Telegram channel Kompromat GROUP: messages from 20.02.2023

Final annual collegiums in the GSU of the IC of Russia for the city of Moscow and at the GSU of the IC of Russia for the Moscow Region. On Friday, two collegiums were held on the same day based on the results of the work of the units of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for 2022 in the Moscow region. In Moscow, the event was held via videoconferencing (video conferencing) under the chairmanship of the head of the Glavka Andrey Strizhov, in the region in person under the leadership of Alexander Starikov. On Friday, making an announcement for this post, I wrote that it was interesting. This is true. And the most interesting within the framework of these boards was that they were two absolutely boring and actually meaningless in holding final meetings on the results of the work of departments over the past year. If we compare these events with similar ones in the system of the prosecutor’s office of Moscow and the Moscow region, in which the prosecutor of the capital Denis Popov, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Ponomarev (present only in the Moscow Region) and the prosecutor of the region Sergey Zabaturin in the respective subjects showed a firm position of leaders (especially Popov) and made the events distinctive from ordinary meetings, then in the UK everything went as usual and was not remembered by anything. But if this was expected from Andrey Strizhov, since in a number of districts his people work as leaders (NWAO – Alexey Pischulin; NWAO – Sergey Badulin) and people (almost everywhere, both in the apparatus and in districts) of the strongest clan of the Moscow Investigative Committee Saksin-Vazagov, everyone expected more from the region and Alexander Starikov. Now the details. In the GSU of Moscow, the collegium passed gently through the videoconferencing. Only the South Administrative District got it, but they just fell under a hot hand, as there was a “fly” just before the final meeting. There were no personnel decisions. Anatoly Kashirokov, the head of the Krasnogorsk city police department, got the most in the GSU MO (bad statistics due to a conflict with the local prosecutor) and the leadership of the Shchelkovo city police department and the Pushkino city police department flew in. In the positive dynamics of the SO in the city of Khimki (by the way, the documents for Alexei Tatarkin on the appointment of the head were sent to Central Asia) and, of course, the 2nd Directorate (Valery Ivarlak, although he is a master of sports in various intrigues and opportunistic wars, he knows how to work) . Also in the negative in MO and 1st management. Bad stats. According to Vitaly Chvanov, First Deputy Head of the Glavka, the division should pay more attention not to the quantity of submitted cases, but to the quality. In the meantime, while the collegium was going on and the whole country was preparing for Vladimir Putin’s Address to the Federal Assembly, the head of the 1st Department, Anton Serous, was resting in the Maldives and was not thinking about the indicators. He’s fine and all. But I know for sure that he is very worried about the recent publication of the Cheka-OGPU, which details how he collected “tribute” from controlled investigative departments, but at the same time respected the image of a patriot and even shaved the letter “Z” on his temples. The second half of February, which was difficult for Russia, Colonel of Justice Anton Valeryevich decided to wait out in an expensive hotel in the Maldives, enjoying the Indian Ocean and a good SPA. More interesting within the GSU of Moscow. The clan of Saksin-Vazagov continues to grow stronger. Their protégé, Kirill Menshov (head of the SU for the Southwestern Administrative District), will very likely soon become the deputy head of the entire Glavka (documents in Central Asia). Vitaly Saksin himself really wants either Strizhov to go somewhere or Starikov to be “shot down”. He has long-standing ambitions to lead a separate powerful unit. He remembered the positional loss (in 2021 Pavel Vymenets won in the fight for the position) with the non-appointment as the head of the Moscow Interregional Investigative Department for Transport, he remembered for a long time and wants to correct this misunderstanding either in Moscow or in the region. He did some work on the bugs.
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Billionaire Andrey Melnichenko owns a £10m home in central London, reports The Times. The businessman was forced to disclose this information due to a new UK law that obliges offshore companies to disclose their beneficiaries. Melnichenko owned a house on Eaton Place, not far from Buckingham Palace, through Valten Limited, a company registered in Bermuda. The company bought the mansion for £5.5 million in 2011, according to land records, and has almost doubled in value in 12 years. In March 2022, Melnichenko came under British sanctions.
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Timur Turlov’s Freedom Holding is acquiring American Investment Bank Maxim Group for $400 million, the company said in a statement. The deal will be financed by company funds and Nasdaq-listed shares. The Freedom Holding report notes that the purchase of Maxim Group will allow the company to “continue expansion in the US market.” On February 15, 2023, the Central Bank approved a deal to sell the Russian subsidiaries of Freedom Holding. Turlov will receive $140 million for the Russian business of the holding.
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The company of Russian billionaire Viktor Kharitonin bought the Kama plant, the only Russian manufacturer of coated cardboard, from Trust Bank for 36 billion rubles. Of the total amount of the transaction, 21 billion rubles is the company’s debt to Otkritie Bank.
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The Gazinkom company (co-founders – Gazprom Asset Management KSN LLC and Gazprom Invest Rgk LLC) sent an application to the Moscow Arbitration Court for the recovery of funds from Nauchny-6 LLC, a “subsidiary” structure of the bankrupt Energogaz LLC, which acted sub-general contractor for the Punginskoye UGS facility expansion project in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Details of the claims have not yet been disclosed. A number of major proceedings are already connected with Nauchny-6 and Energogaz. Thus, the court of cassation sent for a new consideration a dispute on bringing to subsidiary liability for the debts of Energogaz LLC Gazprom Tsentrremont, its former head, the current general director of VIS Group JSC Dmitry Doev, director of Elektrogaz JSC Alexander Karabanov and Alexander Psatia. In addition, Dmitry Doev will have to deal with the problems of Ecology-Novosibirsk LLC (part of the VIS group of billionaire Igor Snegurov), which recently lost its status as a waste management operator. Last January, the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Novosibirsk Region initiated a criminal case on fraud related to the company’s activities. In addition, the external manager of Ecology-Novosibirsk, Vladislav Baryaev, is seeking in court to bring to subsidiary liability for the obligations of the enterprise in the amount of about 900 million rubles a number of legal entities: LLC EcoTrans-N, LLC KPF, LLC PF VIS and JSC VIS Group. Alexander Bochkarev, who previously acted as a pledgee of shares in companies associated with Doev’s wife Anna Berkovich – New Technologies, Summa Technologies and Alibra Sever also appeared in the proceedings. At one time, Bochkarev was listed as the liquidator of Rk-Global LLC, one of whose participants was the VIS group, and also served as director of Selkhozprom LLC, associated with Gennady Launer, a member of the board of directors of PJSC Seligdar, who maintains close contacts with Doev and Snegurov. It is noteworthy that the Moscow-based company Evolution-Asset Management is taking the initiative to pay off the debts of Ecology-Novosibirsk. Its sole owner and CEO, Alexander Koshkin, also manages Ptidom LLC, whose beneficiaries include Gennady Launer and Konstantin Beyrit, another member of the board of directors of PJSC Seligdar, chairman of the board of directors of JSC Russian Funds. It is known that the structures of Beirit were directly related to the bankruptcy of Energogaz. Today, experts are talking about the possible manageable nature of the bankruptcy of Ecology-Novosibirsk, which involves Doev, Snegurov, Beirit and his Russian Funds.
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The echoes of the “Salavat Yulaev” hockey players who “mowed down” from the army also reached the wife of the ex-head of the draft commission of one of the military registration and enlistment offices of Ufa Konstantin Vyropaev Angelica. The court began hearings on her mediation in her husband’s bribes. According to investigators, in at least two episodes, at the request of her friends, she asked her husband to “resolve” the issue with the “slope”. The woman fully admitted her guilt and repented. She even stated that she was ashamed in front of her children. This, of course, is rarely seen in bribery cases. Perhaps these circumstances will soften the court. At least, even the state prosecutor turned to the minister of Themis with a request to cancel one episode, and for the second one to impose only a fine, but for a decent amount – 1.5 million rubles. The lawyer also said that for his client, such an amount would not be lifting, since she does not work anywhere, and there is no property to sell. Apparently, the husband did not take so much, since there was nothing left. Although, if you take a closer look, then indeed, Konstantin Vyropaev did not take money. Usually he was given season tickets for hockey matches or issued tour packages for foreign holidays. Recall that initially the former employee of the military registration and enlistment office was a witness in the case of “Yulaevsky” hockey players. It was established that Farit Samigullin was the intermediary between the players and those who helped to get a military ID without serving in the army. And the “excuse” was received by the forward of the club “Ugra” Vladislav Lukin and goalkeeper Anvar Suleimanov. The first received a fine of more than 2 million rubles, the second – a conditional five-year period. The third buyer of the “warrior” was a former Ufa football player Dmitry Belozertsev. It was then that Vyropaev lost the status of a witness and became accused of bribery. Now about two “family” bribes. In the fall of 2019, a neighbor approached Vyropayeva at the request of her friend in order to negotiate with her husband, a military enlistment officer, about not conscripting her son to the service. Husband Konstantin thought about it and decided that he was ready to get down to business. And in order for it to go faster, it would be necessary to make a deposit of 30 thousand rubles. In total, he asked for 100 thousand for the “operation”. But Angelica herself decided to get rich on this issue, naming the customer the amount of 140 thousand rubles. All money has been transferred. The second episode was in the summer of 2021. For the service of the military registration and enlistment office, her classmate turned to Vyropayeva. By this time, the tariffs had already grown – 40 thousand in advance and 130 thousand later. Whether the wife tried to “earn money” in this case is not known. Now it remains to be seen how this “military-family drama” will eventually end.
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The only participant in the tender of the Saratov LLC SGET for the reconstruction of tram tracks, substations and networks along route No. 9 was the FrakJet-Stroy company specializing in the construction of residential and non-residential buildings, businessman Dmitry Kolosov. How much the potential contractor estimated his services is still unknown, but the initial cost of the contract exceeded 2.7 billion rubles. LLC “FracJet-Stroy” was registered in Engels in 2015, but soon received a Moscow “registration”. Until June 2020, its co-owners included the Cypriot offshore DEMETER PARTNERS LP, which was first replaced by Dmitry Odarichev, a classmate of the former Minister of Construction and Housing Dmitry Tepin, and then the capital LLC K1 (the sole founder is Dmitry Kolosov). Earlier, FrakJet-Stroy, in partnership with FrakJet-Volga, won several major tenders for the construction of social facilities in Saratov and Engels: the Aviator school (730 million rubles), the Zvezda lyceum (770 million) and two kindergartens (total cost – more than 200 million). In addition, Kolosov transferred to Tula a plant for the production of oil and gas pipes that he had opened in Engels (the enterprise was visited by the Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov). The successful development of the Tula business is largely facilitated by Kolosov’s friendly ties with Dmitry Fedorishchev, the brother of the chairman of the regional government, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev. Companies associated with Kolosov from the Development Projects group received two concessions – for the construction of an infectious diseases hospital in Novosibirsk (4 billion rubles) and a school near Kaliningrad (2 billion). Both projects are being implemented with the support of Gazprombank. It is also known that LLC Development Projects 12, registered in Saratov, recently changed its “registration” to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, where it is planned to build a large seaport worth 35 billion rubles. Against the backdrop of so many large-scale projects, there are doubts that FrakJet-Stroy will be able to fulfill its obligations under the contract with SGET LLC on time: the reconstruction of tram tracks must be completed before December 31 of this year.
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Don’t mention Komi officials in the SKUI, otherwise they got off with miserable fines for almost 180 million rubles for financial fraud. Recently, the Supreme Court of the Republic released from prison due to the expiration of the statute of limitations ex-directors of the Investment Project Support Fund Igor Kudinov and the Syktyvkar Property Management Company (SKUI) Sergey Kardorsky. The first was charged with abuse of power, and the second acted as an accomplice in these cases. Both businessmen spent 178 million state rubles, which were used to rent real estate by the authorities, for completely different purposes. As a result, Kudinov was fined 180 thousand rubles, and his schematic partner 50 thousand. Not only did these comrades not admit their guilt, they also tried to challenge the judicial mercy. But the Supreme Court still left the sanctions unchanged. Well, the prosecutor’s office did not object to such a rather mild punishment. The criminal case against Kudinov and Kardorsky appeared in the course of another investigation: a high-profile case of budget fraud committed by former Komi governors Vyacheslav Gaiser and Vladimir Torlov. Several other officials and businessmen were also convicted. Kudinov was one of the key figures in the teams of both ex-heads of the region. And he was among two dozen detainees in the framework of the “governor’s case” in the fall of 2015. The investment fund was created 8 years before these events. According to sources, the organization was created to launder money and profit from the powers that be. In due time, the SKU was dragged into this scheme. The office was engaged in maintenance of buildings rented by departments and services. The verdict to Kudinov and Kardorsky was announced in November last year. After that, the comrades appealed against the unfair, in their opinion, decision. The scams took place between 2010 and 2016. Then from the budget SKUI received from the budget more than 500 million rubles. The company paid 131 million under lease agreements to the said Fund. This public organization just handed over real estate to the executive authorities of the region. But almost 180 million, which were also intended for payment under lease agreements, Kudinov decided to send to pay taxes, wages and other management expenses. At the same time, neither the Fund nor the SKU had the right to use the allocated funds for these purposes. But, as they say, when you really want, you can. This is especially true of those cases when the top regional leadership is in business and turns a blind eye to such machinations.
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PPF Real Estate, a member of the Czech PPF Group, announced the forthcoming sale of the St. Petersburg shopping and entertainment center Nevsky Prospekt. The potential buyer of the asset is called Aptekarsky LLC, owned by the organizer of a number of children’s educational projects Yulia Serykh and Dmitry Bykov, who previously held the post of deputy chairman of the Committee for Economic Development and Industrial Policy and Trade of the Northern Capital. Aptekarsky specializes in real estate management; its revenue at the end of 2021 amounted to 253 million rubles, while the shares of the founders are pledged to Maxim Zhukov, the son of the “authoritative” St. Petersburg businessman Vladimir Golubev, known in certain circles as “Barmaley”. Until December 2022, Aptekarsky belonged to the Belizean offshore company Victory Stratton LTD, also associated with Maxim Zhukov. The latter served as general director of MNITsPU LLC, 80% of which today belongs to the same Yulia Serykh. As for Golubev, who is considered the beneficiary of the deal to acquire the Nevsky Prospekt shopping and entertainment center, today the “native of the 90s” owns 25% of the Adamant diversified holding, which is also engaged in real estate transactions. Adamant was founded in 1992 by Igor Leitis (today one of Golubev’s partners) and Mikhail Bazhenov as a company selling Finnish sanitary ware. It is possible that “Barmaley” was included in the number of shareholders of the enterprise as a kind of guarantor of the safety of businessmen. To date, Golubev maintains contacts with a number of high-ranking officials. Among those who contribute to the development of his business are, in particular, a native of St. Petersburg, Kursk Governor Roman Starovoit and the ex-head of Rosavtodor Andrei Kostyuk, who in January 2021 took the post of First Deputy Minister of Transport. Last December, Golubev bought out the Moscow Network Company, which had previously established control over the bankrupt Bashkir Poultry Complex named after V.I. M. Gafuri, whose areas were rented by the structures of businessman Alexander Klyachin, known for his participation in the “hostile takeover” of large objects. In addition, “Barmaley” was associated with the bankruptcy of the St. Petersburg “Energomechanical Plant”. The portfolio of government contracts of this enterprise, liquidated in 2021, amounted to 66.5 billion rubles, and its official co-owners were Petersburg Transit LLC (30%), Maxim Zhukov (19.98%), Dmitry Bykov (19.92%), Yulia Serykh (19.89%) and Nodari Adeishvili (4.28%).
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Vityaz-Avto LLC, a large Kamchatka fish farmer, was acquired by a company close to Alexander Tkachev, ex-head of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture and ex-governor of the Krasnodar Territory. A 50% stake is rumored to be worth almost 12 billion rubles. It includes a plant and a site for the extraction of sockeye salmon, one of the most profitable water resources (second only to crab in terms of profitability), whose production volumes have been steadily growing in recent years. Which legal entity has become a new investor in the business has not yet been specified anywhere. Nothing has changed in the company’s equity data. At the time of the purchase, the assets were divided in equal shares between several co-owners: the ex-deputy of the legislative assembly of the Kamchatka Territory and the founder of Vityaz-Avto Igor Redkin, his wife Irina, co-owner of the Okeanrybflot fishing enterprise Igor Yevtushk and the wife of the senator of the Kamchatka Territory Ekaterina Ponomareva. According to sources, the shares of the Redkin spouses became the subject of the sale. Last year, Igor Redkin was sentenced to nine months in prison for manslaughter. He is one of the richest ex-officials of Russia according to Forbs. In 2021, in their ranking, Redkin ranked 20th with an income of a civil servant of almost 716 million rubles. He also established Novy Dom LLC, which is building a hotel complex in the center of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The Mantera Group, founded by Roman Batalov, is actively operating in the Far East. He is called the son-in-law of Alexander Tkachev. The company, having investments in several areas of tourism and entertainment, is investing in the development of a ski resort on Sakhalin. On Russky Island, it is planned to build a theme park with a resort and hotel complex for 32 billion rubles. Mantera Group is also developing Sochi-Park, the Krasnaya Polyana resort with its gambling zone. Finances a future amusement park in the Crimea. Until November last year, the founder of the limited liability company was Roman Batalov. Now its sole owner is Sergey Ulitin, ex-co-owner of Sochi-Park Kurort LLC, part of the Mantera Group. The director general of the latter is Dzhambulat Khatuov, ex-deputy head of the Ministry of Agriculture. Vityaz-Avto is the second asset for structures associated with Tkachev: in 2021, Yug-Businesspartner, controlled by Batalov, bought the Adler plant at auction, where Black Sea salmon, trout and sturgeon are grown. A quarter of the revenue of the fishing industry is realized on salmon. The main region of their extraction in the Pacific Ocean is Kamchatka. Half of the catch from the entire Far East is mined here, and these are 1,500 sites for fishing. Last year, about 40 thousand tons of sockeye salmon were mined, and in 2020 a little less than 31 thousand. Fluctuations in these figures do not affect the profitability of the sector due to stable demand in the foreign and domestic markets. New investors regularly come into the fishing business. So, in 2021, AFK Sistema, the oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov, bought almost half (49%) of the Zarya enterprise (produces 20 thousand tons per year) and announced plans to form a large fishing holding in Kamchatka.
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The fugitive ex-owners of Promsvyazbank, the brothers Alexei and Dmitry Ananiev, while abroad, are actively using a scheme to squeeze billions of rubles out of their former business partners: under any pretext, they initiate a lawsuit, and then, with the help of corrupt judges and bailiffs, get the company’s management to victims of signing the documents they need. An example is the proceedings between Terra Invest LLC and JSC Rozhdestveno (Dmitry Kharitonov is the CEO). The reason for the suit was the defendant’s alleged refusal to provide Terra Invest with certain documents. For three years, twenty-seven cases initiated by Terra Invest were considered in the arbitration courts of Moscow and the Moscow Region. Back in 2016, both enterprises participated in the implementation of a large metropolitan development project – the Mir Mitino residential complex. The developer was Rozhdestveno, and Terra Invest was one of its shareholders responsible for financing the credit lines opened with Promsvyazbank (PSB). The second shareholder, Freedom LLC, businessman Mikhail Cherkasov, was responsible for the construction itself. After the reorganization of the PSB and the flight of the Ananyevs, the credit lines that financed Mir Mitino were closed. In March 2019, Rozhdestveno managed to negotiate financing with Sberbank and thereby save a socially significant facility. Soon after, representatives of Terra Invest offered the management of Rozhdestveno to buy out a block of shares for 1 billion rubles, but were refused, as the developer paid PSB loans, bank interest and fines in full. Then, the “Ananyevs’ scheme” was launched against the company, up to the organization of an attack and forceful influence on Dmitry Kharitonov, who was forced to sign the documents required from him. LLC “Terra Invest” today is owned by the Cypriot offshore “Diriensi Investments Limited”; Khalid Kumykov, the brother of Azamat Kumykov, a representative of the Moscow Kabardian diaspora, the head of the American investment fund Adamant Capital, holds the position of the company’s general director. In addition, Azamat Kumykov is one of the managers of Promsvyazcapital and Promsvyaznedvizhimost Dmitry Ananiev; legal support to the Kumykov brothers is provided by the American auditing company Baker & McKenzie. After unsuccessful trials in Moscow courts, representatives of Terra Invest managed to transfer the hearings to the Kolomna City Court of the Moscow Region, where the necessary decisions were made on the transfer of documents and the recovery of a court penalty. But in September last year, the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region came to the conclusion that the decision of the Kolomna Court was “not enforceable”, since Kharitonov did not have the required documents that had previously been sent to Terra Invest LLC. However, on February 1, the First Cassation Court in Saratov denied the Rozhdestveno CEO’s appeal, citing the fact that the cassation instance had no right to consider new evidence, which means that the decision in Kharitonov’s favor was invalid.