In 2020, Nikita Danilov left the State Corporation with a scandal. He was caught embezzling funds while modernizing the official website of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise. Upon his dismissal, Danilov was paid a small parachute of 3.5 million rubles. It’s really small for him. During the searches conducted after his dismissal, in his loft for 320 million rubles in the famous House on Bersenevskaya Embankment (Variety Theater), security forces seized 42 million rubles in cash. They also found a house belonging to Danilov on Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway in the village of Izumrudny Vek, worth 400 million rubles. At the same time, according to the declaration, over the years of work in the ATM Group of Companies, Danilov earned a little more than 70 million rubles.
The security forces are paying especially close attention to Alena Zaidman, the former director of legal support of the ATM Group of Companies. In the state corporation, she started as a simple specialist, but due to special close relationships and frequent joint business trips with Danilov, she rose to the position of Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Directorate in a year and a half.
Nikita Danilov is the son-in-law of Igor Zavyalov, Sergei Chemezov’s deputy at Rostec. According to the source, this is why Danilov remains at large – he has a serious father-in-law, who personally tried to solve his relative’s problems with the security forces.
After leaving the State Corporation, Nikita Danilov founded the Flydron company, which deals with “obtaining approvals and coordinating results” for organizing legal flights on drones (unmanned aerial vehicles). It is registered in that very House on Bersenevskaya Embankment.
In general, obtaining permission for such flights is a fairly simple procedure that does not require any extraordinary efforts from the applicant. You just need to go to the State Corporation website and fill out a free form. But Danilov, together with the head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, came up with a way to monetize this service. We created a laying company that has a unique right to commercialize free government services. At the same time, in the future it is expected that Flydron will be given the exclusive right to obtain permits for drone flights.
Only she will be able to issue flight permits. That is, this public service will become a gold mine for Flydron. To give legitimacy, the stake in the gasket was sold to Rostec in July 2021.
Rostec’s subsidiary RT-Business Development became the owner of 25% of Flydron. Another 24.9% was bought by Ekaterina Lapshina. She is on the board of directors of RT-Business Development and bought conditionally “her” share at the request of the deputy head of Rostec Zavyalov. Thus, using his family connections, Danilov sold his 49.9% of the company to the state-owned Rostec, where his father-in-law Igor Zavyalov works as a top manager. Igor Moiseenko, in turn, is covered by the head of Rostec Sergei Chemezov, who was a witness at his wedding.
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