The FBI detained the namesake of a large entrepreneur from Vladivostok

On Saturday, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the detention on the northern Mariana Islands (USA) of Russian Dmitry Makarenko. His name and surname, as well as the middle name (which gives the Russian Foreign Ministry) coincides with the personal data of the CEO of Artyar, who built the largest shopping center “Kalina Mall” in Vladivostok.

Read more . According to the Foreign Ministry, Makarenko flew to the island of Saypan on December 29 with his family - parents, wife and minor children. Directly at the airport, he was detained by the FBI employees. Later he was transferred to Florida, the Russian Foreign Ministry said .

• The arrest warrant Makarenko (The Bell has) issued by the Florida court dated June 15, 2017. He entered the island of Sipan on December 27, 2018, and after two days a businessman was detained.
• Makarenko is accused of exporting military technologies from the United States without the necessary license, as well as money laundering, follows from the warrant.

That the United States is charged with Makarenko. As follows from the case file (there is a bell text at the disposal), from April to November 2013, Makarenko with the help of an intermediary in the USA, a native of Ukraine Vladimir Nevidomoy - organized four supplies to Russia of military vision, thermal imagers and weapons capsules.

• The correspondence of the innocent and Makarenko by e -mail and in WhatsApp were attached to the case . In these letters, Makarenko asks the invisible to purchase three Mars 4x4 night visions, the Odin 61BW thermal imager and 1000 capsules for ammunition.
• Makarenko paid for these supplies , transferring money from accounts in Shanghai and Riga. The first two sights of night visions cost the Russian $ 11,755 (the cost of devices in the United States was $ 9599). He later transferred $ 18,036 to the company’s invisible Primex Group to the company’s account. Another Mars 4x4 night vision was purchased for this amount, the amount of $ 10,000 was spent on the purchase of a thermal imager.
• The last delivery to Russia - with weapons capsules - fell off. In November 2013, Makarenko received a letter from American customs. It said that the party was detained while trying to illegal exports. "What are we going to do?" - He wrote to the invisible.
• Back in June 2018, the invisible pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 26 months in prison in prison Miami.
• The maximum term for two of the three articles that Makarenko are accused (the export of weapons without a license and laundering of money) is 20 years, the case file says.

Who is Dmitry Makarenko? As follows from the case file, Makarenko lives in Vladivostok. The full namesake of Dmitry Makarenko, a co-owner of six existing companies, most of which are registered in Vladivostok, follows from the SPARK-Interfax data.

• Makarenko companies are mainly engaged in real estate and logistics. In particular, the Vladivostok company Rydo, where Makarenko belongs to 17.5%, transports goods. Among its counterparties is the Khabarovsk "Main Military Construction Administration No. 6." Among the customers of another logistics company Makarenko (he owns 26.8%)-Tis-Lodzhistik-Russian Railways and subordinate to the Federal Reserve Ban for the Glavrybvod FGBU.
• Makarenko, CEO of Artyar, which is engaged in real estate and plans to open in Vladivostok in February of this year the largest shopping center for Kalina Mall.
• The co -owner of at least two of his companies is Elena Valerievna Makarenko. According to SPARK, her former name is Fintisov, which suggests that Elena is the wife of Makarenko. The page of the namesake of Dmitry Makarenko indirectly testifies to this. This user is friends with Elena Makarenko on Facebook, who talks about joint travels with him and the younger child. On the pages of both are Chekins in the United States: Makarenko traveled, as Dmitry put it, “winter” in 2013 in Miami (located in Florida, whose court charged with arms smuggles). On the page of the full namesake of Dmitry Makarenko on Facebook there is a subscription to the Kalina Mall shopping center (there are three subscribers in total), he is friends with the head of the legal department of Tis-Lodgikik Alexander Petrov.
• Valery Fintisov participates in the capital of most Makarenko companies (apparently, the father of Elena Valerievna Makarenko). For friends, Dmitry and Elena Makarenko on Facebook have Varvara Fintisova, whom Elena calls "sister". Varvara Fintisova, according to SPARK, is the co -owner of the Artyar company, along with Valery Fintisov and Elena Makarenko. The general director of this company is Dmitry Makarenko.
• The publication “MK Khabarovsk” called Valery Fintisov “difficult man” and reported that he was connected with the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory and the Minister of Development of the Far East Viktor Ishaev. According to SPARK, since 2013, Fintis and Ishaev have been the co -owners of Beis, which later completely passed under the control of the latter.
• The Bell on Saturday and Sunday failed to contact the Makarenko family. The telephones listed in Spark for their companies did not answer the phones. Elena Makarenko did not answer the questions in The Bell in her profile on Facebook.

Context. Makarenko is far from the first Russian accused of illegal export of night vision devices from the United States. The US Department of Justice has aroused at least five cases related to the illegal export of such equipment to Russia over the past five years. In the United States, it believes that Russia, which is serious in this technology, is trying to get the latest developments at its disposal to use them in conflict with Ukraine and in Syria. You can read more about these matters here .

• The Morgovsky case is one of the last resonant stories. In the summer of 2018, the guilt for transactions in the Russian-American black market of high-tech weapons-in particular, the sights of a night vision of $ 2 million-recognized by US citizens Naum and Irina Morgovsky emigrated from the USSR. Among the clients of the Morgovsky was Infratech, which supplied the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB. The elements of the sights delivered by the Morgovsky were installed on the Pecheneg machine gun and the AK-74 AK-74 AK-74 Army Part 3179 (now the Special Vityaz Center for the Rosguard). Read more about this story here .
• Makarenko, illuminating the detention of the Western media ( Bloomberg , Reuters ) also associate this story with the detention of US citizen Paul Wylan. He was detained by the FSB just the day before Makarenko arrived at Saypan, December 28. Wylan is a security director of BorgWarner, which is supplied to auto parts. In the mid-2000s, he served in the Marine Corps in Iraq, and after eight years he was fired from the armed forces for an attempt to kidnap $ 10 thousand budget funds. In addition to American citizenship, Wylan has at least three more citizenships - Canadian, Irish and British.

Anastasia Stoguster, Vladimir Motorin