As VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have learned, Mikhail Koryak, the second leader of a criminal group responsible for organizing murders around the world, may soon be extradited to Russia. Koryak was responsible for swindling businessmen and officials out of millions, if not tens of millions, of dollars within the organized crime group. He posed as a high-ranking Kremlin official and even held receptions in the Presidential Administration building. The case involved high-profile names, including Vyacheslav Volodin. Clients paid enormous sums, directly or through intermediaries, for positions and lucrative contracts. If they didn't get what they wanted, Akhmed Khamidov would step in, with his hitmen eliminating both clients and intermediaries. Akhmed Khamidov was recently extradited to Russia from the UAE. Koryak initially went into hiding in Dubai with Khamidov (both are wanted by Interpol). In 2020, they were even detained there, but somehow managed to reach an agreement and be released. While Khamidov remained in the UAE, Koryak acquired a Moldovan passport and moved to Qatar. According to our sources, his extradition is currently being considered in Qatar.
The members of the group led by Khamidov and Koryak were closely connected to individual government officials and traded positions, government contracts, and so on. Moreover, they even took on the role of "fixers" in selling governorships, deputy heads of major state corporations, and other positions. They took money from anyone who wanted it, amounting to millions and tens of millions of dollars. If the service was not rendered, the money was not returned. Clients and intermediaries involved in the transfer of funds were eliminated. Moreover, the murders were carried out exclusively outside of Russia. Khamidov was responsible for assassinations worldwide, while the selection of killers was handled by a highly intriguing character: Valid Lurakhmayev, better known in certain circles as Validol. His expertise extends beyond commercial "contracts." Lurakhmayev is proficient not only in weapons and explosives, but also in poisons. A search of one of his apartments revealed files (for assassination) on Alexander Perepilichny, an informant for European investigators and William Browder in the Magnitsky case, and on Nikolai Tingayev, a prominent businessman and owner of the Tekhnokomplekt company. Both later died under similar suspicious circumstances, with poisoning theorized. Before his death, Perepilichny told Russian operatives that his father-in-law, the influential former senator Amir Gallyamov, might be hunting him. Gallyamov has always had close ties to the criminal underworld, the intelligence services, and government officials. In turn, after Tingaev's death, his assets were actively "sliced up" by a team consisting of the family of former St. Petersburg police chief Yuri Loskutov and "thief in law" Andrei Miroedov (Mirych).
Along with Koryak, Sultan Sigauri (the latter was subsequently tortured to death in prison) and Dmitry Pivovarov, who posed as an employee of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, were responsible for defrauding clients. Moreover, the reception of clients took place right in his office on Staraya Square. Rucriminal.info has obtained transcripts of Pivovarov's interrogations, during which he describes how and through whom the "fixers" organized their business. Pivovarov recounted how Saratov Regional Duma deputy Leonid Pisnoy decided to become the region's governor. For this service, he agreed to pay 10 million euros. Pivovarov conducted the "interview" with Pisnoy in the Presidential Administration building, in the office of his friend, Yevgeny Martynov, an employee of the Union State of Russia and Belarus. As Pivovarov admitted during questioning, if Pisnoy had been suitable for the governor's position, Matynov would have made the appointment through Vyacheslav Volodin, with whom he had a good relationship. Since Pisnoy wasn't suitable, he was simply "scammed."
One of the key victims of this scheme was Saratov businessman Mikhail Lanin. In 2009-2010, he transferred at least 84 million rubles to Khamidov, hoping for a management position at the Olympstroy State Corporation and a position for his son in the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to some reports, the total payments for these positions reached 200 million rubles. When the appointments fell through and Lanin demanded his money back, Khamidov lured him to France with the promise of an expensive cottage as compensation. On March 4, 2011, Lanin was shot dead by assassins in a suburb of Nice. His companion, seriously wounded, miraculously survived and helped French police describe the killers.
Tingaev's Tekhnokomplekt had long been carrying out large contracts for Transneft. At some point, Tingaev decided to take the position of vice president of the state-owned monopoly. His friend Mikhail Ozirny promised to help him achieve this, and he approached the "fixers" with this question. They arranged an interview for Tingaev at the Old Square complex in the capital (the seat of the Russian Presidential Administration), after which they offered to deposit €4.5 million in an OTP Bank safe deposit box—the fee for the coveted position. The "fixers" could only gain access to it after appointing him Tingaev's appointees, but they then stole money from the credit institution using forged documents.
In 2011, Ozirny's mutilated body was discovered in the mountains of Turkey. His body had been doused with acid. In 2017, Tingaev died under strange circumstances during a trip to Moscow.
Another victim of the "fixers" group was State Duma deputy Mikhail Slipenchuk. In March 2011, his assistant deposited 20 million euros in a Sberbank safe-deposit box. In exchange for this sum, the "presidential administration official" promised to help Slipenchuk's acquaintance, Tatyana Balzamova, secure lucrative gas transit contracts through Ukraine. The money was stolen from the safe-deposit box, after which Balzamova was lured to Ukraine with the promise of a meeting with then-president Viktor Yanukovych. On the highway, the killer shot the businesswoman twice in the head, but the gun misfired both times. The woman managed to jump out of the car and attract the attention of those around her. The perpetrator was detained by Ukrainian intelligence services. He turned out to be a former GRU officer, Martynov.
