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A source of the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reported that the Prosecutor General's Office and the FSB initiated a large-scale inspection in the Ministry of Transport, Rosavtodor (Federal Road Agency) and the Novorossiya Federal Road Agency.

According to the source, materials were collected on thefts amounting to about 10 billion rubles. The data was communicated to the management, and the go-ahead was given to act.

From the documents at the disposal of the VChK-OGPU, it follows that on March 6, the head of the presidential department for civil service, personnel and anti-corruption contacted the Prosecutor General's Office regarding this fact.

The situation was personally taken under control by the First Deputy Prosecutor General Anatoly Razinkin, who by his decision scheduled the inspection for the period from March 31 to April 29.

The purpose of the events is to ensure that officials comply with the requirements of the anti-corruption legislation, prevent and resolve conflicts of interest, and monitor the compliance of expenses with income.

As a source of the Cheka-OGPU said, there are two figures hidden behind the classic wording about "officials." This is the deputy head of Rosavtodor Andrei Samaryanov. He, his ex-wife, and his sister (according to Rosfinmonitoring, she has billions in assets of unknown origin) have already been searched. The second figure is the former First Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Andrei Kostyuk. In connection with this, seizures will also be carried out at his last place of work - the Ministry of Transport.

From the documents of the inspectors it follows that Samaryanov committed thefts together with the head of the department for the operation of highways Vitaly Golikov and another hero of the Cheka-OGPU publications, Alexander Nefedov.

The latter was urgently removed from his position as head of the Nizhny Novgorod Federal Road Administration after our publications, but very soon he was placed in Rosavtodor.

In the case of roads (including Novorossiya, where large-scale projects are being carried out, for expansion, etc.), the same scheme was applied as in his previous place of work: their own contractors were “brought in” for government contracts, who often did not perform any work at all, and the budget money was divided between officials.

 

Both Andrei Samaryanov and Vitaly Golikov are protégés of the former head of Rosavtodor Andrei Kostyuk.

According to information from the interlocutor, Andrei Samaryanov has already been “given away” by his current boss Roman Novikov. The latter has long been in conflict with Kostyuk's people.

Rucriminal.info introduces readers to the contents of the document on the basis of which the investigation was launched.

"First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, State Counselor of Justice, 1st Class, A.V. Razinkin,

 

DECIDED:

 

1. To conduct an audit at the Federal Road Agency.

 

2. The purpose of the audit is the official's compliance with the requirements of the legislation on combating corruption, including the prevention and resolution of conflicts of interest, as well as control over the compliance of expenses with income.

 

3. The basis for the audit is paragraph 8 of the National Anti-Corruption Plan for 2021-2024; the appeal of the Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation for Civil Service, Personnel and Anti-Corruption, M.A. Travnikov, dated 06.03.2025.

 

4. The subject of the audit is the official's compliance with the requirements of the legislation on combating corruption, including the prevention and resolution of conflicts of interest, and control over the compliance of expenses with income.

 

5. To assign the inspection to:

 

Senior Justice Advisor Svetlana Aleksandrovna PARSHINA, Deputy for Supervision of the Head of the Department for Compliance with Anti-Corruption Legislation of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Head of the Department for Supervision of Compliance with Federal Legislation (Head of the Commission);

 

Senior Justice Advisor Mikhail Mikhailovich VENETSKY, Senior Prosecutor of the Department for Supervision of Compliance with Federal Legislation of the Department for Supervision of Compliance with Anti-Corruption Legislation of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation;

 

Justice Advisor Artem Dmitrievich GORELOV, Prosecutor of the Department for Supervision of Compliance with Federal Legislation of the Department for Supervision of Compliance with Anti-Corruption Legislation of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.

6. To set the inspection period from March 31, 2025 to April 29, 2025.

 

To bring this decision to the attention of the Head of the Federal Road Agency R.V. Novikov.

 

First Deputy

 

Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation

State Counselor of Justice, 1st Class

A.V. Razinkin"

We continue to talk about the actions of the already former, but not at all defeated, former First Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Andrei Kostyuk. While he is waiting for a new appointment (as we have already written, one of the options is the post of Governor of Lenobalst), Kostyuk does not sit idle and continues to weave a web of corrupt connections with the aim of mastering road budgets. Let's look at St. Petersburg. Recently, the position of advisor to the director of a very large St. Petersburg road construction company The company "Orion Plus" was taken over by Alexander Fedotov, the former chairman of the city Committee for the Development of Transport Infrastructure (KRTI), a friend and classmate of Kostyuk.

 

We wrote that he lost his post in the committee suddenly and not without attention from the FSB, but high patronage solved this problem. The obvious corruption component (the billion-dollar contracts that "Orion Plus" is currently implementing were received when Fedotov was in charge of the contractor) does not count either. It is worth noting that the new director of "Orion" Kamil Gulyaev, appointed in September last year, is a friend and classmate of Fedotov himself.

Let's move on - what is OOO SK Orion Plus, in addition to 85 billion rubles in government procurement? The previous owners of the company are quite interesting, but this is an old and separate story. What is important is that last summer, the merger of Orion with the Bashkir company Stroybloktekhnologiya (SBT), a very large federal road player, began. We will talk about it later, but what is important is that the real owners of SBT and the buyers of Orion are St. Petersburg businessman Alexander Shinkarenko and his partners, the Babiluk family couple. Shinkarenko is very well known to St. Petersburg business, and not from the best side. His company, AO Akros, was formed in 2005, when the budding corrupt official Andrei Kostyuk was still working in the Directorate of Transport Construction of the city (DTS), and over the years it became a major player in the state road procurement.

 

And in 2013, Akros, having abandoned the city and contractors for more than a billion rubles began bankruptcy proceedings. Businessman Shinkarenko himself also went into bankruptcy proceedings, having successfully relocated to Bashkiria and continued to steal hundreds of millions of budget rubles, but this time from federal road budgets, through the hands of the Babiluk couple ("SBT"). Kostyuk was the deputy head of the Federal Road Agency at that time and, of course, the author of the scheme for this transition.

At the beginning of last year, the Shinkarenko-Babiluk group returned to business in St. Petersburg, immediately taking a contract for 2 billion rubles from Fedotov's road department.

 

Then they bought "Orion", brought in several smaller legal entities for government orders, and, regularly kicking back to their supreme patron Kostyuk, they now feel more than good.

 

Who helps them on the ground? Let's highlight the corruption network. So, right now their successes are supervised by the first deputy chairman of the Committee on Road Transport Infrastructure (KRTI) Maxim Molchanov, who studied at the Institute of Railway Troops together with Andrey Kostyuk. To help with technical issues - the head of the Department of Construction and Reconstruction of Roads and Road Structures Alexander Balo (brother of fellow student Molchanov and also a graduate of the above-mentioned university) and the head of the Department of Road Repair Andrey Ivanov (a fellow student of Kostyuk himself).

It is clear that with such support the newly-formed Orion Plus-SBT alloy will have no problems with either receiving government contracts, or with advance payments, or with acceptance of work. There will be no serious claims from the customer. But the financial well-being of all participants in the corruption scheme will grow by leaps and bounds. Fortunately, the season of new road contracts is just around the corner.

Timofey Grishin

To be continued

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