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Two army comrades created a business that was worth tens of millions of dollars. Then one became an official and sold his share to his friend. The friend immediately became a former one. He decided not to pay and hired killers. The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel and Rucriminal.info are starting a series of publications that will include everything: the governor's favorite, corrupt security officials and bankers, mafiosi all together and very big money. Today is the first story.

A businessman from Moscow Oleg Mironov and a businessman from Yekaterinburg Nikolai Kretov, former army comrades, created a bakery business in 2005. In the first two years, the Linkor Group of Companies bought up eight enterprises in the Moscow, Saratov, and Penza regions and was able to push aside many large companies in federal chain stores. At the end of 2007, they entered the top five largest companies in the industry.

Nikolay Kretov had his own construction business in the Urals at the same time, building shopping centers and water parks. Holding company Lider and Kit Capital

Oleg Mironov learned that his partner was in a bad financial situation in April 2008, when they were flying to Toronto together. There was a meeting with potential investors who were ready to build distribution centers with refrigerators for federal networks on the territory of the Linkor Group of Companies. The company provided land for construction, and the Canadians built everything themselves and managed it themselves, and split the profits in half.

Instead, Nikolay Kretov demanded money for his construction business, and when the investors refused, he left the meeting room.

From that moment on, the relations between the partners became cool.

 

Stoilenskaya Niva, represented by Dmitry Eropkin, offered the partners to buy out the company's business, merging it into one company, and the top management of the merged company, partners Oleg Mironov and Nikolay Kretov, plus a share in the company's ownership. But Kretov rejected this offer as well.

In August 2008, Oleg Mironov was offered the position of General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise National Fish Resources. It was intended to create a small Gazprom in the fishing industry. Oleg Mironov sold his 50% shares to his partner Kretov. Taking into account the company's audit and minus loan obligations, the amount that could be paid to shareholders after the sale was 40 million US dollars. At the company's board of directors, Nikolai Kretov offered Oleg Mironov 10 million US dollars and he agreed. Kretov had to pay Mironov the amount by the end of 2008. In the contract (in the additional agreement) there was a clause stating that the debt would remain with the debtor until it was paid. Oleg Mironov began working in Rybolovstvo, and Nikolai Kretov began to bankrupt the Linkor Group of Companies, as the sole owner at that time. At the end of 2008, Kretov informed Mironov that he had no money, and from the beginning of 2009 to this day, he has not had a single asset or property

Oleg Mironov went to court and won at all levels, including the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

In May 2012, Oleg Mironov wrote a statement to the police about fraud under Article 159, Part 4, of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

Based on this statement, Kretov was first questioned, and then Ivan Kuznetsov, who bankrupted the Linkor Group of Companies through an empty, unsecured bill of exchange, was questioned. (All of this is in the court materials, which sentenced Kretov in 2016 to four years of imprisonment under Article 159, Part 4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). He is the holder of all of Kretov's financial assets in Russia. Alfa Bank, as a creditor, with its "opportunities" could not initiate a criminal case against Kretov, AND AS A VICTIM JOINED OLEG MIRONOV'S CLAIM.

And on December 24, 2012, an attempt was made on Mironov's life.

By that time, the following situation had developed.

Nikolay Kretov is a debtor, he owes more than 1.2 billion rubles. The main creditors are Mironov, Alfa Bank and Raiffeisenbank. But if Mironov is gone, the debt will be reduced to 300 million rubles. Alfa Bank discounted the debt by 50%

And then the most interesting thing happens. The main case was opened for the attempt with a gunshot wound in the area of the government highway on Kutuzovsky Prospekt ... under Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. For 13 years, nothing was done on the case at all. Moreover, at some point the criminal case was lost, but after several complaints to the Prosecutor General's Office it was found. Many case materials disappeared from the case, which the officers of the Criminal Investigation Department on Petrovka handed over to the investigator with a signature...

 

When in 2022, after repeated complaints, the case was reclassified to Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, almost 8 volumes of the case were collected, and the first inspection of the crime scene was done ... only in June 2023

 

Today, the Investigative Committee for the city of Moscow, represented by the investigator for especially important cases Yevgeny Belov, will not be able to clearly answer why they cannot find Nikolai Kretov in Yekaterinburg, but at the same time the local police lieutenant finds him and interrogates him.

There is irrefutable evidence that the perpetrators of the assassination attempt on Oleg Mironov were Kretov's militants. This is Val ery Yakhnev and Dmitry Chetverikov. ACCORDING TO COLONEL KONSTANTIN STROGANOV, WHO WAS THE CHIEF OF THE INSPECTION DEPARTMENT OF THE MOSCOW MAIN MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS IN 2020, IN DECEMBER 2012, AT THE TIME OF THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, YAKHNEV AND CHETVERIKOV WERE IN MOSCOW. STROGANOV WAS THEN THE CHIEF OF THE ORGANIZED CRIME DEPARTMENT IN EKATERINBURG.

However, the case has been at a standstill for 13 years. Someone very powerful is preventing it from being solved.

Let's say right away that there are many such people. This is the same Stroganov, but there is also another character.

There is an audio recording according to which the current Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Colonel General Lebedev, who in 2006 was an investigator in Yekaterinburg and communicated with and helped Nikolai Kretov, is involved in the collapse of the criminal case on the assassination attempt.... By the way, this story also revealed that top managers of a number of large banks were involved in everything that happened.

Yuri Negrey, the head of problem assets of Alfa Bank, worked in the same position at Raiffeisenbank until November 2012 and caused financial damage to the bank in the amount of 180 million rubles, since in violation of the law, the property of the Linkor Group of Companies, which was pledged in the bank, was transferred to the shell company OOO Voskresenskkhleb in 2010, and in 2011 this shell company went bankrupt. Negrey worked closely with Kretov. During the interrogation of the investigator and then the judge in the criminal case on fraud 159 part 4, under oath he concealed the fact that he had known Kretov since 2010, and also indicated the incorrect date of his return to work at Alfa Bank, in fact, he returned to work in November 2012, Vladimir Tatarczuk hired him then, and testified that he returned to work in February 2013, between these dates the assassination attempt on Oleg Mironov was committed.

A funny fact about Yuri Negrey. Lawyers for other cases came to a meeting with Yuri Negrey in September 2012 together with Mironov, he did not know about this, when Oleg Mironov began asking questions, he interrupted the meeting, and half an hour later, a girl came and said that Negrey no longer works at this bank. There are documents according to which Negrey was involved in the raid on an energy company in Perm in 2015, a partner of Rosneft at the time...

Arseniy Dronov

Source: www.rucriminal.info