In 1997 with Scansea co-founder Swede Magnus Roth Orlov creates Ocean Trawlers company and invites Tugushev into the business. Things are going great and it would be nice to have access to quota distribution. And in 2003, Tugushev was appointed deputy head of the State Fisheries Committee.
He works in a collective farm partnership. After the economic crisis of 1998, five fishing collective farms – “Collective Farm named after. Kalinin”, “Red Banner”, “Zarya”, “Collective Farm named after. Lenin”, “Collective Farm named after. 40 years of October” – united and work under the leadership of the Red Banner.
In 2003, according to the then first deputy chairman of the Red Banner collective farm Vadim Khudyakovanother deputy chairman, Andrei Zaika, wanted to become the head of the partnership and, after a bureaucratic struggle, achieved his goal.
The partnership sold the fish to that same company, Ocean Trawlers. According to Khudyakov, on the cheap. Neither the Murmansk branch of the Main Basin Fisheries Directorate, nor the captain of the port of Murmansk allegedly helped the collective farmers of the Red Banner, who throughout 2003 asked to check the activities of Zaika. Moreover, allegedly the deputy chairman of the State Fisheries Committee, Zaika’s classmate Tugushev, did not issue a fishing permit to the rebellious “Red Banner”. Again, according to Khudyakov, the partnership’s losses amounted to tens of millions of rubles.
As a result, the collective farms were annexed to the “Collective Farm named after. Kalinina”. Zaika, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, controls it to this day. IN interview the entrepreneur now admits that import substitution in the country is going badly and demands new benefits for fishing producers.
Tugushev’s bureaucratic career did not last long. In 2004, he was detained on suspicion of received a bribe of 3.7 million dollars. In 2007, the court considered it proven that Tugushev promised quotas to entrepreneurs for this money, but not only took the money, but also did not keep his promise, which is why the businessmen turned to the police.
Tugushev will be sentenced to six years of general regime. Now, having been released, he suing Orlov for a share in the business. And it is huge: after all, Orlov ranks 96th out of 110 in the ranking of Russian billionaires according to Forbes magazine. He is the sole owner of the business that he once built with Tugushev and the Swede Roth – the Norebo holding, which included to the list of systemically important enterprises of the Ministry of Agriculture.
In 2002, a fishmonger was blown up in his car right at a busy Murmansk intersection. Sergei Bachurikhin. Journalists wrote that he paid for the patronage of the murdered Golubets and became a victim of criminal squabbles. Bachurikhin’s business will be inherited by his widow Marina. These were two companies that still exist today – Bionord and Sevros. Their income, according to the contractor verification service “Kontur. Focus”, in 2022 amounted to 679 million, profit – about 100 million rubles.
Leva, whose assassination attempt may have started this whole story, gradually retired. The family of an authoritative entrepreneur has only two businesses left: the Lev construction company with revenue in 2022 of 75 thousand rubles. And Chop BBQ restaurant (Region of Taste LLC). They, according to an extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, owns Semiokhin’s daughter-in-law Vera together with entrepreneur Mesrop Shankoyan’s wife Arina.
About the clan of the Shankoyan brothers The Chronicles wrote. Their stories will include stabbings, shootouts, burned cars, contract killings and criminal cases of fraud. Here we will only recall their fishing business. Senior Bart Oganes controls the former collective farm “Star of the Sailor”, which owns trawler “Chernigov” And cod fishers and haddock in the Barents Sea. Since 2014, this business, according to the Kontur-Focus contractor verification service, has brought in from 80 to 180 million rubles. net profit per year.
What happens next is what was called a “kid” in the 1990s. Tuzov’s lawyers re-registered the offshore company under the name of a certain Pavel Surin, and the debt became real. However, in 2017, Tuzov managed to declare the bill void through the court. Then that same year, according to investigators, Surin was forced into a car in Moscow, beaten and convinced to sign a waiver of claims against Tuzov. Once free, Surin turns to the police, and Tuzov is arrested.
Investigator extorts 2 million euros from an entrepreneur in exchange for house arrest. Tuzov writes a statement against her, and she flees Russia (*aggressor country). Despite this, and even despite the fact that Tuzov passed a polygraph, in 2020 the entrepreneur was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment.
Russians year after year become poorer And are eating less and less seafood. Meanwhile, due to export duties the price is rising for marine fuel, which means prices for fish will also increase. The fishing fleet in Russia (*aggressor country) is worn out, about this said even the hero of this text, Andrei Zaika, and the Russian program for investment ship construction has failed. According to him, The Murmansk sea fishing port is working slowly, and since exports have fallen sharply due to sanctions, everything will be even worse. From 2022 foreign shipyards refuse to repair Russian ships, but our own capacities are not enough.
Finally, one more quote from Andrei Zaika: “They have always said that the fishing industry is a gold mine. Now this is definitely not the case; we, like other companies, are barely making ends meet. There is no talk of any super-profits or any development. The situation is very difficult.” These problems, however, did not greatly affect the wallet of the billionaire Zaika.