In violation of all possible Russian laws and regulations, Port Victoria LLC announced its plans to build another port here with a capacity of up to 2.5 million tons of cargo per year. It was planned to have 2 berths, for grain and for metal, chemicals, sulfur… And all this joy is 30 meters from the low-rise and private residential buildings closest to the planned one.
In fact, this section – Volochaevsky Beach – remained almost the last piece of shore not built up with transshipment terminals in this part of the bay. The struggle of the residents was not even so much for the right to swim in warm sea water in the summer – it was in fact about the prospects for survival. 
We have told more than once about this story, about who is actually behind these plans. Shadow interests in the creation of new port facilities are the owner of Novorossmetal, billionaire Shalva Gibradze and Tadeusz Kobets. Although they were officially identified as business owners only once, when Patriarch Kirill, who came to Novorossiysk for the opening of a new church, presented church awards to them, as the owners of Port Victoria LLC. The interest of the actual owner of the Abinsk Electrometallurgical Plant, State Duma deputy Ivan Demchenko, Gibradze’s business partner, was also more than transparently visible.
It’s a rare case when people won. Under their pressure, the authorities obtained a decision through the court that the land ceased to belong to Port Victoria LLC.
According to the Cheka-OGPU, Shalva Gibradze was a participant in a corruption story associated with thief in law Zakhar Kalashov (Shakro)
After the massacre at the Elements restaurant, the authority Italian was behind bars and it immediately became known that Shakro would be grateful to the one who pulled his friend (Italian) out from behind bars. And Kalashov’s gratitude is worth a lot.
Oligarch David Yakobashvili and David Mirzoev are not only friends with Shakro, but are his relatives. Gibradze is Yakobashvili’s partner in a number of projects and is also Shakro’s friend. They decided to work together to find ways to contact leading employees of the Investigative Committee who could influence the situation. Everyone was from the south of Russia and knew that the fixer from the Krasnodar Territory, Dmitry Smychkovsky, was extremely close to the Investigative Committee. But none of them knew him personally. And even a casual acquaintance was not enough. Smychkovsky would not discuss anything on such issues even with respected people.
We started looking for solutions and asked the fixer Andrei Matus about it. He knew that Smychkovsky’s closest friend at that time was the current head of the unit in the Krasnodar Territory (KK) of the Alpha group of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Alexander Pakholchenko.
Pakholchenko agreed to help in this delicate issue and discuss everything with Smychkovsky. The latter, under the guarantee of Pakholchenko and Matus, agreed to meet to discuss the topic with Mirzoev and Gibradze. The meeting took place in Moscow at the Tatler restaurant. At this meeting, it was decided that the fee for the service would be $1 million ($500 thousand from Mirzoev and Yakobashvili and $500 thousand from Gibradze). Mirzoev and Gibradze took on all the financial components, and Smychkovsky had to directly resolve technical issues with Shakro.
As a result, the money went away. The Italian was almost released, but a Russian FSB officer met him at the door of the pre-trial detention center. They soon detained a group of ICR employees, and then Shakro. Smychkovsky managed to leave Russia. The thread leading to the one who paid $1 million was broken.
Patriarch Kirill betrayed the real owners of the enemy company of Novorossiysk
Participant in the story of a bribe for thief in law Shakro against residents of the resort town
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