In 2018, as part of a program to modernize waste management, Polygon Timokhovo entered into a contract with Maxima LLC for the design and construction of a biogas complex. A year later, it became obvious that the contractor was not coping with the fulfillment of the contract: he was missing deadlines for some of the work, and was not doing some of it at all. Maxima tried through the courts to obtain more funding, the conclusion of additional contracts and the termination of existing ones. The Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region, as well as the Nizhny Novgorod Region, denied these demands to the contractor. In November 2019, Maxima simply left the site without completing the project, and in December Polygon Timokhovo terminated the contract with the contractor, accepted the completed work and demanded the return of unpaid advances (the total amount of advances was 450 million rubles). Naturally, no one was going to return the money. On January 15, 2020, the head of Maxima, Denis Volkov, decided through the court to demand 300 million rubles from Timokhovo. The company’s Arbitration Court rejected these demands; this decision was subsequently approved by the Supreme Court. The biogas complex was launched by another contractor, and already at the end of 2020, at that time, the deputy chairman of the government of the Moscow region, Evgeny Khromushin, proudly announced in the media about the opening of Timokhovo after conversion.
In 2021, bankruptcy proceedings for Maxima LLC began in the Arbitration Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. The company owes the landfill a total of 85 million rubles. This is where the series of coincidences began.
On December 30, 2021, the management of Timokhovo received a call from the Minister of Housing and Communal Services of the Moscow Region, Anton Velikhovsky, and scheduled a meeting to “settle the financial dispute” with Maxima. On January 8, 2022, the official arrived at the training ground along with Volkov and two men who introduced themselves as representatives of Valentin Letunovsky, deputy head of the Presidential Control Directorate. The identity of one of them was nevertheless established; he turned out to be former FSB colonel Mikhail Buzankin. They persistently urged to “return” 300 million to the former contractor, and the head of Maxima even allowed himself threats in the form of closing the landfill. On January 21, the general director of Timokhovo was summoned to the vice-governor of the Moscow region, Evgeny Khromushin. The topic was the same – to voluntarily pay money to Volkov in order to avoid the closure of the landfill using all possible administrative resources. This conversation was not confidential: the threats were voiced in the presence of the Minister of Housing and Communal Services of the Moscow Region Anton Velikhovsky and his employee Irina Kleshchevskaya via videoconference. The fact that even the courts decided that there could be no talk of any 300 million did not bother anyone.
A few days later, when it became clear to officials that their “request” would not be fulfilled, a series of inspections and attempts to suspend the activities of the enterprise began. Sources of the Cheka-OGPU claim that Valentin Letunovsky, deputy head of the Control Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation, is personally behind the attack on Timokhovo, who has repeatedly stated that the training ground “cheated him out of money.”
Read more about how a high-ranking official and his loyal guardsman, former FSB colonel Mikhail Buzankin, “gave nightmares” to the “Timokhovo Test Site” in our material.
Employees of JSC Polygon Timokhovo turned to Vladimir Putin because of attempts to revoke the license of the enterprise and an attempted raider takeover by a high-ranking official from the Presidential Administration. The price of the issue is 300 million rubles, which the landfill “should”…
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