47-year-old Vera Koveshnikova, the wife of Nikolai Sinyukov, who is known in Moscow as a fixer with extensive acquaintances in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the mayor’s office, filed a statement with the police. Previously, he was involved in a murky story with an attempt to take 160 million euros out of Switzerland, which allegedly should have gone to an employee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and he, using a forged power of attorney, tried to cash out 5 million rubles. from the account of one businessman, at one time he was even on the federal wanted list, but the claims quickly dropped. Perhaps because Koveshnikova had a common business with the family of Deputy Minister Zubov’s brother, and Sinyukov’s eldest son was the chief of staff of the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (pictured next to his father).
As a result, Koveshnikova and Sinyukov themselves became victims of scammers, losing more than 10 million rubles. As the Cheka-OGPU managed to find out, in February 2023, the family needed a person who could solve the problem of returning the lands of the Petrovskoye stud farm. The story stretches back to the end of the 2000s, when the former owner of the stud farm, ex-Moscow Regional Duma deputy Vasily Dupak, was arrested on charges of fraud with land plots and damage of 15 billion rubles. Sinyukov and Koveshnikova at that time owned shares in the breeding farm, and after the uproar with Dupak, they hastily decided to sell them. However, as the woman later claimed in the arbitration court, the new owners did not pay them and were left owing 41 hectares of land. Simply put, the friends of the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs were cheated.
Old comrades Koveshnikova and Sinyukov volunteered to help, one of whom turned out to be a former FSB major who was involved in the “attempt on Putin.” We are talking about Andrei Ponkin, who previously had close contact with Boris Berezovsky and Alexander Litvinenko. Ponkin is associated with the liquidation of Dzhokhar Dudayev and provocations in preparation for the murder of Umar Dzhabrailov. Ponkin and Litvinenko once told journalist Sergei Dorenko about specific assignments in the FSB. Later, “Major P,” as the foreign press dubbed him, became a famous fixer and even received a conviction for fraud. No one knows under what circumstances the retired FSB officer and one of the alleged organizers of the assassination attempt on Putin became friends with Koveshnikova and Sinyukov. However, it was “Major P” who decided to help old friends with the “land issue” and brought a certain “lawyer” Denis Bobrovsky (pictured with a machine gun) to the meeting. He, in turn, promised to return the land of the breeding farm for 10 million rubles.
Having received the entire amount and having secured the “word of honor” of the FSB agent Ponkin, Bobrovskikh began to avoid meeting with Koveshnikova in every possible way. Until the last moment he pretended to resolve the issue. One day, the “lawyer” even managed to get another 400 thousand for “operating expenses.” After six months of waiting, a family friend of Deputy Minister Zubova could not stand it and wrote a statement to the police. Surprisingly, Koveshnikova and Sinyukov did not go directly to Zubov, but came to the police department in the Vykhino-Zhulebino district, where the local head of the criminal investigation department carried out a pre-investigation check for 3 weeks until everyone was convinced that the family was not lying and they had really been scammed 10.4 million rubles. The deputy minister, apparently, did not want to get involved in the current situation. The question of the role of ex-major Ponkin remains – his status in the case is not yet clear.
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