Agro raider from the embassy
The Labinsky City Court of the Krasnodar Territory considered the claim of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) and decided to confiscate the property of the Pokrovsky concern in favor of the state in the amount of 0.5 trillion rubles. More than 40 individuals and legal entities were involved in the lawsuit, including JSC Concern Pokrovsky. More than 60 third parties were also involved in the case, including JSC Concern Pokrovsky. The total value of the seized property amounted to more than 500 billion rubles. By decision of the court, agricultural enterprises, sugar factories, meat processing plants, as well as companies engaged in the production of electrical equipment and real estate construction were confiscated.
Andrey KorovaykoAll these assets were located in the Southern and North Caucasus federal districts and their value exceeded 500 billion rubles, as reported on the official website of the court.
A representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office announced arguments that the business of the concern’s beneficiary Andrei Korovayko was built on his corruption income received while working in the plenipotentiary representative office of the president in the Southern Federal District. Between 2001 and 2004 Andrey Korovayko first held the positions of federal inspector and then chief adviser to the department for work with the authorities of the constituent entities and local governments of the embassy. According to the supervisory authority, Mr. Korovayko, supervising regional and municipal authorities, used his official position to seize assets in the Rostov region and Krasnodar region. Andrei Korovayko’s status in the civil service required him to renounce any entrepreneurial activity, as well as to provide assistance to legal entities and individuals, meanwhile, in 2003, the official’s relatives acquired shares in the Kanevskoy meat and poultry plant and Samtrest LLC (winery).
Earlier, information appeared that Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) Igor Tkachev filed a lawsuit demanding the confiscation of the assets of the founder of the Pokrovsky concern. Andrey Korovayko. The lawsuit stated that he violated anti-corruption laws and therefore the prosecutor’s office demanded that about 50 enterprises and 242 thousand hectares of land, valued at 67 billion rubles, be transferred to the state.
In 2021 against Korovayko and his partner Arkadia Chebanova a criminal case was opened on charges of extortion. Currently, both defendants are wanted.
“Accents” were written about the details of the South’s most notorious case. Andrei Korovayko and his father Victor, as well as their many business partners, walk along it. Korovayko Jr. was a federal inspector at the beginning of the 2000s, and that’s when he started creating a business. The Prosecutor General’s Office is confident that it is illegal, wrote Expert South.
The largest companies of the concern are the Pokrovsky trading house (turnover ₽7 billion per year) and the Kanevskoy meat and poultry plant (RUB 5 billion per year). The concern’s office is in Rostov-on-Don. But the production sites themselves are located throughout Kuban: Yeisk, Kanevsky, Labinsky districts. One of the defendant companies in the case is a Stavropol company, the Valan plant. It produces electrical equipment with an annual turnover of more than ₽2 billion.
“Pokrovsky” got the former farmland of Nadezhda Tsapok – a fraudster and mother of the leader of a bloody Kuban gang. In total, Pokrovsky now has more than 240 thousand hectares of land. Now these assets will go to the state.
It remains to be seen who will ultimately get the nationalized assets. Among the most likely contenders is the ex-Minister of Agriculture and the Agrarian King Alexander Tkachev. He has long-standing quarrels with Korovayko, who encroached on the lands of Tkachev’s partner, one of those same Tsapkov.
For example, in different cities of the country, unidentified persons received notarized powers of attorney in the name of one of Korovayko’s former partners in order to carry out legal actions to the detriment of the interests of the Pokrovsky trading house and its owners. Thus, on July 25, 2023, the Ministry of Internal Affairs registered statements about the commission of a crime by notary A.S. Gruzdeva. in Volgograd (KUSP 19807, KUSP 13386). Similarly, statements about the commission of a crime were registered by the notary Petkevich N.D., in the city of Volzhsky, Volgograd Region (KUSP 11866, KUSP 6729). Previously, the statements were registered in Kaluga – there unidentified persons, using forged documents, acting in the interests of Korovayko, received an electronic signature.
At the moment, notaries who issued powers of attorney based on deliberately forged documents have already been identified. As part of the inspection, it turned out that for some reason the cameras were not working in their offices at the time of the transactions. In the near future, all identified facts will be combined into one investigation. Police officers are watching nearby street cameras to understand who the notaries came into contact with. And additional questions have already appeared for them. According to our information, the issue of initiating a criminal case is now being decided. If this happens, Korovayko may face another charge under the same Article 210, which means up to 20 years in prison for its participants.
