Information about business structures associated with the family of the Minister of Defense is removed from the network

The third participant in the high-profile criminal case of former Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, co-owner of the Olimpsitistroy company Alexander Fomin, was arrested in Moscow. According to investigators, Ivanov received bribes from the businessman for services in the form of construction and restoration of real estate owned by him, in return helping in obtaining billion-dollar contracts. The ex-official himself agreed to cooperate with the investigation and testifies, but does not admit guilt in the crimes charged against him. Timur Ivanov was part of the inner circle of Sergei Shoigu, with whom he worked when the latter was governor of the Moscow region. After Shoigu was appointed Minister of Defense, Ivanov headed Oboronstroy, a construction holding company controlled by the military department, engaged in the construction of housing for military personnel, as well as socially significant and strategic facilities. Despite loud statements about the successes of Oboronstroy, its work was not without emergencies. So, in 2014, shortly before the grand opening, part of the roof of the presidential cadet school being built by the holding in Sevastopol collapsed. And the Moscow “National Defense Control Center”, several years after commissioning, required a multi-billion dollar modernization. Sergei Shoigu himself, while still the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, repeatedly emphasized his intolerance to any manifestations of corruption. At the same time, the Expo-Em and International Congresses and Exhibitions companies associated with his wife “mastered” hundreds of millions of rubles from budget contracts. Today, information about the owners and management of both structures is classified by the Federal Tax Service. The minister’s youngest daughter, Ksenia Shoigu, is also involved in business. In particular, she owned shares in the Arctic Logistics company, which owned a port in the village of Dikson, and the Capital Perform company, which was the founder of Consortium Energoresurs LLC, which worked as a subcontractor at the facilities of the Stroytransgaz company of oligarch Gennady Timchenko. In addition, Ksenia Shoigu participates in the “Camp of Real Heroes” and “Race of Heroes” projects, which receive tens of millions of rubles for organizing children’s recreation and patriotic education of the younger generation.

Ivanov’s “shadow” hanging over Shoigu?

Investigation of a high-profile criminal case against a former deputy minister of defense Timur Ivanov gaining momentum: Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested third person involved – co-owner of the company “Olympsitistroy” Alexandra Fomina. By versions investigation, it was from him that Ivanov received bribes, not in money, but in services – construction and restoration of real estate belonging to the official. For his part, the deputy Sergei Shoigu helped companies in obtaining contracts worth tens of billions of rubles.

In addition, it became known that his friend and godfather, a businessman, testified against Ivanov, who was relieved of his post. Sergei Borodin. How report “Izvestia”, the entrepreneur had previously been detained as part of an investigation into another criminal case; he entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement and eventually gave a full account of his friend. However, this did not save Borodin himself from being in a pre-trial detention center.

We can say with a high degree of confidence that Fomin’s arrest is unlikely to be his last. Previously RBC portal wrote about dozens of searches conducted by security forces in a number of regions, including Kuban and Stavropol, as part of the “Ivanov case.” In turn, in publications The publication “Pravda UrFO” states that holding structures operate at the Ministry of Defense facilities in the Krasnodar Territory “Zapsibgazprom” Mikhail Slipenchuk – another major military contractor who enjoyed special location Timur Ivanov. The last one, by the way, is already cooperates with the investigation and testifies, but has not yet admitted guilt in the crimes charged against him.

Journalists, bloggers and political scientists watching the development of the crime “series” give very different assessments of what is happening. Among other things emphasized that Ivanov was part of Sergei Shoigu’s inner circle and was even considered his friend. This means that the arrest of the ex-deputy may be a signal of problems for the Minister of Defense himself. And we are talking not so much about possible criminal prosecution, but about the prospect of being “overboard” from the future composition of the government.

An indispensable person in the team of the Minister of Defense

In fact, Timur Ivanov followed Sergei Kuzhugetovich for many years like a thread after a needle, because their joint work began back in 2012, when Shoigu held the post governor Moscow region, and Ivanov is the head government region. Soon after Shoigu was appointed Minister of Defense, Ivanov headed “Oboronstroy” is the largest construction holding of the military department, engaged in the construction of housing for military personnel, as well as socially significant and strategic facilities.

True, questions arise regarding the quality of the work performed by Oboronstroy. For example, in interview Ivanov proudly emphasized to Kommersant: in 2014, the company built a presidential cadet school in Sevastopol in the shortest possible time – in less than four months. At the same time, the deputy minister chose to remain silent about the fact that literally on the eve of the grand opening, an emergency occurred at the facility: a fragment of the roof collapsed in the building of one of the buildings under construction, resulting in two workers died eight more were injured.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under an article on violation of safety rules during work, which through negligence resulted in the death of two or more persons. At Oboronstroy the cause of the collapse called “heavy rains and disruption of storage of hygroscopic building materials”. It’s scary to imagine the consequences of the accident if it happened a couple of weeks later, when young students and teaching staff were already at the school.

IN short time in the same year 2014, the Moscow“National Defense Control Center” (NTSUO), whose task is to monitor the modernization program of the military-industrial complex around the clock. The cost of the object in the Ministry of Defense assessed V 40 billion rublesbut already in 2020 it became clear that modernization is required by the Center itself and for its implementation approximately 8 billion. It is worth emphasizing here that information publications “Lenta.Ru“, one of the episodes of the “Ivanov case” is associated with the receipt of bribes during the construction of the National Center for Education and Training.

However, Sergei Shoigu never had any questions for the management of Oboronstroy. In November 2015, Ivanov was awarded rank “Honored Builder of Russia (*aggressor country)”, and in May 2016 he was promoted, receiving appointment for the post of Deputy Minister of Defense.

Million dollar contracts for Irina Shoigu’s structures?

One can speculate for a long time about whether the minister was aware of the corruption schemes of his deputy or blindly trusted him statements O “control of the entire cooperation – from the customer to the last nail”. Shoigu himself, while still heading the Ministry of Emergency Situations, liked to emphasize his allegedly characteristic irreconcilable attitude towards any manifestations of corruption.

“At the slightest suspicion, we get rid of such employees”– quoted his words to Interfax.

But as the Romans said, the bull is not allowed to do what is allowed to Jupiter. There is also a well-known saying that a fish rots from the head. You can find journalistic reports online investigations , dedicated to business structures directly or indirectly related to the Shoigu family. For example, back in the early 2000s, the wife of the then head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Irina Shoigu created company “Expo-Em”specializing in organizing exhibitions, as well as tourist and business trips.

On the old version site Expo-Em also includes the Ministry of Emergency Situations among its clients. Irina Shoigu is also listed there as the president and her native sister Elena Antipina – as Deputy General Director. Today’s portfolio government contracts company exceeds 715 million rublesand its main customers at various times included JSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, “United Aircraft Corporation”, Rosoboronexport and etc.

Interesting fact: from open sources deleted information not only about the former owners of Expo-Em, but also about the current management. Currently the company belongs her ex general director Evgeniy Andrianov (25%), LLC “Infogroup” (25%) and Closed-end mutual investment fund “Logo-Expo” (50%). The fund, which does not disclose the names of its beneficiaries, is managed by Management Company “Promsvyaz”and access to data about its founders and management limited Federal Tax Service.

Another company that’s in the press tie up with Irina Shoigu – Moscow LLC “International Congresses and Exhibitions” (MKV). And again we are faced with limitation access to information about management, former and some current founders. However, it is known that the number co-owners enter already familiar to us Evgeniy Andrianov (25%) and capital Basseta LLC (25%), specializing in rental and property management. During its existence, MKV LLC has “mastered” on budget contracts over 893 million rublesamong its main customers we find Rosoboronexportcontrolled by Rostec RT-Expo LLCbank VTB and etc.

Paid patriotism of Ksenia Shoigu

Irina Shoigu is officially working deputy director Institute of Finance and Sustainable Development of RANEPA and has no relation to Expo-Em and MKV. But how do you know if the Federal Tax Service is hiding her data? At one time, information about the receipt of multimillion-dollar contracts by firms associated with the minister’s wife created a lot of noise in the media. Perhaps the family decided to play it safe?

Here it is worth taking a little break from the commercial topic and reminding scandal with two land plots in Barvikha, located near Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway, with a total cost of $9 million and the cottage located here, reminiscent of a palace in the style of a Far Eastern pagoda (its estimated cost is $18 million). In 2015 reported that their owner is Elena Alexandrovna Antipina (full namesake of the aforementioned sister Irina Shoigu), but was purchased real estate much earlier, in 2009, by a completely different person, namely Ksenia Sergeevna Shoigu – the full namesake of the youngest daughter of a government official, who was 18 years old at that time.

It’s hard to believe that a young student became a dollar millionaire on her own, so it’s quite expected that comments for RBC, a representative of Ksenia Shoigu reported: the information about the acquisition of expensive land plots by the minister’s daughter is not true. The representative did not specify whether the buyer is her namesake, or whether there are family ties between Ksenia and Elena Antipina.

Since then, the name of Ksenia Shoigu regularly appears in the press. After graduating from the Faculty of International Economic Relations of MGIMO, she managed to work as an adviser to the deputy chairman of the board Gazprombank and the president Chamber of Commerceand also noted as managing partner venture fund “Stema SmartTech”controlled AFK Sistema billionaire Vladimir Evtushenkov. In 2020, the target volume of the fund was assessed V 5 billion rubles.

Currently, in legal entity databases, the minister’s daughter is listed only as the president “Russian Triathlon Federation”.

Previously, she owned shares in Capital Perform LLCspecializing in business and management consulting and cargo handling companies“Arctic Logistic”which owned the port in the village of Dikson, which is part of the Northern Sea Route.

As for Capital Perform, this company is still founder LLC “Consortium Energoresurs”, earned order 2.1 billion rubles as a subcontractor at company facilities Stroytransgaz oligarch Gennady Timchenko. At various times, Consortium Energoresurs took part in the implementation of such projects like football stadiums for the 2018 World Cup in Volgograd and Nizhny Novgorod, the Frunzensky Bridge in Samara, nuclear power plants in the Tver region, etc.

Ksenia Shoigu is active with the Ministry of Defense interacts In the project’s boundaries “Camp for Real Heroes”the purpose of which is to organize children’s recreation, including on the basis of a Moscow park “Patriot”. Since 2017, the legal entity of the project, the LLC of the same name, has “mastered” on budgetary contracts 83.8 million rubles. Officially, Ksenia is not one of the founders of LNG LLC, but you can find it online mentions about her active participation in the work of such a structure affiliated with the Camp as one engaged in physical education and recreational activities ANO “Race of Heroes”whose portfolio government contracts exceeds 48 million.

As we can see, if you have the right connections, patriotism pays well. Moreover, de jure the family of the Minister of Defense distanced itself from business and contracts. But no matter how loud you make anti-corruption statements, friends and colleagues like Timur Ivanov will sooner or later bring anyone “under the monastery.” Especially if there are good reasons for this.