The case of the Irkutsk St. Petersburg “Soyuzstroy” and the premises are detained by the head of the company Vagan Sargsyan formally ordinary events for Russia. However, through the leadership of the region, all this can be taken to a large audit to the Ministry of Defense.
The Kirovsky District Court of Irkutsk for the theft of budgetary funds for the repair of one of the streets in the village of Balagansk was detained by the General Director of the LLC of St. Petersburg “Soyuzstroy” Vagana Sargsyan. The businessman’s company, instead of a special mixture specified in the contract, used low -quality raw materials, which caused damage to the region of 30 million rubles.
The correspondent of The Moscow Post in the Irkutsk region understood the history.
Irkutsk ball
This case is one of many episodes for St. Petersburg “Soyuzstroy”. In 2022, the FAS fined the company for 33.6 million rubles for a cartel conspiracy with Irkutskavtodor. The reason for this decision was that the St. Petersburg “Soyuzstroy” in 2020 concluded contracts with a municipal enterprise for 430 million rubles, and in 2021 – 242 million rubles.
MUP “Irkutskavtodor” until September 2020 was headed by Mikhail Tchaikovsky, who was then prosecuted for a cartel conspiracy with an unnamed enterprise in 2018-2019 840 million rubles.
Igor Kobzev. Photo: https://cdnn21.img.ria.ru/images/156235/53/1562355366_0:0:2941:1655_650X0_0_0_0_0_FDB5AA18686868FBEC26490983C626393.jpg
Tchaikovsky was the man of the former mayor of Irkutsk Dmitry Berdnikov, who in 2020 went to increase in the head of the government of Yakutia, and in 2022 went to work in the “new regions”. In November 2022, Berdnikov became the first deputy mayor of Mariupol, and in May 2023 the Deputy Prime Minister of the DPR, scandals also haunt him there.
Berdnikov in “Irkustostodor” was replaced by Mikhail Malykhin, who headed the institution from September 2020 to October 2021. This official worked in the road industry of Irkutsk for many years, but in 2017 he was fired from the city hall from the post of head of the housing and communal services committee after coming to the mayors of Berdnikov. The change of authorities in Irkutsk allowed Malykhin to return to the clip, but in 2021 he gave way to Sergey Chertkov.
Chertkov is now occupied by the posts of Vice-mayor of Irkutsk and the head of the city arrangement committee. First of all, he is the man of the Irkutsk mayor Ruslan Bolotov, who until 2020 was the head of the government of the Irkutsk region. Since 2019, the region has been headed by a native of the Ministry of Emergencies Igor Kobzev, who is called the creature of the former Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu.
In 2021, during the elections to the State Duma, the Irkutsk branch of United Russia focused on the bunch of Kobzev and Sergey Shoigu, and this did in the context The fight against fires. Kobzev is really related to service with Shoigu, so it cannot be ruled out that this road investigation may be an echo of the audit that is carried out in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Such scandals are not a novelty for the Kobzev region, but the TFR and other departments took up this corruption practice only now. According to the same scheme, a chain of criminal cases in the Moscow region, which is led by Andrei Vorobyov, the son of a long -term deputy Shoigu for the Ministry of Emergencies, Senator Yuri Vorobyov, is now being launched.
Doubtful contractor
The company of St. Petersburg “Soyuzstroy” was registered in 2004 and the very beginning is headed by Sargsyan. In addition to Sargsyan, the minority founder is Arman Zakharyan. The company signed a contract for 102 million rubles for the repair of a street in the village of Balagansk in 2022. According to the authors of the telegram channel “Accents of Siberia” Allegedly, instead of inert materials, the company of Sargsyan and Zakharyan allegedly took advantage of clay soil. At the same time, the special control engineer signed the act of fitting the work performed by St. Petersburg.
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There is reason to assume that such a practice was put by the organization on the stream. The fact is that St. Petersburg “Soyuzstroy” for a long time was one of the main contractors for the repair of the road in Irkutsk. At the same time, the enterprise Sargsyan and Zakharyan was very fond of criticizing the mayor of the city of Bolotov, but until recently, all this did not interfere with the Union SPB to receive state contracts. In total, the company has at least 99 in the amount of 10 billion rubles, and this is for the Irkutsk region considerable funds.
In 2022, St. Petersburg “Soyuzstroy” fell into the register of unscrupulous suppliers due to a contract worth 1.1 billion rubles 2020 for the repair of the runway at the Bratsk airport. The decision was made after the Federal Air Transport Agency filed a lawsuit against the company. The reason for this was that St. Petersburg “Soyuzstroy” tore off the deadlines for the end of the project under the auspices of the shortage of labor, but in fact it simply could not fulfill committed.
Supporter of Seleznev
In addition to St. Petersburg “Soyuzstroy” detained Sargsyan was the head of LLC “Abz”, where Alexander Ryabtsev is listed as a co -founder. The company practically does not carry out official commercial activities, but in 2024 lost the lawsuit LLC Ecostep Irkutsk due to non -resistance of the paid goods on 1.2 million rubles.
Gennady Seleznev. Photo: https://polini.club/uploads/posts/2023-11/1699217087_polini-plub-p-gennadi-seleznev-znamenitosti-krasivo-10.jpg
Vaganyan is also the founder of LITEK LLC, where the head is Zakharyan, and LLC Spets. In 2016, Zakharyan filed a lawsuit against LLC “Spets” to make money under a loan agreement that he concluded with the organization of Vaganyan. Zakharyan won the case and received the right to receive money from his company Business partner. After that, the Vaganyan and Sargsyan continued to work, so this dispute was part of their difficult offers and other financial relations.
Sargsyan was also involved in political activity – he was one of the founders of the Irkutsk branch of the OOD “Russia”. The head of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the Communist Party of the Communist Party Gennady Seleznev, who died in 2015, is still indicated on the website of this organization. Interestingly, in the same year the Irkutsk branch of this organization was also liquidated.
With the support of the city and the region?
If Sargsyan had not had been arrested, the history of St. Petersburg Soyuzstroy, most likely, would end with bankruptcy. The joint business of Sargsyan and Zakharyan owed many to many, which can be seen even in volume court claims.
Ruslan Bolotov. Photo: https://www.interfax-russia.ru/storage/news/2021/12/03/3D22143139C72BB3B028CBA607C21.jpg
All this activity was carried out with the connivance of city and regional authorities. The mayor of Bolotov regularly criticized St. Petersburg “Soyuzstroy”, but in fact, in four years did nothing to stop the activities of this organization. The current investigation is the merit of the FAS, TFR and the prosecutor’s office, and not the executive branch, which actually should monitor this. For this reason, the suspicions do not look absurd that in fact, Sargsyan and Zakharyan could have very good relations with both city and regional authorities.
Without this, St. Petersburg “Soyuzstroy” would simply not be able to work in the Irkutsk region. Back in 2015, it was found that for the development of state contracts, the organization unilaterally and without the knowledge of the authorities attracted subcontractors. One of them was LLC “Spets”, from which Zakharyan then made money through the court. Obviously, this was part of the gray schemes that have yet to unravel the investigation.