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Italian adventures in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin assigned Russian citizenship to Italian Lanfranko Chirillo
The corresponding decree of the head of state was published on the official Internet portal of legal information on August 19. The decree itself is dated August 16, ” RBC reports. The New Times is well acquainted with this character. In 2012, we examined in detail his successes in the field of the construction of castles and palaces of power 
“The matrix is everywhere. She surrounds us. Even now she is next to us. You see her when you look out the window or turn on the TV. You feel it when you work, go to church when you pay taxes. The matrix is a whole world thrown over your eyes to hide the truth ... ”You suddenly understand all the relevance of this text from the famous film for today's Russia when, by some miracle, a chance, you feel almost a hacker-you don’t get a hacker, you just open one door into the life of a powerful clan, you look into this girl and you see there are many such doors, and that, and that, and that are not for them, and that are not for them. Hidden from those who pay the existence of this parallel reality from their pockets - taxes, bribes, sets, in the end by the resources of the territory, which is the common Fatherland for these two non -overeating worlds. Stroygazkomplekt Creative workshop Lanfranko Chirillo ” - this signature under the master plan of“ boarding house in the city of Gelendzhik, the area of the village of Praskoveevka ”, now known under the name“ Putin's Palace ”, allowed The New Times to look into the world outside the matrix
However, the former chief architect of Moscow, as Alexander Kuzmin himself said in a short interview with The New Times, does not know such a surname: “I have not heard and not familiar.”
“Whoever needs me knows,” Mr. Chirillo retorted in a telephone conversation with one of the authors of these lines. “All great people know me.” And that is true. Although the idea of the "great" we may have different. 
Chirillo himself, according to Italian (and according to Russian) laws, does not have the right to sign large architectural projects. Most likely, he performs the functions of a manager, 120 nameless designers and designers work for him
Poor Italian
From the audio record of September 10, 2009. St. Petersburg, Kondratyevsky Lane, 72, Office of Petromed Holding * * On the company Petromed, created under the Committee on External Relations of the St. Petersburg City Hall, which was headed by Vladimir Putin in the early 1990s, The New Times wrote in detail No. 7 of 02/27/2012 . :
Colonel Oleg Kuznetsov , at that time-the head of the military unit No. 1473 of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation-the developer-customer, according to the documents, “the boarding house in the area of the village of Praskoveevka: it means that there is still such a moment, today, according to the documents that we have and is documented, I can’t say, 21 million 678 thousand (the euro) have been documented, actually confirmed, actually, actually, actually, actually, actually, I can confirm, wait for Lanfranco when we open, mount, I will check and confirm this. Much more is going on, it has not come yet, that is, the containers are going, cars, ships are floating, containers, everything is going on, and therefore already today he has no money to send it from Italy, and he has already prepared a lot there, now I drove again, looked again.
Lanfranco Chirillo: This is only regarding our agreement of 30 million (euros), then there is also engineering, which is already worth 9 million (euro), which I have already paid, all cable audio equipment for a million euros, which I have already bought ... This is only a material that I can even physically approve, for a construction, 30 million euros that we have seen, this is not completely, there are not enough materials, of these 30 million, these 30 million. Already at 21 216 780 (euro) already there, everything else is in the warehouse, everything is ready, for these 30 million (euros) then, of course, I did more than 9 million engineering, then there are still black work, this is only material, then putty, plaster on all facades, installation, overhead ... /... /... /... /...
Nikolai Shamalov, member of the Lake Cooperative, Bank of the Bank of Russia (9.886%), at the time of the record, the co-owner of RIRUR LLC with a charter capital of 1.5 billion rubles (now, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, 100 percent Cyprus Offshore): listen, Oleg Sergeyevich, and those work that installation, delivery and so on, as we should pay, also officially?
Kuznetsov: No, you can give up ...
Chirillo: You can in a suitcase ... Especially, I pay in cash to customs, I cry everything in cash, I have cash in how ...
Shamalov: If you confirm these expenses, we will pay you so! What are you mu-mu again?!
Dmitry Gorelov, retired KGB Colonel, shareholder of the Russian Bank (9.886%), at the time of the record, the co -owner of RIRUR LLC: what amounts are it about?
Kuznetsov: He needs cash in Moscow, 14 million (euros), and you can take more cash in Moscow?
Chirillo: I can.
Shamalov: What is it about then? (laughs)
Chirillo: I have a question then, can I? Sorry, but I’m an architect, a simple person, I am poor, very poor, I spent 50 million today, having received 25 (inaudible), I have minus 25 million 800 (thousands of euros, for me it is a lot of money, almost all earned ...
This record obviously does not require comment: about all the defendants in the conversation, with the exception of the “poor” architect, The New Times, told in detail in the investigation “purely concrete candidate” dedicated to companies and offshores, through which, as businessman Sergei Kolesnikov claims, and where the “head” was stored, he is “Mikhail Ivanovich”, he is “Vladimir Vladimirovich ". He refused to find Lanfranco Chirillo (he refused to comment on the information on audio recordings), the sole owner of the Stroygazkkomplekt LLC (according to the Spark base), whose signature, as already mentioned, stands on the master plan of the “boarding house in the village of Praskoveevka”, then it was not possible. To the famous only add: FSO Colonel Oleg Kuznetsov in a telephone conversation with The New Times said that he no longer leads the military part No. 1473. 
The architect of this house in the elite village of X-Park on Rublevka was Yuri Grigoryan. But in the photo from the book Lanfranco Chirillo, his name is not indicated
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I am an architect, a simple person, I am poor, very poor, I spent 50 million today, having received 25 (inaudible), I have minus 25 million 800 (thousands of euros, for me it is a huge money, almost all earned ...
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"He can do everything"
Here, in the office of Lukoil, in the mansion of the 19th century, Lanfranco Chirillo worked
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| The interior of the building of the IFD "Capital" on the Krasnopresnenskaya embankment |
The security guard at the entrance rewrites passport data, two more - in the lobby on the red sofa. However, it is so easy to come here from the street. Here, in the literal sense of the word, telephone law applies: the master of the architect, wherever he is, includes a direct Russian mobile phone. The call-Chirillo responds in Russian, although with a strong accent and not very correct cases, immediately the question “where do you get my phone from?”, The surname of the partner or recent client follows, then “write down the phone” and after a couple of days the brunette with the reception takes you to the owner of the company (“the architect lives on two countries. In Moscow it happens infrequently”, where you are greeted by a friendly and talkative employee) Stefano Gini firms. “We try to take into account any wishes of our customers,” he says. - For example, recently one Russian lady ordered a sculpture of herself in her French mansion. We have completed. Or now, for example, in one of the houses we are building a hockey platform. And it happens that the client asks for a shooting range in the basement - we did it. ” It is felt that Mr. Gini often has to negotiate on behalf of his boss - he inspiredly tells about the company's projects: “We are not only building at home, but we are also engaged in landscape design, interior design. You can give us a turnkey house. Then we will start with the foundation and end with hangers. Everything is carried out in our shortest possible time, even though in Russia there are many difficulties related to coordination. Recently, for example, we built a wine plant. It was a big project, we almost went crazy here, but finished it in 9 months. The stage with approval, however, has not yet been passed, - the Italian amazes with its frankness, but the plant has already been functioning in full swing since September 2011, ”and why, in fact, be shy? If the client representative knows the boss’s mobile phone, Mr. Lanfranco himself warned that he needs to show and tell, which means that this is a person on the other side of the matrix, from the reality where the entrance without a hacker is not available and prohibited.
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| This bathroom, on minimal estimates, cost the owner a quarter of a million euros |
In short: furniture is mainly ordered from Italy (it is already completely to the specifics of Stefano), wallpaper and parquet are also from England. But at the same time, they can contact manufacturers from any country: they work with suppliers of 130 countries. And then - photographs: a palace with a drawing studio that resembles a room in the Tretyakov Gallery, a pool in a house with azure water the size of the same that in the Olympic, reconstructed house with luxurious interiors on the Cote d'Azur, a “hunting house” the size of a manor, built recently in the vicinity of Sochi. And again - words caressing the Russian ear, familiar with bureaucratic obstacles to design everything and everything: “If the client has difficulty choosing a place, we will help. Mr. Chirillo has a lot of acquaintances in Russia. ” And - the final cantata: "He can do everything."
And who would doubt. If Mr. Chirillo was the main architect of the palace in Praskoveevka with an area of 2000 m², withstanding an earthquake of 9 points, as well as a bungalow, theater, amphitheater, sports complex, tea house, three helicopters (“this was the requirement of the FSO,” explains Sergey Kolesnikov. “At least three”, built by three, ”), an elevator shaft for Marina. (90 meters down and a slightly smaller length, the tunnel from the elevator to the sea, which also performed the function of “elements of civil defense” - bunker), a Winzavod for three floors for 80 bottles with Chateau, vineyards and so on, which was supposed to or is located on an area of 87 hectares and with an estimate of $ 700-800 million, and he is a designer of interiors, the executor of the finishing work, the performer furniture, marble and other materials. 120 designers - is it a lot or a little for such a volume of work? Mr. Chirillo refused to comment on this construction, limiting himself: “I am only an architect,” and said about the former palace business partner Sergey Kolesnikov: “Well, he has difficulties.”
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If the client has difficulty choosing a place, we will help. Mr. Chirillo has a lot of acquaintances in Russia. And - final cantata: he can do everything
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Private residence on the Rostov embankment with a view of the Moscow River. Apartment of 220 m2 here costs € 4 million
Mr. X
How and why, with our spyingomania, the design and decoration of the regime object - the “palace” in the village of Praskoveevka - was entrusted with the architect with an Italian passport (“They don’t give me a Russian passport,” Cyrilo complained) - the question is curious. Moreover, the customer was the military unit of the federal security service, and the main contractor-builder was the Federal Agency for Special Construction (Spetsstroy). Moreover, judging by the audio recordings, the construction of the Army Nikolai Abroskin was directly supervised by the chief of the Spetsstroy (by decree of the President on December 31, 2010, he was fired from military service - now the State Duma deputy from the United Russia party): “Yesterday I had Nikolai Pavlovich (Abroskin), told him that the pace of work of Spetsstroy was not satisfied with me, it was not satisfied. With his troubles, the FSO Colonel Kuznetsov at a meeting with Shamalov and Gorelov in October 2009 (the audio recording is at the disposal of the editorial office). -He called Tashlyka * * Major General Mikhail Tashlyk, then-the head of the special construction department in the North Caucasus region, was dismissed by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation in April 2011; The management website proudly reports that it is "the only commander in the construction of hydraulic structures of defense value." , pumped him up in full ... "
However, to the authors, spy -addicts not suffering, is much more interesting than another. The architect Lanfranco Chirillo is the X -Men both for the community of the capital's architects and for colleagues in Italy, whom to interview, too. As we already wrote, the chief architect of Moscow did not hear about him, although Mr. Kuzmin recalled the architectural bureau of Masterskaja: “We raised the archives in 15 years: once it passed with us - during the construction of a cottage village,” he said in a telephone interview with The New Times. The “Cottage village” is apparently the one, on Rublevka, not far from Gorki-2. 
“Lanfranko is an architect of Versailles: everything should be not just expensive, but very expensive,” said The New Times, one fashionable metropolitan architect 
They did not hear anything about the Italian in Russia and in professional publications - the magazines "Salon" and "Projects of Russia". The guilds of architects and engineers did not know him in the Garchs (The New Times spoke with more than 20 of its members, including such famous and fashionable metropolitan architects as Evgeny Ass and Alexei Kozyr), and students also did not hear students. Kirillo does not also consist in any “self -regulatory organization” of architects and designers, which, as we were explained, is required in order to have the right to sign at least serious and large projects. In the creative workshop of the Union of Moscow Architects under the leadership of A.A. The Goders suggested that Mr. Kirillo works "in cooperation with some architectural workshop, and he himself remains in the shadows." But this, as we know, is not so. At the same time, those architects to whom we showed the advertising two -volume of Chirillo noted the professionalism of his interiors: “A little kich, very expensive, but quite high quality.” And they summed up: the “commercial architect”, that is, taking up the execution of super -expensive projects.
Meanwhile, in his books, Lanfranco Chirillo characterizes himself and his participation in the architectural life of the capital of Russia as follows: “In the early 90s, observing with great optimism in geopolitical changes in Europe and in the east ... In a very short period, I turned from the observer after this historical moment in his active participant ... I began to participate in the organization, design and programming of this city (Moscow) ... All this is all this allowed me to identify myself personally and my “workshop” “as one of the fundamental“ bricks ”in the huge process of updating Moscow.” Strongly. At the same time, the wife of the mayor of Moscow, who ruled the city all the time that Mr. Chirillo participated in the “Update of Moscow”, in the past, the head of Intaco Elena Baturina about Lanfranco Chirillo also did not hear. Well, the crown of the monument to himself: "I would like to be recognized by the great Russian architect born in Italy." What? 
And this is France, azure shore: the interior of the summer "house"
Well, okay, Moscow with its closed parallel world of the Russian nomenclature, however, in much more open Italy, colleagues-journalists (and I must say, not the latter who know how to look), as well as architects and promoters of Italian design and interior, do not know about Lanfranco Kirillo as an architect. He was not in the lists of a guild of architects of the province of Breshia (this is the north of Italy), where he came from and where, in his own words, he studied (“I graduated from the institute in my hometown”), nor in the lists of guilds of the south of Italy: judging by the avenue, Kirillo his man in Sardinia.
True, in the city of Travagallo (Breshia Province), an office furniture company was discovered, and there the New Times correspondent was readily called the address for contacts-the Office of Chirillo on the 3rd Frunze Street in Moscow. Finally, one of the Italian interlocutors suggested that Chirillo is a geometer, there is such a profession in Italy: they receive it by graduating from a technical institution for geometers - an analogue of our technical school. True, they explained that the geometer is allowed to work with buildings no higher than three floors. “But what about the Palace of 2000 m2, three helicopters and an elevator shaft of 90 meters deep?!” - We exclaimed? .. - No, we said nothing. After all that is written about the “Putin Palace” and about offshores and companies “Mikhail Ivanovich” - Lord, what trifles ...
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Everyone who succeeds has also explained, they import the expensive marble or onyx under the guise of, say, sand: otherwise, for every $ 10 million materials would have to pay a customs duty plus VAT for $ 4-5 million
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On the trail
One of The New Times in Milan, who was familiar with Mr. Chirillo (and who, therefore, who spoke on the terms of anonymity) said: Lanfranko worked before Moscow ... in Kuwait - "it seems, after the war in 1991, and came to Moscow with one bag." Indeed, in his book, Chirillo writes that "he was gaining professional experience in Italy, Europe and the Arab world."
Then, the architectural observer of the professional online magazine, AD Artem Denarko said: “I tried to get to know him (with Chirillo): he worked in the 19th century complex on Pokrovsky Boulevard - there is one of the Lukoil offices. Oil Kuwait and Lukoil, whose head, Vagit Alekperov, in 1990-1991 was the deputy Minister of the oil and gas industry of the USSR, this coincidence made the Spark's information base carefully. And not in vain: it turned out that in different years the co-owner of the company Lanfranco Chirillo Stroygazkomplekt (it includes the architectural studio Masterskaja) was, firstly, a native of Jordan, and now one of the richest people in Russia, the head of the Stroygazconsulting holding Ziyad Manasir (he also participated in the construction of the Palace in the Palace in the construction of the Palace village Praskoveevka). And, and secondly, the co-owner of another Italian company, the HOA Thai, registered in Bolshoi Kozikhinsky Lane, house 31, p. 1, is the president of the Lukoil charity foundation Nelly Alekperov.
Chirillo himself, to the question of Kuwait, reacted unexpectedly painfully: "I am not an Arab terrorist!" There wasn’t this in thoughts: everything that I wanted to know is who the person, whom the media is written about as the “architect of the Putin Palace”. But he did not want to tell about himself, who, as he writes, changed the appearance of Moscow and dreams of being recognized as a “great Russian architect born in Italy”. But for history-it is necessary for history, no?
Pension-waterman
In the audio recordings of the meetings conducted by customers and the construction contractor in the village of Praskoveevka on the outskirts of Gelendzhik, it is dedicated to discuss how to import the expensive materials necessary for construction and at the same time bypassed Russian customs? As follows from the audio recordings, the accounts of the architect Lanfranco Chirillo were paid by Lanaval, registered in offshore, Belize, and they came to the accounts of Media Investment with the location - well, almost the State Department - in Washington, USA. “Everyone is doing this,” experts explained to the New Times to the correspondent. “All who succeeds,” they also explained, “import marble or onyx under the guise of, say, sand: otherwise, for every $ 10 million materials, it would be necessary to pay a customs duty plus VAT for $ 4-5 million.” But here, to do without the HTD-the “state-consumed declaration”-explained this, requires very high ties. Meanwhile, judging by the audio recordings (and this is confirmed by the businessman, until the fall of 2010, the partner of the Palace Builders Sergey Kolesnikov), precisely without this GTD for the construction of the boarding house in the village of Praskoveevka, and tried to get by. That is, they imported smuggling?
No, the authors do not intend to talk about morality here. What ordinary Russian businessmen do and difficult are also in their relationship with state bodies - God is a judge.
But no matter what was built on the outskirts of Gelendzhik, the “boarding house” under the guise of a palace or “Putin’s palace” under the guise of a boarding house, the customers were quite serious state organizations in the country: the Federal State Institution “Military Part 1473” of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation, GUPs and FSUPs of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, and an additional agreement for the Presidential Administration gave its 30% of “The boarding house in the area of the village of Praskoveevka G. Gelendzhik of the Krasnodar Territory” of the Indocopos private company, signed by the head of the department of the President of the Russian Federation V.I. Kozhin. (The management of business denies his participation in the project, indicating that their commercial structure was engaged in the state unitary enterprise “Enterprise for Products”, the UD of the President of the Russian Federation.) And this is all the same parallel reality: inside the matrix of businessmen they face and plant for significantly lower violations, but the law has not been written in the world of the highest Russian official nomenclature - it is simply not written.
PS
In Novaya Gazeta, an article “RISI of Russia-2” was published under the authorship of a certain Viktor Bocharov. “Political scientists rightly suggested that this article is not an ordinary author, but a pseudonym for one or more members of the Prime Minister’s team,” the newspaper wrote in the preface. The sources of The New Times argue that the author, who is falling with strict criticism of those who are commonly called “libers in power”, and a number of largest Russian businessmen, none other than Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin. But what is curious: businessman Sergei Kolesnikov claims that all the issues related to the registration of ownership of Putin’s Palace, he personally resolved with Igor Sechin: “It was very pleasant to deal with him: that others could not decide, he decided quickly and efficiently.”