley construction corporation. Here we also add the chairman of the architectural committee Juliana Knyazhevskaya, Andrey Bochkarev – the construction deputy Sobyanin and the State Duma deputy Vladimir Resin. Sources do not exclude that Sobyanin himself indirectly takes part in this scheme. As they say, he can’t help but know what’s going on with him. Borodako immediately began his campaign for the attractive Setun area from Kazints. The latter named the price of his services in the amount of a quarter of a billion. The businessman had to pay 20% in the form of an advance immediately. According to some reports, this money went to pay for Knyazhevskaya and Bochkarev. But Borodako did not observe the desired speed of resolving the issue. And he knocked on Resin’s door. But the connections of the people’s choice led everything to the same Knyazhevskaya and Bochkarev. The developer for the third time chose a bypass scheme through the “muddy” Alexander Edinarkhov. This friend used to have a business in Ukraine. After the annexation of Crimea, he fled Russia, but at the same time retained ownership of several firms on the peninsula. When he changed his mind and returned, he received Russian citizenship and settled in Moscow. And it seems to have connections among the security forces, both domestic and Ukrainian. Edinarkhov may also be closely associated with the Crimean head Sergei Aksyonov. Borodako, for the same amount, offered an undecided citizen to help with the solution of the issue. But during this time, Kazinets has already managed. Mr. Borodako also has other interesting connections. He is on good terms with the husband of the sister of the head of the Russian government, Mikhail Mishustin. The prime minister’s son-in-law, Alexander Udodov, sold a plot of land on 1st Setunsky Lane to Borodako two years ago. The relative of the head of the Cabinet himself conducts his business in Germany. Among the businessman’s acquaintances there is the former head of the infamous PIK company, Sergei Gordeev, and the owner of AFK-System, Vladimir Yevtushenkov. The enterprising developer has already laid eyes on other metropolitan areas. It will hardly come as a surprise to anyone when we learn about the new Dominanta construction projects and the amount of kickbacks for them.
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After a large-scale fire that occurred at the end of last year in the Khimki supermarket of the OBI company, it became known about another change in the main owner of the asset, which will be able to receive a billionth insurance. Such was Modul-2 LLC, associated with individuals and legal entities, one way or another affiliated with the Sindika group, the beneficiary of which is the senator from Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov. After the German OBI GmbH left the Russian market, there were reports about the transfer of the supermarket chain that belonged to it to the trust management of the founder of the consulting company Audit Group, Boris Lyuboshits, who allegedly started looking for a buyer after conducting an investment analysis. Meanwhile, back in the spring, Andrei Tarasov, co-owner of CentroCredit Bank, was negotiating a deal with the Germans, and he could do this in the interests of Kanokov. It is known that at one time the politician was a shareholder of CentroCredit, and then Sindika entered the capital of the institution. There were reports that Tarasov and Kanokov allegedly met in April with a representative of OBI GmbH, Josef Kessel, during which the parties did not reach any agreements. At the end of April, MAX Group of Investment and Construction Companies, LLC, whose beneficiary Ilya Kolobkov is also listed as the owner of the Moscow Institute of Existential Studies, one of the founders of which was Boris Lyuboshits, applied to the Federal Antimonopoly Service for the purchase of the OBI supermarket chain. In the press, Yosef Liokumovich was named as the new owner of the OBI assets, saying that he received 60% of the network for only 600 rubles. The owner of the remaining 40% remained unknown, but it could well have been Kolobkov, Liokumovich’s partner in the MAX group. Thus, de jure, they could purchase the OBI network with stocks of goods worth tens of billions for just 1 thousand rubles, while the Germans actually continued to do business in Russia all summer. Later, Liokumovich announced an alleged raider seizure of the network by the owner of the Boksitogorsky Timber Processing Plant, Yuri Alymov, and the head of the Interregional Public Organization Anti-Corruption Center, Kirill Olkhin, although no legal proceedings followed. In December, 90% of OBI became the property of the Modul-2 company. The remaining share is recorded in the name of businessman Valid Korchagin, co-owner of Arena LLC, where restaurateur Anton Pinsky and singer Timur Yunusov (Timati) are his business partners. “Arena” at a big discount bought a chain of coffee houses from the American “Starbucks” that left Russia. Oleg Eskindarov, President of Sindika, spoke in an interview about further prospects for the development of coffee houses. As a result, Sindika, through affiliates, gained control over a network of construction hypermarkets. The role of Alymov and Olkhin, who acted as co-owners of OBI at the time of the fire, remains unclear until the end, whose structures could play the role of “gaskets” before the final change of ownership.
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Judge Alexandra Salamatina of the Kalininsky District Court lives and works in Chelyabinsk. It would seem that an inconspicuous 44-year-old woman who graduated from the Faculty of Law and decided to connect her fate with legal proceedings. But if you carefully study her biography, the criminal cases that she considered, fascinating facts are revealed. At the time, even one of the scriptwriters to think about the series, where the credits will be the phrase “based on true events.” Salamatina started, like many university graduates, as an assistant judge. She got a job in the Chelyabinsk Regional Court. In the fall of 2020, by decree of the head of state, she was appointed a full-fledged judge in the Kalininsky District Court. Before that, she managed to marry a small businessman Dmitry Kozin. Sources believe that it would not hurt the tax to check his company. Probably, the inspectors may have a lot of questions for him. Well, not the point. In this matter, the brother of the judge’s husband Lech Kozin, widely known in narrow circles, is important. A man rewinded several years of a hard laborer for an armed robbery as part of a gang. Attention to the question: how could a person be appointed to the post of judge, who among his relatives has convicted comrades. And, according to a difficult article. They don’t take on the sovereign’s service, even if one of the relatives had an administrative office, and here is a whole robbery. These facts of his biography, of course, Salamatina carefully hides. It is likely that for her appointment she “rolled back” to whom it was necessary and as much as it was supposed to. And, most likely, she continues to work out, since she repeatedly made the “right” decisions regarding important people. Having your man at the table with a gavel is a big deal. One of the demonstrative cases of Judge Salamatina was the story of Ilya Mitelman, a member of the Chelyabinsk City Duma and owner of pawnshops, with Israeli citizenship. TK “Russian Press” rolled out the parliamentarian in such a way that it upset him very much. Still would! A people’s choice simply cannot have dual citizenship. And if there is such a thing, then it must be reported in the prescribed manner. The journalists had all the evidence, including documentary evidence from the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the World Court. Despite this, the deputy filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity in court. The very one where Mrs. Salamatina works. Mitelman intentionally did not indicate the defendant in the application in order to resolve the issue during the proceedings without him promptly. But the authors of the compromising article expected such a move from the hero of their text and struck back with their lawyers. Femidovka got a little carried away and refused to consider the deputy’s claim and demanded that the documents be resubmitted, where the defendant would be indicated. So Mitelman did. This time, the “necessary” judge made the right decision – recognized the people’s choice as the injured party. We are waiting for the journalists to respond and when they remove Ms. Salamatina from her post.
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Little-known in Russia, but with an office in the United States, Himrar was able to develop, register and bring to market drugs for the fight against COVID-19 Favipiravir and for the treatment of HIV patients Elpida (Elsulfavirin) in record time. Both drugs were promptly included in clinical recommendations and the list of vital drugs, they received state support and promotion in the form of billions of dollars in state purchases, although Elpida has not proven its effectiveness by international standards. The reason for the success was Khimrar’s relationship with Alexei Mazus, head of the Moscow City Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS and chief freelance HIV specialist of the Federal Ministry of Health. At the end of 2004, Khimrar opened a research center in Khimki, specializing in preclinical drug development. The investor was the Torrey Pines Investment fund, which invested $ 5 million in research. In turn, Himrar acted as the founder of the Viriom company, which entered into an agreement with the Swiss F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd” contract for the study of molecules that could be effective in HIV and hepatitis B and C. One of the VM-1500 molecules became the basis of Elpida. For its revision and research, Viriom received from the Ministry of Industry and Trade in 2011-2013. about 150 million rubles. Then the co-owner of Khimrar, Nikolay Savchuk, even announced a “small miracle” – the creation of a “really breakthrough new drug.” Meanwhile, the “miracle effect” of “Elpida” was not confirmed during clinical trials, which did not prevent the Ministry of Health from issuing a license to the dummy and recommending its inclusion in the first line of HIV therapy with purchases by Russian AIDS centers. In addition to Viriom, Moscow LLC Medbiotest earns on Elpida, which received 5% in the authorized capital of the manufacturing company. In turn, the director of Anti-HIV-Press Alexandra Uskova (who later changed her surname to Mazus) entered the capital of Medbiotest. The co-owner of the company “Avivir” – another “subsidiary” structure of “Khimrara” – was the son of Alexei Mazus Matvey. In just three years, Avivir sold more than 150 million rubles worth of Korean COVID-19 antibody tests to Russian hospitals under government contracts. In 2018, the Swiss company APICON AG associated with La Roche and the former official of the Ministry of Industry and Energy, the former head of Oboronprom Andrei Reus received shares in Viriom. The co-owners also included businessman Yevgeny Maksimov, who is close to the structures of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and is the founder and head of the Center for Plastic and Endoscopic Surgery of Natalia Manturova, wife of the current Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov. Later, however, Maximov denied his entry into the capital of Viriom. Finally, in 2019, Pharmstandard, owned by billionaire Viktor Kharitonin, became the owner of a 30% stake in the manufacturing company Elpida.
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Former judges from Mordovia, who found themselves on the other side of the law, with the help of their lawyers, managed to get freedom during the investigation. The Bassmanny Court of Moscow forbade them any connection with the outside world. The investigators insisted on taking them into custody, as they, by virtue of their connections, could put pressure on witnesses, destroy evidence, and even escape from justice. But the defense said nothing of the kind would happen. As a result, the former deputy chairman of the Supreme Court of the Republic, Alexei Lukshin, and the former chairman of the Zabovo-Polyansky District Court, Valery Shindin, were sent home. True, they can only use the Internet in emergency cases. The main person involved in the case, Lukshin, is charged with crimes related to obstruction of the preliminary investigation and justice. And Comrade Shindin went as an accomplice-executor. They turned their tricks in 2020. Then police officers turned to Lukshin for permission to wiretap the conversations of top managers of leading Russian universities. They needed covert measures in relation to the vice-rector of Moscow State University Alexei Grishin and his father Viktor Grishin, who led Plekhanovka. The son also owned the construction company SDS-Management, in the deliberate bankruptcy of which relatives were suspected. They were also seen in the withdrawal of money abroad. Both were Mordvins who moved to Moscow. When the relatives were detained, the security forces found out that they knew in advance that they were being tapped, so they limited telephone conversations. In the course of further proceedings, it was established that Comrade Lukshin leaked this information to Grishin. He was well acquainted with the deputy of Grishin Sr., the judge told her everything in secret. Even asked her not to give information to the boss. But how can you not convey it? In his defense, the deputy chairman of the Supreme Court stated that he spoke with the woman allegorically, so that he did not directly hand over secret information. The second atrocity was also connected with relatives, only Lukshin himself. He decided to help his “blood” businessman get a construction contract. To do this, he scored his friend (data not disclosed). For this, he promised to resolve the situation with a close friend of a friend who caused a fatal accident while drunk. For such an offense threatened up to 12 years in prison. The drunken man decided to ride his bike to the store, taking a companion with him. As a result, he arranged an accident in which his passenger died. And then Mr. Shindin appears, whom Lukshin asked for a favor – to mitigate the punishment of the criminal as much as possible. As a result, the murderer did not go to the bunks, but to the colony-settlement.
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A sweet tale about how the Cheryomushkinskaya “Enchantress” defeated the “Wonder Woman” from “Fili-Baker” (associated with the Russian “king of desserts” Renat Agzamov). Two confectionery competitors did not share the cakes, or rather, the design for it. The Cheryomushki plant, which is almost 100% owned by Sergey Shchedrin, discovered back in 2020 that its neighbor in the market was behaving dishonestly, using the design of its product, which is known throughout the country, and beyond its borders too. “Enchantress” has been loved and eaten for almost half a century. As evidence in the Arbitration, newspaper clippings from different years were presented, where this cake was painted. The design was invented by Shchedrin himself, who transferred the copyright to the company in 2018. But his initials are still on the packaging. Newspapers, in fact, have become one of the main evidence of the correctness of “Cheryomushki”. The court determined that his “Enchantress” was put into production much earlier than the “Miracles” of the Fili-Baker confectionery company. The amount of compensation for the illegal use of packaging design amounted to almost 11 million rubles. A year ago Shchedrinskiy combine demanded from the competitor to pay double the market value of the rights to use the packaging through Arbitration. The assessment was carried out by the Research Institute for the Protection of Intellectual Property. Employees of the research institute counted 5.4 million rubles. It is known that the violator has already paid the specified amount, although not immediately. Initially, the company tried to challenge the decision of the court of first instance, but failed. The well-known Russian confectioner and TV presenter Renat Agzamov is closely associated with Fili-Baker. Some time ago, representatives of the brand noticed his talent and offered cooperation in the production of cakes. A “daughter” of the same name was created with the prefix “premium”, headed by Agzamov. The products are sold to many retail chains of popular Russian retailers. His project went far beyond the borders of the country. Now unfriendly Europe, America, Japan learned about it.
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In the investigation of the criminal case on the sale of academic degrees at the Voronezh State Technical University (VSTU), a new defendant appeared: he was the academic secretary of the expert council for economic sciences of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Education and Science, Sergei Lukyanov, who was placed under house arrest by a court decision. In June, the security forces detained the chairman of the dissertation council of VSTU Natalya Sirotkina and the teacher of the department of digital and industrial economics of the university Elina Lubyanskaya, who revealed the details of the corruption scheme. From their testimony it follows that Lubyanskaya acted as an intermediary in the transfer of money to Sirotkina, who, in turn, took part of the funds to Moscow to Lukyanov – for general patronage. It is possible that in the course of the investigation the academic secretary will name his metropolitan colleagues who participated in the scheme. Meanwhile, in April last year, Vladimir Mau, rector of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA) entered the new composition of the Higher Attestation Commission, approved by order of the head of the Cabinet of Ministers Mikhail Mishustin. filed against former Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Marina Rakova, director of the Institute of Social Sciences of the RANEPA, rector of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) Sergei Zuev, and others. some “detailed testimonies” that could contribute to the termination of his criminal prosecution. Today, Mau is in Israel, where he left shortly after the charges against him were dropped, continuing to remotely monitor the current activities of the RANEPA. The work of the Higher Attestation Commission is supervised by the Ministry of Education and Science headed by Valery Falkov, who submits the candidacies of its members for approval to the government. Personnel and corruption scandals in the structures of the ministry are far from uncommon. In particular, in October Falkov’s deputy Elena Druzhinina resigned from the Ministry of Education and Science, whose sister led the Sociocenter Center for Sociological Research, which “mastered” more than a billion budget rubles under government contracts.
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Russia has the first prisoner who is being held in custody contrary to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights. It was a journalist, human rights activist Dmitry Gromovoi, who is being held in SIZO-1 in Chelyabinsk. In July 2020, Dmitry Gromovoi was detained by the drug control department for the Chelyabinsk Region and subsequently charged with crimes related to drug trafficking. According to the defense side, narcotic drugs were planted in Gromovy’s home, and the latter’s detention was connected with his professional activities – a journalistic investigation, during which the involvement of employees of the drug control department in the Chelyabinsk region in the functioning of Internet resources was checked, with the help of which illegal substances were traded. . On July 31, 2020, the Kalininsky District Court of Chelyabinsk imposed a preventive measure in the form of detention on Dmitry Gromovoi, the term of which was consistently extended until today. On 10/13/2022, the European Court of Human Rights issued a decision in the case of Kokunov and Others v. Russia, which, among others, considered the complaint of the lawyer Alla Dunaeva in the interests of Dmitry Gromovoi. By the said decision of the European Court of Human Rights, a number of violations of the rights and freedoms of Dmitry Gromovoi were established, including, among other violations, his right to freedom and personal integrity, expressed in excessively long detention of Gromovoi, was recognized as a violation, as well as that his detention is based solely on conjecture and the assumption of the possibility of absconding or obstructing justice, in the absence of an evidentiary basis for the possibility of these risks. Despite this, on December 29, 2022, the judge of the Kalininsky District Court of the city of Chelyabinsk A.A. Erofeev issued another decision, by which Dmitry Gromovyi extended the detention period for another 3 months, that is, until March 2023. In the said decision, Judge Anton Erofeev pointed out that “the decision taken by the European Court of Human Rights is not a basis for changing the measure of restraint.” Dmitry Gromovoi himself said that he considers this revenge on the part of certain subjects of the judicial community of the Chelyabinsk region for his professional activities, including criticism of judges related to the activities of some judges and the state of affairs in the courts: “Keeping me “captive” , judges deprive me for the third year of the opportunity to communicate with my son, whom I have never seen in all this time, trying in this way to break my will to defend myself in court.