"Rechnoy" - an alternative decision-making center in Russia

Shoigu, Avdolyan, Vorobiev, Zolotov, Dyumin and smuggler Mehdiev



According to the telegram channel VChK-OGPU, in the corridors of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and the 2nd department (oversees the country's banking sector) Directorate "K" of the SEB FSB of Russia have already begun to seriously discuss the issue of a real (and not just formal) inspection of the Slavia bank and the revocation of his license for numerous violations of Russian legislation, including for carrying out illegal financial transactions through affiliates, withdrawing funds abroad and using bank tools to implement criminal schemes. The roof in the form of the head of Directorate "K" General Ivan Tkachev and other high-ranking employees of the Russian FSB may no longer help the smuggler and tax fixer Asad Mehdiev. The question has reached a completely different level and is fueled by the negative information (and not only) background around the figure of Mehdiyev and the crimes committed by him and his group.

As Rucriminal.info found out, the key witnesses or accomplices in the criminal activities of Asad Mehdiev regarding issues of illegal financial transactions and other criminal schemes are the Chairman of the Board of Slavia Bank Tatyana Belyaeva, the former Chairman of the Board of Slavia Bank (later headed by Zhivago Bank) Alexey Rubezhny, members of the board of directors Mikhail Utyatsky and Alexander Ivashenkov, a relative and until 2021, Mehdiev’s “right hand” on all illegal issues, Anar Kazymov and other senior bank employees who, in terms of their functionality, replaced Kazymov after 2021.

In addition, the ex-chief of the 2nd department “K” of the FSB, Kirill Cherkalin, before his arrest in 2019, was a frequent guest of Assad Mehdiev at the bank and, with his call to the Central Bank, covered up all the problems of the shadow oligarch. Mehdiyev and Cherkalin were personally introduced by General Ivan Tkachev, who began to “protect” the smuggler with the personal blessing of FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov, who was called by Mehdiyev’s senior comrades from Azerbaijan and interceded for the latter. Currently, Mehdiev is under the full tutelage of the 2nd and 7th (supervised by the Federal Customs Service) Directorate “K” of the SEB of the FSB of Russia, and also assures his entourage of friendship, supported by finances, not only with Ivan Tkachev, but also with the head of the entire SEB, Sergei Alpatov and various high-ranking officers of the CSS of the FSB of Russia.

Many people know how much administrative weight in the current Russian government system the main “wallet” of Rostec head Sergei Chemezov, multi-dollar billionaire Albert Avdolyan, has. This person has the entire leadership of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee and other law enforcement agencies on the call, and he himself is under the state protection of the FSB Internal Security Service. Many Moscow and not only entrepreneurs want to associate themselves with common business interests with Avdolyan’s structures and with him personally, but so that they are not later raided and put in prison, but let’s say in an amicable way and for the long term of joint earnings and “cutting” of the budget countries. One of these people, whose top managers, as well as himself personally, are trying to get into the good graces of Albert Avdolyan and the entire Rostec, is the famous Moscow smuggler and partner of the head of Directorate “K” of the SEB of the FSB of Russia, Ivan Tkachev, and the head of the Federal Tax Service, Daniil Egorov, the owner of " Slavia" bank Asad Mehdiev.

Avdolyan and Mehdiev are also connected by living in one of the most expensive cottage communities on the entire Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway. This is the Rechnoy village, which is located if you drive from Moscow immediately in front of the Barvikha Luxury Village complex of shopping and commercial areas. In fact, this village is one of the centers for making decisions that are subsequently implemented throughout the country. Here there is a mansion of the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation and ex-Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, Director of the Russian Guard Viktor Zolotov, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Alexei Dyumin, Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov, oligarch David Yakobashvili and many other representatives of the Russian elite and luxurious life. Also in this village live the shadow oligarchy of Russia: Assad Mehdiev (responsible for smuggling and the Federal Tax Service), Albert Avdolyan (responsible for Rostec) and many other criminal businessmen. The said village was built on lands that were actually stolen from the state by Dmitry Yakubovsky, who is responsible in the Russian Federation for the law enforcement unit, the work of the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General’s Office in the direction desired by the owners of the country.



Thus, if Assad Mehdiev and Albert Avdolyan lay down their administrative and financial resources, then one of the most powerful lobbying groups will be formed in Russia, ensuring embezzlement on a state scale and the work of the country’s real shadow economy under the roof of the FSB leadership.

As the Cheka-OGPU found out, the head of the Investigative Committee for the Central Administrative District of the Main Investigations Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the city of Moscow, Andrei Dobrodomov, and the prosecutor of the most politicized district of the capital, Boris Grigoriev, are already tired of receiving calls “from above” from the FSB, the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General’s Office regarding the war for the premises of the White House restaurant, which located near the Russian Government building on Glubok Lane. War hand Between the security forces and criminal cases, there have been ongoing conflicts between the country's main smuggler and the famous Moscow tax fixer - owner of Slavia Bank Asad Mehdiev, and one of his key enemies - Alan Gogichaev. No matter how hard Mehdiev tries to ask for help from the head of Directorate “K” of the SEB of the FSB of Russia, Ivan Tkachev, and also to transfer certificates and financial stimulants to the leadership of the Moscow Investigative Committee through proxies, “clouds” are still gathering over Mehdiev himself. Moreover, this issue regarding Mehdiyev was brought under his control by an operational employee of the 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB of Russia, Sergey Shirshov, who is a friend and long-time partner in various types of cases of another enemy of Mehdiyev and the closest person to the “Six” - Sergey Yakovlev.



At one time, Mehdiev, with the help of his former chairman of the board of Slavia Bank, Alexei Rubezhny (later headed Zhivago Bank), organized a large “scam” on the cash withdrawal market in Moscow. Among the victims was Yakovlev, who specializes in the logistics market and illegal financial transactions. And now, according to Yakovlev, the time has come to pay off the debts, since the debt has not been completely closed. Thus, today, the hands of the 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB will resolve not only the conflict between Mehdiev and Gogichaev, but also the friend of the Six, Yakovlev, with the same Mehdiev. The Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor's Office, in turn, as always, will only be ordinary signatories of the will of the FSB employees and some possible compromise of shady businessmen. If Ivan Ivanovich does not provide the necessary compromise for Mehdiev, then he plans to put pressure on FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov through the resource of his senior comrades from Azerbaijan. According to Mehdiev, Bortnikov will definitely not refuse them in the current political and international realities.

Timofey Grishin

Source: www.rucriminal.info

“Right hand” Shoigu was sent to pre-trial detention center

Who is next. Shoigu himself? Deputy Prime Minister Khusnullin?



On Tuesday evening in Moscow, Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was detained on suspicion of taking a bribe. A source from the Cheka-OGPU commented on this event: “A catastrophic blow to Shoigu. If he doesn’t survive, he’ll sit next to him. This is 100 percent just his man. They’ve been together since 2010.”

As the Cheka-OGPU learned, Timur Ivanov’s permanent assistant, who started with him in the Ministry of Emergency Situations, has disappeared from contact. Andrei Petrov (this is the name of the Deputy Minister of Defense’s trusted person) called his wife at around 20.00 and said that “he needs to leave for work and, perhaps, his phone will be unavailable for some time.” About an hour later, the Investigative Committee officially announced the detention of Timur Ivanov. Andrei Ivanov also ceased to be accessible to everyone.

A source from the Cheka-OGPU recalled that in August 2023, searches were carried out in a unit of the untouchable Spetsstroy (a military construction company - the domain of Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov). The reason is the failure of the state contract for the construction of a key facility for strategic missile forces in Uzhur (Krasnoyarsk Territory). At the same time, searches were carried out at the merchants' executors.



According to interlocutors of Rucriminal.info, it is quite obvious that the “Ivanov case” is directed against Sergei Shoigu. Ivanov was considered untouchable; he came to the Ministry of Defense together with Shoigu, with whom he worked in the Moscow region. In 2013-2016 Timur Ivanov oversaw the work of Oboronstroy and the Main Directorate for the Arrangement of Troops (GUOV). The former head of the latter company, Vladimir Abramenko, received three years in prison at the end of 2015. According to investigators, Abramenko, considered a good friend of Ivanov, caused damage to the budget of the Ministry of Defense by 114 million rubles. GUOV, supervised by Ivanov, acted as a contractor for the Ministry of Defense, giving its orders to subcontractors.

The money for intermediary services obviously ended up in the pockets of Timur Ivanov. An audit carried out by auditors showed that 93% of the volume of work worth 10.7 billion rubles was outsourced.

Timur Ivanov oversees construction at the Ministry of Defense, including the work of FSUE GVSU No. 14. This structure of the Ministry of Defense has not had a profit since 2015, the total loss by 2021 will be. amounted to more than 60 billion rubles. Now the Federal State Unitary Enterprise is in the process of reorganization.



The activities of Timur Ivanov are closely connected with Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, who oversees regional projects in the territories occupied in Ukraine. The construction of housing in Mariupol is carried out by the Military Construction Company of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (PPK "VSK"), created in 2020. With revenue of 52 billion rubles. the company in 2022 received a loss of 4.6 billion rubles. Its suppliers worth more than 50 billion rubles. the company does not disclose. According to a source from Rucriminal.info, VSK’s contractors are companies associated with Timur Ivanov and Marat Khusnullin. The latter is also under attack now.

The detention of Timur Ivanov threatens to turn into a huge scandal for the Deputy Prime Minister if investigators are allowed to develop the “Ivanov case” to the fullest.

Yaroslav Mukhtarov

To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info

"The Hunt for the Warthog"

The Royal Estates of the Marquis - Prosecutor Popov

In the summer of 2018, in the village of Korolevka, Idrinsky District, Krasnoyarsk Territory, unidentified people launched a large-scale construction project ( 24:14:3504002:29 ), helicopters circled, part of the territory of the municipality was surrounded by wire, Kamaz vehicles went with building materials.

Eyewitnesses from the locals said that they set up a "checkpoint" at the entrance to the village, limited the usual free grazing of livestock, forbade photographing the construction and, in general, somehow being interested in what was happening.





By autumn, the foundation was poured for 4 houses, a bathhouse, a garage, a hangar structure for special equipment, and a place was allocated for a helipad.

Among the locals, there were options from a construction site for the Minister of Defense Shoigu, to the arrangement of a new vacation spot for Putin.

As the VChK-OGPU telegram channel found out, in fact, the construction is another business project of Denis Popov, the prosecutor of Khakassia, who had already been appointed to Dagestan by that time, and now heads the Moscow prosecutor's office, through the company URAP LLC, registered in 2016 in Chernogorsk of the Republic of Khakassia, the founder and general director of which is Popov's trustee Borodulin Artem Viktorovich.

In 2022, URAP LLC forced the administration of the Idrinsky district to transfer a plot in the village of Korolevka with a size of more than 24,000 sq.m into ownership. And only in the Idrinsky and Balakhtinsky districts the prosecutor has tens of thousands of hectares of hunting grounds for shooting deer, musk deer, brown bear.



For the luck of Artyom Borodulin, an entrepreneur drowning in loans and courts from Chernogorsk, in 2015, the enterprising Denis Popov was appointed prosecutor of the Republic of Khakassia, they became close, their commercial relations begin here, Popov provides strategic leadership, patronage and the use of connections, in turn, Borodulin becomes the commercial arm of the prosecutor and helps to master the flow of corruption funds. In 2016, URAP LLC was established, leading activities in Khakassia, the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Altai Republic, in which the corruption proceeds of the prosecutor are invested.



Further, the career and commercial paths of Popov and Borodulin go inextricably. In 2018, Prosecutor General Chaika appoints Popov to Dagestan as a business prosecutor and finds a twist there, a year later, in 2019, Borodulin establishes the Dagestan Lamb LLC company in Derbent for the production of meat, meat and sausage products.



Later, Popov attracts Borodulin to the reorganization of his business wife’s business fishing base in the Astrakhan region, which has become universally known, by introducing Nikolskoye LLC as a founder

Since the fall of 2019, after the appointment of Denis Popov as the prosecutor of Moscow, the Borodulin family has been rebuilding next to the prosecutor in the Odintsovo district, and already in the power / business environment of Moscow, Popov introduces and introduces Borodulin as his confidant.

According to Rucriminal.info, local residents are filming stories about animal cruelty taking place in Korolevka on the basis of URAP LLC, which is dissonant with their historical memory of survival in the harsh conditions of the remote taiga, where an important basis for survival is a responsible attitude to arable land and caring for livestock, apparently the priority for this year was the purchase of a helicopter.

If only the locals had known, they would have complained about Luzik to the management, to the prosecutor's office of the city of Moscow.

Timofey Grishin

Source: www.rucriminal.info

Verdict for Blavatnik and Vekselberg

"Shoigu's Purse" Vyacheslav Aminov nearby



On Monday, the Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the founder of Home Money, 65-year-old Yevgeny Bernshtam, to five years in prison in a penal colony, finding him guilty of 76 counts of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The presiding judge Sabina Rahimova began the announcement of the verdict with a delay of two hours. As it turned out, the defendant did not appear to listen to her. His defense claims that Bernshtam is undergoing planned treatment.

In this regard, Ragimova put the entrepreneur on the wanted list. Now his punishment will be calculated from the moment of detention.

Bernshtam was detained on July 3, 2019 during another interrogation at the Internal Affairs Directorate for the South-Eastern District of Moscow. Initially, the entrepreneur was placed in a pre-trial detention center, then the preventive measure was reduced to house arrest, and subsequently to a written undertaking not to leave the place. The trial on the merits in the Khoroshevsky court lasted almost 2.5 years.

As Rucriminal.info previously told, the real owner of Home Money and Rusmicrofinance is Viktor Vekselberg's "right hand" Joseph Bakaleinik. He is also the ideologist of microfinance organizations in Russia.

According to the source, the main activity of Joseph Bakaleinik is "Vekselberg's right hand always and everywhere." He worked at TNK, at Renova, represented the interests of Vekselberg at Skolkovo. At the same time, the Bakaleinik family, like himself, has long been living in Switzerland. Bakaleinik's visits to Russia are more like business trips.

During the investigation of the Rusmicrofinance pyramid scheme case, it was established that the RMF-AST company, which is part of the Rusmicrofinance group of companies, withdrew part of the funds of the investors of the Rusmicrofinance group of companies to the account of ERL Management (Cyprus) in Deutsche Bank (Suisse) SA, Private Wealth. The director of ERL Management (Cyprus) is Iosif Bakaleinik.

Iosif Bakaleinik is widely known: for his near-criminal past, as an effective manager, informal coordinator, a brilliant graduate of Harvard, a person from the Primakov list, a defendant in the case of embezzlement of the country's strategic aluminum reserves, a shareholder of Earl management (BVI), director of Earl management (KIPR), an independent member Board of Directors of NefteTransService, independent director of Home Money, and so on and so forth.

It was after the country’s strategic aluminum reserves were spent and strong relations were established with Viktor Vekselberg that an overseas channel for investments was created in Cyprus, or, more simply, Fairway Investments Overseas Ltd was registered, which, having crashed on the microfinance market in Russia by 2017, was renamed Earl Management Ltd. (hereinafter ERL Management). The company is headed by Mikhailina Zinonos, the founder of the entire Vekselberg empire in Russia, and Iosif Bakaleinik, as a partner and financial adviser to Viktor Feliksovich.



How many glorious deeds have been done by this worthy Cypriot company, which has companies of the same name in other countries. One of them is related to Joseph Bakaleinik's attraction to the microfinance market, where his company not only acts as a lender, but is directly involved in the business of microfinance companies Home Money, Brio Finance, the Rusmikrofinance group of companies and others.

According to ERL Management, Zinonos, the director, together with the Bakaleinik, played the Bakaleinik, and she signed all the fictitious contracts. For all ERL agreements signed by Zinonos, the court refused to collect the debt.

At the beginning of 2017, having quite certain losses, Bakaleinik joins the Rusmicrofinance group of companies. However, even informally managing this group, it is not possible to correct the situation.

Moreover, on September 6, 2018, the Bank of Russia excluded information about LLC MFC Evrika (hereinafter Eureka), LLC MFC Rusmicrofinance-AST (hereinafter AST) and LLC MFC Elegiya from the state register of microfinance organizations.



Iosif Bakaleinik is also the closest partner of Vyacheslav Aminov, a former partner of Boris Berezovsky. Aminov was also an adviser to Alexander Voloshin when he was the head of the presidential administration. They are still cooperating and are prominent members of the “Boris Yeltsin family”. According to a Rucriminal.info source, now Vyacheslav Aminov is known as a "wallet" and accountant of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.



To be continued

Timofey Zabiyakin

Source: www.rucriminal.info

The nuclear shield was full of holes

Arrests and interrogations are underway in the case of Shoigu's main project

As it became known to Rucriminal.info, the next defendant in the case of fraud during the construction of Shoigu's main project - the National Center for State Defense Management (NTSUOG) - will be the former deputy finance officer of the RTI Systems Concern Rostislav Rychkov. He, like the ex-commander of division 3 of a separate air defense army (missile attack warning system), ex-deputy general director of RTI Vyacheslav Lobuzko (arrested) was interrogated as a witness and during the investigation it was established that it was he who was associated with all financial fraud with NCUOG. Sources say that in the near future the former immediate supervisor of Lobuzko and Rychkov, the ex-general designer of the missile attack warning system, Sergey Boev, who headed RTI until 2016, and then became the general director of Vympel, where all this The trio continued to work together. Rychkov continues to head Vympel's financial block to this day.



The source of Rucriminal.info spoke about the scale of theft during the design of the NCUOG of the Russian Ministry of Defense. In fact, for state money, computers and other hardware were purchased several times more expensive than the market value, on which the work of a hardware-computing complex was simply imitated to combine various kinds of information bases, information sources. Since 2014, the budget for designing and equipping the center has been constantly increasing and the amount of budget spending has exceeded 40 billion rubles, but this did not give the desired effect, only beautiful sofas, armchairs, TVs and computers for fabulous money.

The scale of the theft is amazing, as are the crumbs that the responsible employees of the Ministry of Defense received from the military acceptance, turning a blind eye to outright hack work on the part of the main contractor of the center and theft.

To whom an apartment, to whom a car.

But there is no evil without good. It was the greed of the highest ranks of the Ministry of Defense and the main contractors that led to the fact that the lower performers began to testify and clarify the chains - schemes for theft.

According to a Rucriminal.info source, it is possible that the sons of Lobuzko, who were once structured into senior positions in subsidiaries under the leadership of their father, and where financier Rychkov was always present in conjunction with them, will also be brought to criminal responsibility.

As it became known to the telegram channel of the Cheka-OGPU, the Moscow Garrison Military Court received the materials of the case against the head of the military reception, the military representative of the Ministry of Defense in the RTI Sistema Marchukov concern. He entered into a pre-trial agreement, under which he testified against Major General Vyacheslav Lobuzko, one of the "fathers" of the VZG early warning radar "Voronezh" - stations designed to detect ballistic and cruise missiles, ex-commander of the 3rd division of a separate air defense army.



The source told how it was one of the most high-profile cases related to the Ministry of Defense, which leads to the head of the department of military representations of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Oleg Stepanov, ex-Deputy Minister of Defense Mikhail Mizintsev (now in Wagner PMC), and, if desired, to Minister Sergei Shoigu . The investigation is being conducted by the Military Investigation Department for Strategic Missile Forces.

It all started with the detention of Marchukov's subordinate Kozlov for receiving a small bribe for the employment of an employee in a military reception. Kozlov was asked to conclude a pre-trial agreement and tell not only about the episode with a small bribe, but also about other well-known crimes. He began to testify against Marchukov, for which he received a suspended sentence.



Marchukov was charged with the same episode of bribery for employment, as well as two other episodes of receiving bribes (for general patronage and in the form of an apartment) and fraud when installing software on radar complexes.

Initially, Marchukov did not agree to a deal, but after the episode with the bribe for employment “disappeared” from him, he decided to conclude an agreement and testify on other episodes known to him. In particular, on the facts of embezzlement of funds during the construction of Shoigu's main project - the National Center for State Defense Management (NTSUOG) "Center 2014". Marchukov was "inscribed" in the schemes. According to his testimony, Lobuzko was arrested.

As Rucriminal.info already wrote, Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Lobuzko was the former commander of the SPRN division, after his resignation in 2000, he transferred to AFK Sistema, where he worked until 2019 as a key top manager of the AFK defense block. As the first deputy of JSC RTI, he was engaged in the construction of early warning stations for launching Voronezh missiles, since 2014 he oversaw the creation of the Center R&D, i.e., the construction of the National Defense Center of the Russian Ministry of Defense on Frunzenskaya Embankment. It was the machinations associated with the construction of the NCUOG that formed the basis of the criminal case and accusations of the general of corruption.

It is noteworthy that claims against Lobuzko arose long ago and he was interrogated as a witness. In 2022, as First Deputy he is the CEO of MAK Vympel (part of Almaz Antey), he quits Vympel, having prepared the ground for retreat in advance, lobbied for the post of General Director of Vympel his friend, also a retired general of the Ministry of Defense Igor Makushev, whom he attached to Vympel back in 2020, after how he was dismissed from the Ministry of Defense with a scandal. From this point of view, Makushev turned out to be an ideal figure, far from the issues of warning of a missile attack and control of outer space, an outright lazy and incompetent Igor Makushev, with his inaction and "controllability", cleans up the former sins of Lobuzko's team.

Interestingly, during his idleness in Vympel, Makushev became friends with the company's chief accountant, Elena Torkunova. Torkunova came to Vympel together with Lobuzko from RTI, where she cleaned up the major theft and fraud of the Sitronics company. There was such a daughter from AFK, due to which huge budget funds were stolen - these debts, which subsequently hung in the cost of production as part of a defense order.

The next defendant in the case of embezzlement during the construction of Shoigu's main project - the National Center for State Defense Management (NTSUOG) "Center 2014" - may be Major General Oleg Stepanov, Head of the Department of Military Representative Offices of the Ministry of Defense.

According to the interlocutor of the Cheka-OGPU, the former head of the NCUO MO Mikhail Mizintsev, who was recently dismissed from the post of Deputy Minister of Defense, and even more significant figures in the Moscow Region, whose decisions and signatures were used to determine the main supplier in the person of RTI JSC, could be hit. ”, which was then part of AFK Sistema.

As it became known to the Cheka-OGPU, Sergey Datsko was also interrogated, who, as the head of the DMZ, was responsible for the development and production of UAVs and Kh-22, Kh-55 cruise missiles for almost 10 years. It turned out that it was Datsko who gave a bribe in the form of an apartment to Marchukov, the receiver of the Ministry of Defense, for turning a blind eye to the theft in the Moscow Region.

When Major General, Deputy General Director of PJSC "RTI" Vyacheslav Lobuzko decided to thank the receiver of the Ministry of Defense Marchukov for turning a blind eye to large-scale theft in the systems of the Ministry of Defense, he instructed Datsko to do this. Since Marchukov wanted an apartment for his relative, Datsko fictitiously employed a woman at the DAZ and, as an employee, issued her a subsidy for the purchase of housing. However, while Datsko appears in the case as a witness.



Timofey Grishin

To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info