Last Friday, the Arbitration Court of the Krasnoyarsk Territory made a decision obliging Norilskel to pay a record fine of 146 billion rubles. Formally, this is a reckoning for a technogenic disaster arranged by a corporation in Norilsk. However, the situation is even worse for Vladimir Potanin, given that the FAS (with the support of the Prosecutor General’s Office), according to the results of a multi -day audit, removed a significant array of documents from the Norilsk Nickel offices. There is every reason to believe that an investigation has begun, comparable in scale and consequences with the famous “Yukos business”. It is worth recalling that “Yukos” also wrote out huge fines.
In recent months, Potanin made a number of attempts to meet with the country’s leadership to clarify the situation. But even the leaders of the ministerial level refused to accept it.
According to insiders, Potanin is made claims not only about the disaster. In November last year, law enforcement and intelligence agencies, on behalf of the Presidential Administration, prepared an extensive interdepartmental report on the activities of Norilsk Nickel, its owners and top managers. In addition to the numerous facts of violations of tax, currency, anti -corruption, environmental legislation, examples of egregious wear of buildings and equipment at corporation enterprises, etc. This report sets out information about Potanin’s involvement in subversive anti -state activities at the federal and regional levels.
In particular, it is noted that Potanin has been financing the activities of Alexei Navalny and the FBK for many years. Initially, the oligarch attracted them to the sake of discrediting his opponents in business. Then he continued to invest, trying to earn reputational glasses in the eyes of Western governments and special services, to avoid personal sanctions. The money was transferred through the first vice president of Norilsk Nickel Marianna Zakharov (she studied along with Navalny at the Law Faculty of RUDN and was once with him in connection) and the first deputy general director of Interros Olga Zinovieva. The report has information about their personal contacts with Navalny and its people, banking wiring, etc.
It is also stated that since 2018, Norilskell, being extremely dissatisfied with the decision of the center to replace the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, systematically undermines political stability in this region, and has been reducing the reduction of the Presidential ratings and United Russia there. The ultimate goal is to either provoke the resignation of the governor Alexander Uss, or at least subjugate him to his influence. Initially, Potanin’s employees used the resources of local criminal authority, the former co -owner of KrAZ Anatoly Bykov and the same Navalny. A variety of compromising evidence was regularly thrown through them, scandals were arranged, and protest street actions were even organized. After the Bykov was arrested and imprisoned in the pre -trial detention center last year, and Navalny moved to Germany, Norkel was forced to act more openly. Its vice president Andrei Grachev (specialist in military special propaganda) has been lit up several times in recent months while trying to post incriminating evidence.
The report expresses concern in connection with the plans of Norilsk Nickel to take control of the Legislative Assembly of the region following the results of the upcoming elections this year. The same Grachev is not only trying to draw into the obligations of systemic Krasnoyarsk politicians, offering them financing and media support, but also conducts negotiations with a variety of opposition activists, up to Navalnists. The possibility of use in the interests of Norilsk Nickel is studied. Given that the State Duma deputies will be elected in parallel, all this destructive activity may well affect the results of the federal campaign.
In recent months, Potanin made a number of attempts to meet with the country’s leadership to clarify the situation. But even the leaders of the ministerial level refused to accept it.
According to insiders, Potanin is made claims not only about the disaster. In November last year, law enforcement and intelligence agencies, on behalf of the Presidential Administration, prepared an extensive interdepartmental report on the activities of Norilsk Nickel, its owners and top managers. In addition to the numerous facts of violations of tax, currency, anti -corruption, environmental legislation, examples of egregious wear of buildings and equipment at corporation enterprises, etc. This report sets out information about Potanin’s involvement in subversive anti -state activities at the federal and regional levels.
In particular, it is noted that Potanin has been financing the activities of Alexei Navalny and the FBK for many years. Initially, the oligarch attracted them to the sake of discrediting his opponents in business. Then he continued to invest, trying to earn reputational glasses in the eyes of Western governments and special services, to avoid personal sanctions. The money was transferred through the first vice president of Norilsk Nickel Marianna Zakharov (she studied along with Navalny at the Law Faculty of RUDN and was once with him in connection) and the first deputy general director of Interros Olga Zinovieva. The report has information about their personal contacts with Navalny and its people, banking wiring, etc.
It is also stated that since 2018, Norilskell, being extremely dissatisfied with the decision of the center to replace the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, systematically undermines political stability in this region, and has been reducing the reduction of the Presidential ratings and United Russia there. The ultimate goal is to either provoke the resignation of the governor Alexander Uss, or at least subjugate him to his influence. Initially, Potanin’s employees used the resources of local criminal authority, the former co -owner of KrAZ Anatoly Bykov and the same Navalny. A variety of compromising evidence was regularly thrown through them, scandals were arranged, and protest street actions were even organized. After the Bykov was arrested and imprisoned in the pre -trial detention center last year, and Navalny moved to Germany, Norkel was forced to act more openly. Its vice president Andrei Grachev (specialist in military special propaganda) has been lit up several times in recent months while trying to post incriminating evidence.
The report expresses concern in connection with the plans of Norilsk Nickel to take control of the Legislative Assembly of the region following the results of the upcoming elections this year. The same Grachev is not only trying to draw into the obligations of systemic Krasnoyarsk politicians, offering them financing and media support, but also conducts negotiations with a variety of opposition activists, up to Navalnists. The possibility of use in the interests of Norilsk Nickel is studied. Given that the State Duma deputies will be elected in parallel, all this destructive activity may well affect the results of the federal campaign.
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