Security forces searched the family of the main murdered witness of the TFR

New secrets of gangster Petersburg



On November 1, 2021, an ordinary event would have happened in St. Petersburg - when checking documents, officers of the patrol service detained a citizen who presented a passport in the name of Rakhimov Ramil Faritovich. In view of the suspicions that arose among the staff of the PPS, the citizen was taken to the police department, and upon closer examination of the document, it turned out that the passport was, albeit of high quality, but still fake, and the citizen who pretended to be Rakhimov was in fact a federal wanted man for a long time. Adeishvili Zurab Avtandilovich.



A brief digression into history is needed here. As Rucriminal.info found out, at one time Adeishvili was extremely close to the well-known raider Shengelia Badri, along with Daraselia Akakiy, already mentioned in our previous article, he was a member of a limited circle of the closest and most trusted persons. Recall that Badri Shengelia was the main witness in relation to Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin)

However, as often happens in gangster sagas, a black cat ran between them and yesterday's accomplices became sworn enemies.

The conflict between Shengelia and Daraselia with Adeishvili, who joined the latter, occurred over real estate owned by Shengelia OJSC "Repair and Mechanical Plant" (St. Petersburg, Malaya Mitrofanievskaya St., 4 TIN 7810250587), which Daraselia tried in his usual manner - by forging title documents, stealing from his former boss. The frontmen, or as they say, "infantry" in this case were people selected by Adeishvili. Despite the criminal cases initiated by Shengelia, as a result of which this very “infantry” quite expectedly received real terms, to keep the property of OJSC

"RMC" Shengelia could not and was forced to give it to Vladimir Stepanov for nothing. To close the issue and gain full control over RMK OJSC and its property, Stepanov repeatedly flew to Bulgaria to see Daraselia, who is on the international wanted list.

Thanks to the efforts of Shengeliy, Adeishvili was imprisoned under the classic raider article 159 of the Criminal Code - “Fraud”. Adeishvili honestly served the term assigned to him by the sentence and was released. But his misadventures did not end there. As it became known to Rucriminal.info, Adeishvili did not have time to be released, as it turned out that he was the main suspect in the case of the brutal murder of V.S. Orlov committed in the Priozersky district of the Leningrad region.

The investigating authorities considered Orlov a key figure in organizing the falsification of entries in the statutory documents and registration files of St. Petersburg enterprises and organizations subjected to raider seizures in the early 2000s. Testimony that Adeishvili is the executor (murderer) of Orlov was given naturally by Shengelia. In addition to Shengelia's testimony, there were other persons' testimony in the case, albeit indirectly, but also testifying to Adeishvili's involvement in the crime.

Adeishvili hid from the investigating authorities and lived on forged documents.

Since mid-February 2017, the case against Adeishvili was suspended in connection with his search and resumed again, after his, as it turns out, by no means random detention.

According to our sources, Adeishvili was not really looked for, so every day there were less and less reason to trust Shengeli's testimony. Moreover, as part of the investigation into the murder of Orlov, operational measures were being prepared in relation to Shengelia himself, since there were sufficient grounds to believe that he, Shengelia, was directly involved in the crime. The investigation did not manage to realize its plans because of the murder of Shengelia himself. Recall that his Mercedes was literally riddled with bullets from a Kalashnikov assault rifle on the same Priozerskoye highway in October 2018.



What was the trigger for Adeishvili's arrest? The version that he was detained as a result of a banal document check is absolutely unconvincing.

As noted in our article dated February 04, 2022, Stepanov fraudulently, with the active assistance of Daraselia, tried to steal the property of SKAM CJSC. This large property complex is located in St. Petersburg at 50 Ligovsky pr. At the same time, the price of the transaction is a ridiculous 24 thousand rubles, and only the cadastral value of the property exceeds 53 million rubles, the real market value is several times higher. Disputing this transaction, the shareholders of SCAM CJSC filed a claim with the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg, and by the time of this publication, the court has ruled to invalidate this transaction and return the stolen property back to the ownership of SCAM CJSC.

In this matter, it is important that the shareholders of SCAM CJSC, to one degree or another, were directly connected with Adeishvili, some of them were even related and certainly were under his influence. The detention took place just a few days after a telephone conversation between Adeishvili and Stepanov.

As it became known to us, the conversation between Adeishvili and Stepanov concerned precisely the circumstances that had developed around SCAM CJSC. The contracting parties failed to reach an understanding, and as a result, Adeishvili ended up in prison.

A few days later, Adeishvili was detained, and this could be explained by the excellent work of law enforcement agencies, the attentiveness of the patrol officers, and any other factors, if not for one exceptionally important circumstance.

The first person to visit Adeishvili in the detention center, even before the visit by the investigator or, say, relatives, was the lawyer of the Neva Bar Association Sherle Oleg Aleksandrovich.

Scherle himself is a very, very remarkable figure. Former deputy of the municipal council of the city of Lomonosov, who was a member of an organized criminal group that was engaged in fraud with apartments. At the same time, socially unprotected residents of St. Petersburg became victims of fraudsters. According to our sources, a significant role in Sherle's surprisingly lenient sentence - 5 years probation, despite the fact that other members of the gang received real terms, was played by Sherle's longtime patron - Stepanov, already well known to us.

Without postponing the showdown on the back burner, Sherle immediately offered Adeishvili mutually beneficial cooperation. Sherle explained to the astonished Adeishvili that he was acting on behalf and on behalf of Stepanov, that the very fact of Adeishvili being in prison was due to his intractability with Stepanov. According to Scherle, it turned out that Stepanov was the only hope for salvation for Adeishvili, otherwise he would face a life sentence.

The essence of Stepanov's proposal boiled down to the following: he, Stepanov, through his connections in law enforcement agencies, decides on the removal of charges against Adeishvili for the murder of Orlov. As mentioned above, the investigation did not particularly trust the testimony of Shengelia, but Stepanov undertook to resolve the issue with the testimony of other persons and a number of circumstantial evidence in relation to Adeishvili.

In exchange for his service, Stepanov demanded from Adeishvili assistance with the shareholders of SCAM CJSC. What should this assistance be? The shareholder of SCAM CJSC, on whose behalf the claim was filed with the Arbitration Court, had to abandon the claim by submitting a corresponding application to the Arbitration Court, and subsequently all shareholders should re-register their shares to the persons indicated by Stepanov.

If Adeishvili refused such a “generous offer”, not only was he not guaranteed a comfortable term until the trial, but, on the contrary, the conditions of his detention could significantly worsen.

Realizing that this decision is perhaps the most important in his life, Adeishvili took a break in the negotiations.

In this regard, the searches conducted on November 10, 2021 at all the relatives of Badri Shengelia look completely different. Searches almost simultaneously took place in four places at once, at the place of residence of B. Shengelia's brother, widow, daughter and nephew. Although the searches were carried out in connection with the murder of Orlov, for some reason the operatives were interested in any documents and records related to ZAO SKAM, as well as to Daraselia.

The editors of Rucriminal.info will continue to monitor the development of the situation with interest and will promptly cover it.



To be continued

Alexey Ermakov

Source: www.rucriminal.info

"I'll put you in jail very soon."

Who killed Badri Shengelia?





The murder of an authoritative businessman Badri Shengelia committed in September 2021 on the Novopriozerskoe Highway remains unsolved. A dozen bullets riddled a black Mercedes S500 moving towards St. Petersburg. Shengelia was an extremely colorful character of gangster Petersburg, he knew many secrets of this city. In the last years before the murder, he became a witness of the TFR and the FSB of the Russian Federation in many high-profile cases. In particular, Shengelia testified against the leader of the Tambov organized criminal group, Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin).

The Telegram channel of the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info are starting a series of publications about people who were closely connected with Shengelia. Gradually, our investigation will reach the moment with his murder. Today we will start with Stepanov Vladimir Leonidovich, one of the closest friends of Shengelia.



Today Stepanov Vladimir Leonidovich is a wealthy man, a respected businessman, head and founder of a number of enterprises in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. Member of the Public Council for Small Business under the Administration of the Petrodvortsovy District of St. Petersburg, the Public Council under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Petrodvortsovy District of St. Petersburg and the Commission for Combating Corruption in the Administration of the Petrodvortsovy District of St. Petersburg.

However, few people know that before becoming a "respected person", he acted as a customer, financial and information sponsor of very interesting schemes.

Stepanov began his entrepreneurial activity in the now distant 90s, when, as a result of the dubious privatization of consumer cooperation enterprises in the Lomonosov region, he - Stepanov received control of all his assets. At that time, there were many large and small trading facilities on the balance sheet, the income from the activities of which Stepanov personally began to receive.

Known facts of fraudulent activities with the property of state-owned enterprises located in Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad region.

In the late 90s and early 2000s, Stepanov worked very closely with the criminal authority Shengelia Badri, who loudly thundered throughout St. Petersburg.

The basis of this cooperation was the purchase by Stepanov at a knockdown price of the property stolen by Shengelia in order to legalize it, the so-called conscientious buyer.

Acting as a customer and organizer, while ensuring uninterrupted financing of raider seizures, Stepanov always remained in the shadows, giving Shengelia the right to enter the forefront.

If you carefully study the history of real estate purchased by Stepanov at that time, then almost all of them are somehow connected with Shengelia.

The established alliance of Stepanov - Shengelia and the "right hand" of Shengelia - Daraselia Akaki Gvandzhevich worked for a long time and very effectively, and it was mutually beneficial cooperation. Stepanov - got valuable assets on the cheap, Shengelia - had fun with easy money as long as he could.

However, the sources of Rucriminal.info say that the cooperation between Stepanov and Shengelia was not limited only to economic aspects, it even went so far that the “fighters” from the Shengelia brigade exerted measures of force on Stepanov’s competitors and forced them to somehow “move” in favor of Vladimir Leonidovich, well, really, why not help a good person. They say that there is objective evidence for these circumstances.

Stepanov, through his connections in the law enforcement agencies, provided Shengeli with services to conceal the acts committed by him. In this regard, a certain law firm Yurservice LLC (TIN 780517390149) seems to be of interest, it was in this firm that the lawyers who worked for Shengelia, who dealt with issues of raider seizures and hostile takeovers, were officially registered. The sole founder of Yurservice LLC and the general director was Shengelia's "right hand" - Daraselia, and since August 2009, control over the company (according to data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities) passed personally to Stepanov and remained so until its liquidation in October 2018. The question is why Stepanov is such a burden, the reputation of the company, to put it mildly, is tarnished, it does not have any know-how, Daraselia himself was already on the federal and international wanted list by that time, but no, Stepanov personally flies to him in Bulgaria and draws up documents for himself firms. The reason was in the documents of Yurservice LLC, which undeniably showed a direct connection between Stepanov and the crimes committed by Shengelia and his brigade, and Stepanov flew after them.

But these are all things, although not very long ago, but still of the past days, and Shengelia has already gone to another world for more than three years. If you wish, of course, you can tell a lot more interesting things about the activities of Stepanov V.L. and his "cooperation" with Shengelia, would be an interested listener.

Stepanov repeatedly flies to Daraselia, who is on the wanted list, but at the same time quietly living in Bulgaria.

He offers him to resume, so to speak, cooperation and pick up the “crumbs” that Shengelia at 50 Ligovsky Ave. did not formalize at one time (the site of CJSC SCAM in the very center of the city), and then receive income from them. These "crumbs" were nothing less than engineering networks and communications, through which heat, water, electricity are supplied, sewerage is diverted for the entire complex of administrative and business buildings located at 50 Ligovsky Prospekt. These "crumbs" also included networks gas supply to the boiler house located at the same address.

Why did Stepanov need Daraselia? soon to be demolished for the needs of Russian Railways.

Everything turned out to be not so simple. As a source told Rucriminal.info, SCAM CJSC, although it has been listed in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities since 2006, which is in the process of liquidation, has a record of an invalid address, but as a legal entity it still exists and therefore has all the rights provided by law. The liquidator in it is precisely Daraselia, and this was the key factor.

Stepanov's plan was as follows: Daraselia should issue a power of attorney to the person indicated by Stepanov to represent the interests of SCAM CJSC with the widest possible powers, including the right to alienate real estate.

Daraselia, apparently from old memory, tried to put forward some conditions of his own, but the arguments of Stepanov's new friends, immigrants from one of the Caucasian republics, as well as a reminder that he is still wanted and, if desired, of course, can be found very quickly and deported to Russia finally convinced Darasely to accept Stepanov's proposal.

Using the power of attorney received from Darasely, copies of documents on the privatization of the property of CJSC SKAM were ordered from the Central State Archive of St. Petersburg. Using archival documents and resorting to the services of cadastral engineers, the necessary documents were prepared for registering ownership of engineering networks and communications.

On the basis of the received archival and newly produced technical documents, on January 22-23, 2020, the ownership of engineering networks was registered in the name of ZAO SKAM. In fact, immediately after that, namely on January 30, 2020. a contract for the sale of all these engineering networks was concluded, the purchaser of which was Stepanov's daughter, Yegorova Elena Vladimirovna.

A significant fact is that the total price specified in the contract for all networks is 24,000 rubles, while the total cadastral value of engineering networks exceeds 53 million rubles.

These are not some virtual networks, these are real-life and fully functioning engineering communications that provide energy resources to 17 non-residential buildings with a total area of ​​more than 50,000 square meters.

When this information became known to a wide range of interested parties, for an explanation, which is natural, they turned to both.

Daraselia did not give an intelligible answer, and Stepanov's arguments boiled down to the banal - "I bought it and it's mine."

Then, on behalf of the shareholders of SCAM CJSC, a claim was filed with the Arbitration Court to recognize the transaction for the alienation of property (engineering networks) as invalid. Case No. A56-6328/2021.

During the trial, which lasted almost a year, it became obvious that Stepanov simply deceived Darasely, he was not going to give him any money, but his threats were absolutely real. Realizing this, Daraselia begins to actively cooperate with the shareholders, provides them with the necessary information, and from the defendant of SCAM CJSC becomes the plaintiff in the case in the Arbitration Court.

Realizing that with an honest and objective trial, he has no chance of a positive outcome for him, Stepanov, using his corrupt connections in law enforcement, organizes an audit against the shareholders of CJSC SKAM. His daughter Yegorova, who by that time had married for the third or fourth time and became Masterova, writes a statement to the operational-search unit of the criminal investigation department for attention! fraudulent actions by the shareholders of SCAM CJSC. Surprisingly, they react to her statement in the most lively way and zealously begin to check the statement.

The shareholder who filed a claim with the Arbitration Court is under unprecedented pressure, investigators come to his home, repeatedly interrogate him, convincingly ask him to drop the claim, and threaten him with criminal prosecution.



The operative of the criminal investigation department openly participates in court hearings while taking the side of Egorova (Masterova), provides her with verification materials, including those containing personal data of citizens. Relying on the support of the employees of the criminal investigation department, Egorova (Masterova) disputes the right of the shareholder to file a claim, stating that, despite the convincing evidence presented (an extract from the register of shareholders), he is not a shareholder at all, in addition, she makes a statement about the falsification of evidence, in which puts on doubt the authenticity of Daraselia's signature on the documents that she herself submitted to the court. When it turned out that Daraselia himself refutes this by sending a corresponding written appeal to the court, on which his signature is certified by a notary, she herself immediately withdrew her application. The course of the process is not only documented, but also to prevent any misunderstandings, misunderstandings, an audio recording of everything that happens in the courtroom is conducted, the audio files are attached to the case materials, so this episode is very easy to check.

There are many other audio and video materials that clearly demonstrate the true essence of Stepanov.

After the court made a decision on the merits of the case, which satisfied the stated claims in full, that is, recognized the contract of sale as invalid, Stepanov sent a message to Daraseliy with a threat - “I will put you in jail very soon.”

Can Stepanov turn his threats into reality? This is definitely a rhetorical question. Indeed, in addition to an almost unlimited financial resource, participation in public councils and committees, which are mentioned above, Stepanov has other resources along a kindred line, so to speak.

Daraselia, we must give him his due, is by no means sinless, and if he finds himself in Russia, he cannot avoid meeting with justice, but isn't it time for the competent authorities to turn their attention to Stepanov.

Of course, only a court can call a person a criminal, but how else can you call a person who has made his fortune on connections with crime?

Any criminal is a danger to society, and a criminal endowed with power, authority and the ability to influence the fate of people in particular.

We, for our part, will observe how this story will continue and, most importantly, how this story will end.



To be continued

Alexey Ermakov

Source: www.rucriminal.info

Surrendered the patron and was killed

"I wrote a statement addressed to the chairman of the TFR and the problem was eliminated"



September 2021 marks three years since the murder of a reputable businessman Badri Shengelia on Novopriozerskoye highway. A dozen bullets riddled a black Mercedes S500 moving towards St. Petersburg. Shengelia was an extremely colorful character of the bandit Petersburg, knew many secrets of this city. In the last years before the murder, he became a witness to the TFR and the FSB of the Russian Federation in many high-profile cases. In particular, Shengelia testified against the leader of the Tambovskaya organized criminal group Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin).



And then he also testified against the former head of the ICR's own security department, Mikhail Maksimenko. Thus, Shengelia cut off the branch on which he was sitting. It was Maksimenko in the ICR who oversaw the work on the physical protection of important witnesses, protected Shengelia from trouble and sought to extend his state protection. Literally a couple of months after Maksimenko's arrest, state protection from Shengelia was unexpectedly removed, and then the killers shot him.

It is worth noting at the trial of Maksimenko Shengelia gave extremely interesting testimony, which significantly differed from the one voiced during the preliminary investigation. Rucriminal.info has already published what Shengelia told during the investigation. Now is the time to acquaint readers with his testimony during the trial.



“The receipt of a bribe by Maksimenko from Shengelia is confirmed by the following testimonies of the persons interrogated in the case. Interrogated at the hearing Shengelia B.A. testified that he met Maksimenko in 2007 in St. Petersburg during the investigation of the criminal case against Barsukov (Kumarin). He (Shengelia) was at first a suspect in this case, then a witness, and collaborated with the investigation. At the same time, Maksimenko was one of the guarantors of his security. With the latter, he also developed financial relations, since Maksimenko, at his request, resolved certain issues. So, there were situations when, when Shengelia had a problem, he turned to Maksimenko, wrote a statement addressed to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, a commission came from Moscow and the problem was eliminated.



Several years ago he (Shengelia) bought a Hublo watch for about 20 thousand euros. This watch was later illegally confiscated from him by police officers in St. Petersburg. In this regard, he turned to his friend Fedosov (an operative of the department of his own security), filed an application. Fedosov said that there is a record on which Polozaev (the head of the department whose employee seized the watch) confirms the fact of their seizure. He (Shengelia) was interested in punishing the people involved in the seizure of the watch. However, Fedosov failed to lobby for the initiation of a criminal case. Then he (Shengelia) turned this question to Maksimenko. The latter told him that he wanted to initiate a criminal case against Polozaev in order to find out Klaus (the head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg), since these persons prevent him from “solving issues” in St. Petersburg. With Maksimenko, they agreed that a criminal case would cost $ 50,000. The specific mechanism of Maksimenko's actions in terms of initiating the initiation of a criminal case was unknown to him (Shengelia). Later he learned from Fedosov that a criminal case had been opened. After that, in October 2015, he met with Maksimenko at the Park Inn Hotel in St. Petersburg, made sure that the latter had a copy of the decision to initiate a criminal case, asked his security guard Zagitov to go to his (Shengelia's) home and pick up $ 50,000 from the safe USA.

Upon his return, Zagitov gave him a bag with this money, and he gave it to Maksimenko. In return, Maksimenko gave him a copy of the order to initiate a criminal case.

From the testimony read out due to the presence of significant contradictions that Shengelia gave during the preliminary investigation, it follows, in particular, that the information about the theft of the watch committed from him, which he stated in the crime statement, was false. Indeed, during the meetings, he informed Maksimenko about difficulties with law enforcement officers, namely the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in St. places), talked about wiretapping Polozaev's telephone conversations by employees of the OSB "West" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The discussion took place in the indicated hotel, but not in a room closed to other persons, but in a bar where other persons were present. In addition, Shengelia did not inform the investigator that he had the money at home, and his bodyguard Zagitov went to fetch them when Shengelia made sure Maksimenko had a copy of the decision to initiate a criminal case (vol. 8 case files 86-95, 96-107, 124-139, 186-195).

At the hearing, answering questions about the reasons for the contradictions in the testimony, Shengelia explained that he had told the investigator about the falsity and stated in the statement about the theft of the watch, as he feared Polozaev and his people.

B, the discussion of the issue of Maksimenko's remuneration (but not the transfer of money) really took place in the bar, but there was no one at the table except him and Maksimenko.

To the investigator, he did not detail the scheme for transferring money (instructions to Zagitov and the actions of the latter).

From the testimony of the witness T.Oh. Zagitova questioned at the hearing. it follows that since 2004 he has been working as a security guard for Shengelia. In October 2015, he took the latter to a meeting with Maksimenko at the hotel 46 31 "Park Inn Pulkovskaya". They were supposed to discuss the situation related to the seizure of watches from Shengelia by law enforcement officers. Shengelia entered the hotel, after some time came out, asked him to go home to him (Shengelia), take $ 50,000 from the safe and bring him to the hotel. He (Zagitov) complied with this instruction.

When he returned to the hotel, a man met him and took him to the room where Shengelia and Maksimenko were. Shengelia went out, took a briefcase with money, and the specified man escorted him (Zagitov) to the car. Of those announced on the basis of Part 3 of Art. 281 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, the testimony of a witness during the preliminary investigation reveals, in particular, that the bag with money, which was later transferred to Maksimenko, was already with Shengelia when he arrived at the aforementioned hotel. Shengelia entered the hotel without a bag, and after a certain time, at the request of Shengelia, he (Zagitov) carried a bag with money to the hotel room (where an unknown man took him) and gave it to Shengelia (vol. 5, l.d. 142-146) ...

During the preliminary investigation, when checking the testimony at the site, Shengelia indicated the places of meetings with Maksimenko at the Park Inn Pulkovskaya hotel at the address: St. Petersburg, Victory Square, 1. Among others, Shengelia pointed to the utility room, where in October In 2015, he donated $ 50,000 to Maksimenko.





Timofey Grishin

To be continued