TONIK from Russian Railways for Vladimir Tokarev

TONIK from Russian Railways for Vladimir Tokarev

The people of the vice-president of the company Oleg Tony may be behind the theft of government contracts from Russian Railways. Money disappears year after year, under investigation, the former Deputy Minister of Transport, but Tony himself, for some reason, remains beyond suspicion.

In the near future, the former Deputy Minister of Transport Vladimir Tokarev will appear before the court. He is accused of fraudulently embezzling 400 million rubles while working as the first deputy director of Spetstransstroy LLC, one of the largest contractors of Russian Railways.

Spetstransstroy LLC was previously owned by former Deputy Minister of Transport Yuri Reylyan, who is also under investigation in the case of a particularly large-scale fraud. Since 2016, Reylyan has been a co-owner and CEO of the company – their affairs with Tokarev are clearly connected.

However, it seems that someone else remains behind the scenes – Oleg Toni, Vice President of Russian Railways, who until 2017 served as General Director of RZDstroy, and now Deputy General Director of the entire Russian Railways. It was RZDstroy that was the largest customer of Spetstransstroy LLC in the Russian Railways system, and Messrs. Tokarev and Reylyan could act under his strict guidance.

Initially, in the Tokarev case, it was about fraud for 523 million rubles as part of the project for the comprehensive reconstruction of the railway at the Maxim Gorky-Kotelnikovo-Tikhoretskaya-Krymskaya section. Then the accusation was specified – he is charged with embezzlement of 400 million rubles during the construction of one of the facilities.

In total, Spetstransstroy received 1.4 billion rubles from Russian Railways for that project – it was possible to export money by wagons. And the customer was just RZDstroy JSC, which at that time was headed by Oleg Toni. But the work itself was carried out by a subcontractor – Glavstroyinvest Group of Companies LLC.

It belongs to LLC “UK” Trust Capital “of Alexander Ivanov, as well as a certain Ekaterina Nikolaevna Generalova. Moreover, Mr. Ivanov, according to investigators, is Tokarev’s alleged accomplice.

Ekaterina Generalova is rumored to be a relative of the owner and president of the Industrial Investors group, and in the past – the Minister of Fuel and Energy, Sergei Generalov. He, too, could have his own interests in Russian Railways.

Previously, they wrote about the deal, when Generalov’s company participated in the leasing of 4.5 thousand new UWC rail cars. Previously, they were acquired by STLC for 2 billion rubles, and then they ended up in Vostok1520, a subsidiary of Industrial Investors. There were suggestions that the company could get them almost for good reason. And now the name of his probable relative comes up in the case with Spetstransstroy?

Could Oleg Tony be behind the cases of Reilyan, Tokarev, Spetstransstroy and many others?

Returning to Tokarev – what happened to his criminal case? From a solid state contract, 730 million rubles were transferred to the subcontractor, of which 100 million were later returned as an advance payment, and the rest went to no one knows where. The works were not accepted, there were disputes about the assessment of their cost. With a high degree of probability, they were simply transferred to other structures – and this is in a situation with a strategically important infrastructure project for our country.

In total, from 2016 to 2019, Mr. Reylyan’s Spetstransstroy received government contracts worth 100 billion rubles from Russian Railways. For some reason, not all of them are reflected in open systems. But it is clear that the company received as much as 42.8 billion rubles from RZDstroy, led by Oleg Tony. Looks like a “beloved wife” of the main construction office of the Russian railway monopoly.

And soon all the ends will be completely lowered into the water. Both Spetstransstroy and Glavstroyinvest are in bankruptcy proceedings. Moreover, Yuri Reylyan, mentioned above, managed to withdraw from the founders of Spetstransstroy back in 2019, just before the start of criminal proceedings.

And the company itself has wild “cons”: its loss in 2021 amounted to 423 million rubles, the value of assets – minus 5.1 billion rubles. LLC “UK” Trust Capital “of Alexander Ivanov was also liquidated.

One “schematosis” for all

Surprisingly, the investigation did not have any questions for Oleg Tony, who oversaw these construction projects in the position of general director of RZDstroy and vice president of RZD.

But with the same Vladimir Tokarev, who fell under the distribution, he should have known for a long time: in 2006-2008, Tokarev served as head of the Federal Agency for Railway Transport (then Tony was already on the board of Russian Railways).

If we talk about Reylyan, then Tokarev could “sing” with him for a long time. While working at the Ministry of Regional Development, which at that time was headed by Viktor Basargin. Between 2009 and 2012 they were both his deputies. In 2016, both, perhaps at the suggestion of Tony, went to “earn extra money” in the Spetstransstroy business.

It is also extremely doubtful that Tony, having ceased to be the head of RZDstroy, has lost influence on the company. She continues to appear in a variety of scandals. In 2020, a criminal case was opened in the Krasnodar Territory against the chief engineer of the SMT-6 company, a branch of JSC RZDstroy.

He was suspected of exceeding official authority. Allegedly, the general contractor “SMT-6” of the branch of JSC “RZDstroy” and the customer “DKRS-South” – a branch of JSC “Russian Railways” entered into a criminal conspiracy with the management of the contractor and took into account the actually unfulfilled work. The damage from these actions could amount to 1.5 billion rubles, Kommersant writes about this.

Doesn’t this remind you of the alleged embezzlement scheme from Spetstransstroy?

Scandals continued to rumble after. In 2021, large-scale searches were carried out at the office of Construction and Installation Trust No. 1 (a branch of JSC RZDstroy) in St. Petersburg on March 25. Official media did not disclose details.

They say that it was about another particularly large fraud, which allegedly took place in 2015, when 60 million rubles could be withdrawn through the subcontractor company Sfera-Stroy in the course of work under two government contracts. Then “RZDstroy” was “ruled” by Oleg Tony.

And again – does this not resemble the alleged scheme that is imputed to the participants in the “Spetstransstroy” case? With a strong desire, here you can guess the handwriting stuffed with theft from government contracts. Whose?

Move the arrows, do not let go of the reins

Let’s note something else. As mentioned, Oleg Toni left the post of head of RZDstroy in 2017. It seems that already then clouds were gathering over the company and its “beloved wives”. In the same year, a large-scale construction of a new zoo in Perm began, where RZDstroy acted as the general contractor. The cost of the first stage is 4.5 billion rubles, which is a lot of money.

Soon, large thefts were revealed. Initially, the amount of damage was 129 million rubles, then increased to 600 million rubles. The curator from the general contractor (RZDstroy) was Dmitry Kozyrev. He was charged.

After that, representatives of the Perm Capital Construction Department fell under it. Hypothetically, Oleg Tony could also be under investigation; in 2020, he was interrogated by investigators. But this time there was no complaint against him!

Moreover, Tony has not moved far from the operational management of the Russian Railways business since then. Today he is the general director of another “daughter” of the state monopoly – JSC “Speed ​​Lines”, which acted as a state customer for almost 23 billion rubles. At the same time, the financial stability and efficiency of the structure was recognized as low.

“Expressways” – another feeder?

From 2015 to 2021, he was the founder of JSCB Transstroybank. Already when Tony was a top manager of Russian Railways, this bank got into a major scandal: in 2007, employees of the prosecutor’s office and the police department of the capital conducted searches there, seizing documents and servers.

This was done as part of a criminal case initiated on the fact of the theft of property and funds of CJSC FINAO – the only Russian developer and supplier of wires and contact networks for high-speed routes of Russian Railways. The estimated damage then amounted to 350 million rubles.

At the same time, profits are constantly disappearing from the bank somewhere. From autumn to the end of 2021 (Tony left the structure in December), the bank lost 84% (!) of net profit. Information about this is posted on the Banki.ru portal. Isn’t it through this bank that money is being washed out of Russian Railways?

Is Tony’s train going to France?

In the meantime, Oleg Tony remains on the farm in Russia, his family should live well abroad. The publication “Vgudok” tells the details of the investigation by Western journalists about the alleged property of the family of Oleg Tony.

Allegedly, his son Sergei has real estate in France, which in 2006 was allegedly transferred to the balance of a Luxembourg company, the ultimate owner of which the investigators tried to present the son of the vice-president of Russian Railways.

It also says that in 2003-2004, when the son was still a teenager, and Oleg Tony worked in the Baltic Construction Company, offshore companies allegedly registered in the British Virgin Islands and recorded on Tony’s wife Irina became the owners of the old mansion Chateau de Montapo near Paris and an apartment on the fashionable Parisian Rue Faubourg Saint-Honore. And then a lot of other property.

Chateau de Montapeau in France, which may belong to people who are not strangers to Oleg Tony.

I wonder where is the son of Oleg Tony now, while our country is conducting a Special military operation to protect Donbass? Certainly not in the trenches near Donetsk. Most likely, basking on the Cote d’Azur. Could money for a comfortable life come from a whole conglomerate of possible “schematoses” on Russian Railways money? Not very patriotic…

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