First Deputy Minister and his husband - Thai trans

“Starovoit is always ready to wallow in the “blue hole”, from which Kostyuk periodically pulls him out.”

A source from the VChK-OGPU telegram channel reported about searches at the head of the Federal Institution Uprdor "Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod" Alexander Nefedov. According to the interlocutor, the activation of the security forces is connected with the resignation of Nefedov’s patron, First Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Andrei Kostyuk, from his post. Earlier, the Cheka-OGPU reported that a decision had been made to resign Deputy Minister of Transport Andrei Kostyuk, a regular hero of our publications. Kostyuk is the organizer of multibillion-dollar thefts on the country's federal highways. Kostyuk was a protégé of the crime boss Vladimir Golubev (Barmaley). The Cheka-OGPU learned that the other day Kostyuk wrote a letter of resignation and, according to information to date, the resignation was agreed upon.



Kostyuk was a protégé of the crime boss Vladimir Golubev (Barmaley). It’s funny that Kostyuk is a close associate of the newly appointed Minister of Transport Roman Starovoyt, also a top manager of Barmaley’s organized crime group.

At one time, Kostyuk was even summoned to the FSB after his appointment as head of Rosavtodor for a preventive conversation.

Kostyuk himself liked to chat on occasion about his close relationship with the first deputy director of the FSB, Sergei Korolev. Therefore, he announced to everyone that the position of minister was in his pocket. At the beginning of the year, Kostyuk even offered his longtime friend, the former head of the FBU Rosavtotrans, Valery Kulikov, the position of deputy minister, whom he hid after the scandal as an adviser to Dietrich in the State Transport Leasing Company.

For Kostyuk and his entourage, the appointment of another top manager of the organized crime group, Barmaley Starovoit, to the post of minister was a complete surprise. Barmaley happily rubbed his hands because of the “golden” Kostyuk-Starovoit combination for him. But fate turned out differently.



However, the source of Rucriminal.info says that there is a possibility that Kostyuk will remain an adviser to Roman Starovoit. The close circle of Barmaley’s organized crime group is horrified and bewildered by the personnel changes in the leadership of the Ministry of Transport. As one of the leaders of the road construction organization said: “Starovoyt always relied on Kostyuk. Having a strong addiction to alcohol in large quantities, Starovoyt was unable to solve urgent problems that Andrei Kostyuk skillfully solved. Kostyuk managed to save Starovoit when the latter was the governor of the Kursk region, and Kostyuk was the deputy minister of transport, resolving difficult moments with the governor’s deputies.” .

In the most interesting way, knowledgeable sources are watching the acting 1st Deputy Minister of Transport Valentin Ivanov, known in certain circles as “Aunt Valya.” Valentin Ivanov received this nickname under extremely interesting circumstances.

In 2015–2016, Ivanov headed the Federal State Institution “Federal Administration of Highways North-West”. Then a criminal case about fraud with land plots in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region came to light. His father's house was searched, during which a large sum of money was seized. A decision was made to detain Ivanov and he went on the run. Ivanov hid for a long time in Thailand, where, according to a Rucriminal.info source, he managed to start a romantic relationship with a local girl. True, the girl was in for a surprise, since she had previously been... a man. But the operation was performed only on the upper part of the body. Despite requests from his partners not to advertise such love, Valentin even managed to introduce the stranger to his parents...

The couple created a “family nest” in Thailand. And then Andrei Kostyuk, through his administrative capabilities, closed the issue of criminal prosecution. Ivanov was able to return to the Russian Federation, where he eventually became Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation and is awaiting promotion to 1st Deputy Minister under the patronage of the downed pilot Andrei Kostyuk.

The interlocutor of Rucriminal.info said that another figure from Barmaley’s organized crime group is the chief personnel officer of Rosavtodor, Viktor Timofeev. The specified citizen is Kostyuk’s confidant, however, at Lubyanka, in Directorate T he is considered a “good guy,” which allowed Timofeev to remain one of his own both here and there! Timofeev not only remained in touch with the Department of Technical Security of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, but also managed to jump a couple of steps on the career ladder, awaiting appointment to the post of Deputy Minister of Transport instead of Vasily Desyatkov.

It is quite difficult to believe that such people occupy top positions, but one may be even more surprised by the fact that Roman Novikov, convicted of negligence, runs the Federal Road Agency.

“Ivanov is incompetent and stupid, with a terrible biography, but his own. Kostyuk’s main task is to remain free and preferably in the status of assistant/adviser to the Minister of Transport, in order to maintain financial flows through his puppets. And Starovoyt is always ready to wallow in the “blue hole”, from which Kostyuk periodically pulls him out,” this is how a Rucriminal.info source described the situation in the Ministry of Transport.



Timofey Grishin

To be continued

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Alone on the ice

Rotenbergs, Barmaley, Deputy Minister Kostyuk and huge corruption



Rucriminal.info continues to talk about the cutting of the budget on the country's federal highways. Federal Institution "Department of Federal Highways "North-West" (Uprdor SZ) summed up the results of the next three competitions for the elimination of wear and tear and the maintenance of some road facilities in the Leningrad region. Almost 1.5 billion rubles. divided between three different companies, which would seem to be good, as it creates the appearance of competition. But we understand that competition (as well as democracy) is for the naive and idealists. Let's see who will share this small pie for PKU.

So, the smallest lot (188 million) for road maintenance went to SPK Green City LLC. This St. Petersburg company has long been working with multi-billion-dollar funds both with the Federal Public Institution Uprdor SZ and with other structures of Rosavtodor. The casket opens extremely simply - the co-owner of the company, billionaire Grigory Baevsky, although former, is still a business partner of two Rotenberg brothers - Arkady and Boris. No comments needed.



The largest lot (718 million) for the maintenance of the A-120 highway went to the famous JSC VAD. This is the fourth most powerful road construction company in the country, and its owner Valery Abramov is famous for the fact that he does not belong to any of the oligarchic clans. Remember, there was such a rare camp suit “alone on the ice”? This is Abramov. He is so powerful that last year he managed to fight off attempts by the Rotenberg clan to take VAD for themselves. How does multi-billionaire Abramov do this? The answer is simple - Valery is personally and well acquainted with Vladimir Putin from his time in St. Petersburg and, surprisingly, still (although not as easily as before) has the right to a personal audience. It was this that took place in 2023 and immediately put the greedy brothers in their place.

Well, whose average is 546.5 million to eliminate asphalt wear on the St. Petersburg Ring Road? The lot, like the other two - at the full maximum price - was taken by Technosphere LLC, billionaire and citizen of Malta Konstantin Khodosovsky. He is a former top manager of the giant Andrei Molchanov's LSR corporation, where ex-Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov also worked. The “Godfather” of both is the same Vladimir Golubev, nicknamed Barmaley, who, as the VChK-OGPU telegram channel has already repeatedly said, holds in his hands a good half of the federal road network through First Deputy Minister of Transport Andrei Kostyuk. However, Konstantin also has a more subtle connection with the Barmaley family, which we will talk about in the following episodes.



Important changes in the field of road construction in St. Petersburg could go unnoticed, but the Cheka-OGPU will not be able to pass by. If a new multibillion-dollar contractor appears in the established sphere of government contracts of some structure (for example, the St. Petersburg Directorate of Transport Construction (hereinafter referred to as “DTS”)), this will inevitably not go unnoticed by the controlling structures (including, of course, the specialized security officials). But all this will look completely different if the beneficiary of a long-familiar and understandable company imperceptibly changes. Read - one technical denomination will be replaced by another, and the legal entity will continue to receive budget billions in the same way as before.

We are lifting the curtain - in the near future the ownership structure of SK Orion Plus LLC (hereinafter referred to as Orion), a serious road contractor in St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod with government orders worth about 76 billion rubles, will change. Initially, the company belonged to businessman Alexander Usov, who, as the media have repeatedly written, has friendly family ties with the former Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Anatoly Serdyukov. But after the well-known story, the influence of the latter weakened, and the tax, as well as the economic police and the FSB began to show great interest in Usov’s business. The problems were resolved in an understandable way, and in 2018 the company was re-registered in the Leningrad region.

But by this time, Usov was already tired and realized that it was time to “get on his skis” (fortunately, a real palace had been waiting for him for a long time in sunny Italy). He left, handing over the business to relatives, and began to squeeze every last penny out of Orion, withdrawing funds abroad. As a result, despite decent figures for 2022 (9.4 billion in turnover, 162 million in net profit), Orion entered 2023 with difficulties and serious debts due to informal agreements with officials (the so-called “homework”).

And then, overseeing the distribution of the road budget in St. Petersburg and a number of other regions of the country, the authority Vladimir Golubev (also known as “Barmaley”) and his bureaucratic retinue, led by Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Andrei Kostyuk, decided to take the Orion Plus to your road clip. As a result, at the end of last year, Orion Plus became the property of Konstantin Sizikov. Of course, a 50-year-old businessman who bought a three-year-old BMWX5 30D and is registered in a small suburban house would not be able to afford this even close. He is just a technical character from the sphere of interests of Barmaley Jr. - Maxim Zhu kova. Without having data on the price of the transaction, we will only say that due to the friction that arose, Usov was forced to cede Orion at a significant discount.

However, after the transaction, during an audit it became clear that the real financial condition of Orion is not nearly as good as Usov promised. The icing on the cake was the emergence of interest in the company’s activities among the economic police and the Federal Tax Service (the cash-out schemes used by Usov were never distinguished by their sophistication). Taking into account the newly discovered circumstances, Zhukov decided to get rid of the potentially problematic asset, transferring it to other close businessmen. It is known that they were offered Orion, promising new billions from the St. Petersburg DTS and other government customers, but without telling them about the true depth of the problems. So in the near future we expect another change in the technical owner of this company, which, of course, we will inform our readers about. Of course, the name of the real buyer will not remain a secret either.

The Cheka-OGPU continues to talk about corruption in Uprdor, which serves the M7 Volga highway. The result of billions of dollars in cuttings is now in the public domain - you just have to drive along the route “Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod”. Especially in winter, you can see snow piles on the roadway and increased potholes. The situation is extremely dangerous. And the absence of any road equipment completely calls into question the safe operation of the roadway.

Let's look at the numbers: in the winter of 2023/2024, as a result of unsatisfactory maintenance of the M 7 Moscow-Kazan federal road, more than 800 accidents occurred in the Nizhny Novgorod and Vladimir regions, of which there were deaths, including the death of children - more than 90 cases (injured (injured) more than 550 people).

The bulk of the accidents occurred due to improper performance of work on the maintenance of the highway by contractors, as well as the lack of proper control and response on the part of the head of the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod Road Administration, Alexander Nefedov.

Contractor organizations involved in the maintenance of the above-mentioned M7 Volga highway (JSC DEP7 and LLC Nizhegorodavtodor) regularly receive money for maintenance within the framework of concluded government contracts, although in fact no work is being carried out.

Illegal activities are covered by the management of contracting organizations that are engaged in poor-quality maintenance of the federal highway, while receiving tens of millions of rubles from the state budget into their accounts every month; they are the ones who have close friendly relations with the “hero” of our previous articles - First Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Andrei Kostyuk.

Denis Zhirnov

Source: www.rucriminal.info