The Telegram channel of the Cheka-OGPU is launching a crime series dedicated to multi-billion dollar embezzlement on the federal highways of the country. And we will start with the Northwestern Federal District and the criminal community controlled by the protege of the crime boss Barmaley, Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Andrey Kostyuk. This official is lobbying for the transfer of tens of billions of rubles to the contractor EvroTransStroy (ETS), businessmen Rakcheev and Loktionov. These businessmen are familiar with Pavel Konashenkov, a person involved in very high-profile traffic criminal cases, from the SnabStroy company. Well, let's slightly open the door to the world of titanic embezzlement and fantastic impunity.
But first, Rucriminal.info wants to note that almost all the heroes of our history have one thing in common - this is studying at the Military Transport University of the Railway Troops of the Russian Federation.
Hence the love for Peterhof. That's where WTU is located.
But disassembly also occurs within the team, former colleagues.
Here is one of the representatives of Kostyuk's classmates - Sergey Tsarkov. Together with Kostyuk, he graduated from VTU in 2001, then he worked in the Transport Construction Directorate, subordinate to the Improvement Committee, at the same time that Kostyuk worked there until 2007.
Then in 2013 Tsarkov came to work at FKU Uprdor "Volga" as a deputy, then in 2017 as head of FKU Uprdor "Prikamye".
In 2019, he was clothed in "rat-mongering" (he took money from contractors, but did not carry it higher), he was asked to quit his job. And the Prosecutor General's Office launched a check against him. And she found a house near Okhta Park in the Leningrad Region, registered in the name of her wife, and not indicated in the declaration.
As a result, the court took away the house. Here is a link to the judgment:
These are the methods of dismantling Kostyuk and his team.
And we will start with a hint to colleagues - it would be better if they paid attention to another company - ProfTechKontrakt, which Rakcheev owned together with Maria Kostyuk in 2010-2011. Yes, this is the wife of Andrei Kostyuk!
So, the current Deputy Minister of Transport Andrei Kostyuk began his career with the St. Petersburg Directorate of Transport Construction (DTS), and in 2006 he was pushed by the criminal lobby to the post of head of the FKU Sevzapupravtodor, responsible for all federal roads in the North-West region. And it started! Kostyuk's team stole billions on absolutely everything - from buying land plots for the construction of roads at an inflated price, to receiving bribes for approving exits to gas stations and installing billboards on the roadsides. The direct organizer of the schemes was the chief engineer of the organization, Valery Ivanov, who became its leader after Kostyuk left for a promotion to Moscow. Kostyuk was close family friends with him. Ivanov's "hands" were Timofey Meshcheryakov, ex-employees of the relevant departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Vladimir Chernukha, accepted into the team, who took control of the department of property relations of the FKU. A number of businessmen worked with them, including the aforementioned Konashenkov. We will tell about who exactly and how he worked in the next series, and now we note that in 2016 the St. Petersburg FSB, together with the OEB and the PC, carried out a high-profile implementation of this criminal group. Ivanov, Chernukha, Meshcheryakov and a number of businessmen were detained, the case went to the powerful Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of a criminal community). And then Moscow intervened. As a result, a huge case with multi-billion dollar damage fell apart and ended with a couple of suspended sentences. And all the participants in the criminal scheme either continued to work in it for a long time, or continue to do so until now. Continuation in the next series - "Invulnerable in Rosavtodor".
Colleagues noticed another curious touch. The merchant, who was involved in high-profile criminal cases of embezzlement at the FKU Sevzapupravtodor, successfully continues to work on the regional highways of the Leningrad region. Well, as we said, none of the corrupt officials of Kostyuk's team were seriously injured. We will talk about businessmen next time, and in today's series "Invulnerable in Rosavtodor" we will talk about officials.
We do not know for sure whether Andrei Kostyuk got into the Barmaley-Golubev authority team before his work at the St. Petersburg Directorate of Transport Construction (DTS), or already working there. But we are aware that, leaving to head Sevzapravtodor, he captured his friend Valentin Ivanov from the DTS, whom he made the chief engineer of the FKU. The chief engineer is a key figure, because it is he who knows in advance the routing of future roads, which means he can suggest which plots of land should be bought in advance, so that later, having overestimated the estimate at times, they can be sold to the state. As we already wrote, Timofey Meshcheryakov and Vladimir Chernukha came to the Department of Property Relations of the FKU as a working team. There are already neighborly ties here - Kostyuk, who was born in the Amur Tynda, settled in the St. Petersburg suburb of Peterhof since the 90s, and both of the above-mentioned comrades lived next door, on Shakhmatova Street. By the way, back in 2005, Chernukha received a 3-year suspended sentence for major fraud, but is this really a hindrance to the civil service?
Now let's show one trick. So, 2017, the implementation of the FSB and OEB and PC. Meshcheryakov and Chernukha were detained, as were a number of businessmen. Kostyuk has been in Moscow for a long time, Ivanov, who replaced him as head of the FKU, is rapidly leaving his chair and becoming ... the chairman of the transport committee of the Kursk region (we will tell about the Kursk region in detail in a separate series). His traces are lost in the summer of 2019. Meanwhile, the criminal case collapsed, Meshcheryakov and Chernukha receive suspended sentences (of course) for minor episodes. What are they doing now? That's right, they work in Rosavtodor! The first is now the deputy head of the FKU "Management of the Moscow-Bobruisk Highway", and the second is in charge of the department's branch in the Pskov region. The cult question “is it possible” in this case is rhetorical. In the next series, entitled "They Sawed the Motherland", we will tell about the completely cloudless fate of the merchants from the Kostyuk gang and explain how exactly the criminal billions were made.
To be continued
Arthur Prokopov
Source: www.rucriminal.info
