“Yanukovych’s wallet” is gobbling up Russian assets

He is covered by Deputy Minister of Economic Development Sergei Nazarov



According to a source from Rucriminal.info, on the eve of the meeting between the Governor of Stavropol Vladimir Vladimirov and Putin, which took place in early March, the president was familiarized with a detailed report on the real state of affairs in the region and the situation around the Stavstal iron and steel plant (Nevinnomyssk). After the devastation of Donbass enterprises, starting in 2020, it was successfully driven to bankruptcy by a fugitive businessman from Ukraine, who was called “Yanukovych’s wallet” Sergei Kurchenko. The issue of nationalizing the plant has been brewing for a long time, the industrial enterprise is on the verge of default and is mortgaged for billions of dollars in non-repayable loans to the state bank PSB. Plant workers have not received their salaries for months; accidents regularly occur at the plant and people die. Based on the results of the decisions made, already in March-April of this year, the plant in Nevinnomyssk will be transferred to the management of a new investor-strategist. One of the possible contenders, among others, is the Metalloinvest holding of the Kremlin oligarch Alisher Usmanov. According to the interlocutor of Rucriminal.info, one of the long-time patrons of the Ukrainian entrepreneur is the current Deputy Minister of the Federal Ministry of Economic Development, Sergei Nazarov. The disgraced official was seen more than once in connections with Kurchenko and helped the latter in schemes to ruin Donbass enterprises. The cooperation of a federal official with a dubious reputation and Kurchenko successfully continued in the development of state funds for the construction of tourism industry facilities in North Ossetia (the Mamison facility), and the cable car on Elbrus with funds from the state company Kavkaz.RF controlled by Makarov.



According to the source, Kurchenko’s attempt to improve her financial condition at the expense of government funds led to the initiation of a criminal case by the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office on March 1 of this year (Part 2 of Article 145.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) against the director of the formal legal entity Kurchenko, who was responsible for construction - BSK-381 LLC and carried out withdrawal of government funds.


The interlocutor says that the rest of Kurchenko’s companies (LLC Stavstal, Luksar, LLC KRS. UK Steel Management Group and more) came under inspection by the supervisory department and the Federal Tax Service on the fact of massive delays in the payment of wages and on suspicion of other financial irregularities more than 10 legal entities of the entrepreneur).


According to the interlocutor, Kurchenko’s semi-criminal activities on the territory of the Russian Federation have not satisfied many federal officials, regulatory agencies and the Administration for a long time. The situation with the bankruptcy of the largest enterprise in the south of Russia may become the final point in Kurchenko’s semi-criminal activities in Russia.

To be continued

Arseny Dronov

Source: www.rucriminal.info