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 Education

Putin, 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 Russia

To 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 question

So, 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 issue

Yeltsin'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 issue

During 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