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Business Savior of the Fatherland
"The battle for Russia continues, the victory will be behind us!" - Vladimir Putin proclaimed at a rally in his support ( read the report on page 14 ). And he asked "not to look behind the hill, not to run left, to the side, and not to change his homeland." So he said: “not to change”, equalizing their political opponents with the traitors of the Fatherland and designating themselves and their supporters as those who love their homeland with all their hearts. Meanwhile, the New Times investigation shows that if not the heart, then the interests of the candidate for the post of head of Russia are in the offshores of Panama, Liechtenstein, the British Virgin Islands, in banks and companies of London and Zurich. The business of the main defender of the Fatherland - The New Times gained access to unique documents and audio recordings
From the audio record of 10/10/2010, St. Petersburg, Kondratyevsky Lane, house 72, office of the Petromed holding:
First Voice: Ziyad at one time for the first time met with Vladimir Vladimirovich. When they were left alone, Ziyad asked: “Here I have Kolesnikov asks for money, referring to you, to invest in the“ forest ”: 250 million. He said: "Not to give anything, nothing ..."
Another voice: at Vladimir Vladimirovich (inaudible) ... through the forest.
First voice: Ziyad said: "Vladimir Vladimirovich, if you say, I will give." He also told me: “I want to make a gift, I want to give a gift ...” I: “Make it and you will be engraved in gold letters that this is all you! And the leader will find out that you did all this, all this is for your money, this is your gift ” / / /
Another voice: “Ziyad’s gift had another in mind: that he builds everything for free on condition that orders will be provided with him ...”
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This conversation (the whole record that is at the disposal of The New Times lasts 2 hours 15 minutes) took place at a meeting in the office of Petromed CJSC-the same company that was still under control under the curtain of the Soviet regime-51% committee on external relations of the St. Petersburg City Hall, which was then still led by KGB, Vladimir Putin.
A businessman who wanted to make a “gift” to his beloved manager (and partly, as follows from other audio recordings, made some objects, in particular, a helicopter site on the territory of the now well -known complex in Gelendzhik), is Ziyad Manasir, the head of the Stroygazconsulting holding, one of the main Gazproma contractors, which occupies in the Russian rating. Forbes 46th place with a fortune of $ 2.1 billion.
Oleg Kuznetsov Colonel Oleg Kuznetsov, head of the Federal State University of FSU “Military Part 1473” of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation: his signature “from the developer-customer”-stands on an additional agreement to the investment agreement No. 209 D of November 10, 2008 (the document is at the disposal of The New Times), which concerns the “construction of The New Times). The village of Praskoveevka G. Gelendzhik of the Krasnodar Territory ”is officially called, or“ Putin’s palace ”, as this construction is now referred to in Russian and world media with the light hand of businessman Sergei Kolesnikov, who was also present at this meeting, but two months later was in the forced emigration abroad, where the correspondent of The New Times met with him. 
It is impossible to figure out who, when, on the basis of which documents, owned a special object of the “Superlux class” class in Praskoveevka without a person who was engaged in it is impossible. Drawing Sergey Kolesnikov - especially for The New Times
The other two votes on the digital file belong to the president of the Petromed holding * Dmitry Gorelov, retired KGB Colonel and shareholder of the Russian Bank (9.886% of the shares), and Nikolai Shamalov, also the shareholder of the Rossiya Bank (9.886% of the shares) and the co -founder of the summer cooperative Lake Lake. The state of each of them by the Russian Forbes is estimated at $ 500 million. As for the words about “investment in“ forest ”, this refers to the cellulose-paper plant in Troitsko-Pechersk (Komi), which in December 2008, by order of the First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, was included in the list of federal priority projects: according to businessman Kolesnikov, he himself was agreed on that from that time Deputy Prime Minister, since it was one of the 15 projects of Rosinvest LLC, led by Gorelov, Shamalov and Kolesnikov and who was one of the Russian “roofs” of the financial empire of candidate Putin and his friends. More about this - a little later.
From an interview with Sergey Kolesnikov, February 2012:
It seems that those who wanted to give money and make it pleasant to Putin lined up in line. But who made the decision, which of the entrepreneurs can be invested, and to whom is the path to the highest business ordered?
Of course, only Mikhail Ivanovich ...
Mikhail Ivanovich?
So we called Putin among ourselves.
Why "Mikhail Ivanovich"?
Yes, it somehow happened. Still - the leader. In the beginning there was a “boss”, and then the “king” skipped ... We-in the sense of Gorelov, Shamalov and I-did not have the right to talk to anyone, and if someone wanted to have (Rosinvest. ”-The New Times), it was possible only if he said:“ Come on! ” Here he said: “Let's do the forest, but I don’t participate financially,” in any case, I was transmitted to Gorelov and Shamalov, who went to him. They were friends, I am only a performer.
Once upon a time-partner friends (from right to left): Sergey Kolesnikov, Dmitry Gorelov, Nikolai Shamalov and his close friend Vadim Mozhaev, former director of FSUE at the Federal Health and Social Development Agency, was arrested in October 2010 on suspicion of extortion of a bribe from Tosiba. In 2000-2007 Mozhaev, like Shamalov, worked in Siemens
Three comrades served
From the audio recording of December 09, 2009, St. Petersburg, the Fontanka embankment, 132, the office of Rosinvest LLC:
Sergey Kolesnikov (hereinafter - SK): on Rollins, what kind of money was lying?
Nikolai Shamalov (NS): But these are the ones that are listed ...
SK: Ours? Or Mikhail Ivanovich?
NS: Mikhail Ivanovich ... (there is a dispute about what part of the money lying on Rollins International Ltd, British Virgin Islands belonged to Mikhail Ivanovich, and which partners in Rosinvest.)
NS: Mikhail Ivanovich money - here they are known ...
SK: Money Mikhail Ivanovich - 439 million 968 thousand (dollars) ... This is Mikhail Ivanovich's money ...
This whole story began at the end of 1999. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was then just a prime minister, whom Boris Yeltsin was preparing for the post of head of state. It was then to meet him and came the head of Petromeda and a longtime colleague in the St. Petersburg City Hall and KGB Dmitry Gorelov. Putin suggested that Petromeda start working with his friend with Lake Cooperative Nikolai Shamalov: he has long -standing connections and discounts in Siemens, Gorelov has a Russian company that allowed not only to supply Siemens equipment, but also to conclude, as Kolesnikov explains, “complex contracts”. It is worth noting that Nikolai Shamalov, or Terentich, as his friends calls, worked for 16 years as a representative of the German giant in Russia - until 2008, when the US Department of Justice was charged with Siemens that the company paid $ 1.4 billion in the form of bribes from 2001 to 2007, from which $ 55 had to be $ 55 for medical supplies. Mill. Siemens paid a fine of several hundred million dollars (the company is trading on the New York Exchange, and therefore is in the jurisdiction of the United States), promised to be white and fluffy, and Shamalov lost a profitable employer. Maybe the reason for Putin’s anti -Americanism, which began to go off the way at the end of his second presidential term? I mean, it’s a shame for a friend.
At the beginning of 2001, Shamalov handed over to his new partners that his colleague in the Lake Cooperative and President Putin already invited them to meet with the owner of Sibneft Roman Abramovich: he would give money for the purchase of medical equipment, but part of the amount - namely 35% - should go to the offshore.
From an interview with Sergey Kolesnikov, February 2012:
Shamalov himself went to Abramovich?
No, Shamalov Abramovich did not know and had no contacts with him. It was Mikhail Ivanovich's proposal ...
And the proposal was only to take money from Abramovich or on the percentage of the rollback?
And for money and percent ...
And he called 35%?
Yes, he called 35%.
The fact that it was precisely the “rollback” was clear to everyone?
Well, in general, yes. 
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In the spring of 2001, Sergei Kolesnikov met with Roman Abramovich - "To discuss technical details." The meeting was held in the oligarch’s office on Sofia Embankment (there is now the Rosneft’s office). Petromeda had the Education Public Fund (for training medical workers), Abramovich had the Pole of Hope, registered in Anadyr (see scheme), through them in July 2001 and went the first $ 203, of which 35% went to Rollins International offshore (British Virgin Islands) and Santalgin Trading (Panama). Then, in September 2001, a similar path made $ 14.9 million of the chapter of Severstal Alexei Mordashov. Then there were “donations” from “Lukoil” (he doesn’t call the amount of Kolesnikov), $ 14 million from the oil industry Gennady Timchenko (they went through the company Gulmet), from other oligarchs and businessmen. Kolesnikov refuses to call their surnames - does not want to make extra enemies. In short, $ 400 million more than $ 400 million.
Medical equipment for hospitals was also bought - through the London company EM&PS (owners of Gorelov, Kolesnikov, Shamalov). It was bought - well, first of all, from the Medical Engineering Group, Siemens (the relevant documents are at the disposal of The New Times).
Santal worked as a safe (it should be noted that, obviously, Kolesnikov discloses only part of the scheme - there were other offshores and other companies with a total of more than 35), that is, the money was simply stored here, and Rollins had a working company (it was owned, as evidenced by the documents, since 2000, there were equal shares of chariots, mountains and shamal), that is, from here there was money for investments and money for investments and money from here. Dividends were paid. For example, bank payments indicate (copies are at the disposal of The New Times) that Rollins International paid Dmitry Gorelov in 2003-2005 by three dividends in the amount of $ 21.3 million, and Nikolai Shamalov at the same time and also three traces - $ 20.8 million. In other words, in other words, a business of a business on a business on a business on a business. Medical equipment for state hospitals was super -income. Kolesnikov claims that it was with these funds that the shares of the Bank “Russia” were bought, the real owner of which, he did not doubt, became “Mikhail Ivanovich”. The New Times sent requests to all the mentioned defendants in this story: they either refused or were unavailable. Prime Minister Dmitry Peskov in an interview with the English newspaper Financial Times, any connections of his boss with the Bank "Russia" categorically shallow.
Another example: on February 12, 2002, the London EM&PS transferred $ 85 million to Rollins, of which $ 50 million went to the safe, that is, to the Panama offshore. And in July and September 2004, the same Panama offshore Santal Trading issued a loan and warranty letters in the amount of $ 41 million, Abros, registered in St. Petersburg and which is a 100 percent daughter of the Bank of Russia, and another $ 18 million was owned by Putin's distant relative of Putin Mikhail Shelomov): with this money, “daughter” and “brother” acquired, respectively, 49.97% and 13.5% of the shares of Sogaz, through which, through a series of transactions, which were written a lot, Russia has been controlled by the cash flows of the largest Russian monopoly - Gazprom. Kolesnikov claims that they also acted in the interests of Mikhail Ivanovich.
The task was to ensure property rights without a name and without a signature. Provided as follows: in the Principality of Liechtenstein you can open a company whose shares are issued a bearer
## Cover Operation
From the audio recording of 10/19/2009, St. Petersburg, the Fontanka embankment, 132, the office of Rosinvest LLC:
Dmitry Gorelov (hereinafter referred to as DG): for which we are building this plant (“Primorsky shipyard”)-in order to once pay off ... officially conclude contracts, have orders ...
Nikolai Shamalov (NS): If we had not counted on orders, we would not have ... I didn’t get, no loans, okay?
DG: / ... / Further, the question is agreed on the participation of Igor Ivanovich.
NSh: And what is the answer?
DG: "Of course, I have to ... I will call Igor Ivanch."
NG: He?
DG: Yes. Mikhail Ivanovich was supposed to call Igor Ivanch.
NG: In which part?
DG: so that Igor Ivanovich, in the form of “OSK”, which is controlled by him (the united shipbuilding corporation, which was headed by Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sichin from May 2008 to the beginning of October 2011, entered the new shipyard by 10%... Mikhail Ivanovich should give an indication of Igor Ivanchu that Dima and Dima will come and Kolya, they will explain the situation to him, so that it is not by phone ... Well, maybe ... on the phone ... that he enters the shareholder, becomes the board of directors ... In the summer, this issue with Mikhail Ivanovich was agreed, and good was received, for which it was said: "I will call Igor." I gave 3-4 days to accelerate, I called Igor Ivanch, he was on a business trip, then he left for the knee to heal ...
NS: Yes, he was sick ...
DG: And then we decided to slow down this business until the situation is clarified ...
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One thing is incomprehensible in this whole story: how, in conditions of total distrust of everyone to everyone, each for each - secret audio recordings of conversations, meetings, telephone conversations were and is a common place - guaranteed property rights, including Mikhail Ivanovich? And how did the rflowing-axial money be legalized?
Kolesnikov, whose signature stands on many documents, and above all on the constituent documents of many of these offshore and offices registered in countries and continents, explained some principles of the highest business.
First. “The task was to ensure property rights without a name and without a signature,” he says. They ensured this: in the Principality of Liechtenstein, you can open a company whose shares are issued a bearer. The owner of the action is the one who came and presented the action with the number at the meeting of shareholders: it may be the owner himself, or maybe his lawyer. Moreover: such a license plate can be transferred to any person without any legal contract. So in Vadutz (Liechtenstein), Lirus Holding AG appeared: 100 shares were issued. Money from offshores started here. At the same time, the Lirus Management AG management company was registered in Zurich, Switzerland, which, in turn, formed its 99.99% Russian “daughter” - the same Rosinvest LLC (see the scheme on page 9).
Second. How to legally borrow money to Russia? This was done through the authorized capital of Rosinvest: at the time of its creation on October 18, 2005, the authorized capital amounted to 1 billion rubles, in 2007-already 2 billion, and by November 2009-more than 5 billion rubles. “It was one of the largest charter capital in Russia,” says Kolesnikov. Through Rosinvest, money was invested in a variety of projects. The audio recordings and documents appear: Vyborg shipbuilding plant, Rosinfoavia, Rosaviainvest (terminal at Pulkovo Airport), Primorsky shipyard, etc. etc. Some of the projects mentioned did not survive the crisis of 2008-2009, but they did their job: they legalized the money. “Everything should have been clean so as not to attract attention, no extra eyes,” says Kolesnikov. Money legalized through Russian companies, or some of them, and went to the “South Project” - the construction of the same “Putin Palace” in Gelendzhik, which has already been written about and about which there is much more to tell. But not now. Here we only note that at least $ 350 million was invested in this project - in any case, for that kind of money it was sold (sold?) One of the trusted entrepreneurs.
From an interview with Sergey Kolesnikov, February 2012:
Have you met Putin?
In the early 1990s-a lot, on weekly glider in the Committee on External Relations on the ground floor of Smolny: “Petromed” purchased equipment for the city’s hospitals. And in the last 10 years - three times. His assistant called, Vitya Lame, invited him to meetings ...
And when is the last time?
In December 2009, when they discussed the situation in Cherepovets and generally with high medical technologies ** . In addition to me, Golikov (Minister of Health and Social Development), Nabiullina (Minister of Economics) were there, then Chemezov came up (head of the Rostekhnology Group of Companies). BB told him: "Chemezov, organize!" We needed a billion. Putin said: “Chemezov, make a bridge!”, That is, the translation - I was still amazed that he knew these banking terms ... But Chemezov did nothing. Then I realized that he could not particularly order: everyone in this corporation has his own “meadow”, Golikova has his own, Chemezov has his own. The plant in Cherepovets as a result was closed, hundreds of people were sent to the street ...
Putin built his business as an intelligence network: as a rule, people from different businesses do not intersect. One link will fail - confidential information about others does not leak
## Friends
The third way to maintain property in conditions when the name cannot put its signature on the relevant legal documents - this is to have a business with a very limited circle of people. According to Kolesnikov, Putin built his business as an intelligence network: as a rule, people from different businesses do not intersect. One link will fail - confidential information about others does not leak. Putin's near circle is 10-15 people. The closest, most proof is those whom the presidential candidate invites to his birthday: in conversations they appear under nicknames or clicks - who likes it more. 
For example, at the 55th anniversary of Vladimir Putin, where Silvio Berlusconi and Jacques Shirak were also invited: one of the largest shareholders of the Russian Bank Yuri Kovalchuk (the fortune, according to the Russian Forbes, $ 1.5 billion)-he is Kosyu, the oil industry Gennady Timchenko ($ 5.5 billion)-the head of the Gangrene, the head Gazprom Alexei Miller is a “soldier”, manager of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kozhin - “Tuzhorka”, the head of the Presidential Security Service, Deputy Director of the FSO General Viktor Zolotov - “Generalissimus”, many times mentioned in this note, “Professor Preobrazhensky”. Only Dmitry Gorelov has no clicks. Everything is from St. Petersburg, two are the founders of the famous cooperative "Lake", three (according to other sources, five)-immigrants from the KGB of the USSR. Purely male company. No women. Of the joint entertainment-a casino in which they really play, but only with their narrow circle, for example, in the Valdai residence. Yes, even artists. The singer Natalya Vetlitskaya once told how it happens in her blog (Kolesnikov said: “That's for sure, this happened in the Valdai residence). "Do you give gifts?" - the correspondent of The New Times asked. This was not related to the topic of the investigation, but we know so little about the presidential candidate that it was a sin not to ask. “But what about,” Kolesnikov answered, “we all rescued.” - "And those who were not invited?" - "Certainly". - "And how much?" - "20-30 thousand." - "rubles?" - “Well, of course, you are dollars” ...
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From an interview with Sergey Kolesnikov, February 2012:
What made you quit everything and escape from Russia?
I was informed that Shamalov was going to throw me 1 kg of heroin. I realized - they will clean. And recently, they already handed me here: "Travelers do not live for a long time."
Why did you decide to tell reporters about what everyone is silent about and always?
Shamalov at some point told me: “You are a servant, he is a king”-it was already too much. And then I “plowed” for 20 years, created a business, invested in investment projects ... I said: “Let's display peacefully, share the assets.” They didn't want to. And finally, the palace - I was ready to work on investment projects in the country's economy, and when everything was closed, and the money went to marble and vineyards - this was not for me.
Are you not afraid?
When he was preparing to publish his letter to Medvedev (December 2010) - he was afraid terribly. And now - tired of being afraid.
PS Much of what Sergey Kolesnikov says is confirmed either by documents or (and) audio recordings. A number of facts before The New Times carefully checked the world media: the English Financial Times, for example. But a number of facts can neither be confirmed nor refuted: the main defendants in this story are silent or, like Dmitry Gorelov, argue that all multi -hundredth investments, as well as dividends from them, are the result of his successful activity. Sergei Kolesnikov himself expects that sooner or later the investigation will be held and an unbiased court will be held, in which he is ready to act as a witness. And he believes that on the eve of the de facto 4th presidential term Vladimir Putin, it is impossible to remain silent about the business of the chief candidate for the post of head of state. The New Times shares this position.
* In the mid-1990s, after Anatoly Sobchak lost in the elections of the mayor of St. Petersburg and most of his team, including Putin, moved to Moscow, Dmitry Gorelov and Sergey Kolesnikov bought the company from the city hall.
** In the framework of the National Project "Health", it was planned to build 15 modular medical centers: Rosinvest, as well as the Module and Rosmodulstroy company, created by Gorelov, Kolesnikov, Shamalov, as well as recently arrested by Vadim Mozhaev, participated in the project that sounded after the crisis.