Русская Мафия: эксклюзивные материалы

Русская Мафия: эксклюзивные материалы https://rucriminal.info/en Портал об олигархах, преступниках, взяточниках, чиновниках, ворах в законе. https://rucriminal.info/design/yandex.png https://rucriminal.info/design/yandex.png Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:25:24 +0000 Svetlana Radionova and Anton Ustinov are powerful assistants. https://rucriminal.info/en/material/svetlana-radionova-i-anton-ustinov-silny-pomoshhnicey https://rucriminal.info/en/material/svetlana-radionova-i-anton-ustinov-silny-pomoshhnicey Lyubov Kharitonova is registering the foreign assets of the head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage and assisting in the transfer of funds from SOGAZ. Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:25:24 +0000 article

<a name="_Hlk215550600"></a><a href="https://t.me/rucriminalinfo_2">Читайте в Телеграм</a>   The Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have uncovered interesting details about the activities of Lyubov Kharitonova (aka Guzhikhina, aka Lukyanova), the personal assistant to Svetlana Radionova, head of Rosprirodnadzor. It was Kharitonova that Radionova and her family registered some of their foreign assets, including in France, in her name. According to the source, Radionova and her classmate and close friend, Anton Ustinov, head of the major insurance company SOGAZ, organized the transfer of funds from SOGAZ to individual entrepreneurs under their control. Lyubov Kharitonova is the one leading this process. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767580101988.png" style="height:421px; width:333px" /> Lyubov Kharitonova was known as a business partner of Oksana Gonchar, the common-law wife of Radionova's brother (Grigory Radionov, deputy head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service), in the company SCI CITY PARK (Cannes, France). Each owns a 50% stake in the company. Radionova's parents' company, SCI MONE, is known to own an apartment in a prestigious coastal resort between Cannes and Nice. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767580102272.jpg" style="height:1558px; width:1080px" /> SCI CITY PARK also owns property in Antibes, and two properties are registered to it in the same residential complex right on the seashore. Both companies are registered at the same address in Cannes: 3 AVENUE JUSTINIA. A two-story villa is located there, currently rented out to tourists on a daily basis. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767580021702.jpg" style="height:879px; width:671px" /> In the French property registry, Lukyanova has two surnames, but she currently uses a third: Kharitonova. A couple of years ago, Lyubov Olegovna happily married Vladimir Kharitonov – his personal information completely matches that of the Deputy General Director of PJSC Rosseti.   Lukyanova-Kharitonova is employed by SOGAZ: during the pandemic, she received a pass as a SOGAZ employee and even provided her corporate email address, [email protected], in her application—this email address is still active. She celebrated her birthday in March 2020 at the Rosprirodnadzor office: it was to this address on Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street that Lukyanova received flower deliveries. Furthermore, Lukyanova's phone number is listed in her address books as "Lyubov, assistant to Svetlana Gennadyevna," and Lukyanova uses the email address [email protected]. The term "gosnadzor" is used by Rostekhnadzor, where Radionova worked until 2018.   According to the source, numerous relatives and friends of Kharitonova are involved in the SOGAZ fundraising scheme. Specifically, this includes individual entrepreneur Tatyana Ivanovna Sivak, a former classmate of Kharitonova's at the Rostov State University of Railway Engineering. Sivak also earns extra money cleaning Svetlana Radionova's luxurious Moscow apartments. Also involved in the scheme are Kharitonova's father, individual entrepreneur Oleg Mikhailovich Guzhikhin, and her former mother-in-law, Tatyana Vasilyevna Lukyanova, who also registered as an individual entrepreneur; as well as the mother of Radionova's former employee, individual entrepreneur Lidiya Makarova, and individual entrepreneur Nikolai Syrovatsky (for whom Lukyanova purchased plane tickets from Sochi to Moscow in the summer of 2021). <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767580021866.jpg" style="height:599px; width:1008px" /> The entire group loves money, luxury, and expensive cars. Kharitonova bought herself a Mercedes-Benz, while Anton Ustinov, head of SOGAZ, has a whole garage of expensive cars: from a Mercedes-Benz G-Class and a Land Rover Range Rover to a Maserati Levante. Incidentally, Ustinov insured the latter not with his native SOGAZ, but with Zetta Insurance.

Hitler's Blood for Elizaveta Peskova https://rucriminal.info/en/material/krov-gitlera-dlya-elizavety-peskovoy https://rucriminal.info/en/material/krov-gitlera-dlya-elizavety-peskovoy The daughter of the Russian President's press secretary and Pierre Malinovsky made history by stealing a relic from the FSB archive. Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:29:57 +0000 article

<a name="_Hlk215550600"></a><a href="https://t.me/rucriminalinfo_2">Читайте в Телеграм</a>   As reported by the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, Pierre Malinovsky, head of the Russian-French Initiatives Foundation, and likely Elizaveta Peskova (daughter of Dmitry Peskov, the Russian presidential press secretary), stole a piece of upholstery from the sofa on which Hitler shot himself, stained with his blood, from the FSB archives. Malinovsky then offered the "relic" to his VIP clients, along with photographs confirming the item's authenticity (we publish them). Pierre Malinovsky, a close friend of the Peskov family, is known as one of the largest dealers in stolen antiques. In France, he is accused of stealing rare gold coins from the country's museums. In Russia, he has visited numerous archives and storage facilities, and it is clearly worth checking to see if everything is in place. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767550216090.jpg" style="height:852px; width:1080px" /> The remains of Hitler and Eva Braun, as well as everything related to their deaths, are stored in the State Archives of the Russian Federation and the FSB archives. Some of the materials are classified, and the exact contents remain unknown. Only fragments of Hitler's jaw and skull were shown to the public. It is now becoming clear that there are other items there, inaccessible to scientists, historians, and others. But his friendship with the Peskov family and his relationship with Putin opens doors everywhere, including to the secret archives of the Russian FSB. In 2020, it was announced that Dmitry Peskov's daughter, Elizaveta, and Pierre Malinowski "had familiarized themselves with the secret archives and examined the remains of Hitler's body and artifacts stored in Russia." This was accompanied by corresponding photographs on social media. However, the story didn't end there. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Screenshot_20260104_195709_Gallery.jpg" style="height:1176px; width:1031px" /> As a source for the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info reported, after some time, Pierre Malinovsky began offering his clients (other major dealers operating in the black market for antiques, or direct collectors of unusual relics) a "rarity"—a fragment of the upholstery from the sofa on which Hitler shot himself, with traces of his blood. It turned out that the bloody upholstery was stored in the archives of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). As confirmation of the item's origin, Malinovsky sent photographs: himself in an FSB archive office working with documents on Hitler's death; the sofa upholstery in a special storage bag in the same office; and the very fragment of fabric with fragments of Hitler's blood. Malinovsky explained that he managed to discreetly tear this piece from the upholstery while examining the items in the archive. Elizaveta Peskova is absent from the photographs Malinovsky sent to clients. But in the photos that the daughter of the Russian President's press secretary and the head of the Foundation made publicly available, she was standing next to Pierre while examining items in the FSB archive. And it's unlikely she failed to notice Malinovsky tear off a piece of fabric. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767550266780.jpg" style="height:877px; width:1170px" /> <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767550215911.jpg" style="height:473px; width:1014px" /> Our sources don't know what price Pierre asked for the "relic" or whether the deal went through. However, they note that Malinovsky himself is a great admirer of Hitler, his ideas, and theories. Indeed, when a correspondent from the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info spoke with Malinovsky last fall, almost half of his speech consisted of nationalist statements.   It's worth noting that Malinovsky actively participated in archaeological excavations in Russia, was granted access to archives, including classified ones, and "worked" with items from museum storerooms. What of the items that fell into his hands ended up on the black market in antiques is an extremely interesting question.   Pierre Malinovsky, a citizen of both Russia and France, served in the Foreign Legion and served as Jean-Marie Le Pen's assistant, handling contacts with Moscow. He is the president of the Foundation for the Development of Russian-French Historical Initiatives, whose vice president was Elizaveta Peskova, the daughter of Dmitry Peskov, the Russian presidential press secretary. Peskov himself is regularly involved in the foundation's activities and meets with Malinovsky. Malinovsky has met with Putin on numerous occasions, and one such photo appears as his profile picture on social media.   In France, Malinovsky is accused of organizing gold coin thefts. We have obtained a number of documents related to this, so more to come.

Exclusive Rolex from the basements of Korobeynikov Lane https://rucriminal.info/en/material/eksklyuzivnyy-rolex-iz-podvalov-korobeynikova-pereulok https://rucriminal.info/en/material/eksklyuzivnyy-rolex-iz-podvalov-korobeynikova-pereulok Who supplies luxury goods to the Russian elite, and where? Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:59:41 +0000 article

<a name="_Hlk215550600"></a><a href="https://t.me/rucriminalinfo_2">Читайте в Телеграм</a>   A series of investigations by the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, published in the summer of 2025, were not in vain. On the website of Perspektiva, a chain of boutiques and pawnshops selling luxury goods, more than 50 watches from the most famous brands—Rolex, Ulysse Nardin, Cartier, Franck Muller, Hublot, and Patek Philippe—were labeled as "tuned." Previously, these watches were marketed as "limited and exclusive," but in reality, they were homemade, manufactured in Perspektiva's workshops. But this is only the tip of the iceberg of this organization's activities. According to our data, Perspektiva and its owner, Pavel Zakharov, are now the largest channel for the supply of watches and jewelry to Russia, circumventing sanctions and customs. And the goods thus delivered are also sold at the famous TsUM department store. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767496969696.jpg" style="height:640px; width:1080px" /> It all started when Philip Kirkorov posted a video on YouTube in which he bragged to a friend about buying a rare, limited edition Rolex dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory Day. "A limited edition, with a box—Rolex did it all... I raised hell, and they got me one in 24 hours," the singer boasted. This was clearly a promotional pitch from Perspektiva, as Kirkorov showed up with the watch box, and the "exclusive" watch was only available in Perspektiva boutiques. And there were those willing to pay $31,000 for the "limited edition" Rolex. One buyer had doubts and sent an inquiry to Rolex regarding the watch. He received a reply that such a series had never been produced. <video controls="controls" height="1280" preload="metadata" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/video-watermark1767453528647_LL1xbzWX.mp4" width="720"> </video> Further investigation by our project revealed that the "exclusive" watches were manufactured in the Perspektiva workshop, where the most basic and inexpensive Rolexes were imprinted with the Victory Day "logo" and passed off as limited editions. Furthermore, similar manipulations were carried out on dozens of watches from various Swiss and jewelry brands. Some were painted, others had figures drawn on them, and still others were studded with diamonds and other precious stones sourced from India. Counterfeit Graff jewelry is also created in the workshop, which is located in the basement of the Perspektiva office in the Crystal House complex at 1 Korobeynikov Lane: replicas with original product numbers obtained from the brand's stores. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767497633852.jpg" style="height:1600px; width:782px" /> A special printing house ordered and produced matching boxes for the "exclusive" watches. Counterfeit certificates are also produced there.   All these products were invariably presented as limited editions, produced in small batches, and the price of the watches could easily exceed $100,000.   It's worth noting that some buyers had suspected something was wrong before. But Pavel Zakharov, a man from the 1990s, quickly squashed customer complaints. He worked closely with the former leadership of the FSB's Directorate K (its head, Ivan Tkachev, recently became head of the FSB's Department of Defense and Combating Corruption). High-ranking FSB officers bought watches and jewelry from Pasha Perspektiva. Zakharov also personally knew the oligarchs God Nisanov and Zarakh Iliev (rumor has it he also knew Putin's classmate, Ilgam Ragiyev). The latter bought watches and jewelry from him almost wholesale as gifts (or bribes) to officials and security officials. Lev Semenovich Nisanov, God Nisanov's older brother and the father of Ervin Nisanov, owner of the restaurant "Ervin - River, Sea, Ocean," was constantly at Zakharov's side, as he is obsessed with luxury goods: he buys hundreds of crocodile-skin bags from Hermes and Chanel, and his collection includes dozens of crocodile-skin jackets from Hermes and Zilli.   Series 095 cars with the letters KRA, indicating high-ranking Kadyrovites, were often seen outside the Perspektiva office. So it's possible that Adam Kadyrov and his inner circle also own Zakharov watches.   After our publications, isolated cases of customer dissatisfaction turned into a flood of victims. Zakharov, according to sources, immediately began searching for those responsible for the "leak" and even staged an indecent "showdown" with a former manager of the Swiss group Richemont and the former head of the Cartier service center, suspecting them of passing on information about "exclusives" to Perspektiva.   Zakharov then fled to Dubai to get away from disgruntled customers and suppliers (he stopped paying the "smugglers" who were handing over the goods for sale). <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767496934947.jpg" style="height:720px; width:960px" /> However, Pasha Perspektiva later returned to Moscow and managed to resolve all the problems with the help of security forces and government officials. There are two reasons for this. First, Zakharov has very strong protection from the FSB. Second, Russian officials and security forces are very fond of luxury goods. According to the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, after the war in Ukraine began, Zakharov managed to organize one of the largest channels for supplying luxury goods to Russia (counterfeits are an addition to the trade in contraband watches and jewelry).   Prices at Perspektiva are already lower than in other boutiques, as goods are not cleared through customs, and transactions over 600,000 rubles are processed without passport scanning or data transfer to the Federal Tax Service. Perspektiva accepts cash in any currency Cryptocurrency without cash registers and without paying taxes. This makes them an ideal scheme for purchasing luxury goods with corrupt money from officials and security forces, as well as for money laundering. The Ministry of Economic Development supports such parallel imports, contributing to the growth of shadow businesses.   The Russian luxury goods market has changed dramatically in recent years. While TSUM, Tretyakovsky Proyezd, and Barvikha Luxury Village were once symbols of global luxury, representing official distributors of luxury brands, they have now lost this status. Thus, TSUM created the organization "TSUM Collect," transforming itself from an official retailer into a consignment shop selling Western brands imported through gray imports and smuggling, including through the Zakharova channel.   Moreover, Pasha Perspektiva is strengthening his position in the shadow luxury goods market with each passing day. For example, according to a source, all Jacob & Co watches are imported into Russia not through the official distributor Mercury Group, but through Perspektiva, circumventing US sanctions. Pavel Zakharov, a longtime friend of the brand's owner, Yakov Arabov, purchases watches and jewelry through Dubai and smuggles them in. Repeated inspections by the Federal Customs Service have uncovered dozens of watches in the chain's pawnshops that have not cleared customs using their case and movement numbers. However, Zakharov's connections to patrons on Lubyanka Square allow him to avoid liability. So far, Perspektiva has been forced to label more than 50 watches from the most famous Swiss brands as "tuning" on its website. Otherwise, this shadowy business continues to operate.

Is Shoigu being groomed for the exit? https://rucriminal.info/en/material/shoygu-gotovyat-na-vyxod https://rucriminal.info/en/material/shoygu-gotovyat-na-vyxod Maduro's close friend could lose his position as head of the Security Council. Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:54:21 +0000 article

<a name="_Hlk215550600"></a><a href="https://t.me/rucriminalinfo_2">Читайте в Телеграм</a> These images show Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (currently head of the Russian Security Council) being presented with the Order "For Merit in Ensuring National Security of Venezuela" after an official meeting with Nicolás Maduro. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767483191172.jpg" style="height:720px; width:1080px" /> This evening, Maduro arrived in the United States on an unofficial visit, albeit with a bag over his head. <video controls="controls" height="1080" preload="metadata" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/clashreport-2007580039290990885-01%20(1).mp4" width="1920"> </video> Shoigu, of course, isn't in dire straits. But sources at the VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info say he could also lose his position as head of the Security Council. This would happen if FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov resigns. Bortnikov has been on sick leave since May 2025, appearing only for high-profile events (such as Security Council meetings), and the FSB is currently under the effective leadership of his first deputy, Sergei Korolev. If Bortnikov resigns in 2026, he will undoubtedly take over as head of the Security Council. Moreover, according to sources, under Bortnikov, the Security Council may also be empowered to oversee all of Russia's security agencies. Where Shoigu will be exiled, however, remains a big question.

Banker Motylev's "hiding places" containing his capital have been found. https://rucriminal.info/en/material/naydeny-tayniki-s-kapitalami-bankira-motyleva https://rucriminal.info/en/material/naydeny-tayniki-s-kapitalami-bankira-motyleva He stores the stolen funds in 300 offshore companies. Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:30:23 +0000 article

<a name="_Hlk215550600"></a><a href="https://t.me/rucriminalinfo_2">Читайте в Телеграм</a>   As the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info discovered, the case of the notorious fugitive banker Anatoly Motylev uncovered hundreds of millions of rubles and more than 300 offshore companies registered to nominees. So far, Russian courts have refused to take them into account.   Anatoly Motylev is a 59-year-old businessman, the son of Leonid Motylev, head of the Soviet-era Gosstrakh. He was vice president of Rosgosstrakh and the owner of Globex Bank, AMB Bank, M-Bank, and Rossiysky Kredit Bank, as well as seven non-state pension funds: Solntse. Zhizn. Pensiya, Solnechnoye Vremya, Sberegatelny, Adekta-Pensiya, Sberegatelny Fond Solnechny Bereg, Zashchita Budushchego, and Uraloboronzavodsky. In total, they managed approximately 60 billion rubles of Russians' pension savings. In 2014-15, the banks lost their licenses, and Motylev officially became a UK resident. His departure was just in time, as in December 2015, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened criminal cases against him for embezzlement through fraud. In 2018, Motylev was declared bankrupt in Russia, followed by similar rulings in England and Switzerland. Creditors managed to locate Motylev's assets in Zurich, but this was a drop in the bucket: overall, he owes at least 40 billion rubles in Russia alone, and the total amount claimed from him is £741 million. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767413910849.png" style="height:423px; width:715px" /> To track down Motylev's assets, Russian creditors hired the British law firm CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP. They managed to obtain a list of offshore companies owned by the former banker, which included more than 300 legal entities registered in Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands. Among them was the Cypriot REDMALVA HOLDINGS LTD. British lawyers discovered in documents seized from Motylev a contract for the purchase of this company in October 2015 from a certain Svetlana Pozdnyakova (a Cypriot resident) and the appointment of a nominee director, Anna Demetriou, who was not supposed to disclose the true beneficiary even to Cypriot authorities. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767413911276.png" style="height:426px; width:723px" /> REDMALVA was a valuable acquisition: in May 2014, it issued a 170 million ruble loan to the Metallurg commercial bank at 2.7% per annum for 10 years. However, in 2019, REDMALVA was removed from the Cypriot register, and in 2021, Metallurg bank surrendered its license and changed its status to RNKO (non-banking settlement credit institution). It failed to repay the debt to the Cypriot offshore company. Over the years, more than 41 million rubles have accrued in interest. Metallurg is not refusing to pay off the debt and is ready to repay it. However, the problem is that the Cypriot company was not included in the bankruptcy estate, and its assets were not included in the property distribution among the debtors. The five-year deadline for filing a petition for the property distribution procedure expired last October. The Russian arbitration court stated that it would be willing to extend this deadline, but it needed original REDMALVA documents bearing Motylev's handwritten signatures, which it does not have. This means that Motylev has effectively managed to keep at least 210 million rubles for himself, and it's possible that in a few months, an unknown road worker or small-time accountant will suddenly present a receipt to Metallurg. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767413910365.png" style="height:658px; width:683px" /> Incidentally, Motylev's list of companies dates back to 2015, and he was declared bankrupt in Russia only in 2018 (and in the UK, only in 2020). This means his empire may be much larger than previously thought. Furthermore, Motylev did business with many well-known businessmen—for example, he shared a Cyprus offshore company with Georgy Gens. Gens, the former owner of the Lanit Group of Companies, also controlled Motylev's Globex Bank. Despite Gens's death in 2018, Earlton Investments Ltd. remained active until the end of 2022. Another Cyprus offshore company, LEWISTON INVESTMENTS LIMITED, belonged to Motylev and Viktor Lukoyanov. Lukoyanov was Motylev's partner in Rossiysky Kredit Bank, from which they siphoned off approximately 35 billion rubles. This offshore company also operated until the end of 2022. It's unlikely that Motylev managed to pull off such a large-scale scheme to siphon off tens of billions of rubles without any of his partners noticing.

How Gerasimov decided to become Putin's "savior" https://rucriminal.info/en/material/kak-gerasimov-reshil-stat-spasitelem-putina https://rucriminal.info/en/material/kak-gerasimov-reshil-stat-spasitelem-putina To avoid responsibility for the false capture of Kupyansk Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:00:35 +0000 article

<a name="_Hlk215550600"></a><a href="https://t.me/rucriminalinfo_2">Читайте в Телеграм</a> Sources at the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info noted that the "attack" on Putin's residence was repelled immediately after talk of the possible resignation of Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov over a false report to the Russian president about the "capture of Kupyansk." In the end, the "attack" turned out to be even worse than the "capture," with 23 fictitious drones and silent air defenses.   Now, the "Edinya Rossiya" website (see screenshots) is hastily deleting a news story featuring Putin's words about the capture of Kupyansk. On November 28, 2025, Gerasimov and General Sergei Kuzovlev publicly reported to Putin that Kupyansk was "completely in our hands." The Russian president himself has since repeated this information publicly on numerous occasions. Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky responded that Ukrainian forces continue to hold the line, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the outskirts of Kupyansk and even filmed a video. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767411504616.jpg" style="height:644px; width:1080px" /> Rumor has it that Putin was extremely angry about this, leading to speculation that the "unsinkable" Gerasimov could be leaving his post as early as 2026. And then, as luck would have it, the air defense forces "repel an attack" on the Valdai residence, and the Chief of the General Staff transforms from the general who set him up into the "savior."   However, the story ultimately turned out even worse than with Kupyansk.   The Ministry of Defense stated that 41 UAVs were shot down directly over the Novgorod region. However, monitoring channels this morning reported the figure of 18 UAVs destroyed in the Novgorod region. Eighteen UAVs is roughly the standard figure for attacks on this region. For example, on September 12, 2025, 14 drones were destroyed over the Novgorod Region, and on December 11, 19 UAVs. The targets were typically PJSC Acron, weapons depots, and other military installations. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767411505098.jpg" style="height:1233px; width:1067px" /> Novgorod Region Governor Alexander Dronov initially reported 18 drones. However, an hour and a half later, he (governors receive information first from regional headquarters, and then, with clarification, from the Russian Ministry of Defense) added the same 23 drones "from the Ministry of Defense." <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767411505665.jpg" style="height:1437px; width:1080px" /> Looking at the Ministry of Defense's map of the "attack on the residence," you can see that exactly 18 UAVs, mentioned by monitoring channels and initially by the governor, were destroyed almost immediately at the regional border. The remaining 23, however, are listed as approaching or immediately near the residence on Valdayev Street. However, as VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have already reported, the station and depot employees servicing the closed line and Putin's "armored train" received orders to prepare for evacuation that night, but then immediately received the order to stand down. They did not hear any explosions, gunshots, or drone flights. But this is simply impossible if the drones were shot down in close proximity to the residence, as shown on the Ministry of Defense map. Our project then hypothesized that the drones were actually destroyed at the entrance to the region, and then they decided to pass it off as an attack on the residence. All subsequent events confirm this.   Putin immediately informed Trump of the attack on the residence. However, the US questioned whether the residence was the actual target of the attack. As a result, following the unpleasant incident with Kupyansk, the Kremlin had to go through the equally unpleasant process of proving to Trump that the attack was indeed on the residence.   No one has ever seen the video of the wreckage of the 23 drones "shot down" in the immediate vicinity of the residence. However, one drone was shown, from which "navigation controller memory" was allegedly extracted, which, according to the Ministry of Defense, "definitely confirmed that the attack target was the presidential residence complex." <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767411474241.jpg" style="height:139px; width:279px" /> In reality, this means something different. The Americans themselves did not record any mass downing of UAVs near the residence. The drone shown was destroyed somewhere far from the residence, but the memory card must confirm that it was heading specifically for the building complex. This evidence is extremely dubious.   All this looks more like another "capture of Kupyansk" by Gerasimov, so we will watch its fate with interest.

Kostya Moschevoz and the favorite spot of deputies and the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation https://rucriminal.info/en/material/kostya-moshhevoz-i-lyubimoe-mesto-deputatov-i-glavy-skr https://rucriminal.info/en/material/kostya-moshhevoz-i-lyubimoe-mesto-deputatov-i-glavy-skr Relaxing on the shores of Syvariyarvi accompanied by bells on a mobile app Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:27:35 +0000 article

Not far from the Finnish city of Kuopio, there's a park-hotel on the shore of Lake Syvarijärvi. According to the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, this hotel belongs to Russian Orthodox businessman Konstantin Goloshchapov (better known as Padre Kostya, Kostya Moschevoz, and Putin's Masseur). <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767318270854%20(1).jpg" style="height:566px; width:755px" /> It was there that the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, vacationed and previously celebrated the New Year. An ROC church is located there. It was at Goloshchapov's hotel that deputies and officials stayed and vacationed. This photo shows State Duma Deputy Nikolai Valuev and his family celebrating New Year's at Goloshchapov's. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/fotor_1767319961359.jpg" style="height:453px; width:604px" /> How did Goloshchapov's involvement in Finland begin? First, a pilgrimage. Then the construction of a church in Tahko, a picturesque resort town. And then, vacation homes. Taking a creative approach, Goloshchapov created an electronic remote control for the bells. They ring automatically and can be controlled via a mobile phone, setting the tone. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/Photo_1767318271164.jpg" style="height:759px; width:1024px" /> Many former guests of the holiday home can no longer visit Kostya Moschevoz due to sanctions and other factors. Goloshchapov himself, whose "business career" is built on his acquaintance with Putin and friendship with the Rotenbergs, can easily visit Kuopio and anywhere in Europe. As our project reported, Goloshchapov and his family members hold Croatian passports. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video37/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8F%202.jpg" style="height:1161px; width:888px" />

Krasnov's favorite has lost his prosecutor's seat. https://rucriminal.info/en/material/lyubimchik-krasnova-lishilsya-prokurorskogo-kresla https://rucriminal.info/en/material/lyubimchik-krasnova-lishilsya-prokurorskogo-kresla His friend is already in pretrial detention and testifying. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:41:26 +0000 article

Sergey Zhukovsky, one of the most corrupt figures in law enforcement and a regular fixture of the VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, has been dismissed. But don't think this is a punishment. He is expected to soon take an honorable seat on the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. His handler and friend is the former Prosecutor General and current Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, Igor Krasnov.   In 2022, Markov, the prosecutor of the Leningrad Region, was dismissed for being "too smart." His replacement was appointed Deputy Prosecutor of St. Petersburg, Zhukovsky. He was known for nothing remarkable other than his friendship with Krasnov, carrying out his personal orders, and serving the interests of various businessmen in the city. Naturally, immediately after his appointment, Zhukovsky began putting his own people in place. His closest confidant, in every respect, was Dmitry Smirnov, whom he appointed as the Vsevolozhsk District Prosecutor – a highly coveted position.   Zhukovsky and Smirnov then launched a full-blown corporate raid. Using corrupt judges from the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Smirnov began seizing land and businesses and transferring them to people he designated. They used custom-ordered audits, fabricated criminal cases, and pressure on the courts, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Investigative Committee. The pair were doing well; in the market for "fixers," a personal conversation with Zhukovsky and, so to speak, the transfer of a desired position cost upwards of 100 million rubles. Smirnov was worth much less – starting at 15 million. In less than two years, Smirnov had registered seven apartments in St. Petersburg, country houses in Vartemyagi and Toksovo, and a villa in Spain in the names of his father and mother-in-law.   And then there was more. Zhukovsky and Smirnov began seizing entire municipalities. The first was the Morozovskoye urban settlement in the Vsevolozhsk district, where prosecutors appointed Denis Kraynov, a close associate, as head of administration. Zhukovsky and Smirnov gained access to land and the budget.   This would have continued if not for an inspection of one of the plots, which had been transferred from municipal ownership to a proxy held by Kraynov and Smirnov. The inspection materials were sent to... the Vsevolozhsk city prosecutor's office. The result was predictable: Smirnov ordered his deputy to conduct the inspection "properly," which he promptly carried out. "No violations were found." But the inspection materials reached Moscow, and Kraynov ended up in pretrial detention, where he quickly remembered that Smirnov, who was constantly taking bribes, was also in on the scheme.   Of course, Zhukovsky understood that the space around his "favorite" was shrinking and that he needed to be saved somehow. As a result, through Krasnov, he arranged for Smirnov to be appointed deputy prosecutor of the "frontline" Belgorod region. But this didn't save him. Smirnov was detained in Belgorod and arrested by the Basmanny Court. Sources claim that Smirnov, hoping for house arrest, began ratting out his "favorite" boss, Zhukovsky, while en route from Belgorod to Moscow.   But Zhukovsky is an untouchable figure. On one hand, he's protected by Krasnov, and on the other, by Sergei Vladimirov, head of the FSB's Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.   But his luck couldn't last forever. The new Prosecutor General was Alexander Gutsan, who had previously served as the Plenipotentiary Representative in the Northwestern Federal District and had long harbored an extremely hostile relationship with Zhukovsky.   As a result, Gutsan began to pressure Zhukovsky from all sides, and materials about his vigorous activities began to leak to the Investigative Committee of Russia and the FSB. Zhukovsky lost his post as prosecutor. But rumor has it that Krasnov, more than anyone, understands Zhukovsky's urgent need for immunity, so he could quickly secure a seat on the Supreme Court.

The Power Master of Langepas https://rucriminal.info/en/material/silovoy-xozyain-langepasa https://rucriminal.info/en/material/silovoy-xozyain-langepasa How Ilya Khanyukov "rips off" Rosneft, Gazprom Neft, and LUKOIL Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:45:26 +0000 article

The Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have uncovered details of the activities of an influential security official—Ilya Khanyukov, head of the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption in Langepas. He has become famous in social media as a fighter against stray dogs and pets, but this turns out to be only the tip of the iceberg of his extensive activities.   According to our sources, who have fallen victim to the security official, Ilya Khanyukov, he regularly extorts money from local businessmen in exchange for general patronage. To establish this, it's enough to check the personal account of his wife (Kristina Gennadyevna Khanyukova) and the transfers to it. The security official's wife actively changes phone numbers, bank accounts, and vehicles, but this doesn't raise any questions from the Security Service's Department of Economic Security.   The victims have already filed a collective complaint about the crimes with the relevant authorities. They have also sent the complaint to us for publicity. The victims are constantly receiving threats; they are desperate and hope that publicity will help stop Khanyukov.   According to sources, the funds deposited into his wife's account are mere "crumbs" for Khanyukov. His schemes for personal enrichment extend far beyond these incidents and involve several major industry players—Rosneft Oil Company PJSC, the associated Samotlorneftegaz JSC, Gazprom Neft PJSC, and LUKOIL Oil Company PJSC.   According to one source, the mechanism works like this: local insiders are involved in the process, including representatives of the security services. The theft of scrap metal and even oil is involved. Moreover, it's not just written-off hardware that's being used; entire old pipelines (both those formally decommissioned and those still officially operational), as well as cables containing non-ferrous metals, are also being used.   If theft is discovered (for example, during an investigation by the Security Service of Moscow-based "giants"), Khanyukov, who is already "in on it," is brought in.   His job is to deflect criminal cases from the actual perpetrators of the thefts to random individuals and young employees. As a result, cases are fabricated to "cover up" the identified shortages and write off the stolen/removed/unaccounted-for assets of resource organizations.   Khanyukov himself consistently manages to get away with it. According to complainants, their complaints have effectively gone unanswered, and the investigation was carried out pro forma. The reason lies in the security official's connections. One of his mentors is Dmitry Ustyugov, a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra. In his previous post as head of the Langepas Ministry of Internal Affairs, he noticed the profit-oriented Ilya and helped him climb the career ladder in exchange for loyalty and devotion to "sensitive" assignments.   Another case concerns Kyura Khaldykhroev, who died in the Special Military District. His relatives are unable to even hold a funeral due to the crime.   But their complaint remains unanswered. The relatives claim that a higher authority assigned the investigation of the Langepas Department of Internal Affairs to Deputy Chief of Police for Operations Igor Vorobyov. He is a close friend of Khanyukov and is also known to be involved in the scrap metal theft business.   The corrupt security official himself has become a true "star of Langepas." He actively participates in community activities, conducts classes for children in schools, talks about crimes committed in Langepas, and reports on crime prevention statistics.   But is he actually fighting crime or actively participating in it?

Instead of trolleybuses, deputy minibuses https://rucriminal.info/en/material/vmesto-trolleybusov-deputatskie-marshrutki https://rucriminal.info/en/material/vmesto-trolleybusov-deputatskie-marshrutki How corruption is thwarting cheap public transportation Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:55:59 +0000 article

The Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have uncovered a stunning corruption case. Residents of Taganrog were left without trolleybuses, forced to use commercial minibuses owned by local deputies. A criminal case was even opened, but they are currently trying to hush it up.   Trolleybuses have not been running in Taganrog for three years. In 2022, trolleybus service was suspended under the pretext of reconstructing traction substations. Moreover, as it later turned out, the city administration claimed that trolleybus lines also needed to be replaced, costing 8 billion rubles. Residents were initially told that trolleybuses would be returned in five months, but the deadline has been continually postponed. At one point, trams were reinstated in the city (also after reconstruction), and it was discovered that the traction substations were in good working order. They were installed back in 2023; they are brand new. However, trolleybus service has still not been restored. Instead, for three years now, city residents have been forced to use dozens of commercial buses and minibuses owned by Taganrog City Duma deputies.   In the spring of 2024, when the trolleybuses had not been running for two years, residents appealed to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Their complaints were subsequently pursued, and a criminal case was even opened. A large investigative task force consisting of seven investigators, led by Deputy Head of Department Alexander Trufanov, was created to investigate the case.   The investigation also uncovered other corruption crimes committed by former and current Taganrog city administration officials. It was also established that completely suspending trolleybus service throughout the city during the reconstruction of the traction substations was unnecessary, as there is a dynamic connection—temporary connections between sectional sections, meaning the network is divided into sections.   Restoring trolleybus service would require approximately one month and 10 million rubles. Simple maintenance would need to be carried out and cables would need to be connected to the traction substations.   Then, the head of the city administration, Svetlana Kambulova, presented investigators with an expert study conducted by the Rostov Center for Forensic Expertise, which justified the officials' actions.   It quickly became clear that the study was completely false. Specifically, the Ministry of Justice stated that the regulations cited by the "experts" never existed in Russia.   Meanwhile, 600,000 rubles were siphoned off from the city budget for this fake study.   The most interesting thing happened later, when all of these employees of the Rostov Center for Forensic Expertise, the authors of the fake study—Goryachkin, Shapovalov, Matveenko, and Persiyanov—were questioned. The "experts" completely retracted their conclusions about the supposedly worn-out trolleybus lines and substation. They told the investigators that they had not considered the expert study's questions and that they knew nothing and understood nothing about the issues raised.   Another fake document was also discovered. In 2023, Taganrog city administration officials prepared a "technical report dated June 3, 2023, No. 1/KST." It was prepared on behalf of Stroyservis LLC. This report claimed that all trolleybus lines required replacement. However, during questioning, the author of this technical report claimed he had neither prepared nor signed the document.   All these years, Svetlana Kambulova has continued to talk about the allegedly complete loss of trolleybus lines and the 8 billion rubles needed to restore trolleybus service in Taganrog.   The investigation commissioned its own expert analysis, which revealed that the new traction substations are 4.5 times more powerful than the old ones. They are currently being used at only 15% of their capacity. And to restart trolleybus service in the city, maintenance on the lines will cost 10 million rubles.   The case was headed toward Kambulovla filing charges, but he gained influential supporters for the mayor. Most of the investigators were transferred to other departments, and Ivkov took over the investigative team. For the past five months, he has been arguing that the case must be closed. He is deterred by the fact that the investigation was launched after Bastrykin's personal intervention. However, experience shows that this doesn't deter regional investigators for very long.   The actions of the city leadership show that they feel strong support. Kambulova's deputy, Oleg Shekhovtsov, has stated outright that he plans to reduce the number of Taganrog tram routes. The city administration has also amended the Taganrog General Plan to reduce the city's trolleybus network to two routes. This means that even if trolleybuses are forced to operate, they will be a bare minimum. Use the deputy minibuses.

The prosecutor has absconded from court. https://rucriminal.info/en/material/obvinitel-skrylsya-ot-suda https://rucriminal.info/en/material/obvinitel-skrylsya-ot-suda Prosecution witness Evgeny Naboychenko has yet to testify, citing his involvement in the special military unit. Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:19:28 +0000 article

The trial in the so-called "Life-is-Good" – "Hermes" – "Best Way" case has been ongoing in the Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg for almost two years. The examination of prosecution witnesses has concluded, but the main and virtually only witness, whose testimony was the basis for the case – Evgeny Naboychenko, the former head of the Russian IT service of the Austrian company Hermes – has yet to testify. The prosecutor's office cited Naboychenko's involvement in the special military unit. He has been there since the end of 2024, and it is likely that law enforcement agencies are deliberately preventing him from testifying. He spends days in hate chats and posts videos one after another, seemingly intoxicated—it doesn't look like he's particularly busy with combat work.   The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg, hearing the criminal case, despite the lawyers' protests, granted the prosecutor's motion to read testimony without calling a witness currently in the special military unit. For nearly two years, including only the end of last year in the special military unit, Naboychenko hasn't found the time to appear in court or even participate in the VKS trial. The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office and internal affairs agencies haven't bothered to bring him in. This seems to be a deliberate act on the part of law enforcement: given his psychological state, bad habits, and inconsistencies in his testimony, Naboychenko would have looked poor under cross-examination. But the fact that he wasn't questioned during the trial could undermine the results of that investigation.   Accuser or organizer? Naboychenko's testimony is literally the cornerstone of the indictment. He is the only witness to name every single defendant. There are also significant contradictions in his testimony. For example, during initial questioning, Naboychenko claims to have been one of the founders of the Hermes system in Russia and, as an IT professional, to have created Hermes's digital infrastructure—the very infrastructure that caused the difficulties that led some clients to accuse the company of fraud. Later, he moves on to accusing others of creating things he himself created: primarily, Roman Vasilenko, the CEO of Hermes's marketing partner, who built the sales system but was not involved in the product's internal development. Vasilenko is not an IT specialist; he did not found the payment system. Based on his own testimony, Naboychenko should be in the dock. But he is not there; he is in hiding. If anyone created backdoors and secret passages in Hermes's digital infrastructure, it was either Naboychenko himself or his employees, acting on his orders.   Destroyer and Liar No one, including Naboychenko himself, disputes that he blocked and shut down Hermes's payment system in February 2022 after cooperating with law enforcement. Over the course of several months, other specialists based abroad essentially rebuilt the payment system. This revealed financial holes: loss of clients' assets. Naboychenko had access to the accounts of the clients he supervised as a training consultant. Even during the investigation, Naboychenko, who was always short of funds due to his expensive addictions, suddenly began throwing money around. According to his guards at the operational apartment of the Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, he took them to bars literally every day, paying for everything himself, never staying dry.   The UBEP officers, by their own testimony, repeatedly took Naboychenko to detox so that he could at least formulate testimony for the investigation. His handlers from the police and the investigation turned a blind eye to this, as Naboychenko had enabled them to torpedo his business and attempt to seize assets.   They also turned a blind eye to his lies: during questioning during the preliminary investigation, Naboychenko claimed that he was not registered with a drug addiction specialist and did not use alcohol or drugs, despite documents, including those held by law enforcement agencies, indicating otherwise. Based on Naboichenko's testimony, innocent people were imprisoned, while he himself went into hiding and hid in southern Russia for several months, posting messages claiming he was being threatened and fearing for his life. He also evaded conscription until, at the end of 2024, he found an opportunity to enlist in the Special Military District, where he specialized in his primary profession: as an IT specialist at headquarters. This was nothing more than a way to avoid appearing in court, while also pretending to be a combat veteran.   The Moral Character of the Key Witness   Naboichenko has long been known as a thief: he wasn't above stealing even from those close to him. Once, while staying with his lover, Svetlana, Evgeny beat her and stole money from her cryptocurrency wallet while she was trying to recover from the beating. He robbed his own official family and relatives numerous times. Even before February 2022, clients complained of asset thefts. Evgeny Naboychenko was also involved in extortion. He stole money from Hermes clients' wallets, which he accessed, as well as extorting money from their accounts. He constantly needs money for drugs. Perhaps his substantial "combat earnings" were one of the reasons he signed a contract with the SVO. Naboychenko also engages in extortion. According to his ex-wife, Viktoria Naboychenko, he blackmailed Roman Vasilenko, demanding 170,000 euros from him if he wouldn't give the police the testimony they wanted.   At the same time, Viktoria claims, he threatened to harm Roman Vasilenko's wife and his minor children. He also bragged to his then-wife about the obscene, threatening messages he sent to Vasilenko and his family. Furthermore, there are dozens of testimonies about how Naboychenko extorted money from Hermes clients to prevent their funds from being "accidentally" stuck in the payment system.   Victoria Naboychenko reports that three days before the search of their then-joined home, Evgeny left and told her, "They'll come and search us, but it's just a formality." It turns out he was given three days' notice of the search.   On February 15, 2022, Evgeny Naboychenko was arrested, but he wasn't sent to a pretrial detention center—where other Life-is-Good employees were sent. He wasn't placed in a pretrial detention center or a holding cell; he lived in a police apartment.   Naboychenko refused a lawyer, but quickly went from being a suspect to a witness because he gave the testimony the investigation needed. This is precisely why the investigation is so keen on him as a witness – they essentially have only one witness to corroborate the fictitious accusation: Naboychenko.   Comment from Victoria Naboychenko, Evgeniy Naboychenko's ex-wife: "Roman Vasilenko trusted Evgeniy and shared his business plans with him. However, over time, Roman's success began to make Evgeniy envious. In February 2022, he began to display irritation and anger towards Roman after unsuccessfully extorting €170,000 from him. Evgeniy began sending threats to Roman and his family, demanding the money and threatening injury and murder. These threats were sent via voice messages and emails. On February 15, 2022, Evgeniy's home in the Krasnodar Territory was searched, after which he was allegedly detained and taken to St. Petersburg." Subsequently, Evgeny began working closely with law enforcement agencies, providing them with information about the activities of the Best Way cooperative and the Life-is-Good company, and also helping block access to shareholders' databases and personal accounts. Evgeny actively encouraged citizens to file complaints against Roman Vasilenko for the return of their funds, using Telegram and YouTube channels. His main goal was to prosecute Roman and destroy his company, which would have resulted in huge losses for shareholders. However, despite this, Evgeny had the opportunity to restore the Hermes system, but he deliberately chose not to do so, pursuing his own personal agenda.

"Prepare for evacuation" https://rucriminal.info/en/material/prigotovitsya-k-evakuacii https://rucriminal.info/en/material/prigotovitsya-k-evakuacii What employees of the secret Valdai depot say about the "attack" on Putin's residence Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:37:03 +0000 article

VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info spoke with employees of the Valdai railway station, which services Putin's notorious armored train and the closed line. They said that on the night of the Kremlin's alleged drone attack on Putin's residence, an alarm was sounded, but no one heard the sounds of the drones or air defenses. It's worth noting that the station is serviced by a special unit of Russian Railways, which is also responsible for other classified transportation, including military cargo. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video36/Photo_1767111643789.jpg" style="height:1162px; width:1080px" /> According to our sources, the depot workers were urgently alerted and given orders to prepare for evacuation, but this never took place. After some time, the staff was informed of the cancellation without explanation. Only later, through open sources, did employees learn of the alleged drone strike and air defense activity. However, none of the employees we interviewed heard explosions or gunshots. These are usually heard even if air defense is operating far from the facility. Either this was all part of a staging, or the drone was shot down somewhere at the entrance to the region, but the very appearance of drones in the Novgorod region was perceived as a threat to Putin's residence. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video36/Photo_1767111644290.jpg" style="height:1327px; width:1080px" /> Maintenance of the closed railway infrastructure in Valdai is not carried out by regular railway units, but by employees of a special unit of Russian Railways. This special unit was created in 2018 and is headed by Mikhail Glazkov. This unit handles military transport, special trains, and other classified and top-secret shipments. Glazkov was the one who created the system for Special Facility No. 1 in Valdai. He is considered a member of the Kovalchuk clan. All personnel assigned to the depot and its branch were carefully screened and selected under the supervision of the FSB and the Federal Protective Service.

What kind of escorts are Russian oligarchs and sheikhs booking for New Year's? https://rucriminal.info/en/material/kakix-eskortnic-zakazyvayut-na-novyy-god-oligarxi-iz-rf-i-sheyxi https://rucriminal.info/en/material/kakix-eskortnic-zakazyvayut-na-novyy-god-oligarxi-iz-rf-i-sheyxi "Athletes, gymnasts, ballerinas, and bloggers" Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:29:05 +0000 article

VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info present a review of the criteria for escorts set by Russian oligarchs and Arab sheikhs. They are currently recruiting girls for the New Year's holidays. We will also show what gifts millionaires and billionaires received for escorts during past New Year's holidays.   New rules have been introduced for escorts in the UAE: now, sex tourists wishing to work for sheikhs (not all of them, but currently in Abu Dhabi and, in some cases, Dubai) undergo more thorough security checks. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video36/Photo_1767056401493.jpg" style="height:816px; width:1080px" /> For example, in addition to submitting their profiles (previously, the preliminary casting was based solely on photos and short videos), applicants from Russia must immediately provide a copy of their passport. At this stage, a thorough screening is conducted to identify any past exposures and negative comments. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video36/Photo_1767056401708.jpg" style="height:687px; width:1080px" /> Managers explain that this happened after a "wave of violence" by Russians: the murder of Roman Novak and his wife and the recent massacre of flight attendant Anastasia Nikulina.   Furthermore, many regular clients from the UAE are clearly tired of having regular guests—escorts are now having their passports checked for stamps. Upon re-entry into the Emirates, many are not accepted for so-called "trips." <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video36/Photo_1767056402014.jpg" style="height:581px; width:1080px" /> The end of the year is a busy time in the escort industry, as in many other industries, with numerous offers from oligarchs and other influential lovers of prostitutes appearing on the market.   For example, a man known by the nickname "Rosoligarkh" (rumored to be Mikhail Prokhorov) throws parties in Courchevel until New Year's. The pay isn't high (around $2,000), but the work is promised to be cushy. There are also offers for a certain oligarch named Michael, who was born in Russia and is seeking women for trips from Israel to Athens. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video36/Photo_1767056401847.jpg" style="height:405px; width:772px" /> Managers are especially active and at a good price (starting at $3,000 per day) in searching for noticeably thin models for the islands of Saint Barth and Saint Martin—the hubs of billionaires from around the world. Among the wealthy Russians, Roman Abramovich is a favorite hangout there. However, one of the clients is categorically against women from Russia and only expects Ukrainians or those with EU passports.   A casting call has begun in Dubai for a New Year's dinner with the King of Dubai (rumored to be Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum)—only 10-15 models are needed. Priority is given to modest women with a beautiful smile and definitely not dressed up. Managers claim that the program is only for dinner (no intimacy), with a fee starting at $8,000.   In Moscow, someone very wealthy is looking for "exclusive goods" for the New Year—athletes, gymnasts, ballerinas, and bloggers. The budget for these ladies is around a million rubles (per meeting) with a wide range of opportunities. Priority is given to ladies with no previous escort experience.

"Armed men arrived at the Istanbul office with greetings from Avdeev in Moscow." https://rucriminal.info/en/material/v-ofis-v-stambule-yavilis-voorujennye-lyud-s-privetom-ot-avdeeva-iz-moskvy https://rucriminal.info/en/material/v-ofis-v-stambule-yavilis-voorujennye-lyud-s-privetom-ot-avdeeva-iz-moskvy "Turkish partners" stole $600 million in proceeds from sanctioned oil from Russia. Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:40:04 +0000 article

A "gray" scheme for selling sanctioned Russian oil collapsed due to the greed of its participants. Turkish partners stole, relying on protection from President Erdogan's family, while the Russians exposed the entire group in an attempt to recoup $600 million. VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info explain how it all happened.   In February 2022, it became clear to Russian authorities that they needed alternative ways to trade oil. Members of the Turkish leader's family, including his son Bilal Erdogan and his son-in-law Berat Albayrak, who had previously served as Turkey's Minister of Energy and then as Finance Minister, stepped in to help Sechin, the head of Rosneft. Fuad Huseynli, an Azerbaijani businessman with a British passport who had once worked at British Petroleum and then at VTB Bank, approached them with a tempting offer through his contacts. In Moscow, he owns the oil trader Mostrade, registered to his driver, Russian citizen Zal Vagif Oglu Suleymanov. The company never reported a profit to the Federal Tax Service, reporting either break-even or losses. The company operated through its Turkish "clone," Mostrade Danyşmanlık Ticaret Limited Şirketi, also registered to Suleymanov. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video36/Photo_1767050386840.png" style="height:821px; width:617px" /> The contacts through which Huseynli connected with the Erdoğan family were 34-year-old Mustafa Yigit Zeren and his father, Rıdvan Zeren, owners of a large company who handled his accounting in Turkey for many years and assisted him with his trading operations. They own the Zeren Group, with branches in London (Zeren Group and LAVAL ENERGY LTD), the Netherlands (Zeren Energy B.V.), Romania (GET Energy Trading S.R.L.), Hungary (Get-Energy Magyarország Kft./Holistic Energy Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság), Switzerland (ZEREN GROUP SA), and elsewhere. Huseynli subsequently tried to portray Zeren as an ordinary small-time accountant, but in fact, this is not the case. The Zerens did business with a classmate of Erdogan's son, Halil İbrahim Bakacı. In Turkey, he is known as Erdogan's wallet, managing his assets. Bakacı provided Mostrade with all the necessary licenses and permits, but in order to access the Turkish banking system, the Turkish Mostrade had to be transferred to Turkish citizen Mustafa Zeren. This was done on May 16, 2022. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video36/Photo_1767050359797.jpg" style="height:471px; width:1025px" /> To purchase oil, Roman Avdeev's Moscow Credit Bank provided Mostrade with a 20 billion ruble credit line—part directly and part through his Hong Kong company, Akida Trading Limited. Furthermore, on June 23, 2022, Zerena's accountants, through their firm, created the shipping company Eurasia Sealine Gemicilik ve Ticaret Limited Şirketi. Mostrade used it to ship billions of dollars' worth of oil.   According to the scheme's participants, Mostrade purchased Russian oil and sold it to India and China, with the proceeds from the sales going to Akida through the Turkish banks VakıfBank and Emlak Katılım Bank, which then transferred them to Russia. The Turkish banking system turned a blind eye to these maneuvers until December 2023, when the US threatened sanctions for assisting Russia in evading banking sanctions. Ultimately, the Turks cut off the flow of money to Roman Avdeev's bank. And then everything went awry, with Russia playing a major role.   First, "accountant" Zeren was forced to urgently resolve the issue of cash tranches and channel them through completely shady channels, through several UAE bank accounts—so that the enormous sums were effectively locked up exclusively in his name, a strong temptation.   Second, the participants in the scheme had long been negotiating the purchase of their own bank and in November had already signed an agreement to acquire Turkland Bank (T-BANK), owned by the Lebanese Hariris, whose families were friends with the Erdoğans. But then information came to light that the true owner of Mostrade and the scheme's co-author, Fuad Huseynli, was in a Moscow pretrial detention center on charges of banking fraud, and the deal fell through.   Thirdly, from prison, Huseynli was unable to fully control the scheme he had so carefully constructed or promptly resolve financial matters. He was arrested in connection with a criminal case opened in Russia based on Azerbaijani allegations of embezzlement of over 215 million rubles from the International Bank of Azerbaijan. Incredibly, the case was opened exactly two weeks after the formal transfer of Turkish Mostrade shares from Zal Suleymanov to Turkish citizen Mustafa Zeren. It appears the Russian side decided to hedge its bets and keep Huseynli on hand in case anything went wrong. Since August 2022, he had been under house arrest with permission to take walks and visit a doctor. He failed to comply, but investigators' patience somehow snapped only in early 2023. Huseynli was sent to pretrial detention. While he was in prison, his Turkish accountant, Zeren, traveled around the UAE, establishing channels for payment from India for several oil shipments. However, the money never reached Roman Avdeev's bank. In April 2024, a Russian court sentenced Huseynli's accomplice to 4.5 years in prison for embezzling funds from an Azerbaijani bank, while Huseynli himself received only 1.5 years. After taking into account his time in pretrial detention, he was released in the courtroom—and apparently sent off to search for the missing $600 million. And then something wonderful came to light: if the Zerens were solving anyone's problems through UAE banks, it was only their own. Relying on protection from the Erdogan family and the Russian side's demands for secrecy (who would sue and publicize illegal transactions?), the Zerens transferred money in several batches to accounts under their control. With the proceeds, the Zerens purchased a large chain of Alpet gas stations in Turkey (320 stations) from the Altınbash family. He appointed Akshin Mammadov, a former employee of the Azerbaijani company SOCAR, to head the company. We have already reported on its connections to Russian oil trading. Furthermore, the Zerens agreed to purchase Türkiye Petrolleri (approximately 800 gas stations across the country).   Despite the demands for secrecy, Roman Avdeev was not prepared to part with hundreds of millions of dollars. In May 2024, his Hong Kong company, Akida Trading Limited, filed a lawsuit in the Moscow Arbitration Court demanding the seizure of assets belonging to the Zerens' Mostrade. The case was won, despite Zeren claiming that his signature on the contracts with Avdeev's bank was forged, and that he was not even in Russia in September 2023. Interestingly, in September 2023, Fuad Huseynli violated the terms of his house arrest several times, disappearing from his home for several hours at a time. Some of the letters of credit bear the signature of Huseynli's driver, Zal Suleymanov, while others were signed on behalf of the Turkish trader by certain Yulia Rybalko and Tahir Narliev. Several credit lines were even opened in favor of the Dubai-based BLACK PEARL ENERGY TRADING L.L.C. (which was sanctioned by the US for trading Russian oil). <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video36/Photo_1767050359256.jpg" style="height:554px; width:1028px" /><img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video36/Photo_1767050359565.jpg" style="height:434px; width:1017px" /> Akida also filed a lawsuit in Turkey, demanding $593.7 million in compensation from the Zerens. In response, Zeren Group publicly disavowed its partnership with Mostrade, claiming that all the fraudulent schemes were the work of Fuad Huseynli. Mustafa Zeren transferred the Turkish Mostrade to a certain Savas Ozsoy four days after Akida filed its claim with the Moscow Arbitration Court. The Zerens themselves, meanwhile, continued their operations as if nothing had happened.   What happened next is known from publications by Turkish journalists. A group of armed men arrived at the Zeren Group office in Istanbul, occupied the premises, and explained to Rydvan Zeren that he had to repay the debt to Avdeev. Under duress, Mustafa Zeren's father eventually signed a handwritten promissory note agreeing to pay the money: $475 million in monthly payments plus 25% of Zeren Group shares. The note was signed by Nikolai Valerievich Katorzhnov, CEO of Credit Bank of Moscow, and Yusuf Yatkin, CEO of Zeren Group, testified. This visit is linked to a confidential conversation between Roman Avdeev and one of the heads of Russian intelligence agencies. What he paid for this favor remains unknown. Rydvan Zeren filed a complaint with Turkish law enforcement agencies, but no action has been taken on it at this time. Zeren himself simply disappeared. Considering that his second major office is a company in Switzerland, he is most likely hiding in Geneva.   As for Fuad Huseynli, he has previously been involved in highly questionable cases and was involved in a criminal case opened in Azerbaijan following IBA Bank's purchase of an oil field in Kazakhstan through a Luxembourg company. Huseynli was one of the founders of the Kazakh company involved in the transaction. The charges involved embezzlement, laundering, and misappropriation of funds. At that time, former IBA head Jagankhir Hajiyev received a lengthy prison sentence, but Azerbaijani law enforcement left Huseynli alone. He subsequently dismantled his network of Cypriot offshore companies. This year, Fuad Huseynli, together with Azerbaijani native Mushvig Mehdiyev, registered Nusz sp. z o.o. in Poland, a company engaged in the restaurant business, logistics, and real estate.

How the Bogorodsky Maniac Killed https://rucriminal.info/en/material/kak-ubival-bogorodskiy-manyak https://rucriminal.info/en/material/kak-ubival-bogorodskiy-manyak "Dad, let's not do anything to her, she's a good person." Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:45:32 +0000 article

The bodies of two victims of the "Bogorodsky Maniac" from the Moscow region, suspected of a series of murders and attempted murders, have been discovered. After searching the property of Dmitry Artamoshin, forensic experts using search equipment discovered the body of one of the girls in a compost pit at a depth of two meters, then the body of the other in a well. <video controls="controls" height="720" preload="metadata" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video36/IMG_9464%20(1).MOV" width="1280"> </video> VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info report on how events unfolded.   The first missing person report to the Ministry of Internal Affairs languished for several months. Back in the summer, the mother of one of the victims filed a report about her daughter going missing in the Bogorodsky district. Then began the usual red tape of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, with the inconvenient report being passed on to others. The report was sent from Elektrougli to Korolev, where the missing woman lived, but there it was simply shelved. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video36/Photo_1767037118557.jpg" style="height:1600px; width:1082px" /> In the fall, the mother began besieging the Elektrougli police station again, hoping to learn something about her daughter's fate, and she succeeded in getting a response. She had information about her daughter's recent residence and work—a house in a gardening community where Dmitry Artamoshin, a previously convicted felon, lived. The detectives, along with the complainant, descended on the house.   The owner greeted them calmly. He had another girl in the house, but she was immediately escorted out. The maniac didn't deny that the missing woman had visited him. But when asked what had happened to her, he replied, looking at the mother: "I told you—your daughter is a prostitute. She just left me." <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video36/Photo_1767037118227.jpg" style="height:439px; width:429px" /> This background abruptly deterred the police from taking any further action, and they simply returned to the station. But almost immediately, another mother contacted the police: a "nanny" who had gone to work for... Artamoshin had disappeared. This time, the Investigative Committee took up the matter.   And the second time, the maniac claimed the girl had left on her own, and that he had nothing to do with it. But after two strange disappearances, he was sent to a cell. After some time in the temporary detention center, he began to talk. Artamoshin remained firm about the first girl—it turned out she had been dating him and also a riot police officer. The latter, according to witnesses, was jealous of the girl and would cause trouble for her. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video36/Photo_1767037119096.jpg" style="height:1600px; width:1050px" /> But regarding the second missing woman, the maniac gave very favorable testimony. They had used drugs together and she died of an "overdose." Afterwards, he became frightened and got rid of the body, but he didn't give a definitive answer as to how. In the final version, Artamoshin allegedly put the body in a bag out of fear and tried to carry it out into the woods at night. He walked along a dark path for several hours, "lost the bag" in a swamp, and ran away. Law enforcement officers and volunteers combed the forest and dove (with specially called divers) into the swamp, but the body was never found. The maniac, however, was well-versed in the forest; as he himself explained, he regularly stashed illegal drugs there, which he used first with his wife and then with his girlfriends. <img alt="" src="https://rucriminal.info/files/news/photo%26video36/Photo_1767037118853.jpg" style="height:1456px; width:1276px" /> Over time, three more victims emerged in the case. Artamoshin's wife was found in a private psychiatric clinic in St. Petersburg. She complained that her husband had hooked her on drugs and raped her (chained her to a radiator and tortured her).   Another woman was rescued by friends. She is also undergoing rehabilitation at a specialized facility and accuses Artamoshin of violence. The fifth victim is the same girl whom investigators and the mother of the first missing woman found in the ill-fated house.   According to the guest, Artamoshin offered to live with him for money as a nanny/kept woman, and she agreed. The woman recalled horrific moments from her brief life with the maniac. She said Artamoshin fed his son moonshine and engaged in inappropriate behavior in front of him.   Particularly terrifying was the almost Balaban-esque dialogue between father and son that she overheard while in the shower. The boy begged the man not to touch the guest: "Let's not do anything to her, she's a good girl, let's keep her with me, like a toy." The victim claims that after every meal and drink in the house, she felt dizzy and confused.