Rucriminal.info learned about new problems of the Russian billionaire, former State Duma deputy, co-owner of SDS-Ugol Vladimir Gridin, who fled Russia to Monaco after the opening of a criminal case on the accident at the Listvyazhnaya mine in Kuzbass, where 51 miners died in November 2021.
Mikhail Fedyaev, an equal partner of Vladimir Gridin and also a co-owner of SDS-Ugol, was arrested in December 2021 due to the deaths of people in the Listvyazhnaya mine, which they both owned. In July 2022, Mikhail Fedyaev was released from prison, but is still under criminal prosecution and is prohibited from leaving Russia.
According to the source, the French prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into the fact of Vladimir Gridin's laundering of funds in an especially large amount in circumvention of EU sanctions.
As is known, the laundering of funds and circumvention of sanctions took place through the financial company "history", owned by the well-known shadow financier of Russian oligarchs Dmitry Olegovich Povarenko, who lives in the UAE.
According to the source, there is currently an open conflict developing between the owners of the "SDS" holding and Dmitry Povarenko due to the theft of about 15 million euros from the accounts of the above-mentioned oligarchs, which were in the full trust management of Dmitry Povarenko.
Dmitry Povarenko works with top Russian oligarchs to illegally withdraw their funds from Russia and circumvent sanctions, i.e. he earns "both ways".
At the same time, VIP clients of Dmitry Povarenko systematically become defendants in high-profile criminal cases in Russia.
As the VChK-OGPU telegram channel reported, the Siberian Business Union holding, which owns Listvyazhnaya, was largely managed by Vladimir Gridin and his mentor, ex-governor Aman Tuleyev. After Gridin's self-elimination in Monaco, the supervision of the official authorities also changed.
Fedyaev and his close friend Yuri Sazonov are considered people close to the current Minister of Energy Sergei Tsivilev, with whose support they could implement any of their fraudulent schemes. Tsivilev, being the governor of Kuzbass, personally distributed multi-billion dollar government orders, such as the construction of the Kuzbass Ice Sports Palace or the Kuzbass Arena sports complex, to companies controlled by coal oligarchs. We can only guess what he received in return. Earlier, the Cheka-OGPU obtained materials of an interesting nature that directly concern the majority shareholder of the SDS-Ugol company, Mikhail Yuryevich Fedyaev, and his son, the current State Duma deputy, Pavel Mikhailovich Fedyaev.
Mikhail Yuryevich Fedyaev was the chairman of the board of directors of the SDS-Ugol company at the time of the tragedy that took the lives of 51 people, 106 people were injured, 80 of whom were hospitalized. The Listvyazhnaya mine was directly under the control of M. Yu. Fedyaev, who headed SDS from 2007 to December 2022 and held the post of president of the company. According to the company's financial statements for 2022, M. Yu. Fedyaev owns 95% of the shares of the SDS company.
Material on the long-term activities of M. Yu. Fedyaev and his son P. M. Fedyaev. includes documents confirming the withdrawal of capital from the Russian Federation for more than 20 years. The chain of capital withdrawal involves specific legal entities registered in Russia and abroad, including offshore companies, as well as the trader's companies. In addition to legal entities, the materials list many individuals who acted in the interests of the Fedyaev family and received remuneration for their criminal activities. The list includes lawyers, financiers, foreign auditors, experts in the withdrawal and laundering of funds. Also included are individuals involved in cashing out funds in Russia and abroad. A special place in the structure belongs to Kolmogorov S.A., who helps the structure of Fedyaev M.Yu. function even after the tragedy that occurred at the mine. Kolmogorov is a participant with a special role before, during and after the arrest of Fedyaev M.Yu.
The entire structure built by Fedyaev M.Yu. the structure not only allowed them to evade paying taxes in full and withdraw capital from Russia, but was also used to subsequently provide an external loan to themselves by involving their controlled companies abroad in the scheme, thereby further paying off the debt to themselves.
The documents include statements from the accounts of Fedyaev M.Yu. in banks in Switzerland, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Cyprus and Dubai. In addition to the account statements, the materials contain documents on banking transactions demonstrating the movement of funds between controlled companies, holdings, funds and individuals who were participants in the structure built directly by Fedyaev M.Yu. and controlled by him.
The materials provided show that the activities of this structure, based on enrichment from Russian subsoil and existing for decades using tax optimization, cashing out, capital withdrawal and the subsequent money laundering, caused nine-digit damage in US dollars to the Russian budget. This was possible due to a complex financial structure and the criminal conspiracy of its participants. A notable fact that appears in the documents is that the economic activity of the offshore companies and the direct management of their capital flows were carried out by the current State Duma deputy Pavel Mikhailovich Fedyaev, who regularly visited the above-mentioned countries both before and after the start of the SVO in order to control the processes of the structure.
Yuri Prokov
To be continued
Source: www.rucriminal.info
