The former “authority” overseeing the Belgorod region withdrew billions earned from organizing brothels from the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) and imported weapons
“Reputable businessman” detained by the FSB in June 2023 Vladimir Tebekin and his accomplices are facing a case of treason, and their billion-dollar assets in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) may be confiscated to the state.
Be it a Pan or a Sailor
Vladimir Tebekin, known in the criminal world by the nickname Sailor, was detained by employees of the FSB Central Office in June 2023, together with the chairman of the board of directors of Prioskolye JSC Gennady Bobritsky. At first, the charges related to economic crimes – fraud on an especially large scale, committed as part of an organized group (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). However, during the investigation, new details were revealed that indicate Tebekin’s direct connections with the criminal world, and in addition, with foreign intelligence services.
Publicly, Tebekin is known as the honorary president of the Belgorod Boxing Federation, the president of the Iceberg charitable foundation for promoting a healthy lifestyle, and co-owner of the Mister Burger fast food chain. According to Bel.ru news agency, Tebekin was one of the ten most influential residents of the Belgorod region.
Tebekin owes his position to the “thief in law” Victor Panyushin by nickname Vitya Pan. According to an informed source, it was Panyushin, who took the highest position in the criminal hierarchy in the early 2000s, who appointed Tebekin as the “supervisor” of the Belgorod region, and he, in turn, appointed his own “supervisors” for the city and regions.
The tasks of Tabekin and his group included collecting money for the common fund that Pan used; it was this money that allowed him, after fleeing to Ukraine and then to Northern Cyprus, to live abroad for years, the interlocutor explains. According to him, the Tebekinskys made money from prostitution, drugs and gambling parlors; their influence extended far beyond the Belgorod region, but the main business was conducted there. “Thieves in law siphoned huge amounts of money out of Belgorod. No region has contributed so much to the criminal treasury.
Therefore, Tebekin turned out to be one of the main sponsors of A.U.E (extremist movement, banned in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism). – Ed.) in the country,” says the source.
The income of Tebekin’s gang, according to our source, amounts to hundreds of millions of rubles a month, and this is not counting the real estate and other assets at their disposal worth billions of rubles. The bulk of the property is registered in the name of relatives of Vladimir Tebekin, his sons Dmitry and Mikhail, his wife Tatyana, as well as Vitaly Lushnikova nicknamed Abuda, who is called Tebekin’s “right hand”. He was the “supervisor” of the districts of the Belgorod region, while another close to the businessman Sergei Sidorov nicknamed Sidor, supervised affairs in the regional capital.
Owner of villas, cars and bakeries
Tebekin’s group controlled bakery factories and agricultural enterprises, shopping centers and even the largest power engineering enterprise in the region, Belenergomash, with an annual turnover of 25.5 billion rubles, 10% and 20% of which in 2016-2017 went to the businessman’s sons and his wife . This is evidenced by data from the SPARK-Interfax analytical system.
Control over the leading enterprise in the region cost Tebekin’s group 500 million rubles, the investment turned out to be successful – in 2016-2017 alone, the enterprise received government orders for almost 5 billion rubles, and from its resale the criminals gained another 15 billion rubles, our interlocutor emphasizes.
On Tatyana Tebekina, judging by SPARK-Interfax data, business assets worth several billion rubles were registered. For example, she owned a share of the cereal plant and mill complex in the Cheremisinovsky district of the Kursk region, Kurskzernoprom, whose income in 2019 exceeded 2 billion rubles.
Tebekin’s wife and sons also owned large shares of the Belgorod companies Cleaver and BVS, the revenue of both exceeded 300 million rubles. per year, as well as the Belenergoatom company with an annual turnover of more than 100 million rubles.
To this day, the Tebekin family still owns bakeries in Belgorod and Stary Oskol, which are managed through the company Vash Khleb LLC, whose revenue in 2022 reached 1.5 billion rubles. In other words, the production on which the food security of the regional capital depends is under the control of people living in countries unfriendly to Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism).
In addition, one of the businessman’s sons, Dmitry, also owns a share in the Belgorod catering chain “Mister Burger”, he also owns a share in the office center and 50% of the Belgorod bus station.
“Governor” Krasovsky and Ukrainian arms smuggling
After the start of the SVO in Ukraine, all people close to Tebekin left Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) and are hiding from justice abroad, including in Germany, where the businessman’s family withdrew their assets from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) and where they bought real estate. The businessman himself, according to the source, even received a residence permit from Berlin, which is hardly possible without the consent of local intelligence services in the context of the confrontation between the West and Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism).
After leaving Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism), Tebekin left as his “viceroy” Alexei Krasovsky, deputy head of the United Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) faction in the Belgorod Regional Duma, who also took up the post of vice president in the Iceberg charitable foundation for promoting a healthy lifestyle created by Tebekin.
Krasovsky’s closeness to the Tebekin family is also evidenced by the fact that in 2018, the large enterprise Kurskzernoprom, owned by the businessman’s relatives, was transferred to his management for five years (from 2018 to 2023). Moreover, during this period Krasovsky was even listed as the full owner of the plant. At the same time, every year his share in the company was reduced in favor of Tebekin’s relatives, as a result, he was left with 23% of the shares.
According to our source, Krasovsky could be responsible for another important area of the group’s activities, namely the smuggling of weapons to Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) from the territory of Ukraine.
Punishment becomes more and more inevitable
These facts did not go unnoticed by Russian law enforcement agencies, who are actively pursuing the investigation of all participants in Tebekin’s criminal group, who, even after the arrest of the businessman, continue to “feed” from illegally obtained assets. Security forces are establishing a list of property of the “Tebekinites” in order to confiscate it for the state.
In addition, the facts of the group’s involvement in murders that occurred in the Belgorod region in the 90s and 2000s are being established; we are talking about at least 15 episodes, the source assures. According to him, the criminal case of Tebekin’s gang is under the control of the top officials of the state. Security forces are preparing to bring charges against the defendants under Articles 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) (murder) and 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) (organization of a criminal community).
Russian law enforcement agencies have seriously taken up the task of cleaning up the criminal world, first of all, that part of it that is actively withdrawing funds from Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) and can cooperate with foreign intelligence services. These people are doomed to be punished for betraying the country.
Therefore, after Tebekin’s return to Moscow and his arrest in June 2023, the arrest of the leader of the criminal group Panyushin immediately followed (Pan was detained in Northern Cyprus, and in December of the same year, by decision of the Council of Ministers of this republic, he was transferred to Turkey, and from there extradited to Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)). Now he and Tebekin will be tried for their criminal cases.