The reason for the high-profile arrests in Seligdar

Should Yevtushenkov look for a place on the Cote d’Azur?



Yesterday, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow chose a preventive measure against the Chairman of the Board of Directors and co-owner of the Russian Funds investment group, Sergei Vasiliev. He is suspected of committing six crimes under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale).



Vasilyev was chosen as a preventive measure in the form of house arrest for a period of 2 months, until August 23, 2024, with the establishment of certain prohibitions and restrictions for the period of house arrest.

Sergei Vasiliev was detained in the Tver region. The director of Russian Funds, Konstantin Beirit, was also detained. According to them, the detention is related to the case of the ex-president of the Sistema holding company, Evgeniy Novitsky.

The Rucriminal.info source believes that the ultimate goal of the beneficiaries of the security forces’ operation against Vasiliev is the Seligdar company, which is engaged in tin and gold mining. And for Yevtushenkov, whose closest circle over the long period of his activity was detained, it is better to go to Lazurka or London.



Vasilyev and Berit are accused of stealing 8.8 billion rubles from non-state pension funds (NPF). According to the interlocutor of Rucriminal.info, the scheme is simple to the point of disgrace: the Central Bank carried out the corporatization of non-state pension funds in the early tens. It was at this moment that NPFs became especially interesting for purchase. The most interesting thing about the NPF was the funds inside: pension savings and pension reserves. In order to “use” them calmly, you need assets that meet the requirements for purchase. Sergei Vasiliev, as the most important schematist on the Russian market, happily entered into such topics, releasing “dummy” papers. He acted, naturally, in someone else's interests. Who could need tens of billions of rubles and who is connected with Novitsky? Only Yevtushenkov and his holding company AFK Sistema. Sechin didn’t finish off for Bashneft, they will finish off their own people for the theft from the NPF.

The Moscow Banking Ring worked exactly according to the same schemes - PSB, MKB, BIN Bank, Otkritie. That is why three of them had to be essentially sanitized through the Central Bank in 2017.

According to another source of Rucrimnal.info, it is noteworthy that Mr. Vasiliev, who graduated from the famous MIPT at the end of the 80s, met Evgeny Novitsky in the early 90s, who introduced him to the chairman of the Committee on Science and Technology of the Moscow City Executive Committee, Vladimir Yevtushenkov. After this, Vasiliev’s career took off noticeably; he found himself in key positions related to CPSU money in Tveruniversalbank. Then, with the help of such structures, party money was actively withdrawn. The main adviser and owner of the Tverunevirsalbank was the former Soviet prime minister, the crying Bolshevik, as he was called after one of his speeches at the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, Nikolai Ryzhkov.

Timofey Grishin

To be continued

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Roscosmos figured out how to “cut” 800 billion rubles

The result will be the absence of a working Russian satellite constellation




The head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, in an interview with state media, summed up the work of Roscosmos in 2023 and shared the plans of the state space corporation for the near future. The head of the management company places the main emphasis on cooperation with private companies - shops, with the help of which Roscosmos is ready to increase the production of spacecraft - small satellites (cube gardens) for civilian purposes. Of the 800 billion rubles allocated for domestic cosmonautics in 2024-26, the head of the corporation, Borisov, is ready to give more than 50 percent to contracts with private owners. Thus, other important programs will be cut back on the manned domestic space program and the idea will be to catch up with the Americans, Europeans and Chinese who have gone ahead in the production of small spacecraft - satellites for low orbits that perform earth sensing tasks. Details at Rucriminal.info.

In fact, the road to “hell” for the Russian cosmonautics will finally be paved with Borisov’s good intentions.

As a superstructure, an ineffective management link, Roscosmos is not responsible for failures in space. The corporation distributes budgets between scientific production associations that still remain from the times of the Soviet Union, controls deadlines and is in charge of its own insane bureaucratic apparatus. And this apparatus, in which most of the employees are far from science and space, production problems, etc., overwhelms the remaining afloat space companies with crazy plans and reporting requirements. Decides for professionals how and by what means to conduct space exploration.

The essence of Borisov's plan is very simple - the theft scheme has been tested more than once, as they say. Private companies have the same oligarch owners we know, including the head of AFK Yevtushenkov, the former Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government Boris Aleshin, who is well known to us, the Kremlin oligarch Alisher Usmanov, and others.



It is through their affiliated structures, such as the Sputniks company, that these same 800 billion rubles will be collected in the next few years. The requirements for Cube Gardens in terms of electronic components are somewhat simpler than for spacecraft, which are in geostationary orbits, which means that abroad it will be possible to buy simple chips and all sorts of electronics for cents, but here it is 100 times more expensive to sell to Roscosmos. Naturally, rubles will be converted into dollars and euros and deposited in the necessary accounts abroad. The private investments that Borisov is going to attract for the satellite production program are also clear where they will come from. These are interest-free and preferential government subsidies and loans, which will be received by the same pseudoscientific and production structures, i.e. These are funds from Russian taxpayers. And then they will be returned from the budget again at good interest, like spent investments. This money will also be subject to currency conversion and withdrawal abroad. Aleshin’s father, being the Deputy Minister of Trade of the USSR, tried out similar schemes for theft and transfer of currency to Western countries. This is how entire factories were purchased, equipment that rusted in the open air, this is how wheat was purchased in Canada and the USA, as they said then that it was sown in the Union, and the harvest was harvested in North America.

The result of 26 will be the absence of a working satellite constellation and the final destruction of such companies as the Reshetnev Research Institute, NPO Lavochkina, RKS, RSC Progress and other companies.

But the Borisov-Evtushenkov-Aleshin clan will seriously enrich themselves at the expense of the space budget.

Joseph Trostinsky

To be continued

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How a unified surveillance system will become Evtushenkov’s sawmill

“I started withdrawing money while still an agent of the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR”

As Rucriminal.info has learned, the structures of AFK Sistema are preparing to cut up the next budget billions under the guise of creating a global video surveillance system throughout Russia.

The Ministry of Digital Development proposed to create a unified video surveillance system for 12 billion rubles, which would cover 5 million cameras throughout the country and the main task of the unified video monitoring system would be the ability to search for persons on the wanted list. Here are alimony payers, debtors, those hiding from mobilization or conscription for military service, in general, all categories of citizens who do not want to meet with government officials and credit organizations.

The main executors of this venture will be structures affiliated with AFK Sistema. It should be noted that such use of public money through so-called IT projects for AFK Sistema is far from the first and not the only one.



In 2021, the scandalous company Sitronics won a tender from the Moscow City Hall to install 12 thousand cameras in schools for 2.9 billion rubles. “Sitronics” is exactly that subsidiary of AFK, which the owner of Sistema, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, has repeatedly promoted as a high-tech company, supposedly it does a lot of developments and produces. But in reality, everything turned out to be far from being so, Sitronics and other similar AFK projects are just banal intermediaries through which the necessary components, servers, computers, video systems, etc. are purchased abroad. And then resold for 10-15 times more expensive state needs.

It was the unprofitable Sitronics that in 2012 was parked with another subsidiary of AFK RTI, at that time the third most profitable in Sistema - the RTI group of companies sat on the state defense order and carried out government contracts for the construction of radar systems for missile attack warning systems and the creation National State Defense Control Center on Frunzenskaya Embankment. Thanks to huge government investments in RTI, Sitronics was then saved from bankruptcy, and this resulted in numerous criminal cases due to fraud with state defense procurement money. The National Defense Control Center (NDCC) was never put on combat duty, the money was all stolen, and not everything is so good with the Voronezh VZG radar stations, which Yevtushenkov calls “uyo….mi”. They are far from the stated technical requirements, and the loudly declared continuous radar field exists only on paper. According to a Rucriminal.info source, there is no Center and no working early warning system.

The scheme for enriching the structures of AFK Sistema through such projects is also interesting.

“There is a serious, fueled lobby in the government agencies, people, officials who are on the payroll of the AFK (their names are known) - these are high-ranking managers in the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Digital Development, in the very apparatus of the government and the presidential administration and, of course, the Moscow mayor’s office. They are developing various federal targeted projects (federal targeted projects) and programs that are tailored to the structure of the AFC,” the source notes.

Under the guise of a public-private partnership, with the help of federal programs for financing vital projects, AFK receives loans on very preferential terms, through which, as a private company, it makes its “contribution” in the form of attracting money from private investors and acquires, for example, necessary video systems. And then, again at the expense of state money, it pays “investors” extra interest for the allocated investments, a significant monetary difference received from the inflated purchase price. To put it simply, the state could buy and install a surveillance camera for $200-250 in a video control system, but thanks to the efforts of the AFK, it spends $3,000-4,000 thousand apiece. To put it even more simply, the state allocates 12 billion for the necessary project, but in reality, the amount will be used twice as much. Of this, 1 billion worth of work will be done, and the rest will be put into pockets. This is some funny arithmetic.

Don’t have a hundred rubles, but have a hundred purchased officials.

The lion's share of such income remains abroad, in this sense, Vladimir Yevtushenkov has good experience since the times of the USSR, when, as an agent of the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR (now the SVR), he hid the so-called party money abroad.

Andrey Tatarov

Source: www.rucriminal.info

Enrichment using state defense procurement funds

How Okroyan and Yevtushenkov turned an aircraft engine plant into a pit



In the published investigation about the owner of the Soyuz aircraft engine scientific and technical complex, Mkrtich Okroyan, there is one small inaccuracy. According to the telegram channel VChK-OGPU, it was not to strengthen defense capability and scientific technical progress that an enterprising Komsomol worker from Armenia appropriated defense complex enterprises for himself and his family. He appropriated it with the help of the then mayor of the capital Luzhkov and his partner in the division of Moscow property, Vladimir Yevtushenkov. The latter started with Yuri Mikhailovich in the Moscow City Executive Committee and headed the department, and then the committee on science and technology of the mayor's office.

After the collapse of the USSR, they managed Moscow enterprises for a certain bribe. Okroyan, in conjunction with Yevtushenkov, completely disposed of the ZiL plant, which now simply does not exist, and in its place are now residential complexes and business centers. All Moscow factories for the production of machine tools, bearings and other things were rolled into asphalt, and the 300th plant (the current Soyuz AMNTK), of course, did not go unnoticed by them. Now there is a huge pit where high-rise buildings with offices and apartments will soon rise into the sky, right in Luzhniki on the embankment.



This is why Moscow industrial enterprises with their infrastructure and energy capacities were grabbed for next to nothing, and not to improve engineering solutions in the field of aircraft and rocket science. Russia was never able to launch the production of the aircraft engines required for the X 55-101-555. But they organized a scheme for the purchase and delivery of these engines from other countries, a very profitable scheme from the point of view of enrichment at the expense of state defense procurement funds, into which the enterprises now owned by Yevtushenkov and Okroyan were built.

Vladimir Yevtushenkov somehow acquired the Dubna Machine-Building Plant, where MiGs and cruise missiles were once soldered, and Okroyan began to manage the 300 experimental plant, where aircraft engines for MiGs and Tues were developed and produced. In general, without investing anything, but only taking their considerable percentage, engines were purchased and resold at exorbitant prices to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

As Rucriminal.info found out, the tax authorities suspended operations on the accounts of Aerospace Engineering Center (Aerkits) Soyuz LLC back in April.

This coincided with the first part of the investigation, published in the spring, which revealed that Aerkits Soyuz LLC makes engines for rockets. Okroyan categorically denied this. Now on the Soyuz website in the products section there is no information about jet aircraft engines, but the news from 2021 about the 5th generation turbojet engine has not been removed.



The founders of Aerkits Soyuz LLC are three representatives of the Okroyan family - Mkrtich, presumably brother Harutyun and Andranik Mkrtichovich. The company's financial results for 2022 are missing and this raises great suspicions. If Aerkitz Soyuz does not produce engines for rockets, then why does it not publish financial statements?

And if it does, then the contracts are probably concluded bypassing the government procurement website and may be overpriced. Hence the villas and palaces. It is also easy to bypass the blocking of tax accounts if the partner is Sergei Chemezov’s Rostec.

Experts assess the financial condition of Aerkits Soyuz LLC negatively, noting low financial stability, solvency and efficiency. The company has a debt to the tax authorities in the amount of 24 million rubles. for 2021. It seems no one is going to extinguish it.

Aerkitz Soyuz LLC has a “subsidiary” company “Soyuz Testing”, most likely, which is a “lay-in”, since there is only 1 employee on staff. This company has three “subsidiaries” that are in the process of liquidation - LLC “ Titan Alliance, Alliance Energy LLC and Engineering Alliance LLC



All three companies were created in 2021, and in 2023 the registration authority made a decision on the upcoming exclusion of the legal entity from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (the presence in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities of information about the legal entity in respect of which a record of unreliability was made).



The co-founder of these companies, together with Soyuz Testing LLC, is Alliance-M LLC, the founders of which are LLC YUK Opora, owned by Ambartsum Martirosyan, and himself.



Mkrtich Okroyan is the founder of 6 operating companies, including two museums. Ami Group LLC, engaged in the sale of motor vehicles with 1 employee, apparently exists to withdraw money, since the company has never had any revenue or profit.



The head of Ami Group LLC is Artem Migai, who also runs September LLC, which produces oil with 1 employee. The founder of this company is Auri Group LLC, owned by TsPP Jupiter LLC, which operates in the field of law. On September 22, tax authorities suspended operations on Jupiter accounts.



In Carlos LLC, which is engaged in real estate rental, together with Mkrtich Oroyan, the founders are Yastreb Gold LLC, Sokol Torg LLC and Krechet PRO LLC. In the first company, 40% belongs to Anna Okroyan, judging by her patronymic, the daughter of Mkrtich Okroyan.



LLC "Aerkk "Soyuz" (Aerospace Corporation "Soyuz") has nothing but a loud name; in 2022 the company's revenue is 0, loss is 3.7 million rubles. Everything is somehow sad in the companies of Mkrtich Okroyan. And it’s hard to even imagine where he got the money for expensive foreign real estate.



Another founder of Aerkk Soyuz LLC, Aratyun Okroyan, is a director in 3 companies and a founder in 8 operating companies that cannot boast of excess income.



Andranik Okroyan’s situation is no better; the value of his companies in 2022 was only 4.6 million rubles.

Mkrtich Okroyan has created a family octopus in which the founders and their companies intersect with each other. This is probably what makes it possible to withdraw money received from state corporations, with which Okroyan denies any connection.

Defense contracts are strictly classified, so it is unlikely that Mkrtich Okroyan will be brought to light. However, surprisingly, the tax authorities took charge of Okroyan. Since April, he has been unable to unblock the accounts of Aerkits Soyuz LLC.

So far, patrons from the military-industrial complex are apparently still helping Mkrtich Okroyan hide his income. However, information about expensive real estate abroad can play a cruel joke on a lover of museum art. If you are officially as naked as a falcon, then villas and palaces must be hidden so that they will not be found.

There are many different competing influence groups in Russia, and someone can use information about Mkrtich Okroyan for their own purposes. The question will arise where he got the money. And they love silence. You can accidentally fall out of a window or fall down the stairs. When you implement dubious schemes with representatives of the Russian government, anything can happen.



Evgeniy Tomin

Source: www.rucriminal.info