Will Igor Shuvalov compete with Katya Tikhonova?

The head of VEB is leaving, having made himself a “pot” of state billions



Against the backdrop of information about his imminent resignation, the head of VEB.RF, Igor Shuvalov, tried to attract 62.5 billion rubles to the corporation with the help of another placement of short-term bonds in early November.

VEB.RF made previous offers to investors on October 27 for the amount of 960 million rubles, on October 18 and 19 – for 52.5 billion rubles, on October 4 and 5 – for 51.3 billion rubles. With each issue, the coupon rate increased to make the corporation's bonds more attractive to investors. For what? Details at Rucriminal.info.

At the beginning of December, the VChK-OGPU telegram channel wrote about Igor Shuvalov’s participation in the work of the “Forum of United Cultures.” It was noted that the family of the head of VEB.RF lives in Austria, and he is often accompanied by young men.

Shuvalov turned the state corporation into a means to achieve his financial goals, hiring the people he needed into it, including those of foreign origin. One of these is the Italian Sandro Tetti, who represents the interests of Igor Shuvalov abroad. According to a source from the Cheka-OGU, the personnel policy of the head of VEB.RF has more than once become the subject of criticism from the Resident Administration of the Russian Federation, but it allows Shuvalov to control assets abroad.

Igor Shuvalov headed VEB.RF in 2018, before which he served as First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government for 10 years. Shuvalov is a protégé of oligarchs Oleg Boyko, Roman Abramovich, Alisher Usmanov and head of the presidential administration Alexander Voloshin, who held this position in 1999-2003. It was at Voloshin’s suggestion that Shuvalov was Vladimir Putin’s assistant for 5 years.

Such a track record and connections speak volumes, but in 2018, Igor Shuvalov had to leave the government. Thanks to his extensive experience, Shuvalov received at his disposal a state “feeding trough” - the deeply unprofitable Vnesheconombank (VEB). They apparently hoped to correct the situation, since Igor Shuvalov had a reputation as an anti-crisis manager.

In order to disown old “sins”, Igor Shuvalov carried out a rebranding - Vnesheconombank turned into the financial corporation VEB.RF. Before this, the name “DOM.RF” was given to the Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending (AHML), which since 2015 was headed by Alexander Plutnik, a former assistant to Shuvalov.

At the instigation of the Deputy Prime Minister, AHML in 2017 received under its wing the Russian Capital bank and Sotsinvestbank, which it was rehabilitating, as well as 54 billion rubles. from the DIA for their recovery. In 2018, DOM.RF asked for another 22 billion rubles. Both banks were significantly milked by Alexander Plutnik under the auspices of Igor Shuvalov.

The structure of the “HOUSE OF THE RF” company “RK-Stroy” was engaged in the reconstruction of the Polytechnic Museum, Shuvalov was the head of its board of trustees. In 2018, the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation found violations in the museum’s work amounting to 2.5 billion rubles. That was the end of it.

In 2018, VEB.RF organized the “takeover” of Vadim Vaneev, a large turkey producer of the Eurodon agricultural holding, who owed money to the corporation on loans. Despite protests from the business community and Vaneev himself, Eurodon was transferred to VEB.RF. The structures of DOM.RF tried to manage the agricultural holding, but failed - in 2020, bankruptcy proceedings were introduced in Eurodon.

Alexander Plutnik, having completed all the tasks of his boss, in 2020 headed the company “New City Projects” (“Progorod”), a structure of “VEB.RF”, but soon became the deputy head of Russian Railways, supervising the property complex.

At the beginning of 2020, VEB.RF and Arkady Rotenberg, who controls Russian Railways, agreed to create the Natproektstroy company with assets worth 100 billion rubles. It is not surprising that Alexander Plutnik found a warm place in Russian Railways.

The state constantly pumps VEB.RF with money. At the end of 2019, the corporation received a subsidy of 242 billion rubles, in 2022 it became known that 120 billion rubles. The Project Finance Factory, part of VEB.RF, will receive from the National Welfare Fund. In 2021-2024 the corporation planned to finance projects worth 6.5 trillion rubles.

VEB.RF does not publish data on financial results, but open sources show that the corporation is hiding its contractors. This year alone there are several contracts, the wording of which is striking in its brevity.

Provision of services for supporting IT infrastructure - 263 million rubles, performance of work on repairs of premises - 951 million rubles, provision of booking services - 292 million rubles, performance of repair work - 3 billion rubles, provision of insurance services - 314 million rubles. In total, taking into account other contracts, secret executors received more than 6 billion rubles in 2023.

If you look at the news of the VEB.RF corporation, its main activities are the construction of schools and the modernization of electric transport in various cities. However, these projects do not amount to 6.5 trillion rubles.



In 2021, a scandal broke out within VEB.RF. The corporation was unable to defend itself in court against the accusations of two dismissed employees - Mikhail Tokranov and Yuri Litovkin A. They wrote letters to a variety of authorities, including the government apparatus, the President of the Russian Federation and the Prosecutor General's Office.

In the letters, former employees of VEB.RF pointed out facts of misuse of budget funds, concealment of financial irregularities and provision of false information about their activities. The accusations are more than serious and, naturally, VEB.RF asked to be banned from disseminating them, but the court refused this. And thereby acknowledged the veracity of the information about the corporation.



In October, the VChK-OGPU Tedegram channel reported on Igor Shuvalov’s connection with fugitive businessman Andrei Korovayko, ex-owner of the Pokrovsky concern; two criminal cases were opened against Korovayko in Russia. But this does not prevent the glamorous manager Alexander Ivanov, nicknamed “Suzanna,” from working at VEB.RF, whose patron is Andrei Korovayko. Under the wing of Shuvalov, “Suzanna” took part in the extraction of Krasnodar assets in favor of the structures of the region’s governor, Veniamin Kondratyev.

According to the VChK-OGPU telegram channel, Shuvalov is actively looking for a new place of employment. Shuvalov himself sleeps and sees himself as the rector of Moscow State University, but in this university there is Katerina Tikhonova, who is also not averse to replacing Sadovnichy. As an alternative, Shuvalov “agrees” to take the place of the rector of St. Petersburg State University. The current rector Nikolai Kropachev's contract expires in 2024 and he is very nervous.



The place of Shuvalov himself may be taken by Fradkov, the head of Promsvyazbank (PSB).



Yuri Prokov



To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info

The theft of 6 billion rubles from the Moscow Region led to the partner of Katerina Tikhonova

The ex-top manager of JSCB Rossiya and Miller’s deputy acted as the nominee



For the third year now, investigations have been going on about where 6 billion went from the construction of several training grounds (Terekta and Turgai) for the Russian Ministry of Defense. The showdown in the courts over several minor episodes is going on half-dead. At the end of 2020, it was even possible to land a fairly large “fish” - a member of the board of directors of EMK-Engineering Andrei Chesnokov, who was previously close to Kovalchuk and was a top manager at AKB Rossiya, and also served as deputy chairman of the board of trustees of the St. Petersburg State Economic University (head of the council Alexey Miller).



As the source of Rucriminal.info says, no one began to investigate the main episodes of theft. This is explained by a number of factors - both the suspicion of shared participation in the theft of some not ordinary officers from the Directorate M of the FSB, and contacts in the Kremlin. However, all this did not clash very much with each other, since the most important thing was not at all clear - where the money went. After all, if you look into it and know about the standard of living of Chesnokov, other smaller defendants in the case, as well as the standard of living of the FSB officers protecting them, then it becomes quite obvious that 6 billion passed them by, not without commissions of course, but clearly the % was market and did not greatly enrich such a large team of its participants. Many were thinking at their leisure - after all, Chesnokov was for some time connected with both Kovalchuk and Rotenberg (through Goloshchapov), partnered, and with a number of other “power” businessmen and officials. However, all this did not affect, first of all, the level of life of Chesnokov himself (as well as everyone like him, who de jure was the owner/manager of both the garbage theme - Spetstrans-6, and energy stories). By the way, all of Chesnokov’s assets that he acquired are a lot for the average person, but for the elite it’s ridiculous, given the 10-year control of 50% of the waste industry in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, as well as participation in a huge number of energy projects. During all this time, the person “bite” only 20 million USD? Hard to believe. And rightly so, I can’t believe it. Chesnokov, like Konovalov (Spetstrans-6), Shtykov (OPEC Management Company CJSC), as well as a number of other “owners” and managers, are simply rich and not very rich (director of OPEC Management Company CJSC with billions in turnover - lives in three rubles in Kudrovo ") denominations, one can look with great amusement at how almost all the managers and legal owners of the same Spetstrans-6 turned out to be lovers of Khrushchevkas, cars costing $20,000 and other attributes of worker-peasant life.

Quite by chance, the solution came after almost 4 years of investigations against EMC engineering and from where they were not expecting it. As Rucriminal.info found out, one of the international agencies sent information about the beneficiaries of the EHR, where a character who once appeared (just on the dates of the largest thefts) was discovered - Biryukov Alexey Pavlovich (brother of Sobyaninsky Biryukov), although he corrected his biography throughout (removing the period from there work in EMC engineering as chairman of the board), but I forgot on the Suvorov Military School website.

It turns out that at the end of 2015, Biryukov was actively proud of the fact that he represented EMC engineering on the board of trustees of the Moscow Suvorov Military School, as the web resource of this school informs us all about. But even here one would think that there are a lot of Biryukovs in the country - however, Biryukov was again passed by the famous Suvorov School, it is there that he is still listed on the board of trustees, but with a new place of work - the vice-rector of Moscow State University for capital construction.

Was anyone surprised by this?

Here lies the main secret, why the investigation of 6 billion thefts from the Ministry of Defense is not moving anywhere - let’s not forget who Biryukov’s partner in the great construction of Moscow State University is, no less, Katerina Tikhonova. Now it becomes clear why investigator Fesinets, who was in charge of this case, planted a grenade on herself. Try to put yourself in the place of an ordinary investigator who has been assigned a case, the threads of which go to the business partner of Putin’s daughter. Here you can shoot yourself, and not just plant a grenade on yourself.

Roman Trushkin



To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info