Putin's business

The former investigator in particularly important cases accuses the President of Russia and his environment of corruption

How and by whom were billions from the Twentieth Trust Corporation? Who are Gennady Petrov and Vladimir Kumarin, what do they have to do with the Lake Cooperative? This was a conversation with Andrei Zykov, retired lieutenant colonel, former senior investigator for especially important cases of investigation of crimes in the field of corruption and economics of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the North-Western Federal District. This year marks 15 years since the day the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation closed the criminal case No. 144128, which at one time received the loud name “Putin’s case”.

Andrei Zykov entered the investigative brigade, which conducted this case until the moment when Vladimir Putin became the president of the Russian Federation, after which it was immediately terminated, and the investigators were announced that a criminal case could not be carried out against the president. Says Andrey Zykov :

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Andrey Zykov in the program "Petersburg Freedom"

- American journalist Pol Khlebnikov at one time wondered: how could Russia be from a world superpower to turn into a poor country? The answer to this question is given by the materials of the criminal case No. 144128. There is a tradition in Russia: if there are suspicions that some officials are involved in corruption crimes, then it is very rare to see that criminal cases have been instituted against them. Things are mainly initiated "on the fact of theft from somewhere." And such a semi -enony case was a criminal case, instituted on theft of budget funds committed by the leadership of the Twentieth Trust Corporation.

Andrey Zykov

This corporation was founded on October 20, 1992, arose as a joint -stock company and from the state turned into a fully private enterprise. When we, investigators, began to study what the AO was doing, we came to the conclusion that this corporation was not created in order to build or produce something, but so that with its help it could be kidnapped. Naturally, the leadership of this AO could be stolen with impunity only if it had support from the highest officials of Leningrad-Petersburg, who were supposed to support this corporation.

Investigators were announced that a criminal case cannot be carried out against the president

- How did the twentieth trust corporation function, what kind of people carried out this functioning?

- In order to correctly answer this question, it is necessary to say who should have been prosecuted in this criminal case. If we consider episodes of the theft of budget funds, then there are absolutely specific officials behind these thefts who gave the relevant orders, monitored their implementation, gave a full carte blanche to the leadership of this corporation to make theft of budget funds and turned a blind eye to all these crimes. Now there is article 210 in the Criminal Code. It implies punishment for organizing a criminal community. And I believe that this article would have to be applied to the leadership of the City Hall of St. Petersburg and to the leadership of the Twentieth Trust Corporation. (Radio Liberty emphasizes that there was no court decision on this case.)

The leadership of this AO could be stolen with impunity only if he had support from the highest officials of Leningrad-Petersburg

The scheme of theft of funds was dictated by the conditions that developed in those years in Russia. 1992 is the year when the Twentieth Trust Corporation was formed. In 1992, there was a wild devaluation, a drop in the ruble. In March of this year, 36 deaths from hunger were recorded in St. Petersburg. In 1992, the country was covered by a crisis of non-payments caused by the collapse of the ruble and galloping inflation. In connection with which social tension began to pay a salary in society. The department of the Federal Directorate of this Department of Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities . non-payments from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation were issued by enormous funds for the support of enterprises so that they could pay with each other. entrance.

- Did Vladimir Putin enter this commission?

More than 60% of all funds allocated from the federal budget of St. Petersburg for state enterprises went to the Twentieth Trust Corporation

- No. Both Sobchak and Putin came an order to create this commission. And Dmitry Sergeyev , First Deputy Anatoly Sobchak, headed it. The money received from the federal budget was intended to support state enterprises so that it was state -owned enterprises to pay with each other. This money was not intended for private joint -stock companies of the private type, and was the Twentieth Trust Corporation JSC. However, when we began to investigate what these federal funds left for, it turned out that more than 60% of all funds allocated from the federal budget of St. Petersburg for state enterprises, it took the other money, less than 40%, were distributed between federal enterprises, and distributed between federal enterprises. St. Petersburg.

More than 22 billion were simply stolen. The corporation transferred this money to different countries: to Spain, Finland, Canada, USA

Vasily Vasilievich Kabachinov, chief controller of the control and audit department of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation for the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg (November 30, 1999 tragically burned out in his country house, while he was known for a sober way of life), found out that of those 23 billion rubles that were “entered” the Twenty Trust Corporation, about 1 was spent on the needs of the city The rest, more than 22 billion, were simply stolen by the corporation to different countries: in Spain, Canada, the USA, under various pretexts, under the marketing studies that no one carried out for various duplicated works, some of which was carried out by various St. Petersburg enterprises. The works of Wilson Mason were involved in the work of the company, they allegedly paid such amounts that were paid by the corporation for a particular type of work.

- Are there a Russian businessman Gennady Petrov and the “Night Governor” in St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg by the “Night Governor” Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin) ? ”

Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin)

- Gennady Petrov in criminal case No. 144128 does not appear. Neither the surname Petrov nor the surname Kumarina do not sound specifically for episodes. But if you look at the environment of Vladimir Putin and find out if people from this environment with Petrov and Kumarin communicated, then the answer will certainly be positive: they talked. How can this be proved? We are already accustomed to such a phrase as the “Cooperative“ Lake ”. And we know that this is eight people who created this cooperative in 1996, which was headed by this cooperative Vladimir Smirnov. And who is Mr. Smirnov? This is the head of CJSC Petersburg Fuel Company (PTK). The PTK was Vladimir Kumarin (Barsukov). Structures that were subordinated directly to Vladimir Kumarin (Barsukov).

For these stolen money, cottages were built in the same Spain for the same Vladimir Putin, Anatoly Sobchak and a number of other officials of the St. Petersburg City Hall

Now about Gennady Petrov. It must be understood that the Lake cooperative exists not only in the Priozersky district of the Leningrad region. The same cooperative with the same participants was created even earlier on Vasilyevsky Island. In the printout of the list of those who entered the cooperative "Lake" in the Priozersky district, we will see eight surnames. Each of these people had a residence permit in St. Petersburg.

Gennady Petrova lead to the court in Palma de Majorca

Let's see, for example, where the current president of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, was registered, where Andrei Fursenko was registered, where the brothers Yuri and Mikhail Kovalchuki were registered (all members of the Lake Cooperative). It turns out that the indicated persons were registered on Cashily Street, 55. In this house, Yuri Kovalchuk belonged to two apartments - No. 34 and No. 44; Andrei Fursenko belonged to apartment No. 43; his brother Sergei Fursenko - apartments No. 47 and No. 48; Another participant in the cooperative "Lake", Vladimir Yakunin, belonged to the apartment No. 159 and No. 160 in this house; Viktor Myachin, director of the Bank "Russia", - apartments No. 45, No. 46, No. 47 and No. 173. Also in this house, in apartment No. 29, a citizen N.F. Artemyeva, chief accountant of the Twentieth Trust Corporation. And who built this house? Baltic construction company (BSK). And the BSK is a "pearl" in the "crown" of Gennady Petrov. This is the answer to the question: whether Gennady Petrov was related to the criminal case No. 144128. Almost, he had the most direct attitude to the closest environment of Vladimir Putin. The fact that five people from the Lake cooperative lived in the same house built by Gennady Petrov, is a vivid example of such multifaceted cooperation.

- Is the criminal case No. 144128 a criminal case in 2000 on the corruption of officials in the government Anatoly Sobchak and persons from his swirling?

And in March 1992, people in St. Petersburg were dying of hunger

- The same criminal case can be recalled only one thing: the case of the Renaissance company. If we talk about the materials in which the criminal, in my opinion, the line of behavior of Vladimir Putin was traced, then, probably, it is worth recalling the famous report of Marina Salier , prepared in March 1992. She inspected Vladimir Putin’s activities as chairman of the Committee on External Relations of the St. Petersburg City Hall and found that the program “Food in exchange for raw materials”, carried out by the city administration, was failed, a lot of money was stolen. Contracts were concluded by Vladimir Putin and his team in such a way that it was impossible to bring them in court. Sometimes there were no dates in contracts, sometimes there was no concept of “penalties” ... It is obvious that the court would return these agreements back. Marina Salier said that the team of Vladimir Putin was stolen about $ 100 million. This is 1992. Now let's remember: who was part of this team? It included Alexei Miller, it included an adviser on economic issues Anatoly Sobchak Dmitry Medvedev. The future president of Russia wrote a candidate dissertation under the leadership of Anatoly Sobchak, also a specialist in civil law. And this company of lawyers: Sobchak, Medvedev, Putin - suddenly turned out to be completely legally insolvent! The contracts were compiled by them and their subordinates in such a way that they were legally insignificant. And in March 1992, people in St. Petersburg were dying of hunger.

Banker Peter Aven was involved in these crimes. There, in particular, the question was: where did 997 tons of pure aluminum disappeared, where did he evaporate? The question still has remained unanswered, as well as the question: where did the money received for this metal disappear?

Where did 997 tons of pure aluminum disappeared and the money received for this metal?

The next element of such criminal activity, for which, in my opinion, the entire leadership of the St. Petersburg City Hall was to be in prison, was the so-called Anna Eugnevskaya case in the Renaissance company, which she headed. This lady, who graduated from a culinary college, surprisingly manifested herself in trade as a small thief, for which she was expelled from work from the store. She created a construction company and began to build a house on Ryleyev Street. And then in this house No. 3, the apartments and the niece of Anatoly Sobchak, and the chief architect of St. Petersburg Oleg Kharchenko, and many other people from the environment of Vladimir Putin, suddenly receive apartments.

- One of the most active investigators in your brigade was Oleg Kalinichenko. He gathered a large dossier at the chairman of the Committee on External Relations of the St. Petersburg City Hall, Vladimir Putin, to other officials. Some time after the closing of Putin’s case, Oleg Kalinichenko went to the monastery. What happened to his large archive? After all, did you get some materials from it?

-Oleg Kalinichenko, an operative from the 2nd department of the organized crime department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region (it was practically an anti-corruption department, and the development of employees of the St. Petersburg City Hall was part of its duties). He collected information literally on all persons from the encirclement of Vladimir Putin. For example, I asked him: "Oleg, what is known about Fursenko, Kovalchuk?" A minute later, he brought me certificates for everyone, which reported on what anyone was involved, with whom he communicates from the criminal environment, etc.

About what happened to the archive of Oleg Kalinichenko, probably, we must ask himself. Will he talk about it? Obviously no. Oleg went to the monastery, and he now has other concerns, other things. Our worldly concerns are not interesting to him. However, some of the certificates that he passed on me were preserved. For example, our media wrote a lot about Vladimir Vladimirovich Kiselev , the organizer of the White Nights festival. About two years ago, he conducted the next campaign to raise funds where Vladimir Putin played some kind of song on the piano. True, where the money went from this charity event, which Kiselev conducted, again remained unknown.

Kiselev V.V. is engaged in the extraction of money from entrepreneurs of small and medium -sized businesses of the city to support the election campaign of the mayor of Sobchak

Here I have preserved the certificate of Oleg Kalinichenko to this person. I quote: “Help according to V.V. Kiselev. Assistant to the mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak is Vladimir Vladimirovich Kiselev. He is also the“ right hand ”of Gennady Petrov-the authority of the organized criminal group of Malyshev (the author’s note:“ We are talking about 1996 ”). Kiselev V.V. is engaged in the elaboration of small and medium-sized businesses of the city. The support of the mayor of Sobchak is done as follows. Subscriber numbers of phones are used (the list of phones is indicated). Kiselev, which, according to sources, will take place in the “Club 2004”, which is expected to speak the first deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Economic Relations of Vladimir Putin to raise money to the support fund Anatoly Sobchak in the upcoming elections ”...

- You blame the corruption of Vladimir Putin and other people from his environment. You do not admit that you can sue for slander?

The court may not agree with the investigator. But does this mean that the investigator is wrong? Maybe the judge is wrong?

- I am an investigator. Следователь имеет право на свои собственные убеждения. Когда следователь расследует уголовное дело, он составляет представление: достаточно ли у него материалов для того, чтобы предъявить тому или иному лицу обвинения по факту совершения этим лицом преступления. Суд может не согласиться со следователем. Уголовное дело, рассмотренное в суде, может закончиться оправдательным приговором. Но значит ли это, что следователь неправ? Может, неправ судья? У каждого – свое видение. У одного видение может подкрепляться какими-то идеалами, убежденностью в необходимости борьбы с преступностью. У другого видение может подкрепляться командным окриком, возможно, какими-то взятками. Вот, пресс-секретарь Путина Дмитрий Песков говорит о деле Марины Салье , что оно многократно рассматривалось, что в этом деле ничего нет. А раз уголовного дела по материалам Марины Салье не возбудили, значит, преступления в делах Владимира Владимировича не было?

Благосостояние прокурора Санкт-Петербурга дает ответ на вопрос, почему не были возбуждены уголовные дела в отношении Путина и людей из его окружения

Однако давайте посмотрим, кто тогда был прокурором Санкт-Петербурга? Владимир Иванович Еременко . А откуда у Владимира Ивановича вдруг появляется особняк в Репино поблизости от особняка руководителя корпорации "Двадцатый трест" Сергея Никешина ? Сколько он стоит? На тот момент – около 400 000 долларов. Откуда у прокурора города такая сумма? А сколько квартир получил прокурор города на Невском проспекте, в других районах? From whom? How? Это благосостояние прокурора Санкт-Петербурга, на мой взгляд, дает ответ на вопрос, почему не были возбуждены уголовные дела в отношении Путина Владимира Владимировича и людей из его окружения.

Сергей Никешин на заседании Законодательного собрания Санкт-Петербурга

​ – С момента закрытия дела №144128 прошло уже 15 лет. Стоит ли ворошить старое? Ведь даже если опять начать проводить расследование по фактам, изложенным в этом деле, то окажется, что это бессмысленно, так как истек срок давности привлечения к уголовной ответственности?

Та команда, которая была подобрана и проверена на хищениях периода 1992-1996 годов, и сейчас осталась в окружении Владимира Путина

​ –​ Есть такое понятие, как легализация похищенных средств. Это длящееся преступление. Те деньги, которые были похищены в 1992, 1995, 1996 годах, так или иначе находятся где-то на счетах, то есть произошла легализация похищенных средств. Тем не менее, я полагаю, что в отношении лиц, которые руководят страной, законодатели должны, подумав, внести изменения в УК РФ. Для этих лиц, если доказано, что они – преступники, не должно существовать сроков давности привлечения к ответственности, потому что люди, стоящие во главе государства, должны быть кристально чистыми и честными. Если они не такие, то они не имеют права управлять государством. Я думаю, как только Путин перестанет быть президентом страны, и в УПК, и в УК РФ будут внесены такие поправки и появится возможность привлечения их к уголовной ответственности.

– Работая в бригаде следователей, вы пытались привлечь этих чиновников и Владимира Путина к уголовной ответственности?

– Во всяком случае, мы честно расследовали эти дела. И то, что мы "нарыли" по этому уголовному делу, на мой взгляд, свидетельствует о виновности как самого Путина, так и многих других официальных лиц из его окружения.

– Можно ли рассматривать уголовное дело "Двадцатого треста" как некую коррупционную модель, обкатанную вначале в Петербурге, а потом распространенную на всю Россию?

– Безусловно, потому что хищения 1992 года показали, что эти похитители были очень уязвимы. Когда создаются такие фирмы лицами с криминальными наклонностями, когда подписываются и составляются такие юридически ничтожные договоры, возникает повод лишить причастных к этому чиновников их постов. Ведь Марина Салье выступила с обращением лишить Владимира Путина занимаемой им должности, а Ленсовет ее поддержал. Для того чтобы в дальнейшем можно было совершать хищения достаточно свободно, без риска, надо было криминализировать все вокруг, то есть необходимо было подбирать себе команду. И та команда, которая была подобрана и проверена в период 1992-1996 годов, и сейчас осталась в окружении Владимира Путина. Тот же Кудрин, тот же Кожин, тот же Кручинин, тот же Вязалов и другие. Все то окружение, которое было, до сих пор вокруг него. И они получают ордена…