The 21-year-old son of the Deputy Prosecutor of Russia became a partner of people exporting nephritis to China and suspects of money laundering. After that, prosecutor's relatives acquired property of hundreds of millions of rubles, and the investigation of the case stabbed.
Mountain engineer Yevgeny Didikov died suddenly. In 2016, together with his colleagues, he went to Buryatia on a business trip. It was necessary to work about 180 kilometers west of Irkutsk at the jade deposit - “stone of life”, as it is called in China. On that day, Didikov fulfilled almost all the orders of the chief engineer - it only remained to see whether the pillars were installed on the border of the forest site on the eastern side of the deposit. To his place, he was thrown by a local watchman on an ATV. And when Didikov began to go down to the lowland to the border of the site, a snow avalanche came off the mountain. As a result, his body was able to find only the rescuers of the Ministry of Emergencies. Didikov was a little over thirty. He has a wife and a child who is not even a year old.
Evgeny Didikov Photo: Lyudmila Didikova Page in Odnoklassniki
The avalanche hazard at that time and in the place where the Mountain Engineer died was not a secret for its employer - the Baikalkvartsamocet enterprise. But it did not want to pay the deceased employee three million rubles-they asked for this money in order to at least somehow compensate for the loss of the breadwinner. Relatives had to appeal to the Irkutsk District Court. However, this helped little: the court ordered the employer to pay five times less to the victims than they demanded.
As Transpenseeni International -Russia found out, the Baikalkvartsamocet enterprise did not at the same time at the same time - like its managers and owners. At that time, they opened more than twenty bank accounts in distant Australia. Having visited the store, they could buy jewelry there at a time and more than 100 thousand dollars. So the Australian law enforcement officers in 2013 suspected the owners of Baikalkvartssamyatyta to launder money through trading operations and inconsistencies of official income and expenses - and froze about $ 30 million in their accounts.
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The Australians failed to get assistance from Russian law enforcement agencies in several years. In the meantime, in Australia they hoped for the assistance of Russian colleagues, the son of the deputy general of the prosecutor of Russia became the co -owner of the Baikalkvartssamsam.
This investigation is a joint project of “important stories”, “Transpenseri Internet - Russia” and the Australian ABC television channel.
Australian scandal
The financial scandal with nine Russians in Australia became known back in 2014. As Kommersant reported , entrepreneurs from Irkutsk Andrei Gudkov, Vladimir Strelnikov, Eduard Karmadonov and Eduard Zelinsky, their wife, as well as another business partner Sergey Kostyukov were in the focus of the Australian Federal Police. Their problems began after the police noticed how much they spent the money. The amounts did not correspond to the incomes declared upon receipt of Australian visas. In declarations and attached documents, entrepreneurs indicated several tens of thousands of dollars of annual income each. Meanwhile, millions from China and Hong Kong came to their banking accounts in Australia (see schedule, how did the money for the accounts of Russians come).
Sergey Kostyukov, Vladimir Strelnikov, Eduard Karmadonov, Eduard Zelinsky, Andrey Gudkov, Irina Strelnikova, Natalya Gudkova and Galina Chuvasova Photo: Australian Federal Police
The Irkutsk people were abroad a luxurious lifestyle. For example, only a couple of Karmadonovs paid for a vacation in Thailand and Switzerland more than 40 thousand dollars, for a hotel at a resort in Sardinia - more than 30 thousand and more than 18 thousand dollars per hotel in Venice. At the same time, the official annual income declared by Karmadonov when applying for a visa did not exceed 25 thousand dollars. This was said by a police representative, speaking in the Brisben district court in 2013, as the local newspaper The Courier Mail reported . The court decided to freeze the bank accounts of Russians.
In Russia, at that time, they belonged, for example, a bankrupt Angaria ice cream factory in the Irkutsk region, which could not even satisfy all the claims of creditors “due to the insufficiency of property”.
Property Gudkovs
Andrei Gudkov and his wife, whose bank accounts were frozen in Australia are extremely non -public people. They spent a lot of money not only in Australia, but in Russia and in Europe. Gudkov’s wife Natalya owns the Porsche Cayenne Turbo SUV worth about 10.5 million rubles, two elite apartments in a house in Furmann Lane (126.3 square meters and 78.5 square meters) worth about 150 million rubles. Another apartment in the same house with an area of 108.4 square meters and worth about 100 million rubles was decorated on the mother -in -law of Natalia - Valentina Gudkov; In 2016, she was transferred to another relative.
In 2017, Natalia and Andrei Gudkov acquired an apartment on the Italian part of the azure coast - in the Ospeedletti commune, not far from Nice and the principality of Monaco. A seven -room apartment (184 square meters) is located in a small house on the second line from the coast. According to the estimates of Transpenser Internet - Russia, its cadastral value is a little more than 200 thousand euros (or 19 million rubles).
In total, the Gudkovs have more than 30 real estate objects in Russia and abroad. Their total cost exceeds a billion rubles. The official income of the Gudkovs, which is declared when applying for a visa in Australia - several tens of thousands of dollars - raises the question: what kind of money all this property was bought?
Russian entrepreneurs disputed the actions of the Australian police for a long time and freezing their accounts. And they even achieved the ban to disclose the materials of the process, due to which the trial disappeared from the public field for a long time. But, as we became aware, in 2017 the police continued the investigation.
Ospeedletti commune Photo: Google House in Furmann Lane Photo: Google
Together with the reporters of the ABC channel, we got some documents of this criminal case. In particular, in them, an employee of the Australian Federal Police Anthony Glenn Muller noted that the legal origin of the money that appeared on the deposits of Russians in the Australian bank Anz was not confirmed.
For a long time, Australia’s law enforcement agencies have been waiting for help from their Russian colleagues. At the end of 2015, the Australian Federal Police intended to conduct an investigation together with the police from Irkutsk, but, according to the British newspaper Daily Mail, did not receive the approval of the Russian authorities.
Under the Russian law, the requests of foreign law enforcement officers for investigations in relation to Russian citizens should be considered by the General Prosecutor's Office. We managed to find that the family of at least one representative of this department is connected with an entrepreneur from Australian.
Jade boy
As Transpenseeni International -Russia found out, the business partner of the Russians who interested the Australian police is Dmitry Zakharov, the son of the Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia Alexei Zakharov .
Alexey Zakharov Photo: General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation
In 2015, the son of the deputy prospector became the owner of a 16% of the company Deo, which belongs to Baikalkvartsamocet, one of the oldest enterprises for the extraction of semiprecious stones, in particular jade, in the Irkutsk region. Most of the enterprise (84%) is controlled by Andrei Gudkov - one of the nine Russians noted in the Australian investigation. Gudkov’s partners, whose money was frozen in Australia, were co -owners of Baikalkvartssamyatyta until 2015.
At the time of acquisition of a share in Zakharov Jr., he was 21 years old and he studied in the fourth year of the Moscow State Law University (Moscow State University).
Dmitry Zakharov (right) Photo: Andrei Vinokurov Page in VKontakte
How did the son of the deputy prospector at a young age become a co -owner of the jade business? And was it not related to the investigation, in the framework of which the Australian police unsuccessfully waited for the help of Russian colleagues? “Important stories” phoned Dmitry Zakharov to ask him about it. Hearing the question, he interrupted the conversation and stopped answering calls. He did not answer the voice message either. Zakharov Sr. also did not respond to the request of “important stories”.
Business Son of the Deputy Prosecutor. The son of Deputy Prosecutor Alexander Zakharov has been engaged in business from about twenty years. At the address of Zakharov Jr., one of his early firms was registered in the city of Zhukovsky-the “first elevator company”. Dmitry Zakharov opened it in 2014, when he turned 20 years old, and closed in 2019, apparently, without implementing a single major project. Zakharov’s business partners in this company were, in particular, the wife of the ex-head of the Department of Construction of the Ministry of Defense Maxim Chengaev.
The partner of the son of the Deputy Prosecutor’s Proceedings in another company - “Digital Logistics Technologies” - was the banker Sergey Dolgov. In 2018, his FPK bank lost a license for repeated violations of anti -laundering legislation.
In addition, Dmitry Zakharov is registered as an individual entrepreneur. He indicated insurance with the main activity. The status of an individual entrepreneur appeared in Zakharov Jr. in March 2018. And already in April, he received the status of the Sogaz insurance broker, which is now headed by the nephew of the ex-head prosecutor Anton Ustinov, who studied at the same faculty of the Saratov Law Academy with his father Dmitry Zakharov, but released three years later.
Stones for China
Baikalkvartsamocets are located half an hour from Irkutsk in a small village of Smolensk. The history of the enterprise begins in 1966. Then it was a search and exploration party at the Soviet Ministry of Geology, which opened more than a dozen deposits of jade, chaso, lapisitis and other semiprecious stones. Now in Russia there are about 56 existing jade deposits, most in Buryatia. More than ten of them are discovered by the Baikalkvartssamysteans geologists. The Ospinskoye Department, at which, according to a license operating until 2024, Baikalkvartsamotsta conducts reconnaissance and mining, is also located in Buryatia. An engineer Yevgeny Didikov died there, whose family did not want to pay three million rubles.
Shop "Baikalkvartsmotsvet"
The revenue of Baikalkvartssamyatyat for 2019 exceeded 225 million rubles. On the website of the enterprise you can buy, for example, a ring made of jade for 12 thousand rubles, or a large written set with the coat of arms and the flag of Russia in more than half a million. But the data on the foreign economic activity of Baikalkvartsamsamyta show that the basis of his business is export transactions.
Photo: "Baikalkvartsamocet"
From 2013 to 2020, eight Chinese companies under contracts with Baikalkvartsmells received more than 200 tons of unprocessed jade in the amount of $ 5.3 million, according to the base of foreign trade operations Importgenius. That is, the average price was about $ 27 per kilogram of unprocessed jade. But usually in China, nephritis is evaluated much more.
There are many varieties of jade: from white and light green to blue and even black. At the Ospinsky deposit of Baikalkvartsamsamnaya, green ultramarine nephritis and one of the most expensive and valuable are mined - nephritis of the “cat's eye”.
“The real price of ordinary stone is about 50-100 dollars [per kilogram]. But at the Ospinsky field there is a "cat's eye." I know that a large batch of Koshachy Eye in 2015 left in the city of Dunnin Province of Heilongjiang (there is a jade exchanger) of 15 thousand dollars per kilogram. That is, in Beijing, this will already cost from 10 to 50 thousand dollars per kilogram, ”says Evgeny Kislov, head of the geochemistry and ore -forming processes of the geological institution.
Prosecutor with a cellar
There are no large real estate objects in the declaration of Deputy Prosecutor Zakharov. If you believe the document from the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office, it has only a five -meter cellar in its ownership. But thanks to the Australian history with Baikalkvarts -Flower, we learned details about expensive property, business and extensive ties of relatives and friends of the deputy industry. It turned out that his son and mother were registered with real estate for hundreds of millions of rubles.
Relatives of the Deputy Prosecutor General with Andrei Gudkov, who became famous thanks to his Australian assets, connected not only the jade business. There were also elite apartments.
House on Smolenskaya Embankment Photo: Google
In 2015, a four -year student Dmitry Zakharov bought from the mother -in -law Andrei Gudkov Larisa Guzhikhina an apartment with an area of 135 square meters in the Moscow residential complex “House on Smolenskaya Embankment”. “The house of the de-Lux category is located in the Arbat area next to the British Embassy. The input group is a two -light lobby with stained glass glazing, the interior decoration of the halls is made of wood of rare breeds and onyx, ”the realtors praised the house. On average, the apartment like Zakharov costs about 135 million rubles.
In 2017, Zakharov Jr. became the owner of another slightly less expensive apartment with an area of 100 square meters in the residential complex of Mosfilmovsky. Its cost is about 50 million rubles.
Pensioner property
The mother of the deputy prospector and grandmother Dmitry Pensioner Valentina Zakharova moved to the Moscow Region from the Voronezh region in the early 2000s. Then she began to be actively interested in real estate, although she was not seen in any business before. Since then, there have been several apartments at her disposal with a total value of more than half a billion rubles.
Valentina Zakharova, in 2012, was exchanged by one of these apartments in the center of Moscow, in Furmann Lane, the mother of the head of Rosprirodnadzor Svetlana Radonova (her in an investigation in 2020 was told by Alexei Navalny). Svetlana Radovonova also studied at the Saratov Yurfak, who graduated from Alexei Zakharov. At the time of purchase, the apartment was estimated at 86 million rubles. In 2017, Natalya Gudkova, the wife of Andrei Gudkova, bought this apartment from the mother of the deputy prospector, the same one whose accounts were frozen in Australia.
Even the pensioner Zakharova has a house in the elite village of Metropolje in the Pushkin city district of the Moscow region. The village is located near the village of Sofrino, where an enterprise for the production of art utensils for the Russian Orthodox Church is located.
Valentina Zakharova’s house in Metropolieu (in the foreground from below) Photo: Transpenser Internet - Russia
In Metropol, a small land of 1360 square meters is registered for the 78-year-old mother of the deputy general of the prosecutor. Almost its entire territory is occupied by a four -story building with an area of 707 square meters. But the look at the site from a height allows us to understand that the territory of the Zakharovs suburban residence is much larger. Another section of 2700 square meters adjoins the house. It has another house, the owner of which the Rosreestr does not show. These two sites have a common entrance, paths are laid between the houses, and their territory is fenced with a single fence. (Administrative address of the house: the village of Metropolie, 57 Freedom Street).
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Not far from the residence of Valentina Zakharova, literally two houses later, her acquaintance settled - the mother of the head of Rosprirodnadzor Tatyana Radiova.
But this is not all the property of a pensioner. The mother of the Deputy Prosecutor's Proceeds has a luxurious apartment in the Knightsbridge Private Park in the Moscow district of Khamovniki, built four years ago, built four years ago. Judging by the data from Rosreestr, Valentina Zakharova owns a 227-meter apartment worth about 300 million rubles and three parking spaces for about 7.5 million rubles each.
By the way, in the same house, the long -standing associate of Zakharov, the former first deputy prosecutor of the Moscow Region Valery Voinov, who is now working as the head of the personnel of the General Prosecutor's Office, purchased the apartment. He bought an apartment at Knightsbridge Private Park almost simultaneously with Zakharova. But now, instead of his last name, the Russian Federation is listed in Rosreestr.
Family ties
Pensioner Valentina Zakharova is so wealthy that it regularly helps relatives. For example, her daughter, Sister of Deputy Prosecutor General Tatyana Semushkina, received from her in 2016 as a gift an apartment with an area of 146.5 square meters in the Moscow district of Khovrino on Dybenko Street.
Tatyana is married to Roman Semushkin, who heads the Office of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Western Administrative District of Moscow. At the work of Somushkina, the prosecutor of the same district Grigory Radionov, the brother of the head of Rosprirodnadzor Svetlana Radonova, overshadowed.
Roman Semushkin Photo: District Directorate of Vnukovo
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office did not answer the question of “important stories” about business relations and property of relatives of the deputy prospector, as well as the question why, in some cases, this property connected the prosecutor’s family and suspects of money laundering in Australia.
The representative of Baikalkvartssamyatyatov answered “important stories” that the enterprise is not a participant in the process related to freezing bank accounts: the case initiated by the Australian police against Russian citizens was civil law and was considered within the framework of the civil process. The consideration of the case was completed in 2018. The representative of the enterprise emphasized that Zakharov has been the deputy general of the prosecutor since 2019. The fate of the criminal case, which was instituted in Australia in 2017 and has not yet been completed, did not comment on the representative of Baikalkvvartssamyat. And he did not answer questions about how the son of the Deputy Prosecutor of Russia turned out to be a co -owner of the enterprise.
“In Australia, there is a law under which banks are obliged to report on cash transactions the size of 10 thousand dollars in front of Australian financial intelligence (Austrac),” says a former financial intelligence lawyer, a member of the board of directors of Transpenseri -Australia, Russell Wilson. The expert notes that if the Federal Police of Australia drew attention to the situation, this may mean that in the case the interaction between the law enforcement agencies of Russia and Australia could begin. But, apparently, this interaction was not continued - or the investigation affected the “politically sensitive” issue. Wilson notes that in Australia, information about the lawsuit is rarely closed: perhaps in this case it happened due to politics, and maybe due to the fact that the investigation is still underway.
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