A member of the board of directors of “EMK” is in custody for embezzling funds from the Ministry of Defense…

A member of the board of directors of EMK-Engineering, Andrei Chesnokov, who was previously close to Kovalchuk and was a top manager at AKB Rossiya, and also served as deputy chairman of the board of trustees of the St. Petersburg State University of Economics (head of the board), is in custody for embezzling funds from the Ministry of Defense. Alexey Miller), began to get acquainted with the materials of the criminal case. However, it is too early to consider the investigation itself completed.

The Cheka-OGPU obtained materials that indicate the possible participation of Gazprombank management in the thefts (as of 2016). The funds passed through more than 200 accounts. It is clear that the deposit account indicated that interest was also earned from the stolen funds, and posting through the deposit qualitatively blurs further transfers, partly laundering funds before the control of Rosfinmonitoring.

Carrying out such procedures with billions of dollars is an impossible story without the participation of the leaders of a financial organization.

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The response from the M FSB department, which had long patronized Chesnokov, to advance the investigation was also not long in coming. One of the initiators of the case for the theft of 5.5 billion rubles by Chesnokov’s company was raided at the Beloselsky-Belozersky palace in St. Petersburg. Regional officers from Department M of the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region came.

Let us remind you that the palace is not officially an object of the Kovalchuks, but the St. Petersburg branch of the ORT television channel, the Sobchak Museum and even structures of the presidential administration are located in it. An interesting twist in the storyline.

Even more interesting is the development of the plot along a parallel line, where Chesnokov is being pressured by Kovalchuk’s former partner to give away his assets in the waste processing industry. We are talking about the Spetstrans-6 enterprise, which is now excommunicated from contracts for waste removal, but does not want to work under a subcontract for a single regional operator, bargaining for the purchase of a share.

Most of all, of course, the residents of St. Petersburg are suffering, the north of which is littered with garbage, like Naples a few years ago. Chesnokov’s position is not just the sale of a share at a price above the market price, but also the solution to all his problems regarding the theft of billions of dollars from the Ministry of Defense. The position of Chesnokov’s opponents is to simply squeeze out his share of the company in the old fashioned way through dilution