What is this beast, the Ozero cooperative? Country cooperative "Lake What is included in the cooperative lake
Well, I came across a mention of this cooperative in one article and decided to look more. I didn’t dig deeply and so far there was enough of a picture from kompromat.ru for reflection ... not the most pleasant one :(According to the list of founders:
V. Smirnov - General Director of Techsnabexport - export of the country's radioactive waste
N. Shamalov - 13% of Rossiya Bank and co-owner of a shipyard. His son is the president of the Gazprom pension fund
V. Putin - you know yourself :) a true poor man with a cash of 3 million rubles
V. Yakunin - General Director of Russian Railways
Yu. Kovalchuk - 30% of Rossiya Bank and owner of Channel 5 and Izvestia
V. Myachin - Executive Director of Bank Rossiya. At the same time, he owned 23% of Bank Rossiya (now xs which he owns ..)
S. Fursenko - General Director of "Lentransgaz"
A. Fursenko - Minister of EducationPutin, with his declarations clearly does not fit in here ...
We have known for a long time about Putin's dacha farm on the shore of Lake Komsomolskoye in the Leningrad Region. But we could not find any documents confirming that it was his property. Moreover, our sources in law enforcement agencies claimed that in the fall of 1998 the head of the Priozersky district administration from Moscow received a secret encryption program with a categorical indication - all the papers for the dacha in Solovyovka, the cost of which, according to the most conservative estimates, is 300 thousand Finnish marks (about $ 60 000) destroy! And then bam, and filled in with his own hand. about the president's declaration!
Questions to the Declaration of Candidate No. 1 for the Office of President of RussiaTo officially become a candidate for Russian presidency, Vladimir Putin declared his income and property for 1998-99 (see declaration) ... And what he had and what he lived on until 1998, at first glance, an inconspicuous St. Petersburg official with a meager salary, but in fact - the second person after Mayor Sobchak in St. Petersburg - was not interested in the Central Election Commission. Because the legislation, as if specially "tailored" to Putin, allows not to delve deeply into the biography of Yeltsin's successor. The members of the CEC stated with relief. It is said - it is not allowed, it means that it is not allowed.
But what Veshnyakov is "not supposed to", we, journalists, are not prohibited. And the electorate is probably interested in knowing whether a rich man is being wooed by the president or so-so. After all, as the people reason, if the poor, then they will start stealing without measure, and if the head of state is already a wealthy person, then maybe he will have enough time to take care of the citizens of this state.
Country questionSo, according to the declaration, Putin owns two land plots, respectively, 3302 and 3494 sq. meters in the Leningrad region and 15 acres in the Moscow region. Declared and. about. President and his St. Petersburg dacha with a living area of \u200b\u200b152, 9 sq. m. Everything seems to be honest. And all the media for some reason decided that the official Putin only owns wastelands, and once again reproduced his old statement about "life on suitcases."
But why then does Putin need almost a hectare of empty land? He's not a master at golf. He does not grow tulips in greenhouses. It's strange somehow.
To look at Putin's "wastelands", we went to the Priozersky District of the Leningrad Region. From Peter it is about a hundred kilometers along a decent highway. Judging by the usual topographic map, Putin's country house is located in the modest summer cottage village of Solovyovka, of which hundreds are scattered throughout the Leningrad Region.
We have known about Putin's dacha farm on the shore of Lake Komsomolskoye for a long time. But we could not find any documents confirming that it was his property. Found only list of founders of the dacha cooperative "Lake" , which included and. about the president. But it didn't work. Moreover, our sources in law enforcement agencies claimed that in the fall of last year, the head of the Priozersky district administration received a cipher message from Moscow with a categorical instruction - to destroy all the papers at Putin's dacha in Solovievka. And then bam, and a declaration filled in with his own hand!
Having wandered through the local pine forests for a short time, we drove up to Solovyovka - an ordinary dacha village with wooden houses and six-hundred vegetable gardens. At the rickety gate - two tubular sashes - we were met by an elderly lady who was walking "chao-chao".
Have you come to see Putin's dacha? ”A local resident stunned us with her insight.
Have a lot of journalists already been here? we asked.
No, you are the first. But we put the gate just in case so that other people's cars would not bother us. He came here to spend the night from 13 to 14 February, when Sobchak's funeral was, so the guards drove so many ...
Having examined us suspiciously, Natalya Ivanovna told how best to get to the dacha and. about. the president so that the guards would not spot.
It would be better from the side of the lake, there the view is gorgeous. But the ice has melted and the waters are knee-deep - you won't fit ...
And all the locals know who "lived and worked" in this dacha?
So the scandal was big when ordinary summer residents were resettled from the shore of the lake so that Putin would get the whole cape. For those who were more assertive, they put chopped houses from a bar, and for the majority - summer cottages were built on the mountain. Summer residents did not pay anything, it is not clear at whose expense all this resettlement was done ... In 1997, another event happened - HIM's sauna burned down. Polish workers somehow laid the wrong wiring, then the Finns rebuilt everything. And closer to summer, we will probably create an initiative group and will demand that Putin make a public beach for us. And then he and his friends from the FSB occupied the entire coast - the children have nowhere to swim ...
Having made our way to Putin's dacha in the gardens, we tried to film it, but could not find a good angle. The pitiful dacha houses blocked even the splendor of the two-meter fence, which enclosed the "wasteland" and. about. presidents, and from behind which the red tiled roof of a two-story building was barely visible. Therefore, at the risk of running into a scandal, they decided to drive up to the gates of Putin's dacha along a specially paved road to them, which is not inferior in quality to the German Autobahn. Having filmed everything in the best possible way, even the guard in the gatehouse window, we rushed towards the highway.
Only at that moment did our driver begin to realize that we were filming something forbidden, and tried to calm us down:
I drive the car according to my preference, the owner has been in Finland for three years for permanent residence, and in general I was going to sell it next week ...
They got to Peter without incident, making sure that Putin's dacha economy is fully consistent with the information indicated in his declaration of a candidate for the presidency of Russia. And readers can now judge for themselves how much Putin's "wasteland" corresponds to his official salary and. about the president. And it remains for us to add that if BB is put on a par with other leading politicians, it will become clear that his earnings are far from the first, if, again, believe the declaration. Let's say, in 1998, Grigory Yavlinsky earned $ 3846. 8 per month, Yeltsin received an average of $ 742, while Putin received $ 536. And when VV was vice-governor of St. Petersburg, probably even less.
Housing problem
Judging by the declaration, and. about. President lives modestly in a Moscow office apartment of 157.5 sq. meters. In St. Petersburg, he only had two garages. But why and. about. garages, if he does not have a single vehicle, and he seems to have nowhere to live in St. Petersburg. Or is there where? In St. Petersburg, Putin had an old friend from the Leningrad KGB Directorate Valery Golubev. In 1979, he was also drafted into the state security organs, and in 1991 he retired to the reserve - just like Putin, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Golubev, however, unlike his famous colleague, did not reach special heights in the civilian field. In 1991 he became the head of the secretariat of the St. Petersburg mayor's office, and since 1993 - the head of the administration of the Vasileostrovsky district.Vasilievsky Island is considered in St. Petersburg, perhaps the most prestigious place of residence. Especially appreciated are old pre-revolutionary buildings after major repairs. And so on Vasilievsky Island, which has been run since 1993 by the former Chekist Golubev, two houses have been renovated. The first one was at the address: 2nd line, 17, and the other at the address: 15th line, 12. After the renovation, people on the waiting list who were registered to improve their living conditions in the Vasileostrovsky district should have settled in the apartments. But then amazing things began to happen.
A certain company "Linix" intervened in the matter, which received scandalous notoriety after the fraud with the housing of the former mayor A. Sobchak became public. But, as it turns out, not only the deceased Sobchak used the services of Linix. This company acquired several apartments in the city of Vsevolozhsk and exchanged them for prestigious apartments on Vasilyevsky Island, having concluded an agreement with the administration of the Vasileostrovsky district represented by its head Golubev.
Here it is necessary to clarify that Vsevolozhsk is, although a regional center of the Leningrad region, it does not yet claim the status of the Northern Venice. Is that in the autumn thaw. In short, the exchange was as equivalent as if a luxury apartment in a sanatorium in Barvikha were exchanged for an apartment in Magadan. Nevertheless, Golubev agreed to this exchange. True, he decided everything not for himself, but for those on the waiting list in the Vasileostrovsky district. And they received apartments in Vsevolozhsk, without even guessing in what prestigious place the living space was intended for them.
And who, then, took over the elite apartments on Vasilievsky Island, thanks to the care of Golubev? Well, let's take a few at random. So, for example, Mr. Rudenko, the husband of the deputy, became the owner of apartment No. 4, building 17 on the 2nd line. head of the administration of the Vasileostrovsky district. T. Semyonova settled in apartment No. 19, who is only brought by her mother-in-law to the former Chekist V. Golubev. But apartment 24 in the same building 17 on the 2nd line went to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin himself.
On February 23, 1993, Putin was issued an exchange order 205553/22 for this apartment. However, in the column where the person with whom Putin made the exchange was to be indicated, there was a dash. To what has been said, it should also be added that the most direct participation in the exchange of Vasileostrovsk apartments for Vsevolozhsk ones was taken by Larisa Kharchenko, who at that time was Sobchak's assistant on housing issues, and then was accused in the well-known "apartment" case. It can also be recalled that at the end of 1993, the exchange of municipal housing for a private one could not be, in principle, because such an operation was simply not provided for by the law in force at that time. That Golubev was fully explained by the lawyers of the district administration. Moreover, the district housing exchange refused to issue warrants for this transaction for a long time, indicating its illegality. And only after Golubev received Sobchak's personal approval, as well as his written instructions to the head of the City Residential Exchange to issue orders to the waiting list for apartments in Vsevolozhsk, Putin moved into a new elite apartment.
All this old apartment history, which was recently reported by the newspaper Novy Peterburg, unfortunately, in accordance with the law, was not reflected in the declaration of the presidential candidate Putin.
Banking issueYeltsin's successor has accounts in three banks: 15,992 rubles in Sberbank, 54,375 rubles in the St. Petersburg Baltic Bank and 316,632 rubles in the Promstroybank of St. Petersburg (PSB). Putin also holds 23 PSB shares with a par value of 1 ruble each. This is the connection with banking and. about. the president is cut short, although if you trace it to 1998, the CEC would learn a lot of interesting things about the presidential candidate Putin.
Take at least one of the first commercial St. Petersburg banks "Russia", which was created at the dawn of the cooperative movement in 1998 by Academician Aleksandrov. It was located directly in Smolny (entrance 4). It is clear that at that time such a banking institution could not function without strict supervision from the party organs, or rather, for the good of the CPSU.
The bank's founders included 14 large structures: International Business Center, Eurosib, Lenvest and others. The list of individuals - shareholders of Bank Rossiya was thoroughly classified, which is understandable, since among them were such high-profile names as Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Anatoly Sobchak, Georgy Khizha, as well as budding Russian politicians Putin and Cherkesov. However, the last two special services then did not even think about big politics, but were engaged in things much more prosaic.
It was a strange bank. He had full access to the operational materials of the FSB and the Central Internal Affairs Directorate on the financial structures of St. Petersburg and actively used them. Floppy disks with various financial intelligence data were constantly received from the UBEP, UR, RUOP to the bank, the bank's management (President Vitaly Savelyev) placed their people in various financial structures in order to obtain information and control. The security service of Bank Rossiya was constantly allocated up to $ 50,000 to bribe officials.
Later, when the CPSU was gone, the guys from the Tambov criminal group showed interest in the Rossiya bank and, most likely, had a share there in exchange for a "roof".
And the bank continued to engage in financial intelligence not only internal, but abroad (through the "International Consulting Agency", where the current FSB employees worked)
Trustee of the current and. about. President of the Bank "Russia" was a certain Vladimir Yakunin. To attract foreign capital to the bank, Yakunin actively used his American connections (he once worked in the United States through the KGB). For example, former (and maybe current, who will sort them out) CIA officers were involved in the activities of the Rossiya bank, who really invested decent sums in the bank's share capital.
Nothing has ever been heard about the financial success of Bank Rossiya. In a word, the bank was strange.
Offshore issueDuring his tenure as vice-governor of St. Petersburg, VV, apparently, was actively involved in commercial activities, which, in accordance with the law, also did not want to know the CEC. Putin headed the so-called "Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg", which was officially registered as a commercial structure. By the way, A. Kozak was the chief accountant in this office for Putin.
The commercial activity of the "Committee" consisted in the fact that he was a co-founder of various large and small firms (see the list of firms) , helped them solve issues with renting premises, selling products, etc. at the level of the mayor's office, and for this he received part of the profit or dividends, which, in theory, should have gone entirely to replenish the city's budget.
According to the operational information that the law enforcement agencies of St. Petersburg had, serious money passed through the "Committee", only not all funds fell into the state treasury, and partly settled in offshore areas. In principle, this is a normal world practice of tax evasion, a normal desire in this way to secure assets from the encroachments of creditors
(remember the story with the Central Bank "and its offshore structure" Fimako ".) Perhaps, the Germans taught Putin to use offshores for the benefit of the city budget, since in Germany everyone works with offshore companies at the state level, including such monsters as Deutschebank.
But the problem is that, as a rule, 2-3 people know about the existence of offshore companies and accounts in offshore banks, and they are opened in the names of just these 2-3 people. Was all the budgetary funds of St. Petersburg withdrawn from there in due time, or is there something left? who now manages these funds? - The Central Election Commission is unlikely to ever find answers to these questions. "The dictatorship of the law" will not allow.
P.S. Unlike the villa on Komsomolskoye Lake, about this unfinished "hut on chicken legs" on the shores of Lake Peipsi, owned by Putin's wife, all the image makers, etc. about. the president and the mainstream media trumpeted with pleasure.But Putin was not as simple as they would like
Today, November 11, 15 years have passed since the dacha consumer cooperative Ozero was established in the village of Solovyovka, Leningrad Region, which later became famous throughout the country because of its founders. At one time, in this "muddy" Lake, there were those who, from entrepreneurs and officials of the middle hand, turned over 15 years into those who today belong to Russia. Their companies control the financial, fuel and energy, transportation, banking, construction, media sectors and administrative resources.
The registration of Ozero coincided with the beginning of a new stage in the biography of Vladimir Putin, Novaya Gazeta writes. After the defeat of Anatoly Sobchak in the elections, he moved to Moscow, where in the summer of 1996 he joined the Presidential Property Management Department. By this time, he had experience of work in foreign intelligence and in the Committee for Foreign Economic Relations of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office. As Vladimir Putin advanced into power, the financial well-being and careers of the Ozero partners grew rapidly.
Beautiful place
The Ozero dacha cooperative is located 120 km from St. Petersburg on the shore of Lake Komsomolskoye. The village of Solovievka is on the southeastern coast. A picturesque place - Karelian pines, clean air. It was here, while still an employee of the St. Petersburg mayor's office, that Vladimir Putin built himself a rather modest for now, the first dacha, Novaya writes. And Viktor Zubkov (the current first deputy prime minister, and in those years a colleague at the St. Petersburg mayor's office) helped Putin in acquiring the dacha.
Here, on November 11, 1996, the dacha consumer cooperative "Lake" was established by a company of 8 people. Its first co-founders were: Vladimir Smirnov, Nikolay Shamalov, Vladimir Yakunin, Vladimir Putin, Yuri Kovalchuk, Viktor Myachin, Sergei Fursenko, Andrey Fursenko.
Subsequently, the composition of the "Lake" has changed. Only Vladimir Smirnov, Nikolai Shamalov and Vladimir Yakunin remained from the “first draft”. In recent years, they have been joined by new entrepreneurs Vadim Mozhaev, Igor Ballandovich, Vitaly Votolevsky, Sergei Orlov, Alexander Antonov, economist Sergei Prushchak, as well as Olga Pershina and Andrei Levin.
Vladimir Smirnov
Vladimir Smirnov is the permanent co-founder and director of Ozer. An entrepreneur who has known Vladimir Putin since 1991. He was the sole executive director with the right to sign in the St. Petersburg companies "Inform-Future", LLC "Management of real estate projects and investments" (UPNI) and AOZT "Znamenskaya". All these companies were founded by the German company SPAG (S. Peterburg Immobilien und Beteilgungen Aktiengesellshaft), created to invest in real estate in St. Petersburg.
In the context of the activities of the German company SPAG, created in 1992, when the current Russian prime minister headed the committee on external relations of the St. Petersburg mayor's office, the name of Vladimir Putin himself was mentioned quite often. Although Vladimir Putin was not present in the SPAG project directly, but as a member of a certain advisory board.
After the "Lake", Vladimir Smirnov's career was successful. When Vladimir Putin became president in 2000, Smirnov was appointed general director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Enterprise for the supply of products of the Administrative Department of the President of the Russian Federation." From 2002 to 2007 - General Director at JSC Techsnabexport (the company represents the foreign economic interests of Minatom in transactions for the sale of uranium and isotopes on the world market). Then Vladimir Smirnov - Advisor to the Director at Atomenergoprom. In 2007 - the chairman of the board of directors of the Kovrov Mechanical Plant (an enterprise of the machine-building and instrument-making complex, which produces gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment).
In the National Space Bank, associated with enterprises of the aviation industry and defense structures of the Russian Federation, shareholders owning 10% are members of the family of Vladimir Smirnov, wife of Larisa Drozdova, as well as her children, son Dmitry Drozdov and daughter Svetlana Vikhrova. Svetlana Vikhrova continues to lead projects in the large construction and development LLC Smolninskaya Perspektiva, where her mother previously worked, and Dmitry Drozdov is listed as the head of Tvoy Mir LLC (specializing in real estate in Finland).
Nikolay Shamalov
Nikolay Shamalov is a permanent co-founder of Ozero, a dentist by first education. In commerce since the early 90s. For a long time, as a representative of the German company Siemens AG, he supplied medical equipment to dental clinics in the North-West. From 2004 to 2010, Shamalov - co-owner of the St. Petersburg bank "Russia" (shareholder of 9.8% of the bank and owner of 10.5% of shares).
In 2005, he co-founded the Rosinvest company, which was building a health complex near Gelendzhik, which the media called "a palace for Putin". Because of this object, the country learned details about the scale of Nikolai Shamalov's activities in the construction and investment business in the period from 2005 to 2008. The source of the information was Sergey Kolesnikov, Shamalov's partner and co-founder of the Petromed company, who in 2010 sent an open anti-corruption letter to the president.
Nikolay Shamalov also owns 10% of Vyborg Shipyard OJSC, where he is a member of the Board of Directors. Through co-founding in the companies "Rosmodulstroy" and "UK module" Nikolay Shamalov is connected with another member of the dacha cooperative "Ozero" - Vadim Mozhaev, now arrested under the article "Fraud" as a result of a corruption scandal related to the sale of tomographs.
By 2011, Nikolai Shamalov's fortune is estimated at $ 500 million, as evidenced by the rating "The Richest Businessmen of Russia - 2011" by Forbes magazine. According to the Finance magazine, by now Shamalov has $ 620 million.
Nikolai Shamalov's sons, Yuri and Kirill, found themselves in business projects of good acquaintances and partners of the prime minister in Ozero. The first is a graduate of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia with a degree in jurisprudence, president of Gazfond, general director of OOO Gazflot. The second is a graduate of St. Petersburg State University with a degree in jurisprudence, a legal adviser at OAO Gazprom, an expert at FSUE Rosoboronexport, a legal adviser at Gazprombank, advised the Department of Economics and Finance on the management of state property in the government apparatus of the Russian Federation. Recently - Vice President of SIBUR for administrative support of business.
Vladimir Yakunin
Vladimir Yakunin is a graduate of the Leningrad Mechanical Institute and the former Red Banner Institute of the KGB of the USSR named after Yu.V. Andropov (now the Academy of Foreign Intelligence). He worked in the management of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for Foreign Economic Relations.
Together with three future Ozero companions - Andrey Fursenko, Yuri Kovalchuk and Viktor Myachin - he worked at the Physics and Technology Institute named after A.F. Ioffe of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1991, together with Yuri Kovalchuk and Sergei Fursenko, he founded the NTP TEMP LLP and became the vice president of the enterprise. Together, they are trying to "revive" the then little-known bank "Russia".
By the time he joined the dacha consumer cooperative, Yakunin was already the head of the board of directors of the International Center for Business Cooperation CJSC.
During Putin's first presidential term, Yakunin becomes the country's main transport worker. Since 2002 - First Deputy Minister of Railways. In 2003, he was the first vice-president of JSC Russian Railways, and since 2005, by government decree, he has been appointed President of JSC Russian Railways.
In addition, the head of Russian Railways is the chairman of the boards of trustees of two funds: the Center for National Glory of Russia and the Fund of St. Andrew the First-Called. The first is unofficially called in the media "the party of Orthodox Chekists", it includes Sergei Chemezov, Sergei Ivanov, Vladimir Kozhin, Viktor Cherkesov, Georgy Poltavchenko, as well as representatives of the Patriarchate.
Children of Vladimir Yakunin are also engaged in business. Andrey Yakunin in 2009 was listed as the director of the British investment company Venture Investments & Yield Management (VIYM). Viktor Yakunin in 2007 worked as the director for legal issues of the Russian representative office of the trading company Gunvor (with which the aforementioned Gennady Timchenko is associated, a businessman, according to media reports, who is among the prime minister's circle of acquaintances).
Yuri Kovalchuk
Yuri Kovalchuk has been an acquaintance of Vladimir Putin since the early 90s. 1987-1991 - employee of the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. As Vladimir Putin became entrenched in Moscow, former physicist and now financier Yuri Kovalchuk in November 2000 already heads the board of the St. Petersburg Foundation "Center for Strategic Research North-West" and the board of the non-profit partnership "Russian League of Honorary Consular Officers." This enterprise with a mysterious, but very solemn name was created even before the "Lake". The founders are Kovalchuk himself, Sergey Fursenko and other mutual acquaintances. So, the honorary consul of the Philippines was Andrei Fursenko, and his brother went to Bangladesh, other businessmen - Seychelles and Brazil.
Since June 2005, Kovalchuk became the chairman of the board of directors of Bank Rossiya. Now the share of Kovalchuk in the authorized capital of the bank is 28.5%. Other shareholders of the bank include Surgutneftegaz, Severgroup, as well as Transoil CIS, associated with oil trader Gennady Timchenko. From 2004 to 2008, Yuri Kovalchuk's bank received, with the approval of President Putin's acquaintances in the management of the state-owned Gazprom, the assets of the gas monopoly at an attractive cost - Sogaz, Leader, Gazprombank.
After 2008, Kovalchuk's business assets have grown significantly. He began to control the media in the National Media Group. It includes REN-TV, Channel One, Channel Five, Izvestia publishing house, the Russian News Service radio station, the Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti publication, etc. As a result of the Rossiya Bank gaining control over Gazprombank ”Kovalchuk's zone of influence began to spread to assets such as NTV and TNT channels.
According to the magazine "Finance", the fortune of banker Yuri Kovalchuk is at least 1 billion 100 million dollars today.
Victor Myachin
Viktor Myachin, together with his colleagues in physics and technology Fursenko, Yakunin and Kovalchuk, became a co-founder of Bank Rossiya. In 1999 - member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Hotel Complex Astoria. Until 2004 - the head of the company "Abros" - an asset of JSC "Joint Stock Bank" Russia " By 2009, Viktor Myachin sold shares in Bank Rossiya and invested in real estate projects. At present, he receives a stable income from the lease of several business centers in St. Petersburg, and is also related to the restaurant and hotel business - the St. Petersburg chain "Andersen-Hotel". According to the Finance magazine, Viktor Myachin's fortune is estimated at $ 60 million today.
Andrey Fursenko
Andrey Fursenko from 1971 to 1991 was a researcher at the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in Leningrad. In 1992 - a partner of Yuri Kovalchuk, heads the enterprises of the Center for Advanced Technologies and Development JSC, the Regional Fund for Scientific and Technological Development of St. Petersburg at the Svetlana Electronic Manufacturing Company. I have known Vladimir Putin since 1993, since the scientific and technical projects that Kovalchuk transformed into commercial structures received the support of the Foreign Relations Committee (FAC).
After Putin becomes president, Fursenko is appointed general director of the Venture Innovation Fund (VIF), established by the government of the Russian Federation with the participation of the government of St. Petersburg. Until 2003, Fursenko was also a member of JSB Rossiya - as a member of the Audit Commission. Since 2001 - in the "Center for Strategic Research" North-West "(right there - Yuri Kovalchuk, and in the Moscow head structure of this fund at that time - Dmitry Kozak, German Gref, Elvira Nabiullina). Soon Andrei Fursenko was appointed Deputy Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation, and in 2003 - Minister of the Department. With the beginning of the second presidential term of Vladimir Putin, Andrei Fursenko was appointed Minister of Education and Science in March 2004. From 2004 to 2009 - on the board of directors of JSC Russian Electronics.
Sergei Fursenko, the brother of Andrei Fursenko, is the president of the Russian Football Union and the National Media Group, and has directed several films about Vladimir Putin as a director. From 2002 to 2003, Sergei Fursenko was responsible for the transportation, storage and use of gas at OJSC Gazprom, and then for five years headed the gas monopoly's subsidiary, LLC Lentransgaz. He headed the Gazprom football club Zenit, later becoming the president of the Russian Football Union.
Vadim Mozhaev
Vadim Mozhaev is a former director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Directorate of a single customer-developer of Roszdrav, Nikolay Shamalov's partner in the companies Rosmodulstroy and UK module. A year ago, Vadim Mozhaev was arrested on charges of fraud. Together with officials from the Presidential Control Directorate and the Ministry of Health, he was detained during a campaign to combat abuse of public procurement.
Igor Ballandovich
Igor Ballandovich is a St. Petersburg entrepreneur whose sphere of interests is real estate, construction and trade. Heads the construction company Baltinvest. In 2002, he was listed as the founder of several St. Petersburg firms: the Music Center "Melodia", CJSC "RUSKOL", etc.
Vitaly Votolevsky
Vitaly Votolevsky is an entrepreneur who began to deal with St. Petersburg real estate back in 1991. 1996-2000 - Head of Sberbank-VMB-Invest LLC. From 2001 to 2006 - the head of CJSC Peterburgstroy Skanska (co-founder - Finnish SKANSKA EAST EUROPE OY). By 2004, Peterburgstroy Skanska has become the largest development company in the construction market of St. Petersburg, by 2005 its annual turnover is $ 28.6 million.
In 2004-2005, Vitaly Votolevsky was an advisor to the Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko on investment in construction. By this time, he is closely cooperating with his colleague on the "Lake" Vladimir Yakunin. By 2005, he heads the subsidiary structure of Russian Railways - Zheldoripoteka CJSC. Since 2010, Votolevsky has been the CEO of Roszheldorproekt OJSC (the largest Russian company engaged in commercial real estate, design and survey work, construction, overhaul, reconstruction of railway, industrial, social and cultural, housing facilities, is a subsidiary of Russian Railways) ...
Sergey Orlov
Sergey Orlov is an advisor to the presidents of the companies Russian Railways (Vladimir Yakunin) and TransCreditBank. Graduate of the Faculty of Law, St. Petersburg State University. Since 1995 - as a member of the boards of directors of large Russian companies (CJSC Investment Group Rosvagonmash, OJSC Trading House Russian Railways, OJSC Ust-Luga Company, OJSC United Electrotechnical Plants, OJSC Transcreditbank, CJSC Zheldoripoteka ", JSC Lengiprotran, etc.). Since 2006 - on the board of the ANO Center for Organizational Support of Structural Reform in Railway Transport and on the board of the Russian Railways Pension Fund - NPF Blagosostoyanie.
Sergey Prushchak
Sergey Prushchak is an economist, general director of FGUP "ROSTEK" (the largest state holding that provides the activities of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation). In 1991-1996 he worked in the Committee for Youth Affairs of the St. Petersburg City Hall; 1997-2000 - Assistant to Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov. Since 2000, he has been the head of FGUP ROSTEK STC. Since 2004, at the same time Deputy Director General for Economics and Finance of the state enterprise of the Russian aircraft building company RSK MiG.
Putin clan
By the way, just a few days ago the English newspaper The Sunday Times published an article that says that the companies that are under the control of Vladimir Putin's "acquaintances" and "friends" are estimated at $ 130 billion. In publishing these data, the publication refers to some "independent estimates."
The publication is based on an investigation by the Russian edition of The New Times, which revealed how Putin, who intends to run again for president next year, put his former KGB colleagues and pals at the head of key state corporations, the article says.
The group of his "buddies", dubbed "the Putin clan", has interests in various fields, such as banking, gas, oil, defense sector, aviation, construction, mining, media and transportation, the article says.
Some insiders believe that Putin's decision to return to the presidency next year was partly due to a desire to protect the interests of his "clan", the author writes.
“There is little doubt that if he had not returned, other groups would have come,” said one former Kremlin adviser. “Call it nepotism or genuine success, one thing is clear: the future of the Putin clan is promising.”
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The Ozero dacha consumer cooperative on the shore of Lake Komsomolskoye in the Priozersky District of the Leningrad Region was founded in November 1996 by eight citizens: Vladimir Putin, Yuri Kovalchuk, Nikolai Shamalov, Viktor Myachin, Vladimir Smirnov, Vladimir Yakunin, as well as brothers Andrey and Sergey Fursenko.
The occupation of one of the members of the Ozero cooperative, Vladimir Putin, as President of the Russian Federation in 2000 led to the subsequent rapid enrichment of the Ozero founders. First of all, we are talking about Yuri Kovalchuk and Nikolai Shamalov, who are on the list of Russian billionaires and control, respectively, 33.5% and 12.7% of the shares of the St. Petersburg Joint-Stock Commercial Bank (AKB) Rossiya.
At the beginning of V. Putin's rule, the Rossiya Bank was a small bank with assets of less than 1 billion rubles, which was not even included in the hundred largest Russian banks. However, subsequently, large financial and media assets that had previously belonged to the state-owned company Gazprom were transferred under the control of this bank by decisions of the state at low prices. Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov wrote about these schemes in detail in their reports “Putin. Results ”and“ Putin and Gazprom ”. Here is a brief chronology of the withdrawal of Gazprom's assets in favor of Bank Rossiya:
In 2004, Gazprom sold its subsidiary Insurance Company for the Gas Industry (Sogaz), one of the largest insurance companies in Russia, which, as a result, came under the control of Bank Rossiya structures. 50% of Sogaz shares were sold by Gazprom for $ 58 million, while the current value of Sogaz, according to our estimate, is $ 2 billion.
In August 2006, Sogaz, already owned by the Rossiya blank, bought 75% plus 1 share in Leader, which manages Gazprom's pension fund Gazfond.
Gazfond is the largest non-state pension fund in the country, whose pension reserves now amount to almost 300 billion rubles.
The shares of Leader were sold to Sogaz by Gazfond itself, the transaction amount was only 880 million rubles, although in 2006 only Leader's net profit amounted to 1.2 billion rubles. By the time of the purchase of the Leader management company, the owners of Rossiya Bank had already prepared to establish control over the pension fund: in 2005, Yuri Shamalov, the son of Nikolai Shamalov, a shareholder of Rossiya Bank and one of the founders of the Ozero cooperative, became the president of Gazfond. ".
As a result, Shamalov Jr., as the head of Gazfond, sold the shares of the company that manages the country's largest non-state pension fund at a fantastically low price to the bank of his father, Shamalov Sr.
After establishing control over Gazfond, Bank Rossiya took control of Gazprombank, one of the country's largest banks. OJSC Gazprom, instead of selling Gazprombank shares at an open auction for money, at the end of 2006 ceded them to the Gazfond controlled by the Rossiya bank through a non-cash exchange of shares, as a result of which by April 2007 control over Gazprombank (50 % plus 1 share) was consolidated by Gazfond, controlled by Kovalchuk, Shamalov and Co. Gazprombank, the market value of which, according to experts, reaches $ 25 billion, went out of control of Gazprom, while Gazprom did not receive a penny of cash for the valuable asset.
In July 2005, the shares of the Gazprom-Media group and the television channels NTV and TNT were transferred to Gazprombank, Gazprom only received for these assets from Gazprombank only $ 166 million. However, already 2 years later, after Gazprom-Media in As part of Gazprombank's assets came under the control of Bank Rossiya, Deputy Prime Minister (at the time) Dmitry Medvedev announced the new valuation of Gazprom-Media's assets - $ 7.5 billion. Based on this estimate, it turns out that Gazprom gave these assets 45 times cheaper than their real value. All these transactions were approved by the Board of Directors of OAO Gazprom, the majority of which in the 2000s always belonged to representatives of the state, who directly received directives on voting for decisions made from the leadership of the government subordinate to V. Putin. The first of the transactions involving the transfer of Gazprom's assets under the control of Bank Rossiya took place in the summer of 2004, just a few months after the resignation of Mikhail Kasyanov as Chairman of the Russian Government.
As a result of these manipulations with the withdrawal of assets from the state-owned company Gazprom under the control of AKB Rossiya, the bank's net assets grew from 6.7 billion rubles. at the beginning of 2004 (70th place in Russia) to 231.7 billion rubles. as of October 1, 2010 (19th place in Russia).
The total volume of assets withdrawn from Gazprom (that is, withdrawn from state ownership into private ownership of V. Putin's neighbors in the Ozero cooperative) is about $ 60 billion (or 1.68 trillion rubles - twice the Pension Fund deficit country).
* * *These deals contributed to the growth of material well-being not only of Vladimir Putin's partners in the dacha cooperative "Lake", but also of Putin's relatives.
In particular, another shareholder of Bank Rossiya, which owns 3.9% of the bank's shares through the St. Petersburg firm Accept, which it controls, is Mikhail Shelomov, a cousin of Vladimir Putin. Mikhail Shelomov is the grandson of Ivan Shelomov, the former head of the 7th department of the 1st department of the Main Directorate of the NKVD of the USSR and the older brother of Maria Putin, the mother of Vladimir Putin.
Shelomov through the Accept company (he controls 99.99% of its shares) also owns 12.5% \u200b\u200bof the shares of the Sogaz insurance company, the same company that was withdrawn from Gazprom in 2004 without competition and at a reduced price.
In the same insurance company "Sogaz", today one of the largest insurance companies in the country, works as a deputy chairman of the board Mikhail Putin, another cousin of Vladimir Putin. In 2004-2007, Mikhail Putin headed the medical department of OJSC Gazprom, through which purchases of medical equipment worth one hundred million dollars a year passed.
As a result of all government-sanctioned transactions for the transfer of Gazprom's assets under the control of Rossiya, the founders of the Ozero cooperative, Y. Kovalchuk and N. Shamalov, are currently on the official list of Russian billionaires. In the rating of billionaires of the Finance magazine, published in February 2011, Y. Kovalchuk ranks 115th with a fortune of 30 billion rubles, N. Shamalov - 184th line with a fortune of 18 billion rubles.
This list also includes other shareholders of the Rossiya Joint-Stock Commercial Bank and also old acquaintances of Vladimir Putin. In particular, the 17th line in the ranking of billionaires with a fortune of 271 billion rubles. is occupied by Gennady Timchenko, co-owner of the oil trader Gunvor, which will be discussed separately. Timchenko owns a 9.6% stake in Bank Rossiya and has also benefited directly from deals to sell Gazprom assets to the bank at discounted prices.
182nd line in the list of Russian billionaires according to the Finance magazine with a fortune of 18 billion rubles. is occupied by another shareholder of Bank Rossiya, Dmitry Gorelov, who owns 12.7% of the bank's shares. D. Gorelov - President of the Petromed holding, one of the founders in 1991 of AOZT / CJSC “Petromed”, among the co-founders of which was the Committee for Foreign Economic Relations of the St. Petersburg City Hall under the leadership of Vladimir Putin.
Dmitry Gorelov's son Vasily, together with Nikolai Shamalov, is a co-owner of the Vyborg shipyard, which in 2006, immediately after it was acquired by this group of owners, received a contract from Gazprom for the construction of two offshore platforms for the development of the Shtokman field worth 59 billion rubles. Prior to that, the plant had no serious orders for 10 years.
By the way, the youngest son of Nikolai Shamalov, Kirill Shamalov, is also "attached" (the eldest son, we recall, heads the Gazfond) - he works as vice president of the Sibur oil and gas chemical holding for "administrative business support" (in other words, for the use of administrative resources ), who was appointed at the age of 26, less than 4 years after graduating from St. Petersburg State University.
The oil and gas chemical holding Sibur belonged to Gazprombank, but at the end of December 2010 Gazprombank sold 50% of Sibur to Leonid Mikhelson, head of Novatek, a large stake in which belongs to the already mentioned Gennady Timchenko, a shareholder of Bank Rossiya. During 2011, as planned, Gazprombank will completely cede control over Sibur (100% of shares) to the head of Novatek.
* * *Other founders of the Ozero dacha cooperative, after Vladimir Putin came to power, also took leading positions in the federal government and state-controlled companies:
Vladimir Yakunin In 2000 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Transport, later 1st Deputy Minister of Railways, since 2003 - 1st Vice President of JSC Russian Railways, and since June 2005 he has been head of JSC Russian Railways, whose annual revenue in 2010 approached 2 trillion rubles.
Vladimir Smirnov In May 2000, he was appointed General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Enterprise for the supply of products of the Administrative Department of the President of the Russian Federation", and in 2002-2007 he headed JSC Techsnabexport - an enterprise of Minatom. It is one of the world's largest suppliers of goods and services in the field of the nuclear fuel cycle, providing uranium enrichment services for about 40% of the world market. In 2007 Smirnov moved to the position of advisor to the director of the Atomenergoprom concern.
Vladimir Smirnov in his activities was closely associated with the well-known "authoritative" businessman Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin), who is now in prison. In 1994 V. Smirnov became the head of the St. Petersburg branch of the German company SPAG, while Kumarin was a member of the board of this branch. In 1999, the SPAG firm was accused by the German special service BND of money laundering, both for Russian criminal groups and for Colombian drug traffickers, - the director of SPAG Rudolf Ritter was arrested in 2000. In 1996-2001. V. Smirnov - in senior positions at ZAO Petersburg Fuel Company (PTK). In the same years, Kumarin-Barsukov was the vice-president of PTK, who actually controlled the company. The security agency Rif-Security, controlled by Kumarin-Barsukov and V. Smirnov, guarded the Ozero dacha cooperative.
Sergey Fursenko, in 2003-2008 worked as a director of Lentransgaz, one of the largest subsidiaries of Gazprom (revenue in 2008 - almost 50 billion rubles), since 2008 headed the National Media Group controlled by the bank Rossiya ( NMG), which includes the TV channels REN-TV "Channel Five" and the newspaper "Izvestia", and since the end of 2010 - 25% of the First Channel of Russian TV, acquired from Roman Abramovich. In addition, S. Fursenko became the head of the Russian Football Union.
Andrey Fursenko in 2001-2003 - Deputy Minister, 1st Deputy Minister, Acting Minister of Industry, Science and Technology, since 2004 - Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (this ministry administers federal budget expenditures for education and civil science, which in 2011 will amount to almost 800 billion rubles).
* * *Bank Rossiya, which has become unheard of as a result of the generous concession of Gazprom's assets by the state, is thus actually a “family enterprise” of the founders of the Ozero cooperative: more than 50% of the bank's shares belong to Y. Kovalchuk, N. Shamalov and Putin's relative M. Shelomov , in the structures of the bank their relatives work in high-ranking positions - Shamalov's son heads the Gazfond pension fund, Putin's relatives own shares in the Sogaz insurance company and hold high-ranking positions in it.
This phrase often comes across in the comments. Naturally, when they scold Putin. I thought it was thus called a group of like-minded people, headed by VVP. Just what idea?
And once again I decided to figure it out in order, as always, to know what to answer to pans and other illiterate, but "civilized" liberoids and Europeans ...
So what is the Lake Cooperative? For those who do not know, as I did not know-)))
It turned out that back in the 90s, Putin legally formalized a plot with self-development, on the shore of the lake, near St. Petersburg. One took it for himself, others helped to arrange for friends. The rest of the inhabitants remained there, just legalized.
And the name of this event was given - the cooperative "Lake".
I suppose that during the joint construction and improvement of summer cottages, over the course of several years, all these people became friends and learned a lot of useful things about each other.
And later they
took important posts in the government of the GDP and now, according to the liberoids, this is a terrible, terrifying gang and it runs the whole country ...
Well, this is how information is presented by people who are hostile to the authorities, who want to grab or sell the country, but cannot.
And that is why they are so angry and ready to be at least liberoids, at least obey amers, even to hell with the devil, just to get rid of those who do not allow them to fall for such a tasty trough with oil. Smack, smack-)))
I am not a specialist in power in Russia, but the composition of "Ozero" did not impress me, I do not know why and because it is small-))):
Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Yakunin, Fursenko brothers, Viktor Zubkov, Yuri Kovalchuk, Vladimir Smirnov, Nikolai Shamalov, Viktor Myachin. Eight people ??? ................
But the fact that Putin brings trusted people closer is a standard, global, common human practice.
And hitting it look incredibly stupid-)))
Well, here's a little more from another post.
Original taken from leontev_86
to the Cooperative "Lake"
Many have heard such a thing as a cooperative "Lake", but not many know what this means. Many employees from the Government of Ukraine told stories about the Ozero cooperative, such as the Ozero cooperative, a criminal syndicate that will be several times more influential than the Yakuza and Cosa Nostra mafia combined.
This story surfaced in 2000, when the presidential elections were held in Russia. A group of journalists from the FreeLance Bureau media conducted their independent investigation into the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
Here is what journalists write about Putin in 2000: “We have known for a long time about Putin’s dacha farm on the shore of Komsomolskoye Lake in the Leningrad Region. But we could not find any documents confirming that it was his property.
To officially become a candidate for the Russian presidency, Vladimir Putin declared his income and property for 1998-99.
Declared and. about. president and his St. Petersburg dacha, with an area of \u200b\u200b152, 9 sq. m.
To look at Putin's "vacant lots", we went to the Priozersk District of the Leningrad Region.
From Peter it is about a hundred kilometers along a decent highway. Then we decided to drive up to the gates of Putin's dacha along a specially built good road. They filmed everything in the best possible way, even the guard in the window of the gatehouse, making sure that Putin's dacha economy is fully consistent with the information specified in his declaration of a candidate for the presidency of Russia.
Actually, this is where the story ends, but it is worth adding that the journalists, by someone's order, we all know for whom, she was so inflated in their "journalistic" investigation that she went for a walk, overgrown with stupid and ridiculous rumors and speculation and became interesting not only to Russians, but also to newly-minted "ukroevropeytsy".
The journalists of this media even took out papers from the mid-90s, where Vladimir Putin was listed. Those. this is a list of the founders of the Ozero dacha cooperative.
Honestly, it’s the fact that no one in Russia understood what the value of these securities was. Today you will look at these securities and tell yourself what value these securities have?
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P.S. I was hoping for something kriminalninko - interesting, but in fact zilch-)))
Now, everyone who mentions the Lake, I will slander
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R.S.2 Everyone who starts to get drunkhere against Putin, please write clearly who you are proposing to replace.
Just don't need everyone there a la Poroshenko # 2 - Navalny - Khodorkovsky - Shooters Girkin
And there is no substitute - there is nothing to bite like old fiends on a bench!
Recently, there has been another wave of clearly ordered posts against GDP and for the war. I am preparing material on this topic because these scribblers are disgusting. And I know who they will start moving again. One bastard caught blackmailing for pedophilia and therefore easily recruited ... And now it, by order of its employers, is eager to fight again with Ukraine. Why is he scribbling posts with the lips of his greedy and stupid sixes ...
Let me remind everyone who writes with calls for war:
"Everyone who calls, no matter for what reason, a brother to rise up against a brother - objectively works for those who came to cash in on our blood. Both Ukrainians and Russians!"
Got it? PRESS! And nothing more.
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So for now, I will briefly ask those who are very dissatisfied with GDP:
Remember and name me good leaders in Russia and the world.
And answer yourself the question, are you ready for the worst president? No?! And who gives you a guarantee that it will be better? -)))
Cooperative "Lake" and other projects of Vladimir Putin Pribylovsky Vladimir Valerianovich
Cooperative "Lake"
Cooperative "Lake"
(From the article "Putin's Villa on Komsomolskoye Lake")
Country question
... If you believe the declaration, Putin owns two land plots, 3302 and 3494 sq. M., Respectively. meters in the Leningrad region and 15 acres in the Moscow region. Declared and. about. President and his St. Petersburg dacha with a living area of \u200b\u200b152.9 sq. m. Everything seems to be honest. And all the media for some reason decided that the official Putin only owns vacant lots, and once again reproduced his old statement about "life on suitcases."
But why then does Putin need almost a hectare of empty land? He's not a master at golf. He does not grow tulips in greenhouses. It's strange somehow.
To look at Putin's “wastelands”, we went to the Priozersk District of the Leningrad Region. From Peter it is about a hundred kilometers along a decent highway. Judging by the usual topographic map, Putin's country house is located in the modest summer cottage village of Solovyovka, of which hundreds are scattered throughout the Leningrad region.
We have known about Putin's dacha farm on the shore of Lake Komsomolskoye for a long time. But we could not find any documents confirming that it was his property. Found only a list of founders of the dacha cooperative "Lake", which was listed as acting. President.
From this document follows a complete list of the founders of the Ozero cooperative for the fall of 1996:
Smirnov Vladimir Alekseevich;
Shamalov Nikolay Terentyevich;
Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich;
Yakunin Vladimir Ivanovich;
Kovalchuk Yuri Valentinovich;
Myachin Victor Evgenievich;
Fursenko Andrey Alexandrovich;
Fursenko Sergey Alexandrovich.
But it didn't work. Moreover, our sources in law enforcement agencies claimed that in the fall of last year, the head of the Priozersky district administration received a cipher message from Moscow with a categorical instruction - to destroy all the papers at Putin's dacha in Solovyovka. And then bam, and a self-filled declaration!
Having wandered through the local pine forests for a short time, we drove up to Solovyovka - an ordinary dacha village with wooden houses and six hundred vegetable gardens. At the rickety gate - two tubular sashes - we were met by an elderly lady who was walking a chao-chao.
- Have you come to see Putin's dacha? - a local resident stunned us with her insight.
- Have many journalists already been here? We asked.
- No, you are the first. But we put the gate just in case so that other people's cars would not bother us. He came here to spend the night from 13 to 14 February, when Sobchak's funeral was, so the guards drove so many ...
Having examined us suspiciously, Natalya Ivanovna told how best to get to the dacha and. about. the president so that the guards would not spot.
- It would be better from the side of the lake, there the view is gorgeous. But the ice has melted and the waters are knee-deep - you won't fit ...
- And all the locals know who "lived and worked" in this dacha?
- Well, the scandal was big, when ordinary summer residents were resettled from the shore of the lake so that Putin would get the whole cape. For those who were more assertive, they put chopped houses from a bar, and for the majority - summer cottages were put together on the mountain. Summer residents did not pay anything, it is not clear at whose expense all this resettlement was done ... In 1997, another event happened - HIM's sauna burned down. Polish workers somehow laid the wiring incorrectly, then the Finns rebuilt everything. And closer to summer, we will probably create an initiative group and will demand that Putin make a public beach for us. And then he and his friends from the FSB occupied the entire coast - the children have nowhere to swim ...
Having made our way to Putin's dacha in the gardens, we tried to film it, but could not find a good angle. Miserable country houses blocked even the splendor of the two-meter fence, which enclosed the "wasteland" and. about. presidents, and from behind which the red tiled roof of a two-story building was barely visible. Therefore, at the risk of running into a scandal, we decided to drive up to the gates of Putin's dacha along a specially paved road to them, which is not inferior in quality to the German Autobahn. Having filmed everything in the best possible way, even the guard in the gatehouse window, we rushed towards the highway.
Only at that moment did our driver begin to realize that we were filming something forbidden, and tried to calm us down:
- I drive the car according to my preference, the owner has been in Finland for three years for permanent residence, and in general I am going to sell it next week ...
They got to Peter without incident, making sure that Putin's dacha economy is fully consistent with the information indicated in his declaration of a candidate for the presidency of Russia. And readers can now judge for themselves how much Putin's “wasteland” corresponds to his official salary and. about the president.
And it remains for us to add that if BB is put on a par with other leading politicians, it will become clear that his earnings are far from the first, if, again, believe the declaration. For example, in 1998, Grigory Yavlinsky earned $ 3846.8 a month, Yeltsin received an average of $ 742, while Putin earned $ 536. And when VV was vice-governor of St. Petersburg, probably even less so.
Housing problem
Judging by the declaration, and. about. president lives modestly in a Moscow office apartment measuring 157.5 sq. meters. In St. Petersburg, he only had two garages. But why and. about. garages, if he does not have a single vehicle, and he seems to have nowhere to live in St. Petersburg. Or is there where?
In St. Petersburg, Putin had an old friend from the Leningrad KGB Directorate Valery Golubev. In 1979, he was also drafted into the state security organs, and in 1991 he retired to the reserve - just like Putin, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Golubev, however, unlike his famous colleague, did not reach special heights in the civilian field. In 1991 he became the head of the secretariat of the St. Petersburg mayor's office, and since 1993 - the head of the administration of the Vasileostrovsky district.
Vasilievsky Island is considered in St. Petersburg, perhaps the most prestigious place of residence. Especially appreciated are old pre-revolutionary buildings after major repairs. And so on Vasilievsky Island, which has been run since 1993 by the former Chekist Golubev, two houses have been renovated. The first one was at the address: 2nd line, 17, and the other at the address: 15th line, 12. After the renovation, people on the waiting list who were registered to improve their living conditions in the Vasileostrovsky district should have settled in the apartments. But then amazing things began to happen.
A certain firm "Linix" intervened in the case, which received scandalous notoriety after the fraud with the housing of the former mayor A. Sobchak became public. But, as it turns out, not only the late Sobchak used the services of Linix. This company acquired several apartments in the city of Vsevolozhsk and exchanged them for prestigious apartments on Vasilyevsky Island, having concluded an agreement with the administration of the Vasileostrovsky district represented by its head Golubev.
Here it is necessary to clarify that Vsevolozhsk is a regional center of the Leningrad region, but it does not yet claim the status of the Northern Venice. Is that in the autumn thaw. In short, the exchange was as equivalent as if a luxury apartment in a sanatorium in Barvikha were exchanged for an apartment in Magadan. Nevertheless, Golubev agreed to this exchange. True, he decided everything not for himself, but for those on the waiting list in the Vasileostrovsky district. And they received apartments in Vsevolozhsk, without even guessing in what prestigious place the living space was intended for them.
And who, then, took over the elite apartments on Vasilievsky Island, thanks to the care of Golubev? Well, let's take a few at random. So, for example, Mr. Rudenko, the husband of the deputy, became the owner of apartment No. 4, building 17 on the 2nd line. head of the administration of the Vasileostrovsky district. T. Semenova settled in apartment No. 19, who is only brought in by her mother-in-law to the former Chekist V. Golubev. But apartment 24 in the same building 17 on the 2nd line went to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin himself.
On February 23, 1993, Putin was issued an exchange order 205553/22 for this apartment. However, in the column where the person with whom Putin made the exchange was to be indicated, there was a dash. To what has been said, it should also be added that the most direct participation in the exchange of Vasileostrovsk apartments for Vsevolozhsk ones was taken by Larisa Kharchenko, who at that time was Sobchak's assistant on housing issues, and then was accused in the well-known "apartment" case. It can also be recalled that at the end of 1993, the exchange of municipal housing for a private one could not be, in principle, because such an operation was simply not provided for by the law in force at that time. That Golubev was fully explained by the lawyers of the district administration. Moreover, the district housing exchange for a long time refused to issue warrants for this transaction, indicating its illegality. And only after Golubev received Sobchak's personal approval, as well as his written instructions to the head of the City Residential Exchange to issue orders to the waiting list for apartments in Vsevolozhsk, Putin moved into a new elite apartment.
All this old apartment history, which was recently reported by the newspaper "Novy Peterburg", unfortunately, in accordance with the law, was not reflected in the declaration of the presidential candidate Putin.
Banking issue
Yeltsin's successor has accounts in three banks: 15,992 rubles at Sberbank, 54,375 rubles at St. Petersburg's Baltic Bank and 316,632 rubles at St. Petersburg's Promstroybank (PSB). Putin also holds 23 PSB shares with a par value of 1 ruble each. This is the connection with banking and. about. the president is cut short, although if you trace it to 1998, the CEC would learn a lot of interesting things about the presidential candidate Putin.
Take at least one of the first commercial St. Petersburg banks "Russia", which was created at the dawn of the cooperative movement in 1998 by Academician Aleksandrov. It was located directly in Smolny (entrance 4). It is clear that at that time such a banking institution could not function without strict supervision from the party organs, or rather, for the good of the CPSU.
The bank's founders included 14 large structures: International Business Center, Eurosib, Lenvest and others. The list of individuals - shareholders of Bank Rossiya was thoroughly classified, which is understandable, since among them were such high-profile names as Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Anatoly Sobchak, Georgy Khizha, as well as budding Russian politicians Putin and Cherkesov. However, the last two special services then did not even think about big politics, but were engaged in things much more prosaic.
It was a strange bank. He had full access to the operational materials of the FSB and the Central Internal Affairs Directorate on the financial structures of St. Petersburg and actively used them. Floppy disks with various financial intelligence data were constantly received from the UBEP, UR, RUOP to the bank, the bank's management (President Vitaly Savelyev) assigned their people to various financial structures in order to obtain information and control. The security service of Bank Rossiya was constantly allocated up to $ 50,000 to bribe officials.
Later, when the CPSU was gone, the guys from the Tambov criminal group showed interest in the Rossiya bank and, most likely, had a share there in exchange for a “roof”.
And the bank continued to engage in financial intelligence not only internal, but abroad (through the "International Consulting Agency", where the current FSB employees worked)
Trustee of the current and. about. President of the Bank "Russia" was a certain Vladimir Yakunin. To attract foreign capital to the bank, Yakunin actively used his American connections (he once worked in the United States through the KGB). So the former (and maybe the current ones, who will sort them out) CIA officers who really invested decent sums in the bank's share capital were involved in the activities of Bank Rossiya.
Nothing has ever been heard about the financial success of Bank Rossiya. In a word, the bank was strange.
Offshore issue
During his tenure as vice-governor of St. Petersburg, the VV, apparently, was actively involved in commercial activities, which, in accordance with the law, also did not want to be known to the CEC. Putin headed the so-called "Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg", which was officially registered as a commercial structure. By the way, A. Kozak was the chief accountant in this office for Putin.
The commercial activity of the "Committee" consisted in the fact that he was a co-founder of various large and small firms, helped them resolve issues with the lease of premises, sales of products, etc. at the level of the mayor's office, and for this he received part of the profit or dividends, which, in theory, should have gone entirely to replenish the city's budget.
According to the operational information that the law enforcement agencies of St. Petersburg had, serious money passed through the "Committee", only not all funds fell into the state treasury, and partly settled in offshore areas. In principle, this is a normal world practice of tax evasion, a normal desire in this way to secure assets from the encroachments of creditors (remember the story with the Central Bank and its offshore structure Fimako). It is possible that the Germans taught Putin to use offshores for the benefit of the city budget, since in Germany everyone works with offshore companies at the state level, including such monsters as Deutschebank.
But the problem is that, as a rule, 2-3 people know about the existence of offshore companies and accounts in offshore banks, and they are opened in the names of just these 2-3 people ... Did all the budget funds of St. Petersburg come from there? withdrawn in due time or is there something left? who now manages these funds? - The Central Election Commission is unlikely to ever find answers to these questions. The "dictatorship of the law" will not allow.
P.S. Unlike the villa on Lake Komsomolskoye, about this unfinished "hut on chicken legs" on the shores of Lake Peipsi, owned by Putin's wife, all the image makers, etc. about. the president and the mainstream media trumpeted with pleasure.
Arsen Rstaki, Sergey Pluzhnikov, Sergey Ivanov.
Putin's villa on Komsomolskoye Lake.
Questions to the Declaration of Candidate No. 1 for the Office of President of Russia. // FLb. ru, 16.03.2000
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From the author's bookAppendix Oligarchs of Putin's call (from the book by Vladimir Pribylovsky "The Cooperative" Lake "and other projects of Vladimir Putin") KOVALCHUK Yuri Valentinovich - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank Rossiya, Chairman of the Board of the Center for Strategic
From the author's bookSACRED LAKE The morning flight from Addis Ababa to Bahr Dar on the southern shore of Lake Tana took about an hour and a half. Despite reports of fighting in the area, the crew did not take special precautions when landing, and the plane was slow to enjoy the scenic view.
From the author's bookChapter 7 Cooperative "Lake" The old aphorism "Friends - everything, enemies - the law" now sounds like this: everything is for Putin's friends, and let the people live according to the law. Former police officer Andrei Zykov, who investigated corruption cases in the St. Petersburg City Hall. In 2010, on an early summer morning at
From the author's bookKilling Lake The street was littered with corpses. Men, women, children, old people, old women. Before their death, many tried to get rid of clothes stained with bloody vomit. Pigs, cats, dogs, birds were lying there and then. Behind the hedges lay cows, ribbed gray carcasses.
From the author's bookBaikal Lake of water and fire Local residents - Buryats - tell beautifully about the origin of Lake Baikal. According to their legend, the lake appeared during a powerful cataclysm - an earthquake. An intolerable heat escaped from the open bowels of the earth, burning all living things around.
From the author's bookLoch Ness Dinosaur haven? In the heart of Scotland, there is the large scenic Loch Ness. However, tourists arriving here from all over the world do not go to admire the landscapes, do not engage in water sports, but want to lie in wait for a huge monster named Nessie, allegedly
From the author's bookPoyang Lake, maddening In the Chinese province of Jiangxi is the largest freshwater lake in the Middle Kingdom - Poyang. However, the reservoir is famous not for its purity and not even for the ancient Laoi temple, towering on a hill above the northern coast. The glory of this lake is rather
From the author's bookRoopkund Skeleton Lake High in the Himalayas, in India, is the mysterious glacial lake Roopkund. It is not easy to get to this miracle of nature with crystal clear ice water: the lake is located at an altitude of about 5000 m.Most of the year, Roopkund is shackled
From the author's bookSvetloyar Lake Kitezh-grad The incredibly beautiful Lake Svetloyar in the Nizhny Novgorod Trans-Volga region of Russia is shrouded in many secrets and legends. Svetloyar's area is not large: its size is only about 500? 350 m. However, the depth, reaching 40 m in places, gave rise to the main legend,
From the author's bookLake Kari-lich Morning on the yaylaks comes early, long before dawn. You will not immediately understand where you woke up. The end of the world, or rather the beginning of the world. Hanging is the brown fringe of a tent raised off the ground by poles. A strong rope, tied to a peg, goes from its corner to the ground.
From the author's bookAlexander Lyskov LIGHT-LAKE Cities die from floods, earthquakes, plague and cholera. From excess or lack of sun. And also, probably because there was more grief and injustice in them than truth and joy. The drop overflowed the cup and the cup overturned. Samo White