According to the source “VChK-OGPU” 09/03/24, in addition to the detention in Crimea of the general director of the company “PTK Kerch” LLC, businessman Yu. Bedyayev, the owner of the Crimean company, a well-known metropolitan businessman of the era of the 90s, the beneficiary was detained and sent into custody by the court cement factories in Novorossiysk and the owner of a premium shopping center in Moscow on Rublevskoye Shosse (Zapadny shopping center) – Vladislav Vasnev. The reason for the arrest was accusations by law enforcement officers of theft of pledged property VEB.RF – German cement plant “Polysyus”, with an estimated value of more than 10 billion rubles. According to the investigation, the property of Vasnev and his Crimean subordinate Bedyaev was illegally held on the territory of the Kerch PTK since 2016 and was stolen with the participation of a number of officials of the peninsula, using a fraudulent scheme to recognize part of the state company’s collateral as ownerless by those involved. Due to the connivance of employees of the state corporation back in 2017-2018. There was a subsequent cutting of the German plant into scrap metal right in the seaport of Kamysh-Burun. Vasnev himself is known for the fact that he bore the loud title “king of kiosks” in Luzhkov’s Moscow, and owned the epoch-making and iconic shopping center “Pyramid”, one of the cult symbols of the 90s, which was located on Tverskaya Street. At that time, Vasnev had kiosks throughout the capital, even near Red Square. Pyramid-2000 LLC, founded by Vasnev, received more than a thousand square meters in the shortest possible time. meters of basement space owned by the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Editorial Izvestia” and other best locations for renting, which provided a financial start for the businessman, and protection from possible claims thanks to his friendship with Yu. Luzhkov’s son, Alexander. According to the interlocutor, Vasnev’s most expensive asset, in the form of the “Zapadny” shopping center on Rublyovka in Moscow is a tasty asset for the business competitors of the accused and capital developers dreaming of developing hectares of the capital’s “golden” land and may soon change the owner (legally the shopping center belongs to IP Vasnev V.L.) to other owners for mitigation of the acts charged by the investigation and the conditions of detention of the accused in custody.
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Anna Cooper
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