The court declared illegal the investigative actions that followed after the head of the TFR was not allowed to work on the LSR construction site on Vasilyevsky Island in St. Petersburg

In the northern capital, the investigation of investigators and an employee of a private security company was completed.

On Monday, July 10, the Vasileostrovskiy District Court of St. Petersburg considered a lawyer’s complaint filed in the interests of the guard of the northern alluvium Askhab Alikpachov against the actions of the TFR. This was reported to Outpost in the joint press service of the city courts.

The instance registered the corresponding appeal on May 29. The lawyer asked to recognize the actions of the investigator in relation to his client as illegal and to oblige the department to eliminate the violations.

We are talking about the guard of the northern alluvium, who was suspected of exceeding his authority in the middle of the month before last. This happened after the construction site they didn’t let me in Chairman of the TFR Alexandra Bastrykina in civilian clothes.

Then the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation canceled the criminal case, but the Investigative Committee re-initiated the proceedings, and the defendant was interrogated and a measure of procedural coercion was chosen for him.

Lawyer in his complaint notedthat in the course of investigative actions, employees of the Investigative Committee seized documents and computers, and the premises of the private security company in which his client works were sealed. As a result, Alikpachov could not receive a salary.

Initially, the corresponding application was to be considered on June 6, later the process was postponed to the 15th, and as a result, the court made a decision today.

The instance sided with the guard and satisfied the complaint his lawyer.

Recall that the development of alluvium on Vasilyevsky Island attracted attention investigators in mid-May. Then the department initiated proceedings on violation of environmental protection rules.

The protracted conflict between Andrey Molchanov, a billionaire from the LSR, and Alexander Bastrykin, head of the TFR, over a large-scale project for a new quarter on the alluvium of Vasilevsky Island, stirred up the dark depths of the St. Petersburg world of reputable businessmen from the 90s. In the neighborhood of the new construction site, which caused so many questions from the ICR and the prosecutor’s office, the LSR developer is already developing new sites that Molchanov bought in 2020 from the owner of the Axel car dealership network, Alexei Bezobrazov. But the sections turned out to be burdened. And in the light of the increased attention of the Moscow security forces to violations of the LSR, the “Molchanov anthills” risk turning into another picturesque long-term construction.

The background is as follows: in 2020, businessman Alexei Bezobrazov sought to get rid of car dealerships that were unprofitable at that time, along with the land under them. Found a buyer for the plots – LSR. But Bezobrazov did not own the auto business alone, but with some Odud brothers. They wanted to sell their share to another St. Petersburg entrepreneur, Ilya Traber and his business partner Ramis Deberdeev. In the 90s, Traber held the entire antiques trade in St. Petersburg, for which he received the respectful nickname “Antiquarian”. Kidka was not expected.

Meanwhile, Bezobrazov announced to his partners that he had found a construction company that would buy the Vasileostrovsky property of Axel Group for $20 million. But then it suddenly turned out that plots of 15,000 sq.m. were sold for development not for 111 million rubles, but for only 8.5 million, and before the Oduds went out of business and received their share. The deal stalled and the courts have been going on ever since. Meanwhile, Andrey Molchanov, knowing about the problems with the former owners of the land, attracted funding and began construction.

But the conflict of the former owners did not even think to subside. Traber, who simultaneously with the deals with “Axel” participated in the wars around port “Ust-Luga” and bought up the shares of JSC “LOESK” (a large electric grid company of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region) in the interests of Igor Sechineven arrested. But then they released it. Cases were also initiated against Igor Odud, then ceased. And at the suggestion of the powerful head of Rosneft, the Moscow security forces were pulled into the conflict, who, as a result, ran into the ultimate owner of the ill-fated sites – LSR. And already at the end of 2022, Alexander Bastrykin successfully fit into the topic of St. Petersburg city defenders and illegal development. Now he initiates new criminal cases, already against the LSR and on a different occasion, but with an eye on the long-standing conflict of land owners.

All this bacchanalia of revived characters of the series “Gangster Petersburg” habitual to everything local residents watched calmly. Litigation at least slowed down the development. But in 2022, LSR foremen became more active on Vasilevsky Island, dump trucks with sand appeared, and it was announced that the construction of alluvium for development had begun. Petersburgers organized themselves and began bombarding the authorities with protest letters and trying to block the site with “human chains” and other civic activities. At the same time, all the old participants in the conflict, Bezobrazov, Deberdeev and the Odud brothers, pulled themselves up. Which of them is on the side of the LSR, and which is on the side of the UK, it does not matter. Everyone wants money from each other.

And Molchanov has already received them – from the equity holders of his residential complexes, with whose money he turned the historical center and Neva Guba into a construction site. Land plots under the former Axel car dealerships are being developed with might and main. If, in the process of developing criminal cases and auditing projects, it suddenly turns out that the land was registered illegally in favor of one of the shareholders of Axel before it was sold to Molchanov, then apartment owners will not be able to register ownership of housing. And this threatens a new round of public scandals just in time for the 2024 election campaign, which promises to be boring in St. Petersburg.