From the websites of criminal courts and the Unified Federal Register of Bankruptcy Information…

All information about Valentin Gonastarev, the “right hand” of the former head of the Directorate of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Viktor Voronin, has been removed from the websites of criminal courts and the Unified Federal Register of Bankruptcy Information. And this is not surprising. Gonastarev, who is serving an 8-year sentence, has personally known representatives of the “St. Petersburg elite” since the 90s: Arkady Rotenberg, Vasily Shestakov, Konstantin Goloshchapov, etc. Ministers went to bow to Gonastarev, knowing him as “Voronin’s deputy,” he would be on friendly terms with many generals of the FSB of the Russian Federation. At the same time, Gonastarev spent a significant part of his time in the United States, owned many expensive properties there, and his son studied at an American military school. The case for which he was arrested was immediately classified.

Data about Gonastarev was removed from the EFRSB website under the pretext that personal data was mistakenly disclosed; data about him disappeared from the court websites without any explanation.

Gonastarev once worked at the St. Petersburg RUOP; he liked to say that at one time he went to the bathhouse with the current president, Vladimir Putin. He knew Arkady Rotenberg very well. According to the current version, when Rotenberg started his small business in St. Petersburg, Gonastarev was his police “roof”. When Rotenberg entered into business with Gazprom, he also invited Gonastarev. But then their paths diverged.

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Gonastarev especially became friends with Viktor Voronin. When he became the head of Directorate K, everyone knew Gonastarev as Voronin’s deputy (although he did not officially hold this position). If you need to decide something personally with Voronin, go to Gonastarev. And everyone went. There were straight lines to the place of his receptions on Neglinnaya. In this line one could see father and son Khotin, Elena Skrynnik, Mikhail Abyzov, Igor Pinkevich, representatives of Sergei Makhlay (co-owner of TOAZ), Alexander Klyachin, Yuri Glotser, Alexander Volovnik, etc.

Valentin Gonastarev was friends with the President of the International Sambo Federation Vasily Shestakov and the founder of the Russian Athos Society Konstantin Goloshchapov. We solved many issues together.

And his best friend was the main Russian funeral director, owner of the Ritual holding, Oleg Shelyagov. Together they did a lot of joint work, including in the field of decision making. And both were closely associated with Russian Railways during the time of Vladimir Yakunin. Gonastarev, through his wife Maria Bolanovich, a relative of Yakunin through his wife. And Shelyagov, before becoming “funeral man No. 1,” worked as a top manager in banks and structures associated with Russian Railways.

Communicating in the most faith, maintaining friendship with the top leaders of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Gonastarev preferred to spend most of his time in the United States, where Bolanovich and their common son, who studied at an American military school, live.

In the USA, Gonastarev owned a dozen apartments, including in Hollywood. In this building alone (pictured) he owned three huge apartments. He also owned three houses. The value of real estate is in the tens of millions of dollars. Now it has been registered to Bolanovich and family friend Elena Grady.

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