Karamanov Development Corporation new first deputy. Money allocated for the development of regional projects disappeared in problem banks

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Security Service detained the general director of JSC "Corporation for Development" created on behalf of the president.

As reported "Kommersant", CEO JSC Development Corporation Sergey Maslov was detained by law enforcement officers in a luxurious estate, which is located in a village near Moscow "Arkhangelsk". Sergey Maslov, like his deputy Vladimir Karamanov, are suspected of embezzlement of one billion rubles. The money was allocated by the regions-shareholders of the Development Corporation for the implementation of the investment project.

According to the officers who conducted the search, the residence of 56-year-old Maslov was more like a museum. In the park there is an author's copy of the famous sculpture Salvador Dali"Rhinoceros", and the walls of the house are decorated with panels of Russian artists, among which Ivan Shishkin. A collection of watches is housed in a separate room. famous brands, the cost of some of them - for example, encrusted with diamonds Piaget— exceeded 100 thousand dollars. Hidden behind the shoe racks were several safes containing about $100,000 in cash. In the garage were Bentley And Maybach, as well as two rare cars of the brand Mercedes. In addition, Sergey Maslov, who has Russian and Swiss citizenship, according to intelligence agencies, has several apartments in Moscow, real estate abroad, and built a 70-meter yacht worth more than 50 million euros at one of the foreign shipyards, Kommersant reports.

At the same time, a search was carried out at the home of 57-year-old Vladimir Karamanov, whose residence is located in a cottage settlement in the Petrovo-Far on Novorizhskoe highway. Karamanov, like his owner, also has dual citizenship (Russian and Austrian), and has real estate in Austria. In his mansion, employees found a large amount Money and numerous jewellery. Documents and electronic media were confiscated from Karamanov.

In the near future, the investigating authorities will apply to the court with petitions to seize the property of the defendants in the criminal case. In particular, according to some reports, the estate of Sergei Maslov is estimated at more than one hundred million dollars.

Detainees Sergei Maslov and Vladimir Karamanov, as well as the chairman of the board of directors RITC Bank Dmitry Khasanov and included in it Elmira Miloserdova were transferred to Rostov-on-Don. All four were arrested by the Leninsky District Court until November 30 as part of a criminal case under article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the “misappropriation of funds” from bank customers "People's Credit".
Dmitry Khasanov and Elmira Miloserdova provided financial and legal services.

It is noted that even before the revocation of its license, Maslov and Karamanov invested more than one billion rubles in the bank "People's Credit", received from the clients of the Development Corporation - regions Ural Federal District for the development of transport, energy and social infrastructures within the framework of the project "Ural Industrial - Ural Polar". The money, with the assistance of the bank's leaders, according to the investigation, was withdrawn to offshore companies in Cyprus and invested in personal projects of Maslov and Karamanov.

In addition to the above persons, this moment in Rostov-on-Don, the ex-Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation and the owner of Narodny Kredit are in custody Stanislav Svetlitsky who is a friend of Sergei Maslov, deputy chairman of this credit institution Irina Pereverzeva, head of bank security Nikolai Molotilkin and accountant Maya Nyushkova. All were arrested in the case of embezzlement from the funds of the bank "People's Credit" more than ten billion rubles.

According to Kommersant, as of July 1 of this year, the amount of the bank's debt to creditors amounted to more than twenty billion rubles.

It is also reported that the amount of damage incriminated to the defendants in the case can grow at least a dozen times.

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Evgeny Ivanov, according to the materials of the Kommersant newspaper

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At the request of the investigation, all four were arrested by the Leninsky District Court until November 30 as part of a criminal case initiated at the end of September by the local Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on "misappropriation of funds" (Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) of the clients of the Narodny Credit Bank

As law enforcement officials established, in October 2014, shortly before the revocation of the license from Narodny Credit, Maslov and Karamanov invested more than one billion rubles in it, received from the shareholders of the Development Corporation
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The head of JSC Development Corporation, Sergei Maslov, was detained in the Moscow region, Interfax reports, citing a source familiar with the situation. In addition to Maslov, his deputy Vladimir Karamanov was detained, RIA Novosti reports, citing an informed source. The detentions were carried out as part of the investigation of a criminal case on embezzlement of funds.

According to Kommersant, citing sources in law enforcement agencies, Maslov was detained in a cottage in the village of Arkhangelskoye. Maslov appeared on the threshold of the house only after one of the commandos broke the glass on the front door with a sledgehammer. Having presented the search warrant, the participants in the operational activities began to inspect the premises.

According to the participants in the operation, the residence of the head of the Development Corporation was more like a museum: in the park, the owner placed the author's copy of the famous sculpture by Salvador Dali "Rhinoceros", the walls of the house were decorated with paintings by Russian artists, including Ivan Shishkin, and a collection of watches was placed in a separate room well-known brands, the cost of some of them exceeded 100 thousand dollars.

Behind the shoe racks were hidden several safes, which also contained about 100 thousand dollars. In Maslov's garage were Bentley and Maybach, as well as two rare Mercedes. In addition, having Russian and Swiss citizenship, Maslov, according to intelligence agencies, has several apartments in Moscow, real estate abroad, and built a 70-meter yacht worth more than 50 million euros at one of the foreign shipyards.

In parallel, a similar event was held in a cottage village in the Petrovo-Dalny area on Novorizhskoye Highway, where Maslov's first deputy, Vladimir Karamanov, lives. Karamanov, who also has Austrian citizenship and real estate in this country, did not immediately open the door. However, when he saw a SOBR soldier walking towards the house with a sledgehammer, he preferred not to resist. In the mansion of the deputy head of the company, law enforcement officers also found money and a lot of jewelry.

At the same time, they did not seize anything from the detainees except for documents and electronic media.

In addition to Maslov and Karamanov, Dmitry Khasanov, chairman of the board of directors of RITZ-Bank, and Elmira Miloserdova, a member of it, were detained. They provided financial and legal services to the management of the Development Corporation. All four were transferred to Rostov-on-Don. At the request of the investigation, the Leninsky District Court arrested all the defendants until November 30 as part of a criminal case initiated at the end of September by the local Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the "misappropriation of funds" (Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) of clients of the Narodny Credit Bank.

As law enforcement officials established, in October 2014, shortly before the license was revoked from Narodny Credit, Maslov and Karamanov invested more than one billion rubles in it, received from the shareholders of the Development Corporation - the regions of the Ural Federal District for the development of transport, energy and social infrastructures within the framework of the project "Industrial Urals - Polar Urals". The money, with the assistance of the bank's leaders, according to the investigation, was withdrawn to offshore companies in Cyprus and invested in personal projects of the JSC's leaders.

According to the investigation, the management of the Development Corporation could place funds for their subsequent theft in other troubled banks. The amount of damage incriminated to the defendants in the case can grow at least a dozen times.

The main projects of the Development Corporation are the Northern Latitudinal Railway, a bridge across the Nadym River with automobile and railway parts, the Polyarnaya TPP in the YaNAO, the Polar Quartz project, and a building materials plant in Nyagan.

The Corporation has 17 subsidiaries, including OJSC Yamal Railway Company, LLC Seversetrazvitie, CJSC Production Center KVANT-2, LLC Efficient Heat Power Engineering. The main shareholders are the property department of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (35.31 %), property department of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (34.9%), property department of the Tyumen region (28.7%).

MOSCOW, October 21, news agency UralPolit.Ru. Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB detained the general director of JSC "Development Corporation" Sergei Maslov and his deputy Vladimir Karamanov, a Kommersant source reports. On Wednesday, October 19, documents were seized at the office of Development Corporation JSC in Bolshoy Savvinsky Lane, as well as searches at 30 addresses in Moscow and the Moscow Region, including the apartments and country houses of the suspects.

Sergey Maslov was found in a house in the Arkhangelskoye cottage settlement and refused to open the door, as a result, the glass on the door was smashed with a sledgehammer. Safes were found in the house, located not behind the racks with shoes (they contained funds for total amount about $100 thousand). The source talks about a collection of expensive watches, some of which cost more than $ 100 thousand, as well as a garage with Bentley, Maybach and two rare Mercedes. According to the intelligence services, Maslov also has several apartments in Moscow and abroad and a Swiss passport.

Vladimir Karamanov was detained in a cottage settlement near Petrovo-Dalniy on Novorizhskoye Highway. He offered no resistance, jewelry and large sums of cash were found in the house. Vladimir Karamanov also has a second passport - Austrian.

Sergey Maslov and Vladimir Karamanov were transferred to Rostov-on-Don, Leninsky district court arrested them until November 30 as part of a criminal case initiated at the end of September by the local Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on “misappropriation of funds” (Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). We are talking about the funds of the clients of the bank "People's Credit". According to investigators, shortly before the license was revoked from a banking organization in October 2014, the suspects invested more than 1 billion rubles in funds from the Development Corporation shareholders in the bank. The funds, with the assistance of the bank's executives, were withdrawn offshore in Cyprus, and also invested in the personal projects of Maslov and Karamanov, investigators say. Funds could be placed in other banks, in which case the amount of damage could increase several times, a source in law enforcement believes.

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Sergey Maslov

He began working in 1975 at Surgutneftegaz. For a long time, S. V. Maslov worked on the development of deposits in the Tyumen North: as a foreman of the Quality Control Department of the Surgut Department of Technological Transport, a foreman of a section of the trust "Kogalymneftegazstroy", a foreman of a specialized section of the trust "Surgutneftedorstroyremont".

Since the founding of NK Lukoil in the early 90s, Sergey Maslov has held senior positions in the company's subsidiaries: 1992 - General Director of Lukoil Trading, since 1996 - on leadership positions V oil company Lukoil, president of Lukoil International, a company that was the holding company of all subsidiaries located abroad.

In February 2001, S. V. Maslov was appointed President of the Open joint-stock company « Joint-stock company pipeline transportation of oil products "Transnefteprodukt", included in the register of natural monopoly entities and having a length of pipelines of more than 20 thousand kilometers, passing through 32 constituent entities of the Russian Federation and five neighboring countries with a headcount of more than 17 thousand people, while exercising strategic management of projects for new trunk oil product pipelines - the Sever project (commissioned in May 2008) and the South project, which have no analogues in Europe.

In April 2008, he was elected President of the St. Petersburg International Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange CJSC (SPIMEX), whose shareholders are largest enterprises oil and gas industry, Russian companies and banks.

Married, has six children.

Vladimir Karamanov

Currently - First Deputy General Director of JSC "Corporation for Development"

2010 - 2013 - President of OJSC "Financial and Construction Corporation" Neftegazstroy - Vostok "

2009 - 2010 - Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of OAO STROYTRANSGAZ

2004 - 2009 - First Vice President of JSC AK Transnefteprodukt

2001 - 2003 - President of OJSC "Financial and Construction Corporation" Neftegazstroy - Vostok "

1995 - 2001 - chief engineer, acting. O. General Director, General Director of OAO Trest Uralneftegazstroy

1990 - 1995 - Technical Director"Small state enterprise"Housing Initiative"

1989 - 1990 - and. O. chief engineer, chief Engineer PMK No. 1 of the trust "Uralneftegazstroy".

1984 - 1989 - foreman, foreman, deputy head for production issues of the construction department No. 1 of the Uralneftegazstroy trust.

Married, has four sons.

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As it became known to Kommersant, in a luxurious estate in the Arkhangelskoye cottage village near Moscow, the decoration of which is a sculpture by Salvador Dali, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB detained the general director of the joint-stock company created on behalf of the president, Sergei Maslov. Together with his deputy Vladimir Karamanov, he is suspected of embezzling at least 1 billion rubles. According to the investigation, the funds allocated by the regions that are shareholders of the joint-stock company, they placed the funds for the implementation of the large investment project "Ural Industrial - Ural Polar" in a problem bank, so that later there would be someone to blame for their disappearance.

The operation, which involved dozens of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, was carried out last Wednesday at almost 30 addresses in Moscow and the Moscow region. In the office of JSC Development Corporation in Bolshoi Savvinsky Lane, counterintelligence officers and employees of the GUEBiPK did not find any of the leaders they were interested in and, having seized the documentation, went to search the apartments and country houses of the suspects.

It was not difficult for representatives of law enforcement agencies to get into the Arkhangelskoye cottage settlement, where 56-year-old Sergey Maslov lives. Seeing the soldiers of the special forces of the National Guard who got out of the minibus, the guards immediately raised the barrier. But in the estate located on more than 3 hectares with an area of ​​​​almost 3 thousand square meters. It turned out to be more difficult to get in - in any case, no one was in a hurry to open the doors to calls and knocks. The owner of the estate appeared only after one of the commandos broke the glass on the front door with a sledgehammer.

Having presented the search warrant to Sergei Maslov, the police and security officers began to inspect the premises. According to the participants in the operation, the residence of the head of the Development Corporation JSC was more like a museum: in the park, the owner placed the author’s copy of the famous sculpture “Rhino” by Salvador Dali, the walls of the house were decorated with paintings by Russian artists, including Ivan Shishkin, and a collection was placed in a separate room watches of famous brands, the cost of some of them - for example, Piaget encrusted with diamonds - exceeded $ 100 thousand. Several safes were hidden behind the racks with shoes, in which about $ 100 thousand were stored. Bentley and Maybach, as well as two rare Mercedes, were in Maslov's garage. In addition, Sergei Maslov, who has Russian and Swiss citizenship, according to intelligence agencies, has several apartments in Moscow, real estate abroad, and built a 70-meter yacht worth more than €50 million at one of the foreign shipyards.

In parallel, a similar event was held in a cottage village in the Petrovo-Dalny area on Novorizhskoye Highway, where Maslov's first deputy, 57-year-old Vladimir Karamanov, lives. Like the boss, Karamanov (who also has Austrian citizenship and real estate in this country) did not immediately open the door. However, when he saw a SOBR soldier walking towards the house with a sledgehammer, he preferred not to resist. Law enforcement officers also found a large sum of money and a lot of jewelry in the mansion of the Deputy General Director of Development Corporation JSC.

At the same time, they did not seize anything from the detainees except for documents and electronic media. True, according to Kommersant, in the near future the investigation intends to apply to the court with petitions to seize the property of the defendants in the case to pay off the alleged damage. In particular, the estate of the same Maslov, according to some sources, is estimated at more than $100 million.

The detainees Sergei Maslov and Vladimir Karamanov, as well as the chairman of the board of directors of RITC-bank Dmitry Khasanov and Elmira Miloserdova, a member of it (they provided financial and legal services to the management of the Development Corporation) were transferred to Rostov-on-Don. At the request of the investigation, all four were arrested by the Leninsky District Court until November 30 as part of a criminal case initiated at the end of September by the local Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on “misappropriation of funds” (Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) of the clients of the Narodny Credit bank.

As law enforcement officials established, in October 2014, shortly before the license was revoked from Narodny Credit, Maslov and Karamanov invested more than 1 billion rubles in it, received from the shareholders of the Development Corporation - regions of the Ural Federal District for the development of transport, energy and social infrastructures within the framework of the project "Industrial Urals - Polar Urals". The money, with the assistance of the bank's leaders, according to the investigation, was withdrawn to offshore companies in Cyprus and invested in personal projects of the JSC's leaders.

Now he is also in custody in Rostov-on-Don on charges of embezzling more than 10 billion rubles from this bank. are former deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation and the owner of "People's Credit" Stanislav Svetlitsky, who is a friend of Sergei Maslov, the deputy chairman of this credit institution, Irina Pereverzeva, the head of the bank's security service, Nikolai Molotilkin, and the accountant Maya Nyushkova. According to the Deposit Insurance Agency, as of July 1, the amount of the bank's debt to creditors amounted to more than 20 billion rubles.

Meanwhile, according to the investigation, the management of JSC "Corporation for Development" could place funds for their subsequent theft in other problem banks. In any case, according to a Kommersant source in law enforcement agencies, the amount of damage incriminated to the defendants in the case can grow at least a dozen times.

The corporation itself refrained from commenting, citing the lack of leadership.

JSC Development Corporation

It was established on August 30, 2006 as JSC "Corporation Ural Industrial - Ural Polar", since 2012 it has its current name. Priority area of ​​activity - implementation investment projects, providing an increase in the competitiveness of the regional economy, its diversification, stimulating investment activity. Development of transport, energy, social infrastructures, integrated development of the resource potential of the Ural Federal District.

The main projects of the corporation are the Northern Latitudinal Railway (707 km), the bridge across the Nadym River with automobile and railway parts, the Polyarnaya TPP in the YaNAO with a capacity of 268 MW, the Polar Quartz project (creation of the production of high-purity quartz concentrates), the plant building materials price Nyagan and others. The Corporation has 17 subsidiaries, including OAO Yamal Railway Company, OOO Seversetrazvitie, ZAO Production Center KVANT-2, OOO Efficient Heat Power Engineering.

The main shareholders are the property department of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (35.31%), the property department of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (34.9%), the property department of the Tyumen Region (28.7%). Authorized capital - 29.48 billion rubles. The corporation's revenue in 2015 amounted to 253.2 million rubles, net profit- 40.96 million rubles.

What is Sergei Maslov famous for?

Maslov Sergey Vladimirovich was born on August 15, 1960 in Grozny (Chechen-Ingush ASSR). In 1982 he graduated from the Surgut Oil College, in 1992 - from the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry with a degree in oil and gas wells", in 2004 - the Moscow State Law Academy.

He worked as a quality control foreman of the Surgutneftegaz trust, a section foreman of the Kogalymneftegazstroy trust, a foreman of a specialized section of the Surgutneftedorstroyremont trust. Since its foundation in the early 1990s, NK LUKOIL has held senior positions in the company's subsidiaries: since 1992 - General Director of LUKOIL Trading, from 1996 to 2000 - First Vice President of LUKOIL International, until 2001 - President of the company . Since February 2001 - President of the Transnefteprodukt pipeline company. In April 2008, he became president of the St. Petersburg International Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange CJSC. In September of the same year, he resigned as president of Transnefteprodukt, remaining the head of the stock exchange. Since May 2013 - General Director of Development Corporation JSC.

Awarded the Order of Friendship. He has the title of "Honorary Oilman". Married, father of six children.

"FederalPress" became aware of the details of the development of the case of the leaders of JSC "Development Corporation" and their detention. Sergei Maslov refuses to cooperate with the investigation and is waiting to be released. Law enforcement officers are studying the possibility of initiating a second criminal case, but at the same time they fear that the managers may repeat the fate of Serdyukov and be released.

Behind the high-profile detention and discussion about luxury homes, millions in closets and expensive cars, a fundamental fact has gone unnoticed: there is no “Corporation Development Case”. The fact that within the framework of this case, representatives of the power bloc are not involved in financial matters Corporations, two sources confirmed to FederalPress. The Friday sensation does not have a Ural residence permit at all: the law enforcement officers of the Southern Federal District are conducting the case.

“In the course of studying the materials on the bank [revocation of the license of Narodny Kredit] regarding the withdrawal of funds abroad, the development of citizens M and K [and Vladimir Karamanov]. Representatives of law enforcement agencies conducted this case from the very beginning to its logical end in the form of detention in the Moscow region, ”says an informed source.

Indirectly, the information is confirmed by the wording specified in the decision of the Leninsky Court of Rostov-on-Don. Top managers of the Development Corporation were arrested in a criminal case under Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (misappropriation or embezzlement) for embezzlement of 1 billion rubles through the People's Credit Bank. The investigation believes that the money, with the assistance of the bank's leaders, was withdrawn to Cypriot offshores, and then partially legalized, and partially invested in the projects of the leaders.

Given that the operational work was carried out by the FSB officers of Rostov-on-Don with the support of the National Guard fighters, after the arrest, Maslov and Karamanov were taken to Rostov-on-Don. The status of the leaders of the "Corporation for Development" is such that they, most likely, were not sent to pre-trial detention center No. 1 of the GUFSIN for Rostov region, the agency source muses.

Moreover, one of the four pre-trial detention centers of the FSB (known as pre-trial detention center No. 4) is located in the city. It is located right in the premises of the regional FSB and occupies part of the first floor. It is designed for about 25 beds and is much more comfortable than a classic pre-trial detention center: the cells have TVs, comfortable furniture, carpets, good heating and ventilation, "they vaguely resemble an apartment," the source knows. The detainees receive good food and, if necessary, medical care. At the same time, the strict internal regime is known. The ex-mayor of Makhachkala was kept here Said Amirov, who was accused of organizing contract killings (at the moment he is serving a sentence in the Black Dolphin colony for life imprisonment, clarifies "").

Karamanov and Maslov are most likely being held in SIZO No. 4 in Rostov-on-Don

Investigators have already started working with Sergei Maslov and Vladimir Karamanov. Our sources in law enforcement agencies of the Rostov region note that the top manager of the Development Corporation does not recognize the charges. “He [Maslov] showed very impudent behavior during his arrest. During special procedures [fingerprinting, clearance required documents, - "FederalPress"] expressed with full confidence that he would soon leave here. That he will certainly be pulled out, ”the source of the agency emphasizes. He clarifies that Sergei Maslov refuses to cooperate with the investigation and "goes into denial on the charges that they are trying to bring against him."

“The security forces did not expect such an effect: when the next day after the arrest, publications began to appear in the media, it became clear that People’s Credit was the tip of the iceberg,” says the agency’s interlocutor from law enforcement agencies on condition of anonymity. - Given the resonance, the region fears that the trial may go the same way as the case [acquitted after suspicions of embezzlement in Oboronservis ex-Minister of Defense Anatoly] Serdyukov, and the accused will repeat his fate - that is, they will be free.

The Rostov investigators really have no grounds for the Development Corporation case, given that violations (if any) could be committed on the territory of the Urals Federal District. Accordingly, for the appearance of the case, attention to the case of representatives of the investigative committee of the Tyumen region, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and YaNAO or statements from representatives of the regions as victims is necessary.

Representatives of the Development Corporation have already declared their readiness to cooperate with the investigation. As FederalPress previously reported, on Friday a meeting of the Supervisory Board of JSC Development Corporation was held in Yekaterinburg, at which, in the presence of the plenipotentiary Igor Kholmansky(the supervisory board also includes his deputy Boris Kirillov) discussed candidates for the post and. O. head of the corporation.

The plenipotentiary did not give the name of the potential head: “I was forced to leave for Nizhny Tagil and therefore I don’t know yet decisions taken". According to FederalPress, the meeting of the Supervisory Board, at which the appointment will take place, will take place on Wednesday, October 26.

On Friday, the plenipotentiary attended a meeting of the Supervisory Board, where candidates for the position and. O. Head of the Corporation

Recall, on Wednesday, October 19, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Security Service, with the support of the National Guard, seized documents at the office of the Development Corporation JSC in Bolshoy Savvinsky Lane and searched 30 addresses in Moscow and the Moscow Region, including in apartments and country houses of the suspects. They will be accused of embezzlement of 1 billion rubles through the bank "People's Credit" (Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, embezzlement or embezzlement).

Experts admit that there is a conflict of influential forces behind the searches: Sergey Maslov is considered a member of the team Gennady Timchenko, their contacts have been traced since 2011, and within the framework of the Development Corporation, Novatek, co-owned by Gennady Timchenko, became a partner in the Northern Latitudinal Railway project. At the same time, structures controlled by Sergei Chemezov experts say.

“The detention of Maslov is both a fight against corruption and a conflict of interests of corporations,” he said. Nikita Isaev, director of the Institute of Contemporary Economics. – We see a blow from the authorities on the quasi-structures exercising control over budget funds that are not controlled by the state. But in this case, for example, there was a conflict of interest between the Development Corporation and Russian Railways, where this Corporation tried to get into. Indeed, the names of Chemezov and Timchenko flicker, whose interests obviously clashed, and in the middle was Mr. Maslov with his deputy, there is also the figure of the head of Transneft, Tokarev, with whom Maslov is also associated.

Head of Minchenko Consulting Holding Evgeny Minchenko reflects on the political consequences of the case: “The fact that everything is not going smoothly there was known for a long time,” Minchenko noted, “Now the question is in the political consequences. I don’t know how deep the security forces are digging into time, because questions may arise for those high-ranking officials who stood at the origins of this corporation.”

Influence groups and clans take advantage of the events around the corporation, but it is obvious to everyone that we are talking on the systemic strengthening of the state's fight against corruption, notes the Director General of the Center political information Alexey Mukhin. “Perhaps this or that arrest or detention will weaken the position of one and strengthen the position of the other. The Investigative Committee and the FSB are acting according to their plan. Maybe somewhere they are coordinating their [actions] with groups of influence, but, to be honest, I doubt it very much. Such incidents, of course, are used by groups of influence to strengthen their positions and weaken the positions of opponents, but nothing more.

Alexey Vakhrushev

The material was prepared jointly by UralPolit.Ru and FederalPress