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Cycle " Country of friends " Country partnership . Investigation of how the Russian leadership acquired unofficial residences

Maria Zholobova , with the participation of Daniel Sotnikova , May 22, 2019

Where does the How to hide the How to protect Map of all political elite live owners of the the residence residences of on Rublevka residence Putin

The “Project” found a mysterious cottage worth more than two billion rubles on the Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway. Everything indicates the presence of top oficials: federal security and special communications with another state residence, on the territory of which the ice arena is located. And belongs cottage offshore from the British Virgin Islands, associated with old friends of .

Village of the 90s

“This section of Rublevka is not quoted on the market, ” Kommersant wrote 18 years ago about Gorki-10, a village on the outskirts of Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway.

And now there are almost no offers for the sale of plots, and there is no place to take them from. Gorki- 10 is a village of old Soviet state dachas, which since the 90s have been chosen by the Russian political establishment.

For example, Vladimir Kozhin , the former manager of the president’s business, lives there - he has almost eight hectares on the bank of the Moskva River, which until then had been federal property. They cost him less than the market - Novaya Gazeta, citing data from the Rosreestr, wrote that Kozhin paid just over 1 million rubles for the site .

Kozhin made this deal when the head of administration of the Odintsovo region, to which Gorki-10 belongs, was the current deputy head of the FSO, General Nikolai Kondratyuk. Earlier, Novaya Gazeta found plots in another district of the fsoshnik family, Gorki-2. But, as the “Project” found out ,

Nikolay and Alla K ondratyuki had owned 3.6 thousand In 199 9, the son of Oleg Soskovets to square meters since 2002 . m of land and here, in death killed three Gorki-10 . workers from Tajikistan at the 24th kilometer of the

Boris Yeltsin’s former dacha is also located in Gorki-10, Rublyovo-Uspenskoye Highway. As not a state, but a private one; now his widow Naina Kommersant wrote , Yeltsin lives there . In the 2000s, they wrote: Boris two workers “were Yeltsin lost important documents on an area of 4 thrown about ten hectares, which the administration of the Odintsovo meters from the road, district assigned to him. Exactly so much occupies the third hung on the land in Gorki-10. protective grille, and a Mercedes was dragging it another And yet the largest landlord in the district, with plots 50 meters”. The driver of almost 25 hectares, is not an oficial, but a hid and tried to hide businessman, billionaire Alisher Usmanov . It was the traces of the crime about this huge estate that Aleksey Navalny told in an - when the car was investigation about the alleged assets of Prime found, all ingerprints Minister Dmitry Medvedev. and blood were erased. Soskovets Jr. was detained at his Finally, another resident of Gorky-10 is former Deputy house in Gorki-10, but Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets , who was dismissed soon released, it is not by Yeltsin after the incident with the “xerox box”. The known what the head of the security service of Yeltsin, investigation of the Korzhakov, who was sent out at the same time, was criminal case ended. also a resident of Gorky-10, but later sold this section.

Then, in 1996, together with Soskovets and Korzhakov, the president dismissed the head of the FSB, Mikhail Barsukov. He owns sites in another village of Rublevka, Gorki-2, and in Gorki-10, the “ward” Barsukov, a former drilling engineer from Nefteyugansk, Ivan Koptenko, who later became a deputy of the Supreme Council, tried to settle down.

"With the iling of Barsukov, Koptenko leased the Gorka 10-10 gosdacha and fenced it with a tall fence," Korzhakov wrote in his memoirs. Then the dacha was at the disposal of the son of the State Duma’s Deputy Speaker Artur Chi lingarov (a typical dach a of a politburo member: a hall, a bedroom, a good bath — Chilingarov Sr. described it). The interiors of this In the 2000s, the residence “Gorki 10-10” was returned residence 10-10 were published on the to the state. But its current destination is unknown. It Internet by a is not mentioned as the place in which oficial events company from are held with the participation of the president or the Tatarstan prime minister. However, according to Rosreestr, "Tatinvestgrazhdanpr since 2008 the territory has been in use by the FSO. oekt", which made the design project. The site says that the interior is designed for "family living and recreation, as well as oficial receptions and meetings," made "in a classic style, used in the decoration of natural stone and precious wood handmade materials." The general director of the company, Irek Faizullin, was appointed Minister of Construction and Slides 10-10. Source: Yandex maps. Architecture of Tatarstan after the reconstruction was completed. "Gorki-10" also indicated on its website the company "MD Technology", which installs home theaters. The details of the CEO of the company Pavel Dolgopolsky “Project” could not be found - he referred to the “non-disclosure subscription”.

The “Project” took pictures of the residence - there are three mansions, a helipad and an ice arena on the territory. Korzhakov mentioned this arena in his memoirs: according to his information, it is intended for the Night Hockey League created by Putin. The arena is also at the disposal of the FSO .

However, this property is not the only object in the village of Gorki-10, which protects the FSO. In the same place there is one more magniicent house which FSO, probably, protects where more carefully.

In 2015, the Specia l Communication Servi ce of the FSO announced an auction : it was necessary to build a system of dedicated special communication from the residence with the ice arena "Gorki 10-10" to some summer cottage number 5 located in the same village . The arrangement of the dedicated communication line was for some reason supposed to be on the site belonging to an offshore from the British Virgin Islands. The source of funding was the federal budget, funds were allocated within the framework of the State Defense .

Special persons

Cottage number 5 in Gorki-10 stands on the very edge of the village. On the one hand, there is a stud farm, the road from which to the dacha is guarded not only by a double fence, but also by a huge dung ield, which was dificult for the “Project” correspondents to cross. On the other hand - the Moscow River.

The cottage itself is hidden behind a high, by the eye, not less than ive meters, fence. Along the perimeter of the fence - numerous video cameras. True, they did not prevent the locals from painting grafiti in several places. One of them says: “Putin, kiss my ***”.

Surroundings cottages

It is practically impossible to photograph the territory of the dacha with the help of a radio-controlled drone from the air - apparently, the so-called “jammers” are working - this is how some public and private facilities at Rublevka are now equipped. The irst attempt to launch the drone ended unsuccessfully, but from the second “Project” I photographed a mysterious object.

The huge plot - almost six hectares - is securely hidden behind tall pines, only the main house (there are three houses in total) and the helipad, as well as landscape elements are visible: several small artiicial ponds, planted spruces, paths, an artiicial cave similar to an underground garage . The veranda of the house is decorated with mosaics, a small bridge leads from the second floor deep into the forest. The area of a large house - 2.2 thousand square meters. m, smaller houses - 1.2 thousand square meters. m (the third house is not registered in Rosreestre, and its area can not be learned).

Until the beginning of the 2000s, this area was owned by the state - it was managed by the Ministry of Property Relations . But in 2001, this vast territory on the banks of the Moskva River was inherited by the Russian professor, director of the Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Kovalchuk. Kovalchuk himself at the same time spoke about the plight of scientists. “I know for sure, starting from what amount, graduate students will start sitting at work. This amount is miserable compared to what is paid in the West. Starting from 200- 300 dollars, ” he wrote in his article for the journal Otechestvennye Zapiski in 2002.

But Mikhail has a brother, Yuri Kovalchuk - a shareholder of the bank "" and one of the founders of the famous cooperative "Lake", around which a circle of St. Petersburg friends of President Putin was formed.

In 2005, Mikhail Kovalchuk transferred the site to the Mikhail and Yuri Kovalch uki authorized capital of the Usadba-21 Century company, which he had just established. At the same time, the construction of the mansion began at the site, and by 2010, according to Google Earth, a helipad appeared there.

In December 2011, the owner of the plot changed again - the non-commercial partnership “Revival of traditions and culture of country rest” became them. Its owners are certain Ipex and Tarteks.

The owner of IPEX is an offshore company from the British Virgin Islands Girard Finance Limited. At irst, Tartax was owned by Cyprus’s Infotarget Consultants Limited (although he was not a member of the Lake cooperative, also an old and reliable friend of Putin): through this company he owned the oil trader Surgutex along Peter Kolbin.

In 2013, the Cyprus offshore Timchenko withdrew from the shareholders of Tarteks, it was replaced by the same Girard Finance Limited, whose beneiciaries are unknown.

However, even now the manor is tightly connected with the same collective of owners. 1% of IPEX belongs to Vladimir Isaev, general director of Surguteks. It was he who became the new co-owner of Surgutex after Timchenko got rid of his stake. Timchenko’s spokesman insisted that Isaev was not a nominal owner.

The CEO of Ipex and Tarteks is Sergey Filippenkov, who is also the head of Transoil CIS, Timchenko. In the reports submitted by the partnership to the Ministry of Justice, he also until 2018 was listed as chairman of the board of the “Revival of traditions and culture of country rest”. And another member of the partnership's board was Mikhail Semenov - they also called the member of the board of directors of Sogaz and the head of the Translising company Timchenko. .

IPEX is also associated with Kovalchuk. The company is registered in Saperny Pereulok in St. Petersburg - the ofice of the Liross company is located at the same address. Its owners are Oleg Gordin, the person involved in the Panamanian Archive and a business partner (in offshore companies) of the cellist . Another founder of Liross is Alexander Plekhov, a scientist and old acquaintance of Yuri Kovalchuk. As “Project” found out earlier , Plekhov helps shareholders of the Bank “Russia” to bypass sanctions.

Finally, Renata Ibatullin works as the general director of the “Renaissance of traditions and culture”. She also heads the Usadba 21 Century company created by Mikhail Kovalchuk .

Since 2013, 733.5 million rubles have been spent on the improvement of the dacha, calculated the “Project” on the basis of reports submitted by the partnership to the Ministry of Justice . The assets of the partnership “Revival of traditions and culture of country rest” amount to 2.3 billion rubles.

So much and can cost a cottage. In February 2012, the Subscribe to founders of the Usadba-21 Century company held an the "Project" extraordinary meeting . It announced the reduction of newsletter the authorized capital - by the same 2.3 billion rubles. Email Just three months before this, “The 21st Century Manor” had lost its summer cottage number 5 in Gorki- ПОДПИСАТЬСЯ 10 - the Revival of traditions and culture of country rest became its own.

Friends under guard

The Russian leadership has repeatedly called on domestic business to end its registration in foreign offshores. Despite this, the mysterious site in Gorki-10 and the mansions on it belong to the offshore in one of the most closed jurisdictions of the world. But that's not all: the offshore dacha is guarded by the Federal Guard Service (FSO), guarding the president and other top oficials of the country.

This information is contained in the Air Navigation Information Compendium compiled by the Federal Air Transport Agency. It also contains maps of heliports and aerodromes - there is a helipad there at the cottage number 5. According to the document, flights over the site are allowed only by agreement with the FSO, the zone itself is referred to as "forbidden".

Collection of aeronautical information

The aeronautical data also contains the contact details of Usadba 21 Century, which Kovalchuk created for the ownership of this section. Some sites on the Internet offer the possibility to ind out the telephone number operator. In the case of the “Usadba”, the operator of her telephone number indicated “Main Security Directorate” - the predecessor of the FSO.

When the “Project” correspondent called this number and speciied whether this phone belongs to the “Usadba 21st Century” company, the source conirmed this. However, the question of whether "cottage number 5" is the residence of the irst person, said "I can not answer you" and hung up.

The fact that the site is under the protection of the FSO, also told the former worker dacha, who managed to ind the "Project".

Finally, the “Project” found a reference to “the object Gorki 10-5” in the resume of one of the former employees of the construction company UK Credo. This is not a simple company: it does not have a website, the customers are FSO and the Ofice of Presidential Affairs. She specializes in presidential residences. Credo Management Company, for example, was the contractor for the construction of the presidential residence Valdai, reconstructed building number 3 at the FSO facility in the Caucasus ( presumably , this name hides the state residence Bocharov Ruchey), restored the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna — this is Putin’s residence for solemn events and receptions.

"Credo" also participated in the reconstruction of the cinema "Leningrad" by Yuri Kovalchuk , which he turned into a "show center" with musicals and cabarets like Crazy Horse.

Owned "UK Credo" Asya and Mikhail Borisov. In 2009, they were the presidential decree was awarded the Order of Friendship of the "great contribution to the reconstruction of the monuments of historical and cultural heritage, the creation of federal signiicance". Two more employees of Credo received of the Order for Services to the Fatherland, I and II degrees.

In addition, Asya Borisova owns an apartment in the same house with his son Vladimir Kozhin . This is the elite LCD Diadema Club House on Krestovsky Island in St. Petersburg. Borisova also has an apartment in the same house with ’s grandmother, Anna Zatsepilina, in Stalin’s street on Mytninskaya Embankment, also in St. Petersburg .

“Credo” has no press service, the company said that they do not answer journalists' questions and “it’s useless to send them”.

In the CV of the employee “Credo”, in addition to the “Gorki 10-5 object”, the Government House of Russia and the “Gorki 10-3 object” are also present - this is not really an object, but the Kozhin dacha (under that name it is registered in the Russian Register).

The “project” contacted this employee, who refused to discuss the residence, citing a non-disclosure subscription. However, he conirmed that "cottage number 5" is under the protection of the FSO.

One of the locals told the “Project” that “rumors are circulating” in the village that cottage number 5 is the presidential residence, but he never saw the irst person motorcade there, only once a helicopter flew to the cottage. Recently there have been active construction work, he remembered. He also mentioned the attempts of the villa owners to block the passage to the river. When shooting from a drone, a fence is really visible, which leads directly to the Moscow River and closes the path.

Revival of old Russian traditions

Putin is known as a supporter of traditional values - he himself conirms this in almost every public speech. Coincidentally, “Revival of traditions” is the universal name of companies associated with Putin’s closest circle. These irms are an intricate network that owns luxury property and country real estate throughout the country.

For example, the 46-meter yacht "Shellest", noticed near the so-called "Putin's palace" at Cape Idokopas in the Krasnodar Territory, the existence of which was told by businessman Sergey Kolesnikov, is recorded on the non-commercial partnership "Revival of maritime traditions" . One of the founders of this non- proit partnership is Dmitry Mansurov, head of ADB Management, which manages the assets of Russia Bank. The second founder is Pavel Zaitsev, general director of the Association for the Development of Effective Investments Market, established by the same Timchenko and Kolbin.

The page of the yacht "Shellest" in the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping contains an e-mail address with the domain llcinvest.ru - exactly the same structures usedP"Poutnino' smbyPaa labusinessmanrceen" katoC, awpehIodoikno Alexanderp2o0s1i1nbtheecKaram sneodtahreTeorrwitonrye. rSooufrcteh: e c Poumtminopnsa.wlaikcimeeadtiaC.oragpe Idokopas.

Exactly the same domain - llcinvest.ru - is speciied in the registration data of the Prime company, which belongs to the non-commercial partnership “Support for entrepreneurial initiatives” by Yuri Kovalchuk and his son Boris. Prime owns almost half of the territory of the presidential residence in Valdai, the one where it was just the contractor of UK Credo. "Prime" became the owner of the land after being there often with Putin travels.

Finally, Prime also owns vast territories on the coast of Lake Ladoga in Karelia — 140 hectares, in which several guarded private residences are located . Prime subsidiary Arkonn is a co-owner of the Igora ski resort, where the prospective daughter of President Katerina Tikhonova and co-owner of Sibur and the son of shareholder of Rossia Bank Kirill celebrated their wedding.

And Nikolai Shamalov himself, a former member of the cooperative "", was a co-founder of the company with the next "revival of traditions" in the name - "The revival of traditions and culture of . Source: sibur.photas.ru country rest" South Park ". In 2017, its co-founder, Pavel Zaitsev, became the head of the company, to which the former villa of Viktor Yanukovich was recorded at Cape Aya in Crimea .

Russia cottage

The president does not lack residences - in addition to several oficial and unoficial summer residences, he can use the numerous villas of his inner circle. Some even saw him. рара Россия дачная

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Non-proit partnership is an ideal option for "indirect" ownership of real estate. Formally, the owner of the property - NP, not partners. Therefore, in the property declaration, the beneiciaries do not need to write anything about the partnership assets, explains Pavel Ivlev, former partner of Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov for the law ofice. Moscow suburb of Shuvalov (more like a palace) and his Rolls-Royce Phantom are also recorded for a non- commercial partnership - “Zarechye 4” .

The “project” sent a request to the Ofice of Presidential Affairs and the Federal Security Service. In the FSO they did not respond to the request, the Manager of Management advised to get acquainted with the list of subordinate organizations on the website of the institution. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov did not answer the questions of the “Project”.

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