FSB against Bastrykin

In a loud business about a bribe of $ 500 thousand. The closest ally of the head of the TFR is the central figure

The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin. Photo: maxpark.com

This week in Moscow, a process will begin, which may become one of the most high -profile proceedings of the end of 2017. One and a half dozen people will appear before the court, including Shakro young (Zakharia Kalashova), who is considered one of the leaders of the crime world of the country. The defendants of the case are accused of extorting money from the owner of the Elements restaurant on Rochdelskaya Street and the famous shootout near the same restaurant in the very center of the city, not far from the Government House, with the death of its two participants.

On the process, important details may be discovered, which have already influenced the course of investigation of another part of the same story. Namely, a high -profile case of a bribe of € 500 thousand, which, according to investigators, the leading employees of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) allegedly received from Shakro to facilitate the fate of his associate Andrei Kochuykov nicknamed Italian.

The deputy talked

At the end of the summer of 2017, more precisely, on the twentieth of August, the FSB investigation was then excited against the three main accused from the Investigative Committee, the head of the Office of his own security, Mikhail Maksimenko, his deputy Alexander Lamonov and the deputy head of the Moscow Department of the IC Denis Nikandrov, a new case about a bribe of 500 thousand, now not euros, but dollars. Moreover, in the coming days, one of the trinity of key defendants, Alexander Lamonov, can be released from custody.

It was a cool turn in criminal history. And it happened after one of the defendants in the case gave testimony and opened the corruption chain (on the operational slang - “flowed”), a source in law enforcement agencies told NT. Information was confirmed by several other interlocutors familiar with the course of the investigation.

Mikhail Maksimenko. Photo: Ren.tv

We are talking about the deputy of Lamonov in the USB of the TFR Denis Bogorodetsk. Immediately after the arrest of the authorities - Maksimenko, Nikanorov and Lamonov - in July 2016, he quit his bodies and passed the case in the case. The investigator even appointed him a test on the polygraph - on the subject “whether there is information in his head on the transfer of a bribe”, but he temporarily abandoned the doctor, on the recommendation of the doctor.

A year later, at the end of July 2017, the investigator changed his status in the case-from a witness to the suspect-and put into custody. And a month later, Bogoroditsky gave testimony, which just allowed the investigator to initiate a new case on the highest officers of the TFR. In exchange for the necessary testimonies of Bogoroditsky, they first released under house arrest, and then completely removed suspicions from him in the original case (a bribe of € 500 thousand). In the new case (about a bribe of $ 500 thousand), the investigator issued him as an intermediary when transferring a bribe, a confession and released on a recognizance not to leave.

The turn in history happened after one of the defendants in the case gave testimony and opened the corruption chain (on the operational slang - “flowed”), the law enforcement source told NT and confirmed several interlocutors familiar with the course of the investigation

A socially responsible businessman

During the year, this case was investigated by the deputy head of the FSB Investigative Department Mikhail Savitsky - investigated, trying to promote the chain of two streams of money allocated for the Italian arrested for participating in the shooting at the Elements restaurant, high officials in law enforcement agencies - he learned about them from Maksimenko’s negotiations with Lamonov, overheard. Chekists. Until the summer of 2017, investigators studied only one of two corruption chains - the one that went from Shakro young.

Thanks to the readings received this summer, Savitsky received information on the second chain of receipt of funds for the release of the Italian and changed the main version of the investigation regarding the distribution of roles in this case. According to the new version, this is no longer about the conspiracy of three leaders from the Investigative Committee with the leaders of the criminal world, but about an attempt to bribe the direct subordinate Bastrykin - Mikhail Maksimenko. He became the main recipient of the money, which, according to the updated interpretation, were no longer transferred from the criminal authority, but from the business.

Alexander Lamonov. Photo: GLAVK.info

By the way, by the time a new turn in the case occurred, Savitsky received a promotion and became a major general, follows from the case file.

The following picture is loosened from the current formula of the prosecution. The businessman Oleg Sheikhametov, who is also engaged in the restaurant business, was the co -owner of the Japanese restaurants of Yakitoria, to help out a long -standing comrade and partner Andrei Kochuykov (Italian).

Kochuykov has been friends with Sheikhametov since the 1990s, a source close to criminal authority told NT.

Sheikhametov allegedly raised the money and handed it to the former employee of the Main Directorate of his own security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Evgeny Surzhikov. After dismissal from the internal affairs bodies, he worked with the Italian in Chop and attended the negotiations in the Elements restaurant on Rochdelskaya Street, which ended with a fatal shootout - this was the very loud showdown with which the Shakro case began (on the creation of a criminal community) and the case of the TFR officers (a bribe for the liberation of the Italian). Initially, Surzhikov was arrested according to the episode from this big story - the episode was just concerned with a shootout at the restaurant.

According to the new version, this is no longer about the conspiracy of three leaders from the Investigative Committee with the leaders of the criminal world, but about an attempt to bribe the direct subordinate Bastrykin - Mikhail Maksimenko. He became the main recipient of money

When new circumstances were discovered, Surzhikov did not unlock and confirmed the information received by the investigator about the money transferred through him. As a result, he was issued a confession and exempted from liability for mediation, they say NT sources in law enforcement agencies. At the same time, in the framework of the shootout case, he was transferred under house arrest.

From the testimonies of Sheikhametov and Surzhikov, it follows that the former policeman received a box of money from the entrepreneur (their meeting took place in the Novinsky passage shopping center on Barrikadaya), then handed them to his comrade Bogoroditsky, and he gave the money to Lamonov. The latter handed them to the direct boss, that is, Maksimenko.

Denis Nikandrov. Photo: Rentv.cdnvideo.ru

Gracious Lubyanka

Several sources of NT, familiar with the course of the investigation, said that the episode with the transfer of funds from Sheikhametov is becoming the current version of the investigation of the central. The investigation is no longer going to prove the transfer of funds from Shakro, and even plans to terminate the production of € 500 thousand in the case of a bribe in the case of a bribe in Kalashov, limiting himself to accusations of extortion.

In addition, in connection with new circumstances, he is going to terminate the production in relation to Lamonov, who, according to the initial version, was one of the main recipients of € 500 thousand. And then there are negotiations on exemption from liability, ”said NT to another source, well familiar with the circumstances of the case.

Now, according to the interlocutors of the magazine, Lamonov’s transfer to house arrest is agreed - this can happen in a week, in mid -October.

As for General Maksimenko, he, having become, according to the investigation, the main bribe taker in this matter, refused any communication with the investigation, referring to the 51st article of the Constitution.

Investigators were able to detect a chain of transfer of bribes thanks to the FSB operatives. Important evidence was the wiretapping of telephone conversations of senior officers of the Investigative Committee - Maksimenko, Lamonova and Nikandrov

The fate of Kochuykov (Italian), the TFR officers, as follows from the overheard negotiations, tried to facilitate by transferring his case to another investigative unit. However, they were faced with opposition to opponents from the FSB - "Face"

In the conversations of the highest officers of the TFR are the numbers “Five hundred”, “Four hundred”, “Two hundred”. We are talking about $ 500 thousand and the distribution of this bribe allocated for the liberation of the Italian

Conflict with the Chekists

In total, since the summer of 2016, in relation to Mikhail Maksimenko, the FSB opened 4 cases of bribery. The colonel is considered the closest associate of Bastrykin. According to Fontanka, in 2007, when the Investigative Committee was created under the prosecutor's office, Maksimenko became the head of the physical protection of the department and, the corresponding, Bastrykin himself.

Already after his arrest, Maksimenko announced a conflict with the leadership of the FSB Office, which arose due to his refusal to comply with their personnel issues in the TFR.

This management is engaged in accompaniment of the Maksimenko case. His operatives were not only interested in who and which bribes passed on to the Italian. “They asked more serious questions,” says NT source, familiar with the course of the investigation. According to him, "Emshchikov tried to receive testimonies for Bastrykin and the head of the personnel service of the Investigative Committee ( Major General Viktor Dolzhenko. -NT)."

Shortly after his arrest, Maksimenko announced a conflict with the management of the FSB department, which arose due to his refusal to comply with their personnel issues in the Investigative Committee

The interlocutor NT believes that Bastrykin himself was the main goal of the attack. However, another interlocutor close to Maksimenko claims: he had a “personal confrontation” with the leadership of the “M” management. “As far as I know, there was a long conflict between the deputy head of the FSB and Maksimenko department,” the source says. -The conflict arose due to the fact that Maksimenko agreed to conduct operational-search measures against employees of the Investigative Committee only if there were sufficient grounds and did not allow the management of “M” to exert pressure on investigators. ”

Another NT source, who has trusting relations with the arrested officers of the TFR, claims that the Chekists tried to pull out the testimonies "regarding the leaders of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of any known facts." As a result, such a compromising evidence of the FSB received it, but did not give him the move, the NT source claims in law enforcement agencies. “A month and a half (FSB officers) tried to implement this information, agreed with the president. But he did not give good (to continue the development), ”says the interlocutor NT.

Autumn offensive

Part of the big game against Bastrykin was a recent attack on another general close to him - the head of the Main Directorate of the IC of Moscow Alexander Drymanov, the NT source, close to Maksimenko, claims. Drymanov was the direct chief of Nikandrov, one of the three main defendants in the case of a bribe for Italian. “Drymanov is a political figure, everything was done in order to blame the first person (Bastrykin),” the interlocutor NT insists. On September 1 and 2, searches were held at the workplace and house at Drymanov. This operation, according to NT sources, was authorized by the Deputy Prosecutor of the Russian Federation Viktor Grin after a meeting at the Prosecutor General’s Office at the end of August.

"Drymanov is a political figure, everything was done in order to blame the first person (Bastrykin)"

However, Drymanov remained in the status of a witness, sources say, noting that the issue of his resignation will still be resolved in the near future.

As for Bastrykin, his resignation, several NT sources say, will not be held earlier than the presidential election in 2018. “There will be no resignation before the presidential election. But now, among the security forces, the topic of the distribution of powers of the Investigative Committee is actively discussing, ”says the interlocutor NT in law enforcement agencies. Here it is necessary to explain that representatives of the Prosecutor General’s Office have repeatedly stated that they would like to regain part of the authority, which the prosecutors lost after the separation of the TFR. But Lubyanka also claims to be on the privileges of the Investigative Committee.

“There will be no resignation (Bastrykin) before the election of the president of the resignation. But now among the security forces, the theme of the distribution of powers of the Investigative Committee is actively discussing "

According to the interlocutor NT, law enforcement agencies discuss the bill on amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure, which would allow the Investigative Department of the FSB to take part of the powers of the Investigative Committee. Namely, those related to corruption crimes. However, in the fact of the investigation of these crimes, the FSB is already actively involved as operational support-in particular, in affairs against governors and ex-head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev. And the beginning of this was precisely the arrest of three officers of the TFR.