The story of wallets

The history of Russian corruption is quite long to highlight various periods in it, even in the latest time. Once Boris Berezovsky corrupt officials by calling them to rest on his yachts and in his estates on the Cote d'Azur of France (many later the castles were arrested on debt). Over time, the mores changed, the bureaucrats realized what capital was and began to accumulate it as much as possible. Now it is difficult to imagine this, but there were times when almost the members of the government possessed the property directly recorded on them, the appearance of which was impossible to explain in principle.

The next logical stage is noting the property not for yourself, but on someone else. First of all, of course, the spouse of the statesman comes to mind, as it was with the second mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov and his wife, the “construction tycoon” of Elena Baturina. Such people began to be called "wallets." Later, the term conflict of interest was introduced into the legislation, so the property had to be recorded not on relatives. That is why now everyone who is investigating corruption schemes is forced to find out who was whose classmate was, and who was resting in Sochi together.

Moreover, it turns out that the nominal owners of bureaucratic businesses, that is, “wallets”, are somehow involved in criminal circles-which, in principle, is logical, law-abiding people do not strive to participate in such schemes.

For example, as the sources claimed , the former governor of the Oryol region Vadim Potsky kept as the “wallet” of the convicted Sergey Kochergin. But the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, had a strange relationship with the foreigner Ziyad Manasira.

It got to the point that the presence of a “wallet”, according to many, is an inconspicuous attribute of power. Some even believe that, for example, the current mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin since the time when he worked in the Uralshas a connection with the head of MDS-group Sergey Solodovnikov. And the fugitive president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, allegedly, fled from the country with his "wallet", Ukrainian oligarch Sergey Kurchenko.

Journalists have long been studying shadow schemes that are built around the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov. Already discovered characters who could claim the role of his manager of finance. Perhaps this is the owner of the "NK-Bank" Viktor Grigoryev. It is excavated about him that he seriously works with the assets of the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, so seriously that he is called the “shadow partner” of the head of the state corporation. However, he is very independent and also works with the environment of Minnikhanov. In particular, he was involved in criminal history with a two -time capture into custody of the general designer of the Kazan OKB named after Simonov, who develops the heavy UAV "Altius". As a result, the state contract was not received by the OKB, but by the Ural Civil Aviation Plant (Uzga). And this plant is an asset of Grigoryev himself, but does not have sufficient competencies for the production of drone. The meaning of these actions is to get budget funds at your disposal, and the fact that the defense order was torn off, this did not bother any of them.

Another character, which is discussed much more often - adviser to the head of the republic Rustem Magdeev, who squeezed budgetary funds from Grigoryev shoulder to shoulder with Grigoryev.

Rustem Elbrusovich Magdeev was born in Kazan in 1964. He also graduated from school, a trade college, and then Kazan State University, having received a diploma with a degree in jurisprudence. Rustem Magdeev began his business trip in the same place in Kazan with the trade in wine and vodka products, and later switched to the supply of medicines. After a successful start, Rustem Magdeev moved to Moscow, where the first ties appeared in political circles. Rumor has it that this happened not without the participation of the "Sevastopol" organized crime group, the origins of which were conducted from Tatarstan. Rumor has it that it was then that Magdeev received the nickname "Broiler". It was this “capital” that helped Rustem Magdeeva approach the current president of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, who at that time held the modest position of the head of the Vysokogorsky district. Rustem Magdeev was engaged in the purchase of expensive gifts for important “friends” of Tatarstan in the capital, perhaps due to this he was able to buy several apartments on Ostozhenka and Zvenigorodskaya streets, luxurious houses in the villages of the Third Hunt and Monolith in New Riga.

The fame has gained scam associated with the jewelry company Graff Diamonds Ltd. This British company signed a franchise agreement with the Equix Group LTD, which should have the investment of adviser Minnikhanov. However, in January 2016, Magdeev, at that time that had already converted part of the investment in the joint -stock capital of Equix Group Ltd, made a default for his obligations. This happened due to the fact that Magdeev could not return his money sent earlier through his offshore company Ashaja Investments Ltd to the Cyprus company VMHY HOLDINGS LTD. Magdeev’s financial problems were launched in the Equix Group Ltd “Chain Reaction”. In mid -February 2016, the founders of the Cyprus company probably still had to retire their shares in favor of a certain Emil Gainulin, a Gazprom contractor. He, fearing unfriendly actions from Magdeev, sold the Equix Group Ltd option he had . As a result, this company was subjected to the liquidation process. In parallel with her, Rustem Magdeev tried to forcibly sell his share in the Equix Group Ltd to its former owners. But they did not help, apparently, who had arrived specially for this “authoritative” friends from Russia. By the summer of last year, Equix Group Ltd has completely stopped its activities. In all these showdowns, Magdeev suffered big losses. Investments did not pay off and did not return.

After the failure in the jewelry, Magdeev began to do business, which is based on the redistribution of state money in the direction he needed. Japanese chips for the diagnosis of influenza and dubious drugs with the very strange names “Gorzhop” and “Huten”, which Magdeev intended to produce more than 60 thousand square meters, attracted special attention to the media. M "Kazan-Expo". The supply of this "innovative" pharmaceutical products will be carried out at the expense of the Republican MHI Foundation. Magdeev and Ko aimed at 13 billion rubles. So far, however, it is not clear where the losses in the Graff Diamonds Ltd case were written off, but it is obvious that in this case, in the VMHY Holdings case, Rustem Magdeev played the role of a “holey wallet”.

Be that as it may, practice shows that the life of this kind of “wallets” is not so long, because the tendency to scams does not bring anyone to good. But what the head of Tatarstan will do, Rustam Minnikhanov, after his adviser Rustem Magdeev will write exclusively in the criminal sections of the media - a big question.