How the defense plant laundered the money of the "daughter" of Rostec

With the support of now former employees of the Office of the FSB of the Russian Federation

As it became known to Rucriminal.info, during the investigation of the former director of the Temp defense enterprise, facts of corruption of the leadership of the United Engine Corporation surfaced.

In May of this year, the Savelovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the former chairman of the board of directors of CJSC CB Natsprombank and the general director of OAO NPP Temp named after. F. Korotkov ”Andrey Trubkin to 8 years in prison for embezzling more than 102 million rubles from a defense enterprise.

Witness's testimonies

During the investigation, witnesses testified, from which it became clear that the plant had been used for money laundering for a long time by the leaders of the United Engine Corporation (UEC), which is part of Rostec.



So, for example, it became known that the former general director of the UEC-Ufa Motor-Building Production Association Alexander Artyukhov (the current head of the UEC) transferred about 200 million rubles from the settlement account of JSC UEC-UMPO in 2011. to the settlement account of JSC UEC-Saturn. Then, more than 84 million rubles of this money were transferred to the account of OAO NPP Temp named after V.I. F. Korotkov" under contract No. 610-1 dated March 15, 2011 and cashed out through one-day firms. Thus, Artyukhov laundered funds for the purchase of real estate in one of the Baltic countries.

In the Savelovsky court, during the hearing of the Trubkin case, it was said that the money was brought to the regime enterprise of JSC UEC-Saturn in trunks. There they were handed over to trusted persons in the administration building. At the trial, it was said that Trubkin, who came to Rybinsk together with lawyer Sergei Egorov from the company Panteleev, Egorov and Partners, solved the issues of cashing out through JSC UEC-Saturn directly.

Another valuable witness is Svetlana Shashkina: the former deputy director of the Temp defense enterprise. The woman said that she tried to convince her leadership - Masalov, Artyukhov and Trubkin - that the cashing scheme was unprofitable. According to her, the Salyut and UEC-UMPO plants earned much more on kickbacks from suppliers of components and assemblies.

The first criminal case against Andrei Trubkin appeared in 2013. The source of Rucriminal.info, close to the leadership of the UEC, believes that it has become part of a plan to seize the assets of the Trubkin family. At that time, he and his wife owned 80% of the shares of CJSC CB National Prombank and about 30% of the shares of Tempa.

When the case was opened, Sergei Lesnichiy appeared in this story - a former employee of the banking department of the Directorate K of the FSB, who was dismissed from the bodies due to negativity. He undertook to solve problems with a criminal. The forester, together with lawyers from the Panteleev, Egorov and Partners bureau and with the management of JSC UEC, under the pretext of delaying and closing the investigation, persuaded Trubkin not to appear for interrogations. In 2015, he was put on the wanted list, and in 2017 the case was closed due to the statute of limitations. In July 2017, another investigation appeared into the theft from OAO NPP Temp named after M. F. Korotkov” 83.8 million rubles. in the interests of UEC JSC. It was then that Andrei Trubkin realized that his friends were playing a double game and decided to come to the investigator with a confession. But the Lesnychiy's team got ahead of him and gave the investigators the place of residence and routes of movement, depriving him of the opportunity to repent. In 2019, Trubkin was detained in the Moscow region and sent under arrest.



Sources familiar with the criminal showdown in the UEC claim that the murder of Deputy Commercial Director of UEC-UMPO JSC Yuri Yashin, which occurred in 2018, is also connected with the division of assets. In their opinion, it was after this murder that Trubkin refused to testify against his "friends."

Valuable knowledge

And at the same time, Andrei Trubkin has something to share with the investigation. For example, he must remember how in the early 2000s, the Russian Federation, which was the owner of almost 100% of the shares of CJSC CB Natsprombank with a participation share of 27 million rubles, transferred the entire block of shares to FSUE MMPP Salyut on the right of economic management . The Federal State Unitary Enterprise was in dire need of its "bank" to launder multibillion-dollar proceeds from the supply of aircraft engines to China.

According to a Rucriminal.info source, the funds laundered through the bank, which amounted to many tens of millions of US dollars, were transferred to personal accounts and accounts of affiliates in banks of the Russian Federation and foreign banks, and partially spent on the purchase of controlling stakes in enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Russia - PJSC "Agregat", OJSC "Agat", OJSC "MPO im. Rumyantsev, OAO NPP Temp named after F. Korotkov, foreign JSC JV Plant Topaz, Tractor Plant in Chisinau, factories in Tiraspol, Bendery, Orhei in Moldova and others.

Such large-scale embezzlement and money laundering could not go unnoticed and the patronage of the curators from the Directorate "K" of the SEB of the FSB of Russia Dmitry Frolov, Andrey Vasilyev, Kirill Cherkalin, Sergey Lesnichiy, the first deputy head of the DIA Vladimir Miroshnikov, the management of JSC "UEC" and others.

Then business partners Andrey Trubkin and Sergey Lesnichiy carried out an operation to “dock capitalization” of CJSC “KB “Natsprombank” up to 300 million rubles at the expense of funds issued to shell companies against their own bills, then the funds were transferred to nominal shareholders who deposited them in the bank to increase the authorized capital. The “paper” increase in the bank's capital led to the bank receiving promissory notes of shell companies instead of money into the authorized capital and depriving the Russian Federation of control over the bank. With a contribution to the authorized capital of 27 million rubles, the Russian Federation began to own only 9% of the bank's shares, and Trubkin and his wife received a controlling stake in the amount of about 80% of the bank's shares through front legal entities.

Until mid-2011, the bank's management, with the support of curators from the FSB of the Russian Federation and bribes, representatives of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation managed to avoid responsibility for the withdrawal and cashing out of funds, until the situation became critical. In 2011, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation suspended the activities of the bank, followed by the revocation of the license and the filing of an application for bankruptcy of the bank. By the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court dated January 16, 2012, CJSC CB Natsprombank was declared bankrupt, and the DIA was appointed bankruptcy trustee. In 2019, the bank was liquidated, as they say "all ends in the water", however, if desired, it will not be difficult for the investigating authorities to establish the amount of funds of FSUE MMPP Salyut, OJSC UMPO, OJSC MPO im. Rumyantsev, OAO NPP Temp named after F. Korotkov” and others withdrawn and cashed out through CJSC “CB “Natsprombank”.

Dismissed in 2011 from the FSB of Russia on negative grounds, Lesnichiy, who was actively involved in embezzlement of funds from enterprises of the military-industrial complex through a bank in order to hide his role and the role of Trubkin and other persons associated with them, initiated a criminal case in order to redistribute the assets purchased with the withdrawn funds from the bank, including shares of defense enterprises OAO Agregat, OAO NPP Temp im. F. Korotkov” and laying the blame for all criminal acts on the former chairmen of the board of the bank, Shvaiko and Kurbatov.

Timofey Grishin

To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info

Tu-160M2 in the "paws" of the Forester

Part of the Russian "nuclear triad" was seized because of a tidbit of land





The lawsuit connected with the raider seizure of the large defense enterprise "Temp" is coming to an end. The management of the plant that develops fuel system components for the modern Tu-22M3 and Tu-160M2 strategic missile-carrying bombers, which make up the air force part of the Russian "nuclear triad", have become hostages to the location of the enterprise. Details - in the material Rucriminal.info.



Object of attack

Temp is located in the central part of Moscow on Pravda Street. The cost per square meter in this part of the city is about 700 thousand rubles. A plot of 2 hectares with all the necessary communications is the dream of any developer. That is why negotiators from the largest companies operating in the real estate market are constantly looking for meetings with the shareholders of the enterprise.

When the hunters for easy prey realized that the defenders could not be moved, it was decided to turn to the professionals of the raider schemes. The financier-solver Sergei Lesnichiy was involved in the capture. A graduate of the FSB Academy and a former employee of the banking department of the service, dismissed due to negativity, has his own set of tools for such cases.

Back in 2012, Lesnichiy became friends with Andrey Trubkin, the former CEO of the enterprise. Under far-fetched pretexts, Lesnichiy and the Center for Financial Investigations, affiliated with him, received financial and economic documents from OAO NPP Temp, as well as 3 million rubles, bills for 12 million rubles. and oral consent to the admission of a person controlled by the financier to the management bodies of OAO NPP Temp.



Now ex-head Andrei Trubkin is in a pre-trial detention center. He is involved in a case of embezzlement of the company's funds on an especially large scale. According to investigators, employees of PJSC-UEC Saturn, which is part of United Engine Corporation JSC, may be involved in the same case.

After Trubkin became a defendant in the criminal case, the new management of Tempa cut off all ties with Lesnichiy and tried to recover the money that was paid to Center for Financial Investigations LLC.

"Independent" expertise

This was not part of the plans of a financial swindler with connections in law enforcement agencies. Already in May 2016, Pisarevsky, an investigator for the Northern Administrative District of the Main Investigative Committee of the ICR for Moscow, having received financial support and the consent of his head Zinyk, illegally initiated a criminal case against unidentified leaders of Tempa. In 2017, investigator Soslan Aboev involved the ANO “Commission for Investigation, Expertise and Control of Professional Communities in the Financial Sector” to conduct an examination. Aboev's strange choice of this company is due to the fact that it was also affiliated with Mr. Lesnichiy.

When this fact became known to the leadership of "Temp", the investigator created the appearance that he tried to involve a state institution in the examination. He asked them to backdate their responses. So, a month after the appointment of an examination by the ANO, on October 26, 2017, Aboev personally submitted a request to the Forensic Expert Center of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow; after 3 months, namely on December 22, 2017, he submitted a request to the Main Directorate of Criminalistics of the RF IC; January 23, 2018 - brought a request to the Federal State Institution RFTSSE under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. The forgery by backdating requests became known from the response of the Federal State Institution RFTSSE of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation No. 1-3951 dated May 30, 2019 to a lawyer's request.

The Main Directorate of Criminalistics of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and the FBU RFTSSE under the Ministry of Justice announced the possibility of conducting an examination at the right time, but investigator Aboev ordered the examination necessary for the investigation in the ANO-controlled Commission for Investigation, Expertise and Control of Professional Communities in the Financial Sector.

The forester and his ANO were so “persistent” in conducting expert examinations in the criminal case against the leaders of OAO NPP Temp that they did them “for free”, apparently having received, as is customary, real payment at the expense of the customer - JSC UEC with using illegal schemes, including the use of individual entrepreneurs.

Naturally, the "experts" gave biased, untrue conclusions. They made an absurd conclusion that on January 1, 2018 JSC NPC Salyut Gas Turbine Engineering suffered damage in the form of a fall in the value of 28.5% of the shares of JSC NPP Temp named after. F. Korotkov”, in relation to July 1, 2013 . The paradox is that at the beginning of 2013 JSC "SPC Gas Turbine Engineering Salyut" was not a shareholder of JSC "NPP "Temp" named after F. Korotkov" (a 28.5% stake as of 01.07. existed as a legal entity (date of registration of Salyut, JSC in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities - 04/07/2015).

There is one more moment in the history of expertise, which emphasizes the partisanship of experts. "Commission for Financial Investigations ..." had no right to conduct an examination, since it was open the data of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (hereinafter also referred to as the Unified State Register of Legal Entities) of the Federal Tax Service of Russia, there is no information on the presence in the charter of the OKVED code on forensic activities.

The experts involved in this story, Yezheleva, Brovko, Bashkina and Trusova, are graduates of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (controlled by its former rector Eskindarov and Lesnichiy) and did not have the right to evaluate the value of shares (business valuation), as well as calculate (estimate) rental payments because they did not have qualification certificates of an appraiser and specialized education.

The case file contains more than 6 assessments, 5 of which were made by the relevant departments of the Ministry of Justice of Russia, in which the value of a 28.5% stake in OAO NPP Temp im. F. Korotkov” is higher than the cost calculated by ANO “Commission for Financial Investigations” by 2 or more times. However, the investigation did not resolve this contradiction in any way and considers the data of the falsified examinations of the ANO “Commission for Financial Investigations” to be true. It is striking that the same opinion is not hidden by the judge of the Savelovsky District Court, Neudakhin, who is considering the case on the merits. He repeatedly stated that he had no reason not to trust the expertise of the ANO.

Prosecutor's Office Requirements

The Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation indicated in his letter in June 2018 that the conclusions of the investigation were not based on the collected materials and contradicted the facts established. The actions of Tempa's management to establish subsidiaries and transfer property to them were recognized as lawful decisions of the Moscow Arbitration Court (of 10/31/2016 and 02/06/2017), and the possibility of evaluating their actions as criminally punishable is excluded.

The Prosecutor General's Office demanded from the Prosecutor of Moscow:

- to immediately take comprehensive measures aimed at eliminating violations by the investigating authorities on the illegal initiation of criminal case No.

- to conduct an official verification, based on the results of which, to resolve the issue of disciplinary responsibility of subordinates who did not ensure proper supervision of the procedural activities of the investigating authorities and the high-quality execution of instructions from a higher prosecutor's office.

Nobody complied with the requirements of the Prosecutor General's Office, the case was referred to the court for consideration on the merits after the indictment in the case was hastily approved, possibly financially motivated Oleg Manakov, who at that time held the position of First Deputy Prosecutor of Moscow. This employee was the number one candidate for the post of the Moscow City Prosecutor. At the last moment, he was not approved, and quickly resigned in April 2020 so as not to fall under an anti-corruption investigation.

Mutual responsibility

The trial of the leadership of "Temp" is clearly with an accusatory bias. Judge Neudakhin, who is considering the case, cynically and groundlessly rejects all petitions of the defendants and their defense lawyers for bringing to court and questioning in court investigators Pisarevsky and Aboev, ex-prosecutor Manakov, all experts and other persons related to the illegal initiation of a criminal case and who knowingly presented false results. expertise.

In more than two years of trial, the judge and the prosecutor refuse to tell the participants when, where and what crime the defendants committed. Obviously, in this way, Neudakhin illegally extends the period of prosecution of innocent persons, while the statute of limitations (6 years) under the article he is accused of abuse of office (part 1 of article 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) has long passed. If the participants in this whole story - judge Neudakhin, former deputy prosecutor Manakov, investigators Pisarevsky, Aboev and their leaders - were not financially motivated, then the criminal case would not be opened, and the indictment would not be approved and the case would not be accepted for consideration in court, since the decisions of the Moscow Arbitration Courts that have entered into legal force recognized the actions of the Tempa leaders as legal on the facts that they are charged with in this criminal case.

It is possible that the Moscow City Court will make it clear to Judge Neudakhin that the decisions of arbitration courts that have entered into legal force have prejudicial significance and cannot be reviewed even for a large fee.

On the eve of the publication, it became known that members of the board of directors of Tempa filed an application with the Investigative Committee on the fact of illegal initiation of a criminal case and extortion by Pisarevsky and FSB officer Korkin of 500 thousand dollars from the management of the enterprise for not initiating (closing) a criminal case. A source in the ICR said that the verification of this statement is now being carried out. It is surprising that the court already treats the leaders of Temp as convicts, which is exactly what the judge called them in the court card posted on the official website.

We continue to follow developments around the defense enterprise.

To be continued

Mikhail Ermakov

Source: www.rucriminal.info