Over 7 years, their oligarchs appeared in the "DPR". They are associated with the leadership of the self -proclaimed republic, work with Russia and manage to conduct legal business even in Ukraine. Investigation "News of Donbass"

At the rallies of the Russian Spring 2014 in Donetsk, in addition to separatist slogans, anti -oligarchic sounded. “Power - the people”, “enterprises - people” - the creators of the Donetsk People’s Republic then played on such moods of residents. After 7 years, the result is visible - power, influence and large enterprises are in the hands of the leaders of the self -proclaimed "republics" and their close associates.

Who are the oligarchs of the "people's republics". How they were able to expand the business, while others “squeezed it”, how they manage enterprises not only in the gray zone of the “DPR”, but also in the territory, controlled by Ukraine, and even manage to fulfill state orders. The New Gazeta publishes an investigation into our colleagues - the publication of Donbass News.

Dmitry Egurnov

Egurnov's position at "DPR"

With the beginning of the armed conflict in the Donbass in 2014, the Donetsk business, in addition to martial law, was faced with looting and an “spin”. In the conditions of a shortage of goods and products in the Ordlo ( literally: individual regions of the Donetsk and Lugansk region - the state name of the territories of Donbass, which are controlled by separatists . - approx. "New" ) food business was in profitability leaders. Dmitry Egurnov, about which little is known by 2014, secured over the supernashers on it.

In November 2014, he created LLC Master-Torg and registered it in Makeevka uncontrolled by Ukraine (bypassing Ukrainian tax). Now Egurnov, as stated on its website, is the main distributor of food in the DPR and LPR.

In 2015, Master-Torg founded its own Bocado brand for canned products-and literally flooded them with store shelves in the uncontrolled territory of the "people's republics". Interesting fact: products are produced in Russian Belgorod.

On the same bank, we see another company-LLC Master-Trade, which, according to Russian registers, also belongs to Dmitry Egurnov. It is this company since 2017 that has played a special role in its business scheme. This is a kind of laying between the DPR and LPR market and those Russian firms that are afraid to conduct business with them directly. Having accumulated Russian goods, it is the “master-trad” of Egurnov, most likely, is engaged in their re-export in the “gray zone” of Donbass, and firms in Canada, Great Britain and even Azerbaijan participate in the scheme, which follows from the materials of the criminal case .

Quote from the case
“In the future, using the scheme of interrupted transit (re -export), the products are supplied in the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, controlled by the occupation administration through the international checkpoint“ Matveev Kurgan ”.

How did you recently unknown businessman Egurnov was able to achieve such success? According to the analyst of the “Donetsk Institute of Information” Vitaly Sizov, such a take -off business cannot be presented without close ties with the administrations of the self -proclaimed “DPR” and “LPR”.

“Naturally, they cannot do their affairs without the patronage of the self -proclaimed authorities of the previous or current. This is vital in a situation where there is no legal field - where everyone is accepted at the discretion of the first persons. There are no elections, there is no way to influence the decision of the authorities. A business there can only work with their blessings and some informal relations between them are built, including financial, ”said Sizov.

The main friend

Dmitry Egurnov enters the circle of close acquaintances of the head of the “DPR” Denis Pushilin, besides they are countrymen - both of Makeevka. After Pushilin, as head of the “DPR”, replaced the murdered Zakharchenko, the position of “Master-Torg” improved. Here Pushilin personally allocates a loan ($ 6.8 million) of a loan in April 2020 by his decree in April 2020.

It is interesting that the amount of funds allocated to other companies is a total of less than the amount issued by the Master-Torgu. This so -called “decree” on the allocation of funds is hidden on the Pushilin website, but got into the network as a result of “drain”. From the "DPR", the company Egurnov received 11 million rubles ($ 150 thousand) of tenders in two years. This proves her special position.

“Egurnov stands out by the fact that he has“ access to the body ”of Pushilin and, accordingly, he can receive funding from the budget (...) outside the competition,

- notes the human rights activist, the founder of the "Eastern Human Rights Group" Pavel Lisyansky, - We can see how these subsidies are leaving exactly in the pockets of the militants, because we all saw the infrastructure in Donetsk and in other cities. "

Egurnov sponsor many events held in the Ordlo: a local football championship, fighting leagues, is part of various kinds of “working groups” with the so -called government.

Information that Egurnov and Pushilin friends and partners according to enrichment schemes appeared in anonymous telegram channels, there is information about this in the replicas of the DPR functionaries, which for one reason or another have now passed into the opposition to the Pushilinsky administration of the self-proclaimed republic.

We find confirmation of family friendship in social networks. The son of Egurnov - Vyacheslav - in friends of Kira Pushilin, daughter of the head of the DPR administration.

Dmitry Egurnov, according to the sources of the "News of Donbass", is controlled by one of the Donetsk television channels - "Union". Formally, the channel is considered the property of the DPR administration and broadcasts propaganda.

"Union" is the only television channel in the Ordlo, on which the "master-trail" of Egurnov was promoted.

Photo (YouTube TC "Union" in the photo: Number of videos about "Master-Torg" Dmitry Egurnov)

Unlike other DPR media resources, the “DPR” authorities signed Pushilin in the “Union” of the DPR authorities. Just as in the “Master-Torg”, from the so-called “Republican Budget of the DPR” “Union”, millions of rubles are allocated, signed by Pushilin. And this is only what got into the network.

Ukrainian business Egurnov

Egurnov in Ukrainian registers is listed as a beneficiary and owner of several LLCs -

• "Interelectro-2010,

• "Master Cable Ukraine",

• and "Master Cabble Kyiv."

Until 2017, these three companies calmly worked in the Ukrainian legal field and traded with companies from uncontrolled territory and made a profit. So, in 2017, Interlectro-2010 received 42 million hryvnias ($ 1.55 million). For 2016-2017, Interlectro-2010 implemented state tenders totaling 3 million 300 thousand hryvnias ($ 120 thousand), and the company Master-Cabble of Ukraine-1.7 million hryvnias ($ 63 thousand). It was these companies that were engaged in the supply of goods to the uncontrolled territory of the company Egurnov himself-“Master-Torgu” and others registered in the “DPR”.

These schemes did not go unnoticed by law enforcement officers and special services of Ukraine - these three companies became defendants in criminal cases of financing terrorism. The SBU in the materials of the production claims that Egurnov transferred the companies to the crap and still controls them, making a profit.

From the court decision
“A person_5 is not the founder and director of any of these enterprises, however, until 2017 he was the founder of INTERELECTRO-2010 LLC (USRPOU Code 36962838), Master-Cabel Ukraine LLC (USRPOU Code 37841178) and now exercises actual control over the economic activities of the above enterprises, receives and distributes the profit they received, and distributes the profits they received, Including the material and financial support of the DPR terrorist organization, provides instructions to the officials of these business entities. ”

Apparently, the SBU has collected evidence, but this is what we managed to find on these dummies and their connections with the “Deneher” businessman.

They covered their own

Egurnov ceased to be the beneficiary of companies only in August 2017. LLC Master-Kabel Ukraine with a legal address in Kyiv currently belongs to a certain Aleksandrova Tatyana Vasilievna, and LLC Interlectro-2010 with a legal address in Mariupol-Bazhanova Anastasia Viktorovna.

There is very much information about Aleksandrov, but Mrs. Bazhanova, judging by the documents, runs 15 companies at different points of Ukraine-but at the same time in 2020, she was accused of theft of a perforator worth 650 hryvnias ($ 24). And already in 2021 I got to herself Interelectro-2010. Before Bazhanova, the company belonged to Shakule Sergey Valerievich. We easily found it on social networks.

He himself is from Makeevka, now lives in the Kyiv region. And in his friends. Alexey Egurnov is the father of the very oligarch Dmitry Egurnov.

But that's not all. In the rest of the affairs ( 1 , 2 ), Interelektro-2010 LLC is held together with LLC Trading DIM Interelektro-Kidro and LLC Trade DIM Interelekro . Companies were created in 2017 and 2016, respectively. The beneficiary is Vadim Pavlovich Bobritsky . And if we dig in the archive of the Interelectro site, then we will find that earlier it was the site of the “master-cable” of Egurnov.

Finding Vadim Bobritsky on social networks was also not difficult - he is from Donetsk, now he lives in Kyiv. And in his friends , his father Dmitry Egurnov is Alexei.

Bobritsky and I contacted and, although he admitted that he was familiar with Dmitry Egurnov, he said that he was not talking to him now.

From attention, only LLC Master-Cable Installation fell out, which also appears in criminal cases. The beneficiary is Anton Vladimirovich Chekhovsky . He is also a Makeevsk citizen, but now he lives in Moscow. In friends in VKontakte, he has a son Dmitry Egurnov - Vyacheslav.

Dmitry Egurnov used all these “masters” and “Interelectro” to cooperate with the “Master-Torg”, “Galaxy”, “Inter-Torg” and others registered in the “DPR”, say in the SBU.

From a court decision:
“(...) Using a set of business entities that are registered and actually located in Ukraine, as well as artificial formations created and operating in the territory, temporarily controlled by the DPR terrorist organization, from April 2014 to the present, financing terrorism by organizing the payment of the so -called“ taxes ”to the structural division of the Ministry of Finance of the DPR.

Igor Andreev

He rose in the 90s

Until 2014 - Igor Andreev - was not a poor person at all. He was associated with the organized crime group "Lux" (or as it was also called - "boxers"). It included his friends, business co -owners Yuri Ruban and Gennady Uzbek.

From the 90s after the collapse of the USSR, Andreev was engaged in the harvesting and sale of scrap metal. Its main assets: “Donetsk metal rolling plant”, electric foil plant “Elektrostal” (Kurakhovo) and “V spa”. At the end of the zero companions, which became one of the largest sellers of scrap, began to build a “black scrap - steel workpiece - varietal rental” chain.

In addition to metallurgy, he had a company for the production of ice cream, dairy products and semi -finished products - Chao "Hercules". Residents of Ukraine know this brand very well.

In the same 2011, Ukrainian Forbes estimated Andreev’s assets at $ 85 million. After the seizure of a part of the Donetsk region, the so -called “DPR” business Andreev legally moved to the territory controlled by Ukraine and continued to work (but, of course, it was impossible to remove the dairy and metal rolling plant from Donetsk).

"Iron Hercules" on two fronts

Therefore, according to the so -called Laws of the DPR, the company LLC Trading House Gornyak was created, which gained control over Andreev’s business.

As if no one was going to hide it. On the site "All About the DPR" the company is indicated by the owner of the brands of food products "Hercules", "Pan-Fazan" and "Dobrynya". In addition, the company is located at the Donetsk dairy, which is owned by Andreev.

The network also has information from former entrepreneurs that in 2016, TD Gornyak from the leadership of the DPR received a monopoly on the purchase of scrap metal. This information is also confirmed by criminal investigation materials in Ukraine.

At this time, the “DPR” proclaimed the metal with a strategic resource and adopted the rules for handling scrap metal for those who want to do this. But informally, according to the oral decree of the former “Minister of Industry and Trade”, Alexei Granovsky and the former “minister of income and fees” by Alexander Timofeev (“Tashkent”), without exception, all the enterprises were allegedly obliged to sell scrap metal to a single buyer - LLC “Trade House“ Gornyak ”, and not exported scrap metal metallurgical plant, which processed the crowbar of Chernynya.

The rules appeared only a year and a half after the creation of the "state". Before that, the business was completely in the shade. Why did the choice fall on Andreev?

“Ukraine does not have access to documents in uncontrolled territory, Ukraine will not be able to check whether this enterprise really has preferences there. Whether the DPR authorities give him some property, ”says Tatyana Ivanova, a lawyer, a participant in the humanitarian subgroup in a tripartite contact group in Donbass,“ all this can only be installed when we have access to this. Now [we can talk about this] on the basis of only journalistic investigations, because this will play a very large role in the future. At the same time, a journalistic investigation is not evidence, this is needed for this, but there are no sources of access to them. ”

In 2015, order No. 415 of the First Deputy Head of the Anti -Terrorism Center was issued under the Security Service of Ukraine “On approval of the temporary procedure for monitoring the movement of persons, vehicles and goods (goods) through the contact line within the Donetsk and Lugansk regions”. It is temporarily indicated that enterprises, which are unified production chains (whose links - factories, workshops and warehouses ended up in the territory not controlled by Ukraine) may apply for movement through the line of contact.

It was then that Andreev came in handy, whose Elektrostal in Kurakhovo in the controlled territory and a metal rolling plant at the uncontrolled.

Under this screen, metal was exported, which in Ukraine could be sold twice as expensive.

When once again, 19 wagons with a crowbar arrived in Konstantinovka from the territory of Ordo, they became interested in this fact in the SBU. They found that the owner of the cargo was the Gornyak Trading House LLC, and the Donetsk Metal Procedure Plant and Elektrostal, owned by Igor Andreev, participate in the cargo transportation scheme.

The Zhovtnaya Court of Mariupol arrested scrap metal, but soon the Court of Appeal of the Donetsk region canceled this decision. It seemed to the judges that "the conclusion of the special services is not objectively confirmed and is in the nature of operational, not procedural information."

After the introduction of the blockade in the spring of 2017, it became impossible to implement such a scheme. But the grocery business of the oligarch flourished.

"Hercules" on the knees did not

Until 2018, Igor Andreev was the beneficiary registered in Kramatorsk in Kramatorsk. After - a certain Gashpar Viktor Evrinovich, who received the lion's share of Andreev’s business. And since 2016, Igor Igorevich became the manager since 2016.

In the same year, the general director of the “Miner Miner House” Kaveshnikov appeared at the event of the Donetsk National University as a member of the jury, evaluating the business projects of students.

And in 2019, the article of Kaveshnikov’s newspapers indicated as the head of the ice cream unit, ready for food and dishes all in the same LLC Trading House Gornyak.

“Some managed to conduct business simultaneously in the territory of controlled by Ukraine and in the territory of uncontrolled. There were a lot of options for how people organized it. Someone left part of their enterprises in the uncontrolled territory and appointed directors who live in the controlled territory. Directors who live in uncontrolled territory, so as not to go through their assets, issued a power of attorney to people who live in a controlled territory. According to these powers of attorney, their participation in the authorized funds was issued. Either the trust management agreements were concluded in order not to travel here for the controlled territory, ”said Tatyana Ivanova, a lawyer, a participant in the humanitarian subgroup in the TKG for Donbass

Andreev’s business at “DPR” today

The KhoMules Kramatorsk company is now at the stage of trial in bankruptcy cases, but the semi -finished products of the brand of the same name are still sold in Ukrainian stores. Why so?

Dumplings and dumplings under this brand are not produced not by PLC Gerkules, but by LLC Province Plus registered in Kyiv. The brand is active on social networks.

But the Hercules ice cream site for some reason does not work. Through the web archive, we found the version of the site of July 2020-there was a large range of ice cream. Donetsk “Hercules” is much better. Andreev’s grocery business empire is growing every year.

Все шло настолько хорошо, что ТД «Горняк» открыл свою сеть супермаркетов — «Геркулес-Moloko». Позже для своих магазинов Андреев получил помещения бывшей сети супермаркетов «Амстор», которые работали в Донецке до 2017-2018 годов и со временем были вытеснены из ОРДЛО.

«Донецкий металлургический завод», который находился два года в простое и имеет долги перед рабочими. Все это последствия управления ДМЗ компанией беглого украинского олигарха Сергея Курченко «Внешторгсервис». Так вот, завод уже частично возобновил свою работу.

REFERENCE
Сергей Курченко, долгое время контролировавший почти всю промышленность мятежного Донбасса, был отстранен от дел 15 июня после недовольства из России. На его предприятиях росли долги по зарплатам, а сроки поставок в Россию регулярно срывались. Новым куратором донбасской промышленности назначен россиянин Евгений Юрченко.

Таких сюжетов на местном ТВ было много : «Возрождаем промышленность, былую славу», «Да здравствует металлургия», а за все спасибо инвестору, имя которого почему-то в «ДНР» не назвали.

Согласно источникам «Новостей Донбасса», этот мог быть тот самый Игорь Андреев. Бизнес нового инвестора ДМЗ власти «ДНР» освободили от уплаты налогов и счетов за электричество.

Кроме того, бизнесмен контролирует еще и Енакиевский коксохимпром, шахту «Щегловская глубокая», обогатительную фабрику «Чумаковская» и Шахтоуправление «Донбасс». Теперь вместе с ДМЗ эти предприятия составили единый производственный цикл для выплавки металла.

«На оккупированной территории боевики хотят показать людям что ситуация наладилась, будет экономический рост. Мол, мы привлекаем инвесторов. Чтобы придать реконструкции ДМЗ медийности был выбран бывший руководитель ЧАО «Геркулес», который якобы выступает инвестором. Он просто был выбран как надежный человек, который не будет говорить лишнего, а просто будет делать то, что ему говорят», — считает правозащитник, основатель «Восточной правозащитной группы» Павел Лисянский.

По данным экс-начальника донецкого горотдела милиции Юрия Седнева, Андреев находится за пределами ОРДЛО, что не мешает ему получать прибыль.

«Бизнес отдельно — политика отдельно. Но так как его бизнес на той территории связан с продовольствием, а это проблема номер один [для «ДНР»], так как касается стабильности и удержания власти. Естественно, бизнесмены вынуждены с этим смириться и поэтому там работают», — говорит Седнев».

Кто настоящий олигарх

И Андреев, и Егурнов донбасскими олигархами являются лишь номинально, соглашаются эксперты «Новостей Донбасса». Сегодня они удобны руководству самопровозглашенных республик и их кураторам, а завтра все может измениться.

«Людей, которых никто не выбирал, просто назначили руководить этой территорией. Они по сути являются частью бюрократического аппарата — <вот кто> самый огромный олигарх. И еще кураторы этих территорий обогащаются на них. А у этих людей [Егурнова и Андреева] нет такой власти. Им дали возможность зарабатывать, но они не могут <ни на что> влиять», — отмечает аналитик «Донецкого института информации» Виталий Сизов.

Несмотря на то, что уголовные дела на Егурнова, Андреева и их компании в Украине есть, это расследование еще не завершено. В то же время в Украине существует практика, когда еще до окончания следствия, на людей, сотрудничающих с группировками «Л-ДНР», накладывают санкции. Но героев этого материала пока нет ни в одном санкционном списке.

«Новости Донбасса». При поддержке Медиасети