Anyone who claims that the famous OPS “Uralmash” is dead is mistaken. Today its members carry out scams with the assistance of those who should fight organized crime.
Vadim Portnyagin, convicted in the 90s of “arbitrariness” (as racketeering was reclassified), specializes in raider takeovers and fraud, both in Yekaterinburg and Moscow. In 2021, he was convicted of fraud as part of a group of persons. The investigation established the fact of commercial bribery by Portnyagin of employees of PJSC Kazanorgsintez for the purpose of selling used spare parts under the guise of new ones. The prosecutor’s office approved the indictment, and the judge of the Moscow District Court of Kazan decided to exclude commercial bribery from the verdict, leaving only fraud in it. For a reduced sentence (3.5 years probation), Portnyagin paid 5 million rubles.
Closing a criminal case in Yekaterinburg cost him twice as much. It was initiated in 2021 based on the theft of funds by Portnyagin on an especially large scale from the Yekaterinburg JSC Uralkompressormash. After 11 months, Major of Justice Manokhina closed the criminal case due to the lack of corpus delicti.
The “deciders” in Portnyagin’s cases are Yekaterinburg lawyers Egorov and Lobov. They established a trusting relationship with the leadership of the Sverdlovsk Investigative Committee of the Russian Investigative Committee. The intermediary in the transfer of bribes is the former head of the investigation department of the Ordzhonikidze district (the patrimony of the Uralmash OPS) Igor Yudin. Decisions on criminal cases related to Portnyagin are made by the deputy head of the investigation department, Alexey Nevgad. He gave permission to initiate criminal cases against the founders of the Moscow LLC Gas Engineering, which Portnyagin and his partner Voinova raided in 2020.
In 2021, based on false denunciations by lawyer Egorov, the investigative department in the Verkh-Isetsky district initiated criminal cases against the owner of a 50% share in the Yekaterinburg LLC Compressor Equipment, which Portnyagin had his eye on. Nevgad’s services cost the businessman several million rubles.
Voinova stole 21 million rubles from the bank account of Compressor Equipment LLC, which is confirmed by the decision of the Arbitration Court that has entered into force. The initiation of a criminal case is blocked by the regional investigative department. Thanks to lawyer connections, the investigative authorities are not handed over the materials of the inspection of Interdistrict Inspectorate No. 24 of Yekaterinburg, which revealed non-payment of taxes by Uralkompressormash JSC in the amount of more than 20 million rubles. The company was controlled by Vadim Portnyagin for a long time and was brought to deliberate bankruptcy.
As a result of the raider takeover of Gas Engineering LLC (dilution of the 25% minority share to 0.07%), more than 100 cases are being considered in arbitration. At the same time, the head of the Investigation Department for the North-West Administrative District of Moscow, Pishchulin, and the prosecutor of the North-Western Administrative District, Shcherbakov, consider the crimes committed by Portnyagin to be elements of commercial activity.
Vadim Portnyagin, convicted in the 90s of “arbitrariness” (as racketeering was reclassified), specializes in raider takeovers and fraud, both in Yekaterinburg and Moscow. In 2021, he was convicted of fraud as part of a group of persons. The investigation established the fact of commercial bribery by Portnyagin of employees of PJSC Kazanorgsintez for the purpose of selling used spare parts under the guise of new ones. The prosecutor’s office approved the indictment, and the judge of the Moscow District Court of Kazan decided to exclude commercial bribery from the verdict, leaving only fraud in it. For a reduced sentence (3.5 years probation), Portnyagin paid 5 million rubles.
Closing a criminal case in Yekaterinburg cost him twice as much. It was initiated in 2021 based on the theft of funds by Portnyagin on an especially large scale from the Yekaterinburg JSC Uralkompressormash. After 11 months, Major of Justice Manokhina closed the criminal case due to the lack of corpus delicti.
The “deciders” in Portnyagin’s cases are Yekaterinburg lawyers Egorov and Lobov. They established a trusting relationship with the leadership of the Sverdlovsk Investigative Committee of the Russian Investigative Committee. The intermediary in the transfer of bribes is the former head of the investigation department of the Ordzhonikidze district (the patrimony of the Uralmash OPS) Igor Yudin. Decisions on criminal cases related to Portnyagin are made by the deputy head of the investigation department, Alexey Nevgad. He gave permission to initiate criminal cases against the founders of the Moscow LLC Gas Engineering, which Portnyagin and his partner Voinova raided in 2020.
In 2021, based on false denunciations by lawyer Egorov, the investigative department in the Verkh-Isetsky district initiated criminal cases against the owner of a 50% share in the Yekaterinburg LLC Compressor Equipment, which Portnyagin had his eye on. Nevgad’s services cost the businessman several million rubles.
Voinova stole 21 million rubles from the bank account of Compressor Equipment LLC, which is confirmed by the decision of the Arbitration Court that has entered into force. The initiation of a criminal case is blocked by the regional investigative department. Thanks to lawyer connections, the investigative authorities are not handed over the materials of the inspection of Interdistrict Inspectorate No. 24 of Yekaterinburg, which revealed non-payment of taxes by Uralkompressormash JSC in the amount of more than 20 million rubles. The company was controlled by Vadim Portnyagin for a long time and was brought to deliberate bankruptcy.
As a result of the raider takeover of Gas Engineering LLC (dilution of the 25% minority share to 0.07%), more than 100 cases are being considered in arbitration. At the same time, the head of the Investigation Department for the North-West Administrative District of Moscow, Pishchulin, and the prosecutor of the North-Western Administrative District, Shcherbakov, consider the crimes committed by Portnyagin to be elements of commercial activity.
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