"Friends from High Politics"

A broken business and an interesting account in the Swiss Arzi Bank








Details of the life of the football "Spartak" from the time of Oleg Romantsev were provided by the Cheka-OGPU and Rcriminal.info by the well-known sports journalist, author of books about football Alexei Matveev



SPIN ON THE "SENT" MONEY



... Yuri Vladimirovich Zavarzin walked nicely on his fiftieth birthday. Exactly two and a half months before the initiation of a criminal case for non-payment of taxes by his then club, Spartak. At the anniversary in the respectable metropolitan restaurant "Yar", filmed on such an important occasion, the Dynamo leader was congratulated not only by his wife and two children.

Among those invited were high-ranking gentlemen, probably experienced fans. Just admirers of the criminal talent of the hero of the day, why not? Names and surnames are well known to many: Boris Gryzlov, Sergei Stepashin, the then head of the Control and Auditing Department of the Presidential Administration of Russia Yevgeny Lisov, chairman of the Moscow Regional Duma Valery Aksakov, and a number of other people. There were 17 people in total.

It is unlikely that Yuri Vladimirovich is on friendly terms with all the gentlemen listed. But the people, no doubt, are needed, without their direct participation and congratulations, the evening would have clearly faded. And on the sidelines, you can discuss with them issues that are extremely important to you. For example, for friends from high political spheres to help cover up a criminal business, etc. As they say, you don't need a hundred rubles, but have influential friends.

The table in "Yar" was covered with an exquisite one. Stolichny salad with smoked chicken, sterlet medallions, rock perch fillet with Almods sauce and coconut puree. In total, 639,398 rubles were spent on the anniversary evening according to the bill for the menu. Modest and tasteful.

What is especially touching is the reliable male and even female friendship. Our heroes fled, having inherited together in Spartak, in different corners, but they continued to communicate, nevertheless. Families. Why not? Called, met.

Just a couple of months after the magnificent celebrations of the anniversary of Yuri Vladimirovich, the wives of famous near-football figures Margarita Zavarzina and Natalya Romantseva went together to improve their health in a Geneva clinic. In the official paper that came to the names of the mentioned wives from the office of the clinic, everything is painted down to the smallest detail.

That, for example, they have standard rooms at their disposal, a stay in each of them will cost only 18,300 euros for six days. Well, dear fans, I'm sorry, you can't forbid the rich to live beautifully. Not such an eye-catching luxury. Why not take a walk on the Spartak money hidden all over the world? We only live once...

It has already been mentioned that Oleg Romantsev issued a power of attorney to manage club funds to two of his assistants - the then Vice President Grigory Esaulenko and General Director Yuri Zavarzin.

So, according to conservative estimates of the tax authorities, over 15 (!) Million Spartak currency settled in various Western offshores during the reign of the criminal trio. A well-known character, dexterous, cunning Ostap Bender, is no match for figures from the football party of the “red-whites”. The scale of the personality is not the same, the money is incomparable.

Based on the documents, it is known for certain that Esaulenko had (and still has) a personal account with the Swiss Arzi Bank. Spartak currency was sent directly to this personal account for the sale of players to foreign clubs, the performance of the Moscow team in European competitions, etc.

Although the cunning Grigory denied having such an account during interrogation by investigators in the framework of a criminal case on the fact of the murder of Larisa Nechaeva.

Apparently, Esaulenko was sure that his correspondence with representatives of foreign financial institutions would never become public. He was wrong. What the operatives from the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vladimir Region failed to “dig up” on him was done by employees of the Federal Tax Police Service. Those, in turn, handed over the documents to the journalist.

We gave the details of this correspondence in our earlier publications, there is no point in repeating. We only note that he himself and the company did not seem to see any difference between their own pockets and the club cash desk. A kind of "improvised obshchak". At first glance, it is quite legal ...

“I am working on a project with the Swiss,” Grigory Vasilievich once said in a private conversation with me. Well done. He does not care a straw.



"WASTE ON A LARGE SIZE"



Many years have passed since the initiation of a high-profile case against the former Spartak bosses. They began to forget about him, the course of the investigation was suspended, a lot said that it would be completely closed.

The slowness, perhaps the unwillingness of the investigation to establish the truth, coupled with possible corruption moments, became obvious. Apparently, big politics intervened, along with big "bumps".

It turned out to be more and more difficult with potential criminals from the world of football. Although there is irrefutable documentary evidence of their criminal activities. Yes, almost identical. Non-payment of taxes, again suspicion of organizing the beating of the general director of Spartak. Part of the mentioned evidence (almost all) is given. What else is required to put the villains in jail? Probably a little sports, political will. While on the horizon, neither one nor the other.

For pro forma, regular interrogations of the accused Esaulenko, witnesses Romantsev, Zavarzin, Panasenko were conducted. Only now they were interrogated not by the tax police, but by employees of the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, whose building is in Gazetny Lane in Moscow.

I learned from a source that, in addition to individual interrogations, there were so-called face-to-face confrontations. It is clear that each of the defendants denied involvement in what happened in the bowels of the "people's" team.

Romantsev claimed that he had nothing to do with it, only coached the team, practically did not deal with financial and economic affairs. Why then took on the position of president of the club? This imposed a significant responsibility for the current life of the team loved by millions of people. Or was Romantsev forced at gunpoint to become president? It's hard to believe.

In fact, Oleg Ivanovich gave club resources at the mercy of criminal types, they were just waiting for this. To seize and seize money that did not belong to them. They were earned, first of all, by football players - in the domestic arena, in prestigious international tournaments.

Romantsev's closest assistants for that period also took similar positions, their alleged non-involvement in the loss of funds. The former Spartak player Dmitry Alenichev, who had long returned from foreign clubs, was also called for interrogations. But he cannot objectively clarify the situation: his job is to play, now to train, and not to delve into the financial side of club work. In a way, right.

The employees of the Investigative Committee were somewhat surprised that the defendants in the criminal case came for interrogations without lawyers. Their presence in such cases is necessary for the defendants themselves. At the same time, the former “Spartacists” behaved imposingly, even arrogantly, thereby trying to emphasize their lack of jurisdiction. They are "above the law", there is nothing to fear. They won’t go to jail, there are influential defenders from the world of politics, in the systems of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB ...

The investigators, according to them, did not feel pressure. Although in the process of preliminary proceedings, four (!) supervising prosecutors were replaced. Moreover, each ended his career in this position - the leadership of the Prosecutor General's Office for some reason dismissed them.

There was a lasting impression that the security forces deliberately “dismissed” potential prisoners from answering for criminal acts. As if they were waiting for, for example, the statute of limitations under criminal article 193 (non-return of foreign exchange earnings from abroad) to expire. Also another article - 199 (non-payment of taxes), which also provides for punishment. Well, again, no one answered for the murder of Larisa Nechaeva. It’s as if we live in a country of “elite” robbers, thieves, murderers who get away with everything. In the literal and figurative sense. It turns out that in big football everything is allowed - with influential patrons. As in the case of the Spartak criminal company.

In the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, they could not interrogate Grigory Yesaulenko at one time. Virtually undetectable. Probably, there were no forces and means to catch. Maybe they didn’t really want to get a colorful personality.

For a whole year and a half, Grigory was hiding from the investigators. Either he worked as an agent of the Minsk "Dynamo", then he went - without barriers - to bask on foreign beaches. Preferred the Spanish shores. Grigory Vasilievich sometimes returned to the Russian capital. Incognito, not appearing in public. I visited elite bars, restaurants in the company of old, trusted friends. With the former Spartak manager Hadji, for example. Well, they are very friendly - until now. The adhesion is dense, apparently, to the grave. Both, Khadzhi and Esaulenko, did not hide their connections in the criminal world. Contacts with militants from organized criminal groups (nowadays it is fashionable to call communities) are well-established and strong.

Oleg Romantsev warmed up such nice guys in Spartak, as if he himself became an integral part of the "brotherhood". Sometimes “brothers” play football and cards, spend time together with fishing rods on the bank. Just tenderness cause quivering relationships.

... Although the investigation of the acts was neither shaky nor rolly, the figures of criminal games did not have to relax for some time. Oleg Ivanovich and his friends in the Investigative Committee were charged with “embezzlement and embezzlement on an especially large scale” (Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Quite a logical step on the part of the security forces. Considering that the "zealous" owners of "Spartak" almost all the club's currency was stuffed into their personal foreign accounts. Waste, theft, theft of pure water! No, it does not fit with clean water. Full-flowing muddy streams of Spartak euros and dollars rapidly flowed into the dirty foreign accounts of thieving football officials. Examples were given concrete, blatant.

Employees of the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation put up in many transport points - on highways, at airports, the so-called sent watchmen (slang for operatives) to search for and capture the fantastically elusive Grigory Yesaulenko. To finally interrogate him.

From the same traffic cops, according to a source in the committee, Grigory Vasilyevich tritely paid off when they announced during the arrest that he, Esaulenko, was on the federal wanted list. But, no matter how you run, the end is the same. The former vice-president of Spartak was detained in the VIP lounge of the Sheremetyevo-2 international airport, when he intended to once again go to the southern shores.

In handcuffs (incomprehensibly!) They brought the once elusive fugitive from justice for interrogation. Have issued a written undertaking not to leave. Since then, Grigory Vasilievich is a good boy, he called the investigator himself: is it necessary to come to testify? Just like a law-abiding citizen! One thing is not clear: the employees of the Investigative Committee did not have access to the same VIP room in order to catch the main suspect in the “Spartak case”? Or pulled rubber for a year and a half? To say the least, this is strange...

Alexey Matveev

Source: www.rucriminal.info

Blood, Chechen "authorities" and "Razgulyay"

Where did the traces from the murder of the head of Spartak lead?





The murder of the boss of the red and white team, Larisa Nechaeva, has not been solved to this day. As we managed to find out, the folder with the criminal case is gathering dust on the shelf of the prosecutor's office of the Vladimir region. The chances of exposing the killers and customers are almost zero ...



Years after the execution of his mother, the eldest son of Larisa Nechaeva, Andrey, turned to the president of the country. Maybe he'll help solve the crime. According to Andrei, the mother's beliefs coincided with the attitudes of Vladimir Vladimirovich, who actively advocates the development of physical culture and sports in our country.

Larisa Gennadievna at one time was nominated for deputies of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. And at meetings with voters, she just discussed the possibility of building sports grounds at the place of residence, the construction of large arenas in the region, and so on.

It is naive, but Andrei believes that his mother's sports ideology should encourage the authorities to find the killers, the customers.



We are publishing the second part of the investigation into the murder of Larisa Nechaeva and the total theft of Spartak club money, prepared specifically for the telegram channel of the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info by the famous sports journalist, author of books about football Alexei Matveev.



ANONYMOUS SHEDING LIGHT



Although Romantsev denied the “monetary” background of the massacre of Nechaeva, she, nevertheless, was not in doubt. In many ways, the situation was clarified by the details of the interrogation of Grigory Yesaulenko, one of the main suspects in the criminal case of the murder. Moreover, knowledgeable people consider Grigory Vasilievich the main customer of the crime.



Here are excerpts from the interrogation of the former vice-president of FC Spartak:

“Despite the fact that I worked as a vice-president of the club, I did not have the right to sign documents,” Esaulenko argued in an interview with the investigator. - All cases of buying and selling players were led by Nechaeva. It was she who was mainly involved in financial matters. Under the control of O. I. Romantsev. I don't have any personal bank accounts. I do not know the mechanism for transferring money from the purchase and sale of football players, since L. G. Nechaeva was in charge of the process. I would like to add that I do not know how O. I. Romantsev controlled the activities of L. G. Nechaeva.”

But, of course, it is his signature that stands on almost all the contracts of the players that Spartak acquired or sold to other teams. Probably, Nechaeva tried to intervene in the process. But, apparently, without success.

Here is a characteristic text in the case file. Anonymous sent a letter to the FSB investigative committee. It is dated July 14, 1997, that is, a month after Nechaeva's death. It makes sense to quote it in full:

“I am well aware of the situation around Spartak,” an anonymous source reports. - I personally know people in the club's management. The following happened. Until last year, the money coming from the sale of football players, as well as sponsorship funds, went to the personal accounts of G.V. Esaulenko. And he was secretly in charge of all financial transactions. Until a certain point, Oleg Romantsev believed that money was put into personal accounts allegedly in order to evade taxes, and so on. Oleg Ivanovich is a good man, but an alcoholic. Therefore, it is not difficult for him to confuse his head, arranging endless drinking parties with a trip to the country. Some time ago, he began to suspect that something was wrong with the money. Then Romantsev persuaded Nechaev to come to the club. She quickly delved into what was happening, figured out a lot, as she was a smart, meticulous woman in her work. About six months ago, an internal scandal occurred in the club, when G. V. Esaulenko was almost fired from work. Nechaeva tried to deprive him of financial influence. Most likely, Esaulenko ordered the murder, the organizer is his friend and “roof”, a Chechen named Turpalo.”



BRIVAL OF RIVALS AND REFEREES



From the bowels of the FSB investigative committee, this letter was forwarded to the prosecutor's office of the Vladimir region, on the territory of which the murder took place. And the senior investigator of the local prosecutor's office, S. Prokhorov, instructed the operational officers of the Department of Economic Affairs of the Internal Affairs Directorate to check the information. In particular, does G. V. Esaulenko have personal foreign accounts, what are their sources and directions for further movement of funds.

However, nothing is said about the results of the check in the case file.

But the circle of probable customers of the murder of Larisa Nechaeva is outlined. Here is what the senior detective of the GUUR of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, police lieutenant colonel A. Derkach, reports to the head of the same department, Lieutenant General I. Khrapov: “I report that in the course of carrying out measures to identify the likely customers of the murder of the general director of the Spartak football club, the following was established. The vice-president of the club, G. V. Esaulenko, after the death of L. G. Nechaeva, acts as director. While working as vice president, Esaulenko was engaged in the acquisition and sale of football players. He appropriated part of the proceeds from the sale. Esaulenko was allocated funds for the organization of refereeing in custom matches. He did not report to anyone about spending money. With the advent of Nechaeva, Esaulenko was removed from the above duties. On this basis, they repeatedly had conflicts.



In addition, Esaulenko was seen in the company of the Chechen brothers Atlangiriyevs - Turpul and Movladi. The latter was in prison together with Vladimir Tenoshvili, a suspect in the murder. The Atlangiriev brothers are the founders of the Razgulay restaurant, Esaulenko has "his share" in the restaurant. He maintains ties with the leaders of the Lyubertsy organized criminal group, and in his commercial activities he uses the services of Chechens. In the football club, Esaulenko is closest to the executive director M. Korotkov and the manager S. Hadji. In the event of any problems, Esaulenko tries to leave Russia, mainly to Spain.”

At home, Esaulenko was charged in a criminal case for large-scale tax evasion by Spartak. At least the indirect participation of the master of "behind the scenes" in the murder of the former general director of the "red-whites" was traced. Finally, the operatives established his connections with representatives of the criminal world. But they did not finish, or did not want to bring the investigation that had begun to the end.



“The executive director of the Spartak football club, M. V. Korotkov,” further reports police lieutenant colonel A. Derkach (according to the security forces, Korotkov is one of the likely customers of the murder), maintains relations with the leader of the Lytkarino organized crime group Valery Silenok. Silenok is familiar with wanted Zdor and Tenoshvili, who shot Nechaeva. While working in his position, Korotkov opened several stalls selling souvenirs on the territory of the club. Nechaeva took this trade under her control, and Korotkov lost his uncontrolled income.

The duties of the manager-administrator S. Yu. Khadzhi include the acquisition of sports uniforms and other equipment. For these purposes, Hadji received money, but he bought sports equipment of lower quality, and appropriated the remaining money. Nechaeva began to buy sports equipment on her own, trying to conclude a contract with Puma. Khadzhi, Esaulenko and Korotkov opposed such a move. Hadji kept in touch with the leaders of the Lyubertsy organized crime group, whom he brought to Spartak matches and provided them with the best seats in the stands. Nechaeva suspected Khadzhi of selling fake tickets for Spartak matches, and told him about it.

In order to establish the involvement of the above-named persons in the organization of the murder of Nechaeva, it is necessary to carry out a complex of operational and technical measures by checking the financial and economic activities of Esaulenko, Khadzhi and Korotkov, ”the police expert concludes.

Almost all the leadership of the "red-white" 90s and 2000s, one way or another, is connected with gangs. Uniform organized criminal group "Spartak"! And there is no exaggeration in this statement.

Alexey MATVEEV

To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info

Shot in the head " Spartak"

Why the execution of the general director of the "people's team" has not been disclosed





This summer, exactly 25 years have passed since the murder of the general director of FC Spartak Larisa Nechaeva. The era of the 90s, and the 2000s in domestic football is truly bloody. The hopelessness is that the "hand of justice" never got close to the real investigation of crimes in the game loved by the people.



And law enforcement officers do not "itch".

One of the main customers of the murder of the general director of FC Spartak Larisa Nechayeva, the investigation called the vice-president of the club Grigory Yesaulenko. But, to this day, the point in the investigation and capture of criminals has not been set ...

Details are in the investigation, which was prepared for the telegram channel of the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info by a well-known sports journalist, author of books about football Alexei Matveev.



BLOODY SUNDAY



The murder of the former general director of Spartak, Larisa Nechaeva, has become, of course, one of the loudest, most cynical and cruel in the football world. It is in the near-football, you can’t say otherwise.

It seemed that nothing foreshadowed, at least outwardly, such a stunning denouement. On the eve of the monstrous execution, on June 14, 1997, the Spartak team hosted a team of Nizhny Novgorod railwaymen in the regular championship match at the capital's Lokomotiv stadium.

In the room under the stands, shortly before the game, we crossed paths with Larisa Gennadievna. I couldn’t imagine that the last time… “Why haven’t you visited our club for a long time?” - said the CEO. I got off with a phrase on duty, they say, and without "Spartak" there is a lot of work, I'll call in sometime later.

In principle, the relationship with her was at the level of "hello - goodbye." Didn't aspire for more. He always kept his distance, not only with representatives of the "red-whites". Although Spartak has been and probably remains my favorite team since childhood. I was born in a truly Spartak region - Sokolniki.

But when I was a reporter, it was the Spartacists who got the “nuts” from me. Criticized harshly, sometimes categorically. He made a lot of enemies. The same leaders of Spartak could not communicate with me for months. Due to sharp, topical publications. But that's their problem, not mine.

... At the end of the mentioned match between Spartak and Nizhny Novgorod Lokomotiv, Nechaeva herself and a company of people close to the Spartak boss went to her dacha in the village of Taratino, Vladimir Region. Chat in an informal setting, relax, drink beer. Why not?

That same evening we sat down well - drank, ate. As follows from the materials of the criminal case, at 12 noon on June 15, Larisa Nechaeva, together with her friend Zoya Rudzate, went by car for another portion of alcohol. On the way back, they were already accompanied by a red-orange "Moskvich". And in it, as it turned out, the killers.

A "warm" conversation ensued in Larisa's house. The killers from the threshold told the future victim that her murder was ordered. But she can pay off a solid sum, according to them, one hundred thousand dollars. Then maybe they will “pardon” her.

Nechaeva promised to satisfy the demands of the raiders. With her, there was no such amount in the dacha village. Return to Moscow, immediately pay. In response, fatal shots followed.

The general director of the "red-whites" was shot at about two o'clock in the afternoon. The bullets hit the stomach and head, it was not possible to survive after shooting at close range. Larisa's friend, Zoya Rudzate, also received bullets in her face and head. Nechaeva's brother, Gennady Sorokin, was wounded in the neck and right forearm, he miraculously survived.

Another member of the company, Valentin Polyakov, was incredibly lucky. He slept peacefully in the bathhouse of the country house, without even hearing the fatal shots. Valentin called an ambulance and the police, when the bloody Gennady Sorokin finally shouted to his friend. As the general director of Spartak, Larisa Nechaeva worked for less than three years ...



ALLERGIC FLIGHT



Perhaps the most striking thing in this story is that the identity of the killers became known to the investigation immediately. Gennady Sorokin, who survived the massacre, recognized the faces of the criminals from sketches. This is a certain Aleksey Zdor, who had no previous convictions, and Vladimir Tenoshvili, who served two terms of imprisonment. The more experienced Tenoshvili guided his comrade's hand to live "targets". The killers are the same age, at that time they were only 26 years old. Natives of the town of Lytkarino near Moscow.

The search for killers, oddly enough at first glance, did not produce results. Although they, judging by the operational data in the materials of the criminal case, were not particularly hidden.

“Ambush was organized by the staff of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vladimir Region and the Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Lytkarino,” A. Lavrukhin, head of the criminalistics department of the Vladimir Regional Prosecutor's Office, reported to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. - When working out communications, the following was established: according to the testimony of Chebusheva Elizaveta Borisovna, who lives in the city of Lytkarino, Tenoshvili was last seen on June 17 driving a Mercedes. Prior to this, Tenoshvili, together with Chebusheva, drove around Lytkarino in a VAZ-2108 car.

So, just a couple of days after the shots at Nechaeva and her friends, one of the criminals easily, freely traveled around a small town where almost everyone knows each other. It seems that the "thugs" were not going to run away anywhere. Awesome! Although, of course, for such an act they "shone" for a long time.

Apparently, the "police ambushes" did not work.

Also, as recorded in the survey report on the work done to solve the murder of L. Nechaeva, on the same day after the execution, at 16:15, Tenoshvili was taken by his father to the Lytkarino hospital. He was admitted to hospital with a diagnosis of allergy. The next morning, during the round, the "allergic" was no longer found in a hospital bed.

When investigators checked especially close ties at the place of residence, it was established that Tenoshvili's cohabitant, Irina Karpenko, on June 22, 1997, flew to Krasnodar on flight number 1139 with a young man who, according to signs, is very similar to the wanted murderer Larisa Nechaeva. However, neither the killer nor the aforementioned Karpenko were found in Krasnodar.

Meanwhile, traces of his partner, Alexei Zdor, were lost somewhere in Sochi. Then, according to eyewitnesses, both criminals were seen in Dagestan and Chechnya. Of course, someone helped them a lot to cover their tracks. It seems that in many respects this is the “merit” of the brave policemen and prosecutors of the Vladimir region, on the territory of which the tragedy occurred.



LATE WITH SECURITY



Here are some excerpts from the materials of the criminal case on the fact of the murder of Larisa Nechaeva. Her closest associates were interrogated. For example, the head coach and at that time also the president of the club Oleg Romantsev.

“Nechaeva has not shown any anxiety, concern for her health and life lately,” Oleg Ivanovich claimed. - I rarely met her. I'm in the office a couple of times a month. Trainings, matches, trips ... I completely trusted Nechaeva to conduct business as a specialist, and did not delve into, much less, did not interfere in her work. I see no reason to kill Larisa on the basis of professional activity. Audits of the financial condition of the team did not reveal significant violations.

In fact, the murder of Larisa Nechaeva is another “nail” in the coffin of the national team. The main undertaker of the native club was, in my opinion, just the eminent domestic coach Oleg Romantsev. Previously, he made a name for himself on the football field, as a solid defender under the guidance of the famous mentor Konstantin Beskov. Behind the edge of the field - as a coach, having won prestigious trophies with the team. But on the sidelines, he could not withstand the pressure of representatives of crime, inviting them to work in the most popular club in the country.

It was Romantsev who persuaded Yuri Shlyapin to step down from the post of president of the club, arguing that otherwise the players would start leaving the team en masse. The underlying reason is as follows: they say, Shlyapin is not a modern manager, he cannot negotiate with the players. Therefore, we run the risk of being left without leading masters.

But it was under Romantsev, who took the reins of government into his own hands, that Spartak found itself on the brink of an abyss. The exodus from the team, often unjustified, of the best masters began and continued, and club finances “sang romances”.

Now, having documentary information, I draw an unambiguous conclusion. The Spartak bosses of the 90s and early 2000s, selling off their best craftsmen, shamelessly stuffed their own pockets with crisp banknotes. I really didn’t want to touch my own personal accounts in foreign banks, where the millions of currency they had stolen from the team’s performances in the Champions League, UEFA Cup “settled” (I will definitely give the details).

Talented players were frantically merged to the side to make ends meet for the team. We are talking about salary, the cost of flights, hotel accommodation, etc. People of an openly criminal persuasion have firmly settled in Spartak. Romantsev, on the other hand, invariably flaunted: he himself brought them into a glorious team. Like, his newly-minted associates have a reputation as respectable businessmen.

Meanwhile, the team was dying before our eyes, first of all, in personnel and financial relations. As a result, she slipped into shameful places for herself in the final standings of the Russian championship.

The same financial violations that Oleg Ivanovich mentioned during interrogation about the murder of his comrade-in-arms turned out to be so "insignificant" ... That in March 2003, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, on the proposal of the Federal Tax Police Service of the country, opened a criminal case against the entire leadership of "Spartak" . Club President Oleg Romantsev, his deputy Grigory Esaulenko, CEO Yuri Zavarzin and chief accountant Pavel Panasenko.

The main claims of the tax authorities are tax evasion on an especially large scale. Spartak's managers, in the process of all kinds of manipulations, in other words, machinations, owed the treasury more than $1.5 million at that time. And, of course, they were in no hurry to pay taxes.

Strangely, only one Esaulenko was charged within the "criminal quartet". Romantsev, Zavarzin, Panasenko were witnesses in the case. As often happens in Russia, the investigation could not whether (or, most likely, did not want to) bring to its logical conclusion. All defendants still roam free. Although there is more than enough evidence against them.

The businessmen from big football, who ruined Spartak, plundered the club money, found solid, powerful patrons from power structures. Administration of the President of the country, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, the Accounts Chamber. They "slowed down" the process of possible "landings".

The same Romantsev, according to him, being the president of the club, did not delve into the essence of financial issues. And, if he delved into it, it was only out of selfish interests. For example, how much dividends may be due to him personally from certain transactions that the ubiquitous assistant Grigory Esaulenko turned over.

The club money of Spartak, I note, earned by the players, and not by officials, in various tournaments, was sent to different accounts around the world. From Europe to America and Australia. It is by no means disinterested for Messrs. Romantsev, Esaulenko, Zavarzin, and others like them.

How can you not profit here, the temptation for thieves is great. After all, Spartak, without exaggeration, turned over millions, speaking in the most prestigious club tournament - the Champions League. Plus players were sold left and right. And numerous sponsors showered the "red-whites" with solid bonuses, valuable gifts. Cash infusions flowed like a full-flowing river. Here a zealous owner was required, but ...

... From the protocol of interrogation in the criminal case of the general director of the private security company "Skat" Alexander Voronov:

- On June 6, 1997 (only nine days before the murder - A.M.) in the afternoon, a woman called us. She introduced herself as the general director of the Spartak football club Nechaeva Larisa Gennadievna. She said she wanted to talk about her personal protection. Friends strongly recommended hiring professional security guards. We agreed that from June 16 she would have constant security, concluded an official contract, and on that we parted.

Larisa Nechaeva did not live only one day to protect herself from the sinister execution.

Probably, Larisa Gennadievna was a secretive, strong nature, relying solely on herself. Otherwise, how to regard the fact that even her brother, Gennady Sorokin, did not say a word about the threats against her. And the threats, now there is no doubt, took place.

And Nechaeva had fears for her life if there was a need to seek help from employees of a private security company. It remains to be assumed that the customers, as well as the perpetrators of the murder, were in a hurry to remove the general director, having somehow learned about her plans to hire security for themselves.

Obviously, the head coach and president of the club, Romantsev, turned out to be extremely illegible in the selection of personnel for key positions. I do not exclude, I went for it consciously. He gave prestigious positions to people who were able to enrich themselves and his “beloved”. It is no coincidence that businessmen from Oleg Ivanovich's inner circle famously transferred club funds to foreign accounts. And not only for the purpose of hiding taxes, but also with a passion for personal gain (I will certainly tell you about this).

At the same time, some of them personally told me that the football players were not paid salaries for several months in a row.

The following fact also speaks of promiscuity in people, conscious or unconscious. After the death of Nechaeva, Romantsev signed a power of attorney. The document is important, fundamental in such cases. So, it is written in black and white on the paper that Vice-President Grigory Yesaulenko and the newly-minted CEO Yuri Zavarzin manage Spartak’s funds (probably, the traces of blood have not yet been washed off after the execution of Nechaeva in her country house).

Dealers from criminal structures famously "disposed" of the club's money. Stupidly stuffed the currency earned by the players into their personal foreign accounts! And, thus, they completed the bankruptcy of the team beloved by millions of people. They also avoided jail time. I hope so far. Although hopes for retribution are almost gone.

Later, in 2003, during a press conference dedicated to the resignation of Romantsev from all posts, the newly-made president of the "red-white" Andrei Chervichenko told the people sensational things. Of course, only the author of these lines asked questions about financial fraud. The broadcast was live.

The so-called colleagues were silent in a rag. And Andrei Vladimirovich told the football world that all data on the club's financial activities had been successfully erased from club computers. Isn't it a clear evidence of total theft in the national team. The former managers, headed by the "legendary" Romantsev, quickly covered up their tracks...



Alexey MATVEEV

To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info