What is behind the arrest of Russian Evgeny Pavlov from Bombardier and what about Russian Railways

The Sweden police conduct an investigation against the international transport giant "Bombardier Transportayshn" after the publication of Novaya Gazeta and the Center for the Study of Corruption and Organized Crime (OCCRP) as part of the so -called Panama Dossier. The case is related to transactions for the supply of railway equipment to Azerbaijan. Russian Evgeny Pavlov from Bombardier Transport Systems (Signal) was arrested in Sweden.

In April 2016, based on documents from the Panama Archive-a massive leak of the internal offshore database of Mossack Fonseca,-The New Gazeta told how the Swedish “daughter” “Bombardier” supplies EBILOCK-950 equipment to Russia and Azerbaijan through the Multiservers. registered in London.

Multiserv Ovearseas had no office or employees, it actually existed only on paper. And the first director of this company was Yuri Obodovsky - one of the key partners of Alexei Krapivin, the son of former adviser Vladimir Yakunin.

The equipment was purchased by the Russian company "Bombardier Transportish (Signal)", 36% of which belongs to the state PJSC Russian Railways.

Until recently, the New Gazeta did not know how much money was settled in the Multiserv Ovearseas accounts - neither the Russian nor the Swedish representative office of Bombardier responded to the requests of the newspaper.

Now at the disposal of “New” there is already a complete set of documents for one of the transactions between the Swedish manufacturer Ebilock, the Russian buyer - “Bombardier of Transportish (signal)” - and the English intermediary Multiserv Ovearseas. The documents were provided by Novaya Gazeta by colleagues from Swedish public television SVT and TT-News news agency.

Deal

In 2013, the Azerbaijani government held a tender to update automation systems on the railway area leading from Baku to the Georgian border. In a row for a total of $ 288 million, the consortium led by Bombardier Transportish won. Work on the site was conducted by the Russian "Bombarde Transport System (Signal)" using Swedish equipment.

There are two contracts at the disposal of Novaya Gazeta, which show how the deal passed.

Here is the first.

According to the first contract, on June 16, 2014, the Swedish branch of Bombardier sells the British company Multiserv Ovearseas a signaling equipment for 46 stations for 126 million kroons (about 19 million dollars). The contract by Multiserv is signed by Anton Belyakov, an employee of several companies related to Alexei Krapivin.

Here is the second contract.

According to the second contract, Multiserv Overseas sells the same equipment in the same number of Russian Bombardier Transporter (Signal) Russian company for $ 104 million. Two contracts are identical in everything except the price.

Thus, the Multiserv Overseas accounts turned out to be more than $ 80 million.

The Russian state -owned company of Russian Railways, which belongs to 36% in the Bombardier of Transport System (signal), could also lose from this transaction.

Investigation

Today, the Stockholm district court arrested a Russian citizen Yevgeny Pavlov, an employee of the Swedish Bombardier on suspicion of bribery. Several managers of the company, including one member of the board of directors, were questioned by the police.

The New Gazeta is working on a journalistic investigation together with OCCRP, Swedish public television SVT, TT-News news agency and Canada Radio. The investigation will be published in late March.