Who gets the largest contracts of Russian Railways
Although he was born in Tashkent, he spent his childhood in Moscow, where his father Andrei Viktorovich Krapivin moved from Uzbekistan to trade in cotton. Krapivin Sr. not only had close ties with Uzbek officials, but also developed relationships with influential people in Russia. He entered the Russian market through the "International Center for Business Cooperation", headed at that time. Power support for the business was provided by his partner Valery Markelov, who was associated with the bank, which controlled, among other things, the banking sector. In the mid-nineties, Krapivin Sr., together with Markelov and another entrepreneur, went into the banking business, receiving the post of vice president of the newly created Mezhtrustbank.
After the default of 1998, the Russian textile industry began to rise, and Andrei Viktorovich Krapivin, together with his partners, bought out the Avangard factory in the Vladimir region. However, the bright prospects of entrepreneurs were spoiled by goods pouring into Russia from China and Turkey.
Andrey Krapivin
Yakunin saved Krapivin Sr. from ruin, who in the early 2000s became Deputy Minister of Transport, and then First Deputy Minister of Railways and helped his friend to have own business in the transport sector.
Andrei Krapivin managed to attach his son to the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation with a degree in International Currency Relations. Alexei Krapivin, in fact, from the first year, began to be listed in commercial structures affiliated with his father. In his third year, he already headed the budgeting department of the Eurodesign and K company, of which he himself was a co-founder. The company worked in the field of passenger air transport. Then the young financier completely headed the Railtech company, which supplied the railroad with bearings, reinforced concrete sleepers, batteries and other products.
After Alexey Andreevich graduated from the university, he moved to the ED Logistics company, where he headed the budgeting and management reporting and then the finance department. The company was associated with Eurodesign and K and also worked on government orders.
TOKYO client
Naturally such a rapid career young man was not random. In 2003, as a result of the reorganization of the Ministry of Railways, Yakunin became the first vice president, and then the president of Russian Railways (RZD). At the same time, Alexei Andreevich's father began to win various tenders for the new state structure. He himself kept a low profile and received government contracts through technical companies, and owned large assets through offshore companies.
For the first time, Yakunin introduced his colleague to the general public in 2007, when he recommended him for the post of independent director of the First Freight Company (PGK), a subsidiary of Russian Railways, and also introduced him to the boards of directors of Transmashholding, the largest supplier of equipment for Russian Railways, and the largest grain carrier " Rusagrotrans. Then Vladimir Ivanovich designated Krapivin as his "freelance assistant", who understands "banking issues and issues of relations with the CIS."
Indeed, Andrei Viktorovich Krapivin, together with Markelov and Usherovich, were responsible for cooperation with the Capital Trade Bank, which was created under the tenders of Russian Railways. Over time, the partners themselves became shareholders of the bank. Their STB account was referred to as "TOKYO customer". Most of the money from these accounts did not go to subcontractors, but to offshore companies, occasionally remained on bank deposits or simply cashed out. Krapivin's friends, in particular the former director of the Avangard factory, Andrey Kurkin, and the son of the former member of the board of directors of Avangard, Maksim Karayanis, were watching to ensure that contracts were awarded to the "right" companies. They led a certain commercial structure "Roszheldorsnab", which acted as one of the main organizers of Russian Railways tenders.
The money earned on state monopoly contracts, Krapivin Sr. invested in development projects. So he got the GRAS group of companies, which built luxury real estate in Sochi and in the village of Novoe Lapino on Rublevka. In addition to Andrey Viktorovich, the beneficiaries of GRAS were businessman Ruben Khudoyan and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Transtelecom Sergey Lipatov. Andrey Krapivin had common projects with the latter back in the late nineties, including those related to Mezhtrustbank. It was through Sergey Vladimirovich that GRAS entered the Sochi market.
Sergei Lipatov was another key figure in Yakunin's schemes to withdraw railroad money. Sergey Vladimirovich at that time headed the board of directors of the Lokomotiv football club, at the same time being the chairman of the board of directors of the main sponsor of the club, Transtelecom. Despite the fact that the achievements of the “railway” team were going downhill, and the financing of the club was actually colossal from the budget. It was not possible to check the fate of the money, since Sergey Lipatov actually allocated them to himself. Traditionally, money was pumped through Krapivin's credit institutions and companies.
"GRAS" was also drawn into the "sports" corruption scheme. By that time, Sergey Lipatov left Lokomotiv with a scandal and joined the board of directors of the sponsor of the volleyball club Dynamo, Transmashholding. Immediately after that, it was GRAS that was entrusted with the construction of a sports complex for volleyball players called Flotilla. Over time, the complex turned from a sports complex into a multifunctional one, and was supposed to consist of four residential complexes of 29 floors with offices, a sports and recreation building, a hotel, a swimming pool and apartments.
Through Khudoyan, Sergey Lipatov and Krapivin tried to achieve the abolition of the protection status of the famous Arkhangelskoye estate. Thus, Khudoyan rented 6 hectares of manor land through the Park Arkhangelskoye LLC company, which GRAS was already preparing to build up. However, the Moscow Arbitration Court of Appeal invalidated the agreement on the lease of forests near the Arkhangelskoye estate, concluded by the Mosleskhoz with Park Arkhangelskoye LLC. Later, Khudoyan, having quarreled with his partners, sold his 33% stake to the A1 group. But Krapivin and Lipatov, not wanting to make the business transparent, bought out the share of the new co-owner, paying twice the cost for it.
Gorbuntsov and Maistrenko
Earlier, Krapivin, Markelov and Usherovich had another conflict, this time with one of the co-owners of the Capital Trade Bank. VIP clients decided to close their accounts and withdraw all funds from the bank - about 400 million dollars. Gorbuntsov himself assured that his clients had gone bankrupt on development projects and were looking for someone to hang their debts on.
He also claimed that armed people, having blocked the main office of the bank, forced his ex-wife Larisa to transfer to strangers those assets that were listed for her. According to another version, the conflict arose due to the fact that Gorbuntsov himself appropriated part of the “railroad” money, having withdrawn it abroad through the Moldovan Universalbank owned by him. As a result, the banker found refuge in Moldova, from where he told about the peculiarities of the work of Russian Railways with contractors.
People from Krapivin's entourage also owned the Cherry Orchard business center in Moscow, market price building which was approximately equal to 4 billion rubles. In addition, Andrey Krapivin was associated with the developer Flat and Co, which was 76% owned by a Cypriot offshore company, and 24% by CEO Dmitry Maistrenko. This Maystrenko, among other things, owned the Avangard hunting estate, which previously belonged to the textile factory of the same name from Yuryev-Polsky. It was "Flat and Co" that sold houses in the village of Novoe Lapino, which was built up by Krapivinsky "Gras".
The largest suppliers of Russian Railways
Krapivin and his partners in the early 2010s were the largest suppliers of Russian Railways. The same Markelov in 2010 became the owner of PKP Moboil, after which the company became the largest supplier of fuel for railway workers. In 2012 alone, it sold fuel for 42.5 billion rubles. Other organizations leading government orders were associated with Krapivin Sr. himself.
Among them, Roszheldorproekt can be singled out, which in 2012 and 2013 alone carried out work for the state monopoly for more than 50 billion rubles. For example, the company acted as the general designer of the famous Adler-Krasnaya Polyana road. There were other Olympic infrastructure facilities near Krapivin, also thanks to Lipatov's connections in the Sochi administration. One of the co-owners of Roszheldorproject was Krapivin Jr. Together with Markelov and Obodovsky, he was a member of the company's board of directors and owned a 50 percent stake. The second half of Roszheldorproekt belonged to Russian Railways. It should be noted that Obodovsky was another key partner of the Krapivin family.
Andrey Viktorovich Krapivin more and more actively introduced his son to the "railway" business. The same "Roszheldorproekt" was a subsidiary of the St. Petersburg Institute "Lengiprotrans", the board of directors of which was headed by Alexei Krapivin. In addition, he joined the board of directors of Transelectromontazh OJSC, which Krapivin Sr. bought out from a friend of an oligarch. By this time, his son was already the CEO of two companies at once - Ortiga Group and located in innovation center Skolkovo "Diviti-Invest".
The interests of Alexei Krapivin extended not only to the railway theme. He was also a co-owner of almost three dozen organizations, among which were a textile mill, a yacht club, accounting companies, auto centers, suppliers of finishing materials, Internet startups. He also became, together with Usherovich, Markelov and Obodovsky, co-owner of Interprogressbank, another important partner of Russian Railways.
offshore
But most of Krapivin's companies were offshore. Through these commercial structures, various projects in Russia were financed, in total hundreds of millions of dollars. Through these offshore companies, in particular, Russian Railways worked with the world's largest manufacturer of trains and aircraft Swedish company Bombardier Transportation, which since the 1990s has been supplying the Ebilock-950 microprocessor-based centralization of arrows and signals. Later, a joint Russian-Swedish venture, Bombardier Transportation (Signal), appeared, after which the production of Ebilock-950 began to be transferred to Russia.
Krapivin traded Ebilock-950 systems through offshore Rambo Management. In particular, when this system on the railways ah in Azerbaijan was installed by Bombardier Transportation, the tender for the supply of Swedish equipment was unexpectedly won by the British company Multiserv Overseas Limited. But Multiserv itself had a contract for the supply of Ebilock-950 with Krapivinsky Rambo. It turned out that the Swedish branch of Bombardier supplied equipment to its own subsidiary through at least two "gaskets".
It is noteworthy that Multiserv Overseas Limited was owned by Multiserv Management LLP, the first director of which was Yury Obodovsky. This scheme was also widespread in Russia. Only in the period from 2012 to 2014, the Russian Bombardier Transportation (Signal) purchased Ebilock-950 equipment from the British Multiserv Overseas Limited for tens of millions of euros. Krapivin's offshore scheme became public after secret documents of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, one of the world's largest registrars of offshore firms, were published. And even the Swedish police became interested in the story of the supply of microprocessors to Azerbaijan.
With the disclosure of the "Panamanian archives", information also surfaced about other companies of Alexei Krapivin, in particular Redstone Financial Ltd and Telford Trading S.A., which received $277 million in their accounts with the Swiss bank CBH Compagnie Bancaire Helvetique SA. These funds were linked to the largest money laundering operation in Eastern Europe, which attracted the attention of the law enforcement agencies of Moldova, Russia and the Baltic States. It was about the withdrawal of 22 billion dollars from Russia in the period from 2011 to 2014 under the guise of executing illegal court decisions made by Moldovan judges.
In addition, Krapivin's offshore companies issued loans to various Cypriot structures, including for the acquisition of assets in Russia. So, for example, in 2014, Gordox issued $100.5 million to another company from the Virgin Islands to buy the Cypriot structure Sterema. In the same year, Sterema became the owner of a controlling stake in the large Russian construction company Bamstroymekhanizatsiya, one of the main contractors for the largest reconstruction project of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. The works were valued at 177.3 billion rubles, which amounted to almost 60% of all funds allocated for tenders.
Another contractor for the reconstruction of the BAM and the Trans-Siberian Railway was the Group of Companies 1520 created by Krapivin, Markelov, Usherovich and Obodovsky. Obodovsky also served as the general director of this organization. The 1520 Group of Companies won the tender for the electrification of the Eastern Test Site worth about 28 billion rubles. In total, until 2018, it was planned to allocate another 562 billion rubles for the reconstruction of BAM.
Yakunin's departure
Andrey Viktorovich Krapivin died in Switzerland in 2015. He died under very mysterious circumstances, unexpectedly for everyone, he had an acute edema of the liver - hepatomegaly. However, no autopsy was performed. Just a few months later, Vladimir Yakunin was dismissed, for whom the death of a key figure in the schemes he had built before the upcoming audit of a state-owned company became very “timely”.
The departure of the “unsinkable” railway worker was associated not only with the adoption of British citizenship by his son and the political ambitions of Vladimir Ivanovich himself, but also with a colossal waste budget funds. Oleg Belozerov, First Deputy Minister of Transport, became the new head of the Russian Railways, who was called upon to revise the activities of the monopolist. As a result, Bamstroymekhanizatsiya and Roszheldorproekt were under attack. The son of an oligarch close to Belozerov, Igor Rotenberg, began to claim to replace the Rapivin team.
Oleg Belozerov
The struggle for the huge offshore empire of the deceased began. One of the main contenders for it was Sergey Lipatov. However, Sergei Vladimirovich, without his patrons, himself began to rapidly lose ground, and a few years later came under suspicion of embezzlement. Money from Mezhtrustbank. Another partner of Krapivina Usherovich, together with Ivan Stankevich, a member of the board of directors of Novoye Vremya Bank, was summoned for questioning by the Investigative Committee. According to investigators, it was on their orders that four banks issued large amounts of currency in the packaging of the US Federal Reserve to Colonel GUEBiPK. And although Usherovich is still only a witness in the case, he chose to hide abroad and is currently engaged in obtaining citizenship in Cyprus.
However, Aleksey Andreevich did not give up hope of gaining a foothold under the new leadership of the Russian Railways. In his "United Construction Company 1520" was replaced CEO, which was a certain Sergei Klevakin. It is noteworthy that earlier Klevakin headed the Foratek ETS company, which, after the change of power of Russian Railways, began to receive contracts from the railway monopoly for larger amounts than before. In this regard, there were suggestions that Alexey Krapivin found mutual language with new beneficiaries. Later, there were reports that the 1520 group of companies was going to buy a stake in FSK Mostootryade-47, which was building a railway bypassing Ukraine.
The fact that Aleksey Krapivin chose the right strategy was evidenced by the fact that in 2018, in the Russian Forbes rating of “Kings of the State Order”, he was in first place in the company of Valery Markelov and Boris Usherovich. According to the magazine's estimates, at the moment, USC 1520 and Roszheldorproject have contracts totaling 218 billion rubles. However, the figure of Krapivin can only nominally lead the pyramid of state orders, but in fact it is already undergoing a process of changing beneficiaries.
Aleksey Andreevich Krapivin is a "worthy" successor of his father's work, who managed to build an entire offshore empire. Krapivin Sr., using his close acquaintance with Vladimir Yakunin, carried out the largest contracts of Russian railways through his companies and banks.
After the death of his father and the change of leadership of Russian Railways, Alexei Krapivin managed to keep the schemes built, although it is possible that other people have become their beneficiaries. Nevertheless, today Alexey Krapivin continues to be considered the largest contractor of Russian Railways. This proves that the changes in the state monopoly have not led to the eradication of its huge corruption component.
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Nationalize all contractors of such a giant as Russian Railways!!!
It seems that we do not live in a democratic system that Putin is building, but under a monarchy, when all large orders, bypassing the FAS, go through the same hands! Vladimir Putin, why is this happening, where is fair competition, and not matchmaking and nepotism, especially at such major facilities as Russian Railways!
Olga, there will be a direct line and ask. For such a monster as Russian Railways, the state should be responsible and build and modernize, and not private offices, no matter how many billions of dollars they may have.
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Russian Railways paid billions to front private companies
MOSCOW“In the biggest country in the world, you can still get rich on the railroad. State company RZD, with an annual turnover of almost a billion passengers and $42 billion, offers endless opportunities for commercial initiative.
It is headed by Vladimir Yakunin, an old friend and ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He oversees a company that does international deals, sells bonds to big investors, and designs incredibly expensive new high-speed rail lines. In many respects, Russian Railways is a standard giant corporation.
However, a Reuters investigation has uncovered another side of the state-owned company's work: under Yakunin, it paid billions of dollars to private contractors who hide their ultimate owners and rarely or never show up at the registration address.
A Reuters study of Russian Railways tenders also found contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars awarded to companies that appeared to be competing for government contracts but in fact appeared to be closely linked.
For example, from 2010 to 2013, only two companies participated in 43 tenders for more than $340 million. As it turned out, these two firms were registered on the same day by the same person acting on behalf of the owners, information about which is not disclosed. Both firms opened accounts on the same day at the same bank and reported the same number of employees for two consecutive years. Once they applied for participation in a tender announced by Russian Railways with a difference of one minute. Last October, after Reuters first inquired about the companies, both registered online at the site on the same day.
Russian expert Sergei Lesnichiy said that the facts discovered by Reuters indicate an attempt to manipulate tenders for the right to conclude government contracts which entailed an increase in costs to the detriment of Russian Railways.
The forester, who heads the Center for Financial Research, an expert state organization, said that if it is confirmed that someone at RZD made money in this way, it could be qualified. Russian legislation like a scam. However, according to him, the mere participation of related companies in the tender for government contracts for Russian laws is not an offence.
Reuters' subsequent analysis of wire transfers related to the work of one of RZD's major private contractors found indications that a number of US and Russian financial investigators and analysts considered suspicious banking activity.
The analysis suggested that the millions of dollars paid to Russian Railways went to companies that had nothing to do with the railways. Some of these companies were declared by the Russian authorities to be fictitious and did not conduct any real operations.
These money transfers were made through a small bank co-owned by businessman Andrey Krapivin from 2007 to 2009. The head of Russian Railways Yakunin, as she wrote Russian newspaper Vedomosti once described Krapivin as an old acquaintance and "pro bono adviser" well versed in banking.
Krapivin and several of his business associates were or are directors of major contractors working with Russian Railways.
A Russian Railways spokesman said Krapivin "is not an adviser" to Yakunin, but did not answer the question of whether he had previously been one.
Huge amounts of money are at stake: In 2012, Russian Railways awarded more than $22.5 billion worth of contracts to private contractors and paid over $19.7 billion to its employees.
In March, after Russia annexed Crimea, Yakunin, along with other senior Russians and members of Putin's inner circle, came under US-imposed sanctions. The US Treasury Department described him as "Putin's confidant" (confidant) who "regularly consults with Putin on matters relating to Russian Railways."
He has known Putin since the 1990s, when both lived in St. Petersburg. Putin appointed him head of Russian Railways at the start of his second presidential term in 2005.
Yakunin did not respond to Reuters inquiries regarding the article, but written comments were received from his spokesman at Russian Railways.
“The procurement activity of Russian Railways is carried out in strict accordance with the profile current legislation”, — wrote Alexander Pirkov.
Tenders were organized "as transparently as possible", and procurement activities, according to him, were "repeatedly checked by competent government bodies, including the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation.
Russian Railways reported that all the companies mentioned by Reuters worked in accordance with the law, that they honestly received contracts and performed them properly.
Krapivin did not respond to a letter from Reuters asking for comment. Instead, his son called. Aleksey Krapivin said that his father had nothing to do with railway contractors and the transactions discussed in this article. He said that any suggestion to the contrary would be "bullshit". He declined to comment further.
AUCTIONS
In the eastern part of Moscow, immersed in greenery, there is a house with a red roof and a playground in the yard. Last summer, young men in jeans and T-shirts were going to smoke there.
There is more to this home than meets the eye. The headquarters of the company is registered here, which since 2010 has won contracts from Russian Railways and its subsidiaries for 9 billion rubles ($270 million). The documentation indicates that it employs more than 100 people.
When the reporter was making inquiries in this house, he was approached by a man with a shaved head and tattoos on his arms, who appeared to be in his 40s. cut on the sides, and at the back of the head are collected in a tail.
“They are sitting here. They have an office on the second floor, but they only come once a week,” said the man with the tail.
MPCenter was included in a sample of 10 companies whose activities were studied by Reuters. Together, since 2007, according to tenders and other documents, they have received more than $2.5 billion from Russian Railways.
Reuters chose these firms because they were bidding for contracts for the same types of work, mainly upgrades to signaling systems and train control systems. They were selected from a long list of railway contractors provided by UK-based Russian banker German Gorbuntsov, who survived an assassination attempt in 2012 in London's Canary Wharf business district.
Before leaving Russia, Gorbuntsov, along with Krapivin, owned the Capital Trade Bank, also known as STB. All 10 railway contractors studied by Reuters had accounts with this bank.
At first glance, Russian Railways offers contracts to private contractors through open tenders, where the laws of the market apply. However, several people familiar with the contract allocation process stated that some contractors worked together to win tenders. This, they say, is done either by companies that remain the only bidders, or by negotiating with competitors to preselect a winner or raise prices. Reuters was unable to verify these allegations.
A Reuters analysis of tenders in which these 10 companies participated showed that they did not make much effort to win contracts by lowering the price. Of the 185 cases where the winner was named, 79 were concluded at a price of only 0.5% - to the last penny - below the maximum that was set by Russian Railways. The next 35 winners received contracts at a price 1% below the starting price.
It was difficult to establish the origin and trace the activities of these 10 railroad contractors. The two largest beneficiaries, based on the value of contracts received from Russian Railways, were MPCenter ZhAT and a company called Transservisavtomatika TSA). From 2010 to 2013, they were the only competitors in the fight for contracts worth over $340 million. The IOC and TCA acted as rivals and at first glance seemed to be independent legal entities.
To find out more about them, Reuters decided to look at their head offices. According to Russian registry legal entities, the headquarters of the IOC was located in the same house with a playground in the yard, where our correspondent did not find anyone. According to the documents, the head office of the TCA was supposed to be located in a 15-story building immediately behind the Moscow Ring Road. There were a business center, an automobile dealership, a fitness club, a beauty salon, branches of two banks, a flower and grocery stores but there was no sign of the presence of TCA. The guard found a mention of her on the computer, but said that her office was not there.
In addition to their elusiveness, the GOC and TCA have other striking similarities, including the fact that they were registered on the same day in 2005 by the same person and that they opened bank accounts on the same day STB.
These intersections were not mere coincidences, said former manager who worked for both companies different time in the mid 2000s. These two companies were actually part of the same group and together participated in tenders for Russian Railways contracts, "to ensure" the victory of the owner of the group.
In the documents, the IOC and TCA indicate as their leaders two different people. None of them responded to repeated requests for comment.
Regarding the two companies, Yakunin's spokesman Pirkov wrote: "They are trustworthy suppliers and fully functioning enterprises."
“The deliveries under the concluded contracts were carried out on time, the products were of the proper quality. No facts of unreliability have been identified.”
Of the 10 checked companies, only one - Zheltransavtomatika - was located at a registered legal address, and Reuters found people working there. The company manager did not respond to written questions.
Four of those 10 companies listed legal addresses where no one had heard of them. Instead of their headquarters, there was a warehouse next to the highway, a car service and an expensive children's goods store in the center of Moscow.
Who owns these companies? The form of ownership of the MPC does not oblige a legal entity to disclose the names of its shareholders. The formal owners of the remaining nine contractors of Russian Railways are a motley company. According to the statutory documents, each firm was owned by one or two individuals, in total, they were owned by 10 women and three men.
Those owners who have been found live in modest Moscow apartment buildings. In one of the shabby buildings, a man listed in official documents as the sole owner of one of the contractors confirmed that he had been the formal owner of the firm until recently. However, in reality, he said, they never really controlled the company's activities, but acted as bogus owners, hiding the real owners of the company.
The fictitious founder knew that the company's business was related to Russian Railways contracts, but had no other information about its operations. He suggested that the contractor was controlled by Andrey Krapivin, the same one Yakunin once described as his "pro bono adviser."
“I know Alexei Krapivin,” said the formal founder of the company about the son of Andrei Krapivin. According to him, it was his son who organized the company's business with Russian Railways. According to the founder, Krapivin Sr. was "the main man" behind this business, while his son handled practical matters.
AT telephone conversation Krapivin's son Aleksey said that STB belonged to Gorbuntsov and not to his father, and that his father was not behind the railroad contractors. He did not answer further questions. A written statement signed by Andrei Krapivin states that he was a shareholder of STB from 2007 to 2009. The bank's open documentation also indicates that in 2008 it owned a stake in the project.
Yakunin's spokesman did not answer the question of whether Krapivin was related to any of the 10 contractors, but ruled out the possibility of any violations.
TRANSACTIONS
From the steam locomotives of the Revolution and Doctor Zhivago to the double-decker express trains roaring toward the Sochi Winter Olympics, railroads have helped build Russia, becoming a link in the country's geography and a pervasive motif of its culture.
When Vladimir Lenin returned from exile in April 1917 to head the revolutionary movement, he traveled from Finland to St. Petersburg, which played the role of the capital under the tsars, on a steam locomotive. By the 21st century, Russian Railways hoped to modernize the historic railway line and launch electric trains along it, reaching a speed of 220 kilometers per hour.
One of the biggest beneficiaries of this project was a private contractor called Setstroyenergo. In total, Russian Railways paid Setstroienergo almost $1 billion between 2007 and 2013, as follows from open information on the results of tenders and the database of banking transactions provided by Gorbuntsov.
When, after breaking with business partners, including Krapivin, Gorbuntsov left Russia, he took his laptop with him. It, in addition to other databases of the bank, contained records of millions of transactions carried out through STB from the beginning of 2007 to the end of 2009. The money swirled through the maelstrom of the accounts, which, according to Gorbuntsov, made it difficult for external auditors or tax auditors to trace their path.
To understand what happened to Russian Railways funds, Reuters studied financial flows flowing into and out of Setstroyenergo, according to Gorbuntsov's database records. The authenticity of the archive has been verified through a sample of transactions through independent sources.
Between 2007 and 2009, Russian Railways transferred $772 million to Setstroienergo's STB account, according to the database. These payments and subsequent transactions looked similar to the scheme described by Gorbuntsov.
For example, Russian Railways made 98 payments to Setstroienergo totaling $211 million, but the money went almost instantly to other bank accounts. In each of these transactions, Setstroyenergo received an amount of money from Russian Railways and on the same day or the next business day paid exactly the same amount to a company called Stroymontazh.
The money went to Stroymontazh's account at the Industrial Credit Bank (Inkredbank). This bank was also managed by Gorbuntsov, Krapivin was not his co-owner.
Who controlled Stroymontazh and its Incredbank account is unclear, as is why the company received payments from Setstroyenergo. Stroymontazh was liquidated in 2010, and its owners and management left no traces behind. Setstroyenergo declined to comment.
Gorbuntsov's database contains information about the transactions of both banks: Incredbank and STB. According to these data, Stroymontazh quickly sent the money received to others. legal entities. Some of the money went to accounts outside Incredbank and STB, but most circulated through multiple accounts at those two banks.
In the 30 months since 2007, Stroymontazh has transferred just over a third of the funds it has received to accounts outside of STB and Incredbank. Based on open data and conversations with local railroad officials, it appears that the money went to railroad contractors for work such as laying new railroad tracks and installing signaling equipment.
However, almost two-thirds of the funds that Stroymontazh received quickly went to the accounts of other companies opened with STB or Incredbank. A search of corporate and tender documents, court decisions, directories, and press releases found no connection between these companies with railroad operations. It was impossible to find representatives of these firms and ask them for comment.
One of the recipients of the funds was Legatta, whose accounts were serviced by STB. According to published data, Legatta's income for the year by the end of 2007 amounted to only 3800 dollars. However, during the same period, a banking database showed that Stroymontazh paid the company $115 million. Reuters was unable to contact Legatta.
A company called Univold was also a recipient of Stroymontazh funds. From May 2007 to October 2007, according to the database, $67 million was transferred to her. Reuters could not find any data on Univold. In 2010, the company was mentioned in one of the decisions of the Moscow court, which had nothing to do with Russian Railways. It said that the tax authorities demanded that Univold's account with Incredbank be closed because they suspected that the company was not really doing business.
In some companies that received money from Stroymontazh, people registered as formal owners said they knew nothing about the firms they allegedly owned.
Another recipient of funds was a company called Trustcom with accounts in STB. Its owner, Nadezhda Korostyleva, was registered in the south of Moscow according to the documents. The door was opened by her daughter Vasilisa, who said that her mother no longer lived there. According to her, many people came to take an interest in her mother's companies.
“A few years ago, an acquaintance of her friend asked her to establish a company,” said Korostyleva’s daughter. This man made a copy of her passport and asked her to sign some papers.
"Firms are still registered in her name."
In addition to the $772 million Setstroienergo received from Russian Railways from 2007 to 2009, the contractor also won more than $223 million in Russian Railways tenders from 2010 to 2013, according to open data.
Setstroyenergo declined to comment for the article. Public information about this company is limited because it is private joint stock company and may not disclose the names of their owners.
Formally, its head office consists of a single room and is located in an unsightly office center in a block building in the Tushino district in northwestern Moscow. A Reuters correspondent came to this address in working time but no one was there.
*Editor's Note: This article is based in part on bank transactions provided by former Russian banker German Gorbuntsov, who now lives in exile. Reuters confirmed the authenticity of the archive fragments by showing sample account numbers and the names of corporate account holders to Russian tax officials. They said the data matched their information. Former employee one of the Russian Railways contractors, who has no connection with German Gorbuntsov, also disclosed internal data on his company's transactions with Russian Railways. These details matched the bank transactions, records of which were preserved in Gorbuntsov's database. Some money transfers from Russia to foreign banks recorded in the database were also cross-checked with bank data disclosed in New York in an unrelated matter. They also confirmed the authenticity of Gorbuntsov's base.
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Multi-billion state monopoly contracts are flowing from "Yakunin" to structures close to Alexander Misharin and Igor Levitin
The original of this material© Vedomosti, 11/14/2016, To whom along the way with Russian Railways, Frame from video: Nakanune.ru, Photo: ttfr.ru
Rinat Sagdiev
Russian Railways contractors do not know what awaits them, the situation of their owners is unstable, employees of the state-owned company and its contractors complained to Vedomosti shortly after the resignation in August 2015 of the president of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, 10 years in charge of the state monopoly. With the departure of the head of the state-owned company, the largest contractors will inevitably change, they explained. “His [Yakunin’s] further stay in this place was already becoming dangerous for himself - the company is so inefficient and immersed in corruption schemes that sooner or later it would have ended in failure,” a federal official told Vedomosti about the reasons for the resignation. According to Vedomosti, people close to Yakunin - his former advisers, assistants and just acquaintances - by that time had valid contracts with Russian Railways for 400 billion rubles. more than. For comparison: the entire investment program of the state monopoly for 2014 slightly exceeded this amount. The team of the new President Oleg Belozerov took up the audit major projects and Russian Railways contracts. A year later, it can be stated that the pool of monopoly contractors is beginning to change.
Familiar partners
most notable Russian Railways contractor under Yakunin was a group of companies associated with the co-owners of Interprogressbank Alexey Krapivin, Boris Usherovich, Vladimir Markelov and Yuri Obodovsky. Alexey is the son of Andrei Krapivin, a former freelance adviser to Yakunin. The ex-president of Russian Railways once explained to Vedomosti that Andrei Krapivin was his old acquaintance, well versed in banking. According to the resource Slon.ru, until 2014, up to a third of purchases by Russian Railways accounted for companies that could be related to the Krapivin group.According to Vedomosti, by mid-2015, the portfolio of these structures had orders from the monopoly for at least 350 billion rubles. Including contracts for the most expensive construction of Russian Railways at that time - a development project BAM and Transsib(the so-called Eastern range). Until 2018, it was planned to invest in it a total of 562 billion rubles, of which 100 billion rubles. the state would allocate 150 billion rubles. - National Welfare Fund (NWF), and the rest - Russian Railways. Before Yakunin's resignation, the state-owned company managed to win contracts for 300 billion rubles. with a little, of which 215 billion rubles. went to companies controlled by the Krapivin group. For example, OSK 1520 LLC, acquired by bankers specifically for participation in tenders, won in 2014 a contract for the electrification of BAM and Transsib facilities for 28 billion rubles. Contracts for construction and installation works worth 143 billion rubles. received Management Company"Bamstroymekhanizatsiya" (UK BSM), 48% owned by Obodovsky, and 49.5% by Yuri Korotchenko, a St. Petersburg businessman, a friend of his son former first Vice President of Russian Railways, and now Advisor to the President of the company Vadim Morozov (see). In 2014, bankers bought PJSC Bamstroymekhanizatsiya (PJSC BSM), which received a contract for the Eastern test site for 44 billion rubles, from Vasily Tarasenko, the permanent general director of the company that has worked at BAM since the Soviet era. At the time of the change of ownership, the new owners of the company were hidden behind offshore companies from the British Virgin Islands, but Krapivin confirmed to Vedomosti that PJSC BSM is now part of the 1520 Group of Companies.
Krapivin Sr. died in the spring of 2015, and in August of the same year Yakunin was dismissed. A year later, the group remains the largest partner of Russian Railways, but it has lost some of the contracts.
New owners and leaders
In September 2016, Sergey Klevakin, who had worked for more than 12 years in another contractor of Russian Railways, the Foratek company, specializing in the production and construction of contact networks for Russian Railways, was appointed general director of the Krapivinskaya OSK 1520. Klevakin "has shown himself to be an effective manager at Foratek ETS," Krapivin explained to Vedomosti. The OSK 1520 group at the same time became the main shareholder of Foratek, he transferred to Vedomosti. When, how exactly this happened and how much it cost his structures, Krapivin does not disclose. Until 2015, Foratek won orders from Russian Railways for no more than 400 million rubles. per year, but since 2015, cooperation with the state-owned company and its subsidiaries has reached a new level: last year the group received 3.5 times more contracts - by 1.39 billion rubles, and this year already by 2 billion rub.Publications claiming that the Foratek group may be close Alexander Misharin have appeared in the media for 20 years. Misharin during this time managed to work as director of the department of industry and infrastructure of the Russian government apparatus, deputy minister of communications and transport, head of the Sverdlovsk railway and governor Sverdlovsk region. Both its representatives and the top managers of Foratek denied this closeness all this time. It is difficult to establish all the owners of Foratek according to registration documents: the Cypriot founders of the group's companies changed owners several times. Back in 2008, Solace Investing Ltd from the British Virgin Islands flashed among them, whose shareholders, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), were Andrey Krapivin, Usherovich and Markelov. Other offshore companies, according to ICIJ, were controlled by Misharin's longtime acquaintance, businessman Vladimir Chizhevsky.
Chizhevsky's partner, Foratek's minority shareholder Petr Korotkevich and Misharin, worked together at the Ministry of Railways (MPS), then on the Sverdlovsk Railway, and in the 90s even lived in the same house in Yekaterinburg, recalled former MP Yekaterinburg City Duma Leonid Volkov. Chizhevsky was also their neighbor. When the Luxembourg company Advanced Communication Systems, headed by Chizhevsky, established one of the first companies of the Foratek group - ZAO Foratek Communications, Misharin joined its board of directors. The company at that time supplied Siemens telecommunications equipment to the Sverdlovsk Railway. In 2003, the Ministry of Railways chose another company of the group - Foratek Energo - as the general contractor for the program for updating the electricity supply economy of the Ministry of Railways, the industry newspaper Gudok wrote.
Klevakin became the minority shareholder and CEO of the Foratek group. He told the Delovoy Kvartal publication a few years ago that he himself called Misharin's cousin Andrey, whom he had known for a long time, as his deputy.
In 2011, the then City Duma deputy Volkov complained to the Federal Antimonopoly Service about one of the Forateka projects: in his opinion, the company, which had no experience in building roads, unreasonably won road contracts worth more than 1 billion rubles, while actually completing the work for less money - the losing participant - "Sverdlovskavtodor". Volkov was sure that Foratek was supported by the then governor Misharin. The FAS recognized the actions of the bidders as a cartel, but Foratek managed to challenge this decision in court. Nevertheless, the management of Foratek soon recognized the attempt at road construction as unsuccessful and promised not to deal with roads anymore.
Foratek has nothing to do with Alexander Misharin, just like Misharin himself has nothing to do with our group of companies, Krapivin told Vedomosti. “I did not have, do not have and do not plan to have any relation to this company,” Misharin confirmed to Vedomosti.
After the resignation of Yakunin, the owners of the largest contractor of the Russian Railways on the Trans-Siberian Railway - UK BSM completely changed. In SPARK, these changes are reflected as follows. In December 2015, Obodovsky sold 48% of the shares to the former owners of the company - several individuals, and in August 2016 Korotchenko sold his 49.5%. After that, Abas Invest LLC became the owner of 50%, the sole general director and founder of which is Ekaterina Devyatkina. In April 2016, Alexander Miskaryan, a former media manager from St. Petersburg, who until 2013 headed the regional directorate of AIF CJSC (part of the Media3 holding owned by brothers Dmitry and Alexei Ananiev), was appointed General Director of the BSM Management Company in April 2016. Since 2014, Miskaryan has worked as Deputy General Director of the UK BSM and was a member of audit commission PAO BSM.
By the way, since October 2016, PJSC BSM also has a new CEO. Instead of the son of the former owner, Vitaly Tarasenko, the board of directors assigned this position to Sergey Vasiliev, a Petersburger, for five years. The owners of Setstroyenergo also changed. The new leaders represent "our interests," Krapivin assures: "We are changing, reforming, optimizing." According to him, all of his assets and assets of partners will be included in the 1520 Group of Companies, which is being created, which will become a “more open structure” in the future.
“We have been working in the railway construction market for a long time, in a very tough competitive environment. The departure of Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin did not affect our business in any way, ”Krapivin assures. Nevertheless, as Vedomosti found out, Krapivin's structures failed to take part in the new project, which promises to be the most expensive for Russian Railways.
High speed design
Krapivin and his partners were not only the largest builders of Russian Railways, but also monopolists in the design of railways. In 2013, Russian Railways entered into an agreement for the implementation of all design work with a limit of 150 billion rubles. and for a period up to December 31, 2017 with Roszheldorproekt. In it, 75% belongs to Lengiprotrans, which is directly owned by Markelov, Krapivin (24.99% each) and Usherovich (12.47%). Thanks to a long-term agreement, the revenue of Roszheldorproject since 2013 has consistently exceeded 25 billion rubles. in year. The company's share in the design and survey work of Russian Railways is more than 88%, Roszheldorproject reported in a report for 2014.But recently the monopoly project company Krapivina is over. In April 2015, the "daughter" of Russian Railways - PJSC "Speed Roads" held open competition for the design of the section Moscow - Kazan of the high-speed highway Moscow - Kazan - Yekaterinburg. sole member and the winner of the competition for 24.5 billion rubles. became Mosgiprotrans, the consortium with which included Nizhegorodmetroproekt and China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group Co. Ltd. True, in the summer of 2016, Russian Railways reduced the contract amount to 22 billion rubles.
Mosgiprotrans, the largest competitor of Roszheldorproject, had to remain on the sidelines for a long time. Due to the monopoly position of Roszheldorproject, the company fell into the category of co-executors of the 2nd-3rd level, while being the main developer of railway infrastructure projects, Mosgiprotrans reported in its 2015 annual report. The position of PJSC Roszheldorproject in the market of design work has a drastic effect on the timing of projects and leads to an unjustified overestimation of the financial costs of Russian Railways. The contract for the design of the high-speed line Moscow - Kazan is important not only by the size of the contract, although it has already allowed Mosgiprotrans to significantly improve financial position. The company's revenue in 2015 soared 7 times to 3.6 billion rubles. Net profit in 2015 amounted to 715 million rubles.
It should be remembered that very often construction tenders are won by companies whose design institutes have developed projects. The Russian Railways estimates the cost of building the first stage of the highway at 1 trillion rubles, which is almost 2 times more expensive than the reconstruction of the BAM and the Trans-Siberian Railway. The cost of the second section, Kazan - Yekaterinburg, according to preliminary calculations, will be even higher. It is assumed that 60% of the financing for the projects will be provided by Chinese banks. The project is divided into two sections: Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod and Nizhny Novgorod-Kazan, it is assumed that concession agreements will be concluded for these sections, a spokesman for Misharin said. The concessionaire will be a specially created project company, where the main shareholder will be the "daughter" of Russian Railways "High-speed lines".
From laundries to trains
How did Mosgiprotrans manage to win such an important victory? “The agreement between Roszheldorproject and Russian Railways implies ordinary projects, but here it was about designing a high-speed railway, which is not subject to a monopoly,” one of the shareholders of Mosgiprotrans told Vedomosti. At the same time, Mosgiprotrans itself almost ended up in Krapivin's group.In January 2014, Krapivin's partner Obodovsky at a privatization auction for 185 million rubles. bought 15% of Mosgiprotrans from the Federal Property Management Agency. This small package actually allowed control of Mosgiprotrans, because the ownership of more than 60% of the company's shares was looped. In the summer of 2015, after winning the High-Speed Roads competition, two representatives of Krapivin joined the board of directors of Mosgiprotrans.
But they didn't stay there long. At the end of September 2015, shortly after the resignation of Yakunin, the board of directors of Mosgiprotrans was completely renewed, there were no seats for representatives of Krapivin and the previous management. Krapivin told Vedomosti that in September 2016, 15% of Mosgiprotrans was sold to a majority shareholder. He refused to name it. “I will not hide that earlier we ourselves wanted to take part in this large-scale and interesting project, but the terms of the contract for the design of high-speed lines seemed to us extremely risky in terms of financing and deadlines," Krapivin said.
The largest owners of Mosgiprotrans were the co-owner of the Cotton Way group Alexander Utkin and his partners. As Utkin told Vedomosti, his partners consolidated 80% of Mosgiprotrans, he himself became the beneficiary of a 7% stake in the project company. Kemerovo businessman Utkin in the early 2000s worked in companies close to Iskander Mahmudov and Maxim Liksutov, for example, in CJSC Transugol. Then he was better known for his “textile rental” business. His companies rent bed linen, curtains, mattresses and towels to Russian Railways. The Master Cleaning company, which is part of the holding, washes and cleans these textiles in laundries rented from Russian Railways for 15 years. All costs are included in the cost of a passenger ticket (subject to the purchase of bed linen). Stable business brings Utkin's company 2 billion rubles. revenue per year. In 2014, Utkin managed to attract investors - 40% of Cotton Way for 3.6 billion rubles. acquired by RDIF and EBRD.
According to Utkin, among the major owners of Mosgiprotrans is his old acquaintance Alexei Nikiforov, but Makhmudov is not among them. Mosgiprotrans was the last interesting asset in the railway design segment and was inexpensive,” Utkin explains the purchase of the company, without disclosing the amount of the transaction. According to him, his friends called him to help structure the project company's business and make it marketable.
In the new board of Mosgiprotrans, two directors turned out to be old acquaintances of Misharin. This is the former deputy director of the department of industry and infrastructure of the Russian government Vladimir Ampilogov, who worked in this position from 1997 to 2015. In 2009, Misharin worked for six months as the head of Ampilogov, after which he left to lead the Sverdlovsk region. Misharin and Ampilogov were members of the board of directors of Russian Railways. The second acquaintance is Oleg Zhabin, a former railway worker, ex-general director of Uralvagonzavod-trans. In 2010, Misharin, who was then the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, invited Zhabin to head the State Unitary Enterprise "Oblkommunenergo". “I would say this, probably: the governor, knowing me from my previous work, appreciated my perseverance in achieving the goal and the ability to bite the bullet,” Zhabin answered the question on the direct line of the Pervouralsk.ru website whether Misharin really tried to put on financial flows in city of its people. In 2012, after Misharin left, Zhabin resigned from Oblkommunenergo. Another member of the board of directors of Mosgiprotrans is the director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise All-Russian Research Institute of Railway Hygiene, Mikhail Vilk, according to SPARK, since 2008, he has owned, together with Zhabin, companies in Tula and the Moscow region that lease real estate. Misharin did not comment on his acquaintance with Ampilogov and Zhabin, advising him to contact Mosgiprotrans. Utkin says that he invited Ampilogov, Zhabin and Vilk as independent directors, having appreciated their professionalism.
New names
This year, owned by the son of Arkady Rotenberg, Igor, Global Automation Systems LLC (Glosav), for the first time, managed to win the Russian Railways tender - for 691 million rubles. This will allow it to at least double its revenue, which in 2015 amounted to 630 million rubles. Until 2015, the LLC worked mainly on orders from companies controlled by Arkady Rotenberg, - "Stroygazmontazh", "Mostotrest", Gazprom Bureniya, and also carried out small government orders from the Ministry of Transport, RusHydro, etc. Also, Glosav was one of the suppliers of on-board devices for the Platon truck toll collection system, the operator of which is RT-Invest Transport Systems "Also 50% owned by Rotenberg Jr.“The conditions for participation in competitions have not changed for us [due to the change in the top management of Russian Railways],” says Gurgen Tatoyan, a representative of Glosav. According to him, the company began working with Russian Railways in the first half of 2015. Glosav intends to develop cooperation with Russian Railways. “We plan to take part in various IT and telecommunications projects as equipment suppliers and developers software on a competitive basis,” says Tatoyan.
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In February 2016, Deputy Minister of Construction and former Deputy Minister regional development Yuri Relyan unexpectedly filed a letter of resignation. And by autumn, he became one of the major construction contractors of Russian Railways. In June, the former official acquired Spetstransstroy LLC with a partner, which RZDstroy chose in 2016 as the sole supplier of services for the reconstruction of the Kotelnikovo-Tikhoretskaya-Korenovsk-Timashevskaya-Krymskaya section. The amount of contracts amounted to almost 8 billion rubles. The company's revenue in 2014 was only 100 million rubles, in 2015 - 300 million rubles.
Russian Railways selects contractors through competitive procedures and the determining factor "is their competence, and not belonging to one or another name," emphasizes the representative of Russian Railways. At the same time, he notes, Russian Railways "in no way limits" the strengthening of the positions of any companies that fulfill their contractual obligations in good faith: "Moreover, long-term partnerships with such companies are welcome." But such companies do not have advantages when placing new orders, he continues.
Russian Railways approved a provision on the exclusion of conflicts of interest. If such a fact is revealed, the company's employees involved in the conflict may be removed from the procurement, said a representative of the state-owned company.
According to the Russian Railways press service, the company's purchases for the nine months of 2016 amounted to 975.4 billion rubles, of which 62.5% were placed on a competitive basis. Compared to the same period last year, the share of non-competitive purchases decreased from 41.0% to 37.5%, a Russian Railways representative said. Savings amounted to 8 billion rubles.
Mysterious minority shareholder
Petersburg resident Yuri Korotchenko, the former owner of 49.5% of BSM Management Company, which won three RZD tenders for 143 billion rubles in 2014, until recently served on the boards of directors of the First Non-Metal Company, Trest No. 7 JSC and Kalugatransmash. The first non-metallic company is 75% owned by the son of the Prosecutor General, Artem Chaika, and 25% by Russian Railways. The shareholder of the second company is Alexander Sharapov, the owner of the St. Petersburg construction group Becar.These companies have one thing in common - they work with Russian Railways. The official position of the businessman, which the companies indicated in the statements, is adviser to the general director of the St. Petersburg export-industrial company Sudotechnology. Previously, Korotchenko owned 20% of it.
Sudotechnologiya, despite its name, also mainly works with Russian Railways - it supplies equipment from vacuum cleaners and electric hand dryers to spare parts for railcars. From 2012 to 2016, the amount of contracts with Russian Railways amounted to 8.8 billion rubles. (SPARK data). In 2012, Sudotechnologiya even received the Russian Railways Partner award in the Best Material and Technical Resources Supplier nomination, which was presented to the company by the then First Vice President of Russian Railways, Vadim Morozov.
As Vedomosti found out, Korotchenko is an old acquaintance of Dmitry Morozov's son, who heads the TransContainer branch on the Oktyabrskaya Railway. In 2007, Sudotechnology Korotchenko received 10% in the Ladoga Vepr hunting farm, established by Morozov Jr. in his native Volkhovsky district Leningrad region. In the summer of 2015, Dmitry Morozov bought from Korotchenko a 30% stake in the Arsenal company, which maintains land plots in the railway right of way. In 2014–2015 the company received contracts from Russian Railways for 3.75 billion rubles.
Morozov Sr. resigned immediately after Yakunin left Russian Railways. Now he is an adviser to the new president of Russian Railways. In May 2016, Morozov Jr. sold the remaining shares of Arsenal to Sofora, follows from SPARK.
Alexei Krapivin said that, according to his information, Vadim Morozov had nothing to do with Korotchenko. “Korotchenko acted in the deal on the UK BSM as an independent businessman. This year, Korotchenko decided to withdraw from the management company BSM, and the 1520 Group of Companies consolidated its assets by 100%,” Krapivin said. The press service of Russian Railways said that Vadim Morozov, adviser to the president of Russian Railways, is not related to companies co-owned by Dmitry Morozov, and recommended contacting him directly.
New Russian Railways suppliers in 2016
Igor RotenbergSon of Arkady Rotenberg
RZD contracts:
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It became 691 million rubles.
In 2016, Igor Rotenberg's Glosav LLC received a contract for the supply of integrated system security devices to Russian Railways. The company specializes in transport monitoring solutions based on Glonass/GPS technologies.
NPF "Welfare"
Non-state pension fund established by Russian Railways structures
RZD contracts:
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It became 6.99 billion rubles.
In 2016, Transstroymekhanizatsiya LLC was selected by RZDstroy as a contractor for the construction of railway sections bypassing Ukraine. Almost 70% of the company is owned by Mostotrest, owned by NPF
Alexey Zolotarev, Vitaly Bril
Former partners of Presidential Assistant for Transport Igor Levitin
RZD contracts:
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It became 15.9 billion rubles.
Stroyputinvest JSC, the main construction company of Dormashinvest owned by Zolotarev and Bril, in 2016 received the right to build a section of the Eastern test site for 6.3 billion rubles. In September 2016, Transresurs LLC has contracts for the supply of railway scrap to RZD structures for 8.33 billion rubles.
Yuri Relyan
Former Deputy Minister of Construction
RZD contracts:
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It became 7.9 billion rubles.
LLC "Spetstransstroy" Relyana in 2016 became the contractor of "RZDstroy" for the reconstruction of the section of the road Kotelnikovo - Tikhoretskaya - Korenovsk - Timashevskaya - Krymskaya
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1. Contractor Russian Railways Anton Samoilov was sent back for arrest. Contractor Russian Railways Anton Samoilov rolled back to arrest The general director of "Wagon Repair Company-2" was caught extorting 1.65 million rubles. from the carrier for the conclusion of three contracts Original of this material © Kommersant, 04/09/2019, Contractor Russian Railways rolled back to arrest, Photo: vrk2.ru Yuri Senatorov Anton Samoilov “Kommersant” became aware of the details of the criminal case of Anton Samoilov, the general director of Wagon Repair Company-2 JSC (VRK-2), accused of receiving commercial bribery.Date: 04/09/2019 2. Contractor Russian Railways Sergei Vilensky greased the wheels. Contractor Russian Railways Sergey Vilensky greased the wheels The owner of ResursTrans is wanted in the case of bribery of the head of the Trans-Baikal Railway Fomin by a Toyota Land Cruiser jeep Original of this material © Kommersant.Ru, 12/19/2018 "Alexander Alexandrov Sergey Vilensky As it became known to Kommersant, the Trans-Baikal Regional Court recently changed the sentence - six years in prison - to the former head of the Trans-Baikal Railway ...
Date: 12/21/2018 3. How are the guides related Russian Railways and contractors. ... Yakunin himself, in an interview with Vedomosti in 2009, 67.4% of the bank is controlled by the structures of the SK Most group of companies, which is contractor Russian Railways- for example, to Olympic Games 2014 builds the railway and highway Adler - Krasnaya Polyana (investments in the project - 227 billion rubles, according to the site Russian Railways). And Millennium Bank itself got the opportunity to organize joint ventures with European companies to ensure another priority of the investment program Russian Railways- high-speed highways...
Date: 09/12/2011 4. Boris Usherovich was recognized as a briber of Dmitry Zakharchenko. According to operational data, the first two now live in the United States, and the co-owner of the company, which is the largest contractor Russian Railways settled in Israel.
Date: 03/19/2019 5. Valery Markelov was recognized as the donor of Dmitry Zakharchenko. According to Kommersant, acquaintance with contractors Russian Railways Dmitry Zakharchenko started it back in the mid-2000s in his native Rostov-on-Don, where he served in the tax authorities.
Date: 03.10.2018 6. Baikal-Virginskaya Mainline. Krapivin is also related to several other companies that control contractors the largest construction Russian Railways". How Aleksey Krapivin controls the largest construction site Russian Railways"In fact, Krapivin's participation in the construction of BAM may be more extensive.
Date: 04/05/2016 7. "He did not allow other friends of the president to join the contracts." *** Where else does the money turn Yakunin's resignation may affect not only the railway contractors, but also on his acquaintances who invest in these contractors and other companies closely associated with Russian Railways. Large investments (almost 30 billion rubles) related to the projects of the state monopoly are managed by another former adviser to Yakunin, Sergei Orlov.
Date: 10/12/2015 8. The main ones for the "construction of the century". While the agreement was Russian Railways competitions have already been played, and contractors started building. Operation " Contractor"In February 2014 Russian Railways announced the largest tender in its history.
Date: 03/01/2016 9. New fellow travelers Russian Railways. After the resignation of Yakunin, the owners of the largest contractor Russian Railways on the Trans-Siberian - UK BSM. In SPARK, these changes are reflected as follows. In December 2015, Obodovsky sold 48% of the shares to the former owners of the company - several individuals, and in August 2016 Korotchenko sold his 49.5%.
Date: 11/14/2016 10. Kings of the state order. Relations Russian Railways and JVs are very long-term. Thus, the contract for the maintenance of electric trains in the amount of €500 million is designed for 40 years. *Partners: for Ural Locomotives - Siemens AG concern *** 6. Gennady Timchenko Gennady Timchenko* Amount of state contracts: 113 billion rubles Customers: Transneft, Federal Network Company, Moscow Department of Transport and Communications In 2007–2009, Timchenko's structures acquired about 80% contractor Stroytransgaz.
Date: 03/02/2012 11. Kings of the state order: who will use $20 billion contractors and is going to build and modernize independently (Transneftstroy). Some companies, such as Rostekhnologii or Rostelecom, are already mastering almost the entire investment program themselves. Maybe this is how state monopolies are protected from "gray" competition and corruption? Here are a few interesting stories. The two largest tenders Russian Railways subsidiaries won...
Date: 03/19/2013 12. Kings of the state order - 2018 (Forbes rating). Security officials and state-owned companies were allowed to classify data about suppliers": The Russian government has made serious adjustments to the public procurement system, allowing state-owned companies not to disclose information about suppliers and contractors receiving contracts, and...
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Date: 02/22/2018 13. Contractor surrendered Alexei Mironov as a patron. To do this, Mr. Mironov allegedly helped Mr. Savranin establish contacts with United Construction Company 1520 and Prodstroy, which were large contractors Russian Railways(according to SPARK-Interfax, in 2015 USC received Russian Railways contracts for 31.4 billion rubles) and, thus, receive contracts for the performance of subcontracted work.
Date: 12/17/2018 14. State order and secret holdings. Therefore, we tried to choose the most interesting, in our opinion, associations contractors Russian Railways, Gazprom and Rosatom. In many cases, the suppliers of the state-owned companies we studied turned out to be other state-owned companies, which also formed entire clusters. We deliberately skip these clusters in the description in order to concentrate on those supplier associations backed by specific people. *** Russian Railways About suppliers Russian Railways Alexey Krapivin and his partners - Boris Usherovich, Valery Markelov...
Date: 05/30/2018 15. Corruption on rails. JSC "NIIAS" fulfilled the 6 millionth contract of 2014 in just a month: the contract was signed on November 25, and the board " Russian Railways"was held on December 27. Another order dated December 25, 2014 for the conclusion of an agreement for the" development of cost estimates for the work of unstable slopes of rock excavations and the current maintenance of structures, facilities and life support systems of tunnels "given contractor only five days, the work was supposed to end on New Year's Eve.
Date: 09/27/2016 16. Shadow of the power engineer. In 2008, Vasiliev founded R-industry Corporation, which became contractor Russian Railways. In 2009-2010 Vasiliev got a stake in contractor Russian Railways- "Innoline" company. In 2011, Vasilyev bought another contractor Russian Railways- Finprom. Yakunin's wife Natalya was a member of the board of directors of Millennium Bank. 67.4% of the bank is controlled by the structures of the SK Most group of companies, which is contractor Russian Railways- for example, for the 2014 Olympic Games, the Adler-Krasnaya Polyana railway and highway are being built ...
Date: 01/23/2012 17. Timchenko is "sleeping" - business is going on. It's a big one contractor Russian Railways with an annual revenue of 70 billion rubles. After joining the shareholders of Timchenko's structures, he has increased the number of contracts from the budgets of all levels.
Date: 01/21/2013 18. Kings of the state order - 2015 (Forbes rating). *** 1. Iskander Makhmudov, Andrey Bokarev Customers: Moscow Metro, Russian Railways Effective shares in the main contractors: 33% - Transmashholding; 16.9% - Metrovagonmash; 24.5% - Oktyabrsky Electric Car Repair Plant; 33 ...
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Date: 03/10/2015 19. For whom and under whom did Laundromat work. Introducing the three largest Russian beneficiaries Alexey Krapivin businessman, contractor Russian Railways Alexey Krapivin From 2011 to 2014, two companies from Belize and Panama (Redstone Financial Ltd and Telford Trading S.A.) received 277 million dollars, or about 8.4 billion rubles, on their accounts with the Swiss bank CBH Compagnie Bancaire Helvetique SA.
Date: 03/21/2017 20. "Divorce" based on "Inspector". Having organized Goldenberg LLC, which actually consists of three people - himself, dad and brother Vadim (the last two often act as vice-chairmen in his companies) - Igor Gitlin immediately received a big contract from Russian Railways by 5.8 billion...
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Date: 03/15/2016
It became known who is now receiving orders from the Russian Railways. These are companies that may be associated with the first vice-president of the state corporation Alexander Misharin. As well as a structure owned by Arkady Rotenberg's son Igor. These companies receive contracts worth tens of billions of rubles from the monopoly. These media shed light on the change in leadership of Russian Railways in 2015.
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The resignation of Vladimir Yakunin from the post of head of Russian Railways last year was, although not an ordinary event, but expected. After all, two years before this event, a big scandal erupted when the top manager was “fired” by the media after receiving a fake message from the government. Then Vladimir Yakunin managed to hold on to his post, but the story of eating "grouse" on a visit to the first person of the state turned out to be inscribed in golden letters in the annals of Russian business with state participation. Nevertheless, after these events, Vladimir Ivanovich did not manage to stay in Russian Railways for very long. After his resignation and appointment as head of the monopoly Oleg Belozerov, one of the main questions was: who is behind the rotation of personnel. The new information that has appeared in the business press makes it possible to strengthen the old version.
As the Vedomosti newspaper found out, after the change in leadership of Russian Railways, some contractors of the state-owned company succeeded, and are now mastering multibillion-dollar orders. Two stand out among these companies: Foratek and Mosgiprotrans. The first this year received contracts for two billion rubles, and the second will design the construction of a high-speed highway Moscow-Kazan (who does not remember this ambitious project, at a cost of a trillion rubles?). Journalists associate both companies with the name of the first vice president of Russian Railways, former governor Sverdlovsk region Alexandra Misharina. But that's not all. Among the new partners of Russian Railways, a company related to the Rotenberg family wormed its way.
Without them now nowhere
An old Soviet joke about Brezhnev comes to mind: he is on the radio, on TV, and even shown in an iron. So it is with the Rotenbergs - a rare day when a message about the new successes of a family of entrepreneurs does not appear in the information space. As for Russian Railways, the Glosav company, owned by the son of Arkady Rotenberg Igor, appeared among the new contractors of the state corporation. She won the tender for almost 700 million rubles. Not so much, but, as they say, it's a start. And now let's remember that after the resignation of Yakunin and the appointment of Belozerov, the media wrote that behind the new head of the monopoly are ... guess who. According to journalists, contributing to this appointment, the Rotenbergs aimed to enter the railway business.
On this topic
You can remember other important events. A few months earlier, Igor Rotenberg sold Blagosostoyanie to the Russian Railways pension fund construction company Mostotrest, which regularly receives orders for large Russian infrastructure projects. By the way, one of the main current contracts of this organization is the construction of a bridge to the Crimea across the Kerch Strait. Mostotrest is a subcontractor in this project. It will not be difficult to guess who the grandiose construction site is: of course, the Rotenberg Stroygazmontazh company. In general, 228 billion rubles. Well, the fact that the structure of Igor Rotenberg received an order from Russian Railways may indirectly indicate that it was not in vain that the family of businessmen lobbied for the appointment of a new head of the state corporation.
Construction, money, crime
Of course, in Russian business, such a story cannot do without a criminal condiment. Finding her is easy. This fall, the name of the “real colonel” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Zakharchenko thundered throughout the country, in whose apartment the operatives have about 9 billion rubles in foreign currency. The origin of this money is still unknown to the general public. On the other hand, many details appeared in the media about the activities of Zakharchenko, who either covered up the business, or kept a black police cash desk (well, or a “common fund”, whoever likes which term), or did both. Among the many details revealed one interesting detail.
According to Zakharchenko, he was a member of a group that monopolized the orders of Russian railways. Journalists mentioned the name of the former adviser Vladimir Yakunin Andrey Krapivin, with whom the colonel was allegedly familiar. Krapivin is associated with a group of companies that actually received contracts from Russian Railways for hundreds of billions of rubles (to be specific, their portfolio of orders last year was 350 billion). So now it is these contractors that are slowly giving way to other partners of the corporation. And there is nothing to be surprised. Reputation, as Gogol's hero Bashmachkin would say, is like an old overcoat - "a bit of that."
Everyone is already at home
And, finally, the cherry on the cake, or rather, the last link. aforementioned Alexander Misharin, which, perhaps, is now associated with large orders from Russian Railways, 3 years ago could become the head of the corporation. After all, it was he who was "appointed" to the position of president of the company in that very fake letter about Yakunin's resignation. He has not yet received a high post, but, according to journalists, other pleasant moments did not pass him by. By the way, he oversees the construction of a high-speed railway at Russian Railways, and the company, allegedly connected with it, received an order for its design. The circle consisting of "ours" is closed. Actually, such situations are the quintessence of Russian business.
In the semi-mad dreams of the observer, one wants to give all this a share of theatrical absurdity. In recent years, we have resumed the tradition of May Day demonstrations - with a procession of many thousands, slogans and other Soviet paraphernalia of the holiday. It would be nice if the leaders of Russian business also took part in the demonstrations. For example, the Rotenberg family and their friends would really like a banner: “For competition!”.
