A crack in the discord

What is behind the arrest of businessman Dmitry Mikhalchenko

Dmitry Mikhalchenko offered a bail for himself - 50 million rubles, *but the court refused , Moscow, March 30, 2016 *. Photo: Anatoly Zhdanov/Kommersant

The St. Petersburg billionaire Dmitry Mikhalchenko was charged with alcohol smuggling: according to the investigation, the businessman bought wine and cognac for € 600 thousand under the guise of building sealant. But whether this became a real reason for the arrest - here the intrigue remains. There are many versions: from an attack on the migration service (forum holding company, which is the general director of which is Mikhalchenko, connected with the passport and visa centers in St. Petersburg and Moscow), which the president transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to the mysterious “War of the two special services” and communications with the March arrests in the Ministry of Culture.

Mikhalchenko himself said in court: his arrest is connected with the machinations of competitors. Like, they prevent it from opening the port of Bronk in St. Petersburg on time. By the way, this port is Mikhalchenko’s joint project with Nikolai Nessovov, Major General of the FSB retired, whom he met in the late 1990s. Another fact: Yevgeny Murov, who headed the New President Vladimir Putin, headed the FSO of the Russian Federation in May 2000 at the Federal Security Service of the NEFSB in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region at that time. Despite the personal friendship of Murov and Nekodov, the FSO and the FSB-the instant departments. And then Murov came up with a retirement term: in November 2015, he turned 70 years old. This small detail is an occasion for an intraspecific struggle, according to NT sources.

Mikhalchenko himself said in court: his arrest is connected with the machinations of competitors. Like, they prevent them from opening the port of Bronka in St. Petersburg in time

There is an occasion to connect the Mikhalchenko case and the “Restorers' affair”: the businessman’s arrest also initiated the FSB. The Baltztro company, whose director is taken into custody as one of the participants of the theft of 50 million rubles. From the treasury of the state, is part of the HC Forum.

The fact that the “restorers' case” is featured by companies that are closely related to the Federal Security Service - one of the country's most powerful and closed special services, NT wrote in the material “Federal Security of State Prises” (No. 42 of December 14, 2015). After in 2011, the FSU -Federal State Unitary Enterprise “ATEX” came to the place of the deputy director Dmitry Sergeyev, Stanislav Küner, Baltstra and CJSC Stroyfasad), the largest state orders for the restoration of cultural objects came to the place of the deputy director.

House of Receptions in Novo -Ogarsky, February 2016

Claims for the work of "restorers" have been accumulating for more than one year. But objects of cultural heritage, covered with mold, like the Izborsk fortress, did not care much of officials. It has not yet turned out that the Baltztra was not only interested in the “cultural” construction: what could be more expensive, and therefore more attractive than the construction of houses for the first persons of the state? So, for example, CJSC Stroyfasad received (also through FSUE ATEX) in a row of 5.7 billion rubles. for the construction of the House of Receptions in Novo-Ogravo-the residence of President Vladimir Putin. The importance of the object of the contractors was not embarrassed - they built as usual. The violations committed during construction, NT described in the material "Hello, are these restorers?" (No. 10 of March 28, 2016) - the publication was released on the eve of Dmitry Mikhalchenko’s detention on March 29 at the Ukraine Hotel.

According to the documentation at the disposal of the editorial office, the House of Receptions - “Object No. 53”, was to be commissioned on March 31, 2016. The photographs have beautiful facades, cabinets, furniture. But under this decoration, cracks are likely to hide-at least, this is stated by Mikhail Karavaev, a project manager on constructive decisions, who participated in the construction of the house of tricks. According to him, a hurry and reduce the cost of materials and construction methods led to a weakening of the building, which cost the budget of 6 billion rubles. And, as claims
Karavaev, could stand 200-300 years. How many simple now is a question. For which one thing follows: did not cracks on the building of the genuine cause of the arrest Dmitry Mikhalchenko?