As VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have discovered, Alexey Danilov, a longtime acquaintance of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Alexander Kozlov and a former deputy from Raychikhinsk, has found himself at the center of a major conflict surrounding the Amur City residential complex in Blagoveshchensk. His former partner has lost tens of millions of rubles, contractors are attempting to collect the debts through the courts, and people from the federal minister's inner circle in Raychikhinsk are circling around Danilov.
According to sources, the Amur City residential complex project was launched in 2021 by two partners – Soldatkin and Danilov. Soldatkin's main mistake was failing to register his stake in the developer, SD Group. True, he, Danilov, and another partner, Ivan Gotovsky, owned another company, OOO TDK-GRUPP, in equal shares. It leased construction machinery and equipment. However, judging by the zero-income tax returns filed with the Federal Tax Service, it conducted no actual business. However, according to sources, it was Soldatkin who made the main financial contribution to the joint venture, providing the company with the necessary funds in addition to the land plot in Blagoveshchensk. Danilov (a former member of the Raychikhinsk City Council) was supposed to use other resources for the common cause, specifically his connections with the right people, including not only regional officials but also a federal minister.
Thus, even while working on the project in 2023, Danilov purchased plane tickets and flew from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Blagoveshchensk with a certain Andrey Tyaglo. In 2015, Tyaglo was appointed Minister of Construction and Transport of the Amur Region under Governor Alexander Kozlov (now head of the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources). In 2016, he reported purchasing an apartment whose value exceeded his income for the previous three years. Kozlov, the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources, also hails from Raychikhinsk, where Danilov once served as Chairman of the Council of People's Deputies, and Tyaglo was listed as the founder of the company "Amurugol," where Alexander Kozlov served as director. Kozlov then became the mayor of Blagoveshchensk, while Danilov started a business in Blagoveshchensk, Mobile World LLC. The addition of several shell companies (such as "DV Region") to Danilov's arsenal surprisingly coincided with Kozlov's rise through the ranks: he first became governor of the Amur Region and then head of the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East. Meanwhile, Kozlov retained his business in Raychikhinsk until November 2024. The brown coal mining company "Sprut" was registered first to his mother, Irina Kozlova, and then to his brother-in-law, Alexey Loginov. Someone needed to look after these assets.
By a surprising coincidence, Danilov's company, "SD Group," was previously known as "Boguchanugol," had been mining and supplying brown coal with varying success, and was also registered in Raychikhinsk. Apparently, after losing several major coal supply tenders to utility companies after Kozlov's departure, Danilov decided to change his focus. Around the same time, his longtime friend Konstantin Soldatkin leased a plot of land in Blagoveshchensk from the city administration, for which he paid monthly rent. The partners renamed Boguchanugol, giving the new developer a name derived from the first letters of their last names—SD Group—and commissioned design documentation for the new residential complex. By 2022, the permit had been received, and construction of the 20-story Amur City building, containing 299 apartments, had begun. Then, according to sources, Danilov pulled off a simple, frontal gambit: he appointed his wife as the company's chief accountant, registered the new appliances purchased with Soldatkin's money under his own sole proprietorship, and began renting them out to SD Group. Unsurprisingly, he also managed to register a penthouse with a view in Amur City, complete with an expensive designer renovation—which he paid for with SD Group's budget. When the building was completed and the escrow account was opened, SD Group suddenly disposed of its management company, Gordo Development (the head of the Gordo Group, Alexandra Zavgorodnyaya, is still listed as the head of SD Group on the nash.dom.rf portal) and stopped paying its bills. Soldatkin, according to sources, also didn't receive his share of the profits from the apartment sales. Moreover, Danilov refused to even repay his personal loan of 50 million rubles, apparently not properly documented with receipts, as mistrust between old friends has no place.
Moreover, Danilov defrauded not only his long-time friend but also his contractors. For example, the Blagoveshchensk-based PROGRESSIUS LLC performed finishing work on an SD Group property, and its contract was signed not with the company itself, but with an intermediary—a certain individual entrepreneur named Lyubov Kiktenko. Progressius never received its payment and is now trying to recover its nearly 3 million rubles through the courts. Danilov also failed to pay the contractor Smart-Stroy 1.1 million rubles, and the company has also filed a lawsuit.
Furthermore, Pulp-Stroy LLC, which worked under contracts with Danilov's management company, Gordo Development JSC, is suing SD Group for 7.5 million rubles. This contractor, in In court, he directly accused Danilov's company of falsifying documents—certificates regarding the cost of work performed and expenses.
The management company itself also has complaints about Danilov's actions, so on May 28, Gordo Development also filed a lawsuit in the Arbitration Court for 57 million rubles. Furthermore, the company is involved in other lawsuits with SD Group as a third party. Danilov, it seems, has no intention of paying anyone, and is therefore bombarding his own defrauded contractors with counterclaims. For example, his company is demanding that Gordo Development hand over all documentation regarding the construction of the Amur City residential complex and its work with contractors. However, the twist is that all this data was outsourced to a certain individual entrepreneur, N.A. Danilova. This person is very close to Alexey Danilov: his wife, 48-year-old Nina Aleksandrovna Danilova (Gritsun). Incidentally, SD Group has already made a major mistake in this lawsuit: opposing lawyers discovered that Danilov presented documentation regarding his work with the contractor Pulp-Stroy in another lawsuit—documents he allegedly doesn't have.
The defrauded contractors are counting on victory in court, despite Danilov's high-ranking patrons, with whom he shares not only a long-standing friendship but also common interests. If Danilov talks, the security forces could have very serious questions for Minister Kozlov and his family.
