How they steal from Russian Railways ... (from the series Russian thieves)

Force mopping up of Russian Railways chiefs is preparation for privatization.

A large-scale sweep has begun at Russian Railways. The detention by the security forces on Friday, December 14, of the head of the Sverdlovsk railway, Alexei Mironov (he is suspected of taking a large bribe) is just one of its links, URA.RU insiders say.

In November, the Kurgan City Court placed the head of the South Ural Railway in the Kurgan Region, Sergei Domoskanov, under house arrest. He is accused of abuse of office and embezzlement or embezzlement through the use of his official position. In September in Vladivostok, three heads of the territorial division of Russian Railways were caught while receiving large bribes.

In April, law enforcement officers detained the head of the directorate of the social sphere of the Oktyabrskaya Railway, a branch of Russian Railways (St. Petersburg). He was charged with attempted fraud on an especially large scale.

A month earlier, the head of the Kurgan section of Russian Railways Domoskanov was arrested

“In the near future, high-profile arrests will continue. This is primarily due to the fact that the company has been in a state of stagnation for a long time.

During this period, the regional railway bosses actually privatized state property, ”Kirill Kabanov, head of the National Anti-Corruption Committee, explained to URA.RU.

According to him, many people compare the railway to a "black hole":

"There are clear business chains built there, and we can assume that the security forces will go to all levels." According to the interlocutor of the agency, the operation to restore order in Russian Railways "has been agreed with the top management of the company": "The new management realized that the management system does not work due to complete lack of transparency," said Kabanov.

According to the head of one of the investment companies, who wished to remain incognito, it has always been rather difficult to interact with Russian Railways.

“At one time we tried to implement a number of projects [with Russian Railways]. It is difficult - they have a bureaucratic machine dating back to Soviet times. Many talk about the power of corruption: they say, if you want to work, pay, ”he told URA.RU.

According to a URA.RU source at Russian Railways, purges prevail in the Urals Federal District, as “the most provocative facts” were noted there. According to an insider, today "internal checks are underway on all [Russian Railways' divisions] roads." “This is due to the fact that the company must show maximum efficiency. We often draw parallels with Sberbank: it used to be a “bank for grandmothers”, but now it is a full-fledged system-forming organization, ”the agency's source said.

According to him, the "power operation" is taking place in parallel with the reform of the corporation - Russian Railways regularly reports on its new developments: "Over the next two years, the company may be privatized."

According to Otkritie Broker analyst Timur Nigmatullin, Russian Railways is one of the largest non-public state-owned companies in Russia.

“This not only means that the shares are not listed on the stock exchange, but also that the business is by definition much less transparent.

Public companies, such as Gazprom, Rostelecom or Rosneft, are obliged to disseminate not only “good”, but also “bad” information for them, interact with minority shareholders and report on efficiency within the framework of publicity, ”said URA .RU "expert.

Some associate the arrival of security officials with the privatization of a state-owned company

Russian Railways, he said, has more opportunities to hide bad information:

“The best world practice is the privatization of state-owned companies, including with the preservation of state control. This allows not only to increase efficiency, reduce corruption risks, but also to replenish the budget or pension fund.

The privatization of Russian Railways, like many other state-owned companies, has been repeatedly postponed, including due to the low cost of Russian shares amid geopolitics and relative inefficiency.

The Russian authorities had previously discussed the possibility of privatizing the state-owned railway company, but the idea was shelved.

Although he was born in Tashkent, he spent his childhood in Moscow, where his father Andrei Viktorovich Krapivin moved from Uzbekistan to trade in cotton. Krapivin Sr. not only had close ties with Uzbek officials, but also forged relationships with influential people in Russia. He entered the Russian market through the International Center for Business Cooperation, which was headed at that time. Force support for the business was provided by his partner Valery Markelov, who was associated with, which controlled, among other things, the banking sector. In the mid-nineties, Krapivin Sr., together with Markelov and another entrepreneur, went into the banking business, having received the post of vice president of the recently created Mezhtrustbank.

After the default of 1998, the Russian textile industry began to rise, and Andrey Viktorovich Krapivin, together with his partners, bought out the Avangard factory in the Vladimir region. However, the bright prospects of entrepreneurs were spoiled by the goods poured into Russia from China and Turkey.

Andrey Krapivin

Yakunin, who in the early 2000s became Deputy Minister of Transport, and then First Deputy Minister of Railways, saved Krapivin Sr. from ruin and helped his friend get his own business in the transport sector.

Andrey Krapivin managed to attach his son to the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation with a degree in International Monetary Relations. Alexei Krapivin actually from the first year began to be listed in commercial structures affiliated with his father. In his third year, he already became the head of the budgeting department of the Eurodesign and K company, of which he himself was a co-founder. The company worked in the field of passenger air transport. Then the young financier headed the Railtech company, which supplied bearings, reinforced concrete sleepers, batteries and other products to railway workers.

After Alexey Andreevich graduated from the university, he moved to the company "ED Logistics", in which he headed the budgeting and management reporting department, and then the financial department. The company was associated with Eurodesign & K and also worked on government orders.

TOKYO customer

Naturally, such a rapid career of a young man was not accidental. In 2003, as a result of the reorganization of the Ministry of Railways, Yakunin became first vice president and then president of Russian Railways (RZD). At the same time, Alexei Andreevich's father began to win various tenders for a new state structure. He himself kept in the background and received government contracts through technical companies, and owned large assets through offshore companies.

For the first time Yakunin introduced his colleague to the general public in 2007, when he recommended him for the post of independent director of Freight One (Freight One), a subsidiary of Russian Railways, and also introduced him to the boards of directors of Transmashholding, the largest equipment supplier for Russian Railways, and the largest grain carrier. Rusagrotrans ". Then Vladimir Ivanovich designated Krapivin as his “freelance assistant”, who understands “banking issues and issues of relations with the CIS”.

Indeed, Andrei Viktorovich Krapivin, together with Markelov and Usherovich, were responsible for cooperation with the Capital Trade Bank, which was created under the tenders of Russian Railways. Over time, the partners themselves became shareholders of the bank. Their account at STB was designated as "TOKYO customer". Most of the money from these accounts did not go to subcontractors, but to offshore, occasionally remained on deposits with a bank or was simply cashed out. Krapivin's friends, in particular, the former director of the Avangard factory, Andrei Kurkin, and the son of a former member of the Avangard board of directors, Maxim Karayanis, were watching to ensure that the contracts were awarded to the "right" companies. They were in charge of a certain commercial structure "Roszheldorsnab", which was one of the main organizers of tenders for Russian Railways.

The money earned from the contracts of the state monopoly, Krapivin Sr. invested in development projects. So he got a group of companies "GRAS", which built elite real estate in Sochi and in the village of Novoye Lapino on Rublevka. Besides Andrey Viktorovich, the beneficiaries of GRAS were businessman Ruben Khudoyan and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Transtelecom Sergey Lipatov. Andrei Krapivin had joint projects with the latter back in the late nineties, including those related to Mezhtrustbank. It was through Sergei Vladimirovich that GRAS entered the Sochi market.

Sergey Lipatov was another key figure in Yakunin's schemes to withdraw railway money. At that time, Sergei Vladimirovich headed the board of directors of the Lokomotiv football club, at the same time being the chairman of the board of directors of the main sponsor of the Transtelecom club. Despite the fact that the achievements of the "railroad" team went downhill, and the funding of the club was actually colossal. It was not possible to check the fate of the money, since Sergey Lipatov actually allocated it to himself. Traditionally, money was pumped through Krapivin's credit institutions and companies.

GRAS was also involved in a “sports” corruption scheme. By that time, Sergey Lipatov had left Lokomotiv with a scandal and joined the board of directors of Transmashholding, the sponsor of the Dynamo volleyball club in the capital. Immediately after that, it was GRAS that was entrusted with the construction of a sports complex for volleyball players called Flotilla. Over time, the complex turned from a sports complex into a multifunctional one, and was supposed to consist of four residential complexes of 29 floors with offices, a sports and fitness building, a hotel, a swimming pool and apartments.

Through Khudoyan, Sergei Lipatov and Krapivin tried to achieve the cancellation of the protection status of the famous Arkhangelskoye estate. Thus, Khudoyan rented 6 hectares of manor land through the Arkhangelskoye Park LLC company, which GRAS was already preparing to build. However, the Moscow Arbitration Court of Appeal declared invalid the agreement on the lease of a forest near the Arkhangelskoye estate, concluded by Mosleskhoz with OOO Park Arkhangelskoye. Later Khudoyan, having quarreled with partners, sold his 33% stake to A1 group. But Krapivin and Lipatov, not wanting to make the business transparent, bought out the share of the new co-owner, paying for it twice the cost.

Gorbuntsov and Maistrenko

Earlier, Krapivin, Markelov and Usherovich had another conflict, this time with one of the co-owners of Stolichny Commercial Bank. VIP clients decided to close their accounts and withdraw all funds from the bank - about $ 400 million. Gorbuntsov himself assured that his clients had gone bankrupt on development projects and were looking for someone to hang the debts on.

He also argued that the armed people, blocking the bank's head office, forced his ex-wife Larisa to rewrite the assets that belonged to her to strangers. According to another version, the conflict arose due to the fact that Gorbuntsov himself appropriated part of the "railroad" money, transferring them abroad through the Moldovan Universalbank belonging to him. As a result, the banker found refuge in Moldova, from where he told about the peculiarities of Russian Railways' work with contractors.

People from the circle of Krapivin also owned the Moscow business center "Cherry Orchard", the market value of the building of which was approximately equal to 4 billion rubles. In addition, Andrei Krapivin was associated with the developer Flat and Co, which was 76% owned by the Cyprus offshore company, and 24% by the general director Dmitry Maistrenko. This Maistrenko, among other things, owned the Avangard hunting farm, which previously belonged to the textile factory of the same name from Yuryev-Polsky. It was Flat & Co that sold houses in the village of Novoye Lapino, which was built up by Krapivinsky Gras.

The largest suppliers of Russian Railways

Krapivin and his partners in the early 2010s were the largest suppliers of Russian Railways. The same Markelov in 2010 became the owner of PKP Moboil, after which the company became the largest supplier of fuel for railway workers. In 2012 alone, it sold fuel worth 42.5 billion rubles. Other organizations leaders of state orders were associated with Krapivin Sr. himself.

Among them, one can single out Roszheldorproekt, which in 2012 and 2013 alone carried out work for the state monopoly for more than 50 billion rubles. For example, the company acted as the general designer of the famous Adler - Krasnaya Polyana road. There were other Olympic infrastructure facilities near Krapivin, including thanks to Lipatov's connections in the Sochi administration. One of the co-owners of Roszheldorproject was Krapivin Jr. Together with Markelov and Obodovsky, he was a member of the company's board of directors and owned a 50 percent stake. The second half of Roszheldorproekt was owned by Russian Railways. It should be noted that Obodovsky was another key partner of the Krapivin family.

Andrey Viktorovich Krapivin more and more actively introduced his son into the "railway" business. The same "Roszheldorproekt" was a subsidiary of the St. Petersburg Institute "Lengiprotrans", the board of directors of which was headed by Alexey Krapivin. In addition, he became a member of the board of directors of Transelectromontazh OJSC, which Krapivin Sr. bought from an oligarch friend. By that time, his son was already the CEO of two companies at once - Ortiga Group and Diviti-Invest located in the Skolkovo innovation center.

The interests of Alexei Krapivin extended not only to the railway theme. He was also a co-owner of nearly three dozen organizations, including a textile mill, a yacht club, accounting companies, auto centers, suppliers of finishing materials, and Internet startups. He also became, together with Usherovich, Markelov and Obodovsky co-owner of Interprogressbank, another important partner of Russian Railways.

Offshore

But most of Krapivin's companies were offshore. Various projects in Russia were financed through these commercial structures, in total, hundreds of millions of dollars. Through these offshores, in particular, Russian Railways worked with the world's largest manufacturer of trains and aircraft, the Swedish company Bombardier Transportation, which since the 1990s has supplied the Ebilock-950 microprocessor-based centralization system for switches and signals. Later, a joint Russian-Swedish enterprise "Bombardier Transportation (Signal)" appeared, after which the production of Ebilock-950 was transferred to Russia.

Krapivin traded Ebilock-950 systems through Rambo Management offshore companies. In particular, when this system was installed on the railways in Azerbaijan by Bombardier Transportation, the British company Multiserv Overseas Limited unexpectedly won the tender for the supply of Swedish equipment. But Multiserv itself had a contract for the supply of Ebilock-950 with Krapivinsky Rambo. It turned out that the Swedish branch of "Bombardier" supplied equipment to its own subsidiary company through at least two "gaskets".

It is noteworthy that Multiserv Overseas Limited was owned by Multiserv Management LLP, the first director of which was Yuri Obodovsky. This scheme was also widespread in Russia. In the period from 2012 to 2014 alone, the Russian Bombardier Transportation (Signal) purchased Ebilock-950 equipment from the British Multiserv Overseas Limited for tens of millions of euros. Krapivin's offshore scheme became the property of a wide audience after classified documents were released by the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, one of the world's largest offshore registrars. And the Swedish police even became interested in the story of the supply of microprocessors to Azerbaijan.

With the disclosure of the Panama archives, information surfaced about other firms of Alexei Krapivin, in particular Redstone Financial Ltd and Telford Trading S.A., which received $ 277 million in their accounts in the Swiss bank CBH Compagnie Bancaire Helvetique SA. These funds were associated with the largest money laundering operation in Eastern Europe, which interested the law enforcement agencies of Moldova, Russia and the Baltic countries. It was about the withdrawal of 22 billion dollars from Russia in the period from 2011 to 2014 under the guise of executing illegal court decisions made by Moldovan judges.

In addition, Krapivin's offshore companies issued loans to various Cypriot structures, including for the acquisition of assets in Russia. For example, in 2014, Gordox lent $ 100.5 million to another company in the Virgin Islands to buy the Cypriot structure of Sterema. In the same year, Sterema became the owner of a controlling stake in the large Russian construction company Bamstroymekhanizatsiya, one of the main contractors of the largest reconstruction project for the Baikal-Amur Mainline. The works were estimated at 177.3 billion rubles, which amounted to almost 60% of the total funds allocated for tenders.

Another contractor for the reconstruction of BAM and Transsib was the 1520 Group of Companies created by Krapivin, Markelov, Usherovich and Obodovsky. Obodovsky also served as the general director of this organization. The 1520 Group of Companies won a tender for the electrification of the Eastern landfill worth about 28 billion rubles. In total, until 2018 it was planned to allocate another 562 billion rubles for the reconstruction of the BAM.

Yakunin's departure

Andrey Viktorovich Krapivin died in Switzerland in 2015. He died under very mysterious circumstances, unexpectedly for everyone he suffered from acute liver edema - hepatomegaly. At the same time, no autopsy was performed. Just a few months later, Vladimir Yakunin was dismissed, for whom the death of a key figure in the schemes he had built before the upcoming audit of the state company became very "timely".

The departure of the "unsinkable" railroad worker was associated not only with his son's acceptance of British citizenship and the political ambitions of Vladimir Ivanovich himself, but also with the colossal waste of budget funds. The new head of the Russian Railways was First Deputy Minister of Transport Oleg Belozerov, who was called upon to audit the monopolist's activities. As a consequence, Bamstroymekhanizatsiya and Roszheldorproekt were under attack. The son of an oligarch close to Belozerov, Igor Rotenberg, began to apply for the replacement of the Rrapivinsky team.

Oleg Belozerov

The struggle for the deceased's huge offshore empire began. Sergey Lipatov became one of the main contenders for it. However, without his patrons, Sergei Vladimirovich himself began to rapidly lose positions, and a few years later came under suspicion of stealing funds from Mezhtrustbank. Another partner, Krapivina Usherovich, together with Ivan Stankevich, a member of the board of directors of the bank Novoye Vremya, was summoned for questioning to the Investigative Committee. According to the investigation, it was on their order that four banks issued large amounts of currency in the US Federal Reserve's packaging to Colonel GUEBiPK. And although Usherovich is still in the case only as a witness, he chose to hide abroad and is currently engaged in obtaining citizenship in Cyprus.

However, Alexey Andreevich did not give up hope of gaining a foothold under the new leadership of the Russian Railways. In his "United Construction Company 1520" the general director was replaced, who became a certain Sergei Klevakin. It is noteworthy that earlier Klevakin headed the Foratek ETS company, which, after the change of government of Russian Railways, began to receive contracts from the railway monopoly for larger amounts than before. In this regard, there were suggestions that Alexei Krapivin found a common language with the new beneficiaries. Later, there were reports that the 1520 group of companies was going to buy a stake in FGC Mostootryad-47, which was building a railway bypassing Ukraine.

The fact that Aleksey Krapivin chose the right strategy was evidenced by the fact that in 2018 in the Russian Forbes ranking of the Kings of the State Order, he was in first place in the company of Valery Markelov and Boris Usherovich. According to the magazine's calculations, at the moment "OSK 1520" and "Roszheldorproekt" have contracts for a total amount of 218 billion rubles. However, the figure of Krapivin can only nominally lead the pyramid of state orders, and in fact, the process of changing beneficiaries is already underway.

Alexey Andreevich Krapivin is a "worthy" successor to the work of his father, who managed to build an entire offshore empire. Krapivin Sr., taking advantage of his close acquaintance with Vladimir Yakunin, carried out the largest contracts of the Russian Railways through his companies and banks.

After the death of his father and the change in the leadership of Russian Railways, Alexei Krapivin managed to maintain the built schemes, although it is possible that other people have already become their beneficiaries. Nevertheless, today Alexey Krapivin continues to be considered the largest contractor for Russian Railways. This proves that changes in the state monopoly did not lead to the elimination of its huge corruption component.

This post is dedicated to you, the most advanced citizens of Russia. You are technological, love gadgets, travel a lot and use the Russian information network "Cheburashka" on the Internet.

Now the Anti-Corruption Foundation will tell you how your advanced and technological skills bring money to the family of our old friend Vladimir Yakunin. A great patriot, billionaire and owner of an offshore empire.

Tell me, have you ever bought a train ticket online? Through a mobile app? Surely they bought, or at least your relatives and friends bought.

Put aside your business, let's wander together through the open spaces of the fur store, looking into its most hidden corners.

Who is that standing there guarding the chests of gold? Is it really a terrible witch, as in the fairy tale "Flint"?

Nearly. This is Vera Lissiotis, an enterprising Cypriot lawyer. You must remember her from previous FBK investigations.

It is this Cypriot woman with her father who is the nominal founder of the Cypriot offshore companies VRL and VERLYS, which own the main assets of the Yakunin family:

Deal with the girl? Do you understand who she is and why?

Well, now let's pick up that darkened scroll to the left of the diamond basket and read some facts from it.

I repeat: only the facts established by the FBK investigation department:

In 2012, after the entry into force of the order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation of August 31, 2011 N 228 "On the establishment of the form of an electronic travel document (ticket) for railway transport", Russian Railways is closely tackling the sale of electronic train tickets on the Internet.

We offer three possible answers:

a) Because LLC "UFS" and LLC "Electronic ticket" won competitions placed in advance on trading platforms

b) Because LLC UFS and LLC Electronic Ticket have unique knowledge and expertise, and besides them, no one knows how to sell tickets on the Internet

c) Because the head of Russian Railways crook and thief Vladimir Yakunin secured a contract for an offshore company controlled by his son Andrey Yakunin, in order to steal and appropriate a percentage of the sale of each Russian Railways ticket and build a fur store for yourself.

Have you chosen an option?

Now, ATTENTION, CORRECT ANSWER:

This is an official extract from the Cyprus registry.

Fathers! VERLYS and our old friend Vera Lissiotis, the treasurer of the Yakunin family. The director of AM EBOOKERS is a certain Alastair Matthew Cunningham:

Unremarkable in general, except for the fact that the English newspaper The Guardian included the first number in the list of fraudulent directors. More than 1000 companies are registered with it in just a few of the mentioned jurisdictions:

So the ownership chain looks like this: yakunin family - Vera Lissiotis - VERLYS company - AM EBOOKERS company - UFS LLC ... This is all confirmed by official databases.

Now, hurry! Drop everything and go to the App Store or Google Play! One thing to check. Probably, you also have doubts! Downloading the only thing official application for the sale of Russian Railways tickets

We look carefully

It turns out that no matter how advanced you think you are, little Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin sits in your fashionable iPhone.

When you click on the buttons to buy a train ticket, he, Yakunin, like a little leprechaun dwarf, appears to take a gold coin from you and put it in his pot.

Here's how much Yakunin's offshore clan makes from every ticket sold

Our rough estimate: the app was downloaded in a year 800 thousand times and through it 90 thousand tickets were bought. Given the average commission of 554 rubles (we do not know the distribution), the UFS earned almost 50 million rubles on this application.

But the fashionable iPhone is not limited to the UFS application. In fact everyone literally every train ticket sold on the internet in addition to the Russian Railways website, it is sold through UFS. All with the same commission.

Buying tickets from any known site , you enrich the Yakunin clan (although, it would seem, how much further).

Anyone interested in how it works, figure it out.

In short, the Yakunin UFS sets the amount of the mandatory commission for each ticket sold and generously shares 30% of this fee with the partner site. 70% keeps to himself.

Again, a rough estimate: in 2012, 7 million tickets were sold through the UFS. Suppose that in 2013 they sold a little more, the market is growing, let's say 8 million. We take the same average commission of 554 rubles, subtract 30% remaining from agents, total 388 rubles x 8 million \u003d 3.1 billion rubles of UFS revenue for 2013 .

Isn't this a dream business? We take the state railway monopoly and launch electronic ticket sales through our office, collecting a commission of 600 rubles from each ticket.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation is often accused that we show only one side of the issue, we do not give our opponents a chance to answer.

Here's a chance. We really want the powerful statesman and patriot Vladimir Yakunin to answer these questions. We kindly ask all journalists to ask him them:

- On what conditions did Russian Railways enter into an agreement with the UFS and what is the benefit of the state corporation from such cooperation?

- Who is the ultimate beneficiary of the Cypriot offshore company that monopolized the sale of electronic tickets?

- Is it possible for third-party developers to access the sale of Russian Railways tickets, bypassing the services of the UFS?

- How can you explain the amazing and complete coincidence of the nominal owners of the UFS with the nominal owners of almost all known business assets of Andrey Yakunin (RGS, etc.)

We will be glad to receive answers from Russian Railways and personally from Vladimir and Andrey Yakunin. In the meantime, we are waiting for preventive complaints to the FAS and blogger Medvedev that Vladimir Yakunin is still a terrible rogue and a thief, and also lies about the fact that his son's business does not have access to Russian Railways funds.

The FBK is also studying the question of how the sanctions imposed against Yakunin should be used by the American company Apple, with the help of which Yakunin steals money from Russian citizens.

It is impossible to imagine that in any developed (and even underdeveloped) country, the head of the railways would be caught selling passenger tickets through his offshore and retaining his place.

We understand that this will happen in Russia and the only answer to information about Yakunin's monstrous corruption will be: it is a provocation in response to our work of effective managers.

Yakunin is Putin's closest corrupt official and nothing will happen to him.

But it will be a small reward for us if you help spread this information. I'd like all those 7,000,000 people who bought a ticket through the UFS and 800,000 people who downloaded the mobile application to find out why their ticket is 600 rubles more expensive than it should be and who gets those 600 rubles.

We are not asking much of you. Simply, if you bought a train ticket through one of these systems, then give a link to this investigation, adding something from yourself that people usually add when 600 rubles are illegally taken away from them. Just remember that now obscene language is prohibited on the Internet.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation continues to demand from President Putin and Prime Minister Medvedev Yakunin's resignation and a public criminal investigation into his family's corruption.

P.s .: Thank you for the excellent work of the FBK investigation department, which has shown itself to be good monsters.

Update: Based on the comments received from our readers, we clarify that there is one unofficial application for both iPhone and Android, working through the Russian Railways website and allowing you to buy tickets without the UFS commission

Sorry to address you, but I remind you that the Anti-Corruption Foundation is a non-profit organization,

Original taken from navalny c How they saw in Russian Railways

It all started with a fur store.

Then we, like everyone else (Novaya Gazeta, Vedomosti), studied offshore companies for which the "cunning" "railroad worker" re-registered his estate.

The diagram began to look like this:

Then everyone got tired of fiddling with incomprehensible Yakunin offshore schemes.

But not for us. Step by step, we figured out the relationships and drew the diagram.

Now it hangs over my table and looks like this:

And this is only a small part. All this is actually too early to publish, it would be possible to tinker with it, but there are two important factors:

You can even switch back and forth for a while.
Cry: Putin stands for "deoffshorization", click: yakunin family offshore scheme.

This is what I had in mind when I spoke in my last word about the abhorrent feudal system in which several mafia families control 85% of the country's national wealth.

We affirm that the family of the head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, with the help of corruption and abuse, has built a gigantic business empire registered with offshore companies around the world.

This empire is worth billions of dollars. The Yakunin family is one of the richest families in Russia and the world.

This is a real mafia family that exists because it works for the mafia boss: V.V. Putin, who allows them to steal everything around.

The scheme of the Yakunin empire is already very large and intricate.
It is difficult for an untrained person to understand it, so I have isolated several already obvious stories to facilitate perception:

Hotels.

Cyprus-based RHC Regional Hotel Chain Ltd is owned by two other Cypriot companies: VERLYS NOMINEES LIMITED and V.R.L. NOMINEES LIMITED. The founder of V.R.L. NOMINEES LIMITED is Vera Lyssiotis , she, together with Renos Lyssiotis, is also the founder of VERLYS NOMINEES LIMITED.
Vera Lyssiotis daughter Renos lyssiotis both are Cypriot lawyers.

The statements of the Yakunins themselves on this matter are slightly more than completely contradictory:

"In a statement to Reuters, Russian Railways said there were no business ties between Andrey Yakunin and the state monopoly."

"In a statement to Reuters, Vladimir Yakunin generally denied any connection to his son's business."

"The first three open hotels - in Kazan, Astrakhan and Izhevsk" - have nothing to do with Russian Railways, Andrey said. However, at least the next five it is planned to open opposite or very close to the most important train stations, evidenced by Rezidor information.

To get suitable plots, said Andrey Yakunin, his company conducted a "rigorous selection process"in order to find a real estate consultant in Russia. It turned out to be a subsidiary of Russian Railways Zheldoripoteka. (Surprisingly, 50% of Zheldoripoteka's shares were controlled by Yakunin's partner Sergei Orlov, who is also a member of the board of directors of Zheldoripoteka) She helped the RGS to get the necessary objects, he added.

"We were able to find several plots of land, which we eventually acquired through Zheldoripoteku ", - said Andrey Yakunin. The plots are located opposite or next to train stations in major cities ”

The revealed scheme suggests that the Yakunins are lying.

House with lions

"... on Petrova Square,
Where a new house has risen in the corner,
Where above the elevated porch
With a raised paw, as if alive,
There are two sentry lions ... "

A.S. Pushkin, "The Bronze Horseman"

At 15 sites in large Russian cities, the activities of the hotelier Yakunin are not limited.

On conditions unknown to the layman, the Presidential Property Management Department allocated a building on Voznesensky Prospekt for a "long-term lease" to the company ZAO Tristar Investment Holding. A large-scale reconstruction of an architectural monument of the early 19th century was supposed to be completed several years ago, and the building itself is now becoming a Four Seasons hotel. VIY Management, owned by Andrey Yakunin, was already involved in attracting investments in this project. They coped with the work, and in 2008 Uralsib Bank provided Tristar with a soft loan of $ 45 million.

Rosregionproekt got no less significant territory of the former cargo yard of the Moskovskaya-Tovarnaya station - 21 hectares of land, on which, according to the project, a residential and shopping complex will be built. Judging by the information in open sources, the site will be transferred to the ownership of Rosregionproject Development LLC on an exchange basis. In 2008, the company, created about 3 years ago and having no projects before Moskovskaya-Tovarnaya, announced its intention to invest $ 1.5- $ 2 billion in this project.

Chimpoake actively denies the affiliation of both of the aforementioned companies with Andrei Yakunin. In fact, Valentin Tiberievich is disingenuous. According to the historical record of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the Cypriot offshore company ROSREGIONPROJECT Ltd (owns 80% of the shares of Rosregionproject Development LLC), in 2006 fully owned Andrei Yakunin's Regional Hotel Network LLC.

The other 20% of Rosregionproject Development LLC is currently owned by the Cyprus office of LONGSOUND INVESTMENTS Ltd. She, in turn, is a quarter owned, presumably, by the Liechtenstein Investport Holdings Foundation. The last one must be remembered and not forgotten before reading the story about the seaport of Ust-Luga.

Another addition to the collection of "random coincidences" - the Cypriot ROSREGIONPROJECT Ltd is 55% owned by the Panamanian offshore RHODIA ENTERPRISES Ltd. Panama is a small country, and it just so happened that the director and management company RHODIA coincides with the director and management company of DIAMONDROCK inc. to which a house in London at 88 West Heath Road is registered, worth 4.5 million pounds, which Andrey Yakunin indicates as his place of permanent residence .

Interesting, huh? Whatever you take a patriot and a fighter against the pernicious influence of the West, his son lives in London in a house for 4.5 million pounds.

Ust-Luga

So the turn came to the story about the seaport of Ust-Luga.

Large-scale construction in the Leningrad Region has been carried out since 2000 within the framework of a public-private partnership. On the basis of a contract with the Ministry of Transport, a state customer, OJSC "Company" Ust-Luga "is the initiator and developer of this object. On the company's website, you can learn in detail the plans to create five interconnected clusters: transport and logistics, industrial, city cluster, recreational and agro-industrial.

Ust-Luga Company actually has a special mission. It brings to life the most cherished dreams and plans of V.V. Putin, who devoted part of his dissertation to the development of this port (topic: "Strategic planning of the reproduction of the region's mineral resource base in the formation of market relations. St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region") back in 1997.

On page 135, as a result of a "comprehensive survey of the coast" and the deepest analysis of the need to create Transport and Technological Port Complexes (TTPK) in the Leningrad Region, Vladimir Vladimirovich comes to the conclusion:

Now about how the Yakunin family makes the President's dreams come true.

Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin himself until the very end of 2005 was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ust-Luga Company. However, as stated in the company's press release very accurately, "after leaving the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors, Vladimir Yakunin is not leaving the project." The same press release reminds the reader that "at the same time, Vladimir Yakunin continues to supervise the project on the personal instructions of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin."

The son of Vladimir Ivanovich, Victor, also, as it turned out, was working on a project in Ust-Luga. In the list of affiliated persons of OJSC Rosneftbunker, which is building an oil terminal in Ust-Luga, Viktor Vladimirovich is a member of the board of directors until March 2012. The owner of OJSC "Rosneftbunker" according to Rosstat is the Cyprus "Capefar Limited". This offshore company is part of the Gunvor group. Now Viktor Yakunin's successful career in Gunvor (in various positions for about 7 years) is taking its place.

Vladimir Petrovich Vasiliev, who jointly owns OOO "Real Okhota" with Yakunin Sr., is also involved in the construction of the port. His company LLC Finprom-Engineering, a contractor of Russian Railways, as stated on their website, was engaged in equipping railway approaches to Ust-Luga. By the way, the friendship between Yakunin and Vasiliev has grown into effective cooperation a long time ago - another company of Vasiliev, Innline LLC, received contracts for the installation of lighting equipment in Vyborg and Finlyadskiye railway stations.

There was also a place for Orlov, a personal Advisor and co-founder of the British VIY Management, and RVM Capital (invests in large non-public companies operating on the Russian market, mainly affiliated with Russian Railways), where he is a director. RVM has stakes in both Ust-Luga Company and TLC OJSC - the company responsible for the transport and logical part of the port development.

At this point, it is worth deviating from reasoning about Putin's dreams and returning to the offshore empire of Vladimir Yakunin.

Do you remember the Cypriot offshore ROSREGIONPROJECT, which builds up the territory of the Moskovskaya-Tovarnaya station in St. Petersburg? So, it is its Liechtenstein owner Investport Holding Establishment (renamed from Foundation, as can be seen from the Liechtenstein extract) that owns 15% and 23% of Ust-Luga Company and TLC OJSC, respectively.

The director of Rosregionproekt, Valentin Tiberievich Chimpoake, was once again mistaken - it seems that there is still an affiliation between his employer and the Yakunins.

And once again we try and remember the offshore QUETAR CONSULTANTS LTD, which is registered as a lawyer-writer, and owns the Cypriot ANTALON, from which traces lead to the dacha in Akulinino.

Walk in Ust-Luga

"Comprehensively survey the coast":

Well, one more meeting (with a bonus)

Gelendzhik

On November 8, 2010, the founders of Gelendzhik Resort Complex-Meridian LLC (GKK-Meridian) are lovely kind people.

Chemezov Stanislav Sergeevich (son of Sergei Chemezov, General Director of the state corporation "Rostec")

Artyakov Dmitry Vladimirovich (son of Vladimir Artyakov, deputy of Chemezov, former governor of the Samara region)

Bolotova Maya Nikolaevna (daughter of Nikolai Tokarev, chairman of the board and president of Transneft)

Yakunina Natalya Viktorovna (wife of Vladimir Yakunin, president of Russian Railways)

Legal address of the firm: Krasnodar Territory, Gelendzhik, st. Magnolia, 7 (here on the map).

Residential buildings are located on this site, all of them belong to GKK-Meridian.

Less than two weeks ago, on July 3, when this investigation was already underway, Natalya Yakunina resigned from the founders of GKK-Meridian, but Vladimir Valerievich Chernyshov, Senior Advisor to the President of JSC Russian Railways, got there.

Let's move 100 meters from the cottages. Here we see the pier

In the ONF. This is my favorite, because the "people's" "front" is so patriotic and so actively "defends" the "interests of" Russia. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_VQeHLcziV_MXNQLXpKVEZwVlU/edit?usp\u003dsharing

To all parliamentary factions of the State Duma. The question is political. Let's see what measures they are ready to take:

Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_VQeHLcziV_dWhubDNSMWRBNWM/edit?usp\u003dsharing
Head of the Federal Service for Cadastre and Cartography https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_VQeHLcziV_TGhuc2FLdEdHaWc/edit?usp\u003dsharing

What kind of help we need from you:

We send this statement:

And we ask our mafia boss the question of whether he recognizes himself as the boss of the mafia:

2. Dissemination of information.
It's the most important. We must make sure that, despite the deathly silence of the zomboy, several million people in the country know about Yakunin's affairs and that Putin is protecting him (unless, of course, we see the resignation and investigation).

Please help spread this post wherever possible.
Blogs, social networks, twitter, local forums, etc.
Emails and sms to friends.
It will take you seconds, but for us it is fundamentally important.

We will make a special newspaper and distribute it according to our scheme.

I have agreed to cooperate with the Interregional Trade Union of Railway Workers, they will disseminate this information through their networks and in their newspaper.

When we make printed propaganda materials, with your help, we will organize raids at the stations and hand over leaflets to the RJ staff. First of all to the conductors. They will have something to discuss with long-distance train passengers.

Well, we will do all sorts of similar things.

Advocacy will work great here. Absolutely everyone faced RJ. Anyone who has seen these stations, toilets, slept on wet bed linen and sees a dilapidated departmental railway building next to the house, will be happy to get acquainted with information about the shining empire of the Yakunin family of billionaires.
Connect.

As I wrote above: THIS IS ONLY A VERY SMALL PART.
If you have any additional information, please send: [email protected]

We very much welcome the efforts of any investigative journalists who begin to spin pieces of this scheme and develop it.

In short, people rise up to fight the mafia. Each of us can do something useful to make these guys a little less comfortable in their fur storages.

Many thanks in advance to everyone who will participate. You cannot be indifferent.

We will promptly inform you about the development of events.

PS
Thanks section: many thanks to the FBK employee

Credit