Navalny’s team: Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov receives kickbacks from the department’s construction contractor companies

Navalny’s team found Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov’s estates in Moscow, the Moscow region and the Tver region. According to the investigation , the costs of their construction and repair are paid by the department's contractors.

Timur Ivanov has been working in the Ministry of Defense for more than 10 years. The official is responsible for large departmental construction projects: the main temple of the armed forces, Patriot Park, . submarine bases in Kamchatka and the Vostochny cosmodrome Now he oversees projects to restore Mariupol, destroyed by the Russian army.

Ivanov has been married to Svetlana Zakharova since 2009, whom Navalny’s associates call “a famous party girl from the 2000s and the heroine of gossip columns.” At the official ceremony of their wedding in 2011, Thomas Anders agreed lead singer Modern Talking to perform for 70 thousand euros .

In June 2022, the couple divorced, but investigators believe that this was done only so that the woman would not be included in the EU sanctions list, to whose countries she continues to travel even after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ivanov himself came under restrictions in early October.

According to the opposition, the Deputy Minister of Defense spends large sums of money on his wife and “simply supports her expensive hobbies.” Investigators studied Zakharova's email archive of 8,000 letters received and sent over 12 years and found that the family often vacations on the Cote d'Azur in France.

From 2010 to 2018, they rented villas in Saint-Tropez every summer, spending on this, according to the opposition, at least 850 thousand euros. Another 250 thousand euros were spent on yacht rentals and 200 thousand on the purchase and maintenance of a restored Rolls-Royce Corniche , which was registered to a Luxembourg company. 2001

According to information from Zakharova’s mail, during all this time she spent on buying catwalk clothes from Dolce & Gabbana watches , Ulysse Nardin and Breitling at least 400 thousand euros for her husband, as well as on antiques. For 178 thousand euros, the couple organized a celebration of Zakharova’s 45th birthday in Istanbul in 2018. In 2020, a woman bought half of an apartment in an elite residential complex in the center of Moscow from her ex-husband for $1.2 million.

The property of Ivanov and Zakharova is classified; instead of their names in the Rosreestr database, “Russian Federation” is indicated in the “owner” column. In 2019, “Project” wrote that they rent an apartment in the center of Moscow with an area of ​​300 square meters and built a dacha on Rublyovka. Investigators estimate the cost of the latter at 600 million rubles.

Navalny's team found another mansion owned by the couple. According to the opposition, in 2012, Ivanov bought a three-story estate built in 1821 in Chisty Lane in Moscow for 600 million rubles through the front company “Noble Nest”. Inside, according to Navalny’s team, the owners placed a spa with a large hammam, a mini-pool and a massage room. Repair and construction work there was carried out by contractors of the Ministry of Defense - the Albatros and Oboronspetsstroy companies. Now these same companies are building residential buildings in Mariupol. Investigators believe that Ivanov, who oversees construction in the defense department, receives kickbacks from these firms by providing them with large contracts.

Another house owned by the couple is located in the Tver region on the banks of the Volga. Formally, the mansion with an area of ​​2900 square meters belongs to the Volzhsky Bereg company. It contains warehouses for antique furniture, a fireplace room, a 100-meter billiard room, a 40-meter bathroom, dressing rooms, a dining room and a room called the “hooligan living room.”

in Zakharova’s mail Investigators also found a document , according to which she was going to build herself a yacht in Italy at the end of 2021. The budget the woman was counting on is unknown.

Navalny's associates are confident that Ivanov's official salary would not be enough to pay the family's expenses. Oppositionists suggest that the couple earns about 25 million rubles a year between them, and spends about 90 million rubles.