To whom did the port of Bronka go?

The St. Petersburg port "Bronka" replaced the owner. The port, previously belonging to the family of the former head of the FSO Evgeny Murov, crossed the structures of Ilya Traber.

The decision on the appointment of the new operator of the Bronk Sea terminal in the Big Port of St. Petersburg was signed by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin, to which RBC and Fontanka drew attention to on March 22. Instead of the St. Petersburg NKK-Logistik LLC, 100 % of the shares of the authorized capital crossed the Moscow LLC Phoenix. The amount of the transaction is 10.9 billion rubles.

The port belonged to businessman Mikhalchenko and the former head of the FSO Morov, who fell into disgrace. The previous operator of the Port “Phoenix” is a member of the forum holding Dmitry Mikhalchenko. This company built the overload complex "Bronka", which began work in 2015. After the trial of the owners of the Bronka in 2022, the Russian government decided to nationalize the port and transfer the 100 % share of the Fenix ​​company Rostec State Corporation.

In 2021, the Russian BBC Service said that the port belongs to the families of the ex-head of the FSO Evgenia Murov and the former deputy head of the St. Petersburg FSB Nikolai Nekodov, who, in turn, are associated with Dmitry Mikhalchenko, once a large and famous Petersburg entrepreneur responsible for creating a “single center of documents”.

In 2016, Mikhalchenko was arrested in the case of alcohol smuggling, and subsequently sentenced to 20 years in prison for the theft of money allocated for the reconstruction of the FSO and residence of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. The assets of Mikhalchenko, among which was the port of Bronka, crossed the family of the head of the FSO Morov, who lost his post in the same 2016.

The arrest of the ex-head of the St. Petersburg department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Sergey Umnov and his two former subordinates in the summer of 2022 may also be associated with the Mikhalchenko case. "Paper" talked about these arrests here .

The port took the state and wanted to convey to Belarus. In 2021, the prosecutor’s office through the court took the port of Bronka from the Murovs. The port went into the property of the state. In February and early March, it was a question of the possible transfer of the “Bronki” of Belarus - this was talked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and representatives of the authorities of Belarus.

What is the important port of the Bronka. The Bronka was conceived as an alternative to the main cargo port of St. Petersburg - a large port - for large vessels that cannot pass through the sea channel. Bronka also unloads the central port. In fact, the “armored” is an advance, that is, the part of the port, brought forward to receive ships with large sediment.

New owners can be related to Putin's Friend, who was associated with criminal structures. According to the journalist of the Russian BBC Service Andrei Zakharov, the NKK company, which now belongs to Bronka, is recorded on the family of Maxim Morozov, related to the structures of Ilya Traber. The share of 80 % of NKK-Logistik belongs to NKK LLC, which belongs to Natalya Morozova. Another 20% is owned by the CEO of the company Alexei Raspov.

Ilya Traber is called an influential businessman and a “friend of Putin”. He began his business in the field of antiques, Rotonda writes that he was related to OJSC Restoration and Commercial Center “Antikvar”, which in the 90s became a monopolist in the St. Petersburg antiques in the 90s.

Trauber assets are already belonging to ports in Primorsk and Ust-Luga. His company Primorsky CPC is investing in ports on the Northern Sea Route. Trauberu also belongs to Lesk, one of the largest electric grid companies in Russia, which in the presence of Lenenergo in terms of presence in the Leningrad region.

Traber is put on the international wanted list on the case of money laundering for the Malyshevsky criminal group. The media also associated him with the Tambov organized crime group. “Rain” in the documentary “Petersburg” called Traber “the only of the living criminal authorities, which Vladimir Putin recognized.” Traber filed an application for slander, a criminal case was opened. In 2019, the statute of limitations in the case expired. This did not stop the police in July 2021 to come with searches for the journalists of the “Project” to Roman Badanin and Maria Globova, the co -authors of the series.

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