Who is protecting the "bandit state" in the Smolensk region

"Patronage is provided by one of the heads of the Central Office of the FSB of Russia, Oleg Konoplev”

Rucriminal.info continues the story about the "bandit state" in the Smolensk region, which was created by the now former head of the Department of the M UFSB for the Smolensk region, Demin Aleksey Viktorovich. He is also called "Smolensk Cherkalin". He is the organizer and leader of a community engaged in the smuggling of cigarette products from the Republic of Belarus to the territory of the Russian Federation. Quite recently, including thanks to our publications, Demin lost his post as the head of the Department of the M UFSB for the Smolensk region and is now a seconded employee in the position of assistant to the head of the UMVD for the Smolensk region. Thus, Demin was seconded to the department with which he has the closest corrupt ties, through which his group earns billions of rubles.

It can be said that Demin "dodged" the attempt to softly remove him from the system and at the same time still controls such issues in the Smolensk region as:



illegal cashing of funds - very skillfully uses the schemes of Myagkov A.V., built through the management of the tax inspectorate for the Smolensk region and "attached" businessmen;

initiation or non-initiation of criminal cases for monetary compensation - protects legal and illegal businesses, can easily "remove" competitors, etc.;

who and how will sit in pre-trial detention centers or colonies - the leadership and internal security of the Federal Penitentiary Service are completely under the control of Demin and the new leadership of the M UFSB Department for the Smolensk region.

appointments to positions in the UMVD, UFSB, customs authorities - the heads of the internal security services of the above departments are actually subordinate to Demin A.V., who, for example, easily "dragged" his brother to the customs service for the Smolensk region for greater control over the organized smuggling of cigarettes;

he controls the transit of foreigners across the border with the Republic of Belarus, illegal migration;

According to the source of Rucriminal.info, in this way, Demin even strengthened his position in the corruption hierarchy in the Smolensk region. He began to actually control his protégés in the Ministry of Internal Affairs from the inside, and he exercises external control and influence through the notorious Department M of the UFSB in the person of his protege Dmitry Petrovich Mikheev, who, when he was the head of the UFSB's own security department, covered Demin's schemes from all sides, transported the "share" to Moscow, enriched himself and gave his relatives the opportunity to enrich themselves. Incredible efforts were made by all members of the organized crime group in order not to lose control over the law enforcement block of the Smolensk region - Mikheev D.P. even took a demotion (the position of the head of the SB department is higher than the position of the head of the M department). According to our information, the former head of the UFSB for the Smolensk region, and now one of the heads of the Central Office of the FSB of Russia, Oleg Nikolaevich Konoplev, provides full patronage and support to this group in the Central Office of the FSB of the Russian Federation.

Accomplices of Demin A.V. in the Ministry of Internal Affairs:



The head of the UMVD for the Smolensk region, police general Valery Aleksandrovich Sarzhin covers the activities of the group from the police units and the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate in the territories of border district centers (Rudnyansky, Krasninsky, Gagarinsky districts of the Smolensk region) in order to ensure the safe transit of trucks filled with cigarettes, and also covers up illegal retail and small-scale wholesale trade in cigarettes in populated areas of the Smolensk region. Due to the fact that the general starts to drink a glass of strong alcohol at 10 a.m. after holding morning meetings, he is easily influenced and controlled by other members of the organized crime group. According to our sources, the general is so detached from current issues in the department entrusted to him that one of his daily mandatory tasks is testing natural home-made moonshine for fusel oils and additives in the forensic laboratory of the UMVD for the Smolensk region on special equipment. The general has regular suppliers of natural moonshine, which he prefers to any purchased drinks. By the way, one such analysis costs more than 30 thousand rubles. The head of the UMVD of the city of Smolensk, police colonel Kapitonov Sergey Anatolyevich, by the way, is in the Federal General Reserve and may soon become the head of the UMVD of some other region of Russia, is responsible for the sale of cigarettes in the territory of the regional center in small points, as well as wholesale trade in large bases, warehouse storage of cigarette products, movement throughout the city; in addition, Kapitonov S.A. controls the illegal cashing of funds, the sale of counterfeit alcohol and protects illegal migrants in the territory of the regional center. Through Kapitonov S.A., it is possible to initiate a criminal case, appoint an inspection in a commercial structure, and then “resolve” the issue.



Thus, some time ago, Kapitonov S.A. organized the mass receipt of bribes for high-ranking employees in the form of purchase of apartments with a discount of up to 50% at the address: Smolensk, Shevchenko Street, Building 6 and Building 13. in exchange for stopping the inspection of the developer. At the same time, the developer was clearly involved in a criminal scheme to cause damage to the state through the sublease of land for development for several tens of millions of rubles.

The following employees of the UMVD purchased apartments with a special discount in the form of bribes at the specified addresses for themselves or their close relatives:

Kapitonov Sergey Anatolyevich - Head of the UMVD of the city of Smolensk;

Boslovyak Maksim Ivanovich - Head of the UEBiPK for the city of Smolensk, "wallet" of Kapitonov S.A., carries out all his orders, so shameless and fearless that he actually lives in the apartment at the address: Smolensk, Shevchenko Street, Building 13, which he received as a bribe;

Zabelin Dmitry Aleksandrovich - Head of the UEBiPK for the Smolensk Region;

Myagkov Alexander Valerievich - former head of the UEBiPK for the Smolensk Region;

Let me remind you that the OSB for the Smolensk Region reports to the gang leader Demin A.V., so you can't count on anyone in Smolensk paying attention to these facts. However, the UMVD for the Smolensk Region is expecting a visiting personnel commission from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in early December 2024, we hope that the listed facts will be the basis for a more thorough investigation of all high-ranking police officers.



Now the former Prosecutor of the Smolensk Region Karapetyan Sergey Eduardovich, since 04.11.2024 "honored" pensioner. He was not a member of the organized criminal group of Demin A.V., but they had an unspoken agreement - not to touch each other. Karapetyan S.E. turned a blind eye to what Demin A.V.'s group was doing in the Smolensk region, and Demin A.V. promised support through the M Directorate of the UFSB in further promotion of Karapetyan S.E. up the career ladder. Karapetyan S.E. really wanted to be appointed prosecutor of the Rostov region and had to completely "lie down" under Demin A.V. These relations explain the fact that Demin A.V. was never brought to criminal responsibility in the case of torture in the Smolensk pre-trial detention center. It was Karapetyan S.E. who did not give any progress to this case and covered for Demin A.V. in every possible way, hoping that the latter would fulfill his promises. However, when trying to appoint him to the position in the Rostov region, Karapetyan S.E. received a negative and discrediting review through the M Directorate of the central apparatus of the FSB of Russia, which served as the reason for his well-deserved pension. Thus, the promises of Demin A.V. turned out to be a sham and now there is no one to cover for him from the prosecutor's office of the Smolensk region; we hope that even despite the mutual guarantee in the Prosecutor General's Office in terms of acquitting their employee Polonsky E.V., repeated complaints from Vladimirov A.Yu. about torture will not go unnoticed by the prosecutor's office and the court of the Smolensk region.

Arseniy Dronov

Source: www.rucriminal.info

How the FSB opened a "window to Europe"

Sanctions - from Georgia, "brotherly tobacco" - from Belarus

Today Rucriminal.info will tell you about the FSB officer Alexei Demin, who became famous for torture in the Smolensk pretrial detention center.

According to the source, after the introduction of sanctions related to the events of 2014, the most favorable conditions arose for the head of the department of the FSB for the Smolensk region, Demin, which allowed him to further subjugate the entire security bloc of the Smolensk region, and at the same time significantly improve his financial situation, of course, under the guise of active work to ensure state security.

First, under the pretext of exposing the illegal migration of Georgian citizens across the Belarus/Russia state border, and later under the pretext of exposing corrupt law enforcement officers, the most profitable part of the shadow market at that time was taken under the control of the criminal group led by Demin - the import into the territory of the Russian Federation and subsequent transit to the markets for the sale of sanctioned goods from the European Union.

Thus, under the patronage of Demin, Mikhail Tabur, a provincial resident of the border region, turned into a monopolist in the transportation of "sanctioned goods". As a result of his activities, tens of thousands of trucks with sanctioned goods crossed the state border, allowing the members of the organized criminal group to receive income in the billions of rubles ... A green pass for one truck cost customers from 900 to 1,500 dollars. The transit of sanctioned products was covered by employees of the border services of the FSB of the Russian Federation (Demin's colleagues), employees of the State Traffic Inspectorate and the Department for Economic Security and Combating Corruption in the Smolensk Region. Sometimes, to give legitimacy to this work, which was put on stream, Demin carried out demonstrative arrests. For example, when receiving 70 thousand rubles from Tabur, a whole colonel of the criminal investigation police was detained - Leontyev Alexander Sergeevich, a lenient measure of restraint and a suspended sentence were clearly also provided for not selflessly.

Over time, the described type of criminal activity became too noticeable in Moscow offices and ceased to be relevant.

In this regard, Demin's criminal business group quickly switched to more serious acts, which subsequently began to cause colossal harm to state interests, namely, the illegal import and transit of tobacco products produced in Belarus, naturally, without paying excise duties to the budget of the Russian Federation, but clearly not without paying "excise taxes" into the pockets of corrupt law enforcement officers of the border Smolensk region.

Earlier, the VChK-OGPU telegram channel told a story in which the main character was also Demin. The Smolensk Region prosecutor's apartment was robbed. He gave the order to the FSB officers to torture the suspect in the pre-trial detention center so that he would confess. The detainee turned out to be innocent. The prosecutor and the FSB officer were not held accountable.

The Cheka-OGPU learned about the details in the case of torture of Alexei Vladimirov, who, according to the investigation, robbed the official apartment of the former prosecutor of the Smolensk region, and now the head of the Prosecutor General's Department for the Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of Polonsky. A confrontation was held with the FSB officer Demin A.V., who took part in the investigation of the above-mentioned outrage, and who, according to the log of incoming SIZO 1 Smolensk, on May 29, 2019, in the evening, when Vladimirov was being tortured, looked into the pre-trial detention center. After the confrontation, Vladimirov recognized Demin as one of those who tortured him, and wrote a statement to the Investigative Committee. The list of bodily injuries inflicted on Vladimirov, probably by Demin and a second unidentified person, can be found in the appendix (Vladimirov's inspection report). The investigators were unable to establish the name of the guard who took Vladimirov out of the cell, and they forgot to ask detective Pirozhkov, who actually took Vladimirov to the basement, who was waiting in the basement. When Polonsky headed the Smolensk Region Prosecutor's Office, his service apartment was robbed. The prosecutor raised all the security forces, including the FSB, "on their ears", and the Vladimirov mother and son were detained. However, they were not called to the crime, there was no evidence. As Alexey Vladimirov pointed out, he was tortured in the basement of Smolensk Pretrial Detention Center No. 1 until he confessed, and the next morning, right in the office of the head of the pretrial detention center, Mikhalik, Polonsky personally interrogated him "under duress". History repeated itself with Alexey's mother - she was also interrogated with partiality by Polonsky in the office of the head of the pretrial detention center.

As a result, the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Smolensk Region opened a criminal case on the fact of causing bodily harm to Alexey Vladimirov. During interrogations, Polonsky called the events with Vladimirova a "personal reception" within the walls of the pretrial detention center. But he categorically denied visiting Alexey.





Arseny Dronov

Source: www.rucriminal.info