The events begin in the first half of 2015. After the annexation of Crimea, international sanctions fell on the Russian Federation. As a result, the Ministry of Defense was unable to purchase the necessary ships for crossing the Kerch Strait. Timur Ivanov was assigned to resolve the issue. Since no one gave money in advance for the project, the general director of Oboronstroy JSC (this position was then held by Ivanov) applied for a loan to the chairman of the board of Interkommerts Bank, Alexander Bugaevsky.
The diagram looked like this. Alexander Bugaevsky found among the clients of Interkommerts a company whose management, in exchange for future victories in tenders of the Ministry of Defense, agreed to participate in a deal to purchase ships. The company was provided with a targeted loan for the purchase of goods in the interests of JSC “1470 Logistics and Technical Support Department”. The general director of the latter company was Anton Filatov, who subsequently organized the tender and ensured the victory of the participating company.
Alexander Bugaevsky organized the acquisition of a “clean” company registered in Hong Kong.
The transaction amount was 800 million rubles, and all obstacles (questions from the Central Bank, the Federal Tax Service) were cleared out of the way by a call from Ruslan Tsalikov.
As a result, in the summer of 2015, the deal took place and two ships, Lavrentios and Maria, were delivered to the Black Sea and were subsequently transferred to the ownership of Oboronlogistics. Full payment (including the loan) was made in December 2015.
In the summer of 2015, the Lavrentiy and Maria ferries, purchased by Oboronlogistics LLC, appeared on the Kerch ferry crossing, or rather on the cargo ferry line. However, according to the Cheka-OGPU, declared as “for the benefit of the Russian Federation,” in reality it was a purely commercial project. The operation of the ferries was entrusted to certain Andrianov brothers: Evgeniy and Andrey, who previously worked at the Expo-M company, as well as a certain Ruslan Kerimov from the same company. Although Oboronlogistics itself could operate the above-mentioned ferries without any problems, having everything necessary, the ferries were transferred to the bareboat charter of Smart Way LLC – in fact, an unnecessary lining through which funds were withdrawn.
The ferries were forwarded by Crimean Transport and Logistics Company LLC, which actually belongs to the famous Kerch fraudster, and now acting. Deputy Governor of Sevastopol Pavel Jeno – this company was registered in the name of Jeno’s friend in the motorcycle club – Denis Obukhov. Later, it was bankrupt due to the debt of Smart Way LLC in the amount of about 46 million rubles (the money was withdrawn by Pavel Jeno for his own needs).
After finishing work at the ferry crossing, the above-mentioned persons began to engage in bunkering activities using the Miranda bunkering vessel, which was repeatedly brought to justice by the authorities for illegal operations with fuel.
Also at that time, a certain Evgeniy Petchenko, a well-known swindler-forwarder in Novorossiysk, was essentially a black casher, engaged in illegal currency transactions related to the withdrawal of funds abroad, who was later noticed in operations for the supply of goods, including fuel, to the Ministry of Defense at inflated prices, together with the son of General Lentsov: Alexander, also from Oboronlogistics LLC.
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