Русский Криминал: How the TFR scammed the top managers of Transneft who stole 500 million

Trained lawyers were waiting for the opers who arrived for a sudden search

As it became known to Rucriminal.info, the case of the theft of 400 million rubles from Transneft has been investigated for more than 3.5 years. From one of the subsidiaries of Transneft, the defendant in this story, General Director Ermish, was fired.

The case was opened in November 2019, and by May 2020, the police had established the entire chain of theft.

According to the source, Ermish worked the old fashioned way, concluding contracts with ZIO Polaris LLC. Further, this same Polaris scattered money among offices affiliated with it - LLC ESKS, JSC STKS, etc. (the founder of the offices is Kovaleva E.I., denominations are Nevitov E.A., Zvinyatskovsky I.V.). Behind all the offices was actually their shadow owner Kovalev D.A., whose father Kovalev A.V., is together with Kovaleva E.I. founder of JSC NPO AT SPETSTEHNIKA (noted in the supply of equipment for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation).

Ermish transferred more than 500 million rubles to Kovalev's offices, of which more than 400 million, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, were stolen. Kovalev, without doing anything on his own, found real performers (JSC Testron, LLC Sovtest ATE, LLC Expert) and out of more than 500 million received from Ermish, he spent no more than 30 million.

Ermish and Kovalev are no strangers to a beautiful life. It follows from the case file that Ermish owns at least two properties in Germany and Thailand, and a house of 500 square meters in the Moscow region.

Kovalev D.A. a house of 400 square meters near Moscow and a bunch of vehicles.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs, having collected evidence (conducted searches, pulling Kovalev out of a warm bed early in the morning), was already preparing to receive the whole warm company of robbers, but the Moscow prosecutor's office suddenly intervened and demanded that all materials be transferred to the Moscow Investigative Committee, which was done in September 2020 goals.

The Investigative Committee initially launched a stormy activity, adding to the evidence against Kovalev, evidence against Ermish, but with the arrival of the head of the second department for the investigation of especially important cases S.V. Fedulov, the case took a 180-degree turn.

Fedulov S.V. and Aboev S.A. (an old acquaintance of the VChK-OGPU telegram channel) directed the case in the right direction for Ermish and Kovalev.

Moscow Investigative Committee finds whipping boys: deputy. director Ivashkin R.G. and the head of the department Lukyanov S.A., the denomination of OOO ZIO Polaris Petelin E.S. Both worked for the same Transneft subsidiary as Ermish. They are charged, they tell the details of the work, incriminating Ermish and other leaders of Transneft, but no accused are added to the case.

The piquancy of the situation is added by Ermish's lawyer, a relative of the former general of the Moscow Investigative Committee and also Nikandrov (power of attorney), it was through him that work was carried out to control the flow of the case in the Moscow Investigative Committee. The operatives who came to search the Kovalev clan laughed and noted that breaking in at 6 in the morning with a search, they found people prepared and waiting for a search with a couple of lawyers at the addresses. And how interestingly did the Kovalev clan find out about the operational measures?

Fedulova S.V. I was not even embarrassed by the tax report on LLC ZIO Polaris, which directly indicates the affiliation of offices and tax arrears of more than 90 million rubles, but naturally the tax case was not opened.

In the case file there is even a complaint about such a clear investigation of the UK. However, the complaint was resolutely denied (refusal): "The materials of the case are not supported by the materials of the case and the case against other persons is singled out."

The refusal was signed by Fedulov's deputy, Colonel Kondratenko, who apparently did not read the case file. Verification of the complaint went through Fedulova S.V.

Now the case is scheduled to go to court on the merits.