As former state -owned Bankers found themselves in the criminal case of FSB colonels and where is the confrontation between Alexei Kudrin and Igor Sechin

Almost to the top, packed in packs of rubles and dollars, sports and household bags, an aluminum suitcase and shoe boxes-this was what the results of the search in one of the apartments of the former employee of the Central FSB Kirill Cherkalin. He and his colleagues Dmitry Frolov and Andrei Vasiliev in May of this year seized money and jewelry for more than 12 billion rubles. And there were also apartments, cars, mansions ... In early November, Cherkalin agreed to voluntarily give the state half of this amount, the car "Porsche Kayen", a collection of wristwatch and cufflink. But this story is noteworthy not a record weight of the seized banknotes: 911 kilograms in different currencies are only that Colonel Cherkalin agreed to return to the treasury. And the fact that in the criminal case of FSB officers appeared the names of the former high -ranking state -owned Bankers Vladimir Stolyarenko and Alexander Bondarenko - people of a completely different circle and habits. Previously, they led the European Financial Mosnarbank controlled by the state. For several years they have not been living in Russia. And now they are arrested in absentia and put on the wanted list.

Stolyarenko and Bondarenko told Novaya Gazeta that a criminal case may be in the hand for those who expect to cheaply buy their oil and gas assets in Russia.

As the Novye found out, Stolyarenko and Bondarenko own the oil and gas group RNG (Eastsib Holding), where the former chief of Cherkalin - Frolov went to work. Stolyarenko is a long-standing acquaintance of the former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin, who is now heading the Accounts Chamber. And the RNG group was one of the sponsors of the Kudrin Foundation. According to the participants in the oil and gas market, Kudrin himself could have interest in the RNG, but his spokesman resolutely refutes this.

We decided to figure out how in one criminal case people of different worlds found themselves - security officials and state -owned bankers. And can this be related to the long -standing confrontation of Alexei Kudrin and the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin.

Colonels

Who are Cherkalin, Frolov and Vasiliev? And why, working in the elite department of “K” of the FSB, which was engaged in a credit and financial sphere, they were under a criminal case for millions of rubles, having billions in their hands?

The arrested counterintelligence controlled the banking market, knew people at key posts in the Central Bank and the deposit insurance agency. And at meetings with bankers, many of whom were known personally, made proposals, which, as reported by The Bell, and the “project” came down to the allocation of high -ranking FSB officers shares in legal businesses and interest on illegal operations to cash out and withdrawal of money.

The former chief of Cherkalin and Vasiliev Frolov, according to the memoirs of his colleagues, served in the FSB from the nineties. But his immediate supervisor did not promote Frolov in the service and did not particularly notice him. Nevertheless, Frolov oversee some part of the Central Bank and in the early 2000s he already drove the Jaguar.

Frolov was lucky when he was sent to help the former tax authority, the first deputy Minister of Finance Viktor Zubkov, who was instructed to create financial intelligence in 2001. There they met. According to the memoirs of two colleagues, they said about Frolov that he could be a relative of Zubkov, but this could not be documented. Zubkov was then as an ascending political figure, in the past he worked as deputy Vladimir Putin at the St. Petersburg City Hall.

Frolov’s personnel growth in the Office “K” of the FSB began under Viktor Voronin. The one, as the colleagues say, became the head of the department thanks to the former deputy head of the presidential administration Viktor Ivanov and the former main tax authority Anatoly Serdyukov. Voronin worked with them before. As they explain, Serdyukov was then not only the husband of the daughter of Zubkov, but also the “hero of the capture of Yukos”, entered any rooms, and listened to his personnel recommendations.

In the central apparatus of the FSB, the head of the Voronin department, being a man from the outside, at first was in some isolation. And Zubkov, as colleagues say, recommended paying attention to the brilliant Frolov. So Frolov has grown to the deputy head of the department.

Judging by the stories of colleagues, the leadership had long known that Frolov, perhaps, lived not for one salary. For example, he preferred expensive cars.

Once his superiors were reported that in an elite car dealership at Kutuzovsky in the name of Frolov a car was acquired, which was soon broken, and a new one was bought immediately.

No consequences for Frolov occurred. Only for the manager of the car dealership, who did not know how to keep his mouth shut.

Cherkalin and Vasiliev, according to the stories of their colleagues, are executive workers. They came to the service immediately after studying at the FSB Academy. And Frolov’s subordinates became at a time when there was a peak of operations to cash out funds and made smart employees to take control of all this. Cherkalin is called a professional who was respected in state banks. He, as they say, even read the post of head of the Sberbank Security Service.

Zubkov and Serdyukov did not answer the questions of Novaya Gazeta and did not comment on the situation.

Sunset of colonels

Zubkov and Serdyukov ceased to occupy large government posts in 2012 (Serdyukov left the post of Minister of Defense during the investigation of criminal cases of embezzlement of military property). The deputy head of the Office “K” FSB Frolov was fired in connection with the loss of confidence in July 2013. In August of the same year, the “New Gazeta” found in his wife and father Villa and chestnut groves in Italy, which the colonel did not declare.

Frolova’s wife worked in an ordinary position in the Euro -financial of Mosnarbank, and he settled down in the structures of the Oil and Group of the RNG - the Suldyarneftegaz and the IDSIB Geological Exploration company. The owners of the group - the former state -owned Bankers Stolyarenko and Bondarenko - he knew at work at the time when they headed the Euro -financial Mosnarbank, said a person close to the group. “There is no ban on the profession,” Frolov’s acquaintance emphasized, “in companies he was engaged in checking the reliability of counterparties, which is important, since they have many contractors.”

The story of Frolov’s dismissal from the FSB and the weakening of his subordinates their colleagues say this: after Zubkov, he did not have a relationship with the director of Rosfinmonitoring Yuri Chikhanchin. At the same time, Frolov was so careless that his relatives turned out to be the owners of Italian real estate. When the Italian authorities sent this data to Rosfinmonitoring, they immediately found themselves at the first person of the state and director of the FSB. And then in the management of their own security in Lubyanka they created a group that began to study the activities of Frolov, Cherkalin and Vasiliev. In June 2016, a resignation statement was written by the head of the K of Voronin department. And Cherkalin and Vasiliev remained in the clean field without much cover.

As a result, against Frolov, Cherkalin and Vasiliev, a criminal case was opened. A formal occasion was the situation with businessman Sergei Gyadelkin, whom they knew well, since for a long time they themselves worked with him as part of another investigation. Zadelkin was not a applicant for one criminal case that accompanied the FSB.

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Criminal case

A criminal proceedings against former state -owned Bankers Vladimir Stolyarenko and Alexander Bondarenko began in the spring of 2019. According to investigators, together with former FSB officers, they took possession of the shareholder Sergei Gladelkin of shares (49%) in the company "Yurprompronsulting", on the accounts of which was about 1 billion rubles, and caused him 490 million rubles.

Familiar bankers parry that there were no large amounts on the company's accounts, but there were debts. Gyadelkin was engaged in several development projects that received funding in Euro financial Mosnarbank. Jurpromonsulting, in particular, was supposed to ensure the design and construction of 47.5% of the total area of ​​the Levoberezhny project. But in 2009, the Moscow government stopped the project, like many others.

The acquaintance of Zadelkina assures that the FSB officers misled him, scaring him that his projects will begin problems. Especially after Zadelkin wrote a statement to the FSB at the former vice-mayor of Moscow Alexander Ryabinin regarding the extortion of a bribe. And Zadelkin gave his share in the company.

Surrounded by bankers, it is believed that the entrepreneur was well aware of the problems with the Moscow government, and that no one was deceiving him.

One way or another, from the registers it is clear that the successor of the companies, which were the development projects, which was engaged in Zadelkin (“Cottage village of Berezka”, “Kursk Square”, “Water World”, “Stroy-Cascade” and “Stroymaximu”), by 2014, “Jurprompromnsulting” became. And two years later, he moved to the company "Utsibspetsmontazh", which later turned into one of the structures of the RNG Stolyarenko and Bondarenko group. Familiar State Bankers assure that this restructuring was carried out by other people who paid the debts of these projects and sued for compensation and rights. And the RNG was much later bought by the “UTSIBSPECMONTAZ” as a construction company for further participation in state tenders.

State Bankers

Who are Stolyarenko and Bondarenko, and why did these former state -owned bankers, being owners of the oil and gas group with billions of investments, ended up in a criminal case of dangers of 490 million?

Stolyarenko until 2012 was president and chairman of the board of Euro -financial Mosnarbank, a key for Russian cooperation with Venezuela. The bank is now under American sanctions for communication with the Venezuelan oil and gas company, they own Russian public structures and the Venezuelan National Development Fund. Stolyarenko was a member of the Public Council at the FSB and the Councils of Directors of Zarubezhneft and RusHydro. Bondarenko worked as the first vice president, deputy rule of Euro-financial Mosnarbank until 2014.

Their acquaintance said that Stolyarenko and Bondarenko left Russia several years ago - after their oil and gas interests faced the interests of Rosneft and Igor Sechin. Then it also reached a criminal case.

Until 2013, for a rather long time, Stolyarenko and Bondarenko owned shares in the company “Taas Yuryakh of Neftegasodobych” with a license for the central block of the Mid-Botuobinsky deposit-one of the largest in Eastern Siberia. At the same time, the Euro-financial Mosnarbank, which they headed, was a financial consultant to Taas Yuryakh of Oil and Gas Production. How did the state -owned battleships have shares in the company? A person close to them assures that these shares were purchased at a time when they were not worth a lot of money, it was necessary to carry out great work at the field and attract funds.

The partners of Stolyarenko and Bondarenko at Taas Yuryakh Neftegasodoby protruded Urals Energy, owned by the former son-in-law of the first Russian president Leonid Dyachenko, as well as Vyacheslav Rovneiko and George Ramsaytsev, former partners of the oil industry Gennady Timchenko. The history of the Yurals group is also interesting, since the head of the first Main Directorate of the KGB (intelligence) Leonid Shebarshin gave the sanction to create it at the end of 1989, and the completely commercial group became at the very beginning of the nineties, later decaying into independent units.

In 2009, Sberbank received a share of Urals Energy at Taas Yuryakh Neftegasodovye to repay debts and soon sold it to Rosneft. And by 2013, Rosneft wanted the entire company, and Stolyarenko and Bondarenko found themselves in a difficult situation.

It got to the point that Rosneft turned to law enforcement agencies, and a criminal case opened a criminal case against the general director of Taas Yuryakh. He was sitting in the investigative insulator, then under house arrest with an electronic bracelet on his leg. And in all offices, one way or another associated with the company, there were rampant searches.

"It was very scary"

Rosneft wanted to buy Taas Yuryakh Neftegasodovych, as it was already a 35%participant. She needed 100%to put reserves on her balance and for a contract with Chinese buyers to bring these reserves in Eastern Siberia (which can continue to be transported by VSU) to $ 270 billion, ”explains an eyewitness to those events that worked with Taas Yurye oil and gas production.

The pre -investigation verification at Rosneft was conducted before the transaction was concluded. So “the background was”, but, as an eyewitness assures, no one really reacted to him. The agreement was reached within the framework of direct negotiations during the day a day before signing this transaction with China at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum in 2013.

“Everything was fine until they began to discuss the details and guarantees of the parties. Then it began: 200 people of operatives, searches at once in all offices, the arrest of the general director. Moreover, people came to the searches in the rank of colonels. It was very scary, ”the eyewitness recalls. As he assures, the compromise was eventually found. The general director of Taas Yuryakh of the oil and gas production was first transferred under house arrest, and then they were transferred to Yakutia in handcuffs, "thanks for the plane." And there the criminal case was already terminated.

Comrade President

When the problems with Rosneft were settled and when she bought the shares of Stolyarenko and Bondarenko in Taas Yuryakh oil and Gas-Production, as their acquaintance says, the funds received from this transaction became the basis for creating the RNG oil and gas group. Now she develops the eastern blocks of the Sredneobotinsky deposit next to Rosneft.

Our sources - two participants in the oil and gas market and a former FSB officer - believe that

The power scenario was not fully realized thanks to Alexei Kudrin, whom the Russian President calls his longtime comrade, noting that he is listening to his recommendations.

“Kudrin has never been officially or unofficially involved in negotiations on the sale of“ Taas Yuryakh of Oil and Gas-Production ”. He never spoke with Igor Sechin and had no conflict, ”Kudrin’s press secretary answered questions, explaining that he“ knows Stolyarenko well enough, although they never had any common projects. ”

A person close to the RNG also assures that Kudrin has nothing to do with it. “They themselves were regulated, they did not attract anyone,” he convinces, at the same time refuting Kudrin’s interest in the RNG.

Nevertheless, the Oil and gas group RNG, among others, allocated funds to the Kudrin fund.

The RNG first supported the Kudrin Foundation “Dialog” in the fall of 2019, as for the projects: “State Personents”, “Open Police”, “Law enforcement reform” and “Reform of the judicial system,” the press secretary of Kudrin explained that among those who supported the “Dialogue” there were also Norilskel, the collection of the collection, the Foundation, "Nefteransservis" and the charity fund of Vladimir Potanin.

Hunting

Intersections with Kudrin funds do not end in financial support, which was also provided by the RNG group. The investigation is interested in people who in the past were directly related to the RNG and other remarkable companies. In addition to the state -owned bankers themselves, Elena Glazkov, for example, was announced on a criminal case, connected her with the arrested FSB officers. A formal reason, according to Kommersant, the theft of funds from the sale of housing in elite new buildings.

The "New" found out that Glazkova was the general director of the RNG and is still listed as the head of several companies. For example, “Dezhnev Mining” and “Yakutneftegaz” (“Dezhnev” has one phone and address with the RNG, Yakutneftegaz has the same phone. The sites of both companies have the same characteristics as the RNG website. “Yakutneftegaz” is owned by a member of the Directors of the RNG, a former deputy minister of natural resources, Nikolai Pinchuk).

The owner of Dezhnev Minging was the "Publishing House of International Relations", which in the past is associated with Euro -financial Mosnarbank. It was listed as a shareholder of the bank and at the same time (judging by the comments received by RBC in 2010) belonged to the bank at the time when Stolyarenko and Bondarenko entered his leadership. Subsequently, the owners of the publishing house were companies with the same phones, addresses and the same characteristics of sites as the company of the RNG group.

The publishing house financed the Kudrin Foundation for Support for Civil Initiatives, finally liquidated this year. It also received the ownership of the company "Strategy", which was previously listed as the only founder of the Kudrin Foundation. At the time of the creation of the fund among the owners of the Strategy, Kudrin himself was himself. And later - Andrei Kovalkov, who now owns and leads the publishing house.

Kovalkov answered “New” that the publishing house in the past was affiliated with one of the bank shareholders. He confirmed that he bought the publishing house that the publishing house provided assistance to the Kudrin Foundation. But he assures that the publishing house is not connected with the RNG. А Глазкова — просто профессиональный директор, которая работает с бухгалтерской компанией.

«Мы издаем книги, которые пишут время от времени Столяренко в соавторстве с Бондаренко. И у нас есть несколько проектов по изданию книг, которые они лично поддерживали в течение ряда лет, — сообщил Ковальков. — Благодаря их поддержке появились: «История внешней политики ведущих мировых держав», «Книга по истории советской военной администрации в Германии», «История Моснарбанка», «История росзагранбанков», энциклопедии и другие книги».

«Стратегия» учреждала фонд, когда принадлежала Ирине Карелиной и Алексею Кудрину, — сообщил его пресс-секретарь. — А затем была продана издательству и Ковалькову именно в то время, когда фонд уже прекратил свою деятельность. «Издательство Международные отношения» поддерживало проекты фондов Кудрина, например: «Национальная премия «Гражданская инициатива», «Общероссийский гражданский форум», «Открытый бюджет». Но никогда не было крупнейшим жертвователем, — пояснил пресс-секретарь.

«Пульс уже учащенный»

Связано ли уголовное преследование бывших госбанкиров с охотой на знакомых Кудрина и их нефтегазовые активы?

У Кудрина давно напряженные отношения с Сечиным. Кудрин в своих комментариях в прессе выражал недоумение по поводу назначения Сечина секретарем президентской комиссии по топливно-энергетическому комплексу еще в 2012 году. Он был открыто против выделения «Роснефти» средств из Фонда национального благосостояния в 2014 году. И публично сомневался в справедливости уголовного преследования бывшего министра Алексея Улюкаева, которого Сечин обвинил в вымогательстве взятки.

Сечин, со своей стороны, поставил Кудрина в один ряд с Алексеем Навальным, перечислив его среди «провокаторов», «распространяющих слухи» о том, что «Роснефть» участвовала в обрушении валютного рынка в 2014 году.

Но, как говорит знакомый и Сечина, и Кудрина:

«Сечин ничего не может поделать с Кудриным, поскольку Кудрин работал с Путиным на равных. В Петербурге они были заместителями Собчака. Тогда как Сечин был только секретарем Путина».

Rosneft did not comment on the situation.

«Мы не знакомы с подробностями следствия больше, чем по публикациям в СМИ. И не видим оснований делать такое предположение <что уголовное дело может быть связано с противоречиями между Кудриным и Сечиным>, — заявил пресс-секретарь Кудрина.

Человек, который работает с РНГ, все же испытывает опасения по поводу нынешнего разбирательства: «Что касается сотрудников ФСБ, то они оказывали давление и на меня, и на группу РНГ. И оказывают сейчас. Но я пока не могу об этом говорить… У меня пока давление нормальное, но пульс уже учащенный».

ИНТЕРВЬЮ ФИГУРАНТОВ

«Бизнес дешево не продадим»

Бывшие руководители Еврофинанс Моснарбанка Владимир Столяренко и Александр Бондаренко, которые находятся в розыске по делу полковников ФСБ Кирилла Черкалина, Дмитрия Фролова и Андрея Васильева, письменно ответили на некоторые вопросы «Новой газеты».

— Какие вам предъявляют претензии? С чем, на ваш взгляд, может быть связано это уголовное дело?

— Обвинения голословные. Противоречат фактам и здравому смыслу. Вызывающе наглое заказное дело. Мы как-то подзабыли в круговороте своих проектов обстоятельства 8-летней давности и не имели доступа к документам давно минувших лет. Однако за полгода мы собрали все что нужно, разобрались что к чему и направили убедительные жалобы в Генпрокуратуру и следствие. Надеемся, что Генпрокуратура и Следственный комитет, получив наши материалы, сумеют объективно и непредвзято рассмотреть аргументацию, факты и доказательства и примут законное решение в отношении обвинений, которые нам неправомерно, на наш взгляд, предъявлены.

— Кто, на ваш взгляд, может стоять за этим делом?

— Выгадать могут те, кто рассчитывает, что у нас сдадут нервы, что мы продадим свои нефтегазовые активы в России по дешевке. Это напрасно. Временный выигрыш получает и следствие, которое арестовало Фролова и Васильева по надуманным причинам, связанным с ЮПК (компанией «Юрпромконсалтинг»), и сейчас пытается собрать на них реальный компромат.

Только в 2019 году наши компании заплатили уже более 3,5 миллиарда рублей налогов. Нами проинвестировано в Якутию за последние 13 лет более двух миллиардов долларов. Созданы с нуля два уникальных нефтегазовых предприятия. И в процессе разведки и строительства еще пять. Налоговые отчисления от них за 25 лет составят более нескольких десятков миллиардов долларов. Можно приехать к нам в гости в Якутию и увидеть самостоятельно построенные и заасфальтированные дороги, искусственный водоем с уточками, аккуратные просеки, зачищенные мульчерами, более 1000 единиц современной техники и всех четырех мировых подрядчиков по нефтяному сервису, которые конкурируют между собой на нашем месторождении. We have something to be proud of. И мы, конечно, никого в своей жизни не обманывали, но и себя обманывать не даем. Не для этого вся жизнь потрачена на обучение и на практическое применение знаний, полученных в лучших вузах мира.

— Знали ли вы арестованных сотрудников ФСБ?

Владимир Столяренко: С Фроловым знаком по работе в банке. (О своей работе пусть они сами рассказывают). Поскольку я уволился из банка в 2012 году и живу вне России, то с тех пор с ним не встречался и не созванивался.

С Черкалиным был шапочно знаком. Общались в 2010‐2011 годах по вопросам российско‐венесуэльского банка. Других тем не было. Как минимум с 2012 года не виделся с ним. Контакты не поддерживали и не созванивались. Поводов не было.

Я не думаю, что мы даже формально знакомы с Васильевым. Естественно, не общались, не созванивались, и поводов тоже не было, и не могло быть.

— Какие последствия могут быть для вашего бизнеса?

— Для нашего бизнеса в России незаконное, по нашему мнению, уголовное преследование — это большая проблема. Мы будем строго выполнять свои обязательства по всем лицензиям перед государством, но двигаться на минимально возможной скорости.

Мы планировали вложить в нефтяную инфраструктуру Якутии дополнительно около 70 миллиардов рублей, однако благодаря действиям правоохранительных органов, предвзятому и неуважительному отношению к нам как законопослушным гражданам РФ эти инвестиции отложены до лучших времен. Это ровно столько, сколько Индия пока только пообещала вложить в виде займов на проекты Дальнего Востока как итог недавнего Восточного экономического форума, куда мы не смогли приехать. А мы бы точно собрали больше, чем обещала Индия, которая потом перекупает наши проекты.

Якутия — это не клондайк: где копнул — там и нефть. Сложнейшее геологическое строение, огромные риски, возможность зарабатывать в таких условиях — это непросто. Нужен соответствующий местный опыт. Без индивидуальных льгот, с прибылью, с честными налоговыми отчислениями и прочее. Так, как мы, могут далеко не все. Это мозолит глаза, вызывает желание задавить маленькую, но гордую и дееспособную организацию. А если до нее не «докопаться» (хотя в нашей стране это обычно не проблема), то надо посмотреть, а как же ее собственников поставить в такие невыносимые условия, чтобы они сами попросили забрать их активы по дешевке.

Мы — достойный пример того, как можно работать правильно и выгодно для государства, населения региона, работников и акционеров. For everyone.

Поэтому для России последствия такие: в ближайший год мы больше не будем участвовать в государственных аукционах, и компании будут забирать на них лицензии по более низким ценам. Общеизвестно, что благодаря нашему участию цена лицензионных прав с нескольких миллионов рублей за право добычи на лицензионном участке в Якутии без извлекаемых запасов выросла до нескольких миллиардов рублей.

То есть у ошибок правоохранительной системы есть цена. И она в нашем случае — это миллиарды долларов отложенных или потерянных инвестиций в российскую экономику, не созданные новые рабочие места и не полученные налоговые выгоды от наших новых проектов. К сожалению, пока так складывается. Но мы это переживем или преодолеем.