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Until recently, on the orders of the most powerful and secretive security official in the country, Oleg Feoktistov, governors, large businessmen and even a minister were arrested economic development, they searched the head of the customs service, a colleague of Vladimir Putin, and for edification they showed a frightened man with boxes of money on all channels. And now the FSB general, who is awaiting retirement, can himself be summoned to court as an ordinary witness and shown through all channels. TsUR correspondent SERGEY KANEV and cameraman ANASTASIA KULAGINA report from the native village of General Fix, where he and his twin brother live.

family nest

There is only one reliable photograph of Oleg Feoktistov on the Internet (it was posted on the Rosneft website) — and that one with a blurred face. But we managed to see the general’s twin brother, so readers will be able to get an idea about him.

When it became known that the president was about to retire the almighty general, we went again (we’ll tell you about the first trip a little later) to Oleg Feoktistov in the village of Yabedino near Istra to talk. According to Rosreestr, in this village he owns a land plot with a total area of 2100 square meters. m, a residential building (110 sq. m) and a bathhouse. The FSB general spent his childhood and youth here, and his mother and father are buried in the local cemetery. From here, after graduating from school, Feoktistov went with his twin brother to study to become a paramedic, and then served as a border guard in Karelia.

Feoktistov's house is quite modest for FSB, FSO or Ministry of Internal Affairs generals of this magnitude. There is another smaller wooden house on the site, which for some reason was not included in Rosreestr (my daughter Lydia and her children come there for the weekend), there are several outbuildings and a pond.

House of FSB General Oleg Feoktistov | Photo: SDG

We knocked on the gate, but no one opened it for us. But a Yorkshire terrier ran out of the house opposite to the noise. The general’s twin brother, Igor, came out behind the dog with the twin Yorkie under his arm. Having reunited the terriers, the owner was about to leave, but I stopped him with a question.

Oleg Feoktistov's twin brother Igor | Photo: SDG

Have you seen your brother for a long time?

They say he is leaving the FSB?

I really can't say anything.

Was he the one who got you the job at Arbat Prestige? - I tried to continue the conversation.

I have never used my brother's administrative resource.

Did you know that the real owner of the company is Semyon Mogilevich?

I didn’t know, but my brother finally closed the gate.

As the TsUR found out, in 2006, when General Feoktistov was already in charge of the 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB, his brother Igor was the chief security officer of Arbat and Co LLC (which managed the Arbat Prestige perfume and cosmetic stores) and, according to information on the income of individuals , earned 315 thousand rubles.

In January 2008, the founder of the Arbat Prestige OJSC holding, Vladimir Nekrasov, and his partner, reputable businessman Sergei Schneider (aka Semyon Mogilevich, in 2009 included in the top 10 most wanted criminals by the FBI), were arrested on charges of tax evasion on 115 million rubles. After this, the largest perfume chain began having problems with payments. The holding, which owed banks and suppliers more than 5.3 billion rubles, began to close stores and initiated the bankruptcy of all its structures. The arbitration court declared the tax claims referred to by the investigation illegal. In 2011, the criminal case was discontinued due to the lack of corpus delicti. By this time, Arbat Prestige managed to pay off its creditors, but Vladimir Nekrasov lost his assets worth $1.5 billion, and the holding went bankrupt.

Now Igor Feoktistov, who, unlike his brother, followed the security line, works as the director of internal control at PJSC Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System. An interesting detail demonstrating Putin’s system of checks and balances: the chairman of the board of PJSC FGC UES is Andrei Murov, the son of the former long-term director of the FSO, Evgeniy Murov, whose resignation is associated with the development of the “Sechin special forces”.

While we were talking with Feoktistov’s brother, and then with our neighbor Vera, who had known the twins since early childhood, there was someone behind the general’s fence. But we didn't know about it then.

Sechin's eyes and ears

While serving in the Kalevala border detachment, Oleg Feoktistov became friends with a KGB military counterintelligence special forces soldier, Sergei Shishin, who later became the head of the FSB Internal Security Service, and then the head of the FSB Economic Support Service. Order bearer Shishin passed through several hot spots and, bypassing the then director of the FSB, Nikolai Patrushev, directly went with reports to the deputy head of the presidential administration, Igor Sechin, who at that time oversaw all Russian security forces.

At the beginning of 2003, Sechin instructed Shishin to create a special unit with the broadest powers within the structure of the central apparatus of the FSB. Soon appeared

The 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB, nicknamed “Sechin’s special forces” at Lubyanka. The direct selection of employees was carried out by Oleg Feoktistov, who headed the “six”. The backbone of the service consisted of fighters from Alpha and Vympel, as well as natives of Sochi, where Shishin once headed the city department of the FSB.

The most honorary counterintelligence officer, Colonel General Shishin, in 2007, after a series of high-profile scandals involving the supply of Chinese contraband to the FSB warehouse in the Moscow region (military unit 54729), which involved high-ranking “stripes” from the Lubyanka, was seconded to VTB Bank, where he still works as senior vice president. In his free time from his main job, he participates in the life of the supervisory board of RRDB, the supporting bank of Rosneft (on whose board of directors he was in 2011–2013) and the board of directors of RusHydro. In 2008, we met with Shishin at the VTB office on Novoslobodskaya Street, and the general stated that he had nothing to do with Chinese smuggling and left his service voluntarily.

Igor Sechin and retired FSB Colonel General Sergei Shishin at the Rosneft shareholders meeting in 2013 | Photo: Alexander Koryakov/Kommersant

Be that as it may, Feoktistov, who rose to the rank of first deputy head of the FSB Internal Security Service, and his colleague from the Kalevala border detachment Ivan Tkachev, who later became the commander of the “six”, remained the eyes and ears of Igor Sechin at Lubyanka.

Subsequently, in contrast to the “Sechinite” Feoktistov, Sergei Korolev, who belongs to the team of former Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, was appointed head of the FSB Internal Security Service.

We called Igor Ivanovich (Sechin) Pope, and Oleg Vladimirovich “Bateya,” a “six” fighter told the LRC correspondent. - Korolev was something like a wedding general for us, and all commands for operational development came only from Feoktistov.

The first mentions of the “Sechin special forces” appeared during the scandalous epic with the Yukos oil company. His fighters blocked security guards for businessmen, broke open office doors, and guarded prosecutors during searches.

Since then, the name of General Feoktistov has become associated with high-profile arrests of high-ranking officials or businessmen. Be it the searches at the Cherkizovsky market of Telman Ismailov, the case of FSKN general Alexander Bulbov, the story of Moscow region prosecutors who protected underground gaming clubs, the case of General GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs Denis Sugrobov or the detention of the governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh.

Oleg Vladimirovich had direct access to the president,” said a source in the FSB. - But he always reported in the presence of FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov.

Already being the vice-president and head of the Rosneft Security Service, Oleg Feoktistov personally led the special operation to detain the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Alexey Ulyukaev.

Alexey Ulyukaev before the court hearing | Photo: Kristina Kormilitsyna/Kommersant

Seconded general

Feoktistov’s unexpected transition from the FSB Internal Security Service to Rosneft was preceded by several key reshuffles at Lubyanka and high-profile events at the Baltic customs. According to the main version, Feoktistov was removed from the FSB after searches of Putin’s KGB colleague, head of the Federal Customs Service (FCS) Andrei Belyaninov, who was developed by the “six” under the operational pseudonym Belyash for about two years.

Photos from the search in the house of the frightened Belyaninov with wads of dollars in shoe boxes were shown on all central television channels. Everyone expected that he was about to be closed in Matrosskaya Tishina, but the Kremlin issued the “all clear” command. As an employee of the “six” said, during the search he grappled with Belyaninov’s security chief, Franz Avgustinovich:

Belyash had been guarded by Franz for a long time. He used to run with us as a sniper in the mountains. About two years ago there was a fight with him in a restaurant, and then we met again. I said to him: “Why didn’t you tell us about Belyash?”, and he answered with swear words. In short, we almost fell onto the floor again. But the coolest thing is that the money and valuables seized during the search turned out to be declared in advance and everything came together penny for penny. Belyash is a competent financier from intelligence, in the 90s he managed two banks (REA-Bank and Novikombank. TsUR), through which the station’s money passed, and there were no questions to him.

Operational filming of the search at Andrei Belyaninov's place | Photo: Gazeta.Ru

Following Belyaninov, long-time enemies of the KGB, who were considered untouchable, resigned: the head of the Economic Security Service (counterintelligence in the credit and financial sphere) of the FSB, Yuri Yakovlev, and the head of Directorate “K” of the SEB of the FSB, Viktor Voronin (a person on the Magnitsky list).

According to some reports, the reason for the resignation of the generals was a loud scandal associated with the detention in November 2015 at Pulkovo Airport of 35 thousand smuggled iPhones and iPads and 15 thousand Lenovo A560 smartphones.

Searches and arrests of businessmen connected with the supply of smuggled electronics began. According to investigators, Pavel Smolyarchuk, an operative for particularly important cases of combating customs crimes of the Main Directorate for Combating Smuggling of the Federal Customs Service, undertook to resolve the situation with the seized goods. As it later turned out, Native sister Smolyarchuk was the wife of the immediate supervisor of St. Petersburg customs, head of the 7th department of Directorate “K” of the SEB FSB, Vadim Uvarov.

The “six” were involved in the operational support of the criminal case, and their materials were included in the report to the president, who, by his decree, dismissed generals Yakovlev and Voronin from the FSB SEB. The vacant chairs were immediately occupied by the “wedding general” from the FSB Internal Security Service Sergei Korolev, who replaced Yakovlev, and the head of the “six” Ivan Tkachev, who moved into Voronin’s office.

And Feoktistov, instead of the expected promotion to the head of the entire staff, was transferred to the staff of seconded FSB officers. A month later he ended up at Rosneft. He served as the head of the oil company's security service for less than six months, but managed to attend with Igor Sechin the opening of the monument to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, and at negotiations in Indonesia and Egypt.

Igor Sechin at the opening of the monument to Hugo Chavez | Photo: Rosneft press service

And then the story happened with the arrest of Minister Ulyukaev.

Kostin from VTB, together with Feoktistov, came to Putin and reported that Ulyukaev was hinting at some kind of bonus for the privatization of Bashneft (before the arrest, Kostin and Ulyukaev were close friends, the role of the banker in the story with the transfer of money to the minister is still not clear. - SDG ), - said the fighter of the “six”. - Putin avoided a direct answer — decide for yourself. Then Sechin said that he takes full responsibility upon himself. And our general turned out to be the last one.

According to our sources, VTB also allocated $2 million from the cash register to Sechin for an “operational experiment” on the minister. In practice, this happens like this: after the victim files an application for extortion of a bribe, an operational case is opened and the FSB (or the Ministry of Internal Affairs) officially contacts a “friendly” bank with a request to provide the required amount. It happens that criminals, having deceived operatives, leave with money, so in such experiments they mainly use a “doll” partially stuffed with paper. In the case of Ulyukaev, the dollars were real. The experiment was carried out by employees of Directorate “K” (counterintelligence support of the credit and financial system) of the SEB FSB, which by that time was already headed by Feoktistov’s friend and subordinate in the “Sechin special forces”, and then by their leader Ivan Tkachev. As it became known from the materials of the Ulyukaev case, on November 1, in one of the offices on Lubyanka, $2 million in cash in bundles of hundred-dollar bills began to be copied, packaged in plastic bags and packed in a large brown bag. The surfaces of all items, including the bag handles, lock and wicker keychain, were treated with a special compound. It took almost two weeks to inventory 20 thousand banknotes.

On March 7, 2017, the media reported the departure of the seconded special officer from Rosneft. Meanwhile, they started talking about the upcoming resignation of General Fix at the end of February, when his name was not among the oil company employees nominated for state awards. According to Presidential Decree No. 95 of March 1, 2017, “For a great contribution to the development of the country’s economy, strengthening Russia’s position in the global oil industry and the successful solution of problems to improve the investment climate in the Russian Federation” with the Order of Honor and “For Services to the Fatherland” 2nd degrees were awarded to 12 top managers of Rosneft. Although, as our source at Rosneft said, the general’s name appeared on the list, it was crossed out at the very last moment. Information about Feoktistov’s departure from Rosneft was also confirmed by Igor Sechin, who stated that the general was returning to military service. According to some reports, they planned to appoint him as head of Directorate “P” of the FSB (engaged in counterintelligence support for industrial enterprises), but something did not work out.

In March we came to Yabedino for the first time. The owner of the house was not there, but three people came out of the neighboring houses, one with a hoe in his hands. While the two were calling somewhere and then filming our car, a man with a hoe began the “interrogation.” Having learned about the purpose of our visit to the village, he stated:

You see, Oleg Vladimirovich does not need publicity now and you can harm him. Get out of here.

As we found out later, the role of the “investigator” was played by the general’s neighbor, the owner of the Greenite car pawnshop Georgy Filippov, who built the most big house in Yabedino.

The Feoktistovs' neighbor Georgy Filippov with a hoe | Photo: SDG

Aces from six

Over the years of service in the security secretariat, Oleg Feoktistov made many enemies for himself on Staraya Square, his native Lubyanka, in the FSO, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Inspection bodies read anonymously about Fix and his people. They told how the general holds all Moscow judges in his fist, assigned his brother to the authoritative businessman Mogilevich in Arbat-Prestige, and his subordinates organize noisy parties in the Shield and Sword restaurant on Lubyanka (now the owner of the restaurant, Konstantin Piskarev, has been arrested for organizing 18 contract killings. — TsUR), and then they drive around Moscow drunk and send traffic cops.

However, in the “Sechin special forces”, blueing while driving was not considered a special sin, and Feoktistov himself ran into trouble with traffic cops. Thus, according to the traffic police database, on February 2, 2002, Oleg Feoktistov in his Mazda was stopped by inspectors of the 5th department of the Moscow traffic police, who recorded in the protocol “driving a vehicle by a driver who was intoxicated.” The administrative material was sent to the Moscow commandant’s office, and then ended up on the desk of the “patron” Shishin. The case ended happily - with a fine.

The media also often found out dirt on the general. For example, an anonymous person sent messages to several editorial offices at once that Feoktistov, still in the same Istra district, illegally received a plot of land. According to Rosreestr, the owner of a plot in the Dachny Island village in the village of Podporino with a total area of 1305 sq. m. m Feoktistov became in 2012, and his neighbors turned out to be several generals from the central apparatus of the FSB and relatives of Putin’s close friends.

Who received plots in the DNP "Dachny Island" Next to the general, the head of the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the region, a native of St. Petersburg, Alexey Dorofeev (protégé of the head of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev), received 13 acres. As is known, in 2006, after mass riots in Kondopoga, General Dorofeev was removed from the post of head of the FSB Directorate for Karelia and for a long time he was in reserve. In 2012, the general headed the capital’s security officers, and the former chief, Viktor Zakharov, after a series of publications about his daughter’s American husband, went to the office of Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Nearby they gave a plot to Dorofeev’s assistant, a native of St. Petersburg, FSB Colonel Marat Medoev, who is called the chief curator of Rosreestr. In “Dachny Island”, former head of Directorate “M” of the FSB Vladimir Kryuchkov, currently holding the position of deputy head of the FSB control department, and ex-head of the CSS of Russian customs Igor Zavrazhny received plots. Several years ago, Zavrazhny intensively worked on Feoktistov, and on January 19, 2010, the customs officer was relieved of his post. I found myself on the “island” former colleague Feoktistov in the “Sechin special forces” - Deputy Head of the FSB Internal Security Directorate Nail Mukhitov, who later moved to Rosneft. From 2012 to 2015, Major General Mukhitov, with the rank of a seconded FSB officer, headed the security service of Rosneft, but after scandalous publications about extortion and extortion by his subordinates from the suppliers of the oil company, he resigned and now works in the office of Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev. In 2009, Elizaveta Molchanova, a native of Leningrad, the wife of the ex-senator of the Federation Council from Leningrad region, billionaire and founder of the LSR group Andrey Molchanov. Moreover, Mrs. Molchanova not only joined the DNP, but became the new owner of the plots previously owned by security officers Vladimir Kryuchkov and Marat Medoev, and Alexey Dorofeev and former customs officer Igor Zavrazhny sold their 13 acres to LSR top managers. The father of the founder of the LSR group, Andrei Molchanov, is 65-year-old Yuri Molchanov, who from 1987 to 1999 worked as vice-rector of Leningrad State University for educational work with foreign students. Vladimir Putin was listed as his assistant after his dismissal from the KGB. After leaving Leningrad State University, Mr. Molchanov took the position of Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, and then moved to the position of Senior Vice President of VTB. according to Novaya Gazeta, just experienced hypertensive crisis upon learning of his retirement. The information that Feoktistov is alive and well was also confirmed by his neighbors.

Two years ago, while celebrating his fiftieth birthday in a small circle, Oleg Feoktistov suddenly announced that when he retired, he would write memoirs. Deathly silence hung over the table. The general smiled and continued: “I’ll just ensure the safety of the family first.”

When the retired general sits down to write his memoirs, the family may live on income from his wife Lyudmila’s business, which has always depended on government contracts. She once worked at the FSB hospital, and in 2012 she founded Medtech-Progress CJSC, which in 2012–2016 won government contracts for the supply of medical equipment to total amount 1.73 billion rubles. In 2014, the Cyprus offshore Tekori Investments limited and NP Promtekhnologii LLC became the new shareholders of the company, but Feoktistova continued to manage it until mid-2016. Interestingly, the Medtech-Progress office is still located on Kolpachny Lane, a stone’s throw from the building where Sechin’s special forces are based.

A TsUR correspondent who visited Kolpachny Lane the other day noticed a Land Cruiser leaving the gate of the “Sechin special forces” with FSB license plates and flashing lights, in which General Feoktistov used to travel, but he did not see who was sitting inside behind the tinted windows | Photo: SDG

Sergey Kanev, Investigation Management Center [email protected]

Until recently, on the orders of the most powerful and secretive security official in the country, Oleg Feoktistov, governors, major businessmen and even the minister of economic development were arrested, the head of the customs service, a colleague of Vladimir Putin, was searched, and as a warning, a frightened man was shown with boxes of money on all channels. And now he himself can be summoned to court as an ordinary witness and shown through all channels. TsUR correspondent SERGEY KANEV and cameraman ANASTASIA KULAGINA report from the native village of General Fix, where he and his twin brother live.

family nest

There is only one reliable photograph of Oleg Feoktistov on the Internet (it was posted on the Rosneft website) — and that one with a blurred face [here the author is mistaken - another, more intelligible photograph of this person recently appeared - Ruspres News Agency ]. But we managed to see the general’s twin brother, so readers will be able to get an idea about him.

House of FSB General Oleg Feoktistov

Oleg Feoktistov's twin brother Igor

Have you seen your brother for a long time?

They say he is leaving the FSB?

I really can't say anything.

I didn’t know, but my brother finally closed the gate.

The arbitration court declared the tax claims referred to by the investigation illegal. In 2011, the criminal case was discontinued due to the lack of corpus delicti. By this time, Arbat Prestige managed to pay off its creditors, but Vladimir Nekrasov lost his assets worth $1.5 billion, and the holding went bankrupt.

Sechin's eyes and ears

At the beginning of 2003, Sechin instructed Shishin to create a special unit with the broadest powers within the structure of the central apparatus of the FSB. Soon the 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB appeared, nicknamed “Sechin’s special forces” at Lubyanka. The direct selection of employees was carried out by Oleg Feoktistov, who headed the “six”. The backbone of the service consisted of fighters from Alpha and Vympel, as well as natives of Sochi, where Shishin once headed the city department of the FSB.

The most honorary counterintelligence officer, Colonel General Shishin, in 2007, after a series of high-profile scandals involving the supply of Chinese contraband to an FSB warehouse in the Moscow region (military unit 54729), which involved high-ranking “stripes” from the Lubyanka, was sent to, where he is still works as senior vice president. In his free time from his main job, he participates in the life of the supervisory board of RRDB, the main bank of Rosneft (on whose board of directors he was in 2011–2013) and the board of directors. In 2008, we met with Shishin at the VTB office on Novoslobodskaya Street, and the general stated that he had nothing to do with Chinese smuggling and left his service voluntarily.

Igor Sechin and retired FSB Colonel General Sergei Shishin at the Rosneft shareholders meeting in 2013

Be that as it may, the eyes and ears of Igor Sechin at Lubyanka remained Feoktistov, who rose to the rank of first deputy head of the FSB Internal Security Service, and his colleague from the Kalevala border detachment Ivan Tkachev, who later became the commander of the “six”.

Subsequently, in contrast to the “Sechinite” Feoktistov, the head of the FSB Internal Security Service was appointed, who is included in the team of the former prime minister.

Since then, the name of General Feoktistov has become associated with high-profile arrests of high-ranking officials or businessmen. Be it the searches at the Cherkizovsky market of Telman Ismailov, the case of the FSKN general, the history of the Moscow region prosecutors who protected underground gaming clubs, the case of the General GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs Denis Sugrobov or the detention of the governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh.

Oleg Vladimirovich had direct access to the president,” said a source in the FSB. - But he always reported in the presence of FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov.

Alexey Ulyukaev before the court hearing

Seconded general

Belyash had been guarded by Franz for a long time. He used to run with us as a sniper in the mountains. About two years ago there was a fight with him in a restaurant, and then we met again. I said to him: “Why didn’t you tell us about Belyash?”, and he answered with swear words. In short, we almost fell onto the floor again. But the coolest thing is that the money and valuables seized during the search turned out to be declared in advance and everything came together penny for penny. Belyash is a competent financier from intelligence, in the 90s he managed two banks (REA-Bank and Novikombank. - TsUR), through which the station's money passed, and there were no questions for him.

Operational filming of the search at Andrei Belyaninov's place

Searches and arrests of businessmen connected with the supply of smuggled electronics began. According to investigators, it was Pavel Smolyarchuk, an operative for especially important cases of combating customs crimes of the Main Directorate for Combating Smuggling of the Federal Customs Service, who undertook to resolve the situation with the seized goods. As it later turned out, Smolyarchuk’s sister was the wife of the immediate supervisor of St. Petersburg customs, head of the 7th department of Directorate “K” of the FSB SEB Vadim Uvarov.

Igor Sechin at the opening of the monument to Hugo Chavez

And then the story happened with the arrest of Minister Ulyukaev.

A representative of VTB, together with Feoktistov, came to Putin and reported that Ulyukaev was hinting at some kind of bonus for the privatization of Bashneft,” said the “six” fighter. - Putin avoided a direct answer — decide for yourself. Then Sechin said that he takes full responsibility upon himself. And our general turned out to be the last one.

In the case of Ulyukaev, the dollars were real. The experiment was carried out by employees of Directorate “K” (counterintelligence support of the credit and financial system) of the SEB FSB, which by that time was already headed by Feoktistov’s friend and subordinate in the “Sechin special forces”, and then by their leader Ivan Tkachev. As it became known from the materials of the Ulyukaev case, on November 1, in one of the offices on Lubyanka, $2 million in cash in bundles of hundred-dollar bills began to be copied, packaged in plastic bags and packed in a large brown bag. The surfaces of all items, including the bag handles, lock and wicker keychain, were treated with a special compound. It took almost two weeks to inventory 20 thousand banknotes.

You see, Oleg Vladimirovich does not need publicity now and you can harm him. Get out of here.

As we found out later, the role of the “investigator” was played by the general’s neighbor, the owner of the Greenite car pawnshop, Georgy Filippov, who built the largest house in Yabedino for his daughter.

The Feoktistovs' neighbor Georgy Filippov with a hoe

Aces from six

Who received plots in the DNP "Dachny Ostrovok"

Next door to the general, the head of the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the region, a native of St. Petersburg, Alexey Dorofeev (a protégé of the head of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev), received 13 acres. As you know, in 2006, after mass riots in Kondopoga, General Dorofeev was removed from his post as head of the FSB Directorate for Karelia and for a long time he was listed in the reserves. In 2012, the general headed the capital’s security officers, and the former chief, Viktor Zakharov, after a series of publications about his daughter’s American husband, went to the office of Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

Nearby they gave a plot to Dorofeev’s assistant, a native of St. Petersburg, FSB Colonel Marat Medoev, who is called the chief curator of Rosreestr. In “Dachny Island”, former head of Directorate “M” of the FSB Vladimir Kryuchkov, currently holding the position of deputy head of the FSB control department, and ex-head of the CSS of Russian customs Igor Zavrazhny received plots. Several years ago, Zavrazhny intensively worked on Feoktistov, and on January 19, 2010, the customs officer was relieved of his post.

Feoktistov’s former colleague in the “Sechin special forces”, deputy head of the FSB Internal Security Directorate Nail Mukhitov, who later moved to Rosneft, also ended up on the “island”. From 2012 to 2015, Major General Mukhitov, with the rank of a seconded FSB officer, headed the security service of Rosneft, but after scandalous publications about extortion and extortion by his subordinates from the suppliers of the oil company, he resigned and now works in the office of Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.

In 2009, a native of Leningrad, Elizaveta Molchanova, the wife of the ex-senator of the Federation Council from the Leningrad region, billionaire and founder of the LSR group Andrei Molchanov, appeared among the members of the DPP “Dachny Island”. Moreover, Mrs. Molchanova not only joined the DNP, but became the new owner of the plots previously owned by security officers Vladimir Kryuchkov and Marat Medoev, and Alexey Dorofeev and former customs officer Igor Zavrazhny sold their 13 acres to LSR top managers.

The father of the founder of the LSR group, Andrei Molchanov, is 65-year-old Yuri Molchanov, who from 1987 to 1999 worked as the vice-rector of Leningrad State University for academic work with foreign students. Vladimir Putin was listed as his assistant after his dismissal from the KGB. After leaving Leningrad State University, Mr. Molchanov took the position of Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, and then moved to the position of Senior Vice President of VTB.

The administration of the Istrinsky district informed the LRC that the land for the Dachny Island DNP was allocated for on legal grounds — in response to a letter from the FSB asking for help with real estate for combat veterans.

The next day after the trip to Yabedino, we analyzed the shooting from a copter. When we zoomed in (see video), we noticed that there was someone behind the fence of General Feoktistov’s dacha while we were talking with his brother and neighbors. And then this someone went into the house. Whether it was Feoktistov himself or one of his acquaintances could not be established. But if he himself, then his cheerful gait did not give away the man who, according to Novaya Gazeta, had just experienced a hypertensive crisis after learning about his retirement. The information that Feoktistov is alive and well was also confirmed by his neighbors.

When the retired general sits down to write his memoirs, the family may live on income from his wife Lyudmila’s business, which has always depended on government contracts. She once worked at the FSB hospital, and in 2012 she founded Medtech-Progress CJSC, which in 2012–2016 won government contracts for the supply of medical equipment totaling 1.73 billion rubles. In 2014, the Cyprus offshore Tekori Investments limited and NP Promtekhnologii LLC became the new shareholders of the company, but Feoktistova continued to manage it until mid-2016. Interestingly, the Medtech-Progress office is still located on Kolpachny Lane, a stone’s throw from the building where Sechin’s special forces are based.

A LRC correspondent who visited Kolpachny Lane the other day noticed a Land Cruiser leaving the gate of the “Sechin special forces” with FSB license plates and flashing lights, in which General Feoktistov used to travel, but he did not see who was sitting inside behind the tinted windows

Has Rosreestr turned into a mechanism for making money by a small organized community?

Passions around the vacant position of head of Rosreestr are beginning to heat up. Igor Vasiliev recently resigned from his post to the position of acting. Governor of the Kirov region. The new head of Rosreestr will have a difficult task - numerous scandals surrounding the department indicate that the new head will be forced to shake up a significant part of the department heads.

Let's explore together. Rosreestr is a federal agency, its participation in the life of each of us is oh so great. Or our participation as applicants in the activities of Rosreestr is enormous. Everything is interconnected. All real estate transactions are subject to state registration, everything. Whether it’s the execution of a court decision or getting an apartment in a new building, for which most of us have been saving for years, taking out loans and driving our families into debt trap. All roads lead to Rosreestr. Therefore, its importance cannot be overestimated. But the efficiency of the department’s activities is not high.

A long time ago, many people remember that in order to submit documents for registration you had to arrive at night, stand in line, and if you were 50th in line, then you were incredibly lucky. But now there is progress. Pre-registration by phone, via the Internet, possibility of on-site reception, electronic submission of documents, simply beautiful. These novelties certainly save you from queues, but they do not save you from the old and widely used scheme for collecting bribes: if you want results, pay.

Whether this is true or not is not known for certain, but illegal prices for “expedited” registration of equity participation agreements in construction in Rosreestr, registration of one apartment building can cost amounts starting from 500 thousand rubles, and for registration within the required five days, apparently , sometimes it is necessary to pay 15-20 thousand rubles for each apartment - otherwise the registration period extends to three months. Even for representatives of senior management, the extortions in Rosreesstr are obvious.

Valentina Matvienko, speaker of the Federation Council, appealed for help in 2015: “For the registration of each apartment during the purchase and sale they extort money, in different regions from $50 to $150.”, and already in 2016 Shuvalov wondered why “they are so eager to join Rosreestr”: “This needs to be seriously investigated, including with the involvement of law enforcement agencies.” If you believe information from internal sources of Rosreestr, then we can assume that up to 50% of illegally obtained Money are redirected from regional Directorates to the management of Rosreestr in the form of cash. All the officials of this department who were detained were burned while receiving or transferring cash. Here is the latest example: in May, a capital official of Rosreestr was arrested by Rosreestr while receiving a bribe in the amount of 350 thousand dollars. USA “to assist in obtaining registration of title to real estate.”

Without the knowledge of top management, this is unlikely to happen. Could money have bypassed the heads of the department and accumulated in the hands of M.E. Kosterov? Advisor to the Head of Rosreestr Vasiliev I.V., then sent to the Ministry of Economic Development (Reve Igor Aleksandrovich and Kotseva Konstantin Eduardovich) and other interested parties? Considering that the outrages in the department were investigated in parallel in several areas in parallel, such a version has a right to exist.

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Usually in criminal communities, those who refuse to participate in the scheme are subject to severe pressure. We don’t know exactly what happened in the department of Vasiliev and Kosterov, but the scandals and subsequent reassignments indicate that the organization could have been “saturated” with gray schemes... This is easily traced, and today, it seems to me, it is already open and extremely aggressive character. It is enough to study personnel changes. Those who disagree and dare to resist arbitrariness and extortion are immediately subjected to personnel repression, inspections, and removal from office. Earlier in the media it was reported that Maidanov was removed from the post of Head of the Rosreestr Office for Moscow. Inspection is a method of influence, and the reason for inspections against him, apparently, was precisely his activities to restore order in the Moscow department of Rosreestr.

So who is in charge of Rosreestr? Appointed Manager - Vasiliev I.V. or Advisor to Vasiliev - Kosterov M.E. or maybe Assistant Dorofeev A.N. - Medoev M.I.? One thing is clear to me that the department is not prepared either for the transition to the Unified State Register of Real Estate, or for the merger of Rosreestr and the Cadastral Chamber, or for other measures included in the road map. With a high degree of probability, after the release of this story, Kosterov M.E. will be appointed to another position in Rosreestr, probably in order to attract less attention to his person, but this will not change the situation.

While, it seems to me, illegal financial flows may be divided in Rosreestr, the unfinished cadastre is awaiting new injections from the budget, the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation has assessed the effectiveness of the department’s work. Here is an excerpt from the conclusion of the board of the Accounting Chamber: “The forecast indicators for Rosreestr’s income are set at 34.2 billion rubles. Actual revenues amounted to 33.7 billion rubles or 98.4% of the forecast figure. Federal budget expenditures were made in the amount of 40.7 billion rubles. Accounts receivable from Rosreestr as of January 1, 2016 amounted to 659.8 million rubles.”

IN Lately In a number of publications and on television screens, information began to appear about the problematic situation that had developed in one of the most important departments in Russia - Rosreestr.

The Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography, as Rosreestr is fully called, deals with the registration of rights to real estate, as well as the accounting of land plots. It should be noted that over the past three years, Rosreestr employees have periodically become involved in criminal cases related to corruption, bribery and various types of fraud. At the same time, Igor Vasiliev, who headed Rosreestr, was appointed acting governor of the Kirov region.

Igor Vasiliev, a native of the state security agencies, came to Rosreestr instead of Natalia Antipina, who was scandalously fired from the department. In September 2015, Maxim Evgenievich Kosterov, a former employee of the “M” department of the Russian FSB Directorate for the capital and Moscow region, became Igor Vasiliev’s advisor. Kosterov’s arrival is called a special moment in the life of Rosreestr. Maxim Kosterov is associated with Marat Igorevich Medoev, assistant to the head of the FSB for Moscow and the Moscow region, Alexei Dorofeev.

A large number of negative reviews information about the work of Rosreestr can be found not only on the pages of the media, but also on the Internet, where ordinary citizens express their opinions. ABOUT illegal trafficking Ordinary employees of Rosreestr also tell us about the funds the department receives for various registration actions. Information appeared in the media that, for example, to “accelerate” the registration of equity participation agreements in the construction of one apartment building, it is necessary to pay about half a million rubles, otherwise the registration process can be expected to take three months. Information also appeared that in Moscow, on Nizhnyaya Krasnoselskaya and Baumanskaya streets, several real estate properties inexplicably tripled their area.

Journalists also write that Rosreestr fires employees who express their disagreement with the extortion schemes. Such employees are simply replaced by loyal ones. For example, in place of Igor Maidanov, who headed the capital’s Rosreestr, Kirill Makeev, loyal to the “gray cardinals” Kosterov and Medoev, was appointed, whose assistant was Alexander Shirokorad. It is interesting that Shirokorad was appointed to the position without the consent of the “P” department, which is in charge of the FSB. The head of Rosreestr for the Moscow region, Sergei Bogdanov, was also replaced. According to some publications, Kosterov makes personnel decisions together with the director of the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Economic Development, Konstantin Eduardovich Kotsev.

All this, as they write in the media, is happening with the general support of Deputy Minister Igor Aleksandrovich Reva, who is tipped for the post of head of Rosreestr. And if this is really the case, then you shouldn’t expect changes in the department, at least not in the near future.

Concerns regarding Rosreestr were also expressed by First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, who stated the following: “Once it was the Ministry of Finance, then the Federal Property Management Agency, then the Tax Service, and now for some reason everyone is so eager to join Rosreestr...”. Igor Shuvalov noted that this issue needs to be seriously investigated, together with law enforcement agencies. Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko also spoke about Rosreestr. “For the registration of each apartment during the purchase and sale they extort money, in different regions from $50 to $150,” said the speaker of the Federation Council.

Another interesting question arises: why, at one time, Maxim Kosterov, the adviser to the ex-chief of Rosreestr Igor Vasiliev, was not fired along with the manager? It can be assumed that this person will become an adviser to the new head of Rosreestr. Another question: why, despite the statements of Igor Shuvalov and Valentina Matvienko, a large number of materials in the media and scandals in the department, do they want to appoint Igor Aleksandrovich Reva, a possible participant in the legality of the department’s financial schemes, as head of Rosreestr?

Perhaps the answers to many questions will be given by the next journalistic investigation, the appearance of which there is no doubt.

Date of publication: 09/06/2016

The recent television broadcast of the “Moment of Truth” program touched upon questions that have accumulated in large numbers for one of the most important departments in Russia. Let us remind you that Rosreestr is an abbreviated name Federal Service state registration, cadastre and cartography. Its main functions are registration of rights to real estate and accounting of land plots.

Over the past three years, Rosreestr officials have become involved in corruption-related criminal cases with unenviable regularity.

The fraudulent scheme of a cadastral engineer from Ufa, for example, caused millions of rubles in damage to dozens of citizens. The criminal was recently convicted.
At the end of 2015, Nikolai Zateev, head of the Rosreestr department of the Trans-Baikal Territory, was detained at Chita airport on suspicion of bribery.
At the same time, at the end of 2015, a criminal case was opened regarding fraud in the supply of equipment worth 25 million rubles against the former head of the information security department of Rosreestr, Vladimir Kazantsev.
At the beginning of 2016, employees of the anti-corruption department of the Moscow Region police arrested the head of the Istra branch of Rosreestr red-handed.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Meanwhile, let us recall that Igor Vasiliev, who was recently appointed to the post of acting governor of the Kirov region, instead of Nikita Belykh, who was convicted of corruption, has led Rosreestr since March 2014.

Igor Vladimirovich Vasiliev 03/28/2014 – 07/28/2016 – Head of Rosreestr from 07/28/2016 – Acting Governor of the Kirov Region

This period accounts for most of the corruption scandals of Rosreestr officials that we showed. Coming from the state security agencies, Vasiliev came to Rosreestr to replace the scandalously fired Natalia Antipina. Moreover, he, being a member of the Accounts Chamber, together with his subordinates, revealed the misuse of budget funds in Rosreestr for 24 billion rubles, thereby setting Antipin up.
However, as a source in the Department said, a special moment in the life of Rosreestr was September 2015, when Maxim Evgenievich Kosterov was appointed advisor to Igor Vasiliev. This is a young man born in seventy-seven, a former employee of the “M” department of the Russian FSB department for Moscow and the Moscow region. He is in warm, friendly relations with Marat Igorevich Medoev, assistant to the head of the FSB for Moscow and the Moscow region, Alexei Nikolaevich Dorofeev. The following detail indicates even more clearly the trace of the FSB in what is happening in Rosreestr: Sergei Korolev, a former adviser to the scandalous Minister of Defense Serdyukov, appointed in July of this year as the head of the Economic Security Service of the FSB of Russia, is the godfather of Marat Medoev.
What exactly is happening in Rosreestr and what is the role of the voiced group of people? Meanwhile, there are a lot of negative reviews and comments from citizens on the Internet about extortions and arbitrariness in the work of Rosreestr. Even ordinary employees of the Registration Department talk about the illegal circulation of funds collected for various registration actions. That is: an established and controlled system works!
Is this true or not? It is not yet possible to give an official answer. But the prices quoted in the media, for example, for “expedited” execution of equity participation agreements in construction, can vary within 500,000 rubles per apartment building. In case of refusal to pay, the applicant faces up to three months waiting for registration action. The media also hears about other ways of shadow income for Rosreestr officials. So, for example, in Moscow, at the addresses st. Nizhnyaya Krasnoselskaya, building 35 and Baumanskaya, building 9, six real estate properties tripled their area overnight. Instead of 8,000 square meters, the cadastre now shows 28,000, in addition, each building has added five to seven floors in height.
How did this become possible? Probably the excessive loyalty of Rosreestr employees allowed the area of buildings to be so inflated. According to experts, this loyalty cost customers about four million dollars. Well, considering the estimated cost per square meter in these districts of Moscow, such an amount seems to be a very profitable investment.

6 buildings at the addresses: Nizhnyaya Krasnoselskaya street, 35, buildings 6, 7, 9, 23, 34, Baumanskaya street, 9 Cadastral numbers: 77:01:0003022:1017, 77:01:0003022:1018, 77:01:0003022:1019, 77:01:0003022:1020, 77:01:0003022:1021, 77:01:0003022:1061

It’s not clear who will be responsible for the damage caused to the city, which amounts to billions of rubles? And who should I ask if these unauthorized seven floors in which people live turn out like a house of cards? Returning to the thesis about the established system of collections, it should be noted that not all heads of territorial departments of Rosreestr are involved in this system. According to many journalists, those who do not agree to participate in the extortion scheme are hastily replaced by loyal ones.
So, instead of the dismissed Igor Maidanov, Kirill Makeev, loyal to the authorities of Kosterov and Medoev, was appointed head of the Moscow Rosreestr, and Alexander Shirokorad was appointed director of the cadastral chamber for Moscow to help him. Moreover, they were in such a hurry to appoint the latter that they forgot to even coordinate with the “P” department supervising the FSB. The head of Rosreestr for the Moscow region, Sergei Bogdanov, was also not spared by Maxim Kosterov’s personnel leapfrog. Over the past ten years, none of the leaders of this structural unit did not leave his position of his own free will. Criminal cases were initiated against most of the leaders. Therefore, Kosterov and Medoev made an attempt to convert Bogdanov to their own, so to speak, faith. As soon as they worked with him: they convinced him verbally and sent him on business trips to other regions. And just during one of these business trips, Kosterov exchanged Bogdanov’s deputy for a person loyal to himself, who, during Bogdanov’s stay on the business trip, managed to change most of the people in the Moscow Region department. According to some reports, the director of the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Economic Development, Konstantin Eduardovich Kotsev, helps Kosterov make personnel decisions.
And general support is provided by Deputy Minister Igor Aleksandrovich Reva. By the way, he is tipped for the position of head of Rosreestr vacated by Vasilyev. In other words, the Department should not expect prospects for global changes in the near future, since it will remain in the hands of the same organized group that we named in this film. What you really don't want...
And against the backdrop of identified violations in the expenditure of budget funds in Rosreestr, even under Igor Vasiliev, the situation is completely depressing. Let's try to calculate the scale of bribery ourselves, based on the available data. For example, in the Moscow Office of Rosreestr there are only about 12-13 districts, plus cadastral valuation, plus the cadastral chamber, plus the department of structures and capital construction. Even if you just take the average size bribes, then the amount collected by one department per month will be about $200,000. Multiply this by 13 districts - it doesn’t look bad at all, does it? And this does not take into account the specialized departments and the cadastral chamber, etc.
It was not by chance that we took the amount of $200,000. Behind Last year the amount of bribes in Rosreestr has increased many times over, which is confirmed by numerous criminal cases initiated recently and not only in Moscow and the Moscow region. Is this somehow connected with the team that is now at the helm of Rosreestr? Let's leave this question for law enforcement agencies. While we were preparing this material, a source close to the investigation reported another capture of corrupt officials. Officials of Rosreestr in the South-Eastern district of the capital - Zabolotny and Livandovskaya - are accused of fraud using official powers. From what has been said, different conclusions can be drawn. But it is already quite obvious that the department is not prepared either for the transition to the Unified State Register of Real Estate, or for the merger of Rosreestr and the Cadastral Chamber, or for other measures included in the road map. With a high degree of probability, after the release of this film, Maxim Kosterov will be appointed to another position in Rosreestr, probably in order to attract less attention to his person, but this will not change the situation.
The concerns of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov for the work of Rosreestr are indicative:

“Once upon a time it was the Ministry of Finance, then the Federal Property Management Agency, then the Tax Service, and now for some reason everyone is so eager to join Rosreestr...”

“There is no such interest in any department of other authorities in the regions! This matter needs to be seriously investigated, including with law enforcement agencies.”

It must be said that not only Igor Ivanovich drew attention to the mess happening in the registration department. The third person in the Russian Federation, Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, made a serious statement on the problems of Rosreestr:

“They extort money for the registration of each apartment during purchase and sale, in different regions from $50 to $150”

“Corruption is in full bloom in state registration authorities, and the schemes they come up with are so cunning that you can’t catch them by the hand.”

The question arises: why was the adviser to the ex-head of Rosreestr Igor Vasiliev, Mr. Kosterov, instead of being fired along with his leader, “relegated” to the personnel department of the department? Is it not so that when a new leader is appointed, he can again become his adviser and return to the actual leadership of the Department, as it was under Vasiliev? And most importantly, why, despite the dissatisfaction of Valentina Matvienko and Igor Shuvalov, despite dozens of publications, high-profile revelations and corruption scandals in the department, nevertheless, one of the alleged participants in the extortion scheme, Igor Aleksandrovich Reva, is planned to be appointed to the position of head? We will continue our journalistic investigation and try to answer these questions. But I would like the Ministry of Energy to take care of this first of all, before it becomes the concern of the investigative authorities and the FSB. )