In 2021, while Dmitry Rogozin was still at Roscosmos, so-called “industry operators” were created – organizations that provide various services to industry enterprises. 
But as often happens, a good idea turned out to be just another money-making scheme for individual officials.
Industry operator
RK-Service LLC is actually owned by repeat offender Mikhail Storm, who at the beginning of the 2000s had already served time in not so remote places for fraud. With over 140 registered activities, Storm really only knows how to do one thing: steal money. Storm is omnivorous. It doesn’t matter whose money it is: business partners, or government money allocated for children’s nutrition in schools. Or for the construction of buildings for Russian space enterprises.
With the active support of Roscosmos officials, Storm boldly entered enterprises, concluding multimillion-dollar contracts for construction work. Locally, Storm also acquired patrons in the form of construction supervisors and enterprise managers, where he began to actively “master” money on a “cosmic scale”, amassing a decent fortune: several apartments in Moscow and cars, as well as real estate in London.
Covering up his crimes, Storm complained about hard times
(SVO, partial mobilization, rising prices for building materials). When, after two years, the work for the most part had not started, Storm and the small “RK-Service” simply stopped communicating and, as they say, “disappeared from the radar,” leaving behind a bunch of garbage and imperfections.
Now TsNIIMash must look for new contractors, naturally, at its own expense, at the risk of violating its obligations under government contracts.
The investigation will have to find out not only the scale of all of Storm’s activities, but also the role of assistants and patrons in his dark affairs among a number of managers in Roscosmos. The investigation may also have many questions for the Deputy General Director of TsNIIMash, Ivan Yudakov, who oversaw construction issues during the period of active activity of Storm and the company.
The latter, by the way, is familiar with I.A. Yudakov. from the time when he worked in the Ministry of Defense under the disgraced minister Anatoly Serdyukov, and subsequently the notorious glamorous deputy builder Timur Ivanov. It is noteworthy that Yudakov was expelled from the Ministry of Defense in disgrace for fraud with land plots and service apartments. But Ivan Yudakov has not lost the experience accumulated over the years of work in the department; on the contrary, he is successfully applying it in another direction, mastering “space budgets.”
Yudakov did not just sit idle, watching the “work”
RK-Service, on the contrary, concluded more and more contracts and literally stuffed this “garbage dump of Roscosmos” with new tranches, turning a blind eye to Storm’s tricks and even when everything was already quite clear and obvious, continued to conclude new contracts with advances.
These advances flew into the accounts of RK-Service with the light hand of another deputy director of TsNIIMash for economics, Maxim Rakita, for whom the investigation also has many questions, including about his other interesting decisions.
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