As an authoritative St. Petersburg entrepreneur helps to fight with Ukraine

Ten years of accusations of banditry. First at the level of rumors, then in European ships. Now, the St. Petersburg entrepreneur Ilya Traber for 70. He takes care of orphans and pursues the wounded in the war with Ukraine. Anything, if only they did not remember the past and did not interfere with the construction of cargo port terminals.

At the end of six months of the Russian war against Ukraine, reports of the St. Petersburg Charitable Fund “Starorusskaya 12” began to appear on the Web and that it has long been helping the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg. Bring gifts for the wounded, arranges performances of pop singers, buys medical equipment. However, the fund is officially registered only on May 27, 2022.

Citizens can recall that in the spring the center of St. Petersburg was sealed with posters with a “grandmother with a red flag”, this failed symbol of the Kremlin invasion of Ukraine.

Another case - the private “Leningrad Regional Electric Ground Company” (Lesk) announced that she would accept 20 military personnel crippled in the war. Almost a quarter of the company's shares belongs to the Leningrad Region government. The remaining shares are a number of entrepreneurs, including Ilya Traber.

He also paid for posters with an elderly unfortunate elderly woman. The fact is that Starorusskaya, 12 is a neighboring house next to the permanent residence of Traber in St. Petersburg, only the house number is 14. This is the structure of the 19th century. Once a charitable society. Once they brought up orphans here. Now, the journalists describe the cabinet of Trauber as an “imperial”, although more precisely to call him a restrained “Chechen baroque”. And the businessman himself takes care of several real orphanages.

Trauberu for 70. served in the Navy. As he himself said , he could not advance the career ladder due to the surname, received the KGB warning about anti-Soviet activities and was forced to go into trade with this wolf ticket, or rather, pouring beer in the Zhiguli Bar in the center of St. Petersburg.

And for more than 30 years, Traber has been nicknamed Antikvar, because he once began with the buying up of old things. However, a certain person who introduced himself as a former guard of Traber, he published a video where he claims that an antique store is “this is a wrapper from sweets”.

Traber does not hide that in the 1990s he was friends with the so-called "night governor" of St. Petersburg Vladimir Barsukov-Kumarin (nickname-Kum), and led with him a business. Now Kum is in prison on charges of murders, attempted murder, extortion and creation of a Tambov organized criminal community (OPS).

A few years later, the son of Traber will tell reporters that in those years he followed his father, became a bandit, for which he served in prison.

Traber could not but cross in the 1990s and with the future President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed their acquaintance. The Insider publication, with reference to sources, even wrote that Traber allegedly had once been among Putin's first birthday invited. The fact is that at that time the future head of the country worked at the City Hall of St. Petersburg in the committee on external relations, and Trauber was just interesting to the "seaport of St. Petersburg." The business interests of the entrepreneur are still spinning around the transshipment of coal and grain, however, through the ports of the Leningrad region.

One of the main projects of Traber today is the construction of a port terminal near Vyborg in the north of the Leningrad region. There, Traber once also started in the 1990s. Together with future terminals in Murmansk and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, in the 47th region, the Asia-European transport corridor using the Northern Sea Route will create . This is very important for the Kremlin in the conditions of economic blockade from the West.

At the official level in Spain and a number of other European countries, Trauber and some of his acquaintances in the 1990s are considered bandits. Allegedly, the entrepreneur even threatened to kill the Spanish prosecutor who was conducting the case of laundering money by the Russian mafia, and his whole family. The prosecutor directly called Traber one of the leaders of the Tambov OPS. On the Internet, supposedly a document of the Monaco police, where Traber was called a member of this group, was even published .

The Insider publication in 2018 published a report from the court session in the case of the Russian Mafia, where the judge read a certificate from the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, where the traber was called the "Economist of the Tambov OPS."

For some reason, Traber claims that the Americans are standing for his persecution in Spain to discredit Russia with messages that its leadership is allegedly closely connected with the mafia.

Typically, the Spanish courts did not consider all this slander against Traber, but the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg did not trifle. The ABN publication, which brought together references to suspicions of Trauber, was forced to delete his name from the text by decision of the court.

Thus, the traber, by the decision of the Russian court, never had a criminal career.