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Real agents. Part One
Investigation of how the main fighter with foreign agents hid the foreign property of his family
Roman Badanin, Mikhail Maglov
October 6, 2021
Russian punitive legislation on foreign agents and undesirable organizations deeply viciously. Officials and deputies who adopt and apply these laws are suitable for foreign agents much more than journalists and human rights activists. In this part, we talk about the curator of the fight against foreign agents, the deputy minister of justice Oleg Sviridenko, who hid the income and property of his family.
- I want to emphasize: [...] no one prohibits the activities of these organizations. We just ask them to say: yes, we are engaged in political activities, but we are funded from abroad. [...] And there is no need to scare anyone that they grab someone, arrest, confiscate.
This at first glance a soothing phrase in an interview with German journalists in 2013, President Vladimir Putin actually announced the subsequent unprecedented attack on independent media and non -profit organizations. Over the past, eight years in Russia have been formed an extensive. Now, according to the ATS-INFO, more than 290 people and organizations are a list of “foreign agents” and undesirable organizations, at this moment they are 49, affected by individuals and legal entities, largely related to the press. Unwanted organizations forced to stop working in the country, which contrary to Putin’s forecast still did not save some of their former employees from criminal prosecution in Russia. For example, the court was sentenced to a conditional prison term by Anastasia Shevchenko for relations with the “unwanted organization” “Open Russia”, Andrei Pivovarov, who was in jail, was also persecuted for connections with “open Russia”.
This wave of repressions is supervised by numerous law enforcement and political departments from the FSB to Roskomnadzor, but one ministry by law is involved in the fight against foreign agents and undesirable organizations, in accordance with paragraph 6 of Article 3.1 of Law No. 129 and Article 13.1 of the Law on Non -Profit Organizations, especially strongly. This is the Ministry of Justice, or rather the Department of NPOs, which is supervised by Deputy Minister Oleg Sviridenko, which is part of it.
And this is a deep evil irony.
Non -player lawyer
Sviridenko, who studied in Belarus and studying in Moscow, could not boast of ties with high posts from Leningrad with one after another. However, his career also started thanks to friendship. At the very beginning of the zero Sviridenko, then the young judge of the Moscow Arbitration, said Eduard Renov, lawyer and theater, who worked as deputy chairman of the Supreme Arbitration Court (you), two ex-colleags of Sviridenko said. His efforts Sviridenko became the deputy chairman of the arbitration of the capital, specialized in bankruptcy, which was very popular then in the legal procedure, recalls the lawyer of a large company who worked a lot in the Moscow arbitration at the beginning of the 2000s. In 2005, Sviridenko headed the metropolitan arbitration as soon as his long -term chairman Alla Bolshova retired.
Sviridenko was a judge whom the authorities could rely on. “He led in court a yukos tending,” recalls the former owner of the oil company Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Indeed, the metropolitan arbitration, led by Sviridenko, played a major role in satisfying huge tax claims against Yukos. Then Sviridenko came together with Igor Sechin and the influential in the legal world of Kaland's family, two ex-colleags Sviridenko recall. Sechin is considered the main organizer of the attack on Yukos, and Larisa Kalanda and her husband Vladimir were engaged in the legal and judicial part of this attack
In the photo is the alleged meeting of Larisa Kalanda and Oleg Sviridenko in a cafe in Moscow at a time when he headed the Moscow arbitration, and she worked as the chief lawyer of Rosneft. The news about this meeting, which could throw a shadow on the professional ethics of Sviridenko, were subsequently cleaned from the Internet. The husband of Larisa, Vladimir Kalanda, in the zero years, oversaw personnel issues in the courts in the presidential administration. Source: navalny.livejournal.com
And in the case with the reconstruction of the Rossiya Hotel, Moscow Arbitration spoke on the side of the city hall-in the zero Sviridenko was very close to the then mayor Yuri Luzhkov, even played with him in the football team of the Moscow government, recalls the ex-employee of the arbitration court. This enjoyed the formal leader Sviridenko, the new head of you Anton Ivanov, who twice canceled the decisions of Sviridenko on the hotel, recalls the interlocutor, who then worked in the highest arbitration. Ivanov’s struggle with her subordinates dragged on for years: at first Sviridenko was removed from the Moscow position and sent the head of the arbitration of the Central District to Bryansk. Later, the court moved to Kaluga, however, as soon as you were attached to the Supreme Court in 2014, Sviridenko returned from Opala, actually taking the place of Ivanov himself. He was appointed head of the Economic College in the United Court, “he had patrons in the FSB, who even Vyacheslav Lebedev could not interfere (the head of the Supreme Court was the enemy of the appointment to this post of Sviridenko, he lobbied the appointment of Judge Arthur Absalyamov -“ Agency ”),” recalls the interlocutor who worked in arbitration. Suchinko helped Sechin, who, at a meeting with Putin, made a report that Absalyamov, the chief rival of Sviridenko in the struggle for the post, met in the Tyumen restaurant with the co-owner of Alfa-Group German Khan and thereby supposedly allowed him to doubt his insanity, knows the acquaintance of Absalyamov and Sviridenko.
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- Oleg Mikhailovich, your professional work is unsystematic in nature, what do you plan to change in case of reassignment of you to your position?
This question Sviridenko was asked by his colleagues in the beginning of 2020, when the qualification collegium considered his application for reassignment to the post of deputy head of the Armed Forces. If you follow the transcript published a little later in the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper, Sviridenko bombarded other insulting questions for the civil servant (which is lower), and the very fact of this printout in the press said that the judge had a lot of ill -wishers.
Sviridenko throughout his career was too involved in intrigues even against the backdrop of imperfect Russian bureaucracy. “He wanted to sit Ivanov,” the former employee recalls you. - We believed that Sviridenko probably stands behind the “plums” about the allegedly homosexual orientation of the chairman. Notes on Ivanov’s sexual orientation, at the end of the 2000s, really arose in dubious media more than once, the same topic was promoted by the body and radio host Vladimir Solovyov. There were questions to Sviridenko, another former judge’s colleague recalls, when at the beginning of the zero in the Moscow Arbitration there was a fire exactly in the archive of bankruptcy cases that the future deputy minister of justice oversaw. “But every time it ended in nothing, because he had strong ties with the FSB,” says former colleague Sviridenko.
It was also when Sviridenko worked already in the United Supreme Court. In 2015, the media reported a letter from subordinate Sviridenko, judges Larisa Sheveleva, in which she allegedly accused her boss of pressure - in order to make “necessary” decisions in high -profile economic matters. In particular, litigation with the participation of Alpha, the LSR group and Togliattiazot were called. However, after a short time, Sheveleva publicly abandoned the authorship of the letter, saying that it was supposedly forged. The results of the investigation were not reported.
“Arbitration lawyers know that O.M., as Sviridenko is called among themselves in court, was closely connected with Sechin, and then with Rotenberg Arkady Rotenberg, a billionaire, a large state team, the president’s friend - Agency and Yablonsky. Anatoly Yablonsky, a lawyer, a businessman related to numerous assets in the alcohol business and energy, is believed that he represents the interests of the Rotenberg family - "Agency". Do you think the courts resolved issues in their favor? ... ” - the interlocutor of the“ agency ”, who lost a major case in arbitration to Yablonsky’s arbitration, says with a grin.
However, even the leaders of the judicial system knew the pressure on the judges. If you follow the published stenigram of the conversation with Sviridenko while trying to renovate, colleagues asked him:
- There are complaints of the judges of Morozov, Pozdnyakov, the weak about interference in the consideration of the case. Cases are indicated here ... What can you say?
“This is falsified,” Sviridenko replies.
The case did not have a further move, Sviridenko did not suffer punishment for pressure, although imprisonment was also provided for this. According to Article 294 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the obstruction of justice using an official position can be punishable, including up to four years of the colony.
However, for a new term in the Sviridenko Supreme Court, tormenting him with tricky issues, his colleagues did not reassign. It may be because his biography seemed too doubtful even for the current system, maybe because Sviridenko managed to quarrel with the head of the Armed Forces Lebedev, or maybe because this place was needed by Irina Pyatnosova, the former classmate of Putin in the Leningrad lawfacing, who is now reading the post of future head of the Supreme Court. This version is retold by the “agency” by a practitioner arbitration lawyer.
So Oleg Sviridenko stopped being a judge and moved to the Ministry of Justice, becoming a curator of foreign agents. In money of foreign origin, he knows a lot.
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Secret agent
- From stay abroad, notes that mainly in Belarus, on vacation, apparently, with his mother.
This is a quote from the same discussion of Sviridenko’s biography at a meeting of the qualification collegium of judges. Colleagues there also asked Sviridenko about foreign property, luxurious real estate objects within Russia, as well as about his many relatives and acquaintances for whom this property could be issued. From the answers of the curator of the foreign agents it turned out that he never had property abroad, the scale of the Russian luxury is greatly exaggerated, and Sviridenko did not have any family life at all, because he allegedly divorced his last wife more than ten years ago, and with all their ex -wives did not support any relations, they earn themselves. All this is not true.
The secret of Sviridenko is associated with the name of the spectacular blonde Natalia Poluychik, the former champion in Latin American dances. Poluychik herself claimed in social networks that four times was a European champion. She was the legal wife of the judge until 1999, in which they divorced, which did not prevent Sviridenko and Poluychik to give birth to two joint children in 2002 and 2005. The arbitration knew that the divorce was fictitious, although special requirements for the declaration of family assets of civil servants were not yet presented, the former employee recalls you. The fact that there was no divorce de fact was knew by colleagues Sviridenko, who interviewed him when trying to reorganize in 2020. In that transcript, Sviridenko proposed a new version of his confusing family relations: he maintained a connection with a half-chick until 2005, and he did not know anything after that, he doesn’t communicate with the ex-wife, because she has not been in the new spouse “I haven’t communicated with her since 2005,” Sviridenko said in particular. As you can understand from Sviridenko’s speech, it’s precisely about a half -chick.
This version collapses, you just have to look into the accounts of close Sviridenko on social networks. The whole family of the current fighter with foreign agents actively travels abroad, and not only to Belarus.
In the summer of 2013, the “former” spouses explore the French Alps.
Source: VKontakte account daughter Sviridenko
In 2014, the judge’s family skis in France.
Source: Instagram Poluychik
And this picture of November 2013, when Sviridenko and Polychik rested in the Arab Emirates, is very entertaining. Sviridenko himself is not in the photo, but to the question of friends “Why is there no dad?”, The daughter of Judge Daria honestly replies that at the time of photographing her father played tennis. All three children Natalia Poluychik - Alexander, Daria and Alexei - have the middle name of Olegovich/Olegovna, and the years of their birth coincide with those that Oleg Sviridenko listed during the performance at the meeting of the VKKS. On social networks, under photographs with Oleg Sviridenko, Alexander addresses him “dad”.
Sviridenko really loves not only football, but also tennis. In the village of Bulatovo south of Moscow, Natalia Poluychik has a manor, formally it began to be built after the “divorce” of the spouses. In addition to a three -story building and a bathhouse on the site there is a separate tennis court. If you look at the social networks of the family members of the fighter with foreign agents, it turns out that Sviridenko spent time in this estate until recently. Here, for example, a photograph of a half of the estate of July 29, 2016.
Natalia writes: "For the birthday of her beloved husband, she is ready." On this day, 54 years before, Oleg Sviridenko was born.
In reports from social events, you can also find spouses together - in 2010 Oleg and Natalya came to congratulate the artist Nikas Safronova.
And 8 years later, in 2018, the half-one publishes a photo from the races of Monte Carlo, where Sviridenko is behind the scenes. However, the videos of other participants in the social event shows that Poluychik and Sviridenko are together.
The environment and colleagues of both spouses most likely knew that the judge hides his personal life, which allows him not to declare income and property. In 2018, Poluychik publishes a photograph of the figurine, which was presented to her by the International Association of Dance Studio. The name "Natalia Sviridenko" is engraved on the award.
Could a half -one lead a rich life without the help of her husband? The whole business of Natalia is a LLC School of Dance of Roman Kovgan LLC LLC. Kovgan is a former Poluychik partner on the floor, in which her daughter Daria also teaches. This company does not show profit. Until February 2013, Natalya Poluychik also had the status of a lawyer, but we could not find her participation in the trials.
However, only in Moscow and the region the Poluychik has four spacious residential real estate objects. In addition to the estate in the Podolsky district, Poluychik owns a 113-meter house near Troitsky, a 209-meter apartment on the street of the architect Vlasov and 156-meter on Novator Street in Moscow. Natalia also has property in the elite residential complex "Karat Apartments" in Sochi. Since 2015, a half-one has owed 179-meter apartments there. In 2018, she bought three more apartments there, with a total area of 261 sq.m., but in April 2019 sold their son -in -law Shalva Chigirinsky, since 2021, two apartments belong to Alexander Chigirinsky, the brother of Shalva. Alexander Chigirinsky - director and beneficiary "Snegiri Development", a large Russian developer. The Chigirinsky family was closely connected with the family of a friend Sviridenko, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
As follows from the publication on the social networks of Natalia Poluychik, the new year of 2015 the whole “diluted” family, together with Oleg Sviridenko, met in Sochi.
488.8 million ₽
The approximate cost of real estate is a half -one in Russia
Source: Instagram Poluychik
However, if the Sviridenko family hid their property only in Russia, the ex-Sudya could still claim the title of a true fighter with foreign agents. However, the Sviridenko family hid for many years and did not declare their property in the territory of NATO.
These photos are Poluychik and Daria Sviridenko taken in different years in the French town of Antibe on the Cote d'Azur. This place is chosen by rich Russians - there is the palace of Roman Abramovich, Villa, the owner of which is called Senator Suleiman Kerimov, the house of the former owner of the Cherkizov market Telman Ismailov.
Source: Instagram accounts Poluychik and Daria Sviridenko
Here, on Des Sables Street in November 2012, the Poluychik dancer acquired apartments for 775 thousand euros.
775 thousand €
The price of a half -chick in France
During the purchase, Poluychik pointed out that she paid the apartment from her personal funds, follows from the purchase agreement that the Agency has.
Discharge from the French registry
Excerpt from the purchase agreement. Buyer: Madame Natalya Poluychik, a lawyer living in Moscow, Vlasova 22, was born in Moscow, born in 1971, was divorced with Mr. Oleg Sviridenko by the decision of the Moscow Court of November 25, 1999 and did not marry again. Russian citizen. Non -resident in the understanding of tax legislation.
The family used this real estate until 2019, when, according to documents, it sold apartments for 680 thousand euros, receiving money in cash, follows from the same agreement. The sale agreement states that the half -one is not married, which destroys the version of Sviridenko that his “former” spouse contains a new husband. Декларировал ли Свириденко поступление иностранного дохода от продажи квартиры, коллеги судью не спрашивали.
Психологический тест для борца с агентами
— Есть информация, что у вас в пользовании находится имущество, оформленное на других лиц, в частности, называются фамилии — Коршунова, Голикова, предпринимателей. Do you know these faces? And you use some property, how much is true?
— Имущества никакого нет. Who is Korshunov, I don’t know at all, with Golikov.
Этот любопытный разговор состоялся у Свириденко с коллегами на все той же сессии Высшей квалификационной коллегии судей. Хотя Свириденко и прокатили с переназначением, расследования по обсуждавшимся фактам никто не проводил, и ничто из сказанного там не помешало экс-судье занять новый пост, связанный с мониторингом иностранных агентов.
Однако в этом разговоре есть что расследовать. Наиболее вероятно, ведущий стенограмму сотрудник ошибся в написании одной из прозвучавших фамилий. Некто «Голиков» мог быть Юрием Воликовым, малоизвестным предпринимателем, тесно связанным с семейными интересами Свириденко.
В 2015 году Савеловский суд Москвы рассматривал уголовное дело против гражданина, у которого в съемной квартире на Крутицкой набережной в Москве во время обыска нашли кокаин. В материалах дела, как выяснилось, упоминается Наталья Полуйчик, которая давала следствию пояснения такого содержания: «у нее в распоряжении имеется квартира, находящаяся в собственности Воликова», и данную квартиру она сдавала. Сам Воликов в показаниях по тому же делу заявил, что передал квартиру в полное распоряжение своему «заместителю» Полуйчик. Где и в чем она замещает Воликова, и почему он передал ей квартиру в центре Москвы, в материалах не говорится. Дальше бизнесмен Воликов и вовсе переписал эту квартиру на сына экс-судьи Свириденко Александра . Как следует из выписки Росреестра, квартира принадлежит Свириденко-младшему с сентября 2021 года.
Если изучить доходы Полуйчик, тайной супруги замминистра Свириденко, окажется, что в 2015-17 годах она ежемесячно получала по 2 млн рублей в небольшой компании Воликова «МАНФС Зенит-Интер», при том что никакой прибыли эта фирма не показывает вовсе. Если изучать отчетность компаний Воликова дальше, то выяснится, что его благодеяния распространяются и на других членов многочисленной семьи Свириденко. В 90-х, когда судья Свириденко строил карьеру в московском арбитраже, его тогдашняя супруга Елена Свириденко получала зарплату в фирме «Мосдачтрест», акционером которой значился Воликов. «Мосдачтрест» . Сейчас компания контролируется АФК «Система». В «Мосдачтресте» не ответили на запрос «Агентства» тогда приватизировал госдачи (земельными спорами ведал именно арбитраж Москвы) в столичном Серебряном бору, и с тех пор Воликову в этом элитном заповедном месте принадлежат два отеля, а личная дача по соседству находится у него в пользовании . Выручка компании «МАНФС Зенит-Интер» за последние 5 лет ежегодно падала от 260 до 220 млн рублей. Дачу в Серебряном бору Воликов арендовал на 49 лет. «Мосдачтрест» пытался через суды разорвать договор, выселить Воликова или хотя бы изменить стоимость аренды, которая была установлена в 1998 году, но безуспешно. В Серебрянном бору компании «МАНФС Зенит-Интер» принадлежит два отеля — «Роял-Зенит-1» и «Роял-Зенит-2»..
А совсем недавно Воликов помог еще одной женщине в жизни замминистра Свириденко. Оказалось, что на протяжении нескольких лет пространством в его бизнес-центре в Строгино владела гражданка Белоруссии Мария Свириденко, предположительно мать судьи Свириденко, которой на момент «приобретения» помещений было 73 года . Мария Свириденко — гражданка республики Беларусь 1940 года рождения, проживающая в Гомеле. Это совпадает с данными матери Олега Свириденко. В 2018 году помещение перешло в собственность Воликова. Какая сумма была им уплачена Марии Свириденко, неизвестно. Совершая сделку, Мария Свириденко указала, что проживает в Москве в том самом отеле Воликова в Серебряном бору.
В чем секрет бизнесмена Воликова, раз за разом помогающего семье борца с иностранными агентами? Может быть, в том, что его компаниям везло в судах, а может быть в том, что он хорошо знаком со Свириденко. Хотя, вероятно, успех Воликова в бизнесе кроется в «психологическом тесте» его имени — единственном, благодаря чему и известен этот московский предприниматель. Этот тест, как утверждает Воликов, «позволяет узнать характер человека, зная лишь дату и время рождения». Рекламируя свой тест в одном из интервью , Воликов честно признался: «А если человек полностью откровенен, — это плохо или хорошо? Не зря же люди говорят: простота хуже воровства. Порой и лукавство может пойти на пользу, а бесхитростность выйти человеку боком» . Воликов отказался разговаривать с корреспондентом «Агентства». Минюст не ответил на запрос о семейной собственности замминистра Свириденко.