Sometimes he got into the field of view of the media. However, despite the negative materials about him or his close relatives that can be found on the Internet, he continues to remain in his post and successfully manage such a serious structure.
Chaika Yuri Yakovlevich: biography, wife
The future Prosecutor General was born into a family whose roots go back to the Kuban Cossacks. His date of birth is May 21, 1951. The place of birth is the city of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur. He was born the youngest of four children.
After graduating from Nicholas high school No. 4 in 1968, Yuri Chaika entered the Polytechnic Institute of Komsomolsk-on-Amur at the shipbuilding department.
After studying for a year and a half, he dropped out of school and, before being called up for military service, got a job as an electrician at the Nikolaev shipbuilding plant in the city of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur.
In 1970-1972, Yuri Chaika served in the ranks of the Soviet Army, the place of his service was the author of the city of Khabarovsk.
Immediately after demobilization, he became a student at the Sverdlovsk Law Institute (SUI), where he studied until 1976. After graduating from the institute, he received a diploma in law.
During his studies, Yuri Chaika met his future wife Elena, who was then studying at the Pedagogical Institute of the city of Sverdlovsk. In 1974, after graduating from high school, they got married.
Work after SUI
It is noteworthy that at the Sverdlovsk Law Institute in the seventies, the teacher in civil law was Yakovlev V.F., who later became the presidential adviser on legal issues. It was with him that Yury Yakovlevich Chaika studied. The Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation from 1995 to 1999, Yury Ilyich Skuratov, studied at the same university around the same period, he is a 1973 graduate. Skuratov's acquaintance with Chaika took place in his student years.
Immediately after receiving a diploma in 1976, Yury Yakovlevich Chaika, whose biography has since been inextricably linked with work in the prosecutor's office, began his labor activity from the post of trainee of the Ust-Udinsk district prosecutor's office (Irkutsk region). Later he worked there as an investigator.
In 1978, he rose to the position of deputy regional prosecutor.
Since 1979, Yuri Chaika has been transferred to the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office.
Until 1984, his place of work was the Taishet Transport Prosecutor's Office, where he served as a prosecutor, then he headed the investigative department in a higher transport prosecutor's office, where he worked until 1985.
Over the next year, he was invited to the post of instructor in the Irkutsk regional committee of the CPSU in the department in charge of administrative bodies.
In 1986-1988, Chaika worked in Irkutsk as a deputy regional prosecutor for investigation.
Participation in party bodies and further career growth
In the spring of 1988, Yuri Chaika was again invited to work in the Irkutsk regional committee of the Communist Party, where until 1991 he headed the state and legal department.
Then he was appointed to the post of prosecutor in the East Siberian Prosecutor's Office for Transport.
In February 1992, he became the regional prosecutor in Irkutsk.
After Vildan Suleimanovich Uzbekov left the post of First Deputy Prosecutor General Russian Federation, from 11/16/1995 this position was taken by Yury Yakovlevich Chaika. Prosecutor General Yuri Ilyich Skuratov spoke of him then as a very energetic, demanding and tough person in suppressing criminal activity. He noted that he had known Chaika since his student years and had always noted his good abilities and diligence.
Skuratov highly appreciated the work of Chaika in the Irkutsk regional prosecutor's office, where the criminogenic situation is complicated by the presence of a large number of colonies. Criminals who have served their sentences often settle in this region.
Seagull, according to Skuratov, successfully coped with his duties. For example, during 1992, a total of eight criminal cases under the article "banditry" were investigated on the territory of the Russian Federation. Five of them were initiated by the Irkutsk prosecutor's office.
Working as a regional prosecutor allowed Chaika to experience the problems associated with the inefficiency of the central office, when petty guardianship does not allow focusing on the main problems.
As First Deputy Prosecutor General
In the summer of 1996, Chaika worked on famous case about the removal from the White House of more than half a million US dollars in a box that previously contained branded copier paper.
Initially, Mikhail Katyshev, who supervised this case, said that representatives of the presidential administration insisted on transferring the case to Chaika.
In January 1997, Chaika was introduced to the Interdepartmental Anti-Terrorist Commission of the Russian Federation.
In early September 1998, Chaika insisted on the arrest of Vladimir Petrov, First Deputy Finance Minister, who was accused of having received a million dollars for carrying out illegal acts in favor of the Escado commercial bank. It was assumed that the money was transferred to his account in Andorra. In 1999, Petrov was released from custody, and two years later the case against him was dropped.
In 1999, a Moscow Odintsovo firm complained to law enforcement about racketeering. Racketeers - Ingush living in Irkutsk - were detained. On the car used by them there were license plates, which were listed on Chaika.
The detainees were found to have a special ticket prohibiting checking the car, as well as a power of attorney to vehicle, signed by the name of the son of Yuri Chaika - Artem. The latter spoke at the trial of the racketeers as a witness.
And about. Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation
In April 1999, Chaika was appointed to act as the Prosecutor General of Russia.
During this period, he told the IMF representatives that the Prosecutor General's Office had made factually unfounded accusations against former high-ranking government officials who misused allocated IMF loans. These former statesmen were the former Prime Minister S. Kiriyenko and the former head of the Central Bank S. Dubinin.
In the same period, a campaign began to remove Skuratov from his post. As Yury Yakovlevich Chaika later commented on this, the Prosecutor General was dismissed in accordance with the current legislation.
Resignation
In July 1999, Chaika submitted an application for resignation. The real reason for this, many have suggested, was the initiation of a lawsuit against racketeers who were on friendly terms with his son.
The Federation Council decided to consider the issue of Chaika's resignation in October this year.
Chaika at that time, having gone on vacation, transferred his powers to the Deputy Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov, who became acting. about. Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation since July 29, 1999.
In the process of being on vacation, Chaika applied for retirement, which was granted on 08/09/1999.
Further posts in the public service
On August 17, 1999, Yury Yakovlevich Chaika, whose address was still Moscow, became the head of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. He held this post until 2006, despite the change of prime minister.
Since 2003, he was introduced into government commission for administrative reform.
On June 23, 2006, Chaika was appointed Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. He holds this position to the present day.
Seagull Yuri Yakovlevich: family, photo
The wife of the Prosecutor General - Chaika Elena Grigoryevna, born in 1952, after graduating from the Pedagogical Institute, worked in kindergarten and teacher at school, later was a housewife. Currently retired.
The eldest son, Artem Yuryevich Chaika, born in 1975, has, according to media reports, a number of enterprises, he is a candidate of legal sciences.
The youngest son Igor, born in 1988, also has a law degree, he is a graduate of the Moscow State Academy of Sciences. Kutafin.
At the age of 26, he became an adviser to the governor of the Moscow region Vorobyov, his area of \u200b\u200bactivity was culture, sports and youth policy. Later, Igor Yuryevich Chaika left government structures in order to devote himself to entrepreneurial activity.
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IGOR YURIEVICH
January 1, 1988 (aged 28)
Former Advisor to the Governor of the Moscow Region
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LAST QUOTE:
Quotations should be used only when you really can not do without someone else's authority. Arthur Schopenhauer
HOBBIES
Don't take anything to heart. Little in the world is important for a long time. Erich Maria Remarque
AMBITION
Naked ambitions, better dressed defeats. Folk wisdom
CARICATURES
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ARTEM YURIEVICH
Founder of Siberian Element - Renta-K LLC
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YURI YAKOVLEVICH
Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation
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BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1988. In 2011 he graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy named after O.E. Kutafin (Institute of Private International Law). While still a sophomore, he began to do business. He was the founder of a number of companies, including Innovations of Light LLC, Aqua Solid LLC, Golden Age Company LLC. In February 2014, he became an adviser to the Governor of the Moscow Region on sports, culture, tourism and youth affairs. In the summer In 2015, he left the post of adviser to the governor, deciding to focus on business projects.
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Victory Day. The Red Square.
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At the celebration of the 216th anniversary of the birth of A.S. Pushkin
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With Prime Minister Medvedev, Moscow Region Governor Vorobyov and Patriarch Kirill
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EDUCATION
In 2011 he graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy named after O.E. Kutafin (Institute of Private International Law).
PORTRAIT
“I went into the field of culture, tourism, sports, firstly, because the activities that I was engaged in earlier resonate with this. Secondly, for about a year I worked with the governor as a businessman, but on a gratuitous basis - in no tenders When Andrey Yuryevich Vorobyov had an election campaign, I actively helped in the organization of new parks, the creation of urban infrastructure .... I will have to give up business, but I have a brother who is engaged in entrepreneurial activity, mother, friends, after all," said Igor Chaika after his appointment as an adviser to the Governor of the Moscow Region.
COMPROMAT
a:2:(s:4:"TEXT";s:65535:"a:2:(s:4:"TEXT";s:69880:"“From the second year of the institute [O.E. Moscow Law Academy Kutafin] I am engaged in business from food production to landscaping, development of public spaces and creation of the architectural appearance of cities, ”Igor Chaika said in an interview with Izvestia in 2014. The young businessman did not seek to be among the founders, he often trusted this role partners, two of his acquaintances assure.According to them, Chaika usually did business with Alexander Tsurkan, Alexander Ponomarev and Denis Galagan.These three businessmen in 2008, just when the 20-year-old Chaika was in his second year, created the first joint company - "Dealsa", which provided credit brokerage and financial consulting services. For 3% of the loan amount, the company helped those who wished to obtain a mortgage, pawnshop or commercial loan from banks. As he recalls former employee"Dealsy", at first the company rented an office of 40 sq. m in the Kitay-gorod area and consisted of only three people. Then she moved to the office on Zolotorozhsky Val, and her staff grew to 50 people. However, due to the crisis, things were not going very well, and the broker quietly closed in 2013. Back in 2010, part of the employees from Dealsa went to work in the first company created personally by Igor Chaika, Innovations of Light, which took up landscaping public spaces. She was located in the premises of the Impression beauty salon bought by Chaika, on the first floor of a residential building 12, building 1, on Rochdelskaya Street. This building, located opposite the White House, became famous after the investigation of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny: he discovered that the 300 sq. m in this house belongs to the daughter of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Sobyanina's neighbors different time were ex-Speaker of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov, ex-head of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev, ex-premier Mikhail Fradkov, deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak, head of Sberbank German Gref. Soon after the creation of Innovations of Light, she won 10 tenders for electrical work in Novorossiysk in the amount of just over 18 million rubles. and 1 million rubles. in Armavir, and later received state contracts for the installation of decorative lighting for the Crimean flyover and Novospassky bridge, as well as the streets of the Southern Administrative District - a total of 20 million rubles. with little. Then the company turned its attention to a topic that was gaining popularity - the improvement of city parks. According to public procurement data, three more companies constantly fought for contracts for the improvement of parks together with Innovations of Light: Tsurkan’s Urban Environment, Galagan’s Citistroyservice, and Baltikstroycompany, owned by the former commercial director of Light Innovations Grigory Grin. So it was, for example, in the competition for the reconstruction of the Moscow park "Ostankino" commissioned by the GKU "Moszelenkhoz". Order for 697 million rubles. in 2013 Citystroyservis got it, but the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) suspected the participants of conspiracy, having found out that the companies made applications from one IP address. The address belonged to the Tender Inform company, which entered into a service agreement with each of the participants and allegedly promised victory to each of them. In September 2013, the FAS announced that it had transferred the materials on the case to the Prosecutor General's Office. No criminal case was opened. While the FAS investigation was underway, the same companies managed to participate in the tender for the second stage of the reconstruction of Ostankino: in a row for 2 billion rubles. again went to Citystroyservis. But the competition for lighting the Dzhugba - Sochi highway for 309 million rubles. Chaika's Innovations of Light won against Citystroyservice. While Chaika was engaged in lighting, Ponomarev and Tsurkan were doing business in those areas that Chaika mentioned in an interview with Izvestia. At first they tried to establish the production of shoes, creating the Hatton company together with partners, but a year later they parted. Ponomarev immediately established his own shoe company Artel. This is one of the largest footwear manufacturers in Russia, it is part of the Innovations of Light holding and produces comfortable and fashionable products under the Dorf brand from modern materials at a factory in Shchelkovo. At least, this is what “Innovations of Light” themselves wrote in the advertisements for the selection of employees for Artel on vacancy websites. The business did not go: having received a loss of 10 million rubles in two years. , the owners put the company up for sale for $560,000. It was not possible to find buyers, in 2014 Artel was liquidated. In 2012, Ponomarev also established a company for the production of semi-finished products - Steamed Meal. Ready meals were sold in self-heating packaging. “You just need to pull the string and wait 5-10 minutes,” the company's presentation said. For two years of operation, Steam Meal received a loss of 5.7 million, production was closed. In the same 2012, Chaika, who had graduated from MFUA a year earlier, became a partner of lawyer Dmitry Yakubovsky and VTB State Bank in a major development project. A young businessman through Encon will receive 8% in City Land Group (SLG), a joint company of Yakubovsky and VTB, which owned 8,000 hectares of land in the Moscow region. It is planned to build two logistics parks worth 50 billion rubles on the sites, as well as millions of square meters of housing. But a year later, Chaika left the project - Ponomarev became the owner of Encon. “Igor Yuryevich at that time was preparing for the transition to the civil service and tried to distance himself from his business,” a person close to the SLG explains the meaning of the deal. “Igor Yuryevich was looking for himself, tried different businesses, but it turned out that it was most profitable to develop partnerships with government agencies,” explains one of his acquaintances. Three years ago, Turcan established another company, Charter. A year after its foundation, she began to participate in competitions for garbage collection in Moscow. As a result, she got long-term contracts worth 42.67 billion rubles. for servicing the Northern and Eastern districts of Moscow. On average, the victories provided the Charter with an annual revenue of 2.8 billion rubles. Then the "Charter" acquired the necessary capacities: for 267 million rubles. the company bought a waste sorting complex and a fleet of garbage trucks from the Bank of Moscow. It is possible that the company received the money for the deal from the Bank of Moscow itself. According to SPARK, until 2019 he has 96 garbage trucks and 2,100 garbage containers owned by Charter. According to the Department of Housing and Public Utilities, which oversees the removal of garbage, "Charter" copes with the implementation of the contract. In 2014, the company removed 15% of waste in Moscow, in 2015 it will remove 20%. By the end of the year, it will open 52 collection points in the city for the collection of secondary raw materials, a representative of the department said. The Charter, which advertises the slogan “Let it always be clean,” belongs to Chaika, according to a Moscow mayor’s office official and one of the garbage collection competitors. In addition to garbage, the structures of the son of the Prosecutor General are engaged in landscaping in Moscow, they know. Seagull did not keep a big secret about this business, an official from the Moscow Region government confirms. Galagan's Citistroyservice is engaged in changing curbs and other road works in the same districts from which Charter takes out garbage: for example, in May 2015 it won tenders for 1.4 billion rubles. In the spring of 2013, the municipal deputy of the Taganka district, Ilya Sviridov, said in his blog that the work under the program "Recreation industry in green areas of common use" total cost 4 billion rubles will be carried out at very high rates. For example, the repair of a small square on Taganskaya Square in preliminary documents was estimated at almost 50 million rubles, and this is the annual budget of the Tagansky district. It was proposed to pay 150 million rubles for landscaping and other landscaping of 0.5 hectares on Khitrovskaya Square. True, officials made changes to the preliminary documentation, reducing the number of squares to be improved by half - to 20. According to the results of competitions, work on 16 of them was carried out by structures associated with Chaika: the projects were prepared by Baltikstroycompany, and implemented by Citystroyservice. The latter has earned praise from city officials. “All work was carried out to a high standard. Purchased children's playgrounds and sports grounds are the most modern and meet all existing requirements. The landscaping work carried out was carried out at a high professional level. Purchased planting material, adapted to Moscow climatic conditions," the department's press service said. The park in Ostankino at city competitions was recognized as the best implemented project of modern reconstruction of the park area: now there is everything - from a skate park and sun loungers to wireless internet noted in the message. Since this year, one of the structures that is associated with Chaika has entered the new market. At the beginning of 2015, Baltikstroycompany won a development contract for 18.6 million rubles. projects overhaul 18 apartment buildings in the center of the capital. In February 2014, Igor Chaika was appointed Advisor on Sports, Culture, Tourism and Youth Affairs to the Governor of the Moscow Region Andrey Vorobyov. And among other things, he immediately announced his desire to take up parks near Moscow. Structures close to him already had experience in this area. In 2013, Innovations of Light developed projects for the reconstruction of three parks: Natashinsky Park in Lyubertsy, Timokhovskiy Ravine in Vidnoye, and Skitsky Ponds in Sergiev Posad. The latter was approved by the Moscow region authorities and taken to work. There was no money in the regional budget, therefore, according to the Ministry of Culture of the Moscow Region, the project was implemented at the expense of investors. Their names are not called, however, Radio Posad reported that Innovations of Light invested 30 million rubles in Skitsky Ponds. Chaika's plans in this area were grandiose: in 2012, Innovations of Light and Citystroyservice were awarded at the 13th International Festival Landscape Architecture. View from Home” Grand Prix for the joint project “Ring of Parks in the Moscow Region: Program for the Development of Recreational Territories around Moscow” (see figure on page 20). The developers proposed to break 16 new entertainment and leisure parks with an area of 50 and 100 hectares along the perimeter of the concrete ring around Moscow. By the time Chaika came to the government near Moscow, there was also money in the budget: in 2014, 2 billion rubles were allocated for the development of parks until 2018. As Vedomosti was told in the press service of the Ministry of Culture, the project “Ring of Parks of the Moscow Region” developed by Innovations of Light “seems very promising, given the main urban trend - the creation comfortable environment residence, increasing the attractiveness of urban space. According to a representative of the Ministry of Culture, “along with state support for the development and creation of park areas, it is very important that the parks near Moscow be considered by businesses as a promising platform for investment. The main task of the government is to create a favorable investment climate to attract bona fide investors. Nevertheless, in the summer of 2015, Chaika left the post of adviser to the governor. He then explained to reporters that he decided to focus on business. Chaika was an adviser on a voluntary basis, funding from the Ministry of Culture was clearly insufficient to implement his ambitious plans, says one of the former colleagues of the prosecutor general's son. Chaika realized that he could not rise above the adviser, but there were plans, another employee of the Moscow Region administration notes. In an interview with Izvestiya in 2014, Chaika indeed says that "the scenario" of his appointment as Vorobyov's deputy is being considered. Chaika left the government of the Moscow region without offense, having managed to launch a number of programs important for the region - not only for parks, but also for branding cities near Moscow, another official of the Moscow Region government objects. “In the life of any person there is a moment when you need to decide whether it is a business or a career. Chaika decided that in business he would achieve great success,” he adds. For example, now a businessman has launched a multi-billion dollar business with Russian Railways, the source of Vedomosti knows. In May 2013, Chaika created the Aqua Solid company. A year later, the T-industry company created by this company won the Russian Railways tender for the purchase of 3 billion rubles. 50% minus 2 shares of Russia's largest sleeper manufacturer, JSC Beteltrans (BET). At BET good business. The company's revenue in 2014 amounted to 18.8 billion rubles, in 2012-2013. it won the Russian Railways tenders for the supply of reinforced concrete sleeper products until 2017 for 269 billion rubles. Aqua Solid's partner was the Dutch Spoor Structuur Investering, which received 70% of T-industry. Together with half of BET, the buyers also got a stake in Millennium Bank, among the co-owners of which are Russian Railways structures. BET owns 11.7% stake in the bank. From the disclosure of Millennium, it became known that the beneficiary of the Dutch company, and therefore the partner of Chaika, is the Kazakh group Magnetik, a well-known businessman in this country, Dmitry Grechanichenko. "Magnetik", according to its own data, is the only manufacturer of sleepers in Kazakhstan. Interestingly, the group is also interested in recycling. In an interview with the Kazakhstani edition of Uspekh, Grechanichenko said that at one of his enterprises he is developing a program for the complete processing of PET bottles and other polymers and the further use of the resulting raw materials in the production of fasteners for sleepers. It was not possible to contact Grechanichenko: the phones listed on the company's website did not answer. Chaika chooses projects related to issues that are important to society, so it is not surprising that many of them are funded by the state, according to one of his acquaintances. (October, 2015) The website of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) published exposing material about the business and European real estate of the sons of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. Moreover, FBK activists even made a film dedicated to the activities of Artyom and Yury Chaek. The scandal related to the foreign assets of the children of Igor Chaika began after the reconstruction of the Pomegranate Hotel was completed on the Greek peninsula of Halkidiki. Only the renovation of this "masterpiece of island architecture" is estimated at 25 to 29 million euros. That is how much money the investor invested in Pomegranate, which, according to the FBK, turned out to be Artem Chaika (son of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation). This luxury hotel is owned by a firm owned by Artem Chaika and Olga Lopatina (ex-wife of Deputy Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin). Row information resources reports that Deputy Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin divorced his wife Olga in order to deliberately hide the true income and existing foreign business. This business, obviously, was the ownership of the fashionable Greek health and spa hotel Pomegranate Wellness Spa Hotel, which was acquired for 25 million euros. According to information available in the Greek media, about 20 million euros were invested in the reconstruction of the hotel. Based on the data presented, it can be concluded that the Chaek and Lopatin families conduct their joint hotel business in Greece and control the chic Pomegranate Hotel. Cover partners? Recall that Deputy Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin became a defendant in a corruption scandal, when several defendants in the case of “covering casinos near Moscow” testified against him at once. It was Lopatin who allegedly patronized the Vulkan slot machine network, which operated underground. It is worth noting that Artem Chaika also "lit up" in corruption scandals in the Moscow region. Recall that earlier in the city court of Serpukhov, a witness classified by the investigation called Artem Chaika the coordinator of "corruption ties" between prosecutors near Moscow and an authoritative businessman Ivan Nazarov, suspected of organizing an underground gambling business. It turns out that Artem Chaika and Gennady Lopatin could together “protect” the casinos near Moscow. By the way, the Lopatin family is connected not only with the Moscow region, but also with the Kuban mafia. As FBK representatives found out, Olga Lopatina is a co-owner of the Sugar Kuban company together with the wives of Sergei Tsapok and Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz. These are the leaders of the infamous "Kushchevskaya organized criminal group" from the Krasnodar Territory, who were convicted of particularly brutal murder of twelve people, including four children. On the this moment By the way, Sergei Tsapok himself is no longer among the living. Interestingly, the fourth co-founder of Sugar Kuban LLC, Nadezhda Staroverova, is the wife of another high-ranking prosecutor's office official, Alexei Staroverov. GTA Gang Recall that Staroverov was "temporarily suspended" from work in the Prosecutor General's Office after a haven of militants from the "GTA gang" - bandits who killed and robbed 14 people on suburban highways. A warehouse of weapons and ammunition was found in the same house. It would seem that after such a discovery, a criminal case should have been initiated against Staroverov, but he is a good friend of Yuri Chaika, so the Prosecutor General’s Office predictably “did not find” Staroverov’s connection with the GTA gang. Earlier, prosecutors were repeatedly suspected of protecting the Tsapkov gang. This is not surprising, since the wives of prosecutors Lopatin and Staroverov own a common business with the wives of bandits Tsapok and Tsepovyaz. By the way, at one time the prosecutor of the Krasnodar Territory, Leonid Korzhinek, refused to initiate criminal cases against the Tsapkovskys. Perhaps he, too, was in the share. House on Athos It is worth noting that in addition to a hotel on the island of Chalkidiki, Artem Chaika also has a villa on the seashore, which offers a beautiful view of Athos. Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika has repeatedly said that he likes to visit Athos to "spiritually charge" there. Obviously, his son's chic villa located nearby only helps Chaika Sr. "spiritually enrich his inner world." By the way, next to the “athos residence of seagulls” there is another villa belonging to the already mentioned above Olga Lopatina (the former wife of the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation and co-owner of the Pomegranate Hotel). Swiss resident FBK experts found out that Artem Chaika is a resident of Switzerland and also has real estate and business there. Purely formally, he lives in the village of Founex, just a 30-minute drive from Geneva. This house is owned by a young Swiss Ukrainian Bohdan Lisurenko, whose mother is familiar with the family of Deputy Prosecutor General Lopatin. Most likely, Chaika Jr. resorted to the services of Lisurenko in order to register in his house for further business in Switzerland. As FBK found out, in September 2014 Artem Chaika purchased real estate in Switzerland with an estimated value of 2.7 million francs. This is about 3 million dollars or about 198 million rubles. A firm for brothers In addition, Artem Chaika controls a law firm from Lausanne, F.T. conseils. FBK analysts write that one of its founders is the son of the Prosecutor General, Artem Chaika. In March 2015, Artem acquired approximately 40% of the shares. More interestingly, he bought them from his own brother Igor. Igor Chaika has owned this share since 2013, during the entire time that he served as adviser to the governor of the Moscow region. Friends in Switzerland The Seagulls have business partners in Switzerland. This is the ex-head of the Migration Department of the canton of Vaud, Francois Taren, who helps in registering transactions in Switzerland, and the former head of the Geneva firm Juridical House, Murat Khapsirokov. Now Hapsirokov is a senator from Adygea, one of the ten richest members of the Federation Council. His father Nazir (Crimea-Geri) Hapsirokov since 1994 was the head of the Office of the Prosecutor's Office (department manager), and from 2000 to 2011, Hapsirokov Sr. arrived in the position of adviser to the Presidential Administration. Rumor has it that when Nazir Khapsirokov worked in the Prosecutor General's Office, he helped Yuri Chaika buy a huge house on Rublyovka. The office of the company Juridical House, which was previously managed by Hapsirokov Jr., is located in the same room as F.T.Conseils, owned by Chaikas and Francois Taren, registered in Lausanne. FBK analysts believe that with the help of specialists from the Juridical House, Chaika's children "scroll" through Swiss accounts a colossal flow of financial resources (tens of millions of euros - ed.). Capture of the shipping company in the Irkutsk region Of course, Artem Chaika did not immediately become a dollar millionaire. But in order to understand all the stages of the take-off of the business career of the son of the Prosecutor General, you need to remember a little about the promotion of his father - from the prosecutor of the Irkutsk region to the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation and the Prosecutor General of Russia. The first time Artem Chaika became a figure in the criminal chronicle, when in the spring of 1999 his car was detained in the Moscow region, which was used by proxy by his longtime friends and security guards - natives of Ingushetia Syzyr Chumakov and Ibragim Evloev, who are members of the Ingush organized crime group and, by the way, were famous at one time racketeers. According to rumors, then the son of the Prosecutor General, using his father's connections, tried to “smear them off”. However, as a result, a scandal erupted in the press and it turned out that the car driven by the bandits had "thieves" numbers and a special ticket without the right to check. Artyom was provided with all these “charms” by his loving father. Then Yuri Chaika, according to rumors, helped his son "grab" the assets of the Verkhnelensky River Shipping Company (VLRP), which came under the control of the little-known company CJSC Laena. This firm was founded by the son of the then Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika Artem and State Duma deputy Bashir Ilyasovich Kodzoev. At first, Artem Chaika persuaded VLRP management to take a soft loan, and then suddenly demanded the loan back, simultaneously starting the bankruptcy procedure for VLRP. This process, according to rumors, was facilitated by the protégé of Yuri Chaika, the head of the Irkutsk branch of the FSFO, Natalia Bezik. Moreover, Yuri Chaika arranged for his son a meeting with the governor of the Irkutsk region, B.A. Govorin. Palenny's testimony The final act of the raider seizure of VLRP by Artem Chaika's structures was the murder of the intractable general director of the shipping company Nikolai Palenny. This story was shown once - in early 2003. After that, the release from the channel's website disappeared, but the old recording can still be found on the Internet. On December 30, 2002, two days after the recording of the program, the former director of the Verkhnelensky Shipping Company was found hanged in his own garage. The bandits who killed Burned have not yet been found. This crime, no doubt, was beneficial to Artyom Chaika, but his father, apparently, successfully “hushed up” this scandal. By the way, Yuri Chaika is no stranger to participating in "criminal cases." Take, for example, his many years of friendship with the prosecutor Nikolai Nebudchikov, who, according to rumors, could allegedly be the leader of an influential criminal group. Advisor to the Prosecutor General Of course, the seizure of VLRP assets by Artem Chaika would not have been possible without the help of a number of officials. In particular, the regional prosecutor's office took the side of the Seagulls. Recall that in the early 2000s, the prosecutor's office of the city of Irkutsk (in the status of deputy prosecutor of the region) was headed by Albina Kovaleva, a friend and ally of Yuri Chaika, whom Artem called in public "second mother". She later retired, headed the Registration Chamber, then returned to the prosecutor's office. Now Kovaleva works in the rank of general and works as an adviser to the prosecutor general. It is possible that Mrs. Kovaleva was also involved in the raider seizure of the VLRP. Interestingly, the above-mentioned prosecutor of the Krasnodar Territory Leonid Korzhinek, who covered the Tsapkovskaya organized criminal group in Kuschevka, also worked with Albina Kovaleva in the Irkutsk region since 1985. Accomplices Were in the case of the attack on VLRP and other defendants. For example, in 2002, Dmitry Shishkin became a minority shareholder of the shipping company with a share of several hundredths of a percent, who subsequently sells his share to a certain Ri Bon Hee. Dmitry Shishkin is called a classmate of Artem Chaika. As for Ri Bon Hee, having become a shareholder of a shipping company in Siberia, for some reason he began to be on the staff and receive a salary in the Moscow company Legal Consulting, 100% owned by Artem Chaika. At the end of December 2002, at an extraordinary meeting of shareholders, the old management of the shipping company was replaced by a new one. After that, control over the enterprise passed to Artem Chaika. Ships on withdrawal After the change of directors, two of the three repair and maintenance bases that are part of the VLRP were headed by OOO United Upper-Lena River Shipping Company (OVLRP). Having become a management company, OVLRP received the right to appoint directors, make key decisions on the sale of assets and conclude charter contracts. At the same time, private OVLRP did not have the right to dispose of the assets of VLRP, which was a strategic enterprise in the Irkutsk region. An audit by the Accounts Chamber found that OVLRP LLC did not have and could not have any power of attorney from the Ministry of Property of Russia. However, de facto, with the connivance of the Ministry of Property of Russia, OVLRP LLC willingly and selfishly used this status (including for the withdrawal of the assets of the shipping company). It is believed that it was with the help of the management company OVLRP LLC of the Verkhnelensky River Shipping Company that 12 vessels were launched. At the same time, part of the vessels were sold to two Russian companies - LLC "Ostrov" and LLC "Sabas", which had all the signs of ephemeral. In fact, it was with the help of Ostrov and Sabas that the ships were withdrawn from the ownership of the shipping company in the interests of Artem Chaika and his associates. Who controlled OVLRP LLC? It should be noted that at the time of the establishment of OVLRP, 50% of its shares belonged to Etalon Trade LLC, a company owned by Yuri Ponomarev until 2004. He represented the interests of Artem Chaika. The other 50% of OVLRP was owned by Industrial Development CJSC. This is the company of Artem Chaika's partner, Roman Trotsenko. Until recently, Roman Trotsenko headed the state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation, and is now an adviser to Igor Sechin at Rosneft. It seems that Artem Chaika could take the assets of the Verkhnelensky river shipping company "on a par" with Roman Trotsenko. Salt tycoon Artem Chaika also controls the previously unknown Irkutsk LLC Solidarity, which suddenly managed to buy the fourth-largest salt deposit in Russia, OAO Tyretsky Salt Mine, from the state for only 660.667 million rubles. Taking into account the fact that the starting price was 639.667 million rubles. Solidarity had to pay only 20 million rubles for this super-profitable asset. Well, where is the profit of the state? She is not, but there is a huge income for the son of the Attorney General. However, how to prove the connection between Artem Chaika and Solidarity LLC? As it turned out, the owner of Solidarity, Nikolai Kulgaev, runs RTI-Center Plus LLC, owned by Mikhail Karamushka. But Kulgaev and Karamushka are affiliated with Artem Chaika. After the Tyret Salt Mine OJSC was withdrawn from state ownership, the same Mikhail Karamushka, acting in the interests of the son of the Prosecutor General, headed it. It turns out that Tyretsky Salt Mine JSC got "on the cheap" precisely to the business structures of Artem Chaika. The role of Fetisov By the way, the "Tyretsky salt mine" is located on the territory of the Irkutsk region. According to the FBK, this salt deposit came under the control of Artyom Chaika's structures with the help of the head of the Irkutsk territorial department of the Federal Property Management Agency Pavel Fetisov. Interestingly, until 2010, Fetisov headed the security department of the Federal Registration Service for the Irkutsk Region. His boss there was "comrade-in-arms of Yuri Chaika" Albina Kovaleva. It turns out that Artem Chaika could “get out” to Fetisov through Kovaleva. In relation to these officials to the commercial interests of Chaika Jr., there is clearly a “corruption overtones”. The Kaluga scheme However, the salt mine in the Irkutsk region alone was clearly not enough for Artem Chaika. The thing is that, according to media reports, in December 2013 a tender for the right to use subsoil for the purpose of exploration and production of salt at a site in Kaluga region won OAO "Tyretsky Salt Mine". This salt deposit is located in the Maloyaroslavetsky district (v. Vorobyevo) of the Kaluga region and is called "Vorobevsky". According to the FBK, the only competitor of Tyretsky Salt Mine LLC in the competition for a license to develop the Vorobyevsky salt deposit in Kaluga was the front office Maloyaroslavsky Salt Industry. She predictably lost this competition, so in the end, Tyretsky Salt Mine LLC, associated with Artem Chaika, became the winner. It turns out that the competition was held with a clear violation of the law (if we keep in mind the version that the competitor of the "digging of the Seagull" was precisely the "dummy company"). A friend from the prosecutor's office Governor of the region Anatoly Artamonov personally delivered a solemn speech dedicated to the start of the development of the Vorobyovskoye salt deposit in the Kaluga region. At the opening of a new "salt" plant in Kaluga, Artem Chaika laid a "time capsule", and his brother Igor was among the guests. When a fictitious auction for the Vorobyovskoye field was played out, Dmitry Demeshin was the prosecutor of the Kaluga region. “By a strange coincidence,” Demeshin turned out to be very friendly with the son of the Prosecutor General, Artem Chaika. Of course, the prosecutor's office did not even think of looking for violations of the law in organizing a competition for a license to develop the Vorobyovskoye salt deposit. "Non-Metal" King There is an opinion that Artyom Chaika may soon become a "Non-Metal" King. This guess is supported by information about his assets, which, however, are also connected with other areas of business. The “flagship” of the financial empire of Chaika Jr., obviously, is the “First Non-Metal Company” (PNK), through which he owns 18 crushed stone plants. Moreover, the son of the Prosecutor General controls the PNK not directly, but through the Chelyabinsk non-metallic company (NRC) "Berdyaush". Deal with Russian Railways By the way, according to media reports, Artem Chaika bought the First Non-metallic Company from Russian Railways through his structures. The PNK company was founded by Russian Railways relatively recently, in 2008, but for some reason, only 3 years later, it was qualified as a “non-core asset” and put up for sale. The “non-core” nature of the PNK for Russian Railways raises some doubts. Crushed stone produced in factories is used for construction and repair railway tracks. This business is called "eternal contract". Russian Railways annually requires huge volumes of crushed stone worth billions of rubles, so the buyer of PNK would never have problems with customers. In this regard, there is an opinion that Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika could “agree” with the former head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin so that the shares of PNK would be sold to the structure of Artem Chaika. Immediately after Chaika Jr. gained control of the PNK through the NRK Berdyaush, the company of the son of the Prosecutor General began to receive government contracts from Russian Railways. Attack on "Pavlovskgranit" In addition, Artem Chaika managed to "light up" in the scandal with the raider seizure of "Pavlovskgranit". Along with the owner of the National Non-metallic Company (NNK) Yuri Zhukov and the son of the head of Sberbank German Gref, Oleg Gref Artem, Chaika is called one of the beneficiaries of offshore companies that became the main owners of Pavlovskgranit after control over the enterprise lost its former control due to a raider attack. owner Sergey Poymanov. By the way, in May 2008, when Sberbank of Russia issued a loan to OJSC Pavlovskgranit, independent CJSC Financial Consulting valued the enterprise at 13.01 billion rubles, and in April 2011 Consulting group NEO Center, controlled by Oleg Gref, estimated it at only 3.5 billion rubles (that is, obviously less than the real value of this asset). So Gref Jr. also took part in the capture of Pavlovskgranit. It is possible that after Pavlovskgranit became part of the National Non-Metal Company (NOC) of Yuri Zhukov, the alleged share of Artem Chaika (according to media reports) was converted into NOC shares. It seems that it was Artem Chaika who could have been one of the customers of the raider attack on Pavlovskgranit. Igor Chaika is also in business It is worth noting that Chaika Jr. has other partners in business, in addition to Yuri Zhukov. For example, there is a company in which Artem Chaika has a share (27%) - this is OOO Georesurs. it joint business with the Tashir group of companies Samvel Karapetyan. Georesurs is building shopping center "RIO" in Mytishchi. In addition, until 2010, Artem Chaika was the sole owner of Siberia's largest brick factory "Siberian Element". Shares in this digging at different times belonged to Igor Chaika, as well as Elena Chaika (the wife of the Prosecutor General). Igor Chaika has a common business with Oleg Mitvol. As it turned out, Mitvol and the youngest son of Prosecutor General Igor Chaika are united by a joint business, and a very large one at that - shares in the Invest City company. Mitvol has 5% in this project, and Igor Chaika's company Enkon has 10%. Invest-City is the main shareholder (73%) of City Land Group, a company that owns 8,000 hectares of land in Stupino and Mozhaisk with a total value of 150 billion rubles. "Golden Boy" According to FBK, Igor Chaika controls companies with a turnover of 300 billion rubles and is fully incorporated into his older brother's business. Previously, he was an adviser to the Governor of the Moscow Region Vorobyov on culture, tourism, youth policy and sports. However, recently Igor Chaika devoted himself completely to business. "Klin" interest When working in the Moscow region, Chaika Jr. implemented his main projects in the Klin region. For example, he oversaw the creation of a new brand book for the city of Klin. According to FBK, this project was implemented by a company in which Igor Chaika himself owned a stake. By the way, in 2014 the city of Klin was headed by Alena Sokolskaya. Sokolskaya is the wife of the former Klin prosecutor, and later the deputy prosecutor of Moscow, Alexander Kozlov. Kozlov was also involved in the Moscow region casino case, but he did not officially become a defendant. According to testimony given in court, Kozlov's role was limited to early warning of the owners of underground halls about upcoming inspections. From 2012 to the present, Alexander Kozlov has been the prosecutor of the Tula region. That is, the husband of the head of the district in which Igor worked is a subordinate of his father. The post of head of administration of Klin is occupied by Eduard Kaplun. He is a former prosecutor of the city of Klin, also a defendant in the case of protecting the casinos near Moscow. It is worth noting that after the departure of Igor Chaika from the post of adviser to the Moscow region governor, his interest in Klin clearly fell, the traffic jam sharply increased the activity of Chaika Jr. in the capital. Capital tender Lately the presence of Igor Chaika is more and more felt in the "Moscow business". Recall that in 2012-2014, the Moscow City Hall held nine tenders for the right to conclude 15-year contracts for garbage collection for a total amount of more than 142 billion rubles. The city pays for garbage collection and disposal services, and the winners of the tenders are required to purchase new garbage trucks, containers for collecting waste and build sorting plants and landfills for waste disposal. The two largest lots (42.6 billion rubles) - garbage collection in the North-Eastern and Eastern districts of Moscow - were taken by the Charter company registered in 2012 with authorized capital 10 thousand rubles The latest data on its financial performance is dated 2013. Then the company was unprofitable: revenue was 1.8 million rubles, net loss - 9.5 million rubles. But in 2014 everything changed. By winning the right to collect garbage in the North and East Administrative Districts, Charter has secured a multi-billion dollar turnover for 15 years to come. Trail of the Prosecutor General's Youngest Son Opposition bloggers have established a connection between Charter LLC and the son of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Igor Chaika. Lyubvi Sobol's blog states that at the time of receiving the contract, the founder and CEO of Charter LLC was Alexander Turcan. As it turned out, it was Turcan who is also the CEO and sole founder of Urban Environment LLC (another company name: Navigation Solutions LLC). Interestingly, when posting their vacancies, this company indicates the logo of the company "Innovations of Light", and applications for the same state tender both companies filed from the same ip-address, which established
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The name of Artem Chaika has already surfaced several times in the scandalous case of prosecutors of the Moscow region, who were covering underground casinos, in the story of an attempt to seize Serpukhov Nedra, a potential participant in the construction of the Central Ring Road.
a little about him official information. A graduate of the Faculty of Law of the Irkutsk State University, Artem Chaika, a year after graduation, became a member of the Moscow City Bar Association, later - a founding partner of the Chaadaev, Kheifets and Partners law office. “[Artem] is my favorite student, my former trainee and my deputy,” Leonid Kheifets, partner at the bureau, explains to Forbes. - I keep his qualifying work - it was written under my supervision. Artem Chaika actively participates in the work of the Bureau. “We have to discuss a complaint to one international commercial arbitration court over the weekend, and Artem Yuryevich, who is fluent in several foreign languages, will help us translate it,” Kheifets said in the spring of 2014.
Artem Chaika is successful not only in jurisprudence. His business career is no less successful.
In the summer of 2014, his company acquired from Russian Railways a controlling stake in the largest supplier of crushed stone for the state monopoly, First Non-metallic Company, and the company of his brother Igor Chaika became a minority owner of the country's largest manufacturer of sleepers. Artem Chaika is called the beneficiary of the largest salt producer in Siberia - Tyretsky Salt Mine. It was this company that six months ago won a license for the right to extract rock salt in the Kaluga region at the only unexplored site in the country.
How did the 38-year-old son of the attorney general manage to build a diversified business empire that generates at least $200 million in revenue?
Rubble flies
In August 2009, a Moscow region businessman Ivan Nazarov came to a meeting with the head of the Serpukhov district, Alexander Shestun, and proposed a deal: if the head of the district pays $ 2 million and appoints the right person as the director of the Serpukhov Nedra Municipal Unitary Enterprise, the local prosecutor's office will not involve an official for the allegedly premeditated bankruptcy of the MUP " Energy Service".
This is one of the episodes of the scandalous case about the "protection" of the casino by prosecutors near Moscow, which became the cause of a bureaucratic war between the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General's Office. As witnesses later stated at the trial, the extortion of $2 million from Shestun was initiated by the head of the 15th department of the Moscow Region Prosecutor's Office, Dmitry Urumov. Having control over Serpukhov Subsoil and using connections in the Ministry of Transport of the Moscow Region, prosecutors expected to receive contracts for the supply of sand and gravel for the construction of a new ring road in the Moscow region, according to the materials of the interrogation of a classified witness (a copy is in Forbes).
The extraction of sand and crushed stone was carried out by MUP "Serpukhov Subsoil". According to a secret witness, whose testimony was heard at one of the court hearings, “Artem Chaika, the son of the Russian Prosecutor General, had an interest in this case” (information is posted on the website of the Serpukhov District Administration). Then the administration managed to defend the enterprise. But interest in construction industry Artem Chaika did not lose.
In January 2014, Chaika became the sole founder of Siberian Element - Renta-K LLC, registered in the Kaluga Region. The company supplies sand, crushed stone and gravel in the Kaluga, Yaroslavl, Tver and Moscow regions. The company's general director Alexander Rengach declined to comment, saying that the co-owner of their company is "another Chaika, a full namesake", despite the coincidence of the TIN and mother's name among the former co-owners.
However, the real news for the construction market was the information that since February 2014, Artem Chaika has been listed as the sole owner of Berdyaush Non-Metal Company. It is this unknown company from Chelyabinsk region acquired in June 2014 a controlling stake in the "daughter" of Russian Railways and its largest supplier of crushed stone, bypassing the industry leader "National Non-metallic Company" Yuri Zhukov, which was not allowed to participate in the competition. How did she do it?
The owners of "Berdyaush"
The idea to develop a granite quarry in the village of Berdyaush, Chelyabinsk Region, belonged to businessman Aron Yudashkin. The administration of the city of Satka (it includes the village of Berdyaush) assures that the project was conceived as an anti-crisis solution to the monotown problem. According to the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Chelyabinsk Region, Irina Akbasheva (it was she who developed the anti-crisis plan), the construction of a crushed stone plant in Berdyaush began in 2008, in total, a private investor invested 1.4 billion rubles in the project. To the fullest production capacity the plant came out by 2010. Now the company employs 340 people. She did not name the current owner of the business, noting only that in September 2011, the plant was managed differently. entity: Berdyaush non-metallic company LLC instead of Berdyaushsky non-metallic quarry LLC.
On the initial stage Aron Yudashkin's partner in the project turned out to be 30-year-old Sergey Vilshenko, a native of the Urals Zlatoust, the son of the first secretary of the city committee of the CPSU, and later the head of the FSB department for Zlatoust. In 1998, Vilshenko Jr. graduated from the South Ural State University. Vilshenko's acquaintance says that he for a long time engaged in the construction and road business in the region.
A few years later, the career of Sergei Vilshenko went uphill sharply - in February 2009, he took over as commercial director of the Russian Railways Trade House. Trading house was responsible for the supply of rolling stock monopoly, as well as the necessary goods and materials to all of its subsidiaries. Here Vilshenko worked until June 2011, then he was expelled from the board of directors. Russian Railways did not comment on Vilshenko's work in the monopoly in their responses to a Forbes request. The press service of the Trade House "Russian Railways" reported that such issues are commented only in the parent company. It was not possible to get Vilshenko's comments either through Russian Railways or through his wife. According to a person familiar with the businessman, in the fall of 2010, Omega LLC, controlled by Vilshenko, bought Yudashkin's share in the Berdyaushsky quarry.
Judging by the reporting, the company's business went uphill immediately after the launch of production. The revenue of the non-metallic company Berdyaush in 2010 amounted to almost 1 billion rubles and later never fell below 900 million rubles.
In 2012, NK Berdyaush, judging by the available reports of Russian Railways, its subsidiaries and the company itself, became a supplier of crushed stone for Russian Railways for 740 million rubles. A year later, she managed to conclude an even more lucrative contract: in 2013-2016, she undertook to supply the monopoly with 20 million cubic meters. m of crushed stone for 7.5 billion rubles. That is, about a quarter of all the rubble required by Russian Railways for this period. In September 2013, another native of Russian Railways, Vladimir Gatsa, became the new CEO of NC Berdyaush. At least until November 2012, for nine years he worked in various positions in the structures of Russian Railways, having gone from the head of the financial service of the Gorky Railway to the deputy head of the central directorate of Russian Railways for track repair. It was for her that in 2009 the Berdyaushsky quarry began to ship the main volume of its products.
Omega LLC owned 95% in NK Berdyaush at least until January 17, 2014, follows from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (in 2011, the share in this company belonged to Sergey Vilshenko's wife Olga, a well-known Russian designer). In February 2014, Artem Chaika became the sole owner of the company.
"Eternal row"
After the abolition of the Ministry of Railways, about 30 crushed stone factories became the property of the railway monopoly. Subsequently, 18 of them entered the First Non-Metal Company (PNK), a subsidiary of Russian Railways and the main supplier of crushed stone for the monopoly. Three years ago, in October 2011, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an order to sell 75% minus two shares of PNK to a private investor.
PNK is called “perpetual contract” on the market, due to the fact that its business is directly tied to Russian Railways. It is not surprising that after the announcement of the start of accepting applications, the National Non-Metal Company (NNC) was one of the first to announce itself. A person close to the company says that NOC is already one of the largest in the industry, and with the acquisition of PNK, it could finally strengthen its position.
However, a week before the deadline for accepting applications, the organizing bank unexpectedly extended the deadline for submitting documents for another month. The press service of Russian Railways, in a written response to a request, explained the postponement of the privatization of PNK "[in order] to attract a wider range of investors to participate in the auction."
The goal was achieved: in April, non-metallic company Berdyaush from the Chelyabinsk region and Yuzhuralavtoban from Magnitogorsk filed an application for the purchase of PNK. At the same time, NOCs were not allowed to compete. The Russian Railways press service left Forbes' question on this issue unanswered. “They did not fulfill the requirements for the project participants,” Valery Reshetnikov, Senior Vice President of Russian Railways, explained at the St. Petersburg Forum. NOC attempted to challenge the sale in court. During the trial period, searches were carried out at the home and in the company of the founder of NOC, Yuri Zhukov, in connection with a case of previous years, which was not directly related to the current activities of the company. Some time later, NOC lawyers withdrew the lawsuit. A company representative declined to comment.
So NK Berdyaush, which Artem Chaika became the owner a few months before the competition, received full control over PNK. The money for the purchase was provided by the Moscow Bank of Sberbank. At a cost of 4.9 billion rubles, NK Berdyaush received a loan for more than 4.2 billion rubles. Sberbank declined to comment on this deal, redirecting the request to Berdyaush. But even there, Forbes did not answer. A source close to Russian Railways says that "obviously, the competition was made for a specific company - because tough conditions were imposed on the participants, but Russian Railways always finds a way to justify these conditions." According to him, Chaika has a small share in this project: the main owner of the asset is structures close to the management of Russian Railways. He was also taken as a share so that he would “cover up” if necessary, according to Forbes’ interlocutor. Artyom's acquaintance adheres to the same version.
But what about Vilshenko, the former owner of Berdyaush? As it turned out, he was in business all this time. On August 6, 2014, Artem Chaika and Sergey Vilshenko registered PNK Management Company LLC in Moscow, in which they own 51% and 49%, respectively. Two young ambitious entrepreneurs have finally become full owners of the "eternal contract".
salt share
A few days before the start of the new year 2005, FSUE "Sibsol" was headed by a new director. It was 29-year-old Timiryazevka graduate Mikhail Karamushka. "Sibsol" is 35% of the salt of Siberia and the Far East, mined at the city-forming enterprise (in 2005, more than 700 people worked at it).
By the time of his appointment, Karamushka already had little experience in the salt business: in 2004, from February to December, he worked as a general director at another state enterprise- OAO "Tyretskiy Salt Mine" (the third largest deposit in the country in terms of salt reserves). For some reason, the work here did not work out, and Karamushka headed the neighboring, less large enterprise"Sibsol".
Having worked in a new place for a little less than a year, Karamushka decided on drastic measures. On October 27, 2005, FSUE "Sibsol" filed an application to the court for its own bankruptcy. Two months later, the court declared the enterprise insolvent and introduced a monitoring procedure. Three years elapsed from filing for bankruptcy to the liquidation of the company.
Why did the company decide to liquidate itself? Karamushka, in a written response to a request from Forbes, claims that he performed the role of an anti-crisis manager at the enterprise. “At the time of my appointment, the company had accumulated more than 120 million [rubles] of debt, of which 80% was tax debt. The company's accounts were arrested,” writes Karamushka. However, as follows from the company's own profit and loss report, published in 2007, in 2005 net profit amounted to 207,000 rubles with a revenue of 184 million rubles. Nevertheless, in the fall of 2007, the property of one of the largest Russian salt mining companies was sold under the hammer.
Karamushka claims that the decision to introduce the bankruptcy procedure at Sibsoli was made at a meeting of the Federal Property Management Agency and the tax authorities “in order to preserve production and jobs and in connection with the social significance of the enterprise.” Creditors unanimously approved the sale of the plant as a single complex, and "the proceeds from the sale made it possible to fully repay the budget debt, modernize production and save jobs." The Sibsol plant has again become attractive to investors and was acquired by the structures of Russol LLC, which currently manage it, Mikhail Karamushka sums up.
Who became the buyer? In 2009, the capacity of Sibsoli was indeed acquired by Maxim Protasov and Sergey Cherny's Russol. But not in the course of bankruptcy, as it may seem from Karamushka's answers. On November 16, 2007, Salt Mining Company LLC, founded a month before this date, acquired the property of the bankrupt FSUE Sibsol for 120 million rubles during the bankruptcy procedure. As follows from the materials of one of the court cases between the FAS and the Salt Mining Company of that time, during the period of the transaction, Mikhail Karamushka was the general director of both the bankrupt enterprise and Salt Mining Company LLC, which bought the assets of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, it was Karamushka who was the founder of the Salt Mining Company at the time of its creation.
Only two years later, in 2009, the Russoli structures acquired a 100% stake in Salt Mining Company LLC. From whom exactly and at what price Russol acquired the asset, the representative of the company did not say, he refused to comment on other details of the transaction.
While Russol was negotiating the purchase of Sibsoli's assets, the state put up for sale the third largest salt mine in the country - Tyretsky, also in the Irkutsk region.
Salty privatization
When you ask former and current officials of the Federal Property Management Agency about the ultimate beneficiaries of the Tyret Salt Mine, they make surprised faces and immediately ask a counter question: “Who is the beneficiary? Who, you know? Local officials seem to be better informed: “I know who the beneficiary of our mine is, but let’s not name him, and I won’t tell you yes or no,” an official from the Irkutsk region replied to Forbes' request to provide the name of the owner of the country's third largest salt mine in terms of reserves.
The state has been trying to privatize the Tyretsky salt mine since the end of 2008 for three years. It was put up for auction six times, but for various reasons the auction was postponed. And it's not that there were no contenders. Protasov and Chernoy, the largest domestic salt producer in the country, Russol, and smaller Russian enterprises like Silvinit, and even the largest producer of powder coatings, the Dutch Akzo Nobel, applied for participation in the privatization. However, as in the case of the sale of the First Non-metallic Company, the leaders were not allowed to compete. Russol was refused even before the start of the tender: the FAS considered it unacceptable to increase the company's share in the rock salt market from 60% to 65% if Russoli gets the Tyretsky salt mine. Silvinit itself refused to participate in the competition - the new owner united the company with Uralkali. The structure of Alzo Nobel in Russia was not allowed to compete, motivating the refusal with an incomplete set of documents.
The winner of the privatization auction in one step for 661 million rubles was an unknown company, created two months before the deal, Solidarity LLC from Irkutsk. Nikolai Kulgaev turned out to be its sole founder and CEO.
It was this person who was supposed to take the place of one of the leaders of the Serpukhov Nedra Municipal Unitary Enterprise - this was demanded from the head of the Serpukhov district Alexander Shestun in 2009 by businessman Nazarov. Kulgaev also appeared in that story - as a person acting in the interests of Artem Chaika. This follows from the materials of the Investigative Committee.
Four months later, Solidarity, founded by Kulgaev, sold a 100% stake in the salt mine to another newly created company, East Siberian Commercial and Industrial Company LLC (VSTPK). The sole owner of the VSTPC is Andrei Svyatoshenko, son of Vladimir Svyatoshenko. Svyatoshenko Sr. is a deputy of the Moscow City Duma of the 2009–2014 convocation from the Moscow district of Solntsevo, where he is registered, as well as deputy chairman of the central control and audit commission of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (at party work since 1984, it is said on the party website). The post of general director of the Tyret Salt Mine is today occupied by Mikhail Karamushka, a classmate of Svyatoshenko at the Timiryazev Academy, where they studied together. As of the beginning of 2014, Kulgaev served as production director for Tyretsky Salt Mine. Svyatoshenko did not respond to a Forbes request.
Since privatization at the end of 2010, the company has doubled its revenue to 1.17 billion rubles and more than doubled its net profit, to 320 million rubles in 2012. At the end of 2013, the company's revenue fell by 15%, to 988.8 billion rubles, net profit almost doubled, to 171.8 million rubles. Despite the fall in financial performance, Tyretsky Salt Mine decided to increase its stake by Russian market. In December 2013, the company received a license to develop the Vorobyevsky rock salt deposit in the Kaluga region.
victorious procession
The Vorobyovskoye rock salt deposit is the only unexplored one in the country, and salts of the highest class are deposited here. Of the well-known producers, Tyretsky Salt Mine and Russol, as well as two unknown companies, Maloyaroslavetsky Salt Industry LLC and Energoinvest, submitted documents for the auction.
The Subsoil Use Department for the Central Federal District allowed only two out of four companies to participate in the auction at which the license was raffled off: Tyretsky Salt Mine from Irkutsk and
"Maloyaroslavetsky salt industry" from Kaluga. Russoli was turned down on the grounds that the company "did not prove experience in the industry." Who competed with Tyret Salt Mine?
According to SPARK, Maloyaroslavets Salt Industry LLC was registered at the end of August 2013. The former vice-governor of the Kaluga region, Ruslan Zalivatsky, said that so far no one has mined salt in the region. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the founders of Maloyaroslavetsky Salt Industry are Galit LLC and Anna Sumina. As follows from the court materials on the website of the Supreme Arbitration Court, Sumina, together with her colleague Vyacheslav Plahotniuc, who represented Tyretsky Salt Mine at the auction, at least once represented the interests of this company in court by proxy. It turns out that structures acting in the interests of one company took part in the auction.
As for LLC Galit, its sole owner is Elizaveta Berezina (USRLE). In 2013, she was the junior founder of ALG LLC, half of which, until April 24, 2013, was registered with Igor Yuryevich Chaika. Let us recall that this is the name of the youngest son of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. In February 2014, Igor Chaika was appointed Advisor to the Governor of the Moscow Region on a voluntary basis. Igor Chaika confirmed that he knew Berezina and really sold her a stake in the company, but he no longer remembers the details.
During the auction for the sale of a license for the development of the Vorobyevsky site, the prosecutor of the Kaluga region was 37-year-old Dmitry Demeshin. A person familiar with Artem Chaika says that Demeshin is very friendly with the son of the Prosecutor General. When Demeshin came to Kaluga, the prosecutor's office immediately began large-scale inspections of the regional government. The administration of the region does not deny that the new prosecutor, after the appointment, began to actively check them, but they consider this normal: “You were entrusted with a new site, and you, of course, must check everything so that the work on it complies with the law,” says the representative of the region. “But everyone in his place would have acted exactly the same.” Be that as it may, Tyretsky Salt Mine received a license to develop the Vorobyevsky site in December 2013. A month later, Demeshin was promoted and transferred to the Prosecutor General's Office.
“Whatever Artem does, his father supports him,” says a Forbes interlocutor who is familiar with the Chaika family. Artem Chaika himself did not respond to Forbes inquiries through law firm Chaadaev, Kheifets and Partners, or through his younger brother Igor Chaika, who agreed to pass the questions on to him. Back in the spring, Igor Chaika promised to find time to meet with Forbes correspondents and answer questions in detail, but he never found it.
- With the participation of Ksenia Dokukina and Galina Zinchenko
THE NAVALNY FUND TALKED ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF THE CHAIKA FAMILY,Igor Chaika, the youngest son of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika (Photo: Pavel Bednyakov)
RBC investigation: who won the 15-year contract for garbage collection in Moscow
A 15-year contract for garbage collection in Moscow districts went to the firm of the youngest son of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, Igor, says lawyer for the Anti-Corruption Foundation Alexei Navalny. RBC figured out with whom the companies that have won tenders in Moscow for almost 50 billion rubles over the past few years are connected.
Garbage "Charter"
In 2012-2014, the Moscow City Hall held nine tenders for the right to conclude 15-year contracts for garbage collection for a total amount of more than 142 billion rubles. The city pays for garbage collection and disposal services, and the winners of the tenders are required to purchase new garbage trucks, containers for collecting waste and build sorting plants and landfills for waste disposal.
The two largest in terms of the amount of the lot (42.6 billion rubles) are garbage disposal in Northeast andEastern districts of Moscow - the Charter company registered in 2012 with an authorized capital of 10 thousand rubles won. The latest data on its financial performance is dated 2013. Then the company was unprofitable: revenue was 1.8 million rubles, net loss - 9.5 million rubles. But in 2014 everything changed. By winning the right to collect garbage in the North and East Administrative Districts, Charter has secured a multi-billion dollar turnover for 15 years to come.
Shortly after winning the competition, Charter bought from the Bank of Moscow for 267 million rubles. a garbage sorting complex on Altufievskoye Shosse and the Dominanta company, which owns a fleet of old garbage trucks. The source of investment is a loan from the Bank of Moscow, RBC reported. CEO"Charters" Alexander Nikolsky. In addition, according to him, the company has already purchased about 50 new garbage trucks and other equipment, installed 8.5 thousand containers for collecting garbage (a total of 13 thousand are to be installed). By 2018, Nikolsky plans (this is required by the terms of the contract) to build his own landfill for the disposal of solid domestic waste and a waste sorting station. He is also considering leasing incineration plant No. 4 in the Nekrasovka district, owned by the city.
To submit an application, it was required to deposit a security in the amount of 1 billion rubles, another 2.2 billion rubles. the winner must contribute in equal installments over 15 years. How did an unknown company manage to fulfill the conditions of the tender and break into the market of state waste contracts?
RUB 40.1 billion MKM-Logistics will receive and dispose of garbage from the Southwestern and Western districts (100% of the company's shares were divided between three offshore companies: two from Cyprus and one from the British Virgin Islands). The beneficiary of one of the Cypriot offshore companies, Ervington Investments Limited, is Roman Abramovich. In two tenders for a total of 25.6 billion rubles. Ecoline won the service for the Central and Northern districts of Moscow (according to the Anti-Corruption Fund, it is associated with the Arks group of the son of the former Minister of Transport Sergei Frank and the son-in-law of Gennady Timchenko Gleb Frank, the former vice-governor of St. Petersburg, who oversees housing and communal services , Vladimir Lavlentsev. A representative of the Timchenko-owned Volga Group denies this. According to him, the possibility of participating in this project was studied, "but it was decided not to enter it"). Waste removal from the South-Eastern and Zelenograd districts of the capital is carried out by Msk-NT LLC, which won two contracts for 21.4 billion rubles, owned by businessman Igor Cheremsky. Another 12.4 billion rubles. for garbage removal from the North-Western District of Moscow will receive the company "Spetstrans". Its sole owner is Elena Mochalova, who heads the "granddaughter" of the Russian Technologies State Corporation - the company "RT-Invest Finance". The tender for the collection and disposal of garbage in the Southern District of Moscow was not announced.
Seagull and son
According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the sole owner of the "Charter" is Alexander Turcan. The general director of the "Charter" Alexander Nikolsky told RBC that he did not know how to contact Tsurkan, since he "saw him twice." When asked why Moscow entrusted garbage collection to a company about which nothing is known, the press service of the Moscow government did not answer. A source close to the mayor’s office told RBC that the Charter is controlled by the son of Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika Igor, this was also confirmed by an interlocutor in one of the departments of the Moscow government. About the interests of Igor Chaika in garbage business the capital was heard by another Moscow official and another acquaintance of the businessman. The representative of the mayor's office promised to comment on the situation on Thursday morning.
Igor Chaika is the youngest son of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. Little is known about his official biography. He is 26 years old, in 2011 he graduated from the Kutafin Law Academy. In February 2014, he began working in the administration of the Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov as a volunteer adviser on sports, culture, tourism and youth affairs. In an interview with Afisha in the summer of 2014, he said that in this position he was dealing with the renewal of the urban environment of cities near Moscow. Not having worked for Vorobyov even for a year, Chaika left the post, explaining that he had not stopped doing business all this time and “these projects require daily operational support.”
There is no documentary connection between Chaika's business and the Charter, there are only indirect intersections. In an interview with Izvestia Seagull was telling that the business in which he is engaged, from the second year, is connected with the production of food, landscaping, the development of public spaces and the creation of the architectural appearance of cities. In 2010, according to SPARK, he registered the Innovations of Light company, which received several contracts for almost 700 million rubles in three years. In particular, this company made New Year's illumination in the Central and Southern districts of Moscow, artistic illumination of Novospassky and Crimean bridges and artificial lighting of the Adler-Krasnaya Polyana track on the eve of the 2014 Winter Olympics. Also, "Innovations of Light" participated in tenders of subdivisions of the city economy complex of the Moscow government, but several times lost the victory to the Kaliningrad "Citystroyservice" and the St. Petersburg "BaltikStroyCompany".
In 2013, the relationship of the three listed companies attracted the attention of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). The service suspected them of cartel during one of the tenders for the improvement of the Ostankino park worth 686 million rubles. The list of companies that have attracted the attention of the FAS also includes the Moscow City Environment (is engaged in the development of elements of street navigation). According to SPARK-Interfax, the only owner of the "Urban Environment" is the owner of the "Charter" Alexander Tsurkan. The antimonopoly service was concerned that the applications from these four companies were sent on the same day and from the same IP address.
However, representatives of the companies convinced the FAS that there was no collusion on their part, they simply all used the services of the Tender-inform company, which provides intermediary services participating in public procurement. The company declined to comment on its "customer relationships." The representative of the FAS, in response to clarifying questions from RBC, stated only that "the results of the investigation are set out in the decision of the FAS commission, which no one, including the applicant, appealed." The applicant was LLC "Management construction company Petersburg stone processing company.
Waste removal and disposal in Moscow brings a lot of money - the winners of nine tenders received 15-year contracts for a total of 142 billion rubles. (Photo: Kommersant)
Holding
The four companies featured in the FAS investigation are connected, if not by property relations, then at least by projects. The press service of Innovations of Light distributes press releases about projects carried out by Citystroyservice and BaltikStroyCompany. In particular, the contacts of PR-managers of Innovations of Light were indicated in a press release on the completion of work on the improvement of the Ostankino park by Citystroyservice, a tender against which FAS filed claims. Two employees in these companies call these structures a "holding", and "Innovations of Light" - a management company. “From communication with the Innovations of Light, Citystroyservice and BaltikStroyCompany companies, it was clear that this is one holding,” says architect Boris Aksentsev, who carried out a number of projects commissioned by companies. Another contractor of the company spoke about this on condition of anonymity: “Professionals in the market know that this is one company.”
Over the past three years, Citystroyservice has completed more than 5 billion rubles worth of work commissioned by the Moscow municipal economy complex. At the same time, in the office building where Chaika's company "Innovations of Light" is located, the RBC correspondent was told that the company "Citystroyservice" is located here.
"Citystroyservice" from time to time wins tenders for construction works on projects developed by another company, BaltikStroyCompany, which is part of the holding: for example, the improvement of 16 public gardens in the Garden Ring area worth 1.4 billion rubles. The same situation arose during the reconstruction of the Ostankino park. The construction was carried out by Citystroyservice (the issue price was 2.1 billion rubles, of which 209 million rubles were spent on the construction of the largest skate park in Europe), and the design was carried out for 22.8 million rubles. - BaltikStroyCompany. There was a scandal associated with this contract: the construction of the skate park was delayed by more than a year; in the fall of 2014, it was opened by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. However, two days later, after a series of injuries to skateboarders due to poor design, the facility was put on hold. The companies of the "holding" were also found on projects that were supervised by Igor Chaika as an adviser to the governor. Thus, Urban Environment developed a navigation system for the Tchaikovsky museums in Klin, the Pushkin Museum in Bolshiye Vyazmy, and the New Jerusalem reserve.
In addition, the specialists of the "Urban Environment" were part of working group to update the appearance of Klin, which was headed by Igor Chaika.
In addition to Alexandr Turcan, these companies are united by appearance— their sites are made by one designer Oksana Korshunova, who placed these works in her portfolio. She refused to talk to RBC. It is possible to trace the connection of the four companies with the "Charter", which won the garbage tender, only by indirect signs. The Charter domain - hartiya.com, according to the Who-is service of the domain registrar Ru-Center, is maintained by the administrator Artem Mayerle, who works at Innovations of Light. True, he said by phone that he had transferred the rights to the Charter domain to another administrator.
For several days, Irina Levakova, head of the marketing department at Urban Environment, was unable to contact the owner of the company, Alexander Tsurkan. When asked for an interview with Igor Chaika, she said: “I don’t understand what you are talking about” - and hung up. Soon the RBC correspondent received an SMS from her: “Talk to Vladimir Putin. Please don't bother me anymore." In the Innovations of Light company, they were not surprised at the request of the RBC correspondent to connect with Alexander Tsurkan, but they offered to call back to another office, where they had not heard of him. The CEO of Innovations of Light, Ivan Zavorotny, refused to answer questions from RBC. Questions sent to RBC through the reception of Igor Chaika at the Innovations of Light company remained unanswered.
The elder brother of Igor Chaika Artem was born in 1975. After graduating from the law faculty of Irkutsk state university became a co-founder and lawyer of the Chaadaev, Kheifets and Partners law firm. In 2011, Artem Chaika was summoned for interrogation in the case of "covering" the gambling business in the Moscow region, RIA Novosti reported. In February 2014, Artem Chaika became the sole owner of the nonmetallic company Berdyaush, which won a tender for the supply of crushed stone to Russian Railways for 7.5 billion rubles. In the summer of 2014, this company acquired from Russian Railways a controlling stake in the largest supplier of crushed stone for the state monopoly - the First Non-metallic Company (PNK), which owns 18 crushed stone plants. PNK's revenue in 2014 was 4.37 billion rubles, net profit was 13.7 million rubles. According to Forbes, Artem Chaika is the beneficiary of Siberia's largest salt producer, Tyretsky Salt Mine. In 2014, Tyretsky Salt Mine won a license for the right to mine rock salt in the Kaluga Region.
