"He decided to tie the whole country with blood"

Businessman Maxim Freudzon - about the connections of Vladimir Putin with the criminal world

What relations connected Vladimir Putin with the leaders of criminal groups that controlled Petersburg in the 1990s, when the future president of Russia headed the City Hall Committee?

According to the documents made in the USA Snowden , the US National Security Agency in 2002-2003 listened to the leader of the Tambov criminal group Vladimir Kumarin, who in the 90s was called the “shadow governor of St. Petersburg” to find out his ties with Putin.

In July, Kumarin, who was serving a 15-year term for the conclusion for the organization of a criminal community, fraud and extortion, must be sentenced in the case of the attempt on the co-owner of the Petersburg oil oil terminal (PNT) Sergei Vasiliev. In May, the jury in this process issued Kumarin an indictment verdict. Kumarin stated in a recent interview that Putin was not familiar with Putin, but their connection was traced, for example, through the Russian-German company Spag , which was engaged in investments in St. Petersburg. The leader of the Tambovsky was one of the co -owners of the SPAG branch, and Putin, right up to his inauguration in 2000, was listed as an adviser in this company.

Interest in the Kremlin-Banditic plot has recently increased due to the fact that the International Order of several former and current Russian officials and political figures closely related to Putin was discharged in Spain-due to crimes including murder, smuggling of weapons and drugs, extortion and money laundering. In Spanish, the alleged participants of the Tambov and another famous in St. Petersburg - the “Malyshevskaya” group appear.

Maxim Freudzon, 1992

The businessman , who is now living in Israel, was in the 90s the leader of one of the Jewish communities of St. Petersburg and the co-owner of the Obroks oil company, which served the Pulkovo Airport. He knew the situation and relationships in the city well. Recently, in an interview with Radio, Freedom Maxim Freudson talked about how Vladimir Putin twice demanded a bribe twice - 10 thousand dollars each for the design of papers. This publication aroused great interest to our readers, and we asked Maxim Freudzon to talk about how the customs of “gangster Petersburg” became the rules of the life of the current owners of the Kremlin.

- Maxim, now you are studying the documents from the Panama Dossier. Can a researcher who calculates Putin's contacts with criminal communities find something sensational there?

The bandits were seized, Putin officially formalized the captured. The team worked harmoniously

- So far without details and specific details. But if we are talking about the connection between Putin and “authoritative” businessmen in the 90s, then there is nothing sensational in this. It is clear that the city authorities and Putin, as their representative, were supposed to maintain working relations with “authoritative” businessmen simply because they were people who had real weight in the city and with whom it was necessary to reckon. It was a normal practice at a time when law enforcement agencies were collapsed and incompetent. City officials had to negotiate with people who then could really control the situation. A live example of this is the decision to give all the city supply of fuel (PTK) to Kumarin. Obviously, Putin maintained working relations with Konstantin Yakovlev, known as Kostya the grave , who was also a significant person in the city. As far as I know, Putin represented Berezovsky Yakovlev in the process of opening the representative office of Logovaz in St. Petersburg. He worked with other “authoritative” businessmen. Moreover, the relations between some of these people were tough. If we talk about Kumarin and Yakovlev, then it was a war, quite famous in the city. Putin then had to maneuver. The status of maintenance personnel from the city authorities helped him in this, because he could not bear any responsibility for what his clients do. He served the interests of companies both Yakovlev and Kumarin.

- Now Kumarin does not flatten it.

- This is understandable - a person sits in prison. The PTK was given all the city supply of fuel. Kumarin ensured this activity security and general protection. Putin provided urban support, as well as licenses, permission, rent, etc., etc. It is difficult to imagine that they did not have a working relationship.

- You mentioned in an interview with English journalists that Putin asked for 15% of your business.

- When my partner Dmitry Skigin came to register the “owl”, he was first asked for 15%. Dima was traded with them and filled up to 4%, which he proudly reported to me. True, he cursed very much. Because the project was long, it was necessary to invest in it. And immediately bite off 15%?! Dima said they were greedy bastards. We agreed to 4%. I think that in the oil terminal (PNT), since it was already a working enterprise, Putin’s share was larger. After Sobchak lost the election, Miller took the post of deputy director of the PNT.

- So that our readers represent order: 15% - how much?

The ability to competently serve played a very important role in the movement of Vladimir Vladimirovich to Moscow

- “OSEX” - the enterprise is profitable, earns tens of millions a year. It is difficult to count, because official accounting is one thing, and inside everything is arranged a little differently. Fuel supplies for April 26 (now PNT-GSM), “SOECS” and PNT came from Timchenko. They say that Timchenko was a supplier of oil products and in the case with humanitarian aid. For this group of companies, Putin provided urban support, the entire licensed part, everything that was related to city property rental, etc. Dima Skigin provided a business component, Graham Smith was engaged in the western component and cleaning of money, Sasha Dyukov, as a quick improvised improvised, assisted Skigin and Smith, and Kumarin and Vasiliev provided everything that was provided It is associated with the criminal component: "roof", the fight against competitors and the capture of new territories. The bandits were seized, Putin officially formalized the captured. The team worked harmoniously.

- And Roman Tsepov , whose life ended so sadly, what role did you play?

- I do not think that he was allowed into the oil business. I heard that he was an intermediary when driving money from casinos and businesses who brought cash cache. In the oil segment, Graham Smith, who worked with Dima Skigin, but already at the other end of the chain, in Liechtenstein, followed the shares of accomplices or partners, including, as I understand it, Putin.

-So, we can say that by the mid-90s, an official of the St. Petersburg City Hall Vladimir Putin was already a dollar millionaire?

- I think that they received the first millions from the scam with humanitarian aid, judging by the numbers that pass there. In the future, only strengthened this position.

In St. Petersburg, Putin was a useful person - an intelligent and reasonably greedy performer

The situation was dynamic, the country developed, people grew, someone died, someone is rich. At one time, the power in the city was in the hands of criminals, then law enforcement agencies began to come to life slowly. In general, the city had unity and mutual understanding. Putin took a fairly understandable position of the representative of the city authorities and, of course, was integrated into almost all financially significant city events. City officials took a share for sensible service and all kinds of support for the event. They had no abilities for business. The ability to competently serve played a very important role in the movement of Vladimir Vladimirovich to Moscow under the canopy of the same Berezovsky and further up.

Boris Berezovsky, 1997

- You know this famous story, how Berezovsky asked him who he would like to be, and Putin replied: "I would like to be you, Boris Abramovich."

- Not given. Retired committees, as a rule, are not capable of business. At the ensign level: to steal humanitarian aid-we understand this, to sign something for money-we also understand that urban property to resell-we understand, and in order to establish a business, you need to have other abilities.

- Now we see the same thing, only on the scale of the whole country and state policy. Steve and divide. Where's the business?

- Yes, there is no business. Warrant Officer model: steal, sell and divide. No worse, when a mediocre person, accustomed to obeying people more gifted, begins to make decisions himself.

“Lake, who suddenly became a master?”

- Well, why so straightforwardly. In St. Petersburg, Putin was a useful person - an intelligent and reasonably greedy performer.

- Well, wow: I demanded 15%!

Then the devour will begin, they will begin to eat each other from hunger

- But as a result, he took 4% and sensibly did everything. He managed to get out so high thanks to the ability to experience and betray in time. People did not expect this. I am afraid that all Russian society will come across this. I heard that there were such gangster affairs: guys, we work, but on a corpse on each side. Everything is clear, complete trusting relationships. So, according to this scheme, he is now trying to tie the whole country with blood, so that later there was nowhere to go. After all, people support some absolutely infernal horror. What Putin is saying now: Yes, we are unscrupulous aggressive guys, and we will prove to everyone that we are cool. I heard something similar in the 90s from former Soviet schoolchildren and students who went to the bandits. At any cost, prove that we are cool, enjoy it, and then the grass does not grow. There is categorically there is a categorically future development model, it is simply not visible, there you can see a curve of a bench against a spanned wall and nothing more - listen to the “felt boots”.

- There is such an idea that people from his environment are now so annoyed by sanctions and other scandals that they are already ready for rebellion. This, of course, is fantasy, we do not know anything for certain, but, representing their attitude, is it possible to imagine that they will decide to bite this hand?

They are in a closed space without an influx. Nothing new is created, what was

- The model he proposed is quite understandable. Here the retired lieutenant colonel proudly sat down in the palace, around the country quickly, around the border, behind the borders of enemies, and he is a national leader, a hero and the Savior. I think that this does not really suit people around, because it is obvious that the devouring will begin to eat further, they will begin to eat each other from hunger. This can be a serious motivation. They are in a closed space without an influx. Nothing new is created, what it was. The money will end, the food will end. And die for Putin? I don’t know who is ready to die.

- I'm afraid there are those who are ready, and there are many of them.

“Yes, Putin caught this string of an unprincipled notorious person - the possibility of self -affirmation due to the fact that“ all around shit and enemies, and we are cool guys and heroes. ” And this surprisingly cut off in people.

- A clear reaction of Luser.

- Yes, Putin is trying to impose a Luser complex to the country. It will be sad if he succeeds. But I am absolutely sure that the Russian people are talented, they are not losers, you just need to take a little mind.