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Burov Sergey Alekseevich FSB biography. Russian FSB leadership

The country has a professional anti-mafia team. All the most high-profile criminal cases of recent times related to corruption and fraud were conducted by the group of FSB General Sergei Korolev. At the beginning of July, Sergei Korolev received control of the Economic Security Service (SEB) of the FSB.

"In the fight against the Russian Cosa Nostra"

Behind the most high-profile criminal cases of recent times is a team of FSB officers led by General Sergei Korolev, who until recently headed the department’s Internal Security Directorate (USB) of the FSB, and in early July received the Economic Security Service (SEB) of the FSB under his command, said
RBC.

In the early 2000s, Korolev served in the third department of the Economic Security Service of the FSB, which oversaw law enforcement agencies. In those days they looked at it practically as a pension, Fontanka wrote the other day.

A few years later, news reached St. Petersburg - Korolev became an adviser to the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov, while overseeing the Main Directorate of the General Staff, which is more often called the GRU.

Soon, unexpectedly for everyone, Korolev became the head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the FSB of Russia. In the police environment, security officers are called watchmen. It turns out he was watching the watchmen.

Under Korolev, the Sixth Service became one of the most significant units in the CSS. According to RBC's interlocutor, close to the USB, it was created in 2008, it includes only about 35 people. The service is headed by Ivan Tkachev, writes RBC.

Of course, before detaining governors and other high-ranking officials, the head of the service coordinates the position with FSB Director Bortnikov. And with such questions you need to approach the president. The resolution should be the same everywhere: “To work.” Signature, date. Which, in fact, means - in Lefortovo, notes Fontanka.

The Economic Security Service is one of the key units in the FSB, explains retired FSB Major General, member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy Alexander Mikhailov. According to him, in the USSR, in the context of the confrontation with the West, the main role was played by employees directly involved in counterintelligence, but in recent years the importance of the SEB has increased noticeably.

The structure of the FSB SEB is not officially disclosed. As Novaya Gazeta wrote, the Economic Security Service includes seven departments: for counterintelligence support of the credit and financial system (directorate “K”), industrial enterprises, transport, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Justice, for the fight against smuggling and drug trafficking, organizational and analytical management and administrative service.

From 2004 to 2008, the SEB was headed by Alexander Bortnikov, who moved from this post directly to the post of director of the FSB. Yakovlev became Bortnikov's successor in the leadership of the SEB. On July 8, Vladimir Putin appointed a new head of one of the key divisions of the FSB - the Economic Security Service. It was Sergei Korolev.

The most notorious criminal cases of the Sixth Service

May 8, 2015. Police Lieutenant General Denis Sugrobov, who headed the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs until February 2014, was detained. Let us remind you that he was arrested on charges of organizing a criminal community, provoking a bribe and exceeding official powers. His deputy Boris Kolesnikov was also arrested and soon committed suicide.

September 2015. The head of the Komi Republic, Vyacheslav Gaizer, was arrested on charges of fraud and organizing a criminal community. There are 19 people involved in the Gaiser case, including ex-State Duma deputy from Komi Evgeny Samoilov.

March 4, 2016. Governor Alexander Khoroshavin was detained on Sakhalin and is charged with accepting a bribe in the amount of $6 million.

March 14, 2016. Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov was detained in Rostov. The total amount of damage charged to him and other defendants is more than 100 million rubles. In addition to Pirumov, the director of the St. Petersburg company BaltStroy, Dmitry Sergeev, and other responsible persons were arrested in the so-called “restorer case.”

End of March 2016. “St. Petersburg businessman No. 1,” billionaire Dmitry Mikhalchenko, was arrested. He has been charged with smuggling. According to investigators, elite alcohol was purchased at European auctions and supplied to Russia under the guise of construction sealant.

As RBC notes, Mikhalchenko’s case is not the only case of smuggling that the Internal Security Service is dealing with. At the end of 2015, management became interested in the case of ULS Global. Among the persons involved in the investigation was the head of the 7th Department of Directorate “K” (it deals with counterintelligence support in the credit and financial sphere) of the FSB Economic Security Service, Vadim Uvarov.

The connection with Mikhalchenko affected the career of one of the country’s most senior security officials, FSO director Evgeniy Murov.

Murov worked for several years with Mikhalchenko’s business partner Nikolai Negodov in the regional department of the FSB. Murov, Mikhalchenko, Negodov lived in the same village on the shores of Lake Valdai in the Novgorod region.

At the end of May, by decision of the president, Murov was dismissed. The head of state's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, explained Murov's dismissal by his advanced age, RBC recalls.

June 24, 2016. In a Moscow restaurant, Nikita Belykh, the governor of the Kirov region, former chairman of the Union of Right Forces, was caught red-handed while receiving 400 thousand euros.

July 13, 2016. The court authorized the arrest of Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy), who was charged with extortion and organizing a criminal community.

On the night of July 18-19. The deputy head of the Main Investigative Directorate for Moscow, Denis Nikandrov, the head of the Main Directorate for Interdepartmental Cooperation and Internal Security of the Investigative Committee, Mikhail Maksimenko, and his deputy, head of the Internal Security Department, Alexander Lamonov, were detained.

July 26, 2016. Investigators found about 10 million rubles and hundreds of thousands of dollars and euros during a search in the house of the head of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation Andrei Belyaninov. Searches were also carried out in the offices of Belyaninov’s deputies, Andrei Strukov and Ruslan Davydov. During the searches, items and documents relevant to the investigation of the criminal case of alcohol smuggling were seized.

As it became known today, July 28, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order on the resignation of the head of the Federal Customs Service Andrei Belyaninov.

Let us note, following Fontanka, that Khoroshavin, Gaizer, Belykh are the governor’s power. Sugrobov is a policewoman. Pirumov - ministerial. Mikhalchenko is capitalist. Citizen Shakro is a mafia. Today we reached the Investigative Committee and the Federal Customs Service.

Reshuffles in the FSB

In June, the head of department “K” (part of the SEB structure), Viktor Voronin, the immediate superior of Vadim Uvarov, lost his post.

The CSS had information that Voronin was connected with Mikhalchenko, two interlocutors close to the CSS management told RBC. Voronin’s resignation occurred as a result of an internal audit carried out at the SEB by employees of the Internal Security Service.

Soon after the first audit, the Department of Internal Security began a second audit. Upon its completion, the head of the SEB, Yuri Yakovlev, resigned.

A few weeks before Yakovlev’s resignation, Korolev became the main contender for his place, interlocutors in the special service told RBC. It was he who was appointed head of the SEB on July 8.

Now reshuffles are continuing in the FSB, but at the level of mid-level operatives of the Economic Security Service. According to one of RBC’s interlocutors in the FSB, close to the leadership of the special service, the scale of the dismissals is still difficult to assess, but it is already known that about ten people will lose their posts, about half of whom will be additionally checked in connection with possible violations of the law.

Another RBC interlocutor in the intelligence service said that at least one person from among the SEB employees left the country. According to another RBC source, one of the operatives of the Economic Security Service was fired on July 8, the day when the decree appointing a new head of the Economic Security Service was signed.

The most notorious criminal cases of the Sixth Service

June 24, 2016. In a Moscow restaurant, Nikita Belykh, the governor of the Kirov region, former chairman of the Union of Right Forces, was caught red-handed while receiving 400 thousand euros.

July 13, 2016. The court authorized the arrest of Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy), who was charged with extortion and organizing a criminal community.

As it became known today, July 28, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order on the resignation of the head of the Federal Customs Service Andrei Belyaninov.

Let us note, following Fontanka, that Khoroshavin, Gaizer, Belykh are the governor’s power. Sugrobov is a policewoman. Pirumov - ministerial. Mikhalchenko is capitalist. Citizen Shakro is a mafia member. Today we reached the Investigative Committee and the Federal Customs Service.

Reshuffles in the FSB

In June, the head of department “K” (part of the SEB structure), Viktor Voronin, the immediate superior of Vadim Uvarov, lost his post.

Soon after the first audit, the Department of Internal Security began a second audit. Upon its completion, the head of the SEB, Yuri Yakovlev, resigned.

A few weeks before Yakovlev’s resignation, Korolev became the main contender for his place, interlocutors in the special service told RBC. It was he who was appointed head of the SEB on July 8.

Another RBC interlocutor in the intelligence service said that at least one person from among the SEB employees left the country. According to another RBC source, one of the operatives of the Economic Security Service was fired on July 8 - the day when the decree appointing a new head of the Economic Security Service was signed.

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At first, at the behest of her parents, Zadorina prepared for a diplomatic career: in 2011, she graduated from MGIMO’s master’s program with a degree in foreign policy and diplomacy in Russia. But, having received her diploma, she immediately entered the Moscow-Tel Aviv clothing collection into the competition of Tatyana Mikhalkova’s Russian Silhouette Foundation. Since then, she has become a regular participant in fashion shows. Her Zadorina Group LLC sold evening dresses in the Crocus City Mall and the Vesna store on Arbat. The company's revenue in 2012 amounted to 7.8 million rubles. with a loss of 18,000 rubles, a year later – 12 million rubles. with a net profit of 687,000 rubles, but in 2014 the company was liquidated.

Zadorina began producing sportswear in 2012. Her Equipsport LLC received orders for sewing uniforms from SK Dynamo and one of the founders of the club, the FSB-controlled regional society Dynamo 24, as well as beach and regular volleyball teams. Uniforms and workwear were ordered from Equipsport by Transneft, Vnukovo Airport, Rus-Oil, etc. Many customers and sponsors of fashion companies were business partners of the Shekin family in larger-scale projects. Thus, Zadorina’s most famous designer action is the release of T-shirts with patriotic inscriptions like “Sanctions? Don’t tell my Iskanders” or “Topol is not afraid of sanctions”, among others, were sponsored by a certain PJSC “Concern “Baikal”. He had a chance to become the largest project of the Shekin family.

Chief Supply Officer

FSB Colonel General Mikhail Shekin was appointed head of the 7th FSB service (activity support service) in 2007. Three departments are subordinate to him - financial and economic, logistics support (UMTO) and capital construction. The Shekina Service purchases almost everything for the FSB - from apartments, cars and boats to clothing; it also owns the department’s medical institutions. The service even has its own customs temporary storage warehouses. It was because of the import of contraband into the customs warehouse of military unit 54729 that Shekin’s predecessor, FSB Colonel General Sergei Shishin, lost his position. In 2005, this warehouse received more than 100 wagons with Chinese consumer goods, paid for from the accounts of the FSB UMTO, Kommersant wrote. According to the publication, the final destination of the cargo was the Cherkizovsky market. The scandal led to the resignation of a dozen high-ranking security officials, and Shishin had to move to VTB as a senior vice president. A little later, Shekin became president of the Dynamo volleyball sports club. The founders of the club are the regional organization Dynamo-24 (FSB of Russia), the Moscow Dynamo society, the National Charitable Foundation, the Rosneft sports club and the Dynamo development fund. Since 2004, the president of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation (VFV) was Shekina’s immediate superior, the then director of the FSB, Army General Nikolai Patrushev.

« Gazprom"didn't live up to expectations

“I am not my own enemy, no comments. The project did not take place, we’ll end it here,” a person related to the creation of “Baikal”, which united the children of high-ranking security officials and businessmen who worked with Gazprom contracts, told Vedomosti.

The company was created in December 2014. Zadorina received 30% of it and headed the board of directors. Olga Zolotova had the same amount. Vedomosti was unable to find out who she is. But at the same time, the son of the former head of the Security Service of the President of Russia, and now the head of the Russian Guard, Viktor Zolotov, Roman, joined the board of directors of Baikal.

Another 10% of the company was received by the spouses Victoria and Dmitry Makarov. Makarova is Zadorina’s long-time partner; until February 2017, they owned on parity terms 90% of the Za Group company, which produced clothes designed by Zadorina.

The remaining 30% of Baikal shares belonged to Irkutsk businessmen Evgeny Evstigneev, Sergei Rassokhin and Yana Bogomolova.

Baikal’s only asset was a 90% stake in Stroygazservis (SGS), created in 2009 by Alexey Snegirev, former head of procurement and logistics of Stroygazmontazh (SGM) Arkady Rotenberg. The first company was a subcontractor of the second - one of the largest general contractors of Gazprom.

SGS supplied components to almost all major gas pipeline construction projects: the North European Gas Pipeline (Gryazovets - Vyborg section), Sakhalin - Khabarovsk - Vladivostok, South Stream, Bovanenkovo, etc. Until 2014, the company did not disclose its revenue, so it is difficult to assess how successful Snegirev’s business turned out to be.

Baikal got the GHS through Evstigneev, who bought it from the founder in 2014 and then transferred it to the new company.

In 2015, SGS decided to switch from subcontractors to Gazprom contractors. He submitted applications for three competitions of Gazprom Dobycha Noyabrsk LLC with a maximum price of 9.4 billion rubles. But it was not possible to obtain contracts. Two competitions for 4 billion rubles. Stroytransneftegaz of Gennady Timchenko won, and the contract was worth 4.9 billion rubles. went to the Sakhalin company Vostok Morneftegaz owned by Leonid Lee.

After this, SGS began to rapidly lose the market - in 2015, its revenue fell 40 times to 8 million rubles, and the loss grew to 25 million rubles. In the summer of 2015, Baikal sold 90% of its shares in SGS. And a little later Zolotova sold her stake in Baikal.

Volleyball development

In the second half of the 2010s, the rapid activity of Ivan Tikhomirov, the same age and namesake of Yulia Tikhomirova, began. At the age of 23, he became the co-founder and general director of a dozen companies involved in development projects for the volleyball Dynamo. Two acquaintances of the Shekin family say that at that time he was the husband of Tikhomirova, who was involved in development projects in the family. In 2007, she founded her own company, Msk Stroy, which was supposed to prepare construction sites.

Tikhomirov’s main partners were 47-year-old counterintelligence officer, FSB colonel and former general director of Dynamo Insurance Company Vyacheslav Rotavchikov and member of the board of directors of Transmashholding Evgeny Smirnov (for more details, see the inset).

Volleyball and locomotives

Little is known about one of the main business partners of Zadorina and Tikhomirova, 79-year-old Evgeniy Smirnov (pictured). The first time his name was mentioned was in 1997. Then Smirnov worked as the general director of the Transsnab company, established by Zheldorbank, Roszheldorsnab of the Ministry of Railways and Transrail Holding, close to the then head of the Ministry of Railways Nikolai Aksenenko. Transsnab mediated the supply of rails and other track superstructure equipment under Ministry of Railways contracts. In 2002, Smirnov became an adviser to the president of Evrazholding (now Evraz) Alexander Abramov. At that time he was the only manufacturer of rails in Russia. In 2005, Smirnov participated in a deal with shares of Transmashholding, the largest Russian manufacturer of locomotives and passenger cars. Judging by the company's reporting, in 2005, 10% of its shares went to Volley Sport-Service LLC. The company was founded by former SC Dynamo player Alexander Yaremenko and former players of the Luch club Stanislav Shevchenko and Andrey Sapega. Smirnov was the general director of Volei Sports Service and therefore joined the board of directors of the machine-building holding, where he remains to this day. Volley Sport Service itself became the property of Volley Sport JSC, created by Shevchenko and Lada Soshenkova, a minority shareholder of the Volleyball Yug company, controlled by Shekin’s daughter Yulia Tikhomirova. In 2007, the Dutch The Breakers Investments B.V. became the owner of 100% of Transmashholding. Its main owners were considered Iskandar Makhmudov, Andrei Bokarev, Maxim Liksutov (now deputy mayor of Moscow) and Sergei Glinka. In the same 2007, 25% of the holding’s shares for 9.2 billion rubles. acquired Russian Railways, and in 2010 another 25% plus 1 share was acquired by the French concern Alstom. In 2005, Smirnov also became a co-founder and chairman of the board of the Institute for Problems of Natural Monopolies (IPEM), whose telephone number coincided with the contacts of the TMH trading house (owned by Transmashholding). The main customers of IPEM were Russian Railways and its affiliated structures. Based on their government order, the institute assessed the risks and feasibility of increasing the number of freight carriers, predicted changes in passenger flows and helped with planning the Russian Railways investment program to update the rolling stock fleet. Most of these studies were in one way or another connected with the activities of Transmashholding. In 2016, IPEM’s government order portfolio amounted to 118.5 million rubles. IPEM is also associated with Zadorina. Since 2010, he has owned 18% of the CIS Institute for Security Problems (CIS IPS), the largest beneficiary of which is the general’s daughter. In the Ecoresurs company, which owns the remaining shares of the institute, 53% belongs to Zadorina, 18.5% to Smirnov. Vedomosti was unable to contact Smirnov.

True, Tikhomirov’s business activity died out as unexpectedly as it began. In 2012, he disappeared from all his companies, his shares went to Shekinah’s daughters and former partners. Perhaps this is due to the separation of the couple, two family friends suggest. Just last year, Tikhomirov registered as an individual entrepreneur and opened a car wash in Nekrasovka. Her employee told Vedomosti that Tikhomirov was abroad. The businessman did not answer Vedomosti’s questions sent to him. Yulia Tikhomirova also did not answer questions about Tikhomirov. What projects did the businessman manage to participate in?

VTB took over the arena

On the capital's Vasilisa Kozhina Street near Victory Park on December 23, 2015, there was no crowd. Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, VTB President Andrei Kostin and his first deputy Vasily Titov, Moscow Vice-Mayor Marat Khusnullin and President of Dynamo SC General Shekin came to lay the capsule with a message to descendants in the foundation of the future international volleyball arena with 3,500 seats. The arena, the construction of which was solemnly announced by officials, bankers and generals, was a small part of the Match Point mixed-use complex, which was to appear on this site. The planned development area is 202,945 sq. m. m, and the cost is almost 19 billion rubles. The 28-story buildings will house offices and apartments.

In fact, the complex on the street. Vasilisa Kozhina - unfinished construction. The project started in 2008. Then Moscow leased 2.5 hectares of land to the Dynamo Sports Complex for the construction of an office and sports complex. The customer and investor of the construction were Volley Grand LLC and the interregional sports public organization (MSOO) “Sports Initiatives”. The general director of the first of them was Tikhomirov, and the founders were Rotavchikov, Smirnov and the owner of the National Republican Bank Dzhulustan Borisov. The second company was founded by Tikhomirov, Smirnov, Borisov, the All-Russian Volleyball Federation (VFV) and several top managers of the Miel group.

The partners collectively invested about 300 million rubles in the project. and attracted a VTB loan for at least 7.6 billion rubles. And after the crisis and problems with financing, investors fell out. Smirnov’s structures began to sue the structures of Rotavchikov and Borisov over settlements with contractors and investments in construction. Tikhomirov chose to withdraw from the project in 2012, and a year later the construction was frozen.

In 2014, the project for the construction of the mixed-use complex was completely transferred to VTB. The bank representative did not talk about the project, and it was not possible to contact Borisov.

If the large-scale construction project in Moscow did not work out, the Tikhomirov structures managed to successfully complete the projects for the construction of hotels and sports complexes in Suzdal, Anapa and Adler. They were helped in this by the UMMC of Iskandar Makhmudov and his partners, the Siberian Business Union (SDS), Renova of Viktor Vekselberg and the Safmar charitable foundation of Mikhail Gutseriev - some of them free of charge.

Thus, in the resort village of Vityazevo near Anapa, since 2004, the Volley Grad sports and educational health center was built by the VFV. The federation itself built only two volleyball courts and a hotel with 64 rooms. In 2009, the federation ceded the lease of the site to Volei Grad, the co-owners of which were the structures of Yulia and Ivan Tikhomirov. They built an indoor training hall there, four cottages with an area of 342 square meters. m each and a presidential villa of 524 sq. m.

The third stage of the sports complex in 2015–2016. financed Gutseriev's Safmar. He transferred donations worth 100 million rubles to the VFW. These funds were used to build two new beach volleyball courts, stands with 1,500 seats and landscaping of the complex. The Safmar Foundation did not answer Vedomosti’s questions about Volya Grad.

Hotel for the FSB

In 2013, an Olympic facility of federal significance was built in Adler - a sports and recreation hotel Sport Inn with 50 rooms with beach volleyball courts. During the Sochi Olympics, the Sport Inn, like several other hotels in Adler, was taken over by the FSB for its needs.

At that time, 51% of the company that owned the hotel “Start” belonged to the MSOO “Sports Initiatives” of Tikhomirov. The SDS had the rest. But Renova donated money for the construction, and its structure, OSZ LLC, was the customer and developer of the hotel. This follows from the proceedings that accompanied the registration of a permit for the construction of the hotel - its “Sports Initiatives” was approved in the Central District Court of Sochi retroactively, in 2016. A representative of Renova did not comment on this project.

At the beginning of 2016, 51% of Start was bought from Sports Initiatives by Oksana Simonova, a former top manager of Miel and the general director of the Msk Stroy company, Yulia Tikhomirova. SDS sold 49% of Start LLC to its lawyer Andrey Zelenkov.

In 2016, UMMC opened a small hotel “Copper Dvor” on the banks of the Kamenka River in Suzdal. As Vedomosti found out, the Tikhomirovs also took part in this project. The hotel was built by the Ecoresurs-invest company, a subsidiary of the Ecoresurs company, founded by the ex-director of the National Charitable Fund (formerly the National Military Fund) Anatoly Zhuravlev. The fund was created in 1999 on the initiative of President Vladimir Putin to attract donations from the largest Russian companies, which were used to build housing for the military, Novaya Gazeta wrote. Tikhomirov in 2010 bought 43.5% of Ecoresurs and, together with Yulia Tikhomirova, received half of Ecoresurs-invest. The second 50% of Ecoresurs-invest went to UMMC. In 2015, UMMC bought out the Tikhomirovs’ share and remained the sole owner of the hotel.

Ecoresurs bought Zadorin from the Tikhomirovs by 2010. In the same year, this company acquired 82% in LLC Institute for Security Problems of the CIS (IPB CIS). Zadorina took the position of deputy director there.

Ex-banker with a hoarder

Businesses have to purchase new cash register equipment ten times more expensive than cost, RBC reported in early March with reference to State Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoy. This happens, according to Lugovoy, because the 8th FSB center has certified the only sample of a fiscal drive for new cash registers, which is produced only by affiliated companies CJSC Atlas-Kart, LLC Rik and CJSC Besant. Their beneficiary is Vladimir Shcherbakov, RBC quotes Lugovoy as saying. We are talking about ex-banker Shcherbakov, whose company was, together with the Russian Club of Economists Felix Shamkhalov, a co-founder of the CIS Institute for Security Problems, which in 2010 became the property of the youngest daughter of FSB Colonel General Anastasia Zadorina. Shcherbakov was a co-owner of BVA Bank, which lost its license in 2014. The investigation accused Shcherbakov and the bank’s top managers of siphoning money abroad, believing that with their help, from 2011 to 2014, about 10 billion rubles were transferred abroad under dubious schemes. The schemes were as follows, Kommersant reported: companies close to Shcherbakov and his partners purchased nickel powder and acrylic resin for FSUE Goznak in Singapore, but first supplied them to the countries of the European Union, from where they imported them to Russia at many times inflated prices. Shcherbakov could not be detained.

Safe Mansion

At the beginning of December 2016, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Rashid Nurgaliev arrived at a small mansion on the capital’s Mira Avenue. The purpose of the visit is to participate in a scientific and practical meeting on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the creation of the CIS. IPB CIS was entrusted with hosting the event.

What is IPB CIS? The institute has three directors and four employees. They prepare scientific reports and consultations “on a wide range of issues related to ensuring the security of the CIS,” according to the institute’s website. Among the customers of the institute’s scientific research are Vnukovo Airport, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Security Council. According to the Federal Antimonopoly Service, in 2013 the institute carried out research work worth 4.5 million rubles, in 2014 – 8.6 million rubles. In 2015, its revenue amounted to 9.5 million rubles, the loss was 252,000 rubles.

The main asset of the institute is its headquarters in a historic mansion built in 1901 on Mira Avenue. In 2006, the Institute received a mansion from the Moscow government for a preferential lease until 2030. According to the Federal Antimonopoly Service, the rental rate is 1 ruble. for 1 sq. m per year, i.e. renting a mansion in Moscow with an area of 878.7 sq. m can cost 878.7 rubles. in year. True, the capital's benefits were issued under the previous owners of the CIS IPB. In 2006, the institute belonged to the Russian Club of Economists, controlled by the former chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education, Felix Shamkhalov.

This was not Shamkhalov’s only deal with the Shekinah family. In 2007, Tikhomirov bought from the Russian Club of Economists 41% of Kosta LLC, which became part of the huge hunting estate of the Shekin family in the Yaroslavl region.

Hunting with state bankers

Kosta has a long-term lease of 8,400 hectares of hunting land, as indicated on the website of the administration of the Yaroslavl region.

After 2011, Tikhomirov’s share in Kosta passed to Zadorina. And 25% in the LLC was acquired by the Muflon company of VTB President Andrei Kostin and his deputy Vasily Titov. Another 16% went to Olga Zaostrovtseva, the daughter of former deputy director of the FSB Yuri Zaostrovtsev.

Next door to Kosta, in the village of Los on the street. Okhotnichya, 9, there is a huge Experimental forest hunting enterprise of the Federal Security Service of Russia (109,500 hectares leased until 2061). It went to the structures of Tikhomirova and her partners. The transfer of state property took place in several stages. After the corporatization of PJSC Los in 2010, it was auctioned for 40 million rubles. bought “Royal Hunt” of banker Pyotr Aven and owner of NLMK Vladimir Lisin. In 2014, businessmen sold the farm to Taels LLC, among the founders of which Aven had also once been, but by the time of the transaction he had sold the share to partners - Tikhomirova and VTB employee Sergei Erin, who consolidated 47% of the company's shares. Zaostrovtseva received another 6%.

From intelligence officers to hoteliers

Another business partner of Anastasia Zadorina, Maria Romanova, is the wife of a former intelligence officer, ex-adviser to the director of FSUE Rostek, Alexander Romanov. Together with Zadorina, in December 2015, she acquired control of the Luxus company, the Russian representative office of the famous Ecuadorian rose importer. In mid-December, Zadorina sold her stake in the company to her partners. The Romanov spouses in the register of companies of Montenegro are listed as equal owners of DOO Romanoff, which owns the Azimut and Romanov hotels on the Adriatic Sea. Previously, the co-owner of the company was Nadezhda Khoreva, whom Kommersant calls the wife of the former deputy head of the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Andrei Khorev. Several years ago, both Romanov and Khorev became involved in criminal cases. Khorev was suspected of giving a bribe and trafficking in weapons, but all criminal cases fell apart. Romanov was accused of organizing commercial bribery. According to investigators, he and his accomplices collected additional payments from importers “for expedited processing.” The investigation also discovered that in 2009, the wives of Khorev and Romanov purchased the Azimut Hotel and four plots of land in Montenegro for 6.5 million euros, Kommersant wrote. In 2014, the Sevsky District Court of the Bryansk Region sentenced Romanov to five years in prison and a fine of 117 million rubles.

As a result, Zadorina and Tikhomirova’s structure turned out to be the main co-owners of two recreation centers with hunting grounds with an area of 117,900 hectares. And by the way, with its own Los heliport, owned by the FSB.

At the same time, Tikhomirova invested in pharmaceuticals. In 2010, together with Rotavchikov, they bought 20% of NPK Nanosystem LLC from the pharmaceutical holding Farmeko. Shortly before this, 24% in the latter was bought by the daughter of Transneft President, FSB Major General Nikolai Tokarev, Maya Bolotova. The Nanosystems presentation says that its main goal is the development and commercialization of highly effective drugs for the treatment of cancer, tuberculosis and other socially significant diseases.

In 2013, Nanosystem became one of a dozen companies with which the Ministry of Industry and Trade entered into a contract for preclinical studies of water-compatible nano-sized forms of rifabutin under the federal target program “Development of the Pharmaceutical and Medical Industry until 2020.” Nanosystem received 31 million rubles for research.

But over time, Nanosystem lost ground. The company's revenue decreased from a maximum of 677 million rubles. in 2012 to 164 million rubles. in 2014. There are no later reports in SPARK.

Sweet life

“Too cool for a city cafe,” TimeOut magazine wrote in 2006 about the two-story Lubyansky restaurant, which operated in the FSB residence on Malaya Lubyanka, 7. The establishment, decorated in black and ash tones, belonged to the Quorum-invest company. , close to the Zhuravlev National Military Foundation - the same one from whom Tikhomirov bought the Ecoresurs company. In 2007, Tikhomirov acquired 60% of Quorum-invest, another 10% went to Smirnov.

A year later, when the lease agreement for the building expired, Tikhomirov and his partners sold Quorum-invest. In 2012, the company went bankrupt and was liquidated.

But Shekinah was not left without restaurants.

In 2013, Dynamo Service by Yulia Tikhomirova for 12 million rubles. purchased the Royal Bar restaurant on Leningradskoye Shosse, next to the Dynamo Sports Palace, which opened in 2013. Tikhomirova received a complex with an area of 8,000 square meters. m, which includes a restaurant, a summer veranda, a private beach with a swimming pool, volleyball and children's playgrounds, a marina and tents, she told Vodabereg.ru.

Zadorina also got her own restaurant. In 2015, she, together with the famous lawyer and restaurateur Alexander Rappoport, opened “Russia’s first restaurant of Pan-American cuisine,” Latin Quarter. A year later, the partners adjusted the concept of the establishment, turning the restaurant into a Latinos cevicheria. Rappoport declined to comment, referring all questions to Zadorina.

What kind of business do the daughters of the FSB “supply manager” Mikhail Shekin do, and who helps them?

Ekaterina Chesnokova / RIA Novosti

Yesterday it became known that almost the entire leadership of one of the main anti-corruption units of Russia - the economic security service (SEB) of the FSB - may be replaced. The issue of the retirement of Army General Yuri Yakovlev, who headed the SEB for almost ten years, has already been practically resolved, and the heads of the key service departments subordinate to him have written reports of resignation. Their places are expected to be taken by people from the FSB's own security department (USB), who previously carried out a large-scale operation, as a result of which the SEB's allied agents from the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs, led by Lieutenant General Denis Sugrobov, were jailed.

According to Kommersant's sources, rumors about impending changes in the FSB SEB have been circulating for at least six months. This was partly due to the comprehensive audit that began in the service. It was planned in nature - similar audit events are carried out in all divisions of the special service once every few years. However, the current inspection of the SEB, according to Kommersant's interlocutors, is particularly thorough. Allegedly, controllers were given instructions to identify and record even the slightest violations.

Moreover, it was carried out on the eve of the retirement of the head of the SEB, Yuri Yakovlev. He is considered an old-timer in the state security system and a strong professional, heading the service since 2008. Before that, he was the first deputy head of the SEB, which was headed by Alexander Bortnikov before his appointment as director of the FSB. It should be noted that Mr. Yakovlev had long reached retirement age, but as a holder of the rank of army general he was able to continue his service. At the same time, unlike other senior intelligence officers, General Yakovlev was a public figure - he regularly participated in various events, meetings of commissions and committees.

The FSB has never disclosed its structure, although the goals and composition of the SSB, by and large, were not a secret. After the reorganization of the FSB in 2004, the SEB included, according to some sources, six departments. Directorate “P”, which, by the way, was once headed by Yuri Yakovlev, is engaged in counterintelligence support for the fight against corruption in the industrial sector, Directorate “K” is in credit, finance and banking, Directorate “T” is responsible for transport, “M” - for the purity of the ranks in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, "N" - for the fight against smuggling and distribution of drugs, and the last department, which does not have an abbreviation, is organizational and analytical.

Several years ago, the anti-drug department was structurally included in the “K” department, which became the key one in the SEB.

As Kommersant reported, the head of the K department, Major General Viktor Voronin, wrote a letter of resignation after a number of scandals involving his subordinates. Some of them were involved in smuggling. Now, reports from the heads of departments “P” and “T”, whom Kommersant’s sources called generals Lazarev and Chernyshev, have arrived on the management’s desk. However, there are rumors that the first of them may still remain in his position.

Meanwhile, according to Kommersant's sources, in the special service itself, the positions of the departing employees will be taken by people from the Internal Security Service (also known as the 9th Directorate of the FSB), and the SEB itself will be headed by the head of this department, Sergei Korolev. The first person in the CSS may be his current deputy, General Oleg Feoktistov, who was tipped for this position several years ago. The already vacant position of head of department “K” will supposedly go to the head of the 6th service included in the CSS, Ivan Tkachev, who has a crystal clear reputation among his colleagues. His deputy, Igor Demin, became widely known after an operation to expose employees of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs, which ended with the arrest of one of the youngest and most promising police generals, Denis Sugrobov, and a number of his subordinates - they were accused of organizing a criminal community and participating in it.

It should be noted that the functions of the anti-corruption services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB were practically the same, which could not but give rise to competition between departments. Both divisions were active in the market for illegal cash withdrawals, identifying dishonest bankers, etc.

However, after the arrest of General Sugrobov and the reorganization of his headquarters, the interdepartmental struggle virtually ceased. But, according to some reports, certain problems arose between various services within the FSB itself. Some sources claim that the disagreements between the CSS and the SEB were not serious and were related exclusively to work issues. For example, with the exposure of a number of senior SEB officers seconded to other departments. Among them, in particular, they call and. O. the head of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Departmental Security of Industrial Facilities of the Russian Federation", in the recent past the commander of the special group "Vympel" Major General Vladimir Podolsky, who was accused by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation of fraud (Kommersant spoke about his case on June 9).

At the same time, according to Kommersant’s sources, problems also arose within the SEB itself. For example, there were persistent rumors about a confrontation between employees of the “K” department and colleagues from the “M” department. The latter are engaged in “cleansing the ranks” in the security forces, and therefore, by the nature of their service, they are close to the CSS. At the same time, some Kommersant interlocutors do not rule out that the security services, having first removed competitors from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, are now simply trying to expand their sphere of influence on the SEB.

Denis Sugrobov's lawyer Eduard Isetsky told Kommersant that he became aware of internal contradictions in the FSB more than a year ago, after his client was arrested. “It turns out that in the near future we may have one structure left, which will determine what corruption is and what it is not,” the defender believes.

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What role did high-ranking people from state security structures play in the largest Russian corporations?

“This is correct information, he has returned to service,” said Rosneft head Igor Sechin in response to a question about the fate of FSB General Oleg Feoktistov. Why is this general interesting?

It is believed that Feoktistov was behind the multi-step operation that ended with the arrest of former Minister of Economy Alexei Ulyukaev. Before joining Rosneft, Feoktistov worked in the Federal Security Service. After completing the “special operation” he returned there. The story received a wide response and became significant for understanding how the system of interaction between Russian business and law enforcement agencies is evolving.

In the early 1990s, current employees left state security agencies and took cushy jobs in newly created private financial and industrial groups. Some of them rose to serious positions and became co-owners. YUKOS, Gusinsky's Most group, Lukoil, Alpha group - under almost every oligarch of the 1990s you can find a general.

The rise to power of Vladimir Putin radically changed the picture. If earlier people with shoulder straps performed the functions of lobbyists for large capital in the security forces and, more broadly, government agencies, then over time their functions became different.

The massive influx of former and current intelligence officers into government bodies forced large business structures to think about finding people who could act as intermediaries in communication with the security forces. Some of these people turned out to be public and in some cases even became the face of the company.

Meanwhile, processes developed. As the general public gradually became aware, special units were formed within the structure of the FSB and other intelligence services to oversee the situation in the largest companies and sectors of the Russian economy. At the same time, through the institution of “seconded” employees, Russian intelligence services established direct control over key processes in Russian corporations.

The episode with Rosneft and General Feoktistov is indicative in this sense, because it showed the relationship between large companies and intelligence services in the most public way possible (in current conditions).

Read about seven notable intelligence generals in the largest Russian corporations in the Forbes gallery.

Philip Bobkov

Army General. Graduated from the Leningrad school of military counterintelligence Smersh. In state security agencies since 1946. Since 1969, he headed the 5th Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, which was engaged in the protection of the constitutional order and fought against ideological sabotage and dissidents. Since 1983, he was deputy chairman, and since 1985, first deputy chairman of the KGB of the USSR. He left service in 1991.

In 1992, a graduate of the Smersh school headed the analytical department of the Most group of oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky. Bobkov worked at Most until the second half of 2001. By that time, Gusinsky himself had already lost control of the NTV channel and lived abroad for more than a year.

Alexey Kondaurov

Major General. In 1971 he graduated from the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics of the Moscow Engineering and Economic Institute named after. Ordzhonikidze. Since 1973 in state security agencies. In recent years, the service was headed by the FSB Public Relations Center.

In 1994, Kondaurov headed the information department of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Menatep group, and from 1998 to 2003 he headed the analytical department of the Yukos oil company. In addition to analytics, Kandaurov was involved in working with representatives of the country’s key political forces. After Khodorkovsky's arrest, he spoke out in defense of the disgraced oligarch. In 2003, he was elected to the State Duma. In 2014, he signed a statement demanding an end to support for the self-proclaimed republics in southeastern Ukraine.

Oleg Osobenkov

Colonel General. Graduated from the Faculty of International Economic Relations of MGIMO. In state security agencies since 1969. He headed the department of analysis, forecast and strategic planning, and since 1996 he has served as State Secretary of the FSB of Russia.

In 1999, Oleg Osobenkov was appointed deputy general director, head of the personnel department of Aeroflot. He was a member of the airline's board. It is believed that Osobenkov’s task was to rid the company of the influence of Boris Berezovsky. Osobenkov was removed from the board of Aeroflot in 2005.

Yuri Kobaladze

Major General. Graduated from the Faculty of International Journalism at MGIMO. Since 1972, he worked in the first main directorate of the KGB of the USSR (foreign intelligence). As a journalist, he traveled to the UK, Malta, the USA, and France. In 1991, he headed the press bureau of the SVR, and for six months he was deputy general director of ITAR-TASS.

In September 1999, Kobaladze became managing director of the investment company Renaissance Capital. From 2007 to 2012, he was Managing Director for Corporate Affairs and Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of X5 Retail Group. Since 2012 - consultant at UBS investment bank.

Alexander Zdanovich

Lieutenant General. Graduated from the KGB Higher School. In state security agencies since 1972. He served in military counterintelligence, in the public relations center of the FSB. In February 1996, he became acting head of the FSB TsOS. In November 1999, he was appointed head of the FSB assistance programs department.

From 2002 to 2012 - Deputy Chairman of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company for security issues. From 2012 to 2014 - Advisor to the General Director of VGTRK.

Yuri Yakovlev

Army General. In 1975 he graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute with a degree in Experimental Nuclear Physics. In state security agencies since 1976. In 2008, he headed the economic security service of the FSB.

In July 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed him. Two months later, Yakovlev was appointed deputy general director of Rosatom for state policy in the field of security in the use of atomic energy for defense purposes.

Oleg Feoktistov

General of the FSB. Graduated from the FSB Academy. Since 2004, he headed the 6th Service of the FSB Internal Security Directorate, responsible for operational support of criminal cases, and Deputy Head of the FSB Internal Security Directorate.

In September 2016, he was appointed head of the security service of Rosneft and joined the company’s board. On March 10, Rosneft President Igor Sechin confirmed that Feoktistov had left the company. “This is correct information, he returned to service,” Sechin noted.

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