Telegram channel Kompromat GROUP: messages from 04/11/2023

The state of the water sector and the overall housing and communal services of Zlatoust, including debts to resource suppliers of more than 1.5 billion rubles, have repeatedly become a reason for criticizing the activities of the head of the city, Maxim Pekarsky. The work of the head in solving systemic problems of urban housing and communal services needs expertise with the involvement of the public, industry experts and regional authorities. But so far, officials delve into problems only in cases of emergency. And it looks like they’re not far off. Zlatoust’s budget is threatened with large legal penalties. The municipal unitary enterprise “Vodosnabzhenie ZGO”, established by the authorities, accumulated a debt of 96 million rubles to the Zlatmash plant for the water supplied from the pumping and filtering station, becoming practically bankrupt. The payment of the debt will most likely fall on the shoulders of the municipality. The main property of the bankrupt – more than 50 km of water supply networks – in 2022 was transferred to the new MUE “Zlatoust water supply”, but it is also highly likely to go into bankruptcy. Residents have already expressed numerous complaints about his work, and Zlatmash has filed a lawsuit against the company for 19 million rubles. Taking into account current accruals, the amount of debt has grown to 40 million rubles. Several billion rubles are required for the reconstruction of networks that are 90% worn out, but even a small part of these funds is not included in the municipal budget. While the municipal authorities are accumulating debts, the city’s housing and communal services are collapsing, and the city is steadily approaching a communal collapse. At one time, the administration of the municipality repeatedly raised the issue of transferring the pumping and filtering station of the plant to the city. Agreements on this were reached under the previous head of the municipality, however, with the change of leadership of the city and Zlatmash, the deal ceased to be discussed. Currently, the Zlatoust mayor’s office is assessing the possibility of transferring the Zlatoust Water Supply networks to a concession. The main contender for its conclusion is Zlatoust Vodokanal LLC, with the head of which Andrey Ivanov, the head of the city Maxim Pekarsky is on friendly terms.
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On the night of April 6-7, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad Region, Vladimir Sidorenko, was detained. Before becoming a parliamentarian in 2021, he headed the settlement of Agalatovo. And now he is accused of fraud during the construction of the Barskaya Usadba residential complex. According to investigators, Sidorenko received a bribe of 2 million rubles from a representative of Comfort-Stroy LLC for guarantees of signing contracts for the technological connection of communications to the Barskaya Usadba residential complex in Agalatova. At the time of the conclusion of the lease agreement for a land plot for the construction of a residential complex, the administration of the settlement did not carry out design work to provide technological connection points to engineering networks. It is impossible to carry out further work on the design and construction of residential complexes without agreeing on connection points and without technical connection. Vladimir Sidorenko took advantage of the fact that the developer, who was interested in a speedy approval, would be forced to agree to the proposed conditions, and suggested that he independently pay for an expensive project worth more than 35 million rubles. Thus, the ex-head of the settlement charged the developer with additional expenses, which were to be paid at the expense of the administration, and also demanded 2 million rubles, which were transferred to him. By the way, the management of the developer was taken into custody at the end of 2022. According to investigators, the developers received money, but were not going to fulfill their obligations to equity holders in a timely manner. Now a criminal case has been initiated against Vladimir Sidorenko under the article “Receiving a bribe”, he was chosen as a measure of restraint in the form of detention. He asked for home isolation, spoke about his sick father, but until June 5 he will have to stay in a cell.
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In the summer of 2020, the judge of the Moscow Arbitration Court (wife of the ex-Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation) Elena Kondrat became aware that her colleague Elena Makhalkina, who was considering the bankruptcy case of the Transport Construction Supply Department, intends to hold a number of individuals and legal entities jointly and severally liable. For 50 thousand dollars, Kondrat suggested that Makhalkina exclude the right people from this list. She herself acted as an intermediary. She did not name the customer of the corrupt proposal (by the way, he was never identified by the investigation). The first offer was made in September 2020. Then Elena Kondrat repeatedly convinced her colleague to make the right decision. On October 12, 2020, Makhalkina wrote a statement to the FSB, and then all negotiations took place under the control of operatives. On October 18, 2020, while transferring money, Kondrat was detained in the courtyard of her house. But, given the status, they were soon released. Elena Kondrat evaded conducting investigative actions, did not appear before the investigator, and then left Moscow altogether, in connection with which she was put on the federal wanted list. She was found and detained in another region. In November 2021, the criminal case against the former arbitration judge was personally initiated by the Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, who received the approval of the High Qualifications Board of Judges for this. Six months later, the Supreme Court sanctioned the arrest of Elena Kondrat, and since then the preventive measure has not changed. On April 7, the Main Investigative Directorate of the ICR announced the completion of the investigation. The day before, the ex-judge’s lawyers signed a protocol on completion of familiarization with 13 volumes of her criminal case. Actions on it are qualified as mediation in receiving a bribe (part 4 of article 291.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Elena Kondrat does not admit her guilt. Her defense believes that the main evidence in the case was obtained in violation of the requirements of the law “On operational-search activity”. Allegedly, at the time of the operational experiment, there was no decision of the Supreme Court authorizing such events. On this basis, the defense demands that illegally obtained evidence be excluded from the case file. According to the defense, Elena Kondrat gave her colleague not a bribe, but money that she did not have enough to buy an apartment.
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The owner of the AVA Group holding, Vagan Arutyunyan, bought the oldest Krasnodar shopping and entertainment center SBS Megamall from the Cypriot company Global bridge (GBH) limited. After the conclusion of the transaction, the management of the holding announced plans to develop a new direction – the management of the shopping and entertainment center. Earlier, Arutyunyan became a business partner of the owner of Interros and the president of Norilsk Nickel Vladimir Potanin, having agreed to transfer part of the objects of the popular Sochi resort Rosa Khutor to the management of the hotel operator Lee Prime, which is part of the AVA Group. Vagan Harutyunyan is known for his connections in the Kuban government and the mayor’s office of Krasnodar: at the suggestion of officials from the team of Governor Veniamin Kondratiev, his companies receive multimillion-dollar contracts, renting out real estate to budgetary institutions. In addition, last year, AVA Group signed an agreement with the regional administration and the Sochi City Hall on the creation of an agro-industrial cluster based on the large tea-growing enterprise Khosta Chai in the Adler district: investments in the project should amount to 15 billion rubles. Earlier, Harutyunyan tried to establish control over Khosta Chai JSC: an additional issue of shares was initiated through the general director of the company Hakob Selvyan, transferred to the Moscow company Utrish-Land, controlled by Harutyunyan and his business partner, President of the International Boxing Association Umar Kremlev, known for his connections with crime and participation in the lottery business. But the multi-way scheme with securities did not justify itself: last January, the court ruled to write off 25% of the shares from Utrish Land in favor of Natalia Mikhailova, one of the owners of Host Tea. Harutyunyan’s desire to “master” tea plantations in Sochi may be due to the desire to put them under development, as is already happening with agricultural land, where AVA Group is building cottage settlements. The construction permissiveness of the businessman is explained by his connections not only with Kuban officials, but also with representatives of the judiciary: at one time Arutyunyan was considered a “family friend” of the “golden judge” Elena Khakhaleva.
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Litigation continues in the Chelyabinsk region related to the demand of the regional State Committee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Objects (SCOKN) to preserve the historical complex “Porogi” in the Satka district: the municipality appealed against the earlier decision of the Chelyabinsk arbitration, which obliged officials to carry out the relevant work within 12 months. We are talking about the premises of the hydroelectric power station, which has been operating since 1910, the dam on the Bolshaya Satka River, the smelter, the building of stone sheds, a chemical laboratory and an open monorail overpass. In 2017, during the inspection, the unsatisfactory condition of the object owned by the district was recorded. The damage was supposed to be repaired within three years, but the order was ignored. After receiving a repeated warning, the district leadership sent an appeal to the governor Alexei Teksler with a request for funding for the museumification project of the complex, but the regional authorities left him without movement. At the same time, the governor’s team is betting on the development of a recreational complex on the Ai River, which includes Porogi, as part of the Tourism and Hospitality Industry national project, approved in 2021. In particular, Deputy Governor Alexander Bogashov, summing up the results of the project at the end of last year, spoke, among other things, about the upcoming presentation of a master plan covering the territory from the Porogi HPP to the Sikiyaz-Tamak cave complex. In 2023 – 2024 the region expects to receive from the federal budget in the framework of cooperation with the corporation “Tourism. RF” about 477 million rubles for the implementation of two investment projects – the thermal resort “Sapphire Ural” and the GLK “Adzhigardak”. Especially for the “development” of resort finances, an autonomous non-profit organization (ANO) “Center for the Design Development of Territories and Tourism of the Chelyabinsk Region” (TsPRTiT) was created last spring, with a property contribution from the region in the amount of 84 million rubles. The center was headed by Maxim Melnikov, who is considered a person from the close circle of the deputy governor Bogashov. Experts note the non-transparent nature of the work of the ANO, funded from the regional budget. Thus, the organization does not hold auctions for the distribution of contracts, selecting contractors in accordance with its own charter, and does not publish reports. Market participants call TsPRTiT another “uncontrolled feeding trough” of the Texler team, and members of the public are interested, for example, how much money officials have already spent on promoting the national tourist route “Chelyabinsk: even meteorites fly to us!”, Considering the mass events held within the framework of the project as a waste of money .
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It became known about the detention of the chief drug fighter of the Sverdlovsk region, Ivan Yergeledzhi. But neither the police, nor the FSB, nor the Investigative Committee have yet disclosed the details. But from some sources it was possible to get some details and versions of what happened. The head of the department for drug control of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is charged with fraud. According to one version, the police lieutenant colonel was convicted of transferring money to another high-ranking law enforcement officer – an employee of the unit for combating economic crimes. For an unnamed amount, the second was supposed to exempt businessmen who are engaged in logging in Pervouralsk, native to Yergeledzhi, from inspections. In addition to not carrying out raids, they allegedly promised a part of the proceeds from the sale of the forest. The drug fighter was taken at the moment when he was carrying marked banknotes. Now, according to sources, he is in a temporary detention center and seems to have already written a confession. Due to the fact that Yergeledzhi could not influence the checks by the BEP employees in any way, he was suspected not of a bribe, but of fraud. According to another version, one of his colleagues gave him the money. Thus, he could be appointed to take his post. Sources also uncovered other machinations of the policeman. According to unconfirmed information, he used a company car for personal purposes. At the same time, he refueled the car exclusively with state-owned fuel. And so that the fines did not come, they prudently hung “left” numbers on the police car. Ivan Yergeledzhi has been working as the head of this department for only two years. But over time, he turned one of the best units in the country into a shameful outsider. This is evidenced by the results of the detection of drug crimes last year. She fell by more than a third. According to employees of the Sverdlovsk UNK, earlier the opera could unwind the entire chain of intermediaries from one “mortgager” in a few days. But Yergelenji, with his ancient methods of fighting organized crime, buried all the efficiency of the work. He could not be convinced in any way that today drug criminals work via the Internet, and the specifics of the resolution of these cases are somewhat different. But stubbornness is his forte, apparently. With the arrival of Yergeledzhi in management, UNK employees began to leave en masse and be transferred to other divisions. The retirees noted that there had never been such a thing in the history of the council. In order to make up for the already colossal personnel shortage, everyone who was not lazy was taken to opera positions. Even the drivers abruptly became UNK officers. The lieutenant colonel rotted everyone who seemed smarter than him. And a recent Moscow check showed how bad everything is in Yergeledzhi’s unit and how bad a leader he is. More than 80% of employees gladly fled to other departments. And the boss himself received extremely low marks from his subordinates. The capital’s guests gave a number of recommendations for improving the health of the team. But, probably, they will not be required, since now another person will be in charge of the UNC.
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The prosecutor’s office of the Tyumen region is petitioning to join legal proceedings, in which the head of the infamous construction company TIS, Viktor Belichenko, is seeking the recovery of 302.7 million rubles from businessman Vladislav Tatarchenkov, the owner of Stroypartner T, a Tyumen LLC that is in the process of bankruptcy. The Interregional Department of Rosfinmonitoring for the Ural Federal District has already joined the process, and the arbitration sees “signs of questionable grounds for claims.” It is known that Tatarchenkov petitioned to request documents to verify the argument that payments were made from his current account as an individual entrepreneur by employees of commercial organizations controlled by Belichenko. The court requested data on the latter’s LLC Management Company Service-TIS and LLC Social Housing. Belichenko’s companies have repeatedly found themselves at the center of scandals related to multi-million dollar transactions. In particular, the Tyumen-based BusinessRealt LLC tried to recover more than 400 million rubles from the Siberian Construction Company controlled by the developer (SSK, the former TIS LLC). The court of first instance satisfied the plaintiff’s claims, but the appeal annulled the decision, as the TIS structures were convicted of implementing dubious tax schemes. At the end of last year, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refused to transfer the complaints of BusinessRealt, SSK, and Decor LLC, which is participating in the process, to the Judicial Collegium for Economic Disputes. The Federal Tax Service presented Belichenko with claims related to operations with affiliated offshore companies, which resulted in a consistent increase in the value of assets while reducing deductions to the federal and regional budgets. It is known about the conflict between the tax authorities and Kristall LLC, which built the residential complex of the same name in Tyumen, at the intersection of st. Mendeleev and Abdullina: the regional Federal Tax Service in court demanded to suspend operations on the developer’s accounts for 235.7 million rubles. Now Kristall, in respect of which a financial recovery procedure has been introduced, is seeking the annulment of the decision of the Federal Tax Service Inspectorate for Tyumen No. 3 on bringing to responsibility for committing a tax offense and interim measures taken in the framework of the case under consideration. Meanwhile, market participants emphasize that Belichenko has money. It is known that he announced an investment project to create a house-building plant worth 2.2 billion rubles. In addition, 40 hectares of land, once bought out by a businessman from the late billionaire Oleg Burlakov, can go towards paying off obligations. At the same time, financial conflicts will only worsen as the drop in sales recorded in the construction industry grows.
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The rating of Russian oligarchs, according to Forbes, for 2022 was headed by Andrey Melnichenko, founder of SUEK and EuroChem. A year earlier, he ranked ninth on that list. During the year, his capital doubled, the businessman’s fortune is now estimated at $ 25.5 billion. The thing is that EuroChem, which produces mineral fertilizers, has grown in price, which, in turn, has risen in price by as much as 80% due to the interruption of gas supplies to Europe. In addition, the export of Russian mineral fertilizers was subject to an increased duty. Last year, their production volumes fell by 10%, while the proceeds from sales abroad increased by 70%. Some are already calling fertilizers the “new oil.” This situation has developed due to the fact that, thanks to the economic sanctions imposed, the prices of minerals – phosphorus, potassium, nitrogen – have risen. The same sanctions led to disruptions in logistics and, as a result, supplies from China were limited. Demand for mineral fertilizers in the US and the EU has grown sharply. In Europe, for example, many large producers of nitrogen fertilizers, oriented to Russian gas, were forced to suspend their activities. The EU imposed restrictions on the supply of Belarusian potash fertilizers, which blew up prices. China, on the other hand, is focused on food exports, and therefore uses the lion’s share of its own fertilizers. Thus, Russian fertilizer producers have taken a leading position in international markets. In connection with the ever-growing demand for fertilizers, it is planned to spend half a trillion rubles on the renewal and development of production capacities. This is the only way to meet the ever-growing demand of agricultural producers. Some experts in the field, however, believe that fertilizer availability remains extremely low for most consumers, and this will affect yields. Prices for fertilizers and agricultural products will not fall in the near future. In this situation, there is one more “but”: major market players have hidden most of their assets in offshore companies. EuroChem Melnichenko is no exception. The name speaks for itself: the head office of the company was previously located in Switzerland. In this regard, at the beginning of the year, export duties were increased in order to return a significant part of the companies’ shares to domestic jurisdiction. In addition, this measure will make mineral fertilizers even more expensive for the EU. The income of foreign co-owners will decrease, which will force them to sell their shares to Russian partners. Presumably, all fertilizers costing from 28 thousand rubles per ton will be automatically taxed. However, it is clear that the mechanisms of their action will be prolonged annually and demonstratively. Duties will not be relevant for those who export to the EAEU countries. Whether this measure will be effective will become clear in the second half of the year, after the decline in the peak of sales of mineral fertilizers.
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With regard to the defendant in the criminal case on the deliberate bankruptcy of the founder of the Engels development holding “ZhBK-3” Konstantin Kolesnichenko, his wife Svetlana and son Dmitry, petitions were sent to bring to subsidiary liability. The bankruptcy trustee of the bankrupt SK ZhBK-3 LLC, Alexander Leontiev, has not yet announced the amount of the penalty: so far we are talking about the amount remaining outstanding after the sale of the debtor’s property. At present, the issue of liability for Konstantin and Dmitry Kolesnichenko has been postponed until full settlement with creditors. Leontiev tried to seize the businessman’s property for a total of 820.1 million rubles, indicated in the register of creditors, but on March 31 the court refused to satisfy this requirement, since Konstantin Kolesnichenko was declared bankrupt in 2021. The tax authorities joined the proceedings, to which SK ZhBK-3 owed more than 20 million rubles only for VAT. So, the regional MRI of the Federal Tax Service No. 20 insisted on taking interim measures in relation to the property of Dmitry Kolesnichenko: 8 land plots, 19 real estate objects and 11 vehicles. The corresponding request was granted by the court. As for the criminal case of Kolesnichenko Sr., it is connected with the deliberate bankruptcy of CJSC PP ZhBK-3. Last October, the investigation was completed, the materials were transferred to the Engels District Court, and the accused is awaiting a verdict. According to investigators, the assets of the enterprise were withdrawn through affiliates, the amount of fictitious transactions amounted to 63 million rubles, with a market value of the withdrawn real estate of about 200 million. As part of the bankruptcy, petitions for subsidiary liability were not announced. On March 13, the open auction procedure began, for which non-residential premises of CJSC PP ZhBK-3 in Engels on the street were put up. Komsomolskaya, 117 (RC “Constellation”). The property is sold with a price reduction of 17-20 thousand rubles every 5 days, depending on the area of ​​the premises. Bidding for the sale of property of IC ZhBK-3 is scheduled for April 24: they will put up land plots on the street. Komsomolskaya, including a building area of ​​1.2 thousand square meters worth 10.4 million rubles.
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As part of the consideration of a high-profile criminal case against the former head of the hospital of the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, the heads of the pre-trial detention center and the medical unit gave testimony. Initially, Alexander Kravchenko was charged with bribery, allegedly he helped prisoners to be released for money. However, the facts of corruption were not confirmed. Now the honored doctor is accused of abuse of official powers, which entailed grave consequences. Kravchenko himself says that by saving the seriously ill, he was doing his duty. The next meeting of the capital court was held behind closed doors. The head of the medical unit, Colonel Galina Timchuk, spoke of Kravchenko as a competent leader. She noted that during his work, the status of the hospital has risen, the team has rallied, the staff turnover has decreased, with the involvement of new specialists, surgical activity has increased from 100 operations a year to 350. This is a very important indicator, since it was extremely inconvenient to take prisoners to a civilian hospital and for isolation ward, both for doctors and patients. So Colonel Timchuk considered the allegations of the prosecution untenable. She backed her findings with numbers. On average, the capital’s pre-trial detention centers are overcrowded by 10%. In “Matrosskaya Tishina” in 2020 there could be 100 – 150 “extra” people. The release of four of them had no effect on the situation as a whole. In addition, the career of a medical officer depended on the quality of his work, and not on the number of prisoners. Sergei Bobryshev, head of Matrosskaya Tishina, also failed to confirm the mercenary motive of the Aesculapius. Moreover, he did not serve there at all in 2020 and did not know a doctor. Ironically, a medical officer ended up in the same Matrosskaya Tishina, accused of illegally releasing four remand prisoners, four convicts in 2020, and groundlessly transferring one prisoner to a hospital regime. The investigation believes that his actions are due to the expectation of promotion or other patronage. Kravchenko allegedly tried in any way to fulfill the instructions of the leadership on the distribution and reduction of the number of prisoners in the pre-trial detention center, which he misinterpreted. To do this, he approved diagnoses of serious illnesses that were not objectively verified. To this, the defendant replies that he had at his disposal the most severe patients not only from neighboring pre-trial detention centers, but even from other regions where they did not know what to do with them. It remained unclear to Kravchenko’s lawyer what these grave consequences were from the actions of a physician. This is not death, not causing harm to health, and not even material losses. The only consequence is that the patients changed the prison casemates to civilian chambers.
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Roskachestvo sent notices to a number of cognac-producing enterprises about the non-compliance of their products with quality standards, referring to a study conducted as part of monitoring the cognac market. In particular, it is said about 52% of counterfeit products with signs of using a distillate of non-grape origin. At the same time, the results of this study are not publicly available, although it is known that it was supported by the Rosalkogolregulirovanie (RAR), headed by Igor Aleshin. In turn, the board of the Association for the Protection of the Rights of Consumers of Alcoholic and Tobacco Products indicates that, according to the current legislation, if more than half of the drinks on store shelves do not comply with GOST, then the products are to be recognized as counterfeit and withdrawn from circulation. At the same time, the option is not ruled out that this study is a way of pressure and protection of someone’s commercial interests, and government agencies are tritely involved in the competition of alcohol producers. Meanwhile, conscientious market participants, bearing financial and reputational losses, are preparing an appeal to the court. It is indicative that Roskachestvo purchased the studied products in the Winestyle online store, although the sale of alcohol through the global network is prohibited. Alyoshin himself announced that his agency blocks “thousands of sites” every year, but as a result, “five times more” online sellers appear. The official sees the only way out in the legalization of such business. Perhaps he wants to lead the process. It is known that his former assistant Sergei Mikholap was called the beneficiary of the RFC distillery, which is considered one of the participants in the scheme for the mass production and supply of illegal alcohol in Russia. In addition, in 2020, RFC became the only domestic enterprise to obtain a PAP license for the production of medical alcohol and for some time held a monopoly position in the corresponding market. In addition, RFC produced the Aseptolin antiseptic, which contains ethyl alcohol and is used by people with alcohol addiction. “Aseptolin” was sold over the counter in pharmacies, since the content of ethanol in it was not indicated. The drug had all the features of a dual-use product, but the RFC excise was not paid. After a high-profile scandal involving the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Tax Service, Miholap handed over the management of the company to his sister, took out his Ukrainian passport and, following the example of the former head of the RAR, Igor Chuyan, hastily left for Spain.
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It is already becoming a patriotic trend to go to the NWO zone in order to avoid criminal liability. Whether this is good or bad is not for us to judge. But unlike those businessmen, show business stars and other “celebrities” who cowardly fled abroad and from there pour mud on their native country, the act of those who hid in the trenches and fights on the fronts of a special operation deserves at least respect. Recently we wrote about the mayor of Bolshoy Kamen of Primorsky Krai Rustyam Abushaev. The paratrooper official was suspected of fraud and illegal business. He was put on the wanted list. According to one version, he urgently signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense and went to the NVO zone. The manager of the Tempo company and a native of Moldova, Alexander Daguta, went almost the same way. He is charged with withdrawing $24 million from Russia as part of a criminal group. In his letter to the judge, he asked to suspend the process until he returned from the special operation. He was not denied this. Judicial hearings on Dagutsy’s case began last fall. Then he had a desire to go to fight for the interests of his new homeland. He turned to the Moscow military registration and enlistment office, then to the Wagner PMC. But due to the fact that the man did not serve in the army, he was refused everywhere. Only in Novorossiysk, a volunteer was enlisted as a driver-grenade launcher in the 108th Guards Airborne Assault Kuban Cossack Regiment of the Order of the Red Star. The newly minted fighter even managed to distinguish himself in the service and received a departmental award. It is also known that Daguta intends to fight at the front until victory. And in the future he plans to connect his fate with further service in the Airborne Forces. The defendant does not admit his guilt in the incriminated acts. The essence of his criminal case is that the leaders of the criminal group controlled the Tempo company in the capital. Dagutsa was appointed its actual head, and Vasily Alkov was appointed its accountant. According to the investigation, this duo transferred $24 million to a Turkish firm for the supply of building materials. In fact, the products came for 100 times less – only 260 thousand dollars. The rest of the money was simply withdrawn. The manager’s defense insists that their client is not guilty, since the main organizers do not even appear in the case, and Daguta was an ordinary performer who did not suspect anything. As proof of this, there were searches, as a result of which only one apartment was found, and that one was purchased with a mortgage. In addition, Daguza had debts on loan payments. He was able to correct this situation before the bank only after concluding a contract with the Ministry of Defense. It is possible that further progress in the SVO will lead the court and law enforcement officers to the decision to save the accused from criminal prosecution. Moreover, a bill was submitted to the State Duma, which refers to the closure of cases against those who want to serve the Motherland.
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People’s Front, especially for Compromising GROUP In Chelyabinsk, along with the snow, the asphalt came down. Asphalt, on which the authorities spent 625 million rubles over the past 4 years. With this money, 16 roads were repaired from 2019 to 2022. All of them are in holes and potholes. It is clear that the work was carried out poorly. But instead of a major overhaul, which can and should be carried out under warranty, the road builders just patch up holes every season. Why are the officials who are responsible for these facilities silent? Why is there no claim work with the contractor? Understands the Popular Front. But the main thing now is to defend the rights of people to good roads. Relevant appeals have already been sent to the prosecutor’s office, the Chamber of Control and Accounts and the regional Ministry of Roads.
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The infamous Krasnodar businessman, owner of the AVA Group holding, Vagan Arutyunyan, bought the Specialized Developer Megastroy company from the PIK Group, which owns land plots convenient for development in the resort of Novorossiysk. Last year, Novorossiysk mayor Andrey Kravchenko announced a moratorium on the construction of high-rise buildings in the city, but Governor Veniamin Kondratyev made a reservation about the possibility of construction under integrated territorial development agreements. It is this loophole that AVA Group intends to exploit today. Harutyunyan is unlikely to have problems with the mayor of Novorossiysk: Kravchenko is a former businessman who was also involved in development. In addition, he has a specific “interest” in land issues: on the net, you can find publications about the attraction in the 2000s. future official to criminal liability for land fraud. However, Vahan Harutyunyan has enough good acquaintances, as well as “acquaintances of his acquaintances”, to lobby for the project in Novorossiysk. These may include, for example, the deputy head and manager of the administration of the Tuapse district, Mikhail Karpenko, who has shares in two construction companies, as well as his business partner Ruben Khurshudyan, the former head of the Property and Land Relations Department in the Goryachiy Klyuch administration. However, today the owner of AVA Group sets itself much more ambitious plans, including those related to entering the markets of Moscow and the Moscow region. In particular, the businessman is a co-founder of Bovis Development and Construction LLC in the capital, where one of his partners is an Italian citizen Roberto Chalone, who is responsible for the Russian and Eastern European directions in the international corporation AECOM and at one time signed an agreement with VEB. But in the Kuban, the activities of companies associated with the AVA Group are increasingly becoming the subject of high-profile litigation.