Vorobyov Sergey Viktorovich ops uralmash. Big trip for budget money
The "Arkhipovtsy", subordinate to the Yekaterinburg "centralists", were based in the neighboring city of Pervouralsk. There they were studying racketeering and conducted a near-criminal business - bootlegging and car speculation. They were already stained with blood - they killed the Pervouralsk businessman Mamedov and the director of the local investment company "Triad" Ponomarev, who interfered with them, along with his partner Kofanov. They dealt with Ponomarev in front of his wife, shooting him almost point-blank with a pistol while he was resting on the shore of a pond. Moreover, Ponomarev’s only fault was that he refused to vacate part of the rented premises next to the office of the “Arkhipovites”. Shirokov decided to send these “proven” people to an internecine war with the brutal “ Uralmash" At the same time, Nikolai Shirokov himself, feeling that the hunt for “centralists” was not over, left his homeland and settled in Hungary. But the Uralmash “special forces” also followed him at the end of November 1993.
He lived under heavy security in Hungary, in a house where outsiders were not allowed. But he had a spy at his side." Uralmash" - his mistress. She not only drew up a detailed plan of the house for the killers, but also gave the keys to it. On the night of December 4-5, five militants armed with machine guns entered the apartment and shot the last main “center” and his bodyguards Valeev and Gorbunov.
The Arkhipovites who immediately went out for dismantling did not find any traces of the killers, but along the way they found out that for some reason people from Uralmash were laying claim to the Il-76 plane that belonged to Shirokov, flying from the Interural company and standing at the Budapest airport at that time. . To prevent anyone from getting the plane, it was simply blown up right at the airport. As the investigation found out, they made the “hellish machine” in their native Pervouralsk and brought it to Budapest in the trunk of a BMW, calmly crossing all borders. After the death of the “center” leaders, Arkhipov’s brigade had to fight for a long time with “ Uralmash " failed. They only managed to shoot in Moscow former member his own group, who had retired - a certain Doronin.
However, in 1995-1996. The criminal investigation department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of Yekaterinburg, under the leadership of V. Rudenko and Yu. Skvortsov, began to “remove” the “special forces” brigades of the warring factions - first the “center” brigades, commanded by Arkhipov, and then the “ Uralmash“, headed by S. Kurdyumov. However, in April 1996, the judge of the Tagilstroevsky District Court of Nizhny Tagil (where the arrested Kurdyumov was kept), Tatyana Tyurina, released him on, again, a penny bail, literally an hour before the arrival of operatives from Yekaterinburg.
Georgy Arkhipov himself, leader this criminal group, was arrested in Estonia, where he hid for several months. In fact, at the same time, the entire “central” completely collapsed grouping. The surviving influential “centralists” rushed into legal business, giving up most of their territory to the “Uralmashites” without a fight. However, the redistribution, apparently, is not completely completed, since in 2000 one of the most famous recent “centers” was killed - Vladimir Klementyev, an international master of sports in karate, the creator of the Russian league “Ringe”.
By the end of 1994, it became clear that the Uralmash team was winning the war for the redistribution of spheres of influence. An increasingly larger sector of the economy of the city and region, in which cash appeared in one way or another, began to fall under the control of the winners. And the matter did not end with the region. The community, for example, partially controlled Moscow's largest airport, Domodedovo.
However, over time we had to move from short money to medium and long ones. Not from greed. Life just made me do it. Former Uralmash athletes joined the game, which is organized not just according to concepts, but according to its own very strict laws. Maintaining such a cumbersome economy in the shadow of the state required more and more funds. Moreover, progress did not stand still. Previously, it was possible to put a fighter in each stall. And where to put them now, when there are only wholesale markets all around and so many gangster service personnel are simply not required.
In other words, Uralmash inevitably began to invest in real estate, industry and capital construction. Moreover, the order for the OPS to invest money in capital construction is given by the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region, Eduard Rossel.
The current ownership structure of OPS is extremely complex, deliberately confusing and really known to a very limited circle of people.
They say that money turnover Uralmash are quite comparable to the turnover of the entire Sverdlovsk region.
OPS is characterized by strict discipline, the presence of clandestine militant groups, significant financial capabilities, active penetration into the authorities and management of the regional and municipal levels, into structures political parties and social movements.
Currently, the formal leader of the Uralmash group is Konstantin Nikolaevich Tsyganov, who is abroad. Since June 1994, according to the materials of the Department for Combating Organized Crime of the Sverdlovsk Region, he was on the All-Russian wanted list. At the beginning of September 1996, by decision of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia, a criminal case and investigative measures were taken against K.N. Tsyganov. stopped, but the Gypsies are in no hurry to return to their homeland.
Year of birth: 1962.
Married, two children: son and daughter.
Higher education, engineering and pedagogical. Graduated from the Sverdlovsk Engineering and Pedagogical Institute, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences.
International master of sports in sambo.
European Sambo Champion 1987.
Winner of the USSR Cup in 1986.
In 1994-95 headed the public committee on physical education and sports under the head of the administration of the Sverdlovsk region.
Awarded a certificate of honor from the head of the Russian Presidential Administration V.V. Putin for active participation in the elections in his support.
Mayevsky Igor Anatolyevich, Panpurin Andrey Volframovich. (located abroad), Alexander Vasilievich Kruk, who was found dead on June 5, 2000 at A. Panpurin’s dacha in Sofia.
And also Kruk Yuri Vasilievich, Shibakov Andrey Ivanovich, Tsirelson Oleg Naumovich, Kukovyakin Alexander Vasilievich (is on the international wanted list, in October 2008 he was detained in the UAE, the issue of his extradition is being decided), Novozhilov Igor Borisovich, Alferov Dmitry Vladimirovich, Kalimullin E.L, Kiyaikin Alexander Georgievich, approximately 32 people in total.
It should be noted that such OPS leaders as Khabarov and Vorobyov, having undoubted organizational talent, also have high intellectual potential- both of them (Vorobiev 2 years earlier) defended their candidate dissertations on sports topics and are candidates of pedagogical sciences.
It is impossible not to mention Sergei Terentyev, who today is the recognized leader of the “former” Uralmash members, and who has done perhaps more to legalize the activities of the community than all the deputies from the OPS. Sergei Veniaminovich does not like to “shine” in public and in front of video cameras and prefers to resolve matters behind the scenes. But the personality, however, is extraordinary. After his release in 2002, he paid visits (alone and without security) to the director of UMMC Andrei Kozitsin and the leader of the “centers” Alexander Varaksin, with whom, judging by the further development of events, he managed to find a common language.
Throughout recent years the number of open manifestations of a general criminal nature on the part of organized crime groups is steadily decreasing, and is practically disappearing, which reflects the real trend of transformation of the criminal orientation of criminal groups into the sphere of legal economic activity. The reduction in the manifestations of open criminal activity is primarily associated with the development by its leaders, in accordance with the prevailing circumstances and positions gained, of new forms of development and penetration into key areas of the economy, government and management bodies.
Strengthening the economic base, the leaders of the OPS created an extensive network of commercial enterprises, and in the 90s of the last century they fully or partially controlled more than 600 commercial structures. Under the control of the OPS (partially or completely) were enterprises operating in practically all sectors of the economy: mining and processing industries, fuel and energy complex, food and light industries, credit and financial systems, security, hotel and tourism businesses, services and entertainment, trade, etc. d. (including such large ones as OJSC Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, OJSC Seversky Pipe Plant (Polevskoy), OJSC Mikhalyum (Mikhailovsk), LLC Internefto, CJSC Neftinvest, OJSC “Tavdinsky Hydrolysis Plant”, OJSC “Ekaterinburg Wine Factory”, OJSC “Alcona” with branches in Kamensk-Uralsky and Irbit, Irbit Glass Factory).
OPS owns several large hotels in Yekaterinburg: “Euro-Asian”, “Central”, etc. At the beginning of 2007, structures close to OPS gained control over the Iset hotel, and will probably soon gain control over the Sverdlovsk hotel. Considering that Uralmash's companies control a number of hotels in other regions of Russia, in particular on the Black Sea coast, it is likely that a new hotel holding will appear in the country soon.
The OPS has been and is actively engaged in expanding its influence to other cities and regions of Russia, countries near and far abroad. Outside the region, the community's interests are represented in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Samara, Sochi, Anapa, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen, as well as in Latvia, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, the USA, Great Britain, and Israel. The expansion of foreign relations of public organizations is carried out through the controlled by them joint ventures, offshore companies and Sverdlovsk emigrants, incl. located abroad K. Tsyganov and A. Panpurin, and now A. Kukovyakin.
Commercial structures of OPS are united by stable system connections, closing on controlled commercial banks. To a greater or lesser extent, at least 12 commercial banks and branches came under the influence of OPS in the 90s.
The scope of illegal activities of organized crime groups is extremely wide, but the main ones can be identified.
By buying pizza or rolls, accommodating guests in a hotel, paying the apartment bill, a resident of Yekaterinburg supports the flourishing OPS "Uralmash" . Or, to be precise, that group of union founders that were able to adapt to the rules of the 2000s, survived and became legalized. Yekaterinburg is increasingly declaring its desire to become a business center in Russia. Its trade potential is approaching the scale of Moscow, and the number of international events and exhibitions is off the charts. More and more businessmen are investing in local megaprojects, not suspecting that they are actually investing in a criminal “common fund.” The killers of the “immortal” OPS “Uralmash” “rewinded” their sentences and became directors of enterprises, while the raiders who were part of the union became respected top managers working in the Russian and international markets. For your attention - a rating of the heirs of the scandalously famous business empire throughout the country and their plans for further enrichment.
The surface of the iceberg. "Uralmash" + "Center" = general business
OPS "Uralmash" was and remains one of the main symbols of Yekaterinburg. In the heady 90s of the last century, it first took control of the city, then most of the Sverdlovsk region, and then entered the international market. Street shootouts and gangster gatherings have become commonplace. “Well, okay, they’re mafiosi, but they’re ours, our relatives. And they live by understandable rules, unlike the authorities,” said the Ural residents. The founders of the union heeded this request and actively went to power.
A decade later, the former “guys from the working-class outskirts” fell into disgrace, becoming victims of a nationwide campaign against corruption and crime. Law enforcement officers reported on the defeat of the group, but in reality they were wishful thinking. The empire built on blood continued to grow both in breadth and upward. Some of its creators were left out of work. So, he was pushed away from the financial trough former leader OPS Konstantin Tsyganov . “Today he is for permanent residence in Bulgaria. Once he came to Yekaterinburg and asked why he was not in the share. But they quickly explained to him that only those who live in the Urals, or at least maintain close contact with them, are entitled to their “piece,” says one of the knowledgeable sources.
Other “fathers” of Uralmash (a striking example is Alexander Kukovyakin, who lives comfortably in the UAE) went on the run. Still others went into “retirement” voluntarily. In particular, people who are well acquainted with the OPS talk about Igor Mayevsky’s poor health: “The main thing for him now is peace and quiet.” Some of the once militant founders agreed to compensation in the form of one or two small enterprises and lead a quiet lifestyle, far from noisy showdowns. Among them are Konstantin Patrushev, who receives a small but stable income from managing a bottled water plant and several restaurants, and Mikhail Shelomentsev, who maintains special vehicles.
The rest of the founders of the union, their closest friends, relatives and companions rallied around Sergei Terentyev . Of course, the “elections” did not take place at a criminal meeting. “God forbid, times are no longer the same. Everyone has become civilized people. We sat in the office, drank tea and came to a consensus,” says a knowledgeable expert.
First of all, the “chairman” of the updated OPS told his comrades-in-arms to forget about squabbles with old enemies from grouping "Center" , which they caught all over the world a decade and a half ago. Insiders call the current “cashier” Terentyev, who was once related to the “center” of Yekaterinburg entrepreneur Vitaly Kochetkov. The first “managerial circle” also included Alexander Gorbunov and Yuri Kukushkin, who were involved in a number of raider attacks.
It is this group that develops strategies and chooses directions for the development of the empire. The other founders who remained loyal to Terentyev have not lost their authority, but have only the right of an advisory vote. “The same Sergei Vorobyov may have more assets, but he spends most of his time in the United Arab Emirates. They, of course, consult on many issues on Skype, but the last word still remains with Terentyev,” says an expert familiar with the current life of the Uralmash OPS.
The structure of the Uralmash business is most clearly demonstrated by the rating of the heirs of OPS assets. It takes into account the largest authorized shares of enterprises owned by representatives of the union personally, or controlled through short chains of founders. Of course, these figures reflect only the visible tip of the iceberg, recorded in official documents. Its underwater part is much more massive and voluminous.
Economic “roots” of Uralmash: an equation with three unknowns (1-4 place, 1 billion 100 million rubles)
The entire economic empire controlled by Sergei Terentyev is built on four “pillars”. This is exactly how many people are the founders of four enterprises, which in turn control two strategic centers of the updated OPS - CJSC Continent and CJSC European-Asian Company. From the latter, chains stretch to almost all structures included in Uralmash.
One of the “roots” of the extensive “Uralmash” “tree” is Sergei Terentyev himself (owns shares in at least 26 enterprises, 334 million 839 thousand rubles of authorized capital). His three companions are “dark horses.” The names of Sergei Shevchuk (11 enterprises, 333 million 978 thousand rubles), Konstantin Druzhinin (7 enterprises, 215 million 604 thousand rubles) and Pavel Tutarov (7 enterprises, 215 million 254 thousand rubles) are difficult to remember even by experts close to the OPS. They left virtually no “traces” on the Internet. Only once on the official website of the union did a message appear about the successful performance of students of the Uralmash sambo school at the Ural Federal District championship, in which a certain master of sports Konstantin Druzhinin took second place. However, it is impossible to say with certainty that this particular silver medalist is at the heart of the OPS.
“Perhaps these are so-called “nominal values,” some experts suggest. “These are people who belong to the board, who do not pretend to do much, but at the same time they will never throw them away,” others are sure.
Tavda! There is so much in this sound!
Since the 90s of the last century, the second capital of the Uralmash OPS after Yekaterinburg has been and remains Tavda, the assets of which continue to be managed by the Big Four. They say that it was from the local hydrolysis plant, won from Pavel Fedulev, that representatives of the union carried cash in boxes to the election headquarters of Governor Eduard Rossel. Unable to withstand such a massive “sucking out” of financial resources, the enterprise sank and ended up bankrupt. A similar fate befell the local mechanical plant, which was part of the OPS. So far, only the plywood mill and several dozen companies associated with it are managing to stay afloat.
Let us recall that in November 2009, the owner of TFK (Fortuna LLC, controlled by the leader of the Uralmash community Sergei Vorobyov) replaced the top manager. Instead of Dmitry Davydov (who was a protege of other representatives of the Uralmash community - Alexander Kukovyakin and Sergei Makarov), Andrei Zenchenko, who was involved in the high-profile case of the Kurdyumov gang (the so-called “Uralmash special forces”), was appointed to the position of director of the TFK. According to the court verdict, Mr. Zenchenko was imprisoned for banditry and murder for 15 years. While serving his sentence, he received an economic education and after his release headed the TFC.
“The discord within the Uralmash community on Tavda issues began a long time ago, ever since Kukovyakin fled to the Emirates. They say that Davydov wanted to squeeze everything he could out of the plant through shell companies and quietly bankrupt it, but Vorobiev kicked out the entire Makarov-Kukovyakin team and installed his own man,” say people familiar with the situation. Now TFC is being completely eliminated. Instead, another enterprise appeared, the founders of which no longer listed Makarov.
The ex-mayor of Tavda, Alexander Solovyov, never hid the fact that he served the interests of the “brothers.” People close to the Uralmash team say that the mayor allegedly personally delivered money “parcels” to Kukovyakin in the UAE. In August 2010, Soloviev was forced to resign. But the growing strength of the OPS again calls him to power. The former mayor intends to win the upcoming elections to put local utility resources into the hands of the current union leaders.
Spend the night with the OPS, and the mayor's office will not forget you! (5, 6 and 20 places, 79 million 533 thousand rubles)
One of the largest areas of Uralmash's economy has been and remains the hotel business. To manage it, the YUSTA group of companies was created, whose general director Sergei Danilik and his deputy Sergei Sayfutdinov took fifth and sixth places in the ranking of heirs (10 enterprises, 46 million 406 thousand rubles and 12 enterprises, 32 million 757 thousand rubles, respectively).
[ura.ru, 12/07/2012, “Members of the Uralmash community privatized the property of the Yekaterinburg mayor’s office”: Municipal stakes in two large Yekaterinburg enterprises passed into private hands. We are talking about shares of OJSC Ekaterinburg Taxi and OJSC Grand Avenue Hotel. The auctions took place today at the city administration.
Thus, the package of securities of the GrandAvenue Hotel was sold for 46 million 305 thousand rubles with an initial price of 44 million 100 thousand rubles. The new owner of 416,834 shares, constituting 25% + 1 of the authorized capital, became CJSC Hotel Ekaterinburg - Central (part of the Usta Group, owned by the Uralmash community). In addition to the CJSC, the owners of shares in this company are other structures of the former OPS Uralmash: CJSC Continent (35.63%), OJSC Dezha-Invest (20.87%) and CJSC Euro-Asian Holding Company (18.51%) . According to the company's report, the company's net profit for 2011 amounted to 8 million 51 thousand rubles. - Insert K.ru]
According to the Business Quarter, only three of the seven Yekaterinburg OPS hotels - Moskovskaya Gorka, Grand Avenue Hotel and Yekaterinburg Central - hosted 70,868 guests in 2012, each of whom paid at least 3 5-4 thousand rubles. It turns out that the total turnover of the sphere exceeds half a billion rubles. The founders of the OPS share part of this money with the Department of Municipal Property Management (DUMI) of the Yekaterinburg Administration, whose chairman, Vadim Dudarenko, is a member of the affiliates of Magister and Grand Avenue Hotel. “They have known Terentyev since the dashing 90s. At first they fought with each other - the city was closely connected with the “centers,” which infuriated Uralmash immensely, but a few years ago they became intertwined,” says an informed source.
Those bought by the OPS at one time to hotels in Moscow have not gone anywhere, either. Krasnodar region and many other regions. They continue to be led by top managers loyal to Sergei Terentyev.
Big market game. (7,8 and other places)
As in previous decades, the OPS continues to control hundreds of retail and wholesale trade enterprises. Its largest asset since the dashing 90s remains the Uralmashevsky Market Complex (Gorod-2000 LLC, co-owner Konstantin Koldan - 20th place). Businessmen belonging to the union control several car markets and auto shops (Sergey Koksharov, 15th place, 936,250 rubles). But this is clearly not enough for the Uralmash team. They intend to resume the war for other tasty retail properties.
The first sign of the upcoming battles was the seizure of the Kirov Wholesale Market (KOR) last spring. Hundreds of thugs broke into tenants' safes and doors, and forced people out of work premises onto the street. According to some reports, Alexander Gorbunov, who was a member of Terentyev’s inner circle, personally supervised what was happening.
Of the same kind, the events that took place at the Yekaterinburg base at Komsomolskaya, 73 and “Vegetable depot No. 4” once controlled by Vice-Mayor Viktor Konteev. “This is just the beginning. Very soon there will be a “mix” at the Tagansky Ryad market. Alexander Khabarov also had conflicts with its current owners. Since then nothing has been forgotten. Either the “Afghans” Nikiforov and Testov will transfer the market to Uralmash voluntarily, or they will be forced to do so,” predicts an anonymous source.
“Meat with blood” in OPS style (9, 11, 14 and 16 places, 22 million 125 thousand rubles)
One more eternal generator profit is the catering industry. Uralmash has tightly occupied this niche, filling it with both second-rate cheap eateries and elite restaurants. The vast majority of them opened in hotels controlled by the union and are directly or indirectly controlled by Andrei Lubnin, Igor Mayevsky and Roman Klimov (“Pins Pub”, “Maison”, “Case”, “Eridan”, SeaZone, coffee shop “Shoko”, “Wasabi” , “Portofino”, “Alibi”, “Savoy”, “Jam”, “Premier” and many others).
One of the most profitable investments of OPS was the purchase of a stake in Rosinter Restaurants Yekaterinburg LLC, which is developing a cafe under the international KFC brand. Its general director, Mikhail Sirin, who was once considered one of the leading strategists of the criminal raider Pavel Fedulev, simultaneously oversees the KFC chain in Tatarstan and the Perm region.
Igor Mayevsky, who has practically retired, owns a share in the Chelyabinsk eatery "Lime", Igor Popozoglo - in FastFoodCity LLC. “This is one of the fastest growing areas of Uralmash business. Even during the 2008 crisis, it “sank” much less than all the others. They will buy up restaurants in batches. Those who do not agree will be convinced. It’s not difficult to guess what methods,” says one of the sources related to the OPS.
Uralmash gold and Roizman’s OPS “tail” (12 and 34 places, 1 million 972 thousand rubles)
Gold has always been and remains a symbol of power. One of the five co-founders of the Drug Free City Foundation understands this better than anyone else. Evgeniy Roizman (34th place). It is no secret to anyone that the fund was created at one time with the direct participation and supervision of the OPS. For many years, social activist Roizman tried to get rid of the “Uralmash” “tail” and earn the image of an independent and independent politician. We must give credit - he almost succeeded. But the social activist lost sight of one detail.
Roizman remained among the founders of Jewelry House LLC, the second owner of which is his classmate Vadim Churkin (12th place, controls a chain of jewelry stores). The latter is at the same time one of the founders of PKF Pride LLC, behind which stands the European-Asian Company CJSC (president Sergey Terentyev). The chain is closed. Why Roizman did not dare to “cut it off” in a timely manner is rather a rhetorical question.
Evgeniy Roizman is not ashamed of his Jewish origin - he is listed as a co-founder of the national foundation Hesed Menorah Center, within the framework of which he communicates with eminent regional politicians. First of all, with another co-founder of the center, Shlema Spektor, respected in the region and the Sverdlovsk government.
Communal apartment in Uralmash style (13, 21, 24 and 31 places)
One of the brightest representatives of the young “Uralmash” generation was the son of Sergei Terentyev, Grigory (31st place), who last year began active expansion in the Yekaterinburg housing and communal services market. To date, only four management companies are personally registered with him: Home Service, Tatishchevskaya, Admiralsky and Universal. The heir to the current head of the OPS is also the general director of CJSC Management Company Ekaterinburg.
However, this is only a small part of the management companies that fell into the Uralmash network. The rest are designed for lesser-known characters. Including Igor Garfyanov (13th place) as the owner of a 50% stake in SUERZH-SK and Yug-Energo. And the general director of one of the largest communal structures in the metropolis, CJSC UK REMP (Zheleznodorozhny district), is the co-founder of Dezha-Invest, Alexander Kolesnikov (24th place).
In total this is about 4 million square meters housing in various areas of Yekaterinburg. And the area of the housing stock accountable to the OPS will increase by geometric progression. In the near future, the Chkalovskaya Management Company (income at the end of 2012 is 161 million 832 thousand rubles) and a number of others may become the property of Grigory Terentyev famous companies. “I think that by the end of 2013 the housing and communal services market will change beyond recognition. Why is OPS Uralmash such a problematic area? I think it’s to get utility budget subsidies through my people at the mayor’s office,” says a well-known specialist in the housing and communal services sector.
The last "Uralmash" deputy (17th place, 408 thousand rubles)
Many regional politicians who were previously, to one degree or another, included in the “Uralmash” team, today have no official connection with it. In particular, Maxim Serebrennikov and Andrey Alshevskikh are not connected by constituent chains with the Terentyev empire.
Only Ekaterinburg City Duma parliamentarian Eduard Romanovsky continues to conduct business together with Sergei Terentyev. Their interests intersect in Green-Park LLC. Regional communist deputy Nafik Famiev is also connected with the OPS team only symbolically. He relaxes on weekends in the garden plot adjacent to Romanovsky and, together with him, is part of the Lesnye Dachas gardening partnership.
Nevertheless, the leaders of the Uralmash OPS do not give up their claims to mandates. They are preparing new fighters on the political front. One of the future candidates for deputies of the Legislative Assembly may be a member of Kurdyumov’s gang, Igor Sychev, who served 15 years in prison. Today he is engaged in selling vegetables and strengthening his position in the Sverdlovsk Regional Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
God be with them?!!! (Oleg Tsirelson, 33rd place, 5 thousand rubles)
At all times, both the founders and ordinary militants of the OPS were “devout” people. They diligently atone for the sins they had committed. It is no secret that the main church in the Uralmash microdistrict in the name of the Nativity of Christ was built with donations from criminal authorities. “It’s very simple - gangster money was laundered through the Russian Orthodox Church at one time,” say experts.
The rector of the “Uralmash” church was not the last person in the Yekaterinburg diocese, mitred archpriest Vladimir Zyazev, about whose connections with the union our experts tell more than interesting legends. Allegedly, this priest is one of eight brothers whose fate is closely intertwined with the history of the OPS. There is a version that one of the Zyazevs was a member of the organized criminal group, and the other at one time worked as a deputy prosecutor of the Ordzhonikidze district and with his direct participation the materials of hundreds of criminal cases filed against members of the union disappeared without a trace. It seems that Father Vladimir also wore police stripes at one time.
On the part of Uralmash, the founder of the union, Oleg Tsirelson, is most closely in contact with the Russian Orthodox Church today. He is the founder of the parish in the name of St. Joasaph of Belogorodsky, is executive director the charitable foundation “Acquisition of Cultural Values” established by the diocese. And at the same time owns a company specializing in trade jewelry LLC "Exclusive" It turns out that by buying silver and gold crosses in churches, we are making our contribution to the budget of the OPS. However, the version about the control of the Uralmash OPS over trade in church shops requires additional verification.
Hodgepodge
The remaining representatives of the union are amazingly omnivorous. Thus, Andrei Shibakov (15th place) manages to simultaneously control agricultural farms, sawmills and financial consulting firms. From him the chain extends to Sverdlovsk and Perm travel agencies and a network of pawnshops, the development of which Shibakov is involved in together with Sergei Terentyev’s brother, Konstantin.
But the most popular type of business in OPS has been and remains the rental of real estate. Almost every member of the union has a couple of similar companies. Despite their almost symbolic size authorized capital, these structures are a real “gold mine” for the Uralmash workers. “Even its managers probably don’t really know how much real estate Uralmash owns. I won’t say that this is half the city, but it’s very, very large,” says a lawyer close to the OPS.
Big trip for budget money
The resurgent Uralmash considers itself a high-flying bird. Its leaders do not “get hung up” on small contracts, stretching out their hands to real money. According to some reports, businessmen cooperating with the union are already making money from Olympic construction projects in Sochi. The OPS is using all government and Duma connections to enter the preparation programs for the World Cup. “Now the time is different. No one is a gop-stopper, no one pulls small stalls. The founders have become serious people and play big. They have their own people not only in the city and regional administrations, but also in Moscow. Connections in the prosecutor's office, FSB. This is a dangerous car, it’s better not to get under its wheels - it will crush you,” the experts summarize.
Konstantin Dzhultaev
On June 10, 1993, the Government House was fired at from a grenade launcher in Sverdlovsk. Then it was called the regional executive committee, but even now all residents of Yekaterinburg are more accustomed to calling it the White House. Oktyabrskaya Square, 1. Budget funds of the Middle Urals are accumulated here and distributed from here. Here power. They hit her.
They shot, naturally, not with the aim of destroying or setting fire to the building, but to scare. To demonstrate that there is another, criminal power in the city, and it is not afraid of anyone. I wasn't afraid then. Those years are now commonly called the “dashing nineties.” Simply limitless. Then the Russian understanding of the words “mafia”, “raider takeover”, “roof” was born. Then the organized criminal communities (OCC) “Uralmash”, “center”, “blue”, “Chkalovsky” took shape and were clearly structured. They began to divide among themselves private property, business and democracy, which was just emerging in Russia. Sharing isn't even the right word. They tore with their teeth. They didn't need democracy, it only got in the way. Power was needed to get close to big money. That's why they shot at the authorities. Not to get in in a combat sense, but to get inside. Put on white collars, formal suits and manage financial flows.
Today, perhaps, only those over fifty remember the “dashing nineties” well. Nowadays, not everyone knows what the Uralmash OPS is. And these monuments in one of the cemeteries in Yekaterinburg who were these people? Why do they deserve such honors? But at the end of the last century, their names were on everyone’s lips: “criminal infantry”, “lads”, “authorities” and “thieves”. They left just such a sad reputation for themselves. And they rested. But did the criminals’ desire to get into power go away with them forever? I can't believe it. Every election convinces us that the corridors of power have always been a favorite place for bandits. This means we need to be vigilant. Tomorrow is voting day. And we must make the right choice.
Argument of strength
They shot and blew up a lot more. In addition to shelling the building of the Sverdlovsk regional government and the regional department for combating organized crime with a grenade launcher, they prepared a terrorist attack on the Sverdlovsk railway. On January 14, 1998, on the Koltsovo-Ekaterinburg highway, as the motorcade of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region was passing, an explosive device equivalent to 70 grams of TNT went off. Later, the press service of the Sverdlovsk regional police department would formulate: “As in the case of the assassination attempt on Eduard Rossel, the criminal community pursued exactly one goal - to scare the authorities.”
On June 16, 1991, the leader of the “Uralmash family” Grigory Tsyganov was killed. The group was led by his brother Konstantin. By that time, the “Uralmash men” already controlled and “guarded” not only markets and retail outlets in the Ordzhonikidze district of Yekaterinburg, but also the Uralmash sports complex, football and basketball clubs, and a boxing school.
Having formed their own “criminal special forces” led by Sergei Kurdyumov, the “Uralmashites” launched a real war, of which the city’s residents became hostages. Armed with automatic weapons, explosives and even grenade launchers, generously financed by the proceeds of racketeering, gangster squads fought real gangster battles on the city streets. Machine gunfire and explosions have become a nightmarish daily occurrence in the city of one and a half million people.
Despite active resistance, the “center” ones still lost to the “Uralmash team”. The loud execution of the leader of the “center” Oleg Vagin in the center of Yekaterinburg, on Anton Valek Street, is probably remembered by everyone who lived in the city at that time. He was shot with machine guns at the entrance of his house along with his guards. The new leader of the “center” Alexander Varaksin chose to divide the spheres of criminal influence on the terms of the “Uralmash lads”. The Central Market, several large shopping complexes and hotels in the city came under the control of OPS Uralmash.
The Uralmash team killed their competitors in Moscow, Voronezh, Kyiv and even Budapest. The scale of the criminal war is eloquently evidenced by the indictment against gang members Sergei Kurdyumov: “In 1991 1996, the organizers and participants of the gang in the territory Russian Federation, Ukraine, Hungary, at least 25 intentional murders were committed, as well as a number of other serious crimes.”
The further established alliance with the “blues” (as those who served time in a colony are called in the criminal community) finally formed the largest organized crime group in Russia in the Urals. Many young people, who did not even know that the proud name “Uralmash” is the “plant of factories” - the largest enterprise in the country - remembered a completely different “Uralmash” - an organized criminal community.
Vladislav Kostarev (pictured on the left) quite simply retrained from a street thug to a banker... The author of the photo is unknown.
Argument from power
And then OPS "Uralmash" became the Social and Political Union (OPS "Uralmash"). Such a PR move was quite in the spirit of the times: it was no longer fashionable to be called bandits, it was necessary to change the appearance. The socio-political union, headed by Alexander Khabarov, was supposed to legalize and rehabilitate an openly criminal structure in the eyes of the public. Its members have already become intelligent people (some even with PhD degrees). They headed charities And boards of trustees. They were shown on TV in the company of respected people - politicians, businessmen, honored artists and deputies. They themselves (like Alexander Khabarov or Yevgeny Roizman) became deputies.
And the General Prosecutor's Office continued to tell the truth about them: criminal takeovers of enterprises, illegal mergers and purchases of shares. “Facts have been established of assistance to the raiders by individual law enforcement officers and courts. Raiding, combined with manifestations of corruption, harms state interests and undermines the foundations of private property and entrepreneurship. Raider takeovers are accompanied by bankruptcy of enterprises. Their targets often become strategic and socially significant enterprises, research and municipal institutions, historical and cultural monuments, the most vulnerable in market relations and with attractive real estate.” These are the lines of an official document written by prosecutors not in the “wild nineties”, but in the early prosperous 2000s.
How raiders became raiders
Despite the arrest of almost two dozen “Uralmash” militants and the flight abroad of their leader Sergei Kurdyumov, as well as the leader of the organized criminal group Konstantin Tsyganov, who was released from jail, the main goal of the community was achieved. No one could effectively resist Uralmash in the Sverdlovsk region. For former street punks and criminal authorities, a wide road was opened to enormous economic resources and political power region. The era of “criminal special forces” gave way to the era of “black raiders”, which brought fabulous wealth to the leaders of the Uralmash organized criminal group.
By the end of the 90s, the leaders of the “Uralmash” community Konstantin Tsyganov, Alexander Khabarov, Sergey Vorobyov, Sergey Terentyev, Alexander Kukovyakin, Igor Novozhilov, Dmitry Alferov, Igor Mayevsky, Andrey Panpurin, Alexander Kruk, Konstantin Koldan, Alexey Chaikin and others entered the the composition of the founders and directors of almost all the large commercial structures of Yekaterinburg that they took under control during the criminal wars and established their own “family” commercial bank CJSC JSCB “Oreolkombank”, the chairman of the board of directors of which was Vladislav Kostarev. The new member of the organized crime group had extensive experience in raider takeovers of industrial enterprises and for a long time participated in the creation of the financial and industrial empire of the notorious Ural oligarch Pavel Fedulev.
In a short period of time, all the main enterprises of the alcohol industry in the region came under the control of representatives of OPS "Uralmash": the Alkona distillery, the Ekaterinburg winery, the Zvezda alcohol plant, the Isetsky brewery alcohol factory. Everything was used - from blackmail and extortion to banal fraud and forgery of minutes of shareholder meetings. Enterprises were subjected to bankruptcy and liquidation, transferring assets and production facilities to Uralmash companies. Almost all sectors of the region’s economy fell into the sphere of interests of the OPS: metallurgy, mechanical engineering, timber processing, construction and the real estate market.
On May 6, 1999, OPS Uralmash was established and officially registered. The familiar abbreviation “OPS”, which meant “organized criminal community” to everyone, began to officially stand for “socio-political union”. This was the first open challenge to society and the state from organized crime. Members of the OPS became regional senators and deputies of regional and municipal representative bodies. Where the OPS captured another city-forming or socially significant plant, “their” mayors and heads of administration were placed everywhere. At the same time, a kind of “Uralmash” common fund was created - a certain LLC “Commander-Deposit”, the participants of which were all the founders of the “Socio-Political Union” in equal shares. It was in it that the shares, shares and assets of the enterprises that had undergone the expansion of the OPS were consolidated.
Unlike the “brothers”, the authorities never broke the law. Khabarov's case was supervised by the Prosecutor General's Office.
Is the repartition finished?
In the period from 1999 to 2005, the Ekaterinburg brick factory "Uktus", Pervo Ural plant of complete metal structures "Kometkon", pulp and paper mill"SFABI", Tavdinsky Mechanical Plant, Tavdinsky Timber Mill, Tavdinsky Plywood Plant, Yekaterinburg Construction and Installation Department No. 3, Nizhnesaldinsky Metallurgical Plant, Verkhnesaldinsky Rail Fastening Plant, Bogdanovichsky Porcelain Plant, Aramilsky and Nizhny Tagil Flour Mills, regional state enterprise“Sverdl-Oblkhimchistka”, TsPI “Zvezda” in Lesnoy, Artyomovsky Machine-Building Plant for Mining Equipment “Venkon”. These and many other raider takeovers and deliberate bankruptcies are closely connected with the names of OPS leaders Alexander Khabarov, Sergei Vorobyov, Alexander Kukovyakin, Igor Novozhilovand Vladislav Kostarev. Only large financial and industrial groups were able to more or less successfully resist the “black” Uralmash raiders.
With the beginning of the new century, OPS raiders expanded the scope of their activities and reached the interregional level. For example, they took an active part in the sensational bankruptcies of the Samara Flour Mill, the Vyazemsky and Rzhevsky Flour Mills, the Smolensk Smolmyaso Enterprise, and the Chernogorsk Artificial Leather Plant in the Republic of Khakassia.
Hundreds of millions of dollars, proceeds from the theft of funds and property of bankrupt enterprises, the uncontrolled withdrawal of their assets, the sale of property complexes and production facilities, and tax evasion, poured into the pockets of the leaders of the organized crime group and the common fund of the community. Could former athletes, racketeers and street robbers ever even dream of such money?
The intimidated shareholders and owners of the enterprises stolen and ruined by the Uralmashites, as a rule, remained silent. Those rare criminal cases that the police did open on the facts of criminal bankruptcies were invariably terminated due to the lack of corpus delicti. Fortunately, the “black raiders” of the OPS never spared money on this.
In January 2007, Boris Timonichenko, who was then the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of Yekaterinburg, publicly stated that there was no longer organized crime in the capital of the Urals. “There is not a single organized criminal community left in Yekaterinburg, nor the so-called “thieves in law,” the colonel categorically stated.
However, the head of the Yekaterinburg Internal Affairs Directorate kept silent about the fact that of the twenty-one surviving founders of the Uralmash OPS, only three Konstantin Tsyganov, Alexander Kukovyakin and Sergei Vorobyov, who was released from custody, went to live abroad. The rest run their business quite legally and live openly in Yekaterinburg. Most of the markets, entertainment and shopping complexes in Yekaterinburg and the region, as well as a number of industrial and private security companies remained under the control of the OPS.
Almost all of these enterprises, in one form or another of ownership, still operate today. They pay taxes and salaries to their employees. Has the redistribution actually ended?...
“...And tell it to everyone. Applies to representatives of all cities"
“Confession”, personally written by one of the Uralmash militants.
In September 2004, in the capital of the Urals, at noon, in the central square of the city, in front of a crowded crowd and the authorities, a meeting of crime bosses and shaven-headed “brothers” took place. The leader of the Uralmash OPS, deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma Alexander Khabarov, loudly appealed to the “kindest” feelings of the comrades present: “All sorts of dandruff came here in large numbers... They began to spread rumors regarding comrades Trofa and Karo. Our city and region are normal. The city is stable now. Everyone has found understanding with each other, we have normal relations with everyone. Everyone sat down at a common table. Here is Varaksin center, Ivanov and Volodya Samosval, there are “Afghans” and other diasporas. And for all of us, so that everyone understands, there are two thieves: Trofa and Karo. We respect and support them in everything. And tell everyone, this applies to all representatives of all cities...”
Thus, the Uralmash community intervened in the redistribution of spheres of influence between thieves’ communities, putting the population of Yekaterinburg and the region in front of a real threat of a new bloody criminal war. In just two days, cafes belonging to representatives of the Azerbaijani and Armenian diasporas were destroyed, blown up or burned in Yekaterinburg, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Nizhny Tagil and Severouralsk. Several people were injured and one died.
The reaction of the federal authorities this time followed immediately. On November 26, 2004, Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliyev signed instruction No. 952 “On suppressing the activities of organized criminal groups and corruption in the Sverdlovsk region.” The terrible and hitherto unknown word “decriminalization” permeated the speeches and reports of Sverdlovsk law enforcement officers. Personnel changes in the Sverdlovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, the Central Internal Affairs Directorate and the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ural Federal District shook up the security forces.
The leader of the OPS, Alexander Khabarov, was accused of coercion into the deal and was imprisoned in a pre-trial detention center, where he died under unclear circumstances. Criminal leaders Alexander Varaksin and Alexander Kukovyakin were put on the wanted list. Sergei Vorobyov was arrested.
From the materials of the Crime Squad in metallurgical complex BEP of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate for the Sverdlovsk Region (in cooperation with the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Urals Federal District and the FSB Directorate for the Sverdlovsk Region): a set of measures was carried out to decriminalize industrial facilities in the Sverdlovsk Region in order to identify and solve crimes committed by the organized raiding group of Vladislav Gennadievich Kostarev, controlled by the criminal community "Uralmash" .
Currently, 25 main participants in the criminal group, more than 80 persons involved in criminal activities at different times, and over 60 false enterprises used in criminal activities have been identified.
The involvement of V. G. Kostarev has been established. to commit economic and tax crimes at 26 enterprises in the Sverdlovsk region and 7 enterprises in other regions of Russia since 1999.
One of the main financial instruments used in criminal activity schemes was the Joint-Stock Commercial Bank Oreolkombank, CJSC, specially established for carrying out criminal activities by the leaders of the Uralmash PS Khabarov A. A., Vorobyov S. V., Kukovyakin A.V., Novozhilov I.B., Alferov D.V., Koldan K.I. and a number of others. The chairman of the board of directors of the bank was V. G. Kostarev.
"Authority" wants to become a lawyer
On Monday evening, one of the leaders of the organized criminal community (OCC) “Uralmash”, Sergei Terentyev, also known by the nicknames Terekha and Bogomaz, was released from pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Yekaterinburg. Supreme Court Russia dropped all charges against him, for which he received 13 years in prison.
Sergei Terentyev was one of the main defendants in a criminal case considered in 1999-2001 by the Sverdlovsk Regional Court - 17 members of the Uralmash OPS were accused of organizing a criminal community, terrorism, murder, robbery, extortion and other crimes.
According to investigators, the militants of Uralmash, whose leaders were Terentyev and Sergei Kurdyumov, who had been previously convicted several times, in the early 90s launched a real war against their competitors from the “central” group. During the fighting, 28 people were killed, including the director of the insurance company EKSO Ltd. Oleg Vagin (he, along with three guards, was shot from three machine guns near the FSB building), director of the Nadezhdinsk NPO Sergei Malofeev and “authority” Sergei Dolgushin (both were shot in front of dozens of witnesses), owner of MiKuch LLP Mikhail Kuchin and former Afghan officer, owner of the Erkas chain of stores, Viktor Kasintsev. And the general director of Ural-Region JSC Nikolai Shirokov was dealt with abroad - he was killed along with three guards in December 1993 in Budapest. The most notorious crimes for which the defendants were accused were also committed in 1993. For example, in response to the arrest of one of the leaders of Uralmash, Konstantin Tsyganov, bandits fired grenade launchers at the buildings of the RUBOP and the regional administration.
Tsyganov, however, was soon released, and he left for Israel. Kurdyumov also did not make it to trial - he was released on a small bail due to a serious illness. The “authority” disappeared and is still wanted. The verdict to the remaining bandits was announced in November last year. Terentyev, found guilty, among other things, of terrorism, received 13 years in the camps. His accomplices were given from 5 to 15 years. Almost all of the convicts, who defended Terentyev in every possible way during the trial, taking upon themselves the episodes imputed to him, appealed the court’s decision. But only Terentyev’s lawyers were successful. First, they achieved a mitigation of the sentence: for one year, and at the end of May of this year, the Supreme Court of Russia left no stone unturned against the previous charge. The High Court recognized that the investigation against Sergei Terentyev was carried out with gross violations, and he himself was convicted without concrete evidence of guilt.
Last week, exculpatory documents from Moscow arrived in Yekaterinburg, and on Monday evening Sergei Terentyev left Yekaterinburg pre-trial detention center No. 1.
During the time he was in prison, the Uralmash OPS transformed into a socio-political union of the same name. Members of Uralmash began to fight the drug mafia (they managed to imprison many gypsy businessmen from Yekaterinburg and some police officers who covered them), took up business and even legislative activity. Several OPS leaders were elected to city council Yekaterinburg and the House of Representatives of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region.
Sergei Terentyev himself, who has already left Yekaterinburg, does not want to get involved in big politics yet and, according to him, the first thing he is going to do is improve his health. While serving his sentence, he fell ill with tuberculosis and acquired a whole bunch of other chronic diseases. Having recovered, Sergei Terentyev will take up education. He claims that during his six years of imprisonment he realized the need to obtain a legal education and intends to enter the Ural State Law Academy in the near future.
Meanwhile, the regional prosecutor's office, which investigated the Uralmash case, intends to keep an eye on the released Terentyev. According to employees of the supervisory authority, surveillance of him will be carried out by employees of the Organized Crime Control Department “as part of measures to combat organized crime.”
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Vekselberg vs Terentyev
The background to the searches in the office of the leader of the former organized crime group "Uralmash"
In Yekaterinburg, at the Grand Avenue Hotel, today, November 21, searches took place in the office of the leader of the former Uralmash organized criminal group, Sergei Terentyev. The reason for them was the investigation of a criminal case of an attempt on the life of the former head of the Kurgan Region Internal Affairs Directorate, Boris Timonichenko. But, as we managed to find out on the site, main reason The searches resulted in a communal conflict between the T Plus companies, controlled by Viktor Vekselberg, and GESKO LLC, close to Terentyev. We are talking about a debt that, according to unofficial data, reaches 1 billion rubles.
The searches at the Grand Avenue Hotel became known this morning around 10:00. Employees of the Sverdlovsk department of the Investigative Committee came to the address with the support of riot police of the Russian Guard. According to the SPARK system, the sole owner of this hotel at the moment is entrepreneur Andrei Lubnin. He is also the sole owner of LLC " Management company YUSTA Hotels. As is known, a chain of hotels and restaurants operates under the USTA brand in the Ural capital, controlled by people from the Uralmash OPS.
On the police side, today's searches were personally supervised by the deputy head of the main department, Major General Viktor Romanyuk (the head of the main board, Lieutenant General Mikhail Borodin, is currently on a working trip to the North Caucasus).According to sources on the site who are aware of the progress of the special event, the searches took place in one of the offices on the sixth floor of the hotel, personally owned by the leader of the former Uralmash organized criminal group, Sergei Terentyev. Moreover, information has emerged that the actions of the security forces are connected with the assassination attempt on the former head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of Yekaterinburg, then the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Kurgan Region, retired Major General Boris Timonichenko.
A letter as a reason for searches
On February 19 of this year, ex-policeman Boris Timonichenko was shot at the entrance of his own house on Botanika. The defendants in this case are former boss District Department of Internal Affairs for the Ordzhonikidze district of the Ural capital Oleg Dudko and his acquaintance Igor Kazakov. Depending on the role of each, they were charged under Part 3 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, paragraphs “g”, “h” of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Attempted murder committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy, for hire”), Part 2 Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Illegal storage, transportation and carrying of firearms and ammunition, committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy”) and Part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Illegal acquisition, storage and transportation of narcotic drugs on a large scale”).
The accused of the assassination attempt on Timonichenko declared revenge on the part of the Uralmash OPS
Almost immediately after the assassination attempt, the media began to link the crime with the current activities of Timonichenko, who heads the security and regime department of the Sverdlovsky branch of T Plus PJSC. Among other functions, the security officer oversees the collection of accounts receivable. As of November 2016, the receivables to the branch for the supply of energy resources exceed 6.8 billion rubles. Also in the media at that time OPS Uralmash was mentioned. Part of the current business of its leaders is related to the activities of management companies. It is clear that to one degree or another they intersect with the interests of T Plus PJSC. Specific information about the existence of conflicts was not made public at that time.
On July 20, Dudko’s lawyer Alexander Beloborodov invited journalists to his office at Uralmash, where he read a letter from his client. In the letter, Dudko stated that both he and Timonichenko worked in the team of Nikolai Ovchinnikov in the 90s. From 1995 to 2000, Ovchinnikov headed the Internal Affairs Directorate of Yekaterinburg. Dudko denied his participation in the assassination attempt on his former fellow soldier, said that they were trying to frame him, and hinted at revenge on the part of those whom he imprisoned.
“Time has passed, and, in my opinion, the time has come for revenge on us, the old guard. Many crooks got free when they were released as adults. Unfortunately, there were a lot of them, and they hit both Boris and me at the same time. Devilishly, they pushed their heads together on the basis of an imaginary order and hostility,” Dudko put forward his version in a letter.One of our publication’s interlocutors said that it was this July letter from Dudko that served today as the reason for conducting searches in Grand Avenue. It is curious that in the text signed by Dudko, the names or names of structures that, from his point of view, are related to the “provocation” of the attempt on Timonichenko are not written anywhere. In just one line, the ex-silovik mentioned that he worked “in the most difficult direction,” at Uralmash.
“We decided to fray our nerves”
The majority of functionaries of the former Uralmash OPS interviewed today on the website reacted quite calmly to the information about the searches in Grand Avenue. “This is all nothing more than fraying your nerves. Who in their right mind can claim that Uralmash or Sergei Veniaminovich [Terentyev] are involved in the assassination attempt [on Timonichenko]?
He, by the way, admits that “there is a conflict with Vekselberg” and concerns the utility business - “T Plus” stole 1 billion rubles.” However, the dispute is entirely resolved “in arbitration court”. Moreover, the attempt on Timonichenko’s life, in his opinion, is an absolutely illogical step. Firstly, people from the Uralmash OPS, taking into account the background of this association, will be the first to be checked. Secondly, Timonichenko is absolutely not the right figure in T Plus for an attempt on his life to change anything.
“Well, this is pure nonsense: where is Timonichenko and where is Vekselberg?! Does anyone seriously think that Vekselberg, after shooting at one of his “security guards,” will get scared, change his shoes in the air and change the company’s policy?! This whole story is one complete provocation. For someone, and we understand who, it is very beneficial for the Uralmash OPS to be mentioned in connection with the assassination attempt,” says our interlocutor.
Lawyers for Oleg Dudko, Alexander Beloborodov and Igor Kazakov, Maxim Razinkin, in a conversation with a website correspondent today, also reported that their clients had not recently changed their testimony and did not give reason to suspect any of the Uralmash members of participation in the assassination attempt. At the same time, Razinkin recalled that for searches in office premises only a decision of the investigation is needed (searches of housing are carried out only with the permission of the court or such permission must be obtained within 24 hours after the special operation) and the basis can be any operational intelligence data. “What kind of data this is, we may never know,” Razinkin emphasized.
Turin conflict
According to the main version, which is being discussed in Terentyev’s circle, the searches are related to the conflict in Nizhnyaya Tura, where the interests of T Plus and the City Energy Service Company LLC (GESKO), close to Terentyev, collided. “T Plus has reached a dead end in the fight against our heat supply structure in Nizhnyaya Tura. We beat them in the courts, and they try to take revenge. Timonichenko is the deputy for security at T Plus, so they are trying to connect us with the attack on him,” he noted. He added that in 2012, T Plus “broke accounting units and issued fake invoices,” and concluded that “T Plus knows what an unpleasant situation they can find themselves in,” so they are now looking for any way out. Apparently, we are talking about the 1 billion rubles mentioned above.
According to SPARK, the director of GESKO is Grigory Tregubov, and the sole owner is Igor Cherepakhin, who was previously associated with LLC "UK Dom", LLC "UK Ekaterinburg", LLC "ZhK Admiralsky", LLC "UK Tatishchevskaya" in Yekaterinburg. These management companies are also associated with Terentyev.
Executive Director of GESKO Igor Zhuravlev claims that T Plus used a “standard scheme” in Nizhnyaya Tura: “the worse the networks, the better business" “It works like this: the more worn out the networks are, the more heat is lost into the air and, accordingly, the more resources are needed to supply the city,” he says. According to Zhuravlev, T Plus rented municipal networks in Nizhnyaya Tura for about 10 years, and their quality left much to be desired. In addition, Zhuravlev confirms that the energy metering units were actually broken.
In the summer of 2014, the Nizhnyaya Tura mayor’s office entered into a concession agreement with GESKO, transferring the network to it for lease. “T Plus” didn’t even enter the competition at that time. “According to the agreement, we were supposed to invest about 35 million rubles in the modernization of networks, but we invested more than 80 million rubles,” says Zhuravlev.
A website source at T Plus PJSC confirms that the company had a conflict in Nizhnyaya Tura with GESKO. But the energy structure sees the situation differently. “The debts that accumulated before 2015 for heat energy are huge, and, apparently, GESCO is not going to repay them,” says a source in the company. According to him, T Plus is now trying to recover about 480 million rubles in court. The company categorically denies all accusations, including information about fake invoices, as well as the fact that T Plus deliberately did not repair the networks. “In 2015, we stopped applying for competitions (for renting networks - Znak.. Then the networks were rented by the company GESKO. “We handed over the networks according to the act, they were in better condition compared to what we received at the time. Accident rates were reduced ", - say the company.
The arbitration court file actually contains many cases of “T Plus” against GESCO. In one of them, T Plus is trying to recover more than 200 million rubles from GESKO. In other claims, the amounts are smaller, for example, about 20 million rubles or about 13 million rubles. But the essence of the dispute is practically the same: “T Plus” demands collection of debts for the supplied thermal energy, and GESKO does not recognize the amount, insisting that the metering units were broken. “As of today, there is not a single decision in favor of T Plus that would finally come into force,” emphasizes the SESKO.
Double receipts and verification by the prosecutor's office
For my part conflict situation The prosecutor's office is currently studying the utilities and energy sector in Nizhnyaya Tura. As the press secretary of the regional department of the supervisory agency, Marina Kanatova, told the site, based on a number of requests from residents of the municipality, the Nizhny Tura prosecutor’s office carried out an appropriate inspection. According to the data obtained during it, Sverdlovsk Heat Supply Company LLC (now the Sverdlovsky branch of T Plus PJSC) previously actually acted in Nizhnyaya Tura as a guaranteeing supplier of hot water and heating. However, from October 1, 2014, this function was transferred to GESKO LLC. Accordingly, payments from consumers should have been transferred to the accounts of this structure. However, until December 31, 2015, the collection and transfer of utility bills in Nizhnyaya Tura was carried out by EnergosbyT Plus OJSC (a subsidiary of T Plus PJSC). And in April 2015, this structure transferred payments from the population to STC as payment for consumer debt for heat and hot water consumed before October 1, 2014.
Further, in May 2015, EnergosbyT Plus employees again issued double receipts to consumers, including the debt incurred in April 2015 to GESKO.“At the same time, Energosbyt Plus OJSC did not inform either consumers or City Energy Service Company LLC about the “double” payments,” the prosecutor’s office emphasizes. Since January 1, 2016, RCC LLC (director and co-owner Vladimir Tkachev) has taken over the collection of utility bills in Nizhnyaya Tura. However, in March, this structure also began to issue inflated bills to consumers - “indicating the debt, as well as penalties accrued in connection with its presence.” “The basis for presenting these debts to consumers was the information and documents provided by EnergosbyT Plus OJSC,” the prosecutor’s office states.
At the moment, a proposal has been submitted to the director of the Sverdlovsk branch of Energosbyt Plus, Georgy Kozlov, on behalf of the Nizhnyaya Tura prosecutor’s office, demanding that the violations be eliminated. The regional department of the supervisory agency took control of the situation.
