Source: www.rucriminal.info
The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel and Rucriminal.info are starting to talk about the number one fixer at the FSB, Valery Bitayev, who is actually openly trading the highest-ranking security officials, including the first deputy director of the FSB of the Russian Federation.
Few can afford his services, for example, his main client, the oligarch Alisher Usmanov. The former military man (a graduate of the Frunze Academy, a participant in the war in Angola, was a fixer back under Serdyukov), official (headed the Volgograd Region representative office in Moscow) and businessman (holder of shares in the security forces) is preparing his replacement in the person of his son. And, despite the revelations, he remains at the center of corruption flows between people with money and people with power. Much has been said about Valery Bitayev's connections with the first deputy head of the FSB and at the same time the main contender for the post of director of the special service, Sergei Korolev. Including in the early posts of the VChK-OGPU. The "take-off" of the fixer coincided with the general's career growth: after they met (different sources say the period of Korolev's service in the Ministry of Defense), Bitayev got a mansion on the 2nd line of Serebryany Bor, where the neighborhood is only billionaires, security officials and their relatives at the level of heads of federal departments. A source of the VChK-OGPU said that the friendship between Bitayev and Korolev has long and deep "roots". Valery's wife Galina was the head of public catering in the Transcaucasian Military District back in the days of the USSR, where Sergei Korolev's father Boris served at the same time. Father and son often communicated with Galina, and warm, friendly relations developed. It was Galina who began inviting Sergei Korolev, who was rapidly climbing the career ladder, to family celebrations. At first, Korolev could not refuse "Aunt Galya", and then he developed a business relationship with her husband Valery. For example, one of Korolev's first visits to a closed event of Valery Bitaev was noteworthy. Valery celebrated a luxurious birthday at the Safisa banquet hall, where some of his clientele of that time were present. The most notable client was Telman Ismailov, who did not leave Korolev's side for almost the entire evening at Safisa...
Globally, large "arrivals" of funds and assets are synchronized with additions to the family of Sergei Korolev. Earlier, the VChK-OGPU published an investigation into the official wealth of the Chekist's family.
Thus, the eldest son of the FSB general Boris Korolev in 2014 became the owner of an apartment in the famous St. Petersburg residential complex "Smolny Park" (1st stage), located in the historical center of St. Petersburg. We are talking about house number 1 on Orlovskaya, the windows of which look out onto the Neva, and on the first floor between the entrances to the front doors there is a restaurant "Kontora". The cadastral value of elite housing with an area of more than 140 square meters is more than 35 million rubles.
Literally the next day, Sergei Korolev's wife Marina became the owner of a non-residential premises of 140 square meters in house 51 on Tchaikovsky Street. The cadastral value of the property is more than 20 million rubles.
Around 2014, when Sergei Korolev had already settled into the FSB and headed the internal security service, Valery Bitaev was dismissed from the post of representative of the Volgograd region in Moscow. But despite this, his fortune continued to grow. Like mushrooms after rain, the Bitayev family began to acquire expensive cars, real estate, and later assets disproportionate to their status fell into his hands - shares in various companies.
We are not just talking about foreign cars, but about a whole fleet of Mercedes and Bentleys, which came with "gold" state registration plates of identical numbers and letters, as well as the EKX, AMR, MMM series, which have a value comparable to the prices of cars on the black market.
As the VChK-OGPU found out, after leaving the civil service, Valery Bitayev and his family members received salaries not only in the structures of oligarch Alisher Usmanov (USM and Metalloinvest paid tens of millions of rubles, according to leaks), but also in the companies of the son-in-law of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov - Alexander Vinokurov. In particular, Valery Bitaev had official income from working at the Marathon Group company and from the pharmaceutical company Fort (since 2020, it has belonged to Rostec through the Natsimbio holding).
The real heyday of the Bitaev and Co empire was in 2017-2018. Bitaev personally became one of the founders of the Citadel holding, where he was a partner with the now deceased IT entrepreneur Anton Cherepennikov. The latter also worked with Alisher Usmanov, the holding was essentially assembled by him from SORM-Companies (operational search and investigation systems) and “earned” tens of billions from 2018 to 2021 against the backdrop of the entry into force of the “Yarovaya law”.
In the same 2018, Boris Korolev became the owner of a "dacha" in the Lesnaya Bukhta cottage village worth tens of millions of rubles, and his sister Anastasia Koroleva became the owner of a land plot of 35 "hundred square meters" in the elite cottage village near St. Petersburg on Zarechnaya Road. The dachas are hidden from the eyes of strangers by a 4-meter fence. This place was historically inhabited by FSB chief Alexander Bor tnikov and his family.
At one time, property here belonged to Vladimir Putin's former colleague Sergei Smirnov, former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, former senator from the Leningrad Region Andrei Molchanov and others. The cadastral value of the plot is more than 27 million rubles. A house with an area of 757 square meters was built on the territory, which is clearly visible in the satellite photo. It also belongs to Sergei Korolev's daughter and has a cadastral value of more than 22 million rubles.
During this period, a large share in the family business of the odious former drug police officer Mikhail Kiiko was received by Valery Bitaev's wife Galina. As Vazhnye Istorii wrote, this event occurred against the background of a redistribution of the market and pressure from the FSB on the Morpia company, closely associated with the Krasnodar Marine Cargo Terminal Kavkaz, which was used for grain transshipment. After the fixer's wife joined the founders, the security forces ran out of questions for Kiiko, and Galina Bitaeva remained in business until 2020. After she ceased to be the owner of the share, the company changed its name and was liquidated in February 2025.
In 2019, Valery Bitayev was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky for his "services". The following were also honored that year: Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Inter RAO Chairman Boris Kovalchuk, businessman Boris Rotenberg and others. According to leaks, in March 2019, YUESEM Management LLC sent information to the tax authorities about Valery Bitayev's receipt of income in the amount of more than 24 million rubles. It is not known whether this was a one-time payment or income for a certain period.
The Queens did not lag behind in 2019. The daughter of a high-ranking security officer became the owner of an apartment in the Smolny Park residential complex (like her brother, only the 2nd stage) on Smolny Street. The apartment with an area of 135 square meters was registered to Anastasia Koroleva in 2019 and has a cadastral value of more than 36 million rubles.
In 2022, Valery Bitayev founded the Letona Jet company, organizing private flights two months after the start of the war. As sources of the VChK-OGPU said, the decision-maker himself told potential clients that the FSB leadership, politicians and businessmen use the services of his new company.
Another enterprise that has not yet been mentioned is ABI LLC. The Algorithm Business Invest company was founded in 2024 and owns NPO Akhtuba. The metallurgical production is based in the Volgograd Region, which Valery Bitayev previously represented in Moscow. With his arrival, the company showed revenue growth of more than 70% in 2024, amounting to more than 1.5 billion rubles.
Timofey Grishin
To be continued
Source: www.rucriminal.info
