“This is not about politics,” -

The governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh from the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center said, answering the New Times. On June 24, he was detained in the restaurant of the Lotte Plaza shopping and office center on New Arbat by the FSB Office of Office

Governor Nikita Belykh in the Basmanny Court, where on June 25 a decision was made to detain him

At the time of the detention of the White, according to the investigation, there was a paper bag in which € 150 thousand and a bottle of expensive wine were in the plastic bag. Moreover - again, according to the investigation - on the right hand of the governor there was a special game, which were marked in advance. Immediately after the detention of the White, he said that “he took the money for the needs of Kirov,” but two days later in Lefortovo said that “a setup had occurred.” Nine days before the arrest of the White, he was at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, where he was awarded the praise of President Putin, in response, the Vyatka governor called the president’s speech “life -affirming”. The New Times dealt with this story in Moscow and Kirov

Moscow

Before the flight to the capital, Nikita Belykh wrote on his Facebook page: “Tomorrow in Moscow in the morning, the Ministry of Finance. Complex, but the right meeting. Then the Federation Council, Lukoil, investors, single -industry towns and airport. The weekend in Kirov will also be workers. Good night everyone. "

Arrest

The detention in the Lotte Plaza restaurant on New Arbat was conducted by the 6th service of the 9th department of the FSB USB (for more details, see NT No. 22 of June 27, 2016 ), which, in fact, conducts operational support of the criminal case, and the telephone wiretaps were provided by the Office of Operational and Technical Events (UTM) of the FSB.

The operation was led by the deputy head of the 9th department of the FSB, General Oleg Feoktistov. In the Lubyanka, the name of Feoktistov is pronounced exclusively in a whisper and Oleg Bolshoi or General Ficus is called the eyes. According to some reports, he has long been marking the place of the head of the entire department and the detention with the “red -handed” whites passing in the category of white liberals - an additional trump card in his deck.

A little later, the Investigative Committee gave a short comment, for what services, according to the investigation, the whites seemed to have received a bribe: “For performing actions in favor of the bribe giver and controlled by him, the Novovyatsky Ski Plant OJSC and LLC Forestry Management Company, as well as for general patronage in the control of the Kirov Region by enterprises of investment projects and conducting entrepreneurial activities and conducting entrepreneurial activities in the region ".

Performers

The White case is conducted by the senior investigator for particularly important cases of the Investigative Committee, Major of Justice, Roman Mukhachev, who is known for the fact that in 2010 he was investigating an attempt on the head of the Khimkinsky branch of the right -hand Party Konstantin Fetisov and he managed to seize not only the executors, but also the customer of the crime from the Khimki city administration. In 2013, Mukhachev was included in the Investigative Group in the “Swamp Case”, and in the same year he interrogated the civil activist Mark Galperin. Before the arrest of the White in the production of investigator Mukhachev, there was a criminal case of the former head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the North-Western Federal District of General Vitaly Bykov, who was accused of embezzlement.

Switzerland - Kirov

Who is he - Juri Sudheimer?

According to investigator Mukhachev, a third part of the bribe was in the package transferred to the White, and the first two tranches were € 200 thousand and € 50 thousand were supposedly received in 2014. A package with the money of the White was handed over to the Switzerland citizen Yuri Sudheimer, who is the co -founder of the Kirov enterprises of the Novovytsk Ski Plant JSC and LLC Forestry Management Company (more about these companies on page 7).

Zyudheimer - he is 55 years old - originally from the Belarusian Gomel. In the late 1980s, he first moved to Germany with his family, then to Switzerland and began to sell lubricants and spare parts for cars. So, his company Sudheimer Car Technik Vertriebs (SCT) has branches and warehouse terminals in Russia, Lithuania, Belarus and South America. In addition, in the Turkish city of Tarsus, he owns the company or Turbo Filtre San Tic (delivery of automasals and additives).

On the Internet, you can find a leaflet of the OR-Turbo trade union, calling for a strike against the Russian German Yuri Zyudheimer, as if "violating the rights of workers."

Zyudheimer - he is 55 years old - originally from the Belarusian Gomel. In the late 1980s, together with his family, he first moved to Germany, then to Switzerland and took up the sale of lubricants and spare parts for cars

In the Krasnodar Territory, Zyudhaimer established Yuviks-M LLC and Yuvik-Pro LLC (surrender to real estate). On January 15, 2016, by a decision of the Arbitration Court of the Krasnodar Territory, both companies were recognized as bankrupt and for the previously allocated loan are obliged to pay the Cyprus offshore company Remigal Consultants Limited 349 million 849 thousand rubles. Plus a penalty of 25 million rubles. (Another participant in these trials is Sberbank. - NT ).

In turn, the Remigal Consultants Limited is indicated by the founder of LLC UK Leskhoz, located in the same Kirov region. Moreover, according to some reports, the real owner of an offshore seems to be the companion of Zyudheimer Albert Laritsky, which will be discussed later.

The wife of businessman Marina Zyudheimer owns a flower store in the Swiss Lucerne, and son Eric via the Chinese online store Alibaba.com trades with technical glycerin.

Key investor

For a long time, Yuri Zyudheimer for a long time was another native of Gomel, Albert Laritsky, who even has a residence permit in Switzerland. According to the Spark database, Laritsky is a co-founder of the very bankrupt Krasnodar Juviks-PRO Yuviks-M and a whole heap of firms across the country.

He appeared in the Kirov region before the appointment of Nikita Belykh Governor in 2009 and was everywhere as a major investor from Switzerland. According to the Kirov media, Laritsky was brought to the region by the President of Agro -Holding Zerestandart, Evgeny Margulis, who was part of the immediate circle of the previous (in 2004-2009) governor of the Kirov region, in Soviet times - an employee of the CPSU Central Committee, and then the prosecutor Nikolai Shaklein.

Now the investor is in Lefortovo on charges of especially large fraud.

The key figure in the Governor of the Kirov Region was precisely Albert Laritsky, who offered, in order to soften his fate, the FSB services

According to the materials of the criminal case, in 2010 Laritsky, being a member of the board of directors of the Novovytsk Ski Plant (NLK), concluded a contract for the supply of new equipment controlled by the Swiss company Champion Chemicals AG. Under this contract, Sberbank opened a credit line of $ 4.6 million. However, according to investigators, the new equipment was never received, and the funds went to the accounts of offshore companies in Panama and to the Laritsky banking account in the Swiss Credit Suisse.

The second episode of fraud is also associated with the allocation of a loan Sberbank for NLK, and $ 10 million, according to the investigation, also found themselves in the personal accounts of the investor Laritsky.

Albert Laritsky (left) and Nikita Belykh *(right) *were once friends, and now ardent enemies and both in prison

Moscow

Under the control of the FSB

Apparently, it was Albert Laritsky who was the key figure in the Governor of the Kirov Region, who proposed, in order to soften his fate, his FSB services. Laritsky has been in Lefortovo for a year and, as they say, he was promised to replace the chamber Shcke for house arrest for a tip on the whites - Laritsky concluded a pre -trial agreement with the investigation and partially repaid the damage.

According to another version, the Chekist wiretapping spotted Laritsky’s calls from the camera, where he allegedly asked for money from Zyudheimer to resolve the issue with the investigation - by the way, it explains the appearance in the case of “cash”: the FSB took both in development and so it went on whites.

It was not possible to contact Mr. Zyudheimer, but his son, the 28-year-old Eric living in Lithuania, answered questions NT :

NT : How can you comment on your father's actions?

My dad acted within the framework of the law, and there are no complaints about him from Russian state institutions.

NT : Your father can leave Russia now?

Maybe.

NT : did it put pressure from the FSB?

I can't say anything. You understand that we can’t talk a lot on this subject now.

Son of Yuri Zyudhaimer - Eric

Kirov

An unfriendly skiing plant

The offices of the commercial structures of the Novovytsk Ski Plant JSC (NLK) and LLC “Forestry Management Company”, for which, according to the investigation, the Governor of the White received a bribe, are located at the same address: Kirov, ul. Sovetskaya, house 28. This three -story brick house is located in the youngest district of Kirov - Novovytsk, annexed to the city at the end of the Soviet regime and having a not better reputation. To the center here by bus along the broken -down Kirov roads for 30–40 minutes. The facade of the building is decorated with carefully reduced by Soviet symbols, calling for proletarians to connect, and advertising NLK products-a unique version of chipboard, called the "oriented-brown plate". The skis at the ski plant has not been done for two years: in the store they sell residues at the plant: skis in the kit with boots cost 2800 rubles. But from the gates of the huge territory, which even has its own marina near the Vyatka River, empty timber trucks and loaded trucks regularly leave. Some trucks carry not only wood plate, but also boards and other lumber. The trucks examines, meticulously checking the papers, a young guard in black uniforms. He flatly refuses to let journalists into the enterprise.

The entrance to the administrative premises of the AO is also blocked: a brisk woman of a middle -aged age, checking the documents, says that none of the leadership of both companies comes to work in the last days, and therefore there is no one to answer questions from journalists.

Moscow

Protective letter

On June 17, 2016, President Putin, speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, said: “This morning / ... / / the results of the annual national investment climate rating were announced. I want to join the congratulations of the winners and recall: this is Tatarstan, Belgorod, Kaluga regions. I also note the significant progress of the Tula region, Vladimir, Tyumen, Kirovskaya (highlighted by the author. - NT ), Lipetsk, Oryol regions and the city of Moscow. ” Those who were on the forum say that Nikita Belykh, who listened intently by the president’s speech, sighed in relief in these words, and in an interview with the BB-SC-SC Service called Putin’s speech “life-affirming”. According to hardware concepts, the mention of the region in the speech of the head of state is something like a security letter. And exactly it was the whites. Obviously, he was terribly mistaken: according to the media, the governor was in the development of the FSB since 2012, and Putin was known about this, as the sources say. On the day when the FSB operatives arrested the whites, Putin was in Beijing.

The mentioned “Novovyatsky Ski Plant”, as the deputy of the Kirov City Duma from the Communist Party Leonid Sandalov told NT , was included in the list of 9 investment projects of the region. Praise Putin - that is this a mistake of assistants and speakers or conscious guidance of the fog by the president - a native of the KGB?

Kirov

Investment bankrupt

According to the communist Sandalov, the Novovytsk Ski Plant was once a city-forming enterprise of the city of Novovyatsk-before he was attached to the capital of the region. The plant totaled 20 workshops that produced skis, parquet, board, etc. “Now about a hundred people work on NLC,” the deputy says. Sandalov also claims that NLK, like other enterprises called “investment projects”, is nothing more than a “roof” for forest trade. It was behind the forest that they came to Kirov for anything else, the deputy believes, and the “investors” from Switzerland: “Almost the entire good forest in the region was given to these stuffy investment projects,” says Sandalov. According to the director of the audit company Business Inform Aziza Agayev, the preferences system to attract investments in the forest industry was developed under the last governor of the region, the communist Nikolai Shaklein, and the liberal of the whites did not come up with anything new here. Businessmen who created the production of deep woodworking were rented by forest plots at very low prices: from 30 to 50 rubles. For a cubic meter at a market value of several hundred rubles.

However, the interlocutors say, the authorities should have controlled those who, in exchange for jobs, gave the forest a cheap. “I have in my hands the conclusions of the Control Chamber of the Kirov Region that since 2012 NLC has not fulfilled the main conditions of the investment project,” says NT, an independent deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Kirov Region Dmitry Russians. - At the same time, the plant and the management company, which is affiliated enterprises, continued to give various benefits, for example, about 1.2 million cubic meters of forests at 45 rubles. For a cubic meter. At a market price of 300-400 rubles. Since 2014, the plant has been in severe financial condition. In 2014, the loss from its activities amounted to 1.6 billion rubles, and in 2015 - 1.2 billion rubles. ” Russians believe that the system of investment projects annually allowed, according to gray schemes, to implement a forest for at least 600 million rubles. Of these, 240–250 million was a share of NLK and the Leskhoz Criminal Code. B - namely, in this currency, according to the investigation, - the bribe was transferred to the Governor of the White, this is a little more than є3 million. The rate of rollback in unwritten corruption rules of the Russian Federation - 10 %. Є400 thousand, which, according to investigators, were transferred to the White in 2014-2016, according to our interlocutors, “somehow a bit too much.” However, the UBEP employee of the Kirov region, who agreed to speak with NT on anonymity conditions, believes that the volume of gray schemes could be much more than several hundred million rubles. “Over the past three years, we have identified at least twenty cases of criminal schemes for the harvesting and trading of forest. Each time, the companies that received the investment project gave the most part of the forest to the contractors, the employers, in fact, handing over the plots received at preferential rates for cutting down. But the prosecutor’s office never allowed us to initiate criminal cases. ”

And a source in the Central Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, claims that a number of enterprises of the region where there are a lot of those who have departed the term in numerous zones of Vyatka and remained here to live, are under the control of a thief in the law of Vadim Sabrekova (nicknamed Cheburashka). Cheburashka himself lives in Moscow and Spain, and in the region, his proteges, as they say, collect “taxes” from merchants.

Versions

In Kirov, the arrested governor is pity: they say, they say, everyone is stealing, but they grew ours, because he "stupidly piled up." True, the Communists, who began to wet the whites exactly from the moment that in 2009 he appeared in the region by the order of President Medvedev then, with the mouth of his leader Sergei Mamaev immediately stated that they had long warned that the whites were bourgeois on the content of the “Washington regional committee”.

The interlocutors related to the forest industry assured the NT correspondent that in this area in all the forests of Russia - and Kirov there are no exception - delayed criminal schemes that are impossible without corruption ties in the regional government are in effect.

A source in the local UBEP believes that the whites have made serious enemies among local FSB officers: “Face (Chekists) had a tooth on the whites, who wiped them from the source of income. Perhaps this is revenge for the missed benefit. ”

 ** “Face (Chekists) had a tooth on the whites, which wiped them from the source of income. Perhaps this is revenge for the missed benefit, ”says an employee of the local UBEP **

Finally, another version that is being discussed in Kirov was not Nikita Belykh at all the main object of attack, but his brother, head of the Department of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation for the Volga Federal District, Alexander Belykh, who, after the arrest of the governor, was fired from the department of his own free will. Bely-Sr.-he is the state adviser to justice of the 2nd grade (analogue of Lieutenant General)-they read a quick transfer to Moscow to the post of deputy prosecutor general. Perhaps the whole intrigue with the arrest of the governor set his task to break his career as a prosecutor's brother.

The Russian deputy is convinced that the elections in no way could cause the whites in September: the governor agreed with United Russia, he was accepted in the Kremlin, he was built into the system, the deputy says.

Serve on the facades

According to the investigator, the whites do not deny the receipt of money, but they were intended for the needs of Kirov. Indeed, in Kirov there has long been an extra-budgetary fund of “Supporting the socio-economic projects“ Vyatka ”: letters signed by Nikita Belykh personally with invitations to a meeting with representatives of the regional government were sent to large businessmen of the region. According to the results of such meetings, entrepreneurs are invited to help the budget by transferring money to the fund's account. Here is an excerpt from a recent document: “For 2016, it is planned to repair 15 facades of buildings of the historical center of the city, most of which are objects of cultural heritage and require significant costs for restoration work. Кроме того, в планах установка в нашем городе 3 фонтанов. Эти проекты были представлены Вам 21 апреля на встрече Губернатора Кировской области Н.Ю. Белых с предпринимательским сообществом… Просим Вас изыскать возможность оказания финансовой помощи для реализации проектов создания фонтанов и реставрации фасадов зданий в Кирове». Бизнесмены утверждают, что в случае отказа каких-либо санкций обычно не следовало.

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На момент подписания номера в печать, президент Путин так и не прокомментировал арест одного из своих губернаторов и от должности Белых не отрешил. Впрочем, эксперты напоминают, что и бывший губернатор Сахалинской области Александр Хорошавин был снят с должности указом президента через 21 день после ареста. Никита Белых объявил голодовку: требует допустить к нему жену и брата.

Фото: Александр Миридонов/Коммерсантъ, compromat.ru, Георгий Александров, Станислав Красильников/ТАСС